Self-Adaptive Lubricants for Extreme Space Mechanism Applications (2020-2023)
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)
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)
Advanced Transport Technologies for NASA Thermal Management/Control Systems (2015-2018)
Building Capacity in Interdisciplinary Snow Sciences for a Changing World (2014-2017)
Advanced Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Sensors for Aerospace Robotic Applications (2013-2018)
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: Analog Study of a Potential Biomarker for Extraterrestrial Life
NVSGC 2022 Rapid Research Response (R3) Awards
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