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Fayetteville State Math Students Selected for Oak Ridge National Laboratory Internship

March 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Fayetteville State University students Lewis Williams and Mario Sutton have been selected to intern at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory beginning this May. The internship is available to FSU through the affiliation of its Center for Defense and Homeland Security with the Oak Ridge Associated Universities project.

Williams and Sutton will work in the Cyberspace Science and Information Intelligence Research Group on a project that involves extension of novel ORNL technology that converts time-serial numeric data to unique dynamical states.

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Fort Valley State Professor Presents Crop Protection Research to Georgia Peanut Commission

March 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Fort Valley State University professor George Mbata, recipient of a 2011 grant from the Georgia Peanut Commission, recently presented data from his funded research on protecting peanut crops. Dr. Mbata along with David Shapiro-Ilan, a USDA-ARS, Southeast Fruit and Tree Nut Research Unit researcher, gave new insight on protecting one of the largest peanut sources in the United States.

Last year, Mbata, and Shapiro-Ilan, received a one-year, $28,000 grant from the peanut commission to develop environmentally friendly methods to control the bug. The pair presented findings from their study in February, suggesting the use of microbials, nematodes (parasites that feed on the insect), fungi and insecticides to reduce the pest population and to keep peanut crops healthy.

“It was a great opportunity for us at FVSU to give back to the district in the area of improving crop production and protection,” said Mbata.

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North Carolina A&T Scientist Receives $490K Food Research Grant

February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Dr. Shengmin Sang, lead scientist for functional foods at the Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, has received a $490,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to research the connection between diabetes and flavonoids, which are a group of compounds found in fruits, vegetables, herbs and teas.

Sang’s project was deemed “outstanding” by USDA’s competitive grants program, the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). Recent research in Sang’s functional foods lab indicated that flavonoids could minimize complications of diabetes. The current study will continue and expand that work.

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Tennessee State Receives $600K Cyber-Security Research Grant from Air Force

February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The need to protect and secure cyberspace for U.S. military and consumer use will continue to be a major challenge in the future. In response to this need, the College of Engineering at Tennessee State University is aggressively pursuing research opportunities to support and provide solutions to industry and government.

Cloud Computing Security research at Tennessee State University will get a significant boost thanks to a $616, 278 grant from Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The goal of the project is to enable development of novel security methods to ensure protection of vast amounts of information in cloud computing platforms. The research activities will include development of new approaches for intrusion detection, active response and recovery from attacks on the cloud.

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College of Engineering receives AF grant for Cyber-Security | Tennessee State University Newsroom

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