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The Building Bridges Program serves to enhance the ability of TCUs to provide high-quality STEM education and to increase participation in collaborative research initiatives.
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TCU Building Bridges Program Selects Awardees
AIHEC and NASA created the grant program to broaden TCU student participation in STEM programs through projects that support curriculum development, enhance research activities, and increase student engagement.
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NWIC Space Center joins NASA competition
Northwest Indian College (NWIC, Bellingham, WA) Space Center students will go toe-to-toe with students in colleges and universities across the nation in NASA’s University Student Launch Initiative (USLI) competition.
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Visit Ignites Enthusiasm for College
As a NASA liaison to the tribal colleges, I have seen firsthand how Native American students can flourish and succeed when they are surrounded with people who recognize and nurture their potential. I want to share a particularly successful story.
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AIHEC Launches New Portal for Science
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) is moving its science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) support services into the digital age. The consortium has launched a new,
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CIT, NASA Explore Alternative Energy
With the soaring price of oil and gas, a tribal college in Crownpoint, NM, recognizes the need to establish other energy options and change the norm.
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SGU Using Earth Data to Improve Land Management
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched a five-year, $5 million project to improve land management policies and practices for tribal reservations and other rural communities.
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College’s North Pole Expedition Put on Ice
Bay Mills Community College in collaboration with NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center sent a team of eight researchers to the North Pole last April. The team included four students and one instructor from the tribal college in Brimley,
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Tribal Colleges Celebrate Herrington’s Flight
Tribal college communities kept a close watch on space shuttle Endeavour last Nov. 23 to Dec. 7 knowing that John B. Herrington (Chickasaw) was the first tribally enrolled American Indian astronaut to walk in space.
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Tribal Colleges Initiate Space Programs
Three members of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) will be building space programs thanks to a new minority partnership program initiated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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NASA Supports Si Tanka Science Degrees
In coordination with South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Si Tanka College faculty is developing degrees in environmental science and computer science over the next 3½ years,
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Mesteth Turned Love of Science into Career
When Lloydell (Suzy) Mesteth attended Headstart, she taught her younger cousin all she learned as they played her favorite game—school. Mesteth’s mother, Evelyn “Sissy” Eaglebull,
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Teachers Develop Navigation Curriculum
Teachers and tribal elders traveled to California last summer to work on curriculum related to historic navigation as well as space travel. The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) teamed up with the All Nations Alliance for Minority Participation (ANAMP) for the pilot project.
