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NASA's MUREP (Minority University Research & Education Project) program utilizes multiple different avenues to engage with historically underrepresented populations. NASA and the space sector as a whole have suffered from gaps in representation and a lack of diversity, and MUREP is a flagship NASA program that offers grants, fellowships, internships, mentoring, and other resources to shrink those gaps and open the entire space sector to everyone.

Empire Space hopes this data table serves a number of functions. We hope these institutions gain greater prominence for their programming and their work. We hope other space sector stakeholders throughout the state reach out and establish new partnerships with these organizations to further the cause of expanding opportunity. We also hope young people throughout the state, regardless of who they are or where they grew up, see a place for themselves in a college classroom pursuing a passion for space.

There are 34 higher education institutions in New York that participate in MUREP, 24 of which are located in the five boroughs of NYC. With the rest located in either Long Island or the Mid-Hudson region, this is a program exclusively available in the greater NYC region. Empire Space will work to ensure this critical programming is eventually available in every region of the state!

To determine eligibility for the MUREP program, NASA uses the Department of Education definitions for various Minority Serving Institutions. There are three types of institutions present in New York on this list:

• AANAPISI - Asian-American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution
• HSI - Hispanic Serving Institution
• PBI - Predominantly Black Institution