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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This looks like a great program you may wish to investigate…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Dunbar, Bonnie J <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> White, Kenneth W; Metcalfe, Ralph W; Sharma, Pradeep; Zerda, Kathy; Boyer, Debbie; Shattuck, David P; Karolos Grigoriadis (karolos@uh.edu); Long, Stuart<br><b>Cc:</b> Bering, Edgar A<br><b>Subject:</b> FW: Exciting opportunity for Minority Serving Institutions Student Flight Opportunity w/ NASA - Deadline is April 24<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>All, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nJdWUifhkbE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nJdWUifhkbE</a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>Bonnie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>From:</b> "Blackshear-Reynolds, Donna M. (JSC-LD111)" <<a href="mailto:donna.m.blackshear-reynolds@nasa.gov">donna.m.blackshear-reynolds@nasa.gov</a>><br><b>Date:</b> April 15, 2013, 5:24:30 PM CDT<br><b>To:</b> "Blackshear-Reynolds, Donna M. (JSC-LD111)" <<a href="mailto:donna.m.blackshear-reynolds@nasa.gov">donna.m.blackshear-reynolds@nasa.gov</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> "Moore, Misti M. (JSC-AD421)" <<a href="mailto:misti.m.moore@nasa.gov">misti.m.moore@nasa.gov</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Exciting opportunity for Minority Serving Institutions Student Flight Opportunity w/ NASA - Deadline is soon</b><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Please read and pass along to HBCUs, OMUs, MSI etc… </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>_____________________________________________<br><b>From:</b> Moore, Misti M. (JSC-AD421) <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 15, 2013 5:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> Moore, Misti M. (JSC-AD421)<br><b>Subject:</b> MSI Student Flight Opportunity w/ NASA - Deadline is soon<br><b>Importance:</b> High</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Greetings,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red'>APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS/UNIVERSITIES TO APPLY WILL CLOSE ON APRIL 24, 2013</span></u></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The <b><i>NASA Minority University Research and Education Program</i></b> has partnered with the <b><i>NASA Reduced Gravity Flight Program</i></b> to offer an exciting opportunity for your students to fly and conduct an experiment on a Reduced Gravity Flight in 2013!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>DO YOU KNOW COLLEGE STUDENTS and/or FACULTY INTERESTED IN FLYING WITH NASA</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>? NASA's Johnson Space Center Office of Education announces the opportunity for students attending <b><span style='color:red'>Minority Serving Institutions (MSI), HBCU’s, HSI’s, and TCU’s</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span></b>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Please pass this information onto others.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>For more information on how to apply please visit: <a href="https://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov/murep/index.cfm">https://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov/murep/index.cfm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>For the Official Listing of MSI’s by the Department of Education, please visit: <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/edlite-minorityinst.html">http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/edlite-minorityinst.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT"'>Misti Moore</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#990099'>Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP) Manager </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#990099'>Office of Education-JSC</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#990099'>Phone: 281.483.6716</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#990099'>Fax: 281.244.1254</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#D60093'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>