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

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

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