Cal State Awarded NASA Research Grant

Cal State L.A. awarded $5-million NASA research grant

The goal of the five-year grant is to train students in aerospace research and development and increase science, technology, engineering and math degrees, especially for minority and low-income students.

The new Data Intensive Research and Education Center in STEM will be housed in the Department of Geosciences and Environment and, along with water patterns and climate change, will explore such issues as computational physics and cloud computing that relate to NASA's mission.

"We're lookingforward to collaborating with NASA to create a center where research and scholarship can flourish for the benefit of our students, our region and our nation," Cal State L.A. President William A. Covino said in a statement.

The new Cal State center will partner with UC Irvine's Data Science Initiative and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Center for Data Science and Technology.

Cal State L.A. was one of 10 universities nationwide to receive a grant under NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project. Other recipientsinclude San Jose State and UC campuses in Riverside and Merced.

Source: LA Times

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