Moh El-Naggar, assistant professor of physics at USC Dornsife, is selected to receive the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which comes with a $1 million research award.
The $6.7 million research project led by USC Dornsife’s Jan Amend explores life below the Earth’s surface. The studies are connected to the search for life on Mars and elsewhere in the solar system.
Multicellular bacteria transmit electrons across relatively enormous distances in the sea, according to a new Nature study co-authored by USC Dornsife’s Moh El-Naggar.
Led by Jan Amend of earth sciences and biological sciences, a team of USC Dornsife researchers will study life in Earth’s subsurface biosphere with a $6 million grant from the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Popular Science magazine names USC Dornsife physicist Moh El-Naggar among this year’s Brilliant 10.
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