This award recognizes an individual for their outstanding accomplishments and devoted service to the state, nation or the world. Peggy has had an impact on those three areas - and then some. Her decades-long scientific career researching the interplay between cosmic rays, solar particles and Earth’s magnetic field has helped set standards used by NASA and the FAA in aviation and space exploration. And her investigations into contemporary and historic solar phenomena and cosmic ray events have yielded valuable insights that are still being explored today.