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Melissa Motichek
Headquarters, Washington     February 4, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1141)

RELEASE: 03-046

NASA ANNOUNCES RESEARCH GRANTS IN FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

     NASA has selected 14 researchers to receive grants totaling more 
than $5.2 million over four years to conduct fundamental physics 
research on Earth and in space. This research will seek knowledge that 
will expand understanding of space, time and matter.

Sponsored by NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research, the 
research offers investigators the advantage of a low-gravity and space 
environment to enhance understanding of physical, biological and 
chemical processes associated with fundamental physics.

Eight of these grants are to continue work currently being funded by 
NASA, and six represent new research. Researchers will use NASA's 
microgravity research facilities such as drop-tubes, drop-towers, 
aircraft flying parabolic trajectories, and sounding rockets.

NASA received 51 proposals in response to the research announcement in 
this area. The proposals were peer reviewed by scientific and 
technical experts from academia and government. A list of awardees (by 
state), their institutions, and research titles is available on the
Internet at:

http://www.nasa.gov/news/physics_grants_bb.030204.html

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