Columbia University and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Monday signed a collaborative Space Act Agreement to advance research and education opportunities.
Jeannette Wing, executive vice president for research and professor of computer science at Columbia University, and Christa Peters-Lidard, director of Goddard’s Sciences and Exploration directorate, led the ceremony.
Columbia University and Goddard Space Flight Center have a longstanding relationship. The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is located at Columbia University. It serves as a laboratory in Goddard’s Earth Sciences Division and is affiliated with the Columbia Climate School, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
The agreement expands NASA and Columbia’s partnership to Goddard’s Maryland campus. It will center around collaborative research, education, technology development, workforce development, science and engineering exchanges, applied science, commercial as well as nonprofit research, along with technology infusion.
Areas of mutual interest include but are not limited to: artificial intelligence, foundation models, machine learning, and data science; climate sustainability, justice, adaptation, and resilience; materials and sensors; quantum sensing and computing; Earth science, planetary science, heliophysics, physics and astrophysics.
This story was adapted from a press release by NASA.
