$4.5 million NASA grant on big data given to University of California, Riverside to partner with NASA/JPL
UC Riverside has received a five-year grant to train underrepresented minority students to develop research, education, training and collaborative opportunities in big data and visualization in partnership with JPL's Center for Data Science and Technology.
The project, called “Fellowships and Internships in Extremely Large Data Sets” (FIELDS), will train qualifying students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields to address a critical shortfall in the workforce essential for future NASA missions.
FIELDS will involve the following partner institutions besides UC Riverside: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the California State University system and the state’s two-year community colleges.
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