226 Alaskan students awarded and supported between 2015 - 2021

$1,726,157 in direct student support awarded between 2015-2021

62 Interns placed with NASA centers and Alaska Industry partners between 2015-2021

92% of graduates from 2015-2021 now employed in STEM fields or pursuing advanced STEM degrees

Funding Opportunities

What Our Students Say

It allowed me to go to my internship in 2018 at KSC, otherwise I may not have been able to afford going. That internship also gave me the edge I needed to be accepted into the UNT IRES program, which took place at "the end of the world" in Puerto Williams, Chile. 

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Impact

Science

Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of the Evolution of Foreshock Transients and their Substructures

Andrew Vu was introduced to plasma physics in an introductory course during his first year at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “I immediately became enthralled by the rich interplay between plasma and electromagnetic fields that occurs everywhere in the…

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Andrew Vu
Science

Investigation of Near-Earth or Ionospheric Modification of Pulsating Auroras

For stargazers of the northern hemisphere, seeing a bright and multicolored aurora dance in the night sky is a given. Most of us don't question it, we simply marvel and enjoy the light show. Others however, like scientist Michael Jason Ahrns, ask the big questions. (click on photo for more of…

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M. Jason Ahrns