Research activities which involve more than one member institution, students, and/or females and underrepresented minorities are encouraged by MSGC. Examples of funded research include two Johns Hopkins University students and one student from Pennsylvania State University who were involved with space biomedicine; engineering students from Johns Hopkins and Morgan State University who were part of a team designing a 16-meter UV-visible-IR telescope to be used at a permanent lunar outpost; and an undergraduate student from Morgan State University who analyzed images of a galaxy's planetary nebulae under direction of a Hopkins Professor.