NIST Awards Nearly $9M to Advance Morgan State Microelectronics and Microbiology Research (1781 hits)
Morgan State University has been awarded nearly $9 million in federal research funding as part of a broader $58 million federal investment supporting public safety, Chesapeake Bay preservation, and research initiatives across Maryland. The funding, secured through the fiscal year 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill and announced by bill advocates U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks, will strengthen Morgan’s capacity for cutting-edge research and workforce development in microelectronics and biomedical science.
Morgan will receive $3.4 million to enhance its Center for Education and Research in Microelectronics and $5.5 million to construct and equip a new Molecular Biology Research Laboratory serving academic researchers focusing on biological sciences and applied sciences within Morgan’s School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences (SCMNS). The awards come to Morgan from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the Department of Commerce, which helps promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness through collaboration with academia to advance measurement science, standards, and technology.
The investment reinforces Morgan’s growing role as a national leader in applied research while advancing the University toward its strategic goal of achieving Carnegie R1 classification, the highest designation for research activity among U.S. universities.
“Federal investment in public research universities, like Morgan, is essential to cultivating the next generation of scientific discovery and innovation, because they empower institutions of higher learning to harness the intellectual capacity of emerging scholars, researchers and innovators whose work will shape the future of our nation and the world,” said Willie E. May, Ph.D., vice president for Research and Economic Development at Morgan State University.
