UTSA Research News

Graduate Resources: Sign up for Pivot Search Engine for Funding Opportunities

August 14, 2017

Use the Pivot search engine at pivot.cos.com to find more funding opportunities. Community of Science (COS) Pivot helps us find new federal, foundation, and nonprofit funding opportunities. Pivot combines the most comprehensive, editorially maintained database of 3 million pre-populated scholar profiles, drawing from Community of Scholars and Community of Science profiles. Click here to create your Pivot Account. Complete the fields and click on Create my Account. Click here to create your Pivot Profile. Click here to begin a search. Step 1: On the main funding opportunities page, ...
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Graduate Resources: Externally Funded Grants and Fellowships for Graduate Students

August 14, 2017

Below is a sampling of recurring external funding opportunities available to graduate students: AAA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships American Anthropological Association Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program American Indian College Fund American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program Archaeological Institute of America Fellowships, Grants, and Scholarships California State University (CSU) Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Chateaubriand Fellowship Department of Homeland Security Nuclear Forensics Graduate Fellowships Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowships Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowships Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships Fulbright Scholar ...
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Congressman Castro Announces $798K for UTSA Earthquake Resilience Research

August 9, 2017

San Antonio, TX (August 8, 2017) – Today, Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) announced $798,892.00 of federal funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to develop a new generation of computer simulation models that will characterize the impact of severe earthquake conditions on reinforced concrete columns. The grants are awarded through the Disaster Resilience (DR) Grants Research Program, which supports research aimed at advancing the ...
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UTSA Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Works Journal is Accepting Submissions

August 4, 2017

The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Works (URSW), a peer-reviewed academic journal, features research abstracts, poster presentations, summary reports, research manuscripts, and other presentation formats highlighting undergraduate creativity and scholarly inquiry from a wide variety of disciplines. It is published annually by the Office of the Vice President for Research at the end of the spring semester. The Journal's editorial board is comprised of faculty from across the academic units of the University, as well as Library and Core ...
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Effort Certification Redesign

July 27, 2017

The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce a new, streamlined process will be used for viewing and certifying your research effort. Benefits include more flexibility; less faculty time; simple to use; free of charge; and all data and responses are time-stamped. The effort certification period for 9/1/2016 – 2/28/2017 is now open. The deadline for submission is Friday, August 11, 2017. New Effort Certification System – How Does it Work? You will not be required to login to ...
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