The New York Space Grant Consortium will provide $5,500 stipends and $1,000 travel/relocation grants for 10-week undergraduate student internships at the NASA centers shown below. As always, these opportunities are contingent upon continued funding from NASA.

Eligibility:
To receive NY Space Grant funding, a full-time student must (1) be a United States citizen, and (2) be a New York state resident or attend a New York college/university. Additional eligibility details for each center's internship opportunity are listed in the table above.

Application:
For NASA JPL, Kennedy, and Marshall internships, students must apply directly to the NY Space Grant using the application linked below. Students will be chosen on a competitive basis for forwarding to those NASA centers' internship/program directors for further selection and placement.

>>Download the NYSG's NASA internship application form (PDF file) for JPL, Kennedy, and Marshall   [click here to download Adobe Reader software]

>>For NASA Langley, students should apply directly to the LARSS program using their on-line application process.

Deadlines and Notification:
February 1, 2009 is the deadline for receipt of all applications and supporting materials in the NY Space Grant office and the LARSS program office.

Students chosen for forwarding/further selection at NASA JPL, Kennedy, and Marshall will be notified in mid-February 2009. Students chosen for Langley's LARSS program will be notified in March/April 2009.

Funding from the NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) allows the New York Space Grant Consortium to provide $5,500 stipends and $1,000 travel/relocation grants for 10-week summer internships at various NASA centers. Students will engage in projects that specifically address the ESMD goal of creating new capabilities and technologies for human and robotic space exploration. Design, engineering, and research opportunities are available in the following areas: spacecraft, propulsion, lunar and planetary surface systems, and ground operations.

The ESMD internship opportunities are listed on this page: NASA-ESMD Space Grant Internships
Be sure to check the timeframe of the opportunities, as New York Space Grant support is for summer 2009 internships only.

Eligibility:
To receive NY Space Grant funding, a full-time student must (1) be a United States citizen, and (2) be a New York state resident or attend a New York college/university. Additional eligibility requirements are listed in Section 3 of the ESMD Student Information Handbook (PDF file).

>>ESMD Internship Page

Deadlines and Notification:
February 4, 2009 (recently extended) is the direct application deadline.

Students chosen for this program will be notified in March 2009.

The New York Space Grant Consortium will provide a $4,000 stipend and $1,000 travel/relocation grant for up to 2 New York students selected to attend the prestigious NASA Academy during summer 2009. Academy interns' housing and other programmatic costs are supplied by the Academy programs. As always, these opportunities are contingent upon continued funding from NASA.

NASA Academy is an intense professional, training, and research experience for undergraduate and graduate students to hone their technical and leadership skills in science and engineering. Besides conducting individual research and group projects, Academy students attend seminars and travel to various site visits.

For more information, see the NASA Academy program overview web page. Further information is available on each Academy's home page:

• NASA Ames Academy - Moffett Field, CA
• NASA Glenn Academy - Cleveland, OH
• NASA Goddard Academy - Greenbelt, MD
• NASA Marshall Academy - Huntsville, AL

Eligibility:
To receive NY Space Grant funding, a full-time student must (1) be a United States citizen, and (2) be a New York state resident or attend a New York college/university, and (3) be a rising junior or senior undergraduate, or first-year graduate student.

>>NASA Academy at Goddard (via NASA GSFC Intern Program Application)

>>NASA Academy at Ames, Glenn, and Marshall (via AcademyApp.com)

Deadlines and Notification:
January 16, 2009 is the direct application deadline for NASA Academy at Goddard.
January 26, 2009 is the direct application deadline for NASA Academy at Ames, Glenn, and Marshall.

Students chosen for these programs will be notified in March/April 2009.

The New York Space Grant Consortium will provide $5,500 stipends for undergraduate students to conduct science and engineering research for 10 weeks in the summer (June 1 - August 7, 2009 is the typical work term). World-class Cornell professors and researchers will mentor students in the following NASA-related science and engineering projects:

• Prof. Joseph Burns (Astronomy): "Images and Analysis of Saturn's Rings"
• Prof. Michael Kelley (Electrical & Computer Engineering): "Ionospheric Thunderstorms and other Space Weather Phenomena"
• Prof. James Lloyd (Astronomy): "The Violet Space Telescope"
• Prof. Mason Peck (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering): "Design and Analysis of a High-Agility Space Telescope "
• Prof. Matthew Pritchard (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences): "Observing the Changing Earth from Space: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Glaciers and More "
• Prof. Charles Williamson (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering): Fluid Dynamics Research

For questions or more information, please e-mail spacegrant@astro.cornell.edu