UTSA Research News

UTSA Open Cloud Institute’s Catalyst Lab offers a cloud computing summer internship program with support from the 80/20 Foundation

June 20, 2019

(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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5th Annual SURF Research Conference expands with additional research and innovation offerings

June 12, 2019

Participants at the 2018 SURF Research Conference at UTSA (June 12, 2019) – Military-minded research collaborators in San Antonio will converge at UTSA this week for the fifth annual San Antonio Military Health System (SAMHS) and Universities Research Forum. The conference takes place Thursday, June 13 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, June 14 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the H-E-B Student Union Ballrooms (HSU 1.104/1.106) on the UTSA Main Campus. Organized with assistance ...
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UTSA Tech Symposium winning team takes home entrepreneurial award at design challenge

May 30, 2019

UTSA students and other teams who participated in the competition. (May 30, 2019) -- The UTSA Tech Symposium winning team recently competed and won in a regional Electrical and Computer Engineering senior design competition sponsored by UT Dallas. Presented by Würth Elektronik, the inaugural ExCEllence in Senior Design showcase brought the top-rated university design teams in the southwest to face off against one other and be judged on their design accomplishments and presentations. Each school could only ...
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Congressman Hurd visits the UTSA National Security Collaboration Center

May 28, 2019

(May 24, 2019) – United States Congressman Will Hurd, representing the 23rd Texas district, came to UTSA today to visit the National Security Collaboration Center (NSCC). The NSCC is host to government, university and industry partners working together to support our nation's defense, security and intelligence ecosystems by providing state-of-the-art facilities, research capabilities and competencies where partners can collaborate to create innovative solutions for our nation's most difficult challenges; further developing a highly competent and accessible workforce for the national security enterprise. Hurd is the first member to serve ...
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Texas House lauds UTSA with cybersecurity resolution

May 20, 2019

(May 17, 2019) -- The Texas House of Representatives today introduced a resolution recognizing UTSA for its role as one of the nation’s leaders in cybersecurity education, research and training. House Resolution 1456 also recognized UTSA’s deep partnership with the Texas Department of Information Resources, the state agency responsible for ensuring the integrity, availability and confidentiality of the information assets of Texas government and public educational institutions. >> Read the resolution. UTSA is home to the No. 1 cybersecurity program ...
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