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NASA Selects Montana State as One of Four New Members of the Astrobiology Institute
NASA is awarding five-year grants to four research teams that will become new members of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI).
The new multidisciplinary teams are led by the University of Wisconsin, Madison; the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Montana State University, Bozeman; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. For the first 18 months of research, teams will receive $350,000 in funding. The five-year average grant size is approximately $7 million per team.
The Montana State University team is headed by John Peters. Co-investigators are Tim Minton, Robert Szilagyi, Joan Broderick and Trevor Douglas. The team's focus is on the origin of life, investigating the role of iron-sulfide compounds in the transition from the non-living to the living world. This work will support the mission of NASA in the area of prebiotic chemistry and the development of signatures for terrestrial and extraterrestrial life.
For more information click on the following link
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/may/HQ_07108_Astrobiology_Grants.html
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