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<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px;">Dr. Kadir Aslan, Professor of Chemistry at Morgan State University, 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.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px;">Morgan State Assistant Biology Professor Dr. Viji Sitther. Last month, 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></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span></div><div></div>

<div>== <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;"><br/></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 Earth Sciences Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) worth nearly $96M, the largest federal contract in the institution's history. Through this funding, the MSU component of the&nbsp;GESTAR Program began in May 2011.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 23px;">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></span></div>