Dive Brief:
- UC Riverside will receive $4.5 million from NASA to create research and education opportunities for underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and math fields.
- The grant project, Fellowships and Internships in Extremely Large Data Sets, will last five years, giving students at college and graduate levels a chance to study NASA datasets, Campus Technology reports.
- The grant will also fund training for high school teachers to encourage younger students to pursue STEM fields, according to the article.
Dive Insight:
NASA has a number of missions collecting mass amounts of data for study. This grant project creates a partnership between NASA and UC Riverside that will be mutually beneficial. NASA will get bright, young minds to strategize new ways to visualize that data for easier analysis and students get opportunities to work on interesting, relevant projects. Partnerships like this help colleges and universities offer engaging opportunities for students, even in times when budgets are tight.