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The eight
projects shared $7 million in funding during the first round. They represent 81
faculty members and other researchers from eight colleges, four schools and two
state agencies—Agriculture and Life Sciences, Architecture, Education and Human
Development, Engineering, Geosciences, Liberal Arts, Medicine and Science; Mays
Business School, the School of Law, the School of Public Health and the Bush
School of Government and Public Service; as well as the Texas A&M
Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and Texas A&M AgriLife Research.
The event
requires no registration and is open to the public at no charge.
The X-Grants
presentations are scheduled as follows:
The
symposium starts at 10:30 a.m. with a welcome from A&M President Michael K.
Young and a keynote speech from Cecelia Conrad, managing director of the John
T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation. At noon, teams that received
first-round funding from the T3:
Texas A&M Triads for Transformation program will present their project updates during a
poster session in Room 1011 B and C of the conference center.
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) today named six faculty members
from Texas A&M University to its inaugural class of NAI Senior Members.
They are among 66 academic inventors selected for the honor.
NAI Senior
Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators from NAI member institutions
with success in patents, licensing and commercialization. They have produced
technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare
of society.
“Congratulations to our faculty members who have been elected to this
first class of NAI Senior Members,” Mark A. Barteau, vice president for
research and NAI Fellow, said.  “This
recognition pays tribute to their knowledge, skill and talent as well as to the
role that Texas A&M plays in encouraging and nurturing research and
innovations from start to finish. Together, these faculty members and Texas
A&M are making the world a better place for all of us.”
The six NAI Senior Members from Texas A&M are:
This
inaugural class of NAI Senior Members represents 37 research universities and
research institutes. Their names appear on more than 1,100 issued U.S. patents.
 A full list of NAI Senior Members is
available on the NAI website.
The National
Academy of Inventors is a member organization comprising U.S. and international
universities, and governmental and non-profit research institutes, with more
than 4,000 individual inventor members and fellows spanning more than 250
institutions worldwide. It was founded in 2010 at the University of South
Florida to recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office, enhance the visibility of academic technology and
innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate and
mentor innovative students and translate the inventions of its members to
benefit society.
The Division
of Research at Texas A&M University and the São Paulo Research Foundation
(FAPESP) today announced joint funding to support five research collaborations
between A&M faculty members and their peers at universities in the state of
São Paulo, Brazil.
Since 2017, FAPESP
and Texas A&M have worked under a cooperative agreement that established
the SPRINT (São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration) grant program,
which offers funding to initiate collaborative projects in scientific research
and technological development. FAPESP is an independent public foundation with a
mission to foster research as well as scientific and technological development in
São Paulo.
Each SPRINT grant
includes $10,000 to the Texas A&M faculty member and $10,000 to their counterpart
in São Paulo:
The SPRINT
program released its latest Call for Proposals on Jan. 29. A workshop is
scheduled for Feb. 13, 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Jack K. Williams
Administration Building, Room 310, on the Texas A&M campus. Proposals are
due April 29. Detail are available online at https://vpr.tamu.edu/fapesp.
Texas
A&M University has signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding with the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a Federally Funded Research and Development
Center managed by the California Institute of Technology, to promote and
encourage collaboration between the institutions, Texas A&M’s Division of
Research announced today.
Texas
A&M and JPL will cooperate under the laboratory’s Strategic University
Research Partnerships program, which reflects JPL’s commitment to work with the
academic community to accomplish the nation’s space exploration goals. JPL serves
as an important resource for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) in support of deep space systems, especially for development of planetary
science missions and supporting technology. Texas A&M and JPL will develop
specific plans for collaborative activities, with joint reviews held
periodically to assess the progress and effectiveness of collaborative efforts.
Vice
President for Research Mark A. Barteau said, “This agreement recognizes Texas
A&M as a leader in education and research in science, technology and
engineering. This collaboration will have a special focus on research
collaborations as well as graduate and undergraduate student involvement in
science and engineering fields of mutual interest. We look forward to working
closely with JPL and its researchers to advance space science and exploration.”
Under
the agreement, JPL and Texas A&M intend to:
The
memorandum acknowledges Texas A&M’s colleges of engineering and science for
their strengths in the areas of satellites, space propulsion, re-entry,
guidance, navigation, and control, space situational awareness, materials
science and technology essential to space research. The document also
recognizes the College of Geosciences as a leader in geophysics and for its
hosting of the National Science Foundation’s International Ocean Discovery
Program. Furthermore, the agreement says, Texas A&M has demonstrated a
strong commitment to strengthening the diverse research and educational
foundations (including K-12 science education and underrepresented populations)
needed to achieve U.S. goals in space science and exploration.
Clarivate Analytics has named 10 faculty-researchers from Texas A&M University to its Highly Cited Researchers list for 2018. The annual list identifies influential researchers from around the world who are recognized by their peers in the form of high citation counts over a decade.
“The A&M
researchers who qualified for this year’s list represent the scope of the Texas
A&M research enterprise, from science and engineering to business and
liberal arts,” Vice President for Research Mark A. Barteau said. “We are proud
of their accomplishments as well as those of our many other outstanding
researchers who contribute every day to advancing human knowledge and to improving
society and the world around us.”
This is the
fifth year Clarivate Analytics has published its Highly Cited Researchers list,
which recognizes 4,058 researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social
sciences. According to the list, the 10 faculty-researchers from Texas A&M
are:
The second round of T3: Texas
A&M Triads for Transformation has closed, providing $3
million in seed funding for 100 innovative and interdisciplinary research
projects, each led by a three-member team of Texas A&M University
faculty-researchers, the Division of Research announced today.
Funded projects include research investigating or improving
renewable energy, biodiversity, evacuation planning, virtual reality, suicide
prevention, space habitats, climate modeling, cyber security, autonomous
vehicles, ethics in the laboratory, energy storage and market efficiency.
A complete list of funded Round Two projects is available
online at t3.tamu.edu.
Vice President for Research Mark A. Barteau said, “The T3
program stimulates our faculty to think beyond disciplinary boundaries and to
tackle projects that require a wide range of knowledge and expertise. The
process of posting ideas and forming Triads has already nucleated new
collaborations that reach across the boundaries of colleges and schools,
attracting unexpected collaborators and forging dynamic relationships among
them.”
Round Two of the T3 program began in September 2018, and
closed in early December 2018.
Of the 300 faculty members funded in T3’s Round Two, 107 are
assistant professors. In addition, 83 funded projects received graduate tuition
supplements while 82 received undergraduate salary supplements. By comparison,
Round One in the fall of 2017 funded 97 assistant professors while providing
tuition supplements for 81 graduate students and salary supplements for 75
undergraduates.
Funded Triads in both Rounds One and Two included faculty
members from each of Texas A&M’s 16 colleges and schools, University
Libraries and the branch campuses in Galveston and Qatar.
T3, an initiative of the ten-year, $100 million President’s
Excellence Fund, invests $3 million each year in 100 faculty-led projects at
$30,000 each.  Additional funds are available to support undergraduate and
graduate student researchers. Funded projects are designed for completion
within 12 to 24 months.
Each year, the T3 program invites all of Texas A&M’s tenured
or tenure-track faculty to submit project ideas, which are posted online for
all eligible A&M faculty members to review. To qualify for funding, a
project leader must attract two other faculty-researchers to form a Triad,
which must include members from at least two different A&M colleges or
schools. A semi-random process then selects 100 projects for funding from the
pool of qualified Triads; this process is weighted toward Triads that include
at least one assistant professor.
Photos by Butch Ireland
Texas A&M University formally launched the Human Behavior Laboratory, which its founders say is the largest and fastest behavioral biometrics lab in the world, with an open house on Nov. 16.
The new core facility will use advanced technology to collect data on human responses to support research in a wide range of disciplines, including economics, marketing, entrepreneurship, leadership, computer science, nutrition, conflict resolution, group dynamics, education, financial planning, sociology, and political science.
During the open house, researchers and technicians gave demonstrations of the lab’s technology, which includes eye tracking, facial-expression analysis, galvanic skin response, and neural-signal scanning.
Earlier in the day, the lab hosted a lecture on neuro-economics by Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics, California Institute of Technology.
Marco A. Palma, professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, serves as the lab’s director.
Affiliated faculty include scholars from the colleges of liberal arts, engineering, agriculture and life sciences, and education and human development, as well as the School of Public Heath, the Mays Business School, and the Bush School of Government and Public Service.
The Human Behavior Laboratory received a substantial grant from the Research Development Fund, which is administered by the Division of Research.
Image: 18percentgrey Photography / Shutterstock.com
Texas A&M University continues to rank among the top 20 among all U.S. research universities and in the top 10 among U.S. public research universities, based on total annual research and development expenditures for fiscal year 2017, according to the latest survey from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
In NSF’s Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey released on Nov. 20, Texas A&M ranked 19th among all U.S. research universities, based on total expenditures of more than $905.4 million during fiscal year 2017.
“To see that we are leading in Texas is extremely rewarding because it means we are fulfilling our mission of service to the state by conducting life-changing research and growing the economy,” Texas A&M President Michael K. Young said. “When funding agencies such as the NSF put their faith into our students, faculty and staff, we know that means our research efforts are truly bettering the lives of Texans and people all across the world. Congratulations to everyone whose imagination, ingenuity and expertise have contributed to this superb ranking.”
Among other Texas-based universities ranked in the top 50, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center moved from 19th to 21st on the latest survey with $888 million; The University of Texas at Austin from 34th to 35th with $652 million; and the Baylor College of Medicine remained at 39th with $604.9 million. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center stayed at 52nd with $461.7 million.
The NSF ranked Texas A&M tenth among U.S. public research universities.
“Texas A&M University’s ranking is a reflection of our fearless commitment to solve grand, complex global challenges and make meaningful impacts that advance knowledge,” Provost and Executive Vice President Carol A. Fierke said. “We are pleased to be the only institution in Texas ranked in the Top 20 for research expenditures, and we will continue to pursue high quality research and compete with the nation’s foremost research institutions for grants.”
“Our mission as a land-grant, research-driven university is to discover and develop solutions to the large-scale problems that challenge society and our planet,” Vice President for Research Mark A. Barteau said. “Our strategic investment in campus infrastructure will continue to bolster faculty engagement in these interdisciplinary challenges and to grow our research enterprise in size, scope and impact.”
The NSF survey for fiscal year 2017 provides a census of 903 degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States, each with a minimum budget of at least $150,000 in research and development expenditures. The latest survey found that U.S. universities recorded a total of $75.3 billion in research and development expenditures in fiscal 2017, an increase of 4.7 percent from fiscal year 2016’s total of $71.9 billion.
Johns Hopkins University led the latest survey with $2.56 billion in expenditures, followed by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with $1.53 billion and the University of California, San Francisco, with $1.40 billion.
Below is a link to NSF’s Higher Education R&D Expenditures for FY 2017 ranked by total R&D expenditures and by R&D field: https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2017/html/herd2017_dst_22.html.
Video: KBTX
For its Pet Talk segment on October 22, 2018, KBTX-TV News in Bryan-College Station spoke to Kate Creevy, associate professor, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, and lead veterinarian for Texas A&M University’s Dog Aging Project. Creevy discussed the second phase of a clinical trial in dogs that is testing Rapamycin, a drug shown in laboratories to enhance healthful aging in mice and rats.
Chris Saski at Clemson and David Stelly at Texas A&M are helping farmers around the world meet the growing demand for renewable fiber, oil, and fuel by better understanding the genetics of cotton.
Steve Kresovich at Clemson and Bill Rooney at Texas A&M are tackling global hunger and nutrition. They use genetic analysis to identify strains of sorghum and other grains that produce more nutritious, higher-yield crops.
Steve Miller at Clemson and Nicholas Davis at Texas A&M are informing critical national conversations about race and politics to increase understanding and tolerance.
Eight interdisciplinary research projects will share $7 million in funding during the first round of Texas A&M University’s X-Grants program, an initiative of the 10-year, $100 million President’s Excellence Fund, the university announced today.
The funded projects represent 81 faculty members and other researchers from eight colleges—Agriculture and Life Sciences, Architecture, Education and Human Development, Engineering, Geosciences, Liberal Arts, Medicine and Science—as well as the Mays Business School, the School of Law, the School of Public Health and the Bush School of Government and Public Service. In addition, two state agencies of The Texas A&M University System are represented: the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and Texas A&M AgriLife Research.
The X-Grants program was launched in February 2018 with an open invitation to the Texas A&M faculty, staff and students to submit ideas, such as research problem statements, questions or topics. The invitation generated 1,682 ideas, resulting in 145 overarching research themes, which inspired 276 one-page proposals for X-Grants funding from A&M researchers.
For more details of the funded projects, visit the X-Grant program’s website: https://president.tamu.edu/xgrants/index.html
Arts & Humanities Fellows for 2018 are (from left): Rumya Putcha, assistant professor in the Department of Performance Studies; Vanita Reddy, associate professor in the Department of English, affiliated with the Women’s and Gender Studies program; Evan Haefeli, associate professor in the Department of History; Erin A. Snider, assistant professor in the Department of International Affairs; Susanneh Bieber, assistant professor in the Department of Visualization and the Department of Architecture; and Nancy Warren, professor in the Department of English. (Image: Division of Research)
Texas A&M University named six faculty members as 2018 Arts & Humanities Fellows during an awards luncheon today at the University Club in Rudder Tower. Each fellowship includes a three-year grant of $15,000 to support a scholarly or creative project.
Since its launch in 2015, the Arts & Humanities Fellowship Program has sponsored projects by twenty-three faculty members, including the six new fellows.
Texas A&M Vice President for Research Mark A. Barteau said, “We are excited about the outstanding projects that our 2018 Arts & Humanities Fellows will pursue and the new scholarship they will create over the next three years. While it is sometimes easy to be dazzled by the products of science and technology, we must never forget that the arts and humanities are the lifeblood of civilization. With the support of these fellowships, scholars at Texas A&M will continue to advance the visibility and vibrancy of research here in the arts and humanities.”
Each spring, Arts & Humanities Fellows are selected by a peer review based on merit and originality, professional qualifications, clarity, benefit to the public and the quality of the overall presentation. All Texas A&M faculty who engage in scholarship in the humanities or in creative work in the arts are eligible to apply for the fellowships.
At today’s luncheon, Arts & Humanities Fellowships for 2018 were presented to the following faculty members:
Susanneh Bieber, assistant professor in the Department of Visualization and the Department of Architecture, College of Architecture, will use her expertise as an art historian to recover the works of Victor Lundy—a rising star among 1960s architects whose works are now largely forgotten—by focusing on Lundy’s organic approach to architecture.
Evan Haefeli, associate professor in the Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, will complete a new book, Anti-popery: The First Bias of American Freedom, which will take a long view of anti-Catholicism from colonial America into the 20th century to reveal the surprising and unpredictable ways that anti-popery ideology has shaped the American experience of freedom.
Rumya Putcha, assistant professor in the Department of Performance Studies, College of Liberal Arts, will fund essential research on her second book project, Namaste Nation: Commercial Yoga Industries and Neo-Orientalism in the 21st Century America. This project will identify the crucial role of this leisure activity in 21st century gender and racial formation.
Vanita Reddy, associate professor in the Department of English/Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts, will visit three essential archives to support her current book, Global Intimacies, which will examine cultural production from the global South Asian diaspora—North America, East Africa, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the Caribbean—in relation to black and indigenous populations.
Erin A. Snider, assistant professor in the Department of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, will use her fellowship to support research in the Middle East and contribute to a new book project examining the political economy of the Arab Spring, Engineering Transition: The Political Economy of Aid and Security in the New Middle East.
Nancy Warren, professor in the Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, will analyze legacies of medieval religion in the cultures and texts of the three major colonizing populations of the Americas: English, French, and Spanish, for a new book, Hemispheric Medievalisms: The “Old Religion” in the New World, 1550-1850.
Texas A&M University maintained its 16th overall ranking based on total annual research and development expenditures in the latest survey from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which was released today. The NSF noted in its report that this year’s survey reflects “remarkable stability in the year-to-year composition of the largest university R&D performers.”
The NSF’s latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey ranked Texas A&M on fiscal year 2016 total expenditures of $892.7 million. Texas A&M also ranked 16th in fiscal year 2015 with research and development expenditures of $866.7 million.
Among other Texas-based universities in the top 50, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center remained at 19th on the latest survey with $852 million; The University of Texas at Austin fell from 30th to 34th with $622 million; and the Baylor College of Medicine came in at 39th with $572 million. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center fell to 51st with $442.6 million.
Texas A&M also remained ninth overall among the top 10 public research universities cited by the survey.
“I congratulate our hard-working faculty and staff for their life-changing research that makes Texas A&M the top research university in the Southwest,” said Chancellor John Sharp of The Texas A&M University System. “Our research efforts help Texans live better lives and grow our state economy.”
Texas A&M President Michael K. Young said, “We have seen continued growth in research funding over the years. Funding agencies, like the NSF, trust that their investment dollars are being put to work effectively at Texas A&M. We are closing in on $1 billion in research expenditures and our students, faculty and staff are responsible for that trajectory.”
“The scope, depth and diversity of our outstanding research is aimed at solving the world’s most daunting challenges. Thanks to our renowned faculty-researchers’ efforts and innovations, this pioneering research impacts our students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and provides them with numerous opportunities to engage in transformational learning experiences that expand their knowledge and skills sets while enhancing the value of their academic degrees,” said Texas A&M’s Interim Vice President for Research Karen Butler-Purry.
The NSF survey provides a census of 902 degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States, with a minimum budget of at least $150,000 in research and development expenditures. The latest survey found that U.S. universities recorded $72.0 billion in research and development expenditures in fiscal 2016, an increase of 4.8 percent from fiscal year 2015’s total of $68.6 billion.
Two of the nation’s top three research institutions retained their rankings from the previous NSF survey. Johns Hopkins University led the survey with $2.431 billion in expenditures, followed by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with $1.436 billion. The University of Pennsylvania jumped from 17th to third with $1.296 billion. “Their 50 percent increase in one year was also due to new reporting of institution funding of R&D within their medical school,” the NSF said.
Link to Higher Education R&D Expenditures, ranked by all R&D expenditures, by R&D field: FY 2016: https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2016/.