{"id":1213751,"date":"2023-03-28T07:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1213751"},"modified":"2023-03-29T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:56:17","slug":"ut-tyler-awarded-100000-nasa-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1213751","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler awarded $100,000 NASA grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1213752\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/uttyler-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The University of Texas at Tyler will be helping to develop space farming. UT Tyler has received a $100,000 grant from NASA to study how plants react to different types of stress in space. The technology used by Dr. Shawana Tabassum, electrical engineering assistant professor and chief investigator, is similar to a fitness watch, but for plants. The goal is to help astronauts grow fresh produce on deep-space missions and eventually to grow produce on the Moon or on Mars. UT Tyler will collaborate on the project with Texas A&amp;M. Project activities will be conducted at the A&amp;M Agrilife Research facility in College Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The University of Texas at Tyler will be helping to develop space farming. UT Tyler has received a $100,000 grant from NASA to study how plants react to different types of stress in space. The technology used by Dr. Shawana Tabassum, electrical engineering assistant professor and chief investigator, is similar to a fitness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1213751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler awarded $100,000 NASA grant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1213754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/uttyler-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"UT Tyler awarded $100,000 NASA grant","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 06:03:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/uttyler-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"UT Tyler awarded $100,000 NASA grant","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213753,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213751\/revisions\/1213753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}