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In January 2010, Dr. Michael Kohl, Associate Professor of Physics, received the public announcement by DOE secretary Chu to receive a DOE Early Career Research Award of $794,000 for five years to pursue the proposed experiment TREK at J-PARC, enabling further R&D activities to be carried out locally at HU. All three above grants are based on ARRA funds, summing up to exceed $1.4 Million Dollars.
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In January 2010, Dr. Doyle Temple, Chair and Professor of the Department of Physics at Hampton University received the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and Dominion Resources 2010 Outstanding Faculty Award (OFA).
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In December 2009, Dr. James Russell, Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Science, was awarded $10.5 Million Dollars to continue studies of noctilucent or "night shinning" clouds in space. Dr. Russell is the Principal Investigator of the satellite mission and Co-Director of the Hampton University Center for Atmospheric Sciences.

In December 2009, Dr. Shanta' Hinton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, won 1st Place - Poster and Presentation in Cell Biology - Junior Faculty Division at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology, San Diego, CA.

In August 2009, Dr. Carolyn Morgan, Professor of Mathematics, received over $800,000 in grant funding from the Robert Noyce Teachers Scholarship Program to help prepare STEM undergraduate majors and/or STEM professionals to become K - 12 science teachers.