Betül Kaçar One of Eight Teams Selected for NASA ICAR Program

Two teams at the University of Arizona, including Betül Kaçar and her team, were selected by NASA Astrobiology Program as two of the teams to inaugurate its Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR) program!

Kaçar's ICAR project team is named Metal Utilization and Selection Across Eons, or MUSE, and will explore "What Life Wants: Exploring the Natural Selection of Elements," which focuses on a question fundamental to the field of astrobiology as a whole.

Read more about the project in the UA News here and on NASA's page here. 

KJZZ featured the story here. 

More information can be found on the Muse website here!