<span style="font-size:medium;">Omar Muhammad: <span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">manages the Entrepreneurial Development & Assistance Center (EDAC). Past work experience includes small business lending and helping women start businesses</span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 15px;">Dr. Sitther : received a $100,000 Maryland Innovation Initiative grant to begin development of a method to produce biofuel from cyanobacteria in naturally available salt water.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">Craig J. Scott''': '''<span style="text-align: justify;">Engineering Visualization for network security, computer vision and image/spatial data fusion; technology assisted formative assessment and differentiated instruction.</span></span>
<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Yacob Astatke:Performance and QoS management in mixed wireless networks and online engineering course development and delivery.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Arlene Cole-Rhodes: Image processing with applications in remote sensing and avionics and signal processing for wireless communications.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Richard A. Dean: Spectrum and QoS management with clustering, and network security for Mixed Wireless Networks; Aeronautical radio link simulation for network enhanced telemetry system.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Corey Dickens: Fabrication, characterization and simulation of wide and gap semiconductor materials and devices; GaN device HMETCIS solar cell research; SiGe HBT reliability simulations.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Kemi Ladeji-Osias: Synthetic Vision Systems, Haptic training in Biomedical Engineering, and integration of technology in the classroom.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Farzad Moazzami: Wireless communications, Signal Processing, Information assurance</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Kofi Nyarko: Computational engineering, scientific/ engineering simulation & visualization, complex computer algorithm development, computer network theory (including Ad-Hoc Mobile Networks), portable computing design and development, advanced computer display technologies, and avionic system software development.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Michel Reece: Device characterization and modeling using MMIC and MIC technologies at RF, microwave, and millimeter wave frequencies.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">James E. Whitney''':''' Algorithm development and hardware design using digital and statistical signal processing; detection, estimation, and multispectral sensing and image processing.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Gregory M. Wilkins: Applications of computational electro-magnetic <br/>methods for the solution field behavior in guided wave structures <br/>and radiating systems (antennas).</span></p><div></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">The Office Technology Transfer at Morgan State University assists faculty and staff members, administrators, and students with intellectual property issues resulting from their research discoveries, and other scholarly and creative activities. It exists to foster the creation of innovative technologies and to manage those technologies and other intellectual property for the benefit of the University and the public. In doing so, the OTTR fulfills an important component of the mission of OR&ED -- Economic Development. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px;">The OTTR provides assistance to MSU faculty on such issues as patent applications, registering trademarks and copyrights. There are many commercialization options, and the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) is dedicated to helping MSU inventors navigate their way through the complexities of technology marketing in order to achieve results that benefit the inventor, the investor, and the University. The goal is to make the processes of invention disclosure, patent application, marketing and eventual commercialization as seamless as possible.</span>
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<span style="font-size:medium;">A multidisciplinary team of Morgan State University scientists, under the leadership of Dr. Joseph A. Whittaker, successfully won a joint cooperative agreement from the Earth Sciences Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) worth nearly $96M, the largest federal contract in the institution's history. Through funding, the MSU component of the GESTAR Program began in May 2011. This program brings more than 40 established and internationally recognized scientists to MSU and creates broad research and internship opportunities in earth and atmospheric sciences for our students. </span>
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