NASA has issued a total of $2.3 million in grants to support graduate student research projects across 13 minority institutions and four majority institutions. These projects support national aviation and space efforts such as the Artemis program that aims to revive manned lunar exploration, NASA said Thursday.
The space agency’s Minority University Research and Education Project and Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate provided the funds.
The 17 recipient institutions are:
Florida International University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Montclair State University
New Mexico State University
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University (two awards)
San Diego State University Foundation
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Riverside
University of Florida
University of Hawaii Systems
University of Houston System
University of Maryland
University of Minnesota (two awards)
University of New Mexico
University of Texas, Arlington
University of Washington, Seattle