About Plymouth State Unviersity
PSU is a public, four-year university located in central New Hampshire. PSU is part of the University System of New Hampshire, which serves the educational needs of residents of the state of New Hampshire and the Northern New England region.
With With nearly 50 undergraduate majors and 70 minors in programs that include business, education, the arts, the humanities, and the natural and social sciences, PSU appeals to a large range of interests.
Plymouth State University
The meteorology
program at Plymouth State
University is supported by NH Space Grant. With a focus on encouraging student research, scholarships are available to meteorology majors during
all four years of their studies.
The PSU meteorology program includes "hands-on" research and secondary science education. Over 80% of the students in the Department of Chemical, Earth, Atmospheric and Physical Sciences are meteorology majors. Every year nearly 200 students enroll in the general education "Weather" course.
The student research projects and summer programs take place at facilities like NASA/Goddard, the National Environmental Data Information Service, the National Center for Environmental Prediction, the Storm Prediction Center, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Most PSU students participating in summer or senior research programs have gone on to graduate school.
Student Support
Beginning students typically receive scholarships and retain them as long as they stay in the major and maintain a GPA of 3.0 or better.
Two $1000 awards are made to students entering their senior year. As much as possible, awards address the under representation of females and minorities in the program. All Space Grant students are guaranteed a senior-year undergraduate research experience.
Summer fellowship stipends provide two students with the opportunity to work full-time for on projects developed locally. Juniors apply for these positions by submitting a research proposal, and are selected based on their proposal and academic record.