Please welcome the new Interim Director of Iowa NASA EPSCoR, Dr. Sara Nelson! She brings expertise from her work as Assistant Director for Education & Outreach with the Iowa Space Grant Consortium, as well as years as a faculty member of the School of Education. With STEM research, and work with Iowa State Extension in […]

We are pleased to announce that the Iowa NASA EPSCoR program was awarded with a new Research Infrastructure Development grant! The new award will take us all the way through 2027, helping to provide seed funding and travel grants to further collaborations between our Iowa researchers and NASA!

Science & engineering doctoral candidates, recent PhDs, postdocs, & junior faculty who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (and a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated counties) are eligible. Offered by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, PSSS is a career development experience with a workload of a rigorous 3-hour graduate-level course. Learn the development of a hypothesis-driven planetary science robotic […]