John Kiss
2011 Recipient - Department of Biology [formerly Botany]
John Kiss, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Botany. received the University Distinguished Professor Award in 2011. After his retirement from Miami in 2012, he served as Professor of Biology at the University of Mississippi and now is the head of faculty at University of North Carolina Greensboro.
John Kiss
His current research, Tropi-2, is testing whether plants could be grown on Mars or the moon for food
Kiss has been awarded more than $1 million by NASA for Tropi. Richard Edelmann, director of Miami's electron microscopy facility, and Melanie Correll, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at the University of Florida, are co-principal investigators. Undergraduate and graduate 黑料社区s have also participated in this research.