ND NASA EPSCoR Receives Three Year RID Award

The North Dakota NASA EPSCoR program received notification from NASA of an award of $375,000 over a three  year period for its Research Infrastructure Development (RID) project  proposal submitted in July 2012. In addition to the award of $375,000  from NASA, the ND State Legislature also provides match funding to the  project.

ND NASA EPSCoR is a statewide program and the funds from  this award will be used for NASA relevant seed research and travel  support to researches to visit NASA centers for developing collaborative  research. Funding for graduate research assistantships via the seed  research grants to faculty will also be available. Faculty from UND and  NDSU will be eligible to compete for these grants.

Dr. Santhosh  Seelan, Professor and Chair, Department of Space Studies, UND, is the  Director of ND NASA EPSCoR, and the Principal Investigator for this RID  award. He can be reached at seelan@space.edu for details.