This is a $3,106,566.84 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center to the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, doing business as Foothill College, a state-controlled institution of higher learning. The award is for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Careers Internship and Training Program, which aims to develop pathways for technicians in advanced design and manufacturing technologies. The program...
This is a $480,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Hartnell Community College District, a minority-serving institution located in Salinas, California. The award, which has no set-aside designation, will fund the Hartnell MUREP Aerospace Academy Project to provide STEM education and enrichment activities for underserved K-12 students in the region through 2025. The project aims to improve STEM participation and retention among...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $316,654.89 cooperative agreement to the San Jacinto Community College District, doing business as San Jacinto Community College, to implement the "Pathways to the STARS" project. The goal of the project is to provide enriching STEM education and activities to 1,350 underserved students in grades 4-10 in the Houston area, as well as engage their parents, in order to promote a larger STEM ecosystem and reduce achievement...
This is a $749,922 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to the Napa Valley Community College District (NVCCD) to develop and implement a STEM curriculum for community college students that will increase their interest and participation in university engineering programs and NASA-related career pathways. The "RISING DATA" program consists of three integrated elements: 1) developing a one-semester course that provides hands-on flight project experiences for students, 2) conducting...
This is a $480,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the California State University San Marcos Corporation (CSUSM Corp), a non-profit organization and Hispanic Serving Institution. The award will fund the CSUSM NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy, which aims to engage underserved youth in STEM activities related to aerospace. The cooperative agreement has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2025. CSUSM Corp...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC18M0124, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Los Angeles Pierce College, a two-year minority-serving community college in Woodland Hills, California. The contract, valued at $275,445.70, provides funding for the Minority Undergraduate Research and Education Program (MUREP) Innovations in Space Technology Curriculum (MISTC) initiative. Under this cooperative agreement, Los Angeles Pierce College will: (1) develop a...
This is a $374,904 grant awarded by NASA to California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI), a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), to increase diversity in STEM fields. The grant, titled "INCREASING DIVERSITY IN STEM AT A HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTION (HSI) THROUGH SHADOWING NASA PLANETARY SCIENTISTS," will fund a research project to enhance STEM education and outreach at CSUCI. As an HSI, CSUCI has a history of securing federal grants and contracts, including from the Department of...
This is a $420,000.00 Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Hartnell Community College District in Salinas, California. The award is to transition Hartnell's existing Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA) program into a MUREP Aerospace Academy (MAA) project. The MAA project will serve approximately 2,000 underrepresented and disadvantaged K-12 students per year in a region with large numbers of migrant, low-income,...
This is a $4,803,522.37 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to Cal State LA University Auxiliary Services Inc. (UAS), a non-profit organization affiliated with California State University, Los Angeles. The contract, titled "NASA Data Intensive Research and Education Center in STEM (DIRECT STEM)," will establish a center at Cal State LA to conduct collaborative research and training in areas such as hydrology, climate change, computational physics, and cloud computing. The goal is...
This is a $482,141 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to CAL State La University Auxiliary Services Inc. (UAS), a non-profit organization affiliated with California State University, Los Angeles. The grant, titled "DIVERSIFYING STUDENT PIPELINES IN STEM: ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION REDUCTION INSPIRED BY PLANETARY SCIENCE," is for research and education initiatives aimed at increasing diversity in STEM fields. UAS, a Hispanic-Serving Institution,...
The U.S. government awarded a $744,984.18 cooperative agreement to the Santa Monica Community College District to implement the "Santa Monica Colleges Minority Community College Curriculum Improvement Project" under the "Building Interdisciplinary Career Skills in STEM" program. The project aims to improve student success in STEM programs at the community college by strengthening curriculum through approaches focused on contextualized instruction, interdisciplinary collaboration, applied learning, and partnerships with universities and industry, including NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The overall goal is to increase access, skill development, persistence, completion, and employment outcomes for underrepresented minority students in STEM. This award is not a set-aside contract. The prime contractor is the Santa Monica Community College District, and the funding agency is the Shared Services Center.