Founded in 1867, Morgan State University is a Carnegie classified Doctoral Research Institution offering more than 70 academic programs leading to bachelor’s degrees as well as programs at the masters and doctoral levels. As Maryland’s Public Urban Research University, Morgan serves a multi-ethnic and multi-racial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible.
Contents
Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Student Research
Biology
- Stress and Cardiovascular Diseases
- HIV/AIDS
- Neurodevelopment/Neuro-disorders
- Environmental Toxicology
- Environmental Microbiology
- Molecular Biology/Gene Expression
- Bioinformatics
- Vision Science
Chemistry
- Synthesis, Modification, Characteriation and Biological Applications of Heptamethine Near-Infrared Dyes
- Development of novel chitosan based materials for the fabrication of biosensor systems
- Development of Anion and Amines Sensors
- Crystallization of small molecules and macromolecules using metal-assisted and microwave-accelerated evaporative crystallization
- Rapid bioassays for clinically relevant biomolecules using microwave-accelerated bioassays
Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Modeling
- Computer Engineering
- Computational Sciences
- Bioinformatics
Mathematics
- Mathematical Biology
- Mathematical
- Modeling
- Topology
- Evolution Equations
- Ultrafilters
- Topological Semigroups
- Bioinformatics
Physics
- Nanomagnetic Applications
- Digital Image Processing
- Scanning, Atomic Force, and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
- Mössbauer Spectroscopy
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Magnetic Thin Films
- Bioinformatics
Morgan Innovation Day
The annual showcase of faculty and student research and industrial development offers an interactive opportunity for lawmakers and citizens to learn more about Morgan’s strategic plans for commercializing science and technological innovation for Maryland’s emerging STEM industries.
Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Dr Aslan: Professor of Chemistry, has recently described and demonstrated the use of a new crystallization technology, called metal-assisted and microwave-assisted evaporative crystallization (MA-MAEC). The MA-MAEC technology was the subject of Morgan’s first ever patent full application in its over 140-year history.
Omar Muhammad: manages the Entrepreneurial Development & Assistance Center (EDAC). Past work experience includes small business lending and helping women start businesses.
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.
Craig J. Scott: Engineering Visualization for network security, computer vision and image/spatial data fusion; technology assisted formative assessment and differentiated instruction.
Yacob Astatke:Performance and QoS management in mixed wireless networks and online engineering course development and delivery.
Arlene Cole-Rhodes: Image processing with applications in remote sensing and avionics and signal processing for wireless communications.
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.
Corey Dickens: Fabrication, characterization and simulation of wide and gap semiconductor materials and devices; GaN device HMETCIS solar cell research; SiGe HBT reliability simulations.
Kemi Ladeji-Osias: Synthetic Vision Systems, Haptic training in Biomedical Engineering, and integration of technology in the classroom.
Farzad Moazzami: Wireless communications, Signal Processing, Information assurance
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.
Michel Reece: Device characterization and modeling using MMIC and MIC technologies at RF, microwave, and millimeter wave frequencies.
James E. Whitney: Algorithm development and hardware design using digital and statistical signal processing; detection, estimation, and multispectral sensing and image processing.
Gregory M. Wilkins: Applications of computational electro-magnetic
methods for the solution field behavior in guided wave structures
and radiating systems (antennas).
The University Technology Transfer Function
Office of Technology and Transfer
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. 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.
University-Industry Collaboration
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR)
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.
Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts
Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL)
Research conducted at the state-of-the art facility located near the Patuxent River (part of Chesapeake Bay watershed) is designed to increase the understanding of coastal ecosystems so that they may be properly managed and protected. Much of the work is focused on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, such as the Patuxent River.