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''RELEASE: 11-262 NASA HOLDS IT SUMMIT IN SAN FRANCISCO AUG. 15-17''

WASHINGTON -- More than 1,700 people have signed up to attend NASA's second annual IT Summit. It will feature technology leaders from government, the private sector and academia. The event will take place at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco on Monday, Aug. 15 - Wednesday, Aug. 17.  Keynote and featured speakers' presentations will be streamed live online in conjunction with a chat forum. Participants can join an online discussion via phone and talk with presenters and other participants in the chat forum, which will not be streamed.  Speakers will cover topics including security, open government, future work force, and the role of IT in space science and exploration. The keynote speakers include: -- Tim Campos, CIO, Facebook, Palo Alto, Calif. -- Andy Jassy, senior vice president for Web services, Amazon.com, Seattle -- LaVerne Council, corporate vice president and chief information officer, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J. -- Lynn Tilton, CEO, Patriarch Partners LLC, New York -- Kaplan Mobray, author, motivational speaker, career and life coach  To highlight one of the summit's tracks, "Tomorrow's Work Force," NASA's Associate Administrator for Education and former astronaut Leland Melvin will address more than 200 high school students. These students also will get hands-on technology demonstrations and meet with private industry representatives to encourage enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering and math programs.   One-on-one interviews will be available with NASA Chief Information Officer Linda Cureton, Deputy CIO Deborah Diaz and Melvin.


''RELEASE: 11-266 NASA AWARDS GRANTS TO FOUR UNIVERSITIES TO IMPROVE STEM PROGRAMS''

WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded grants to four universities and their partner institutions that serve large numbers of minority and underrepresented students to strengthen programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The grants total approximately $600,000 and are provided through NASA's Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) project.  Scientists and educators from the academic community, private industry, the National Science Foundation and NASA selected the awardees after reviewing proposals. The four institutions and their partners will receive one-year funding of about $150,000 for up to three years, based on performance and availability of funds.  The selected institutions and their partners are: -- California State University, San Bernardino, and College of the Desert in Palm Desert, Calif. -- Fond Du Lac Tribal College in Cloquet, Minn. -- Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss., and Mid-South Community College in West Memphis, Ark. -- Navajo Technical College in Crownpoint, N.M.  These awards continue NASA's commitment of achieving a broad-based, competitive aerospace research and technology development capability among the nation's historically black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, and Hispanic and other minority-serving institutions. CIPAIR is managed for NASA by the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] in Pasadena, Calif.  NASA invests in projects that will build, sustain, and provide a skilled, knowledgeable and diverse work force to meet the agency and the country's emerging needs.


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