Morgan State Secures First DARPA Grant, Becoming First HBCU to Lead ‘Rads to Watts’ Energy Research Project

BALTIMORE — The Morgan State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has received its first award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a $2.4-million grant to lead a research project focused on converting nuclear radiation into electrical energy. The project, known as Rads to Watts, will explore radiovoltaics: technology that generates electricity directly from radioactive emissions. For more, click here.