Rice College and NASA’s Johnson House Heart (JSC) will host the Worldwide House College’s (ISU) 2024 House Research Program, an intensive, eight-week summer season program for professionals in space-related fields.
The House Research Program shall be held June 8 to Aug. 3 at Rice’s campus, a location deeply rooted within the annals of house exploration.
“Rice is privileged to be a accomplice in pursuits associated to house exploration and to be a part of a historic collaboration with NASA that helps among the world’s most essential analysis and academic outreach,” Rice President Reginald DesRoches mentioned. “Internet hosting the Worldwide House College on Rice’s campus shall be an amazing alternative to amplify the work that’s being achieved worldwide within the house exploration subject and to strengthen present partnerships and construct new ones.”
Held yearly since 1988, the House Research Program supplies an expansive curriculum tailor-made for professionals at numerous junctures of their house careers. Individuals take programs throughout all house disciplines, take part in workshops and meet with professionals within the trade. Multidisciplinary tasks that deal with present and future challenges within the house sector are a novel spotlight of this system and guarantee individuals garner views that redefine their outlook on world house actions.
Rice and JSC partnered to host this system in Houston in 1997.
“This persevering with collaboration resonates with NASA’s and JSC’s strategic targets guiding the way forward for house exploration and the Artemis program” and helps foster worldwide collaboration, ISU President Pascale Ehrenfreund mentioned.
“Rice’s engagement with house exploration is known,” mentioned David Alexander, director of the Rice House Institute and a professor of physics and astronomy. “From internet hosting President John F. Kennedy’s historic 1962 speech the place he boldly said, ‘We select to go to the moon,’ to being the primary educational establishment to put the muse for a devoted house science division, to the present work of the Rice House Institute, Rice’s continues to be a world chief in house analysis and exploration.”
Based in 1987, ISU is predicated in Strasbourg, France, and is the world’s solely college devoted solely to house training. ISU has U.S. and Asia-Pacific hubs, partnerships with main house organizations and 5,400 alumni from 110 nations who embrace astronauts, entrepreneurs and present and former house trade and authorities leaders.
