Jackie Queen has been selected for this summer's 2008 NASA Student Internship Program at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The junior physics major will spend 10 weeks gaining hands-on experience in space-related scientific and technical fields. The programs begins on June 1 and concludes on August 9.

Each student intern will be placed in a host laboratory or research group. Their projects may include equipment design and testing, experimental data collection and processing, computer software development, and field work. The projects are at the cutting-edge of science and technology.

Queen and other summer interns will also hear presentations by Dr. John Mather, the 2006 Nobel Prize winner in Physics and senior astrophysicist in the observational cosmology laboratory at Goddard. In addition, they will hear presentations by Dr. Tali Figueroa, assistant professor of physics at MIT , Dr. James Garvin, NASA's chief scientist, and Dr. Aprille Ericcson, aerospace engineer.

Queen is also pursuing minors in mathematics and theatre. She is president of the Engineering/Physics Society at Wesleyan and the physics representative on the Academic Affairs COmmittee of Community Council.

Last summer, she participated in the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates in the electrical engineering department at Penn State. She recently was one of six Wesleyan students to receive a $6000 scholarship from the Appalachian College Association's National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.