Since its inception nine years ago, the HENAAC Scholars Program has experienced tremendous growth and has awarded over a million and a half dollars in educational grants to over 1,000 deserving recipients. These awards were made possible through the generous support of our outstanding scholarship partners including 2009 sponsors Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Rockwell Collins, Southern California Edison, the Boeing Company, Raytheon, bp, SAIC, Cummins and Verizon.

The goal of our program is to ensure college retention with a 3.0 grade point average or higher; to guarantee college graduation with an undergraduate technical degree in four-five years; and, to contribute to Hispanic communities by producing role models for future generations and securing the country’s place as the finest technological leader in the world.

This call for graduate fellowship proposals, entitled NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program — 2010/2011 Academic Year, solicits applications from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of individuals pursuing master’s or doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Earth and space sciences, or related disciplines. The purpose of NESSF is to ensure continued training of a highly qualified workforce in disciplines needed to achieve NASA’s scientific goals. Awards resulting from the competitive selection will be training grants to the respective universities, with the advisor serving as the principal investigator. The financial support for the NESSF program comes from the Science Mission Directorate’s four science divisions: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science and Astrophysics.

The San Diego Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) is offering scholarships to community college, undergraduate, and graduate women in San Diego County who are in pursuit of a degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. Because you are in a position to inspire and encourage future scientists, attached is information about the AWIS San Diego scholarships that we hope you will share with your students.

NOAA is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships to students majoring in disciplines related to oceanic and atmospheric science, research, or technology, and supportive of the purposes of NOAA’s programs and mission, e.g., biological, social and physical sciences; mathematics; engineering; and computer and information sciences.

Associate Professor and Graduate Studies Adviser at SDSU Dr. Satchi Venkataraman, Ph.D. has created a list serve to disseminate scholarship, internship, research opportunties for SDSU Engineering students.

GEICO Achievement Award for students again this year. The post mark deadline is 2/20/10.

Rocio M. Rodriguez, GEICO San Diego Hiring Manager, would love to bring the GECKO and award the $1,000 checks at your campus and need your support to generate interest in this opportunity.

Are you currently a SDSU LSAMP student? Are you interested in going on to obtain your Masters or PhD in Science or Engineering? Do you need extra money for books, tuition, to conduct research, lab supplies, GRE test registration, Grad school Application Fees, visit Grad schools, travel to conferences, etc? Do you have 1- 2 years left before Graduating from SDSU? If you said YES to all the above, you can be eligible for a $2000 LSAMP Scholarship?

The Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research (CMDITR) is part of a major National Science Foundation funded initiative that focuses on the science of photonics and its applications in materials science and information technology.

Loans Available to Promising Doctoral Students The purpose of this program is to increase the number of promising full-time doctoral students (lecturers are eligible and encouraged to apply) who are interested in applying and competing for future instructional faculty positions at any one of our 23 CSU campuses. The program seeks to accomplish this goal by providing financial aid in the form of loans to doctoral students with the motivation, skills, and experience needed to teach the diverse student body of the CSU.

This program offers graduate students who are interested in doctoral programs the opportunity to explore doctoral study with a cash award of $2000 to the student and $1000 to the faculty mentor.The money can be used for travel expenses to prospective universities, applications to prospective universities, conferences, attending seminars, subscriptions to publications etc.