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May 13, 2009

NASA Announces Global Climate Change Education Grant Awards

From PR Newswire:

NASA has awarded $6.4 million in grants to institutions of higher education and not-for-profit education organizations nationwide to enhance learning through the use of NASA's Earth science resources.

Each grant is expected to leverage NASA's unique contributions in climate science. The selected grant winners proposed ways to enhance students' academic experiences or improve educators' abilities to engage their students by providing opportunities to investigate the Earth system using NASA resources. These grants support NASA's goal of engaging students in the critical disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and inspiring the next generation of explorers.

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