Notice of Funding Opportunity: NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)

Apr 18, 2023 | Awards, News and Awards

This EPSCoR award provides funding up to $750k over a period of 3 years, and our jurisdiction (Rhode Island) is able to submit 1 full proposal to NASA to be considered for funding.  We are now accepting proposal concepts – not to exceed 2 pages, more information below...

NASA’s Micro-g NExT Challenges

Apr 18, 2023 | Awards, News and Awards

As NASA prepares for the return to Earth’s Moon, it is calling all undergraduate students who would like to gain a hands-on, authentic engineering design experience while also directly contributing to upcoming missions! Micro-gravity Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design...

NASA’s 2023 BIG Idea Challenge

Apr 18, 2023 | Awards, News and Awards

The 2023 BIG Idea Challenge provides undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to design, develop, and demonstrate technologies that will enable the production of lunar infrastructure from ISRU-derived metals found on the Moon. Key infrastructure products...

Fashioned from AA batteries: Brown students launch satellite on Elon Musk’s rocket

Apr 18, 2023 | News

View the original story from the Providence Journal.  Brown University students, with a low-cost satellite, are blasting off on a budget. It’s called SBUDNIC, not to be confused with Sputnik, the Soviet satellite that launched in the 1950s. This one is much smaller,...

Planet Earth, The Environment and Our Future

Apr 18, 2023 | News

View the original post on the WaterFire website.  WaterFire Providence presents Planet Earth, The Environment and Our Future at the WaterFire Arts Center (WFAC) an exhibition of art and science looking at the beauty and fragility of our world. This exhibition will be...