In addition to our usual spring/fall award cycles, the Connecticut Space Grant Consortium offers a number of summer funded opportunities. This summer the CTSG is funding student-faculty summer research, and attendance to the Aircraft Readiness and Rock-On workshops. Priority Deadline for all applications is March 15, 2016. Apply now!
UG Student-Faculty Summer Research – Priority Deadline March 15, 2016
- To encourage undergraduate student engagement in the research process, this grant will enable undergraduate students to gain meaningful research experience in CTSGC Affiliate research laboratories. Full-time research projects should span a minimum of 8 weeks in length.
- This award will support:
- 2 undergraduate student summer stipends ($6,000 each)
- 1 University student
- 1 Community College student
- A small stipend for faculty advisors ($1,000 each)
- 1 University faculty
- 1 Community College faculty
- 2 undergraduate student summer stipends ($6,000 each)
- Eligible Applicants:
- Faculty: Full-time faculty or research staff; must be U.S. citizens
- Student: Undergraduate/community college student applicants must be full-time students at the time of application, with a minimum GPA of 3.0
- Eligible Budget Items: The budget is limited to include only student and faculty/staff summer stipend (including fringe & benefits)
- No indirect costs may be charged to the NASA Grant, however indirect chargers may be included within the matching contributions, but are limited
- Faculty must show a minimum of $7,000 cost match within the budget
- To apply:
- Refer to the Spring 2016 RFP booklets (Student / Faculty) for information on the application procedure
- All forms can be found here.
- The faculty PI should submit the application via email, which must include 3 attachments:
- Contact and Demographic info for the faculty
- Contact and Demographic info for the student
- A single PDF containing the appropriate coversheet, faculty application material, and student application material
Aircraft Readiness Workshop – takes place June 12-17, 2016 in Havelock, NC
Program tuition, travel, room & board will be supported by CTSG. Information on the workshop can be found in our Events page as well as the North Carolina Space Grant webpage. For information on the application process, see our student grants and application forms pages and refer to pages 18 and 30 in the Spring 2016 Student RFP booklet.
RockOn Workshop – takes place June 18-23, 2016 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in VA – Priority Deadline March 15, 2016 – SPACE IS LIMITED; apply now!
Program tuition, travel, room & board will be supported by CTSG. Information on the workshop can be found in our Events page as well as the Colorado Space Grant webpage. For information on the application process, see our student grants and application forms pages and refer to pages 18 and 30 in the Spring 2016 Student RFP booklet.