AUGUST 3, 2021 — The UTSA Knowledge Enterprise (REDKE) has awarded its annual seed grants to cultivate innovation on campus. Thirty-two faculty members received $555,000 to spark new research projects or advance current programs through the discovery process. The funding mechanisms are the long-established UTSA Research seed grant programs which include GREAT, INTRA and Connect. The Transdisciplinary Teams Program (T2), awarded with the Provost’s Office, increased its reach this year by supporting five cross-discipline and cross-college research teams. The Brain Health ...
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AUGUST 12, 2021 — The University of Texas at San Antonio and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are collaborating to combine two catalytic processes into a single reactor, with the overall goal of recycling carbon from CO2 to produce low-cost hydrocarbon fuels. The work, led by Grant Seuser of SwRI’s Powertrain Engineering Division and Gary Jacobs of UTSA’s College of Engineering and Integrated Design, is supported by a $125,000 grant from the Connecting through Research Partnerships (Connect) Program. Greenhouse gas emissions are expected to increase by about 17% ...
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AUGUST 11, 2021 — The spread of misinformation through social media and other channels continues to affect COVID-19 vaccine confidence. Opinions, rumors, myths, and falsehoods have risen where there are information gaps or unsettled science, as the public tries to better understand what’s fact and what’s fiction. To address this persistent problem and answer questions that members of the community may currently have about the coronavirus, UTSA will host a live interactive webinar titled Variants and Vaccines: Separating Fact from Fiction ...
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AUGUST 10, 2021 — Maegen Nix from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) recently met with the UTSA National Security Collaboration Center faculty, staff, and industry partners to discuss and share their complementary research in critical infrastructure resilience and cyber operations. Though renowned globally for its national health mission and its school of public health, the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is the research arm of the institution and is a designated University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). It has a diversified ...
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AUGUST 10, 2021 — The University of Texas at San Antonio and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are collaborating to create a computer model of the intricate structures of the human heart as part of a larger effort to develop a new, potentially life-saving heart surgery. The work, led by Keith Bartels of SwRI’s Mechanical Engineering Division and Hai-Chao Han of UTSA’s College of Engineering and Integrated Design, is supported by a $125,000 grant from the Connecting through Research Partnerships (Connect) Program. Within the human heart are numerous ...
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