Two American Indian Tribal Colleges Receive Grant Funding from NASA

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$600,000

Native Brief: WASHINGTON - Two American Indian tribal colleges are among four higher education institutions have received funding from NASA to strengthen programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, commonly known as STEM.

The grants total approximately $600,000 and are provided through NASA's Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award for the Integration of Research project. Scientists and educators from the academic community, private industry, the National Science Foundation and NASA selected the awardees after reviewing proposals.

The four institutions and their partners will receive one-year funding of about $150,000 for up to three years, based on performance and availability of funds.

The selected institutions and their partners are:

These awards continue NASA's commitment of achieving a broad-based, competitive aerospace research and technology development capability among the nation's historically black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, and Hispanic and other minority'serving institutions.

Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award for the Integration of Research is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

NASA invests in projects that will build, sustain, and provide a skilled, knowledgeable and diverse work force to meet the agency and the country's emerging needs.

posted August 12, 2011 6:40 am edt