This Echo is READ ONLY !   NO Un-Authorized Messages Please!
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Gretchen Cook-Anderson
Headquarters, Washington            April 30, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-0836)

RELEASE: 03-153

NASA ANNOUNCES ADMINISTRATOR'S FELLOWSHIP AWARDEES

     NASA today announced the 2003 awardees for the 
Administrator's Fellowship Program (AFP). The AFP was 
designed to enhance the professional development both of 
NASA employees and science, mathematics and engineering 
faculty of minority-serving institutions. The AFP also aims 
to increase the capability of minority-serving institutions 
to participate in NASA's research and development (R&D) 
programs.

The NASA Employee Fellows and their fellowship plans 
include: Dr. Jonathan W. Campbell, Dr. Kenneth R. Fernandez 
and Hong S. Kim of the Marshall Space Flight Center, 
Huntsville, Ala., who will conduct their fellowships at 
Alabama A&M University, Normal, Ala., Alabama A&M University 
and Texas A&M University, Kingsville, respectively; Dr. 
Philip T. Chen of the Goddard Space Flight Center, 
Greenbelt, Md., who will complete his fellowship at Howard 
University, Washington; Dr. A. Gholam Shaykhian and Dr. Jan 
F. Corbin of the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., who will 
perform their fellowships at Bethune Cookman College, 
Daytona Beach, Fla.

Faculty Fellows include: Dr. Clinton Hunt, Alcorn State 
University, who will conduct his fellowship at Stennis Space 
Center, Miss.; Dr. Keith A. McGee, Alcorn State University, 
who will participate as a fellow at Marshall Space Flight 
Center; and Dr. Jianping Yue, Essex County College, who will 
carry out his fellowship at Langley Research Center, 
Hampton, Va.

The program provides Faculty Fellows mid-career 
opportunities to conduct research at NASA centers or other 
large institutions. AFP enables recipients to better compete 
in NASA's mainstream, peer-reviewed research programs. 
Fellows also will be provided with opportunities to 
interface with high-level NASA and other government 
officials, to participate in NASA's R&D programs, and to 
learn about innovative scientific and engineering research 
methods. These experiences have been planned to enhance 
their professional careers and better position their home 
institutions to participate in NASA's R&D programs. 
"The Administrator's Fellowship Program is a superb example 
of how NASA is working to engage minority-serving 
institutions in the agency's work, while also encouraging 
professional development in disciplines critical to NASA's 
mission," noted Dr. Adena Williams Loston, NASA's associate 
administrator for education. "The program is an essential 
element of the agency's dedication to engaging minority 
institutions in the process of advancing our nation's 
science discoveries," she said.
The United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation 
administers the NASA Administrator's Fellowship. 
For more information about the NASA Administrator's 
Fellowship Program, and the application process for 2004, on 
the Internet, visit:

http://www.uncfsp.org/nasa/nafp/

For more information about other NASA and education programs 
on the Internet, visit:

http://education.nasa.gov

-end-

                            * * *

 - END OF FILE -
==========

@Message posted automagically by IMTHINGS POST 1.30
---