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The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) provides undergraduate students entering their junior or senior years, and entering graduate students, with professional experience in space life science disciplines. This challenging ten-week summer program is hosted by NASA’s Ames Research Center

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University senior Olivia Siu won first place in the undergraduate Brain and Behavior category of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual poster session for her research on how simulated cosmic radiation affects the behavior and cognition of male and female mice.

Share: Having the feeling of traveling through space on the Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge ride at Disneyland lit up Olivia Siu’s interest in virtual reality — and may have been a VR preview of her later decision to study Aerospace Physiology at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.  “My mom was a nurse in the Air Force, so I knew that there were health professionals affiliated with aviation,” Siu said, adding that she transferred to Embry-Riddle from California State Polytechnic U...