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NASA Selects Astronomy Student Ambassadors

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November 4, 2008

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Forty-six undergraduate
and graduate students have been selected to represent NASA in their local
communities as recipients of the agency’s International Year of Astronomy,
or IYA, Student Ambassadors Program.

Two of the students were chosen to attend the opening ceremonies of an
IYA event in Paris in January 2009. The students representing NASA at the
ceremonies are Rebecca Holmes, a sophomore at the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill who is majoring in physics and astronomy, and Norberto
Gonzalez, a junior at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo with a
biology concentration.

The IYA Student Ambassadors Program is designed to encourage
undergraduate and graduate students to participate in IYA activities and
generate excitement about NASA’s discoveries in astrophysics, planetary
science and solar physics within their local communities and beyond. These
students will serve as role models to others.

“NASA is a major partner in the United States’ celebration of IYA
activities,” said Hashima Hasan, NASA’s Astrophysics education and public
outreach lead in Washington. “The Student Ambassadors Program is just one
of many activities the agency has planned throughout the coming year.”

The ambassadors were selected from more than 150 online applications.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens, full-time students and participate in
activities that align with NASA’s IYA goals.

The National Space Grant Foundation manages the IYA Student Ambassadors
Program through a grant from NASA.

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