Earlier this year, MSU received a $6.5 million, five-year grant from NASA to create the Astrobiology and Biogeocatalysis Research Center.
The Montana Board of Regents is being asked to formally approve of the creation of the center at its meeting starting today in Bozeman.
The MSU center will be one of 16 units of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, said John Peters, a MSU professor of chemistry and biochemistry and the director of the new center.
By MARY PICKETT, Billings Gazette
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