This federal contract award to Texas Southern University (TSU), a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) and minority-serving institution, is valued at $180,535.00. The award is a grant for research to investigate the effects of spaceflight on antibody somatic hypermutation, a key area impacted by the immune system during spaceflight. The contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and does not have a set-aside designation. The research is building...
This federal contract award to Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black land-grant university in Texas, supports a research study on the combined effects of microgravity and space radiation on human cells. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is providing $722,711.44 in grant funding for this project, which aims to establish a baseline for understanding the molecular and cellular responses to simultaneous exposure to these space environmental stressors. The...
This is a $705,790 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Prairie View A&M University, a historically black land-grant university in Texas. The grant supports research to develop and validate computational models for predicting biological damage from mixed field radiation exposures, such as those expected in space environments. The research aims to reduce uncertainties in cancer risk models by studying chromosome aberrations induced by chronic low-dose...
This $64,089.56 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Southern University and A&M College, a historically black land-grant university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The contract is for research on high-dimensional tensor simulation and modeling, which aligns with NASA's priorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research. Southern University, through its Office of Sponsored Programs division, has demonstrated its capacity...
This is a $125,400 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Tennessee State University (TSU) for research projects aimed at increasing the pool of minority engineers. The award does not have a set-aside designation. As the prime contractor, TSU's Research and Sponsored Programs Division, doing business as Starbucks Licensed Store, will perform the work. This grant is part of TSU's broader federal contracting and grant activities, which...
This is a $50,058.08 Cooperative Agreement award by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Southern University and A&M College, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The award focuses on additive manufacturing research of regolith/vitrimer composites, with the research to be conducted by a team of professors. This award is not set aside for any particular socioeconomic program. Southern University has a history of...
This is a $500,000.00 grant contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Texas State University, a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and State Controlled Institution of Higher Education located in San Marcos, Texas. The contract is for research services to be provided to 37 school districts in Texas Congressional District 31. The contract has a period of performance ending on August 31, 2027 and was awarded on September 1, 2024. No...
This is a $418,675.12 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Tennessee State University, a historically black college/university located in Nashville, Tennessee. The purpose of this award is to establish the Tennessee MUREP (Minority University Research and Education Project) Aerospace Academy, which aims to inspire a more diverse student population to pursue careers in STEM fields, engage students and families in...
This is a $1,199,998.00 grant award from the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) in Dallas, Texas. The award is for the "EVALUATION OF THE CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR RESPONSES OF LUNG AND LIVER CELLS DERIVED FROM IPSCS WITH VARYING INTRINSIC RADIOSENSITIVITY TO SPACE RADIATION." The grant is for research to be completed by December 31, 2025. UT Southwestern is a component...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $200,000.00 grant to Texas A&M University System Health Science Center (Texas A&M Univ Hlth SCI CTR) to examine the effects of space-relevant radiation on the immune system, vascular architecture, and metabolome (bacterial products) of the gastrointestinal tract. This grant-funded research project has a completion date of July 31, 2022. Texas A&M Univ Hlth SCI CTR is an institution of higher...