NASA Awards $72M To UMBC, Morgan State For Earth Science Research Center

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — NASA connected Thursday announced a $72 cardinal grant for an world subject probe concern led by UMBC, with Morgan State University arsenic a superior partner.

The Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II Center is simply a consortium, oregon partnership, supporting implicit 100 participants conducting probe to enactment NASA world subject ngo objectives, UMBC said.

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Partners successful the consortium see Colorado State University, Arizona State University and Pennsylvania State University arsenic good arsenic companies similar Northrop Grumman.

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“This grant is simply a monolithic triumph for UMBC, for the University System, and—with Morgan State arsenic a cardinal partner—for Maryland arsenic a whole,” said Jay Perman, chancellor of the University System of Maryland. “The sheer size of the award, supporting the enactment of implicit a 100 researchers and students, demonstrates NASA’s religion successful UMBC arsenic consortium leader.”

GESTAR II volition make opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students to behaviour probe with and beryllium mentored by NASA scientists and engineers, the assemblage said.

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“I americium profoundly grateful to everyone, particularly our colleagues astatine Morgan State, who helped marque this caller concern a reality,” UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski said. “I americium looking guardant to seeing what breakthroughs successful world subject volition travel from the collaborative enactment of the scientists, engineers, and students who enactment successful GESTAR II.”

CBS Baltimore Staff

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