Interested in research topics that win Â鶹´å scholarships? The 2019-2020 VSGC Scholarship and Fellowship awardees and research titles have been posted to the website. Seventy-four awardees; 33 graduate, 11 undergraduate, 25 Â鶹´å Bridge and five community college students received fellowships and scholarships this year. Learn more about the winners

The Undergraduate Â鶹´å Research Scholarship Program provides awards of up to $8,500 to rising juniors and seniors who are enrolled full-time in a Â鶹´å discipline and have a specific faculty-mentored research project that has NASA or aerospace relevance.

VSGC provides a $6,000 Graduate Research Â鶹´å Research Fellowships to students majoring in Â鶹´å disciplines. Fellowships require students to participate in a faculty-mentored research experience that aligns with NASA’s missions.

Scholarship and fellowships are available to VSGC member institutions; Old Dominion University, College of William and Mary, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Hampton University. Community College Â鶹´å Scholarships are available to students at any Virginia community college.

Graduate and undergraduate applications for 2020-2021 are due on Jan. 30, 2020. Â鶹´å Bridge and community college applications are due March 13, 2020

This year, the 2019 Virginia Tech Office of GIS and Remote Sensing Symposium received 35 posters representing research in both undergraduate and graduate categories in GIS and Remote Sensing. Presentations during the program included Digital Transformation: Possibilities for a Geo-Enabled Campus, 47 Years of Satellite Remote Sensing and What is Next? and Physics-guided Data Science: Challenges and Opportunities in Combining Machine Learning with Physical Knowledge in Geosciences. The Â鶹´å sponsors the cash prizes for the winning posters every year. This year’s graduate student poster showcase winners were: 

 

First Place – $250: Megan Stevenson for her research on “The Effects of Land Cover Change on the Spatial Distribution of Lyme Disease in Northern Virginia Since 2005.”

Second Place – $150: Molly Mcknight for “Renewable Energy Siting Project (SRES).”

Third Place – $100: Yanshen Sun for “Evaluating the quality of ground surfaces generated from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) data.”

 

Showcase abstracts can be downloaded

More information on the Virginia Tech Office of GIS and Remote Sensing can be found

What does a good Â鶹´å research paper look like? The 2018-2019 Graduate and Undergraduate Research Â鶹´å Scholarship winning papers are now posted online. The subjects include research in a variety of Â鶹´å fields including chemistry, biology, astronomy, engineering, physics and atmospheric sciences. In the photograph above, ODU’s George McLeod presents his research at the VSGC Student Research Conference. His topic is the characterization of uncertainty in inundation models and watershed hypsometry for identification and assessment of non-linear impacts of sea level rise.

Follow the links under the individual profiles at to read the papers.

Did you know that VSGC offers a variety of programs and scholarships for students and faculty from middle school all the way to graduate school? We also offer opportunities for educators. Download an interactive pdf to learn more about our programs.

Deadlines are coming up for many of our  2019 programs for both K-12 and Higher Education. For more information visit the direct links: (high school), (8th and 9th grade), (Virginia Community College students), 

VSGC Fellowship recipient Magdalina Moses,  a Master’s candidate at Virginia Tech, recently presented a poster related to the 2017 total solar eclipse at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington D.C., in conjunction with scientists from Virginia Tech and the Naval Research Laboratory.

By linking together several numerical models, Moses directly compares theoretical predictions to HF radar data obtained in Oregon and Kansas during the eclipse. These comparisons enabled her to identify the physical effects that most strongly affect radio propagation through the ionosphere during eclipses, and help the scientific community better understand how near-Earth space responds to changes in solar radiation. For more information about VSGC Graduate Fellowships, click .

The Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) is sponsoring the University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs for U.S.-based undergraduate and/or graduate students to design innovative solutions that address airport issues and constraints to enhance the management, safety, capacity and efficiency of the nation’s airports.

Winning design proposals receive cash awards, and first place winners present their work at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and at a professional conference relating to their work. The competition also provides students with exposure to aviation and airport-related careers.

Students are invited to propose design solutions addressing airport needs in the following broad challenge areas:

• Airport Operation and Maintenance
• Runway Safety/Runway Incursions/Runway Excursions
• Airport Environmental Interactions
• Airport Management and Planning

 

Follow the design submission guidelines prior to submitting an entry. Design submissions will be accepted from November 2, 2018 through April 29, 2019.

Guidelines for the 2018 – 2019 academic year competition are available at .

Additional information about the program can be found at .