Posts Tagged ‘NASA’
DMACC Boone student selected as NASA summer intern
DMACC Boone Campus student Pedro Salazar of Des Moines has been selected as a summer 2020 NASA internship recipient. Salazar, a 2015 graduate of East High School, was recently chosen to participate in the NASA …
Read MoreDMACC student accepted into NASA L’SPACE Virtual Academy
Pedro Salazar of Des Moines, a current pre-engineering student at the DMACC Boone Campus and a 2015 graduate of Des Moines East High, will join the NASA Lucy Student Pipeline Accelerator and Competency Enabler (L’SPACE) …
Read MoreAlgae grown in DMACC biotechnology lab headed to space
NASA is sending Iowa-grown algae from the DMACC Biotechnology Lab to space on the next International Space Station resupply load, Des Moines Area Community College announced today. Julie González, DMACC biology professor and chair of …
Read MoreGood Read: Girls get tech. They just need others to believe it
How do we get young girls into tech? New research by the Girl Scout Research Institute shows that girls might already be there – adults just aren’t very good at listening to them. The results, …
Read MoreUI space satellite prepares for launch two years after $3.7 million NASA grant
Things go missing – keys, sunglasses, odd socks, baryonic matter, and computer passwords. With the help of a NASA grant, University of Iowa professor Phil Kaaret and his students might be able to solve one …
Read MoreRockwell Collins demonstrates data links in tests for NASA
Cedar Rapids-based Rockwell Collins demonstrated fail-safe data links to the U.S. government recently during two weeks of critical testing for the NASA Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management Program, the Corridor Business Journal reported. During …
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