# Presentation: 830279

## National Space Grant College and Fellowship ProgramandThe Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)

- Dr. Warfield Teague
- Space Grant and EPSCoR Programs
- 20 May  2004

***Education and Research Opportunities ***
***for Tribal Colleges and NASA***

## Contribute to the nation's science enterprise by funding education, research, and public service projects through a national network of university-based Space Grant consortia. 
Objectives:
Establish and maintain a national network of universities.
Encourage cooperative programs among universities, aerospace industry, and federal, state, and local governments.
Encourage interdisciplinary education, research, and public service programs related to aerospace.

- Objectives:
- Establish and maintain a _national network_ of universities.
- Encourage _cooperative programs_ among universities, aerospace industry, and federal, state, and local governments.
- Encourage _interdisciplinary education, research, and public service programs_ related to aerospace.

**Space Grant Overview**

## Space Grant Overview

**Space Grant Overview**

- _Recruit and train U.S. citizens_, especially women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities.
- _Promote a strong_ science, mathematics, and technology _education base_ from elementary through secondary levels.
*Space Grant is primarily a Higher Education Program with K-12 and Informal Components*
*Space Grant is the “Pump in the Pipeline”*

## Description:
52 state-based consortia - one in each state plus the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Primarily a higher education program with modest pre-college components
Congressionally mandated in 1988
Modeled after Land Grant and Sea Grant Programs
Budget:
FY 2004 = $25.3 million

- 52 state-based consortia - one in each state plus the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- Primarily a higher education program with modest pre-college components
- Congressionally mandated in 1988
- Modeled after Land Grant and Sea Grant Programs
- Budget:
- FY 2004 = $25.3 million

**Space Grant Overview**

## $475,000

- $256,000
- $256,000

## Slide 6

## 10 State Consortia have a total of 25 Native American Educational Institutions (24 TCU’s) as Affiliate Members
45 Fellowships/Scholarships at 8 Tribal Colleges and Universities  (average: $700)—evenly divided between men and women (FY 2003)
$173,000 in other higher education programs—$40,000 directly to students –(FY2003)
New Award (2004) $175,000 -- NativeView Connections (7 SG’s – NE, ID, OR, SD, ND, UT, WY– and 10 Tribal Partners)

- 45 Fellowships/Scholarships at 8 Tribal Colleges and Universities  (average: $700)—evenly divided between men and women (FY 2003)
- $173,000 in other higher education programs—$40,000 directly to students –(FY2003)
- New Award (2004) $175,000 -- NativeView Connections (7 SG’s – NE, ID, OR, SD, ND, UT, WY– and 10 Tribal Partners)

**Tribal College Programs**

## Remote Sensing Research on the Santee Reservation (Nebraska SG)
Dine/Shonto Supplemental Experiences for Interns (Arizona SG)
Native IMAGE (Institute for Managing Applications in Geospatial Extension) (Nebraska SG)
Haskell Indian Nations University Transfer Program (Kansas SG)
NASA Summer Interns Program (Montana SG -- includes 2 Tribal College interns)

- Dine/Shonto Supplemental Experiences for Interns (Arizona SG)
- Native IMAGE (Institute for Managing Applications in Geospatial Extension) (Nebraska SG)
- Haskell Indian Nations University Transfer Program (Kansas SG)
- NASA Summer Interns Program (Montana SG -- includes 2 Tribal College interns)

**Examples of Projects**

## Slide 9

## EPSCoR Goals and Objectives

*Goal:*
- Provide seed funding that will enable states that traditionally receive fewer federal R&D awards to develop an academic research enterprise directed toward long-term, self-sustaining, nationally competitive capabilities in aerospace research.
*Objectives:*
- Contribute to and promote the development of research infrastructure in NASA EPSCoR states in areas of strategic importance to the NASA mission.
- Improve the capabilities of the NASA EPSCoR states to gain support from sources outside the NASA EPSCoR program.

## EPSCoR Goals and Objectives

- Work in close coordination with the NASA Space Grant program to improve the environment for science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education in the state.

*Objectives (cont):*

**EPSCoR Goals and Objectives**

## EPSCoR Unique Characteristics

- Congressionally mandated for NASA in 1992
- 20 states are eligible to participate in the NASA EPSCoR
- Determined by the original legislation – corresponds to the original National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR states
- Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas are EPSCoR States
- EPSCoR P.I. is the Space Grant Director in the state

## Slide 13

## EPSCoR – Current Program

- 2 Basic Components
***Core Funding for Research Infrastructure Development***
- 20 Awards – one in each state
- $125K per state
- Primarily to enable them to continue to build relationships and improve contacts with NASA researchers
- Research Awards
- 35 Awards competitively selected
- NASA Tech Monitor for each award
- Total award per state does not exceed $700K
- Required 1:1 match for every NASA dollar awarded
- New solicitation in 2005

## What Can You Do?

- Contact the Space Grant Director in your state to
- investigate Affiliation;
- investigate ways to collaborate on Scholarships and Project.
- Take the information back to your Math and Science Faculty.
- If your state qualifies, contact the EPSCoR Director to investigate ways to collaborate on Core Funding projects, then on to Research Awards.

## What Can We Do?

- Continue to emphasize involvement of underrepresented populations, including Native Americans and their higher education institutions, for
- Space Grant Scholarships and projects;
- Affiliation.
- Encourage EPSCoR states to include Tribal Colleges in Core Funding collaborations.
- Develop stronger coordination between Space Grant/EPSCoR with NASA’s Tribal College programs (Office of Education).