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

Funding Opportunities

What Our Students Say

Allowed me to collect samples and run analysis that otherwise, I would not have been able to do. 

It helped me to gain experience in my field. This has given me more potential employment opportunities.

Impact

Science

Microbial Adaptive Mechanisms to Iron Limitations Provides Clues to Early Life

UAA student battles cold, COVID-19 to understand life on Earth

Megan Brauner, a graduate student at UAA, has been working in the Kenai River estuary since…

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Megan Brauner
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