the engineering genesis award for multidisciplinary research was presented to 20 texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) researchers and their teams during the tees external advisory board meeting oct 26 the award which is presented to tees researchers who have secured significant research grants of $1 million or more were given to the following: pi: michael demkowicz materials science and engineering co-pis: karl hartwig alan needleman and george m pharr materials science and engineering $125 million grant from the department of energy-national nuclear security administration for the center for research excellence on dynamically deformed solids (credds): discovering the role of heterogeneities in high strain rate mechanical response pi: dan hill petroleum engineering co-pis: george moridis david schechter and ding zhu petroleum engineering $6 million grant from the department of energy for the eagle ford shale laboratory: a field study of the stimulated reservoir volume detailed fracture characteristics and eor potential pi: daniel ragsdale computer science and engineering and director texas a&m cybersecurity center co-pis: paula dewitte robert jones dilma da silva and guofei gu computer science and engineering $44 million grant from the national science foundation for the texas a&m cyber leader scholarship program: developing cyber leader-scholars for the nation pi: jean ragusa nuclear engineering co-pis: mark kimber richard kurwitz sean mcdeavitt luis ortega lin shao and pavel tsvetkov nuclear engineering $3 million grant from the department of energy for nustem: nuclear science technology and education for molten salt reactors pi: javier jo biomedical engineering co-pis: brian applegate biomedical engineering; yi-shing cheng and john wright texas a&m health science center $25 million from the department of health and human services-national institutes of health-national cancer institute for endogenous fluorescence lifetime endoscopy for early detection of oral cancer and dysplasia pi: akhilesh gaharwar biomedical engineering $22 million from the national institutes of health for mineralomics: designing mineral based therapeutics to control and direct cell function pi: jeyavijayan rajendran electrical and computer engineering $2 million from the department of defense-office of naval research for towards verification-guided hardware synthesis for security pi: ali mostafavidarani civil engineering co-pis: philip berke and sierra woodruff land use and environmental planning; arnold vedlitz public service and administration bush school of government and public service; and bjorn birgisson civil engineering $2 million from the national science foundation for crisp 20 type 2: anatomy of coupled human-infrastructure systems resilience to urban flooding: integrated assessment of social institutional and physical networks pi: helen reed aerospace engineering co-pis: rodney bowersox and william saric aerospace engineering $18 million from the department of defense-air force office of scientific research for boundary layer transition (bolt)-experiment and simulation (concave curvature and leading-edge sweep effects) pi: yang shen electrical and computer engineering $17 from the department of health and human services-national institutes of health-national institute of general medical science for unraveling molecular and system-level mechanisms of human disease-associated protein mutations pi: mark burris civil engineering $14 million from the department of transportation-federal highway administration for topic 2 behavioral science and experimental economics approaches for transportation pi: michael mcshane biomedical engineering co-pi: lee hudson biomedical engineering $13 million from national institutes of health for minimally-invasive metabolite monitoring systems for in vitro and in vivo disease models pi: rodney bowersox aerospace engineering $12 million from the department of defense-office of naval research for turbulence transport in extreme non-equilibrium environments pi: mladen kezunovic electrical and computer engineering co-pis: miroslav begovic and chanan singh electrical and computer engineering $12 million from the department of energy for ui-assist: us-india collaborative for smart distribution system with storage pi: akhil dattagupta petroleum engineering $12 million from the department of energy for robust carbon dioxide imaging using joint tomographic inversion of seismic onset time and distributed pressure and temperature measurements pi: bahman yazdani energy systems laboratory co-pis: joseph martinez ahmet ugursal and carlos yagua energy systems laboratory; and juan carlos baltazar architecture $11 million from the city of houston for energy management sustainability and m&v services for houston airport system q&m rfp pi: pushkar lele chemical engineering $1 million from the national institutes of health for mechanical regulation of ultra-sensitivity in e coli flagellar motors pi: karen butler-purry provosts office co-pis: samuel merriweather edac and shannon walton grst $11 million from the national science foundation for lsamp btd: texas a&m university system louis stokes alliance for minority participation (tamus lsamp) bridge to the doctorate cohort xiii (2018-2020) program pi: jean ragusa nuclear engineering co-pis: marvin adams and jim morel nuclear engineering $1 million from the department of defensedefense threat reduction agency for models with multiple levels of fidelity tractability and computational cost for nuclear weapon radiation effects pi: dan hill petroleum engineering $1 million from marathon oil company for marathon oil unconventional fluid flow/eor