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=== <span style="font-size: larger; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Student Research</span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">'''BIOLOGY'''</span></span>

*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Stress and Cardiovascular Diseases</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:largermedium;">HIV/AIDS</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Neurodevelopment/Neuro-disorders</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Environmental Toxicology</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Environmental Microbiology</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Molecular Biology/Gene Expression</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Bioinformatics</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Vision ScienceStress and Cardiovascular Diseases</span></span>

*<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifmedium;"><span style="font-sizefamily:largerarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''CHEMISTRY'''Environmental Toxicology</span></span>

*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Synthesis, Modification, Characteriation and Biological Applications of Heptamethine Near-Infrared Dyes</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:largermedium;">Development of novel chitosan based materials for the fabrication of biosensor systems</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Development of Anion and Amines Sensors</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Crystallization of small molecules and macromolecules using metal-assisted and microwave-accelerated evaporative crystallization</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Rapid bioassays for clinically relevant biomolecules using microwave-accelerated bioassaysEnvironmental Microbiology</span></span>

*<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifmedium;"><span style="font-sizefamily:largerarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''COMPUTER SCIENCE'''Vision Science</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">*<span style="font-size:largermedium;">'''MATHEMATICS'''</span>Development of Anion and Amines Sensors</span>

*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Mathematical Biology</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:largermedium;">Mathematical</span></span>*<span style="fontCrystallization of small molecules and macromolecules using metal-family:arial,helvetica,sansassisted and microwave-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Modeling</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Topology</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Evolution Equations</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Ultrafilters</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Topological Semigroups</span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Bioinformatics</span>accelerated evaporative crystallization</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">*<span style="font-size:largermedium;">'''PHYSICS'''</span>Artificial Intelligence</span>

*<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sansmedium;">Computer Modeling</span> *<span style="font-serifsize:medium;">Computer Engineering</span> *<span style="font-size:largermedium;">Nanomagnetic ApplicationsComputational Sciences</span> *<span style="font-size:medium;">Bioinformatics</span> '''MATHEMATICS''' *<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sansmedium;">Mathematical Biology</span> *<span style="font-serifsize:medium;">Mathematical</span> *<span style="font-size:largermedium;">Digital Image ProcessingModeling</span> *<span style="font-size:medium;">Topology</span> *<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sansmedium;">Evolution Equations</span> *<span style="font-serifsize:medium;">Ultrafilters</span> *<span style="font-size:largermedium;">Scanning, Atomic Force, and Scanning Tunneling MicroscopyTopological Semigroups</span> *<span style="font-size:medium;">Bioinformatics</span> '''PHYSICS''' *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Nanomagnetic Applications</span></span> *<span style="font-size:largermedium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mössbauer SpectroscopyDigital Image Processing</span></span> *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Scanning, Atomic Force, and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy</span></span> *<span style="font-size:largermedium;">Condensed Matter Physics<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mössbauer Spectroscopy</span></span> *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Condensed Matter Physics</span></span> *<span style="font-size:largermedium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Magnetic Thin Films</span></span> *<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifmedium;"><span style="font-sizefamily:largerarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bioinformatics</span></span>

<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><br/></div><div><span span style="line-height: 19px; font-size: larger; font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-sizeDr. Sitther :larger;"><span style="color: rgb(51received a $100, 51, 51); line-height: 19px;">Dr. Sitther , an assistant proffesor of biology, received a $100,000 000 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=style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: larger;">Omar S. Muhammad is another faculty member that leads innovation at Morgan. Mr. Muhammad serves as the ": D</span><span style="colorfont-family: rgb(0arial, 0helvetica, 0)sans-serif; font-size: larger;">irector&nbsp;Entrepreneurial Development and Assistance Center</span> <span style=" and single handly connects morgans resources with the students. He is currently working on multidiscipinary programsfont-family: arial, helvetica, such as the five year Engineering + M.B.A degree program.&nbspsans-serif; font-size: larger;</span">Craig J. Scott</span></div><div>''':&nbsp;'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)font-size: larger; fonttext-sizealign: largerjustify;"><Engineering Visualization for network security, computer vision and image/span>spatial data fusion; technology assisted formative assessment and differentiated instruction.</span><br/></div><div><span p style="font-familycolor:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgbrgb(051, 051, 051); font-sizefamily: larger;"Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"></span></span>'''Craig J. Scottstyle="font-family:arial,helvetica, Chairpersonsans-serif; Professor'''"><span style="colorfont-size: rgb(51, 51, 51)larger; font-family">Yacob Astatke: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">; PhPerformance and QoS management in mixed wireless networks and online engineering course development and delivery.D., Howard University;&nbsp;</span></divspan></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">M.S.E.E.<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, Cornell University; B.S.E.E., Howard University.&nbspsans-serif;"><br/span style="font-size:larger;">'''Research InterestsArlene Cole-Rhodes:&nbsp;'''Engineering Visualization Image processing with applications in remote sensing and avionics and signal processing for network security, computer vision and imagewireless communications.</span></spatial data fusion; technology assisted formative assessment and differentiated instruction.span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">'''Yacob Astatke<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, Assistant Professor and Associate Chair for&nbspsans-serif;"><br/>Undergraduate Studies'''span style="font-size:larger; D">Richard A.Eng., Morgan State University; M.S.E.E.,Dean:&nbsp;Spectrum and QoS management with clustering, and network security for Mixed Wireless Networks; Aeronautical radio link simulation for network enhanced telemetry system.<br/span></span>Johns Hopkins University; B.S.E.E., Morgan State University.<br/p>'''Research Interests<p style="color:&nbsp;'''Performance and QoS management in mixed wireless networks and online engineering course development and delivery.</prgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><p span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); fontfont-family: Tahomaarial, Arial, Helveticahelvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13pxlarger; text-align">Corey Dickens: justify&nbsp;">'''Arlene Cole-RhodesFabrication, Professor'''; Ph.D., University characterization and simulation of California Berkeleywide and gap semiconductor materials and devices; M. Phil, Cambridge UniversityGaN device HMETCIS solar cell research; B.S. (Mathematics), Warwick UniversitySiGe HBT reliability simulations.<br/span></span>'''Research Interests:&nbsp;'''Image processing with applications in remote sensing and avionics and signal processing for wireless communications.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">'''Richard A. Dean<span style="font-family:arial, Lecturer'''; Ph.D.helvetica, Oklahoma State University sans-serif;M.S., University of Maryland; B.S., Manhattan College.&nbsp"><span style="font-size:larger;<br/">'''Research InterestsKemi Ladeji-Osias:&nbsp;'''Spectrum and QoS management with clusteringSynthetic Vision Systems, Haptic training in Biomedical Engineering, and network security for Mixed Wireless Networks; Aeronautical radio link simulation for network enhanced telemetry systemintegration 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;">'''Corey Dickens<span style="font-family:arial, Lecturer'''; Ph.D.helvetica, Howard Universitysans-serif; M.S., Cornell University"><span style="font-size:larger; B.S.E.E., Morgan State University.">Farzad Moazzami:&nbsp;Wireless communications, Signal Processing,&nbsp;<br/>'''Research Interests:'''&nbsp;Fabrication, characterization and simulation of wide and gap semiconductor materials and devices; GaN device HMETCIS solar cell research; SiGe HBT reliability simulations.<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;">'''Kevin Kornegay<span style="font-family:arial, Professor'''; Ph.D.helvetica, University of California at Berkeleysans-serif; M.S., University of California at Berkeley; B.S., Pratt Institute (Honors)."></p><p span style="colorfont-size: rgb(51larger;">Kofi Nyarko, 51, 51)Associate Professor:&nbsp; font-family: TahomaComputational engineering, Arialscientific/ engineering simulation & visualization, Helveticacomplex computer algorithm development, sanscomputer network theory (including Ad-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">'''Kemi Ladeji-OsiasHoc Mobile Networks), portable computing design and development, advanced computer display technologies, Associate Professor and Associate Chair&nbsp;avionic system software development.</span></span><br/p>for Graduate Studies'''; Ph.D. <p style="color: rgb(Biomedical Engineering51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Rutgers University; B.S.E.E.Helvetica, University of Maryland Collegesans-Park.&nbspserif;<br/>'''Research Interestsfont-size: 13px; text-align:'''&nbspjustify;Synthetic Vision Systems, Haptic training in Biomedical Engineering, and integration of technology in the classroom.</p><p "><span style="colorfont-family: rgb(51arial, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helveticahelvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13px; text-align: justifylarger;">'''Farzad MoazzamiMichel Reece, Assistant Associate Professor''':&nbsp; D.EngDevice characterization and modeling using MMIC and MIC technologies at RF, Morgan State University; M.Eng.microwave, Morgan State University; B.S., University of Tabrizand millimeter wave frequencies.<br/span></span>'''Research Interests:'''&nbsp;Wireless communications, Signal Processing,&nbsp;<br/>Information assurance</p</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">'''Kofi Nyarko<span style="font-family:arial, Associate Professor'''; D.Enghelvetica, Morgan State Universitysans-serif; M.S., Morgan State University"><span style="font-size:larger; B.S">James E.Whitney, II, Morgan State University.&nbsp;<br/>Associate Professor'''Research Interests:'''&nbsp;'''Computational engineeringAlgorithm development and hardware design using&nbsp;digital and statistical signal processing; detection, estimation, scientific/ engineering simulation & visualization, complex computer algorithm development, computer network theory (including Ad-Hoc Mobile Networks), portable computing design nbsp;and multispectral sensing and development, advanced computer display technologies, and avionic system software developmentimage processing.</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">'''LaDawn Partlow, Lecturer'''; M.S.<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, Morgan State Universitysans-serif; B.S., MSU</p"><p span style="colorfont-size: rgb(51larger;">Gregory M. Wilkins, 51, 51)Lecturer:&nbsp; fontApplications of computational electro-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serifmagnetic&nbsp; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"<br/>'''Michel Reece, Associate Professor'''; D.Eng, Morgan State University;methods for the solution field behavior in guided wave structures&nbsp;<br/>M.S.E.E., Penn State University; B.S.E.E, Morgan State Universityand radiating systems (antennas).<br/span>'''Research Interests:'''&nbsp;Device characterization and modeling using MMIC and MIC technologies at RF, microwave, and millimeter wave frequencies.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">'''Carl White, Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Graduate&nbsp;<br/>Studies''', Ph.D., Cornell University; M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E., Howard University.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">'''James E. Whitney, II, Associate Professor'''; Ph.D., Marquette University; M.S.E.E., Catholic University of America; B.S.E.E., University of Maryland-College Park.&nbsp;<br/>'''Research Interests:'''&nbsp;Algorithm development and hardware design using&nbsp;<br/>digital and statistical signal processing; detection, estimation,&nbsp;<br/>and multispectral sensing and image processing.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">'''Gregory M. Wilkins, Lecturer'''; Ph.D., University of Illinois; M.S.E.E. The Johns Hopkins University; B.S.E.E., University of Maryland-College Park.&nbsp;<br/>'''Research Interests:'''&nbsp;Applications of computational electro-magnetic&nbsp;<br/</span>methods for the solution field behavior in guided wave structures&nbsp;<br/>and radiating systems (antennas).</p><div></div>

=== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;"><span style="font-sizefamily:largerarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); line-height: 22.66666603088379px;">Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory</span>'''</span></span> ===<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); line-height: 22.66666603088379px; font-size: larger;">The mission of the Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory &nbsp;(PEARL) is to engage a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students in conducting innovative research dedicated to investigating the complex interactions that define our environment. PEARL applies interdisciplinary approaches to studying the connections between complex ecological systems, while providing society with knowledge to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st Century.</span></span></div><br/>