He is a co-investigator on the NASA IRIS satellite mission which launched in June 2013. He also leads a rocket experiment called MOSES. Both of these missions involve ultraviolet observations of the Sun from space. Dr. Kankelborg has received several awards for teaching and in 2008, won a Presidential Early Career award. Dr. Kankelborg presented, “What is Light,” on Friday, March 28th, in the Petro Theater at Montana State University Billings in conjunction with the 2014 Billings Clinic Science Expo.