The Maryland Department of Commerce is joining Johns Hopkins University to study the groundbreaking field of astromycology, or the study of earth-derived fungi in space.
A $2.5 million endowment, raised by private funding and an approved matching grant from the state, will help the institution fund a new research professorship at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The endowment was made through the Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund (MEIF), a state program created to spur basic and applied research in scientific and technical fields at colleges and universities.
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