Sep 9 2008
From The Space Library
NASA’s Office of Education announced that NASA had selected seven institutions, from among those qualified under the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Universities Program, to receive research grants worth a total of US$35 million. Part of NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Program, the grants would establish multidisciplinary commercial, engineering, and scientific university research centers that could contribute to NASA programs. Additionally, the grants would build partnerships between NASA and university faculty and students, increase the number of minorities with advanced degrees in NASA-related fields, and increase university aerospace research and technology development capacity. Each university would receive a maximum of US$1 million per year, for a maximum of five years. NASA had selected the programs of the Center for Advanced Nanoscale Materials II at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan; the Center for Bio- Nanotechnology and Environmental Research, Texas Southern University, Houston; the Center for Excellence in Systems Engineering for Space Exploration Technologies, Morgan State University, Baltimore; the Center for Radiation Engineering and Science for Space Exploration, Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, Texas; Howard University Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, Washington, DC; NASA University Research Center SPACE Center, California State University, Los Angeles; and WaterSCAPES: Science of Coupled Aquatic Processes in Ecosystems from Space, Florida International University, Miami.
NASA, “NASA Awards Education Research Grants to Minority Universities,” news release 08-226, 9 September 2008, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/sep/HQ_08226_educ_Grants.html (accessed 26 July 2011).
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