BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky, Aug. 28 -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news: * * * WKU Professor Awarded NSF EMBRACE-EAR Grant We are excited to share that Dr. Nahid Gani, Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS), has been awarded a National Science Foundation EMBRACE-EAR Grant to launch a pilot project on advanced prospectivity mapping for critical minerals in California's Mojave Desert, a USGS priority area, at WKU's Lands  more