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Undergraduate Research Opportunities – Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium

Posted By: Career Enrichment Network

Attention freshmen and all minority students, are you thinking of adding a major in a science field? Would you like to work in a research lab at Penn State? If so, you should consider applying for an undergraduate scholarship!

The NASA/Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium offers 3 scholarships for undergraduate students, including:

  • WISER: Women in Science & Engineering Research (open to all freshmen women)
  • MURE: Minority Undergraduate Research Experience (open to African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander)
  • FURP: Freshman Undergraduate Research Program (open to all freshmen, those with economic hardship encouraged to apply

Details: To apply you must be a US citizen, able to work 5 hours per week in a lab, and be eligible for one of the programs. You will receive a stipend!

Majoring in one of the following Colleges?

  • Engineering
  • Agricultural Science
  • Earth and Mineral Science
  • Information Sciences and Technology
  • Liberal Arts (Anthropology, Psychology)
  • Health and Human Development
  • Eberly College of Science (Biology, Physics, Biochem)
  • Education

Application Deadline: November 1st

For more information and to apply visit us at: www.pa.spacegrant.org
click on ‘higher education opportunities’ then “scholarships for undergrad students”

Funded by NASA through The Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Office
Contact us at: spacegrant@psu.edu

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