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DARPA Forward: Advancing the Horizons of National Security, a regional conference at Texas A&M University, will close in-person registration  on Friday, Nov. 4, at 4 p.m. Central.
No walk-ins will be accepted during the conference. Organizers also reserve the right to close registration early if DARPA Forward reaches its capacity.
Registration for virtual attendance will end on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at 4 p.m. Central.
DARPA Forward will be held Nov. 15-16, 2022, at the Texas A&M Hotel & Conference Center. The conference is one of six regional events presented by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at major research universities across the United States during 2022.
General attendance is $350 for the two-day conference, $275 for faculty, researchers, students and other academic representatives as well as for Defense Department employees. Participants may also attend virtually for $25 per conference event.
DARPA Director Stephanie Tompkins will provide opening remarks.
The conference will include presentations, demonstrations, briefings and panel discussions as well as networking events. Representatives from DARPA, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Department of Defense, private companies and major U.S. research universities including Texas A&M will be featured.
The conference has set aside a room block at the Texas A&M Hotel & Conference Center. Reservations are due by Thursday, Sept. 29.
Parking discounts are also available.
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In partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Commercial Strategy Office, Texas A&M University will host the Accelerating Innovation and Transition with DARPA, a half-day regional workshop at the Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022.
The workshop takes place the day before DARPA Forward: Advancing the Horizons of National Security, a regional conference set for Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 15-16, 2022, at the Texas A&M Hotel & Conference Center.
DARPA’s Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Small Business Programs Office seek to connect with new communities of talent and regional innovation ecosystems to explore opportunities for strategic transition of DARPA-funded research and technology.
Participants will hear from accomplished innovators, creative entrepreneurs and senior commercial advisors as they provide the latest information on—and opportunities for—commercialization of break-through, DARPA-funded research that supports U.S. national and economic security.
Registration ends Monday, Oct. 31, 2022.
Following the workshop, the Texas A&M University System will host a fajita buffet lunch at the RELLIS Campus, 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. The event will offer tours of:
Registration for the lunch and tours will close on Friday, Nov. 7, 2022.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) presented its High Impact High Risk Award to Feng Tao, professor in Texas A&M University’s School of Dentistry in Dallas, the Division of Research announced today.
The $237,500 grant is among 24 new statewide awards that CPRIT recently announced totaling $49 million to support cancer research in Texas. The Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) received the grant, which will support a project titled, “A glia-to-neuron conversion for treating oral cancer pain.”
The project aims to develop a novel approach to chronic oral cancer pain using a cell conversion strategy. This strategy converts one type of cell (glia) into another cell type (neurons) to help alleviate the symptoms caused by damaged or loss of neurons. If successful, the therapeutic approach may be applied to the treatment of other cancer pain as well.
CPRIT was created by the Texas Legislature and approved by a statewide vote in 2007 to lead the Lone Star State’s fight against cancer. In 2019, Texas voters again voted overwhelmingly to continue CPRIT with an additional $3 billion for a total $6 billion investment in cancer research and prevention.
To date, the agency has awarded more than $3 billion in grants to Texas research institutions and organizations through its academic research, prevention and product development research programs. CPRIT has also recruited more than 281 distinguished researchers to Texas, supported the establishment, expansion or relocation of 52 companies to Texas and generated over $7.66 billion in additional public and private investment.
Funding approved by the CPRIT Oversight Committee has advanced scientific and clinical knowledge and provided more than 8.2 million life-saving cancer prevention and early detection services to Texans in all 254 counties.
Five postdoctoral researchers received awards for flash talks or poster presentations during Texas A&M University’s Sixth Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium.
Thirty-five postdocs presented their research to 125 peers, faculty and staff from 12 colleges and schools.
Held at the Memorial Student Center in mid-September to observe National Postdoc Appreciation Week, the symposium awarded honors in two categories:
Outstanding Flash Talks
Outstanding Poster Presentations
“We are very pleased with the broad participation and high number of attendees from across Texas A&M campuses,” said Andreea Trache, faculty fellow for the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Division of Research, and associate professor, School of Medicine. “This annual event showcases the postdoctoral scholars’ contribution to the research enterprise at Texas A&M, and the quality of the presentations reflected their professionalism.”
Speakers for the symposium included Gerianne Alexander, associate vice president for research, Division of Research; Henry Fadamiro, associate dean for research, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Jeff Sammons, associate executive director, Texas A&M Energy Institute; and keynote speaker Tricia Serio, provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Postdoctoral associations from Texas A&M University, Texas A&M Health and the School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences organized and coordinated the symposium in collaboration with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Division of Research; the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, School of Medicine; and the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.
Registration is now open for DARPA Forward: Advancing the Horizons of National Security, a regional conference set for Tuesday and Wednesday, November 15-16, 2022, at the Texas A&M Hotel & Conference Center.
“DARPA Forward offers an outstanding opportunity for Texas A&M faculty, researchers and students to build strong relationships with high-level representatives from the nation’s defense sector,” says Vice President for Research Jack G. Baldauf. “We encourage all interested members of the Texas A&M research community to participate in this major event.”
The conference is one of six regional events presented by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at major research universities across the United States during 2022.
DARPA Director Stephanie Tompkins is scheduled to provide opening remarks.
The conference will include presentations, demonstrations, briefings and panel discussions as well as networking events. Representatives from DARPA, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Department of Defense, private companies and major U.S. research universities, including Texas A&M University will be featured.
The Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University revealed its largest class of new Hagler Fellows during a reception at the Memorial Student Center on Monday, Sept. 19.
The Class of 2022-23 includes 14 Hagler Fellows — including a Nobel Prize laureate — plus one Hagler Distinguished Lecturer. This 11th class includes scientists, engineers and scholars who are recognized internationally for their achievements. Each belongs to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, or holds recognitions of equal stature in their field.
The new class eclipses the high mark of 13 new Hagler Fellows set by the institute’s Class of 2015-16.
“Entering its second decade, the Hagler Institute continues to have an extraordinary impact on the Texas A&M research community by attracting yet another class of outstanding new Fellows,” Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp said. “Working in tandem with the Chancellor’s Research Initiative, the institute continues to shape the future of Texas A&M by attracting the world’s brightest minds to our campus and—in many cases—adding them to the ranks of our exceptional permanent faculty.”
The fellows will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students across multiple campuses, colleges, schools, institutes, units and agencies within the Texas A&M research enterprise.
“The Hagler Institute has established a track record of attracting some of the world’s greatest academic talent to Texas A&M,” said John L. Junkins, founding director of the Hagler Institute. “Each of these individuals have made a difference in the world and they will bring their energies to making a difference on our campus.”
The institute selects its Hagler Fellows from among top scholars who have distinguished themselves through outstanding professional accomplishments and significant recognition.
Previous classes of Hagler Fellows have included three Nobel laureates, a Wolf Prize recipient, a recipient of the Hubble Medal in Literature for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, an awardee of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, a two-time recipient of the State Prize of Russia and a recipient of both the National Humanities Medal and the Johan Skytte Prize, the most prestigious award in political science.
The Hagler Institute will induct the Class of 2022-23 during its annual gala in February 2023:
Guy Bertrand, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego — Bertrand is known for the discovery of stable carbenes-divalent carbon species. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europea and the French Academy of Technology. Bertrand will collaborate with faculty and students in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Hui Cao, John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University — Cao is recognized for her pioneering works in fundamental physics and practical applications of complex, chaotic and disordered systems. She is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Cao will collaborate with researchers in the Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering.
John Michael Cullen, Distinguished Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University – Cullen specializes in veterinary pathology and toxicologic pathology of the liver. He is a fellow in the International Academy of Toxicologic Pathologists and a diplomate and distinguished member of the American College of Veterinary Pathology.  He will collaborate with faculty-researchers and residents in the School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory.
Odile Eisenstein, director de Recherche CNRS Emeritus at the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, CTMM group Universite de Montpellier and Hylleraas Center for Quantum Molecular Science, University of Oslo (Norway) – Eisenstein is known best for computational studies of structure, bounding and reactivity in inorganic and organometallic chemistry and their application to problems in catalysis and bioinorganic and materials chemistry. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Eisenstein will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the College of Arts & Sciences, the Laboratory of Molecular Simulation, High Performance Research Computing and Advanced Computing Enablement.
Dimitar Filev, Henry Ford Technical Fellow, Ford Research and Innovation Center – Well known for his research in computational intelligence, artificial intelligence and intelligent control and their applications to autonomous driving, vehicle systems and automotive engineering, Filev is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the College of Engineering and across the university.
Howard Frumkin, senior vice president, the Trust for Public Land and professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health – Frumkin is a leading researcher in planetary health, health and nature and environmental health. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and is a fellow in the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Collegium Ramazzini. Frumkin will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the School of Public Health.
Sebastian “Bas” Jonkman, professor and holder of the Integral Hydraulic Engineering Chair, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands – Known as a world expert on hydraulic structures and flood risk, Jonkman led Dutch efforts on the feasibility design of the Texas A&M-coordinated work on the coastal spine (Ike Dike) project. He is a member of the Dutch Royal Society of Engineering.  He will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students at Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) and the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas.
Mark O’Malley, Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems, Imperial College London – O’Malley is a globally recognized expert on wind energy systems integration into smart grids. He is an international member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the European Academies Science Advisory Council Energy Steering Panel. O’Malley is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Institution of Engineering Technology and the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. He will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the College of Engineering.
Lawrence Que Jr., Regents Professor, University of Minnesota – Que is known for his work in understanding how non-heme iron centers activate oxygen to carry out a diverse array of metabolically important reactions. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow in the American Chemical Society. He will collaborate with faculty and students in the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, professor, Department of Global Studies and Geography, Hofstra University — Rodrigue is a leading transportation geographer covering mobility, freight distribution, containerization, logistics and transport terminals (particularly ports). He is a board member of the University Transportation Research Center, Region II, City University of New York and is a lead member of the PortEconomics.eu initiative as well as of the International Association of Maritime Economics. He will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students at TAMUG and the College of Engineering.
Donald L. Sparks, Francis Alison Professor and holder of the S. Hallock du Pont Chair in Soil and Environmental Chemistry, University of Delaware – Sparks’ research is cross-disciplinary, contributing not only to the field of soil science, but also to geochemistry, environmental chemistry and environmental engineering. Sparks is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Geochemical Society of America and the European Association of Geochemistry.  He will collaborate with researchers and students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Madhavi Sunder, Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property, Georgetown Law Center – Sunder is an internationally recognized scholar in copyright, technology and trademark law. Her groundbreaking work built the foundation for understanding intellectual property’s social effects and its role in crafting cultural relations. Sunder, according to the Stanford Law Review, has been recognized for writing one of the 20 Top Most Cited IP Articles of the Decade as well as the Most Cited International IP Article of the Decade. Sunder will collaborate with faculty and students at the School of Law and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Michael Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics, Rockefeller University – With two colleagues, Young received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with multiple other honors) for discoveries related to molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythms. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and an honorary member of the Physiological Society of London. Young will collaborate with researchers in the College of Arts & Sciences as well as other disciplines across the university.
David Zilberman, professor and holder of the Robinson Chair, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley – Zilberman is best known for his work in agricultural and environmental policy; the economics of innovation and risk; and water, biotechnology and climate change. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Art.  He will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as well as across campus.
In addition, the institute announced one Hagler Distinguished Lecturer for 2022-23:
Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University – Dulac’s work explores the molecular biology of pheromone detection and signaling in mammals, the neural mechanisms underlying age-, species-, and sex-specific behaviors, and the role of genomic imprinting in the developing and adult brain. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, Institute of France, and a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. Dulac will collaborate with faculty, researchers and students in the College of Arts & Science, the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.
Funded by Texas A&M University’s Division of Research, the Arts & Humanities Fellows Program has released its third series of animated shorts. This year’s animated showcase presents the outstanding scholarship and creativity of the program’s Class of 2017.
Each animated short describes a research or creative project supported by a three-year grant of $15,000 from the Arts & Humanities Fellows Program. Recognized for their creativity and scholarly value, these projects were the third group to receive funding from the program. The videos also are available in the 2022 issue of the digital magazine research@Texas A&M…the magazine.
“Texas A&M is committed to investing in the arts and humanities,” Vice President for Research Jack G. Baldauf said. “Our Arts & Humanities Fellows Program is the result of that ongoing commitment. This engaging series of brief-but-memorable videos illustrates the extraordinary scholarship of our 2017 Arts & Humanities Fellows.”
The third in a series of animated shorts, produced by Research Communications and Public Relations, feature the following Arts & Humanities Fellows and their funded projects:
The Arts & Humanities Fellows Program plans to release animated shorts about the classes of 2019-21 as well as future classes.
Infectious-disease experts from 18 U.S. federal agencies and academic institutions met here last week to discuss working together to combat the viruses, bacteria and other emerging pathogens that threaten the nation’s agricultural economy, food supply, wildlife and public health.
The workshop marked the first membership meeting of RAV3N—Research Alliance for Veterinary Science and Biodefense BSL-3 Network—a national network of biosafety level-3 labs engaged in biodefense research for infectious animal diseases. RAV3N receives funding support from the USDA. Texas A&M University’s Global Health Research Complex (GHRC) serves as the network’s headquarters.
“Our workshop focused primarily on determining how the federal and academic labs across the United States can cooperate to improve our ability to detect and respond to emerging pathogens,” GHRC Director Kurt Zuelke said. “We also considered how to improve the development of countermeasures that will help slow or stop the spread of these pathogens and the diseases they cause.”
RAV3N formed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, which delayed the group’s first meeting until Aug. 23-25, 2022. Representatives from all 18 members attended the three-day workshop, 15 in-person and three virtually.
Membership in RAV3N includes six labs belonging to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and two of its agencies, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS): the USDA National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Kansas; the USDA-ARS National Animal Disease Center and the USDA-APHIS National Veterinary Services Laboratories, both in Iowa; the USDA-APHIS Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Iowa and New York; the USDA-ARS Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit in New York; the USDA-APHIS National Wildlife Research Center in Colorado; and the USDA-ARS Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory in Georgia.
Federal-level membership also includes the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York; the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology in Georgia; the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin; and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana.
In addition to the GHRC at Texas A&M, academic membership includes the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch; the Plant and Animal Agrosecurity Research Facility at The Ohio State University; the Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research at the University of Missouri; the Biosecurity Research Institute at Kansas State University; the Infectious Disease Research Center at Colorado State University; and the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Boston University.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded three grants totaling $11.3 million to Texas A&M University and its agencies, the Division of Research announced today. The grants are among 74 new statewide awards totaling more than $112 million that CPRIT recently announced in Austin.
Texas A&M and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) will use their grants to recruit two outstanding researchers. The third grant will expand a screening program for colorectal cancer through Texas A&M Health.
“CPRIT’s support through the citizens of the state of Texas has positioned Texas and the Texas A&M research enterprise to tackle significant health issues impacting our country,” Interim Vice President for Research Jack G. Baldauf said. “The addition of these two scholars, along with the expansion of a proven cancer-screening program, are just the latest examples of CPRIT’s ongoing commitment to expedite innovation in cancer research and prevention strategies.”
In the category of Recruitment Grants, TEES will receive $5.9 million to hire Vanderlei Bagnato, professor, Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Bagnato becomes the first South American scholar recruited by a Texas university on a CPRIT grant. Bagnato was a Hagler Fellow, Class of 2018-19, at Texas A&M’s Hagler Institute for Advanced Study.