= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span> =
<div><span style="font-size:larger;">'''<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</span></span>'''</span>'''</div><div><br/></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;">Dr Aslan, a P</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; font-size: larger;">rofessor 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></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><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">'''<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Omar S. Muhammad</span>'''</span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Omar S. Muhammad is another faculty member that leads innovation at Morgan. Mr. Muhammad serves as the "D</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">irector Entrepreneurial Development and Assistance Center" and single handly connects morgans resources with the students. He is currently working on multidiscipinary programs, such as the five year Engineering + M.B.A degree program. </span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">'''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Arlene Maclin</span>'''</span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Arlene Maclin is an adjunct professor of physics at Morgan State University. She currently leads the the Mid-Atlantic Consortium-Center for Academic Excellence (MAC-CAE) aims at educating students interested in areas of national security and intelligence studies. The MAC-CAE is a workforce development effort for the intelligence community with an emphasis on the South Asian region of the world. </span></span><br/></div><div></div>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The University Technology Transfer Function </span> =