{"id":7234,"date":"2013-05-06T14:56:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2013-05-06T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:56:32","slug":"nasa-awards-1-8-million-to-ucf-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/nasa-awards-1-8-million-to-ucf-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Awards $1.8 Million to Psychology Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/05\/EduardoSalas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-7236 lazyload\" alt=\"EduardoSalas\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/05\/EduardoSalas-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/05\/EduardoSalas-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/05\/EduardoSalas-144x144.jpg 144w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a>Pegasus Professor and Trustee Chair, Eduardo Salas,\u00a0was selected for two of the 23 awards that NASA\u00a0and the\u00a0National Space Biomedical Research Institute announced for its crew\u00a0health program.\u00a0Proposals were openly solicited from academia, industry and government laboratories and were judged for scientific merit by non-NASA technical experts. The\u00a0issue being\u00a0addressed is astronaut health and performance risks for future space exploration missions. Following external peer review, NASA and NSBRI selected 23 meritorious proposals representing 14 states and 18 institutions. These grants are collectively valued at approximately $17 million over their lifetimes of one to three years.<\/p>\n<p>Salas was the only PI selected for two awards and the only other universities to receive more than one award were Arizona State and Michigan State.\u00a0\u00a0NASA awarded\u00a0Salas a grant for his proposal\u00a0called,\u00a0&#8220;Evidenced-based Metrics Toolkit for Measuring Safety and Efficiency in Human -Automation Systems.&#8221; The second award given by the NSBRI was for his proposal, &#8220;Using Real-Time Lexical Indicators to Detect Performance Decrements in Spaceflight Teams: A Methodology to Dynamically Monitor Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Mechanisms that Influence Performance.&#8221; \u00a0The two awards total $1.8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pegasus Professor and Trustee Chair, Eduardo Salas,\u00a0was selected for two of the 23 awards that NASA\u00a0and the\u00a0National Space Biomedical Research Institute announced for its crew\u00a0health program.\u00a0Proposals were openly solicited from academia, industry and government laboratories and were judged for scientific merit by non-NASA technical experts. 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