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NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant accepting graduate fellowship applications

Jason Cornelius, doctoral student in aerospace engineering and 2020-21 PSGC graduate fellow, at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Cornelius is standing by a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The orange pieces around the helicopter are flight test instrumentation used for gathering data on the helicopter's performance.  Credit: Photo provided by Jason Cornelius. All Rights Reserved.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) is currently accepting applications to its graduate research fellowship program for the 2022-23 academic year. The program awards a limited number of one-year fellowships to students in the STEM, education and humanities fields who are conducting research related to NASA mission priorities. The deadline to apply is Feb. 15, 2022.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens enrolled full-time at the University Park campus. Fellows agree to participate in education outreach or mentoring activities for a minimum of 10 hours per semester during the award period.

Members of the 2022-23 cohort will receive $5,000 in funding, with award emphasis given but not limited to the colleges of Agricultural Sciences, Earth and Mineral Sciences, Education, Engineering, Health and Human Development, Information Sciences and Technology, Liberal Arts and the Eberly College of Science.

For more information and to apply, please visit the PSGC website.

Last Updated December 16, 2021