Erika Flores' NASA Internship

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Algae here, alien life out there — Cal State L.A.-JPL partnership connects engineers to astrobiology

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Cal State L.A. students have done internships at NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory .

Erika Flores' internship at the Origins and Habitability Laboratory led to an ongoing partnership with JPL .

A grant from NASA will cover up to six internships in the lab over the next two years .

The grant is one of 11 made to universities that have not traditionally been part of the pipeline that brings new scientists to NASA .

The experiment replicates the reaction between seawater and the stuff that comes up through hydrothermal vents — an energy source for life on Earth , and a possible mechanism by which organisms first developed here. “ Five or six years ago , I didn’t really envision myself in research,” said Chavez , who completed her master's degree this year . “Being here, I couldn't imagine a different path.” This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times ..

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