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| Developing Science Talent with USRA’s Education Organization: About Doreen, Amanda and Missy | Every year, roughly 20 percent of USRA’s revenue is devoted to education and STEM workforce development. During the summer months especially, several experiential learning and internship programs are hosted or managed by USRA with the support of USRA’s education organization. In this “USRA Career Story” we talk to Doreen, Amanda and Missy. At 10 months, six years, and 24 years of experience with USRA, respectively, these women bring unique perspectives as well as a shared fondness for their work that carries on USRA’s 44-year-long commitment to developing science talent.
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| How is USRA a Nonprofit? | The short answer: As a nonprofit, USRA exists for the public good. USRA’s income is used to fulfill its nonprofit public purpose, which reads, in part, as “…the development and application of space-related science, technology and engineering.” In contrast, a for-profit has owners, who receive a return or “profit” on their investment.
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| | IRAD Reminder | | Reminder: FY 2022 IRAD proposals are due to Martin Ruzek by close of business on 16 August 2021. Reach your program director for details on developing a proposal to be considered for USRA funding. | |
| | What Do You Want to Learn? | | On 3 August, ULearn becomes a more powerful knowledge platform with a new design and new content. You will be able to access your learning via mobile devices and learn new skills or improve on current ones through curated courses, videos, podcast, books and audio books. Note that the ULearn site will not be available until 3 August while the platform transitions. | |
| | National Book Lovers Day | In honor of National Book Lovers Day on 9 August, the Discovery Newsletter Editorial Board would like to offer some recommendations for you. Some of the books offer personal and professional help and some are just classics. Happy reading!
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| | SOFIA Witness Rare Accretion Flare on Massive Protostar | Infrared data obtained by SOFIA was crucial for studying an outburst from a massive protostar in the iconic Cat’s Paw Nebula that is now glowing at 50,000 times the luminosity of the Sun.
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| | USRA Selected as Member of the PHaSER Program Supporting NASA Goddard’s Heliophysics Division | NASA recently awarded a cooperative agreement entitled “The Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research” (PHaSER) to the Catholic University of America (CUA), Institute of Astrophysics and Computational sciences and five other partners including USRA. This cooperative agreement will support the scientific and technical program of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Heliophysics Science Division (HSD).
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| | New Horizons at Pluto and Charon: Movies Revisit the Great Exploration | A team of researchers created videos of simulated flights over Pluto and Charon which include some of the sharpest images and topographic data that New Horizons gathered during its historic flyby on July 14, 2015.
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| | Scanning the Southern Skies: SOFIA Flies from French Polynesia | To study celestial objects best observed from the Southern Hemisphere, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA,will be conducting its flights from Fa’a’ā International Airport, outside Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia, where it arrived on July 19, 2021.
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| | USRA's EPOD Blog picked up by local and regional news in the Canary Islands | Cadan Cummings, USRA science blogger/consultant for the Earth Picture of the Day (EPOD) wrote the following blog which was picked up by local and regional newspapers in the Canary islands.
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