Iowa Space Grant Consortium

Announcements

Calling all Women in STEM!

Calling all Women’s Colleges and Universities! Help NASA engage and retain more women in STEM degrees and careers through the brand-new Minority University Research an Education Project (MUREP) Women’s Colleges and Universities Solicitation.

Applicants will choose between two tracks: researching best practices to increase retention of women in STEM college degrees (Track 1) or in STEM careers (Track 2)

Join us for an information session to discuss the MUREP Opportunity on Friday, February 10th at 12:30pm ET.

Mark calendars for a second information session scheduled for March 8, 2023 at 3pm ET to review requirements and answer questions.

Applications are due April 17, 2023. Contact murepwcu@nasaprs.com with questions

RockOn 2023 Higher Education Workshop

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is hosting the RockOn! 2023 workshop June 16-23. U.S. university and community college teams are invited to a week long, hands-on workshop to learn how to build a scientific experiment and launch it into space.

The hands-on workshop teaches participants to build experiments that fly on a sounding rocket. During the week, participants will work together in teams of three to construct and integrate a sounding rocket payload from a kit. On the fifth day of the workshop, the experiments will fly on a sounding rocket expected to reach an altitude of more than 70 miles.

Each experiment will provide valuable scientific data, analyzed as part of the student-led science and engineering research. The program engages faculty and students in STEM skills critical to NASA’s future engineering, scientific, and technical missions.

Registration Deadline: February 28th at 11:59 PM EST. Questions about the workshop or registration process can be directed via rocksatprogram@gmail.com

NASA Planetary Science Summer School

2023 NASA Planetary Science Summer School Applications Due March 27, 2023

Offered by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, PSSS is a 3-month long career development experience to learn the development of a hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule & the inherent trade-offs.

Science and engineering doctoral candidates, recent Ph.D.s, postdocs, junior faculty, and certain master’s degree students, who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (and a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated counties), are eligible. There is no charge to attend, travel stipends are available, and applicants from diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply. 

Link to Register

2023 STEM Festival- Booth Hosting

The Boone Campus DMACC STEM Festival is looking for individuals or groups that would like to host a booth at the Festival.

Set up for the booths can happen on Friday, March 31st, in the afternoon or prior to the start of the festival on Saturday, April 1st. Festival runs from 9AM-12PM.

We highly encourage students and student organizations to register and participate!

Cosmic Microwave Background Collaboration Series for High School Students

The Cosmic Microwave Background Collaboration Stage 4 (CMB-S4) Saturday Space Science Series for High School Students.

Are you fascinated by space? Are you curious about the origins of the Universe or the evolution of galaxies? The CMB-S4 Collaboration, a world-wide scientific organization of professional astronomers and astrophysicists invites you to join us for the Saturday Science Series!

This virtual lecture series for high school students will explore the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, the expansion of the Universe, and more. You will learn about current astronomy research and careers in astrophysics and cosmology. Students who attend all four Saturdays will receive a certificate of participation.

Session Dates: April 8,15, 22 and 29

Time: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm (Central Time Zone)

Contact: Juliet Crowell (crowellj@uchicago.edu)

ISGC Student Research Symposium March 27, 2023

The Iowa Space Grant Consortium Student Research Symposium is on Monday, March 27, 2023 in Ames, Iowa at the Gateway Hotel and Conference Center, 2100 Green Hills Drive, Ames, IA 50014.

Below are the poster session guidelines, map to Gateway Hotel and Conference Center, and the tentative schedule for the event. If you have any questions regarding the Research Symposium, please email isgc@iastate.edu. Updated information and registration links will be posted here as available.

Poster Specifications and Session Guidelines

Map to Gateway Hotel and Conference Center

Agenda – Final

Registration