226 Alaskan students awarded and supported between 2015 - 2021

$1,726,157 in direct student support awarded between 2015-2021

62 Interns placed with NASA centers and Alaska Industry partners between 2015-2021

92% of graduates from 2015-2021 now employed in STEM fields or pursuing advanced STEM degrees

Funding Opportunities

What Our Students Say

Research funding helped me accomplish research and publish a manuscript in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and contribution to co-authored publication. This grant allowed significant contribution to scope and quality of research for Kelly Drew's laboratory and expands what she is capable of doing in current and future experiments.

It funded my undergraduate research and also my summer internship at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

Impact

Science

Using Science Illustration to Communicate Vegetation Change in South-Central and Arctic Alaska

This project will investigate various illustration techniques to produce figures for three research projects on vegetation change in Alaska: The estimation of shrub biomass with NASA Goddard’s G-LiHT remote sensing data, NASA Ames’ greening and browning vegetation research using MODIS pixels,…

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Julia Ditto
Aeronautics Research

Thomas Edwards at Langley

The best learning experiences are the ones that teach us something new about ourselves. For Thomas Edwards, a physics student and UA scholar, his internship at NASA during the summer of 2013 proved to be just such an experience. (click photo to continue story)

During his internship as…

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Thomas Edwards