NRAO Community Day at the Howard University: Building a National Partnership for Future STEM Leaders

NRAO Community Day at the GSFC

Date: September 27-28, 2013
Time: 12PM - 6:40PM on September 27, 8:30AM - 1:30PM on September 28
Location: Room 138, Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library, Howard University, Washington D.C.

A primary goal of this collaboration is to increase the number of men and women undergraduates of color that will consider STEM careers . We want to provide students with research / internship experiences (summer + short and long term) at NRAO and discuss cooperative opportunities in engineering, computing, science policy, EPO and other STEM-related fields. At this workshop we will also discuss research opportunities for the students at their home HBCUs, resources and challenges at the HBCUs and future graduate education and other opportunities with partner universities such as University of Virginia, Maryland, Wisconsin and Ohio State.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Green Bank Observatory are facilities of the U.S. National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.

Founded in 1956, the NRAO provides state-of-the-art radio telescope facilities for use by the international scientific community. NRAO telescopes are open to all astronomers regardless of institutional or national affiliation. Observing time on NRAO telescopes is available on a competitive basis to qualified scientists after evaluation of research proposals on the basis of scientific merit, the capability of the instruments to do the work, and the availability of the telescope during the requested time. NRAO also provides both formal and informal programs in education and public outreach for teachers, students, the general public, and the media.

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The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Green Bank Observatory are facilities of the U.S. National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.