As one of UNCFSP’s premier fellowships, the NASA Administrator’s Fellowship Program (NAFP) enhances the professional development for NASA employees as well as STEM faculty from Minority Institutions (MIs) while building and strengthening the STEM infrastructure at MIs.

NAFP Fellow, Dr. Jonathan Campbell (right), explains his research project during symposium.	NAFP Fellows discuss a workshop during symposium.

NASA employee fellows teach and/or conduct research and STEM faculty fellows conduct research at NASA Centers. All NAFP fellows engage in a comprehensive, integrated professional development curriculum to equip them with the skills to become progressive change agents in their organizations and institutions.

The benefits to Minority Institutions, faculty and NASA employees include:

• Access to NASA's internal and informal information networks

• Knowledge of NASA's technical and scientific needs

• Opportunities to share information about specific MI capabilities and technologies

• Enhancement of undergraduate and graduate research

• Opportunities to build scholarly publication skills

 

NAFP Fellow, Willie Williams (center), supervises students during a research project.	NAFP Fellows stop to take a picture during symposium.

• Since its inception in 1997, 88 fellows have participated in the NAFP (46 NASA employees and 42 STEM faculty)
  
•  Faculty fellows represent 40 Minority Institutions

• Faculty fellows have received "NAFP Research Awards" with matching awards from the centers and have been instrumental in securing awards for their institutions such as NASA's University Research Center (URC) award, the Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA), and the Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award (CIPA)

• NAFP fellows have taught over 40 courses at MIs