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Akm Rahman and Ozlem Yasar Awarded NASA Grant for Microgreens in Space Research

Akm Rahman and Ozlem Yasar (Mechanical Engineering Technology) were awarded a grant from NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Partnership Learning Annual Notification (MPLAN) for a research project, “Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate for Seed Growth: Microgreens in Space,” to address the challenges of microgreen cultivation using a minimum amount of water in space, thereby providing vital nutrition to astronauts.  Read more . . .