Miss. eligible for NASA research

National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Office of Education and 10 centers solicits proposals for its Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research programs. The goal of EPSCoR is to provide seed funding that will enable jurisdictions to develop an academic research enterprise directed toward long-term, self-sustaining, nationally-competitive capabilities in aerospace and aerospace-related research. Each funded proposal is expected to establish research activities that will make significant contributions to NASA's strategic research and technology development priorities and contribute to the overall research infrastructure, higher education and economic development. Twenty-eight states, including Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana are eligible to compete in various EPSCoR program opportunities. Source: Space Ref, 03/18/14.