A doctoral student in space physics has been awarded a NASA fellowship to fund her research about currents in the ionosphere, which stretches 50-400 miles above the Earth’s surface at the very edge of space. Tre’Shunda James, a native of Houston in her second year of postgraduate work at UTA, earned a NASA Graduate Research Fellowship for her project, becoming the second UTA physics graduate student to receive a NASA GRF in the past three years. Funding is provided by the NASA Office of STEM Engagement’s Minority Research and Education Project. James discusses her research, the award, and shares her winding journey to UTA and the field of space physics in this edition of Voices - thoughts from Maverick Scientists leading the charge to innovate, discover and learn.