NASA has announced three new scholarship and research opportunities for FY 2015:

• Minority University Research Education Project (MUREP)
• Aeronautics Scholarship Program–Undergraduate
• Aeronautics Scholarship Program–Graduate

These are competitive year-long opportunities focused on students in eligible NASA STEM disciplines.

Students Must:

• Be U.S. Citizens
• Have a 3.0 GPA or above
• Be pursuing a STEM discipline (please see below for MUREP and Aeronautics disciplines)

Funding:

• Up to $9,000 per student will be paid toward tuition
• Stipend of $6,000 for summer internship
• Up to four years funding per student

Due Date for Applications:

• March 31, 2015

Please click here for the official NASA link and how to apply.

MUREP STEM Disciplines–Degrees or Fields of Study

CHEMISTRY:

• Chemical Catalysis
• Chemical Measurement and Imaging
• Chemical Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanism
• Chemical Synthesis
• Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods
• Chemistry of Life Processes
• Environmental Chemical Systems
• Macromolecular, Supramolecular, and Nanochemistry
• Sustainable Chemistry
• Chemistry, other (specify)

COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (CISE)

• Algorithms and Theoretical Foundations
• Bioinformatics and other Informatics
• Communication and Information Theory
• Computational Science and Engineering
• Computer Architecture
• Computer Networks
• Computer Security and Privacy
• Computer Systems and Embedded Systems
• Databases
• Data Mining and Information Retrieval
• Formal Methods, Verification, and Programming Languages
• Graphics and Visualization
• Human Computer Interaction
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Robotics and Computer Vision
• Software Engineering
• CISE, other (specify)

ENGINEERING

• Aeronautical and Aerospace Bioengineering
• Biomedical
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Electrical and Electronic Energy
• Environmental Engineering
• Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Ocean Engineering
• Optical Engineering
• Polymer Engineering
• Systems Engineering
• Engineering, other (specify)

GEOSCIENCES

• Atmospheric Chemistry
• Aeronomy
• Biogeochemistry
• Biological Oceanography
• Chemical Oceanography
• Climate and Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics
• Geobiology
• Geochemistry
• Geomorphology
• Geodynamics
• Geophysics
• Glaciology
• Hydrology
• Magnetospheric Physics
• Marine Biology
• Marine Geology and Geophysics
• Paleoclimate
• Paleontology and Paleobiology
• Petrology
• Physical and Dynamic Meteorology
• Physical Oceanography
• Planetary Science
• Sedimentary Geology
• Solar Physics
• Tectonics
• Geosciences, other (specify)

LIFE SCIENCES

• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Biophysics
• Cell Biology
• Developmental Biology
• Ecology
• Environmental Biology
• Evolutionary Biology
• Genetics
• Genomics
• Microbial Biology
• Neurosciences
• Organismal Biology
• Physiology
• Proteomics
• Structural Biology
• Systematics and Biodiversity
• Systems and Molecular Biology
• Life Sciences, other (specify)

MATERIALS RESEARCH

• Biomaterials
• Ceramics
• Chemistry of materials
• Electronic materials
• Materials theory
• Metallic materials
• Photonic materials
• Physics of materials
• Polymers
• Materials Research, other (specify)

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

• Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics
• Analysis
• Applied Mathematics
• Biostatistics
• Computational and Data -enabled Science
• Computational Mathematics
• Computational Statistics
• Geometric Analysis
• Logic or Foundations of Mathematics
• Mathematical Biology
• Probability
• Statistics
• Topology
• Mathematics, other (specify)

PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

• Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
• Condensed Matter Physics
• Nuclear
• Particle Physics
• Physics of Living Systems
• Plasma
• Solid State Theoretical Physics
• Physics, other (specify)

Note: Some funding mechanism will not accept all of these fields of study and may include some that are not listed.

Aeronautics Disciplines–Degree or Fields of Study

ENGINEERING

• Aeronautical and Aerospace
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Electrical and Electronic
• Energy
• Engineering Mechanics
• Engineering Science
• Industrial Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Metallurgical
• Polymer
• Systems Engineering

Additional Supported Fields in:

• Mathematics
• Computer Science
• Physics