{"id":35086,"date":"2015-02-24T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=35086"},"modified":"2015-02-24T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:24:05","slug":"grant-support-science-majors-nau-yuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/grant-support-science-majors-nau-yuma\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant to support science majors at NAU-Yuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU-Yuma has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support students majoring in science through Project SEEDS, Supporting Educational Endeavors for Degrees in Science.<\/p>\n<p>The grant, totaling more than $600,000, is part of the NSF\u2019s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program, which provides support to prepare scientists and engineers for the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Project SEEDS seeks to increase the number and diversity of STEM workers to support local need. The scholarship program will recruit promising and financially underprivileged students who are completing a two-year degree in biology or environmental sciences at NAU-Yuma. The students will receive scholarships of up to $10,000 per year in addition to academic, social and career preparation support.<\/p>\n<p>Information and applicant criteria for the SEEDS program can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Arts-Sciences\/Degrees\/Biological-and-Environmental-Student-Resources\/SEEDS-Scholarship-Program\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/grant-support-science-majors-nau-yuma\/\">NAU-Yuma has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support students majoring in science through Project SEEDS, Supporting Educational Endeavors for Degrees in Science. The grant, totaling more than $600,000, is part of the NSF\u2019s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program, which provides support to prepare scientists and engineers&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":35088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}