This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Houston System, doing business as the University of Houston, a state institution of higher learning located in Houston, Texas. The $337,466.52 grant supports research to investigate the magmatic history and mantle evolution of Mars as revealed by the meteorite record. The research aims to address fundamental questions about the geology of Mars, including the periodicity...
This $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, doing business as Rice University, will fund a research project titled "FATE OF NITROGEN DURING EARLY SILICATE DIFFERENTIATION OF ROCKY BODIES CONSTRAINED BY MINERAL-MELT PARTITIONING". The contract has no set-aside designation. Rice University, a private research university located in Houston, Texas, has a strong track record of performing cutting-edge...
This federal contract award, valued at $307,861.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, a private research university located in Houston, Texas. The project aims to characterize the compositional changes induced by early diagenesis of basaltic fluviolacustrine sediment and identify the influence of lacustrine groundwater discharge on alteration processes. This award is not associated with a set-aside program. Rice University...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC25K7505, was granted by the Shared Services Center (an agency with ID 8000|8000|80NSSC-A) to William Marsh Rice University, a private research university located in Houston, Texas. The contract is a $803,728.00 grant for research, with no set-aside designation. The contract aims to execute a balanced science program aligned with guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. Key focus areas include...
This federal contract award, valued at $855,915.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, a private research university located in Houston, Texas. The contract, titled "CONSTRAINING THE ORIGIN AND TIMESCALE OF LUNAR MG-SUITE MAGMATISM", is a grant for research work related to lunar geology and geochemistry. The award does not have a set-aside designation. Rice University has extensive experience in conducting...
This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant awarded to William Marsh Rice University, doing business as Rice University, aims to study the acquisition, sustenance, and nurturing of life-essential chemical ingredients on the surfaces of rocky planets. The $6,654,014 grant, awarded on August 8, 2018, with a performance period through July 14, 2025, will take an interdisciplinary approach to trace the pathways of key elements like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur,...
This federal contract award, valued at $168,000.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, also known as Rice University, to conduct research on in situ resource utilization (ISRU) for interplanetary exploration. The project aims to bridge the gap between theory and practical implementation of ISRU through experimentation and simulation. No set-aside designation was used for this grant. Rice University, a private research...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, a private research university in Houston, Texas. The $498,002.19 grant is for a project titled "Understanding Evolution of Redox Transduction through Ferredoxins, Iron-Sulfur Proteins that Control." The objective is to identify and characterize iron-sulfur binding peptides that can support cellular energy transduction processes, with the goal of understanding the role...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University (Rice University), a private research university located in Houston, Texas. The $258,000 grant is for research related to the NASA Artemis mission, which aims to send humans to colonize the Moon and Mars and explore more of the solar system. Rice University's Office of Sponsored Projects Division manages this and other federal contract and grant awards for the...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, doing business as Rice University, a private research university in Houston, Texas. The $89,469.69 grant supports research on the availability of life-essential elements such as nitrogen, carbon, and sulfur in planetary atmospheres, which is critical for assessing the potential habitability of exoplanets. The award is not part of a set-aside contract. In...