Provides research opportunities for full-time NAU undergraduate students
**  You must be a U.S. Citizen **

Students earn $9.00/hour for up to 10 hrs per week for the academic year (300 hr. maximum)

Monthly meetings for support & feedback

Learn how to conduct meaningful research with the help of a Mentor
(If you do not have a Mentor, please speak to your Advisor or contact us for assistance)

Present findings at annual April symposium (to be held at UA in Tucson in 2010)

How to Apply

The application process begins January 2010

Find a Mentor to work with on the research area of your choice
It is desired that the research further NASA's mission in some way.
Contact your advisor or a faculty member to find out possible research projects.
Check back at this site for a link to research projects we know of that are available for students.

Complete our online application for Students & Mentors

Applications are automatically submitted online or if you prefer you can mail to address below

Submit your application (with your Mentors) to the Space Grant office/site

Applications will be reviewed by our Steering Committee

Notification of acceptance is mailed out by early May

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Meet Our 2009 - 2010 Academic Year Interns Eric Betz  AZ Daily Sun - Science Writer  (Journalism) Samual Coleman - Comparison of Dune Morphology in North Polar and Equatorial Mars   (Geology) Kirsten Davis - Newton's Method for Radial & Non-radial Solutions of PDE   (Mathematics) Sean Deist -  Mapping CO2 Ice Depths on the Mars South Polar Residual Cap                                             (Physics & Astronomy) Charlie Katerba - Hadamard Matrices and Their Applications   (Mathematics) Kendra Kellogg -    A Census of Young Binary Stars and Their Properties   (Physics & Astronomy) Christine Kuhlman - Hardware Accelerator for Efficient Error-Correcting Code Testing  (Electrical Engineering) Bryan LaBore-Genetic and Cellular Basis of Ultraviolet Radiation Resistance in Chlamydomonas (Biology) Ryan McPeck-  Newton's Method for Radial & Non-radial Solutions of PDE    (Mathematics) Tasha Riddels -  Saving Space Preserving and Promoting Historic NASA Documents and Images in the USGS Astrogeology Branch     (History/Anthropology) Beth Schreck- Complex Cinder Cone Eruptive Styles, Processes and Resulting Morphology    (Geology) Gregory Strang - Development of a Portable Mass Spectrometer Visible Near Infrared Spectrometer Instrument for Environmental Sensing  (Physics & Astronomy) Zachary Thompson -Visible and IR Spectra of Astrophysical Ices (Mathematics & Physics) Jared Vincent-  Characterization of Lunar Volcanoes  (Physics & Astronomy) Kimberly Ward-Duong - Planetary Astronomy with the New NAU Campus Telescope   (Physics & Astronomy) Colleen Watling - The Geologic History of Mars   (Geology) John Yatsko - Hadamard Matrices and Their Applications   (Mathematics)