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

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What Our Students Say

Research funding helped me accomplish research and publish a manuscript in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and contribution to co-authored publication. This grant allowed significant contribution to scope and quality of research for Kelly Drew's laboratory and expands what she is capable of doing in current and future experiments.

It helped me achieve my life line goal of being a NASA intern and making connections to work in that line.

Impact

Human Exploration and Operations

Nathaniel Cox of UAA

When life gets tense down here on Earth—climate change, civil unrest, the next election cycle—Alaskans can take comfort knowing one of their own is hard at work work discovering what our future houses on Mars and the moon might look like.  That would be Nathaniel Cox, a May civil…

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Nathaniel Cox
Aeronautics Research

Jesse Brady at Langley

“Researching with the Langley Aeronautics Academy was the best summer of my life,” said Jesse Brady, a senior in mechanical engineering at UAA. Brady spent last summer in Virginia studying with some of the worlds top scientists. He added that the experience ultimately proved not only be the best…

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Jesse Brady

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