NASA GSFC's New York City Research Initiative (NYCRI)

Frank Scalzo

NASA's NYCRI provides internships for a research teams consisting of a high 
school student, a high school teacher and an undergraduate. These research teams 
are assigned to a university professor (NY, NJ or CT), who is the Principal 
Investigator of a NASA research award or to a NASA Goddard Institute of Space 
Studies (scientist) and their graduate students. The objective of the NYCRI is 
to have students pursue STEM undergraduate and graduate degrees and ultimately 
to increase the NASA workforce.
We have been running the NYCRI at GISS for the past ten years - 2012 will be the 
11th consecutive year of the NYCRI. The NYCRI is truly a collaborate effort- we 
have our main support from NASA HQs Earth Science Division of the Science 
Directorate and receive an equal amount of support through our collaboration 
with the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), NASA's Curriculum 
Improvement Partnership Award for the Integration of Research Into the 
Undergraduate Curriculum (CIPAIR) and the New Jersey Space Grant Consortium 
(NJSGC). This brief presentation is designed to familiarize the GISS family with 
the NYCRI.