Fargo, N.D. – The North Dakota NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research has received a $375,000 Research Infrastructure Development award from NASA. The award, which is for the period 2012-2015 with matching funding provided by the North Dakota State Legislature, will be used to fund statewide NASA-relevant seed research, including graduate research assistantships and researcher travel to NASA centers for developing collaborative research. Faculty from NDSU and the University of North Dakota will be eligible to compete for these grants.

Questions may be directed to Santhosh Seelan, professor and chair of the Department of Space Studies at UND and director of North Dakota NASA EPSCoR, at seelan@space.edu. For more information, visit http://ndnasaepscor.und.edu. 

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation’s top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.