
2023 NEVADA SPACE GRANT AND NASA EPSCoR STATEWIDE MEETING
April 28, 2023
Western Nevada College
2201 W College Pkwy, Carson City, NV 89703
Welcome
The 2023 Nevada NASA Programs Hybrid Statewide Meeting will be held on April 28, 2023, at Western Nevada College in Carson City, Nevada (2201 W College Pkwy, Carson City, NV 89703). All sessions will be held both in person and virtually. The Statewide Meeting will include oral and poster presentations featuring research results of Nevada NASA EPSCoR and Nevada NASA Space Grant funded projects as well as a keynote address. The objective of this meeting is to share Nevada NASA research findings and outcomes, stimulate collaborations, and discussions and plan for upcoming activities.
Attendees
Attendees will include all individuals who have received NASA research project awards from the Nevada NASA Space Grant and Nevada NASA EPSCoR 2022-2023 as well as affiliates and advocates of the programs. All Nevada NASA project faculty and students, who are able, are encouraged to attend. Registration is required by April 21, 2023.
Complementary Shuttle on April 28, 2023: Transportation has been arranged to and from Western Nevada College from the Reno airport on April 28, 2023, only. The shuttle will leave at 8:00 A.M. from the Reno Airport and will depart Western Nevada College at 5:30 P.M. after the meeting adjourns. Please register by March 28, 2023 to reserve your spot on the shuttle.
Draft Agenda
8:00am
Registration and Hot Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15am
Welcome Remarks
9:15 – 10:05am
Yifei Jin (UNR): Direct Ink Writing of Complex 3D Structures from Titanium Alloy
Marco Giordano (DRI): TBD
Brian Hedlund (UNLV): Geological controls on desert spring microbiomes
10:05 – 10:20am
Break
10:20- 10:50am
Jun Zhang (UNR): Model-based performance analysis of twisted string actuators with application to wearable assistive and resistive exo-gloves
Ke-Xun Sun (UNLV): UNLV Curriculum Development for Training Workforce in Space Science and Engineering
11:00am – 12:00pm
Keynote Talk: The Perlan Project: Stormi Noll and Morgan Sandercock
12:00 – 1:15pm
Lunch and networking
1:15 – 2:45pm
Jack C. Davis Observatory tour, AR Sandbox, Anatomage Virtual Dissection Tables
2:45 – 3:00pm
Break
3:00 – 3:15pm
Poster Session 30 sec Oral Introductions
3:15 – 4:30pm
Break, Student Poster Session and Networking
4:30 – 5:00pm
NV Pathways to Success: Overview of NVSGC and NASA EPSCoR, Solicitation schedule; Progress & brainstorming to improve NV NASA Programs
5:00pm
Farewell
5:30pm
Shuttle leaves for Reno Airport
Registration is required. Please register by April 21, 2023.
Make sure to upload a completed NASA Media Release as part of your registration.
Lodging Reservations
Thursday, April 27, 2023, through Saturday, April 29, 2023 ($98/night).
Hampton Inn & Suites Carson City: 10 Hospitality Way, Carson City, NV 89706, (775) 885-8800
Room Block will close Thursday, March 30, 2023. Reservations received after this date will only be accepted on a space and rate availability basis.
Hotel Amenities
Complimentary high-speed Wi-Fi, complimentary hot breakfast offered daily, free parking, fitness center. Check-in time 3:00 pm, check-out time 12:00 pm. Early check-ins and late check-outs are considered requests and not guaranteed and are based strictly on availability.
All students participating in research funded by the Nevada Space Grant are strongly encouraged to attend the annual meeting and provide a research poster presentation. A poster session will be held on Friday, April 28, 2023 so that students may share their research with everyone in attendance. If you wish to participate in the poster session, please provide a headshot and abstract by Monday, April 17, 2023.
Poster Session Eligibility: Students currently enrolled within a Nevada institution of higher education are eligible to participate in the poster session.
Abstracts and Headshot Due
Monday, April 17, 2023
Word count limit: 300 words.
Poster Setup
Annual Meeting
Poster Session
Poster Break Down
7:30 – 9:00am
9:00am – 5:00pm
3:15 – 4:30pm
5:30pm
Format
Students should bring their posters with them on April 28th, set up, and take them down after the poster session. Wall space and command strips will be provided in order for students to display their posters.
Title: Include a banner frame clearly stating the title of the poster, your name, your mentor(s) name, institution, and department. Be sure to include the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium logo and the logo of your institution. Please reach out to Michael Lujan (mlujan@nshe.nevada.edu) if you need the NVSGC logo.
Overview: Clearly articulate what you did, how you did it, why you did it, and what it contributes to your field and the larger field of human knowledge.
Introduction: Specify the main argument of your study, provide an overview of what you did, the evidence that supports that argument, and point out the significance and value of the research. Be succinct in this one-frame element.
Method: Illustrate how you conducted your project.
Results (If applicable): Indicate what your research has revealed.
Conclusion: Include an explanation of the ways the results satisfy the research objective. Illustrate how your findings impact scholars in your field and members of the broader intellectual community.
Poster Abstract Preparation Guidelines and Submission: All confirmed participants must upload a final poster abstract by April 17, 2023. Abstracts should be single-spaced, written in Times New Roman, 12-point font with a maximum word count of 300. Participants must include the project title, authors, and institution in the submission headline. The body of the abstract should describe the background and intent of the research, methods, discussion of relevance to NASA’s strategic research plan, and research results. If results are not yet achieved, students may instead summarize future direction.
NEVADA NASA SPACE GRANT Acknowledgement: MUST BE INCLUDED ON YOUR POSTER.
Full Support: “This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC20M00043.”
Partial Support: “This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC20M00043.”
Project incomplete?
If you have any preliminary results, use them as examples of the kind of results you hope to obtain. Discuss the significance of these results.
If you don’t have any preliminary results, you can focus on projected results: what do you think you might find when your results are complete?
Whether you have complete, partial, or only projected results, keep in mind that your explanation of those results—their significance—is more important than the raw results themselves.
All Nevada faculty funded by the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium and Nevada NASA EPSCoR are strongly encouraged to attend the annual meeting and provide an oral research presentation. An oral research presentation session will be held on Friday, April 28, 2023, so that faculty may share their research with everyone in attendance.
Eligibility: Faculty funded by the NVSGC and/or Nevada NASA EPSCoR during the 2022-2023 cycle are eligible to participate in the oral research presentation session. This oral presentation session is first come, first serve.
Abstracts and Headshot Due
Monday, April 10, 2023
Word count limit: 300 words.
Annual Meeting Begins
Oral Research Presentations (12 min talks with Q&A)
Annual Meeting Concludes
9:00am
9:15 – 10:05am
and 10:20 – 10:50am
5:00pm
Oral Presentation and Abstract Guidelines
Format
All abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words. Oral presentations should be accompanied by PowerPoint slides. Access to a laptop and overhead projector will be provided for all the presenters.
Title: Include an introductory slide clearly stating the title of the presentation, your name, institution, and department. Be sure to include the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium logo and/or the Nevada NASA EPSCoR logo(s) and the logo of your institution.
Introduction: State research goal, knowledge gap your research fills and how the research advances NASA, Nevada, and/or NSHE goals
Methods: Brief description of methods used
Results: What were your major findings? Challenges? What did you learn?
Outcomes: What publications, proposals, presentations resulted from your work?
Impacts: How has your work contributed to knowledge in engineering/science/education and society?
Oral Presentation Abstract Preparation Guidelines and Submission: All confirmed participants must upload a final abstract by April 10, 2023. Abstracts should be single-spaced, written in Times New Roman, 12-point font with a maximum word count of 300. Participants must include the project title, authors, and institution in the submission headline. The body of the abstract should describe the background and intent of the research, methods, discussion of relevance to NASA’s strategic research plan, and research results. If results are not yet achieved, researchers may instead summarize future direction.
NEVADA NASA SPACE GRANT Acknowledgement: “This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC20M00043.”
NEVADA NASA EPSCoR RID GRANT Acknowledgement: “This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC20M00043.”
Project incomplete?
If you have any preliminary results, use them as examples of the kind of results you hope to obtain. Discuss the significance of these results.
If you don’t have any preliminary results, you can focus on projected results.

Dr. Eric Wilcox
Project Director
775-673-7686
Eric.Wilcox@dri.edu

Gibran Chavez-Gudino
Research Administrator
702-522-7081
gchavez-gudino@nshe.nevada.edu

Michael Lujan
NASA Program Coordinator
702-522-7072
mlujan@nshe.nevada.edu