<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2023/0828-nasa-develop.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Skidmore scientists team up with NASA to support communities' conservation efforts</title><author>Tory Abbott and Angela Valden</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>08/29/2023 03:55:34 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Skidmore is the first liberal arts college to host a pop-up research hub within NASA’s prestigious DEVELOP program, with students assisting New York state land preservation work through GIS data analysis.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2023/images/0828-nasa-thumbnail.jpeg" alt="Skidmore College students Sam Haas '24 and Oliver Wilson '23 stand in front of a NASA sign in the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2023/images/828-nasa-hero.jpeg" alt="Skidmore College students Sam Haas '24 and Oliver Wilson '23 stand in front of a NASA sign in the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences"/></image><caption>Sam Haas '24 and Oliver Wilson '23 participate in the NASA DEVELOP program at the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences.</caption></item>