NASA Awards Grants To Four Universities To Improve Stem Programs

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

August 11, 2011

Ann Marie Trotta 
Headquarters, Washington                                    
202-358-1601 
ann.marie.trotta@xxxxxxxx 


RELEASE: 11-266

NASA AWARDS GRANTS TO FOUR UNIVERSITIES TO IMPROVE STEM PROGRAMS

WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded grants to four universities and their 
partner institutions that serve large numbers of minority and 
underrepresented students to strengthen programs in science, 
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). 
The grants total approximately $600,000 and are provided through 
NASA's Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award for the Integration 
of Research (CIPAIR) project. 

Scientists and educators from the academic community, private 
industry, the National Science Foundation and NASA selected the 
awardees after reviewing proposals. The four institutions and their 
partners will receive one-year funding of about $150,000 for up to 
three years, based on performance and availability of funds. 

The selected institutions and their partners are: 
-- California State University, San Bernardino, and College of the 
Desert in Palm Desert, Calif. 
-- Fond Du Lac Tribal College in Cloquet, Minn. 
-- Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss., and Mid-South Community 
College in West Memphis, Ark. 
-- Navajo Technical College in Crownpoint, N.M. 

These awards continue NASA's commitment of achieving a broad-based, 
competitive aerospace research and technology development capability 
among the nation's historically black colleges and universities, 
tribal colleges and universities, and Hispanic and other 
minority-serving institutions. CIPAIR is managed for NASA by the Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. 

NASA invests in projects that will build, sustain, and provide a 
skilled, knowledgeable and diverse work force to meet the agency and 
the country's emerging needs. For more information about CIPAIR, 
visit: 



http://go.nasa.gov/n1mJMc 


For more information about NASA's education programs, visit: 



http://www.nasa.gov/education 

	
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