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NASA Pa. Space Grant accepting undergraduate research internship applications

Grace Van Patter presents her research at the 2019 WISER/MURE/FURP undergraduate research symposium. The NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium is accepting applications to its undergraduate research internship programs until Nov. 1. Credit: Patricia L. Craig / Penn StateCreative Commons

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) is currently accepting applications to its undergraduate research internship programs. The programs offer first-year and minority students a two-semester, faculty-mentored internship in a research laboratory at University Park. The deadline to apply is Nov. 1.

Open to University Park undergraduates who are U.S. citizens planning to pursue a degree in a STEM-related field, the programs are: Women in Science Engineering Research (WISER), Minority Undergraduate Research Experience (MURE) and First-year Undergraduate Research Program (FURP).

Participating laboratories are in the colleges of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Engineering, Health and Human Development, the Liberal Arts, Information Sciences and Technology, and the Eberly College of Science.

For more information and to apply, please visit the program website or contact the PSGC undergraduate research program at ugrad-spacegrant@psu.edu.

Last Updated April 15, 2021