{"id":252308,"date":"2025-07-16T22:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=885231"},"modified":"2025-07-16T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:06:51","slug":"nasa-funds-early-career-employee-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=252308","title":{"rendered":"NASA Funds Early Career Employee Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1638\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?w=1638\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Portrait of Sylvie Crowell with an American flag and NASA flag partially shown behind her.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg 3200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?resize=240,300 240w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?resize=768,960 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?resize=819,1024 819w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?resize=1228,1536 1228w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?resize=1638,2048 1638w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?resize=320,400 320w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?resize=480,600 480w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?resize=720,900 720w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?resize=960,1200 960w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/crowell-sylvie-flag-portrait-2025.jpg?resize=1600,2000 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1638px) 100vw, 1638px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Sylvie Crowell <\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\"><strong>Credit:<\/strong> <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sylvie Crowell, a materials researcher at NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has received a NASA Early Career Initiative (ECI) award for a research proposal titled \u201cLunar Dust Reduction through Electrostatic Adhesion Mitigation (L-DREAM).\u201d The research focuses on developing a passive lunar dust mitigation coating for solar cells and thermal control surfaces.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Operated under the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate, the award will fund Crowell\u2019s research in fiscal year 2026, beginning Oct. 1, 2025.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s ECI is a unique opportunity for the best and brightest of NASA\u2019s early career researchers to lead hands-on technology development projects. The initiative aims to invigorate NASA\u2019s technological base and best practices by partnering early career NASA leaders with external innovators.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"nasa-gb-align-center nasa-button-link padding-y-1 padding-x-0 hds-module aligncenter wp-block-nasa-blocks-related-link\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/aerospacefrontiers\/\"  class=\"button-primary button-primary-md link-external-true\" aria-label=\"Return to Newsletter\"><br \/>\n\t\t<span class=\"line-height-alt-1\">Return to Newsletter<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<svg viewBox=\"0 0 32 32\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><circle class=\"button-primary-circle\" cx=\"16\" cy=\"16\" r=\"16\"><\/circle><path d=\"M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z\" class=\"color-spacesuit-white\"><\/path><\/svg><br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvie Crowell, a materials researcher at NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has received a NASA Early Career Initiative (ECI) award for a research proposal titled \u201cLunar Dust Reduction through Electrostatic Adhesion Mitigation (L-DREAM).\u201d The research focuses on developing a passive lunar dust mitigation coating for solar cells and thermal control surfaces.\u00a0 Operated under the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15835],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace-frontiers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252413,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252308\/revisions\/252413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}