TWU Student Receives NASA Traineeship

4/23/04

DENTON – Texas Woman's University sophomore Kimberly Beck will be blasting off to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in June as part of a six-week traineeship with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Beck, a biology major from Seymour, is one of 28 college students throughout the United States and Canada selected for NASA's Space Flight and Life Sciences Training Center program. The students will assist NASA scientists with biology, ecology and spaceflight research.

To qualify, students must have completed two semesters of college, be a science major and have at least a 3.0 grade-point-average, among other requirements. Beck has a 4.0 GPA.

Information about the program is available at http://slstp.nasa.gov.

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