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<span style="line-height: 19px; font-size: larger; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Sitther&nbsp;: 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>

<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Yacob Astatke:Performance and QoS management in mixed wireless networks and online engineering course development and delivery.</span></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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Arlene Cole-Rhodes:&nbsp;Image processing with applications in remote sensing and avionics and signal processing for wireless communications.</span></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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Richard A. Dean:&nbsp;Spectrum and QoS management with clustering, and network security for Mixed Wireless Networks; Aeronautical radio link simulation for network enhanced telemetry system.</span></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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Corey Dickens:&nbsp;Fabrication, characterization and simulation of wide and gap semiconductor materials and devices; GaN device HMETCIS solar cell research; SiGe HBT reliability simulations.</span></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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Kemi Ladeji-Osias:&nbsp;Synthetic Vision Systems, Haptic training in Biomedical Engineering, and integration of technology in the classroom.</span></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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Farzad Moazzami:&nbsp;Wireless communications, Signal Processing,&nbsp;<br/>Information assurance</span></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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Kofi Nyarko, Associate Professor:&nbsp;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></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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Michel Reece, Associate Professor:&nbsp;Device characterization and modeling using MMIC and MIC technologies at RF, microwave, and millimeter wave frequencies.</span></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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">James E. Whitney, II, Associate Professor''':'''&nbsp;Algorithm development and hardware design using&nbsp;digital and statistical signal processing; detection, estimation,&nbsp;and multispectral sensing and image processing.</span></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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Gregory M. Wilkins, Lecturer:&nbsp;Applications of computational electro-magnetic&nbsp;<br/>methods for the solution field behavior in guided wave structures&nbsp;<br/>and radiating systems (antennas).</span></span></p><div></div>

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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:larger;">Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR)</span>'''</span>

<div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: larger;">A multidisciplinary team of Morgan State University scientists, under the leadership of Dr. Joseph A. Whittaker, successfully won a joint cooperative agreement from the&nbsp;Earth Sciences Division of NASA Goddard&nbsp;Space Flight Center (GSFC) worth nearly&nbsp;$96M, the largest federal contract in the institution's history. Through funding, the&nbsp;MSU compo</span><span style="font-size: larger;">nent 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.&nbsp;</span></span></div></div>

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="line-height: 22.66666603088379px;">Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory</span>'''</span></span>

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