Filed under: Higher Education, Internships, NASA, STEM, Science, Student Opportunities
The NSBRI’s summer program is for graduate or medical students and undergraduate students who have completed their second year of undergraduate studies. Applicants are asked to send a curriculum vitae or resume, a letter of interest indicating available dates during the summer, and two letters of recommendation. The program is open to U.S. citizens.
The deadline to apply for the 2009 program is Jan. 31, 2009.
For more information, visit http://www.nsbri.org/Education/SummerInternship.html
Filed under: Biology, Higher Education, NASA, STEM, Science, Student Opportunities, fellowships
The NSBRI-sponsored training program in space life sciences enables students to work toward a Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. at Texas A&M University and focus their research on space life sciences and fields related to the space initiative. Texas A&M is currently recruiting participants for fall 2009. Students will pursue doctoral degrees in kinesiology, nuclear engineering (health physics) or nutrition, or a M.D./Ph.D. or Ph.D. in medical sciences.
Application packages are due Feb. 15, 2009.
For more information, visit http://SLSGraduateProgram.tamu.edu
Filed under: Higher Education, Internships, NASA, STEM, Science, Student Opportunities
NASA’s Undergraduate Student Research Project is currently accepting applications for 10-week summer 2009 internships. These internships offer students the opportunity to work alongside NASA scientists and engineers at NASA’s field centers, laboratories and test facilities.
Applicants must be rising sophomores, juniors or seniors with a 3.0 GPA. They must have an academic major or course work concentration in engineering, math, computer science, or physical or life sciences. Participants work on practical problems that will be applied in aerospace or on future NASA missions. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
The application deadline for the summer 2009 session is Jan. 23, 2009.
For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/programs/Undergraduate_Student_Research_Project.html
Filed under: Aeronautics, Higher Education, NASA, STEM, Scholarships, Science, Student Opportunities
NASA’s Aeronautics Mission Directorate is currently accepting scholarship applications from undergraduate and graduate students in aeronautics and related fields for the academic year beginning in fall 2009.
Twenty undergraduate students in their second year of study will receive up to $15,000 per year for two years and a summer internship at a NASA center with a $10,000 stipend. Five graduate students will receive up to $35,000 per year for three years and two summer internships at a NASA center with $10,000 stipends.
All applicants must be U.S. citizens. Applications are due Jan. 16, 2009.
For more information about this opportunity and to apply online, visit http://nasa.asee.org/
Filed under: Higher Education, Internships, NASA, STEM, Science, Student Opportunities | Tags: History
The NASA History Division is seeking undergraduate and graduate students for winter/spring 2009 internships. The History Division maintains archival materials to answer research questions from NASA personnel, journalists, scholars, students at all levels, and others from around the world. The division also edits and publishes several books and monographs each year. It maintains a large number of Web sites on NASA history.
Students of all majors are welcome to apply. While detailed prior knowledge of the aeronautics and space fields is not necessary, a keen interest and some basic familiarity with these topics are needed. Strong research, writing and editing skills are essential. Experience with computers, especially HTML formatting, is a plus.
Intern projects are flexible. Typical projects include handling a wide variety of information requests, editing historical manuscripts, doing research and writing biographical sketches, updating and creating Web pages, and identifying and captioning photos.
The deadline for applications is Dec. 2, 2008. For more information, visit http://history.nasa.gov/interncall.htm
Filed under: NASA, OMSI, STEM, Science | Tags: shuttle launch, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Space Shuttle Launch
(From our friends at OMSI)
WATCH NASA SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR LAUNCH AT OMSI NOV. 14
Oregon Astronaut Don Pettit On Board
On Friday, November 14, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) will offer space exploration enthusiasts a front-row seat to watch Oregon astronaut Don Pettit launch into space aboard NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour STS-126. OMSI will be showing the lift-off in the planetarium live via satellite on NASA TV beginning at 4:00 p.m., with the shuttle’s launch scheduled at 4:55 p.m. PDT. Admission for the televised launch is free.
Space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-126 flight will feature important repair work and prepare the International Space Station to house six crew members for long-duration missions. The 15-day flight includes four planned spacewalks. These spacewalks will focus on servicing the station’s two Solar Alpha Rotary Joints, which allow its solar arrays to track the sun.
Astronaut Donald Pettit, born in 1955 in Silverton, Oregon, is married and has two children. A 1973 graduate of Silverton Union High School, Pettit received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State University in 1978 and a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Arizona in 1983. Selected by NASA in April 1996, Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center that August. Pettit’s sole space mission to date has been as a mission specialist on International Space Station Expedition 6 in 2002 and 2003. During his six-month stay aboard the space station, Pettit performed two spacewalks to help install external scientific equipment and filmed numerous experiments on free spheres of water in an extremely low gravity environment.
For more information about the STS-126 mission, including images and interviews with the crew, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/news/
Please note that the shuttle lift-off date and time is subject to change by NASA.
About the Harry C. Kendall Planetarium:
OMSI’s Harry C. Kendall Planetarium, a 200-seat, 360-degree, 52-foot domed theater, is the largest and most technologically advanced public planetarium in the Pacific Northwest. This high-tech venue features state-of-the-art Sky Scan full dome video allowing the planetarium dome to be completely covered with real and computer-generated images to create one complete environment.
About OMSI:
Founded in 1944, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) is one of the nation’s leading science museums, an award-winning world-class tourist attraction and an educational resource for the kid in each of us. OMSI is located at 1945 SE Water Avenue, Portland, OR 97214. For general information, call 503.797.4000 or visit www.omsi.edu
Join New York City Educator Shakira Brown-Petit, LIVE from Antarctica, for exciting, highly interactive sessions about Earth’s polar regions and climate change. See and learn how and what scientists are researching on the ice as they attempt to find evidence of a world much warmer than it is today. Brown-Petit will share climate resources.
Option 1 is designed for classroom participation, allowing students to see, hear and interact directly with Brown-Petit. Option 2 offers educators a professional development opportunity to interact directly from the comfort of home.
Sessions are designed for elementary and middle school audiences and are taking place on Nov. 12, 19 and 24, 2008. Sessions require both an Internet connection and a telephone. To register, visit http://www.us-satellite.net/antarcticalive/
To read more about Shakira Brown-Petit, visit http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/science-and-the-city.html
