Archived Awards

NASA EPSCoR 2022 RID Awards

Dr. Paul Oh (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Tele-Presence Infrastructure – Robots and Agents

Dr. Ali Saidi-Mehrabad (Desert Research Institute)

Viruses of Earth’s Continental Deep Subsurface…

NASA EPSCoR 2021 RID Awards

Eakalak Khan 

UNLV

Identification and Development of Task Specific Deep Eutectic Solvents for the Dissolution Silica from Lunar Regolith

Meghan Collins 

DRI

Living Snow in the Sierra Nevada

Leena Cycil

UNLV

Examining the Impact of Light Intensities and Wavelengths on Algae Growth with Space Biology Implications

Jeongwon Park

UNR

Nanotechnology Enabled Sensors for Characterizing Martian Dust Properties

NASA EPSCoR 2017 RID Awards

Elisabeth (Libby) Hausrath

UNLV

RID Seed Grant

Duane Moser

DRI

RID Seed Grant

Xiaoliang Wang

DRI

RID Seed Grant

David Feil-Seifer

UNR

RID Seed Grant

NASA EPSCoR 2016 RID Awards

Hung (Jim) La
UNR

RID Seed Grant

Jaeyun Moon
UNLV

RID Seed Grant

NASA EPSCoR 2015 RID Awards

Hans Moosmüller
UNR

RID Seed Grant

Jennifer Edmonds
NSC

RID Seed Grant

NVSGC 2022 Rapid Research Response (R3) Awards

Dr. Tin Nguyen (UNR)

Pathway-level, Consensus Analysis of Microbiome Profiling Data

NVSGC 2021 Rapid Research Response (R3) Awards

Eakalak Khan

UNLV

Biomimicry of the Growth of a Desert Plant as an Approach for Extractions of Phosphorus and Minerals from Martian Regolith

Brian Hedlund

UNLV

Thermophilic Biomass Recycling by Novel Chloroflexi to Support NASA Spaceflights

Elisabeth Hausrath

UNLV

Renewal of Life on Mars Algae Cultivation for Long-term Food and Oxygen Production

Self-Adaptive Lubricants for Extreme Space Mechanism Applications (2020-2023)

Science PI: Pradeep L. Menezes

UNR

Principal Investigator: Pradeep L. Menezes (UNR)

Co-investigators: Mano Misra (UNR), Jaeyun Moon (UNLV), Eunja Kim (UNLV), Alexandra Lutz (DRI), Meghan Collins (DRI)

NASA Collaborators: Christopher Dellacorte Malcolm K. Stanford

High Energy Battery Materials at Low Temperatures for Future NASA Missions (2019-2022)

Science PI: Feifei Fan

UNLV

Principal Investigator: Feifei Fan (UNLV)

Co-Investigators: Dev Chidambaram (University of Nevada, Reno), Xiaoliang Wang (Desert Research Institute), Qiang Zhu (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

NASA Collaborators: Claire Fortenberry (GRC), Marit Meyer (GRC), and Paul Mudgett (JSC)

Life in Salts: a Multidisciplinary Investigation of Microorganisms and Biosignatures in the Death Valley Salt Pan (2018-2021)

Henry Sun
DRI

Science PI

Brian Hedlund
UNLV

Co-PI

Simon Poulson
UNR

Co-PI

Advanced Transport Technologies for NASA Thermal Management/Control Systems (2015-2018)

Miles Greiner
UNR

Science PI

Kwang Kim
UNLV

Co-PI

Ted Plaggemeyer
TMCC

Co-PI

Jackson Crews
DRI

Co-PI

Eric Sunada
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Technical Monitor

Building Capacity in Interdisciplinary Snow Sciences for a Changing World (2014-2017)

Alison Murray
DRI

Science PI

Scott Tyler
UNR

Co-PI

Gail Ferrell
TMCC

Co-PI

Elisabeth Hausrath
UNLV

Co-PI

Hans Moosmüller
DRI

Co-PI

Rina Schumer
DRI

Co-PI

Ian McCubbin
DRI

Co-PI

Advanced Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Sensors for Aerospace Robotic Applications (2013-2018)

Kwang Kim
UNLV

Science PI

Kam Leang
University of Utah

Co-PI

Dong-Chan Lee
UNLV

Co-PI

Ann-Marie Vollstedt
UNR

Co- PI

Woosoon Yim
UNLV

Co-PI