Dates: June 27 – July 1, 2011 Application Deadline: March 14, 2011 The ninth annual Summer School in Astrobiology, sponsored by the NAI and the Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB), will […]
Education and Outreach
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Education and Outreach, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Opportunity for one or two graduate students to participate in a field trip to Shark Bay, Western Australia
Application Deadline: February 15, 2011 Roger Summons, PI of the MIT NAI team, is planning a field trip to Shark Bay Australia from June ~11 – 19. Participants include Pieter […]
Posted inConferences and Meetings, Education and Outreach
Undergraduate Planetary Science Research Conference
The First Undergraduate Planetary Science Research Conference will be held on Sunday, March 6, 2011 from 9:00 am to 5:00pm, in association with the 2011 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference […]
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2011 ACCESS Internships for Students With Disabilities
Applications are now being accepted for the Achieving Competence in Computing, Engineering and Space Science project, also known as ACCESS. This 10-week, paid internship at NASA centers around the U.S. […]
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2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
Caltech’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships, or SURF, project introduces undergraduate students to research under the guidance of seasoned mentors at Caltech or NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Students experience the process […]
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United Negro College Fund Selected to Administer NAI's Minority Institution Research Support (MIRS) Program
NAI has selected the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Special Programs Corporation to administer its Minority Institution Research Support (MIRS) program. The goal of the NAI MIRS Program is to […]
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NASA 2011 Undergraduate Research Associates in Astrobiology Program (UR-AA)
The Goddard Center for Astrobiology (GCA) Greenbelt, MD 20771 The 2011 Undergraduate Research Associates in Astrobiology Program is a 10-week program for undergraduate students interested in working with scientists whose […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Away Teams & Field Reports, Education and Outreach
Creating Virtual Astrobiolgy Field Trip to Yellowstone National Park
From July 21-August 1, 2010, five K-12 and informal educators joined scientists from the Arizona State University (ASU) and Montana State University (MSU) teams of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Education and Outreach
ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Camp in Astrobiology
This summer, NAI’s team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) hosted the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp in Astrobiology. The camp is a free, academic program of The Harris Foundation, […]
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NASA Astobiology Institute Research Scholarship Awardees
The NAI has awarded the following students and postdoctoral fellows with travel awards: Chris Glein, a graduate student at Arizona State University, will present a paper at the European Planetary […]