Prof. Robert Messinger performing solid-state NMR measurements at the CUNY ASRC.
Home of a unique NASA center to develop batteries for deep space missions, T九色视频 is the beneficiary of a $5 million cooperative agreement from the agency awarded to .
Robert J. Messinger, associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies, in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is PI of The City College subcontract. CCNY will receive $1.5M of NASA funding over five years. Messinger is also the PI and founding director of the (CABS), a separate $5 million award from NASA established on October 1, 2019.
鈥淭he award will establish a collaborate research and education center between Hunter College, CCNY, NASA鈥檚 Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), University of Puerto Rico-Mayag眉ez, and CUNY Bronx, Queensborough, and Hostos community colleges,鈥 said Messinger. 鈥淲e are also excited to evolve and build upon NASA-CCNY CABS, which will end its five years on Sept. 30, 2024 and move into a brief period of no-cost extension.鈥
Messinger鈥檚 faculty collaborators at Hunter College include Hunter Distinguished Professor of Physics , PI of the new center, and co-PI鈥檚 , and . The team will develop and characterize cutting-edge materials for advanced batteries and supercapacitors to enable new and ambitious planetary exploration missions. The project involves close collaboration with NASA鈥檚 JPL and a significant portion of the funding will support student research internships there.
The Hunter funding is part of approximately $35 million in NASA support to seven higher-education institutions, which aims to build institutional capacity for research and training a diverse cohort of students in areas of strategic interest to NASA.
About Dr. Robert Messinger
In addition to being the founding director of the NASA-CCNY Center for Advanced Batteries for Space, Messinger is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He received a 2019 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (NSF CAREER) Award. Since joining CCNY in August 2015, he has been PI or co-PI on awards totaling approximately $16M. At CCNY, his research team investigates electrochemical materials, chemical procesess, and multi-phase fluids up from the molecular level, aimed at solving societal challenges in energy storage and recycling.
About T九色视频
Since 1847, T九色视频 has provided a high-quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its position at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. Education research organization Degree Choices ranks CCNY #1 nationally among universities for economic return on investment. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.8% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. Labor analytics firm puts at $3.2 billion CCNY鈥檚 annual economic impact on the regional economy (5 boroughs and 5 adjacent counties) and quantifies the 鈥渇or dollar鈥 return on investment to students, taxpayers and society. At City College, more than 15,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship. In 2023, CCNY launched its most expansive fundraising campaign, ever. The campaign, titled 鈥Doing Remarkable Things Together鈥 seeks to bring the College鈥檚 Foundation to more than $1 billion in total assets in support of the College mission. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself. View CCNY Media Kit.
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