NC Space Grant Announces 2021-22 Team Experience Award Winners
Above: The University of North Carolina at Pembroke’s Rocket Team will compete in the NASA First Nations Launch Competition. NC Space Grant is excited to announce the winners of this year’s Team Experience and Competition...Continue reading "NC Space Grant Announces 2021-22 Team Experience Award Winners"
2021-22 MSI STEM Bridge and New Pathways Program Scholars Selected
The scholarships were created for students at Minority-Serving Institutions, whose graduates have been traditionally underrepresented in STEM....Continue reading "2021-22 MSI STEM Bridge and New Pathways Program Scholars Selected"
2021-22 Pre-Service Teachers Education Scholars Announced
These teachers-in-training will gain unique access to NASA education specialists and materials, to help them bring NASA into their future classrooms....Continue reading "2021-22 Pre-Service Teachers Education Scholars Announced"
I’m Picking Up Bad Vibrations: Designing Tools for Safer Jet Engines
In this guest post, Graduate Research Fellow Richard Hollenbach III, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at Duke University, shares his research on vibrations in airplane engines....Continue reading "I’m Picking Up Bad Vibrations: Designing Tools for Safer Jet Engines"
2021 NC Space Education Ambassadors Selected
NC Space Grant presents 13 new NC Space Education Ambassadors for 2021. NCSEA builds a statewide network of educators delivering NASA content....Continue reading "2021 NC Space Education Ambassadors Selected"
Seeing the Earth for the Forests
Guest post: Ian McGregor is studying geospatial analytics at North Carolina State University. He was selected as an NC Space Grant 2020-21 Graduate Research Fellow. Soon after, he accepted an award from the NASA FINESST...
Connecting Students with NASA Through Mission Patches
The maker of official NASA mission patches, the A-B Emblem company, donated patch collections to NC teachers and made a special patch just for them. ...Continue reading "Connecting Students with NASA Through Mission Patches"
NC Space Symposium Features Astronaut & Other Alumni
With 275 attendees, 139 of them students, the virtual 2021 NC Space Symposium brought together space enthusiasts from many backgrounds....Continue reading "NC Space Symposium Features Astronaut & Other Alumni"
NC Sea & Space Grant Programs Announce New Fellows
“The partnership with North Carolina Sea Grant has opened a new range of research topics and techniques for students interested in aerospace, coastal issues or both.”...Continue reading "NC Sea & Space Grant Programs Announce New Fellows"
Scholars & Fellows Embark on 2021-22 Research Projects
Above: Professor Karen Farizatto (left) and 2021-22 Undergraduate Research Scholarship recipient, Jared Tuton (right), review protein quantification results at the University of North Carolina Pembroke Biotech Research and Training Center (BRTC). NC Space Grant is...Continue reading "Scholars & Fellows Embark on 2021-22 Research Projects"