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The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott Campus Space Grant, part of the Arizona Space Grant, is aimed at recruiting and training students, especially women and underrepresented minorities, for careers in aerospace science, technology and allied fields.
The program includes the Undergraduate Research Internship Program, a program in which students work with a faculty mentor on an individual or a team research project. It also features Research Infrastructure Projects, which are focused on core areas of research that align with NASA priorities and include the Aerospace STEM Challenges to Educate New Discoverers (ASCEND), in which student teams from across Arizona design and build small payloads for launch with high-altitude weather balloons.
Space Grant Research interns come from all colleges at the Prescott Campus and work on projects that align with NASA’s stated mission to “drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality and stewardship of Earth.” “We have been supported by philanthropy and our industry partners,” said Dr. Anne Boettcher, assistant research dean at the Undergraduate Research Institute. “We’re getting greater diversity in student applications and more cross-college applications.”
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