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Mississippi

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NSF and Mississippi

In FY 2002 the NSF provided 88 awards totaling over $18 million to 14 institutions in the state of Mississippi.

Institutions in Mississippi that received NSF support in FY 2002 include Mississippi State University, the University of Mississippi, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, the University of Southern Mississippi, Alcorn State University, and MPI Software Technology.

PROJECTS CURRENTLY FUNDED BY THE NSF IN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI INCLUDE:

  • Center for Response-Driven Polymeric — This Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at the University of Southern Mississippi supports an interdisciplinary research program in the area of polymer coatings and films. The Center also supports a wide range of educational activities, including the establishment of advanced degrees in polymer education. The Center's research is organized into two interdisciplinary research groups: 1) Design and Synthesis of Response-Driven Polymers focuses on the design and synthesis of molecular processes in biomaterials, liquid crystals, and environmentally smart molecules, and 2) Response-Driven Film Formation conducts molecular level investigations of films and coatings that exhibit response-driven properties. Potential applications of the Center's research are in diverse areas such as water treatment, controlled drug release, and formation of water-based coatings.


  • Mississippi Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (MLSAMP) — Now in its 10th year at Jackson State University, MLSAMP, continues to pursue proven strategies for increasing minority participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). MLSAMP's present objectives include: increasing the number of STEM graduates from an estimated 661 to 825 by 2007; increasing the number and percentage of minority students enrolled in STEM; increasing retention rates of minority students in STEM; doubling the number of baccalaureates enrolling in graduate programs in STEM; doubling the number of minority students who earn Ph.D. degrees in STEM by 2007; and forging partnerships with business and government across the state and region.


  • Small Business Innovation Research — An NSF SBIR award to DRI supports a feasibility study of building a reliable, high-performance network-centric storage system technology (NetSTOR). NetSTOR's architecture is based on a new, very fast group data coding scheme that will achieve efficient and dependable data delivery across the network. Recently, the need for network storage has burgeoned, without truly universal solutions being available. This project will evaluate the performance improvement achieved by NetSTOR's unique architecture and validate the effectiveness and efficiency of the technique. Efficient decoding algorithms will be employed to achieve reliability against server failure and faulty network connections. Multi-threaded parallel data transfer will ensure high performance date delivery.


  • Preparing Tomorrow's Science and Mathematics Teachers: The Community College ResponsePhi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year colleges is conducting a multidisciplinary, multi-component, nationwide mentoring project to enhance and expand the role of community colleges in providing teacher preparation programs for future K-12 science and mathematics teachers through a set of proven mentoring activities that extend the knowledge, experience and materials achieved by seven community college teacher preparation programs recognized as exemplary by NSF.

For more information on Mississippi and NSF, please contact the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at 703-292-8070.

Useful Links:

Mississippi's Home Page

Mississippi Governor's Office

Mississippi Technology Alliance



 
 
     
 

 
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