NASA Awards Funds for Student
Design Project,
NASA Summer Internships and
Student Team Competitions
The Vermont Space Grant
Consortium (VSGC), based in
UVM's College of Engineering and
Mathematical Sciences (CEMS),
has received funding from the
Higher Education Office of
NASA's Exploration
Systems Missions Directorate
(ESMD) to enhance three
targeted components of Vermont's
engineering education programs.
Click to see
ESMD
NASA GRANT AWARD PROGRAMS
ESMD Summer Internship
Opportunity
Available: November 15
Deadline:
February 1
Click the link below for the
ESMD Student information
Handbook
NASA STUDENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS
Click the link above to the Office of Higher
Education Online Application.
Here you can apply to several of
our internships with a single
application
NASA
offers undergraduates across the U.S. mentored research experiences
at nine participating NASA Centers. Two sessions will be offered:
10-weeks during Summer and 25-weeks during Fall Applicants must be
undergraduates enrolled full-time in an accredited U.S. college or
university.
2009-2010 ESMD Award Recipients
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URECA!
Student Researchers:
NASA-Vermont Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) is
supporting 3 2009
Undergraduate Research Endeavors Competitive
Awards (URECA! Program)
student researchers. Each will be receive $3000
from VSGC and $1000 from UVM.
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Kelly Todd
Faculty Mentor: Guiseppe Petrucci
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Title of Project: "Reactivity
of Organic Peroxides and their contribution to Secondary
Organic Aerosols
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Evan Malina
Mechanical Engineering (Junior)
Faculty Mentor: Fred Sansoz
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Title of Project:
Determination of Mechanical Properties by
Indentation of Nanoscale Metallic Wires using
Atomic Force Microscopy
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Simone Willett
Computer Science (Senior)
Faculty Mentor: Chris Skalka
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Title of Project:
Program Specialization for Wireless Sensor Networks
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URSP:
Undergraduate Student Research Program
CAMERON MERCER
Geosciences and Physics,
Middlebury Collage
Resident
of Mondrose, Colorado
Cameron
attended NASA Marshall Space
Flight Center,
June-Aug 2009 that
involves support operations and
data analysis for the Mars
Exploration Rovers Project,
including geologic analysis of
rocks, Martian atmospheric
monitoring , and tactical
planning within the Science
Operations Working Group.
NSIP:
NASA Student Internship
Program
BENJAMIN SCARALIA
RPI, Vermont Resident
attended
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
June-Aug 2009 with Dr. Igor
Eberstein and the NSAS Advanced
Supercomputer Division,
Greenbelt, MD on the Photo
Dissociation of Hydrogen and
Deuterium.
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