Amelia Earhart Fellowship Helping Women Break Through

By On December 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Aerospace Technologies, Applied Science, Fellowships, Science

The Amelia Earhart Fellowship program helps talented women pursue advanced studies in aerospace-related sciences and engineering, a field traditionally dominated by men. Today women represent just 10% of professionals in these fields.

The Amelia Earhart Fellowship is an award of $10,000 USD, and is given annually to 35 recipients from all over the globe. The fellowship award can be used to purchase things such as state-of-the-art computers, books, and other resources for conducting research. To date, Amelia Earhart Fellows represent 65 different countries, and have gone on to become astronauts, aerospace engineers, astronomers, professors, geologists, business owners, heads of companies, even Secretary of the US Air Force.

Women of any nationality pursuing a Ph.D./doctoral degree who demonstrate a superior academic record in the field of aerospace-related sciences and aerospace-related engineering are eligible to apply.

“The Amelia Earhart Fellowship is more than a fellowship that helped me financially while conducting my research.  I met so many wonderful women in all walks of life that are truly engaged in helping women to advance and succeed, the spirit of which I will appreciate for a long time to come.” - Peihua Jing, China, Amelia Earhart Fellow, 2002 & 2005

What’s even better about this fellowship is that you can win it more than once! To learn more about the Amelia Earhart Fellowship Program please visit the website.

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Fellowship Helps Pioneer the Future of Space Exploration

By On November 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Aerospace Technologies, Applied Science, Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Fellowships, Science, Technology

The NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship is currently accepting applications for the 2012 fellowship program. Master’s and PhD students will receive up to $30,000 a year to help NASA study earth from space, understand the sun, consider the evolution of the solar system and discover the destiny of the universe. The purpose of the fellowship is to ensure NASA has a highly qualified workforce needed to achieve NASA’s scientific goals.

The fellowship call for proposals and submission instructions are located at the NESSF 12 solicitation index page at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/. Click on “Solicitations” then click on “Open Solicitations” then select the “NESSF 12″ announcement. Applications are due February 1, 2012.

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NASA Announces Inaugural NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship Winners

By On August 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Aerospace Technologies, Fellowships, Science, Technology

The NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships are brand new grants to support graduate students pursuing masters or doctoral degrees in relevant space technologies and disciplines. The goal of the program is to provide the U.S. with a pipeline of highly skilled engineers and technologists to improve its competitiveness. NASA’s plan is to build up the program to support as many as 500 active students per year.

“These fellowships will develop America’s technology leaders for tomorrow, leaders that will help us out-innovate, out-educate and out-build our competitors and maintain our leadership in space,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. “President Obama has said, ‘America’s competitiveness rests on the excellence of our citizens in technical fields.’ These grants are an investment in America’s intellectual capital and our nation’s future.”

Read the press release

2011 is the inaugural year for the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship.  Recently NASA announced that 81 deserving students from all over the U.S. have earned one of these fellowships.  Vicki and I are thrilled to see that students from the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia, and Cornell University represented 7 of the award winners.  Curious if anyone from your school made the cut?  See the full list of recipients.

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