Mentor an early career researcher for the academic year

Students releasing weather balloon
Photo by Simeon Ramirez.
性欲社 students Ayman Eltahir and Joevahnta 鈥淣alugalria鈥 Usugan-Weddington releasing a weather balloon from Utopia, Texas, during the April 8, 2024, total eclipse as part of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project.

Faculty! If you have a NASA-relevant project idea and want to foster students to assist your future research efforts, consider applying for an .

Faculty members develop a project and select up to two students for whom this would be their first substantial research and/or engineering experience. The students will receive a $3,650 stipend for 200 hours of effort directly from Alaska Space Grant Program.

Applications are due Sept. 15.

Not space-related? Don鈥檛 be discouraged! Besides aerospace, NASA finds relevance in all sorts of earth science, biology and other STEM fields. A good place to find NASA relevance is the reviewing and . 

For more information, contact Charles Emerson, ASGP Coordinator at uaf-spacegrant@alaska.edu.