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Mike Flanigan '15

Innovating to Scout the Sea

Mike Flanigan ’15 is the CEO of SeaSats, a company that provides solar-powered autonomous ocean vehicles. SeaSats launched in October 2020, but the team of four co-founders has been making boats together since their days as kids growing up in coastal Tiverton, Rhode Island.

Meehan Lenzen '11

Creating Opportunities For Young Women In STEM

Lenzen’s hard work and dedication arise from a deep passion for gender equity in STEM.

Dr. Jon Olansen

A Gateway to the Moon

Editor’s Note: Domer Diaries is the newest storytelling series from the Alumni Association where members of the Notre Dame family tell their stories in their own words. This week’s Domer Diaries entry comes from Dr. Jon Olansen ’87, ’89 M.S., manager of NASA’s Habitation & Logistics Outpost (HALO) Project of the Gateway, the lunar space station at the center of NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to send humans back to the surface of the moon.…