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Website of the Department of Physics and Engineering NASA Awards $131,000 to Department
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On April 5, 2008, the West
Virginia NASA Board of Directors met at the Greenbank National Radio-Astronomy
Observatory to evaluate research proposals from colleges throughout West Virginia.
Proposals from the Department of Physics and Engineering
met with a great deal of success. We have been awarded a total of $131,000 in NASA funding
for the 2008-9 fiscal year.
The agency awarded $40,000 to Dr. Popson for research entitled,
"College/Industry Collaboration in Space Flight." Dr. Popson's industry collaborator
is Mike Masterman from Extreme Endeavors, a scientific research company in Philippi
W.Va.
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Dr. Stevens was awarded $30,000 for his research proposal,
"Modeling Neutrino Emissions from Supernovae."
Dr. Feng and Dr. Wayment (Chemistry) were awarded $20,000 for a collaboration entitled, "A Nanoporous Silicon Particle Delivery System." NASA also approved $12,000 for research enhancement. In addition, NASA approved scholarships totalling $11,000 for students. In addition, they approved $4000 apiece for two of our students, Kyle Allard and Robert Powell, to work on research projects at Wesleyan. Jackie Queen will earn $5000 for a summer research project at NASA-Goddard, and Mike Murphy will earn $4000 for a summer research project at Penn State. |