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NASA is excited to announce a great opportunity for students to apply for a paid summer internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.  The JPL Summer Internship Program offers 10-week, full-time summer opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in science,

The American Physical Society (APS) Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWIP) is seeking a  female guest speaker (1) to participate in their Issues of Women in STEM panel on the evening of Saturday, January 16,

The 2016 NASA Academy is being offered at three locations: NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio, and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Applications are being solicited for this 10-week summer experience for college students with emphasis on immersive and integrated multidisciplinary exposure and training.

The following teacher resources are provided by NASA and affiliates of the California Space Grant: (more…)

New findings from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet.

Summer Opportunity at UCSD: The NASA-sponsored California Space Grant Consortium is looking for 8-10 students to work on Space Grant projects Summer 2015 on the UC San Diego campus.

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NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is doing its part to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Last week, it hosted six northern California community and technical college faculty members to enhance their preparation in these subjects by giving them real experiences of NASA’s space exploration technologies.

What do you need to bring, and how do you minimize the need for delivery of future supplies in order to establish a sustained human presence on a planet 140 million miles away from Earth?

NASA is embarking on an ambitious journey to Mars and Tuesday announced a challenge inviting the public to write down their ideas,

The California Space Grant Consortium is pleased to announce our Undergraduate Engineering Seminar Series, designed to introduce undergraduate students to funded research opportunities, internships and important information about careers in Engineering. Our next seminar in the series promises to provide students with valuable information as they pursue an education in Science and Engineering.