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Upcoming Events
NASA Aeronautics 101
Get the latest on NASA Aeronautics missions, explore career pathways to NASA, and discover student aero opportunities.
Who: This is intended for higher education students, but all are welcome to attend
What: A presentation of NASA’s aeronautics mission and student opportunities, followed by a
Q&A session
When: Wednesday, April 23rd at 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific
Where: Virtual Teams Meeting
Join the NASA Aeronautics 101 Meeting
Meeting ID: 252 856 825 018
Passcode: Hc3md7wh
Dial in by phone
+1 256-715-9946, 490368854# United States, Huntsville
Phone conference ID: 490 368 854#
ALERT: All meeting participants consent to, and will abide by, the terms and conditions viewable at the LEGAL link below.
No ITAR/EAR content display or sharing without consent from Export Control.
Come on out and join us Wednesday November 12, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m at the Clay Center for NASA Day!
Visit the Clay Center where students can:
•Participate in hands-on STEM workshops
•Visit the Caperton Planetarium and Theater and learn about the Artemis Missions in a live presentation
•Experience live science experiments, create fun STEM crafts, and enjoy various interactive activities that will spark your curiosity!
FREE EVENT however registration is required.
Recommended for middle school students grades 6th-8th
Space is Limited, Register by emailing: groupreservations@theclaycenter.org
Travel grants are available for those that need assistance. Please call Kristina at 304-435-7033
49th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference
“Power of a Place, Power of Its People,” Marshall University; March 19 – 21, 2026.
Marshall University welcomes submissions to the 49th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, to be held in Huntington, West Virginia, an urban centerpiece in the heart of Appalachia. The Tri-State Area, where three states, three major rivers, and one of the most significant dividing lines in U.S. history converge, provides a welcoming, unique environment for sharing and learning.
The 49th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference takes as its theme “Power of a Place, Power of Its People” and encourages submissions that elevate, celebrate, and interrogate the strength and diversity that give life to our region. United by the commonalities of resistance, perseverance, and pride, we invite work that elaborates and extends these themes through art, performance, research, policy/analysis, and advocacy. Although separated in geologic space by our region-defining mountains and rivers, and in political space by state borders and bureaucratic subdivisions, the Appalachian region has long served as a symbol of an alternative to the nation’s norms, the “best” and the “worst” of the American experience, and of endurance in the face of economic, political, and natural struggles.
For this gathering, we place a special emphasis on regionally significant strategies for confronting and countering issues of exploitation, prejudice, and oppression (broadly defined) relative to Appalachia. We realize, and desire, that submissions will take many different approaches to these concerns: community-based documentation, critical media-analysis, performance, literature, humanities-oriented scholarship, sociological perspectives, theological contemplation, visual art, pedagogy, etc. We seek work that focuses on the people of the region—collectively, diversely, and/or individually—that defines the simultaneously persistent and everevolving character of Appalachia.
https://www.appalachianstudies.org/_files/ugd/768291_4b1ca446a66140a8a0906e0f2a12de86.pdf
