Yongli Gao’s student research team performs research at the Cibolo Preserve. (September 17, 2018) -- The UTSA Vice President for Research, Economic Development, and Knowledge Enterprise (VPREDKE) and the Cibolo Preserve have renewed their research collaboration master agreement for another five years. Cibolo Preserve, a Texas charitable foundation/nonprofit, allows UTSA faculty, staff and students the controlled access to observe, instruct and conduct research per an application and vetting process managed by the VPREDKE. The Cibolo Preserve, originally established ...
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As students and faculty settle in to a new semester, two entrepreneurial teams from UTSA are packing up and heading out to travel the country and discover who their potential customers are. The recipients of two $50,000 awards from the National Science Foundation are Gold Hood, for her team’s insect control device, and Amir Jafari, for his team’s treadmill with adjustable surface stiffness. They have been accepted in the San Diego- and Atlanta-based cohorts, respectively. For two months beginning in ...
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UT System Board of Regents authorizes $70 million for construction of facilities. Sept. 6, 2018) -- UTSA has received a $70 million commitment from The University of Texas System Board of Regents for construction of two new facilities at its Downtown Campus for a National Security Collaboration Center and a proposed School of Data Science. The funding, approved today by Regents and designated from the Permanent University Fund, significantly advances UTSA President Taylor Eighmy’s vision of creating new academic and research initiatives ...
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(September 1, 2018) -- The UTSA Office for Research Support (ORS), part of the Vice President for Research, Economic Development, and Knowledge Enterprise (VPREDKE), awarded its annual seed grants (INTRA, GREAT, Connect, and SALSI) to 33 UTSA faculty members and seven external collaborators to fund innovative ideas. More than $495,000 was given, along with another $325,000 from our research partners, to fund 32 projects from a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from college access to sustainable lighting, from climate politics ...
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(Aug. 7, 2018) -- Researchers from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are using unique DNA-based tracers to characterize the recharge and flow patterns in the Edwards Aquifer. The work, led by Vikram Kapoor of the UTSA College of Engineering and Ronald Green of SwRI’s Space Science and Engineering Division, is supported by a $125,000 grant from the organizations’ Connecting through Research Partnerships (Connect) Program. The Edwards Aquifer is the primary source of drinking water ...
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