The Student Airborne Science Activation Program Selects 25 Students from Minority Serving Institutions

The Student Airborne Science Activation (SaSa) program has confirmed its first cohort of 25 first- and second-year early career undergraduate students. For the eight weeks from June 6th through July 29th, 2022 , the students will engage in hands-on research experience in all components of a research campaign, including flying onboard the NASA P-3 research aircraft to collect land, ocean, and atmospheric measurements. The 15 female and 10 male, competitively-selected students come from nine minority-serving institutions across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. 48% of them are Engineering majors, 88% identify as an underrepresented group in STEM, and 38% identify as a first-generation college student. Five graduate mentors from PhD programs in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences will serve as near-peers to the SaSa undergraduate cohort this summer. Learn more about the SASA program: https://www.nasa.gov/sasa