Category: Opportunities

MDSGC is pleased to announce an opportunity to apply for graduate fellowship support for Spring Semester 2025. This is open to graduate students at all MDSGC affiliate institutions. The deadline to apply is October 1, 2024. See the program announcement for details.

Frequently asked questions:

Q: Is $10,500 the cap on tuition/fees only or the maximum total award amount?
A: $10,500 is the cap on tuition/fees only. Salary and fringe should be requested at a standard level for the host department and has no pre-set cap.

The regular application period for Academic Year 2024-2025 scholarships has closed. The deadline to apply was Friday, May 31. Any student may still submit an off-cycle application for consideration if funding becomes available. For information about the program and to apply, visit the MDSGC Scholarships page.

Each year, student interns are placed at participating MDSGC universities for a paid 10-week internship experience. Visit the 2024 Summer Exchange page to view information about this summer’s projects and requirements and to apply. The application deadline for summer 2024 was Friday, March 15.

The MDSGC Summer Exchange program supports qualified students from participating universities to partake in hands-on summer internships at any of the other participating institutions. Interested students should contact the faculty coordinator (see below) at their home institution. Currently, the participating institutions and faculty coordinators are:

Capitol Technology University
Prof. Marcel Mabson

Hagerstown Community College
Prof. Ed Sigler

Morgan State University
Prof. Guangming Chen

University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Prof. Carlos Romero-Talamás

University of Maryland, College Park
Prof. Mary Bowden

University of Maryland, Eastern Shore
Prof. Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Any questions may be addressed to the faculty coordinator at your institution or Matt Collinge at MDSGC.

RockOn, a workshop at Wallops Flight Facility for sounding rocket payload design, is an exciting chance for faculty and students to kickstart payload projects at their home institutions. Participants in the workshop will build a working scientific payload and then see it launch on a real sounding rocket!

MDSGC intends to sponsor one or more teams for each year’s workshop and encourages Maryland students and/or faculty to submit applications for team sponsorship! For 2024, the RockOn registration is now open and closes on February 2. If you are interested for this year or an upcoming year, please visit NASA’s RockOn page to apply and then contact MDSGC to let us know of your interest.