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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Funding from the Alaska Space Grant Program allowed me to focus on my research and classes without the need to get off campus work. This has given me more time to do research and has allowed me to present at multiple conferences in the past year. 

I can honestly say that my time at the SSEP is the primary reason I was selected for the position [Mechanical Engineer].

Impact

Science

Using Science Illustration to Communicate Vegetation Change in South-Central and Arctic Alaska

This project will investigate various illustration techniques to produce figures for three research projects on vegetation change in Alaska: The estimation of shrub biomass with NASA Goddard’s G-LiHT remote sensing data, NASA Ames’ greening and browning vegetation research using MODIS pixels,…

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Julia Ditto
Human Exploration and Operations

Colin Latimer-UAF Physics student

For physics student Colin Latimer, an internship at NASA was a no-brainer. “It's NASA, man. Of course I'm going to say yes to an internship at NASA,” he said. (For more of the story click on the photo)

Currently a junior at UAF, Latimer spent ten weeks last summer studying at the Goddard…

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Colin Latimer

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