[UH-PROMES] From Dr. Dunbar: Exciting opportunity for Minority Serving Institutions Student Flight Opportunity w/ NASA - Deadline is April 24

[Zerda, Kathy]

This looks like a great program you may wish to investigate…

From: Dunbar, Bonnie J
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:01 PM
To: White, Kenneth W; Metcalfe, Ralph W; Sharma, Pradeep; Zerda, Kathy; Boyer, Debbie; Shattuck, David P; Karolos Grigoriadis (karolos at uh.edu); Long, Stuart
Cc: Bering, Edgar A
Subject: FW: Exciting opportunity for Minority Serving Institutions Student Flight Opportunity w/ NASA - Deadline is April 24

All,
Following is an opportunity to submit a student team to the NASA JSC parabolic flight program flown out of Ellington Field.  When I was Assistant Director at JSC, I managed this flight program for Universities nation-wide. It is a very hands-on project based program (and fun). The students will be able to fly with their experiment on the aircraft (over the Gulf of Mexico). They also must propose an outreach component (part of the score) and that can include flying a journalist with the team.
There are many possible opportunities, but experiments related to fluids and gas behavior in microgravity are best suited. Can also evaluate surface tension, combustion, etc? Thoughts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nJdWUifhkbE

Bonnie

From: "Blackshear-Reynolds, Donna M. (JSC-LD111)" <donna.m.blackshear-reynolds at nasa.gov<mailto:donna.m.blackshear-reynolds at nasa.gov>>
Date: April 15, 2013, 5:24:30 PM CDT
To: "Blackshear-Reynolds, Donna M. (JSC-LD111)" <donna.m.blackshear-reynolds at nasa.gov<mailto:donna.m.blackshear-reynolds at nasa.gov>>
Cc: "Moore, Misti M. (JSC-AD421)" <misti.m.moore at nasa.gov<mailto:misti.m.moore at nasa.gov>>
Subject: Exciting opportunity for Minority Serving Institutions Student Flight Opportunity w/ NASA - Deadline is soon
Please read and pass along to HBCUs, OMUs, MSI etc…

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From: Moore, Misti M. (JSC-AD421)
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 5:20 PM
To: Moore, Misti M. (JSC-AD421)
Subject: MSI Student Flight Opportunity w/ NASA - Deadline is soon
Importance: High



Greetings,

APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS/UNIVERSITIES TO APPLY WILL CLOSE ON APRIL 24, 2013

The NASA Minority University Research and Education Program has partnered with the NASA Reduced Gravity Flight Program to offer an exciting opportunity for your students to fly and conduct an experiment on a Reduced Gravity Flight in 2013!

DO YOU KNOW COLLEGE STUDENTS and/or FACULTY INTERESTED IN FLYING WITH NASA?  NASA's Johnson Space Center Office of Education announces the opportunity for students attending Minority Serving Institutions (MSI), HBCU’s, HSI’s, and TCU’s to conduct research in a unique reduced gravity environment. This opportunity is a partnership between the Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP) and NASA's JSC Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program, which gives student teams the chance to unite a team, pick a project, & PROPOSE a twist on the project to FLY ON THE ZERO-G plane!!  MUREP's purpose is to increase NASA's responsiveness to Federal mandates related to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU), Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) institutions and Other Minority Universities (OMU). MUREP's goal is to strengthen involvement with higher education institutions to ensure that NASA can meet future workforce needs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields.

Selected university teams will test and evaluate their experiment aboard a microgravity aircraft located at Ellington Field, which flies about 30 parabolas/roller-coaster-like climbs and dips to produce periods of micro and hyper gravity, ranging from 0 g's to 2 g's.


Please pass this information onto others.
For more information on how to apply please visit:  https://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov/murep/index.cfm
For the Official Listing of MSI’s by the Department of Education, please visit: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/edlite-minorityinst.html


Kind regards,

Misti Moore
Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP) Manager
Office of Education-JSC
Phone: 281.483.6716
Fax: 281.244.1254



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