Sponsored by the UTSA Office of the Vice President for Research, Economic Development, and Knowledge Enterprise (VPREDKE) and the Executive Office at SwRI, the annual Connecting through Research Partnerships Program (Connect) is a grant opportunity offered to enhance greater scientific collaboration between the two institutions and to increase both their research-funding base with cross-campus collaborative programs. Effective September 1, 2019 through to August 31, 2020, two teams were awarded $250,000, each project receiving $125,000.  The two collaborative projects focus on (1) ...
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In addition to pursuing and securing cooperative agreements and grants for UTSA, Guy Walsh will be an integral player in establishing San Antonio as the nation’s top producer of research and workforce talent in data intelligence and cybersecurity. (July 10, 2019) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) today announced the selection of U.S. Air Force (USAF) Brigadier General (Ret.) Guy M. Walsh as the founding executive director of its National Security Collaboration Center (NSCC). The NSCC, a core ...
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(July 1, 2019) – The Office of the Vice President for Research, Economic Development, and Knowledge Enterprise (VPREDKE) offers a variety of internal funding, specifically seed grants, to support and expand the knowledge enterprise. These awards are given annually to faculty members to explore new areas of research, expand scholarly works, work out new ideas, create new collaborations either in different or complementary fields, or obtain preliminary data and results that can be cited in applications for extramural funding, all ...
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(June 26, 2019) – Once again, The University of Texas System (UT System) earned a top spot on the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents for 2018 and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) played a key role in the designation. UT System was ranked fifth this year and was the highest-ranked Texas institution on the list. Rounding out the top five rankings were the University of California System, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and ...
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(June 20, 2019) – The UTSA Open Cloud Institute has launched the Catalyst Lab, its summer fellowship program in partnership with the 80/20 Foundation. The program matches highly skilled UTSA graduate students in engineering, computing and scientific fellowships with local tech companies in the San Antonio region. Last year, a small pilot was launched with a student interning at FileStack, a locally-based content platform and developer service for file uploading, all part of the Scaleworks portfolio of companies. After a successful internship, he now works ...
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