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Article: Tennessee State, Wiley College launch NASA Academies.(Tech Talk)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
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- June 3, 2004
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NASHVILLE, TENN.
Tennessee State University in Nashville and Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, are the most recent historically Black campuses to launch sites or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA)/Aerospace Education Laboratory (AEL) program.
Last year, the NASA Glenn Research Center in Ohio chose the two schools and a tribal college in South Dakota as the newest sites for the initial three-year NASA funding commitment. Including the three newest sites, SEMAA/AELs total 23 in the United States, according to NASA officials.
"They're on track to make it ...