NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
(NESSF) Program
NASA announces a call for graduate fellowship
proposals to the NASA Earth and Space Science
Fellowship (NESSF) program for the 2011-2012
academic year. This call for fellowship
proposals solicits applications from
accredited U.S. universities on behalf of
individuals pursuing Master of Science
(M.Sc.) or Doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Earth
and space sciences, or related disciplines.
The purpose of NESSF is to ensure continued
training of a highly qualified workforce in
disciplines needed to achieve NASA?s
scientific goals. Awards resulting from the
competitive selection will be made in the
form of training grants to the respective
universities.
The deadline for NEW applications is February
1, 2011, and the deadline for RENEWAL
applications is March 15, 2011.
The NESSF call for proposals and submission
instructions are located at the NESSF 11
solicitation index page at
http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ - click on
"Solicitations" then click on "Open
Solicitations" then select the "NESSF 11"
announcement. Also refer to ?Proposal
Submission Instructions? and ?Program
Specific Questions? listed under ?Other
Documents? on the NESSF 11 solicitation index
page.
All proposals must be submitted in electronic
format only through the NASA NSPIRES system.
The advisor has an active role in the
submission of the fellowship proposal. To
use the NSPIRES system, the advisor, the
student, and the university must all
register. Extended instructions on how to
submit an electronic proposal package are
posted on the NESSF 11 solicitation index
page listed above. You can register in
NSPIRES at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/.
For further information contact Ming-Ying
Wei, Program Administrator for NESSF Earth
Science Research, Telephone: (202) 358-0771,
E-mail:mwei@nasa.gov or Dolores Holland, Program
Administrator for NESSF Heliophysics
Research, Planetary Science Research, and
Astrophysics Research, Telephone: (202) 358-
0734, E-mail: hq-nessf-Space@nasa.gov.
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*2011 RASC-AL Competition*
NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace announce the 2011 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage Competition. RASC-AL is a design project competition aimed at university-level engineering students.
The RASC-AL contest challenges participants to design projects based on real NASA projects. Participants can choose from four different themes. These design projects potentially could be implemented by NASA.
Interested teams are requested to submit a notice of intent as soon as practical, and teams must submit an abstract for their proposed project by *Feb. 4, 2011*. The RASC-AL Steering Committee of NASA and industry experts will evaluate the proposals and select as many as ten undergraduate and five graduate teams to compete against each other at a forum in June 2011 in Florida.
The RASC-AL competition is open to full-time undergraduate or graduate students majoring in engineering or science at an accredited university. University design teams must include one faculty or industry advisor with a university affiliation and two or more undergraduate or graduate students. A group of universities may also work in collaboration on a design project entry. Multidisciplinary teams are encouraged.
For more information about this competition, visit http://www.nianet.org/rascal/index.html.
If you have questions about this competition, please contact Shelley Spears at Shelley.Spears@nianet.org mailto:Shelley.Spears@nianet.org.
