About the Site
Welcome to NOAA's Educational Partnership Program.
Purpose and Organization
NOAA's Educational Partnership Program (EPP) Web site provides information scholarshop opportunities for undergraduate and graduates students in minority serving academic institutions.
The site provides information on Cooperative Science Centers which have been established at minority serving institutions (MSIs) to advance scientific research and to offer distance-learning programs to students across the country. Information on the Environmental Entrepreneurship Program offer grants to attract historically underrepresented groups to the environmental sciences. The Graduate Science Program is designed to recruit and provide graduate level training to outstanding minority and women candidates in NOAA-related sciences. The Undergraduate Scholars Program strives to increase the number of students who undertake course work and graduate with degress in specific areas integral to NOAA's mission.
Information the Minority Serving Institutions Council (MSI) established by NOAA to increse interactions with Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) is found on the site. News and announcements regarding the EPP and MSI are found in the News and Announcments section. Related links consists of Web site links and annotations to sites that are useful to users interested in this program.
Accessibility
Every attempt has been made to make this site compliant with Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Additionally, we have provided a link to a detailed Site Index on every page. This index provides a direct link to most pages in the site for simple text navigation. Pages that are not listed in the index are supplement pages in the education section that are enlarged views of images and illustrations in the educational tutorials.
Please notify us of any specific accessibility problems that you encounter, or any suggestions you might have on how we could improve the site's access. Please email these comments and suggestions to: oar.epp.questions@noaa.gov.
Technical Information
Browsers. This site is best viewed in Netscape, version 6.0 and above, or Internet Explorer, version 5.0 and above. Web site visitors using earlier versions of these browsers may encounter occasional format anomalies when viewing and printing pages from the Web site. Performance of this site has not been tested on browsers other than Netscape and Internet Explorer.
Access Time. Some pages on this site contain numerous images. The images provide necessary visual supplements for the text and enhance the visual appeal of the page. All images have been provided with captions to allow those users who cannot load images immediately to select specific images for viewing. Pages have been developed to load text first.
Links. External sites that are accessed by these links will launch a new browser session in a single, separate browser window. A limited number of links to non-U.S. government sites are included. Users are notified that they are leaving a U.S. government Web site by a separate page that appears on screen for approximately 20 seconds.
Fonts and Type Sizes. Verdana is the default font for this site; 10 point is the default size. All browsers allow users to select specific fonts and type sizes for display. Some users select large type sizes for ease of reading, or specific fonts for personal tastes. The text and layout should not be adversely affected by a user's selection of alternative fonts and type sizes.
Printing Pages. This site has been designed to ensure simple printing. We recommend printing in landscape format at a scale of 100 percent. Printing in portrait format at 100 percent may result in some parts of the extreme right side of a page being cut off. For printing in portrait format, we recommend printing at a scale of 90 percent.
Downloadable Documents. Some documents are available on this site as downloadable files in Portable Document Format (pdf). These files can be viewed on microcomputers equipped with recent versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free.
There are some known issues with downloading PDF documents, particularly on Windows systems, due to conflicting changes in the way in which Acrobat Reader and various browsers talk to one another. But there is a simple work-around: if you right-click (Windows) or option-click (Macintosh) on the link, the entire file will be sent to your machine, and then you can open it off your own hard drive using Acrobat Reader.
Index and Search This Site. A link to the site index and the search box appear on every page. The Site Index is a complete listing of every page on the site and includes links to each of those pages. Search is a standard word/phrase search capability for all text and documents (pdf) on the site's pages.
For Further Technical Information. For questions or comments about the technical aspects of this site, e-mail: oar.epp.questions@noaa.gov.
