NASA MUREP Partnership Learning Annual Notification (NASA MPLAN) selected the following awardees to receive up to $50,000 each:

 

California State University, Chico
 Smart Biosensor for Astronaut Radiation Monitoring

Allen University
 Dose-Rate Dependence in Space Radiation Cancer

Miami Dade College
 Mission Directive – Mission Control (MD-MC)

Miami Dade College
 Mission Directive – Artemis Infrastructure (MD-AI)

Miami Dade College
 Mission Directive – Human Horizons (MD-HH)

University of California-Los Angeles
 Lunar Regolith Treatment: Crop Growth Enhancement

San Diego State University
 Thermo-Mechanical Constitutive and Contact Models

Los Angeles Valley College
 LA MESA MVPs- NCAS Robotics Competition

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
 POLAR CAPS: Lunar Adaptive Propellant Storage

Arizona State University Campus Immersion
 Multi-Rotor Wake Interactions for Quiet eVTOLs

The University of Texas at Arlington
 High-Speed Airbreathing Engine Flow Diagnostics

CUNY New York City College of Technology
 Geometry-driven Micrometeoroid Protection in Space

University of Central Florida
 Multi-Fidelity Bayesian Aerothermal Optimization

Texas Tech University
 Building-Aware Flights for Safe Urban Air Mobility

University of Arizona
 Smart MMOD Protection for Lunar Habitats

Suffolk County Community College
 NASA Long Island Lunar Rover Challenge

St. Mary's University
 DEM and Vacuum Chamber Tests of Lunar Regolith

Bowie State University
 Microgravity Kale: Metabolites, RNA and ML-PAM

Arizona State University
 Hyperuniform structures for quiet VTOL aircraft

University of Houston
 Nonreciprocal Cooling for Space Cryogenic Storage

Fort Valley State University
 GUARD-SWARM: Verified Autonomy for Wildfire Fleets

Florida International University
 Rapid Contact Dynamics for Surface Operations

Hampton University
 Hampton U. Lunar Mission Surface Cohort

The University of Texas at San Antonio
 Supercritical Reaction of Sustainable Jet Fuels

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
 Non-Invasive and Self-Powered Wearables

California State University-Long Beach
 Physics guided lunar plume ejecta sensing

Purdue University Northwest
 Engineering the Ground of Tomorrow

University of New Mexico-Main Campus
 Cold Glow: Solid-State Cooling Skin for ZBO Tanks

University of Central Florida
 Lunar Regolith PSI Diagnostics in a Vacuum Chamber

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
 Multifunctional MMOD-Resilient Composite Skins

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
 Ground-Based Microgravity Research for Biomedicine

Howard University
 AI-MLA for Space Radiation Health Monitoring

Texas Tech University

Low Temperature Sodium Batteries

 

The awarded Minority Serving Institution Principal Investigators and their partners are invited to meet with NASA researchers and MUREP representatives throughout the remainder of the year. The meetings serve as training sessions to pursue future NASA opportunities. These trainings will focus primarily on fostering collaboration, enhancing technical skills, and providing insights into NASA's research priorities to better prepare participants for future opportunities.

 

Congratulations once again to our awardees!