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Local FSU students secure internships at NASA

By Staff Report, posted 4 years ago

ALEXANDRA JANNETTA, JENNIFER BARKLEY AND KHAFFAK ANSARI will intern at NASA thanks to their leadership with the 2021 National Technology Transfer and Commercialization competition.
The three will work at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, and at Ames Research Center in California.
According to a press statement, the three students are advised by Assad Tavakoli, Murat Adivar, Zhiping Luo and Bhoj Gautam, and Daryush ILA.
The students took part in FSU’s MBA program in the Broadwell College of Business and Economics and the College of Health, Science and Technology.
Fayetteville State University is a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina System and the second-oldest public institution of higher education in the state, having been founded in 1867. FSU is a historically black university offering degrees at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels. With more than 6,700 students, Fayetteville State University is among the most diverse institutions in the nation. To learn more about Fayetteville State University, visit uncfsu.edu.

 

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