Schwadron has served on numerous NASA and National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committees such as the NASA Sun-Earth Connection Advisory Subcommittee, the 2009 Heliophysics Mission Planning Working Group, the NAS Committee for Solar and Space Physics, and the NAS Geospace Portfolio Review Committee. Dr. Schwadron chaired the NASA Living with a Star Steering Committee and is the creator and lead of the New England Space Science Consortium. Professor Schwadron is the editor of Heliosphere News. Professor Schwadron was elected fellow of the AAAS in 2012 and has received many notable awards, among them the 2018 Award for Excellence in Research at the University of New Hampshire, the NASA National Graduate Student Research Fellow, the University of Michigan, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Outstanding Achievement in Research Award and the Ulysses Achievement Award - 15 Years in Orbit. He has received numerous NASA Group Achievement Awards as a member of the New Horizons Spacecraft Development Team, the Lunar Reconnaissance Observatory, and the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mission. Nathan Schwadron was one of the lead authors for “The Solar System beyond Neptune”, which won first place in the cosmology/astronomy category of the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.