Kebede Space Science and Condensed Matter Research and Education Group-KREG©

Academic advising and counseling Evidences are shown for the following activities

1. Developed the Physics A Team (PAT), to motivate my students and to help them succeed in Physics 241 (on going). Please check (http://hoth.ncat.edu/~michael/pat).
2. Advise students in research on/off campus: I have advised several students who are directly involved in my research both on campus and off campus. (on going)
3. Provide all A&T students with information about opportunities in Science Engineering,
4. Developed the Virtual Center for Integration of Research and Learning (on going): I have designed a website that allows students to search for summer internship programs around the Country (on going). (http://hoth.ncat.edu/~michael/reu)
5. Introduce students to role model scientists and fellow students who excel in science research (on going). I maintain a website dedicated to Ron McNair, with the virtual center.
6. Help students organize their resumes, and write letters of recommendations As will be demonstrated several students are being admitted in programs that are related to their fields by writing letters of recommendations, by establishing contacts with the sources, and by encouraging colleagues outside NC A&T to admit our students in their programs (on-going)

Research and Education Funding

1. Project Title: Capacity Building Partnership for Research and Education in Space Science
   Finding Agency: NASA
   Amount: 795,000
   Duration: 01/01/04 - 12/31/06
   
2. Project Title: Research and Education in Actinides and Related Materials Under Extreme Experimental Conditions
   Funding Agency: DOE/ Prairie View A&M University (subcontract)
   Amount: 200,000
   Duration October 2005- October 2006
   
3. Project Title: Research in Nanoscale Science
   Funding Agency: NAFEO-NASA-Ames Research Academy
   Amount $15,000
   Location: NASA-Ames, Moffet Field California
   Duration: Summer 2003
4. Project Title: Electron Transfer Between Metals and Molecules
   Funding Agency: NSF/DOE/NC-LS AMP
   Amount: $12,000
   Location: Brook Haven National Laboratory
   Duration: Summer 2004
   
5. Project Title: Transport, Calorimetric and Magnetic studies of Bismuth-based High Temperature Superconductors
   Source of Support: Office of the Naval Research
   Award Amount: $200,000 Period Covered: 04/15/95-10/31/98
   Location of Project: NC A&T State University
6. Project Title: Physics of Materials Research Initiative at NC A&T State University
   Source of Support: The Regents of the University of California-DOE
   Los Alamos National Laboratory
   Award Amount: $50,000 Period Covered: 09/18/95-08/31/98
   Location of Project: NC A&T State University
   
7. Project Title: A Proposal to Enhance the Research Capability of Physics Majors at NC A&T State University.
   Source of Support: DOE-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
   Award Amount: $5,000 Period Covered: 03/1/95-02/29/96
   Location of Project: NC A&T State University
   
8. Faculty Development Grant: HBCU Workshop on Materials and Material Science Washington, DC October 13-15, 1994
   Source: NC A&T State University, Academic Affairs
   Amount $400
9. Project title: Introductory Astronomy Improvement
   Source of Support: NC A&T Space Grant: Amount: $4000
10. Project title: Introductory Physics Laboratory Improvement.
    Source of Support: N C A&T Foundations: Amount: $600
11. Faculty Development Grant: NSF-MIT Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory
    Source NC A&T: Amount $600

Funded projects as co-Principal Investigator and senior scientist

1. Proposal Title: Southern Consortium for Agbiotech Outreach for Under severed Communities
   Funding Agency: Department of Agriculture
   Requested Amount: 240,000
   Project Duration: 12/01/00-12/01/04
2. Project Title: NIRT: Science and technology of self-assembled magnetic and Superconducting Nano-arrays (Senior Scientist)
   Funding Agency: NSF
   Requested Amount 1,400,000
   Project Duration: 07/15/04 - 07/14/08
3. Project Title: A pulsed Laser Facility for the Synthesis of Novel Surface Engineering and Electronic Ceramic Materials (co-investigator)
   Source of Support: Department of Defense
   Requested Amount: 240,800
   
4. Project Title: Improvement of Undergraduate Laboratories (co-investigator) Source of Support: Department of Education
   Requested Amount: 260,548
   Project Duration: 10/1/99- 9/30/02

   Professional service, synergetic and creative activities

   1. Reviewer of Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B (on going)
   2. Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation (on going)
   3. Proposal Reviewer: United States Civilian Research Foundations
   4. UNC System-wide Undergraduate Research Consortium liaison (on going).
   5. American Physical Society Committee on Minorities in Physics: Minority Speakers List. (on going)
   6. Developed the African Scientific Network (http://hoth.ncat.edu/~michael/asn)
   7. Developed the African Biotechnology Forum (the only forum in the World) (http://hoth.ncat.edu//~michael/biotech)
   8. Developed the African Journal of Physics (http://hoth.ncat.edu/!michael/asn/ajp)
   9. Physics in Africa and International Affairs: Session organizer at National Society of Black Physicists and National Conference of Black Physics Student Joint Conference, March 13-17, 2002 Alabama A&M University, Huntsville AL
   10. Physics for Development, Africa Focus session chair, American Physical Society, March 2003 Meeting, Austin Texas

       Additional Research Activities

       1. NAFEO-NASA Ames Research Academy, Moffet Field, California, Summer 2003
       2. Brook Haven National Laboratory, Brook Haven NY, Summer 2004
       3. Space Weather Weekend, AAMU, Huntsville, Alabama, April 23-24, 2005 (Two students traveled with me)
       4. Summer Space Weather Institute, Boston University, August 1-12, 2005

       Contacts with professional organizations for the past five years

       1. American Physical Society and on program.
       2. National Technical Association, on program.
       3. American Association of Physics Teachers
       4. American Geophysical Union
       5. American Astronomical Society

       Service to the University

       Special grants and programs brought to NC A&T State University (on going)

   11. Capacity Building Partnership for Research and Education in Spaces Science (CB-PRESS): Part of the application of this program is indicated under "special contribution to course and curriculum development". CBPRES is a NASA funded projected aimed at developing space science curriculum and space related research programs. It is a three year $795,000 project. The physics curriculum with concentration in space science is approved by the College of Arts and Sciences
   12. Low Temperature Physics Laboratory This laboratory produces cryogenic temperatures (-272oC), to study the electronic properties of high temperature superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance materials, heavy fermions and Kondo insulators. Currently the laboratory houses state-of -the-art meters, power sources, computers and high grade low temperature inserts worth over $120, 000. Additional funding of $200,000 was obtained from ONR prior to 1999. Recently additional grant $200,000 is expected from the collaboration of NC A&T, Prairie View A&M University and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Further more Mrs. Marsha Walters graduated with MS in physics, and a second student, Ms. Talisha Haywood is in the pipeline. In addition my successful use of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee FL, is creating new opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. These opportunities will be realized in less than a year.
   13. Science on Wheels: Developed a Science on Wheels (SoW) to disseminate the culture of science in schools at all levels (http://hoth.ncat.edu/~michael/SoW)
   14. Virtual Center for Integration of Research and learning For the purpose of collaborative research, teaching and learning I have developed what is called the Virtual Center for Integrating Research and Learning (http://hoth.ncat.edu/~michael/teach)