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Research & Innovation News
U.S. Office of Naval Research Awards Morgan State University $9-Million to Advance Scientific Research in Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Machine Learning
5-Year Funding to Support University Efforts to Assist in Fortifying National Security and to Create Pathways to Opportunities in DoD STEM Fields
Striving for the ‘Gold Standard’
Leaders of historically Black colleges and universities have been working to achieve Research-1 status in recent years, the coveted Carnegie Foundation classification reserved for doctoral universities that demonstrate a certain level of research prowess. No HBCU currently holds such a classification, but administrators at some colleges say the designation feels increasingly attainable after years of striving and strategizing and a record year of securing research dollars.
Morgan State University Expands Research Capabilities for Faculty and Students with New Access to Proprietary Readex Database
Morgan Becomes First HBCU in Mid-Atlantic Region to Utilize Expansive Digital Inventory of Early American Newspapers, Furthering Exploration of African American History
Morgan State Looks to Solve a Diversity ‘Pipeline Problem’ in Environmental Sciences
For years, the study of environmental sciences has taken place in an overwhelmingly white world. While African Americans make up about 13% of the U.S. population, they receive fewer than 3% of environmental science degrees annually, according to a 2020 Data USA study. Now, officials at Morgan State University, a historically Black institution, are trying to change that. The university was granted $1 million to study microplastics in Chesapeake Bay for the next three years which is an opportunity to train more Black environmental scientists.
Making History
Precedents in military research will be set within the next few months. The U.S. Air Force will establish its first University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), and for the first time a UARC will be located at an historically Black institution. Morgan State has two centers, the Cybersecurity Assurance and Policy (CAP) Center, which focuses on reverse engineering of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and the recently launched Center of Equitable Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.
Here’s How — And Why — Morgan State is Trying to Become the Country’s Only R1 HBCU
What separates the run-of-the-mill research institutions from the world’s top research universities? The answer: R1 status, which can mark a difference of a billion dollars in grants and federal funding. Only 3.7% of the nearly 4,000 US colleges and universities are classified R1. None of these are historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs). Baltimore’s own Morgan State University is one of the many HBCUs seeking to change that.
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