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NASA is awarding approximately $45 million to 21 higher-education institutions to help build capacity for research. The awards were made possible through the Minority University Research and Education Project Institutional Research Opportunity\u00a0(MIRO) and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) grants, which are funded by the agency\u2019s Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement.<\/p>\n
\u201cNASA\u2019s Minority University Research and Education Project Institutional Research Opportunity\u00a0and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research awards help institutions raise their technological bar,\u201d said Torry Johnson, deputy associate administrator of STEM Engagement Programs at NASA Headquarters in Washington. \u201cWhen institutions enhance their capabilities and infrastructure, they become more competitive in their research, which opens doors to valuable experience and opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minority University Research and Education Project Institutional Research Opportunity (MIRO) Awards<\/strong><\/p>\nSeven minority-serving institutions will receive approximately $5 million each over a five-year period of performance for projects that span a variety of research topics. The institutions and their proposed projects are:<\/p>\n
\n- Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage <\/strong>\u2013 Alaska Pacific University Microplastics Research and Education Center<\/li>\n
- California State University in Fullerton <\/strong>\u2013 SpaceIgnite Center for Advanced Research-Education in Combustion<\/li>\n
- City University of New York, Hunter College in New York <\/strong>\u2013 NASA-Hunter College Center for Advanced Energy Storage for Space<\/li>\n
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee <\/strong>\u2013 Integrative Space Additive Manufacturing: Opportunities for Workforce-Development in NASA Related Materials Research and Education<\/li>\n
- New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark <\/strong>\u2013 AI Powered Solar Eruption Center of Excellence in Research and Education<\/li>\n
- University of Houston in Houston <\/strong>\u2013 NASA MIRO Inflatable Deployable Environment and Adaptive Space Systems Center<\/li>\n
- University of Illinois in Chicago <\/strong>\u2013 Center for In-Space Manufacturing: Recycling and Regolith Processing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
NASA\u2019s MIRO award was established to strengthen and develop research capacity and infrastructure of minority serving institutions in areas of strategic importance and value to NASA missions and national priorities.<\/p>\n
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) <\/strong>Award<\/strong><\/p>\nNASA establishes partnerships with government, higher education, and industry to create lasting improvements in research infrastructure and capacity for specific states or regions, while enhancing its national research and development competitiveness.\u00a0The program is directed at those jurisdictions that have traditionally not participated in competitive aerospace and aerospace-related research activities.<\/p>\n
NASA will award 14 institutions up to $750,000 each over the course of a three-year period of performance. The awarded institutions and their projects are:<\/p>\n
\n- University of Mississippi in University <\/strong>\u2013 Development of a Lagrangian Stability Analysis Framework for High-Speed Boundary Layers<\/li>\n
- University of Alabama in Huntsville <\/strong>\u2013 Testing the functionality and performance of a large area detector for STROBE-X<\/li>\n
- Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge <\/strong>\u2013 Colloidal Assembly: Understanding the Electric Field Driven Assembly of Colloids and its Applications (Science Mission Directorate)<\/li>\n
- West Virginia University in Morgantown <\/strong>\u2013 Science Mission Directorate: Bringing Gravitational-Wave Astronomy into the Space Age: Next-Generation Waveform Modeling of Black-Hole Binary Coalescences for Laser Intererometer Space Antenna Data Analysis<\/li>\n
- University of Puerto Rico in San Juan <\/strong>\u2013 NASA EPSCoR: Space Technology Mission Directorate\/Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Advancing High-Energy, Cycle-Stable Sulfur-Based Batteries for NASA Space Missions: An Integrated Framework of Density Functional Theory, Machine Learning, and Materials Innovation<\/li>\n
- Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada<\/strong> \u2013 NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California: Prospecting and Pre-Colonization of the Moon and Mars using Autonomous Robots with Human-In-The-Loop<\/li>\n
- Oklahoma State University in Stillwater <\/strong>\u2013 A.7.4.2 Biosignature Detection of Solar System Ocean Worlds using Science-Guided Machine Learning<\/li>\n
- Iowa State University in Ames <\/strong>\u2013 Johnson Space Center, Ames Research Center: Non-GPS Navigation System Using Dual Star\/Planetary Cameras for Lunar and Deep-Space CubeSat Missions<\/li>\n
- University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks <\/strong>\u2013 NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland: The Alaska \u2013 Venus analog: synthesizing seismic ground motion and wind noise in extreme environments<\/li>\n
- University of the Virgin Islands in Charlotte Amalie <\/strong>\u2013 University of the Virgin Islands Etelman Observatory in the Era of Time Domain and MultiMessenger Astronomy: Preparing for a New Era of Science Productivity<\/li>\n
- University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu <\/strong>\u2013 Cubesats for Climate Change Detection of Transient Greenhouse Gas Emissions<\/li>\n
- University of Idaho in Moscow <\/strong>\u2013 Science Mission Directorate and Goddard Space Flight Center: Improving Global Dryland Streamflow Modeling by Better Characterizing Vegetation Use of Deep-Water Resources Using NASA\u2019s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment\/Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On, SWOT, and Land Information System<\/li>\n
- University of Arkansas in Little Rock <\/strong>\u2013 AR- III-Nitride Ultraviolet Laser Diodes for Harsh Environments, Space Based Communications, and Remote Sensing (Space Technology Mission Directorate)<\/li>\n
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City <\/strong>\u2013 Science Mission Directorate: High Spatial-Temporal Resolution Soil Moisture Retrieval using Deep Learning Fusion of Multimodal Satellite Datastreams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Both awards were made through NASA\u2019s Office of STEM engagement solicitations. They promote STEM literacy to enhance and sustain the capability of institutions to perform NASA-related research and education, which directly supports the agency\u2019s mission directorates.<\/p>\n
For more information about NASA STEM, visit:<\/p>\n
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Gerelle Dodson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4637
gerelle.q.dodson@nasa.gov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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