the engineering genesis (eg) award for multidisciplinary research was presented to 27 texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) researchers and their teams on march 29 during the 2021-22 faculty awards ceremony also honored were recipients of faculty awards and 2022 faculty investitures the eg award which is presented to tees researchers who have secured significant research grants of $1 million or more was given to the following: pi: victor ugaz chemical engineering $1 million grant from the wm keck foundation for spontaneous protocell assembly and origin of life in hydrothermal pores pi: stefan hurlebaus civil and environmental engineering co-pis: homero castaneda-lopez materials science and engineering; joseph bracci civil and environmental engineering $1 million grant from the department of energy for building health bays and cells aging study pi: vladislav v yakovlev biomedical engineering co-pis: girish agarwal biological and agricultural engineering; marlan scully aerospace engineering $1 million grant from the department of defense-air force-office of scientific research for quantum coherence and quantum interactions in microtubules and surrounding environment pi: feng zhao biomedical engineering $11 million grant from the department of health and human services-national institutes of health-national heart lung and blood institute for engineered anisotropic and vascularized human cardiac patch pi: shuiwang ji computer science and engineering $12 million grant from the national institutes of health for genetics of deep-learning-derived neuroimaging endophenotypes for alzheimers disease pi: craig marianno nuclear engineering multidisciplinary engineering and deputy director center for nuclear security science and policy initiatives co-pi: sunil chirayath nuclear engineering and director center for nuclear security science and policy initiatives $13 million grant from the department of energy for dtra technical assistance program for amity university pi: gerard coté biomedical engineering and director center for remote health technologies and systems co-pis: keith biggers interim director texas a&m center for applied technology; james wall former executive director texas a&m center for applied technology; john hanks biomedical engineering; jeffrey cirillo microbial pathogenesis and immunology $13 million grant from the department of defense-defense threat reduction agency for notification of toxic exposure (note) pi: hamid toliyat electrical and computer engineering co-pis: dion antao jonathan felts jaime grunlan and bryan rasmussen mechanical engineering; prasad enjeti electrical and computer engineering; moble benedict aerospace engineering; patrick shamberger materials science and engineering $14 million grant from the department of energy-advanced research projects agency-energy (arpa-e) for multi-physical co-design of next-generation axial motors for aerospace applications pi: danny davis the bush school of government and public service $14 million grant from the department of defense-national security agency for senior military colleges cyber grant program pi: felipe guzman aerospace engineering $14 million grant from the department of defense for optomechanical gravimeters and gradiometers pi: mladen kezunovic electrical and computer engineering co-pi: alexander brown economics $14 million grant from the national science foundation for scc-irg track 1: advanced learning for energy risk tracking (alert) pi: srikanth (sri) saripalli mechanical engineering co-pis: james hubbard jr zohaib hasnain swaroop darbha swaminathan gopalswamy michael walsh jn reddy vinayak krishnamurthy and justin wilkerson mechanical engineering; dylan shell computer science and engineering; srinivas shakkottai electrical and computer engineering; and panganamala kumar electrical and computer engineering industrial and systems engineering $16 million grant from the department of defense-army research office for distributed autonomous robotic experiments and simulations (dares) (iia9 army artificial intelligence task force (aitf) research interests) pi: raymundo arróyave materials science and engineering co-pis: xiaoning qian electrical and computer engineering; ibrahim karaman materials science and engineering $18 million grant from the national science foundation for dmref: ai-guided accelerated discovery of multi-principal element multi-functional alloys pi: diane hurtado senior associate vice chancellor for national laboratories and national security strategic initiatives $18 million grant from the department of energy-national nuclear security administration for triad: hr-its technical and programmatic support pi: arum han electrical and computer engineering co-pis: won-bo shim plant pathology and microbiology; xuejun zhu and qing sun chemical engineering $2 million grant from national science foundation for efri e3p: high-throughput synthetic biology approaches for mixed plastic degradation and reutilization pi: diane hurtado senior associate vice chancellor for national laboratories and national security strategic initiatives $2 million grant from the department of energy-national nuclear security administration for triad: hr-its technical and programmatic support for emergency management and continuity operations pi: duncan maitland biomedical engineering co-pis: daniel alge and mary mcdougall biomedical engineering; steven wright electrical and computer engineering $24 million grant from the national institutes for health for biopsy tract sealing device with magnetic resonance and x-ray image contrast pi: ya wang mechanical engineering co-pis: rahul srinivasan neuroscience and experimental therapeutics; shoshana eitan psychological and brain sciences; and ying li mechanical engineering $26 million grant from the national science foundation for gcr: programmable nanorobots integration with magnetically driven neuron and brain tissue regeneration pi: mark kimber nuclear engineering $3 million grant from the department of energy for 2021 university award base - integrated university program - fellowship and scholarship cooperative agreement pi: tanmay lele biomedical engineering and chemical engineering $31 million grant from the department of health and human services-national institutes of health-national cancer institute for nuclear dysfunction in cancer: the role of mechanical stresses transmitted by the linc complex pi: haithem abu-rub electrical engineering and managing director smart grid center qatar co-pis: riccardo bettati computer science and engineering; sunil khatri narasimha annapareddy miroslav begovic and ali ghrayeb electrical and computer engineering; shady khalil hussein alnuweiri ali ghrayeb and tingwen huang texas a&m university at qatar $32 million grant from the qatar national research fund (qnrf) for multi-layer cybersecurity and situational awareness to enhance resiliency in qatars power grid pi: maria koliou civil and environmental engineering co-pis: james kaihatu civil and environmental engineering and ocean engineering; anand puppala and petros sideris civil and environmental engineering; siyu yu and michelle meyer architecture $41 million grant from the national science foundation for focused coastlines and people: fundamental research to inform holistic decision-making for historically underrepresented communities impacted by coastal hazards pi: cindy lawley assistant vice chancellor for academic and outreach programs assistant dean for engineering academies and associate agency director for workforce development and regional divisions co-pis: shelly tornquist director spark! pk-12 engineering education outreach; melissa walden former director engineering professional education; kristi shryock multidisciplinary engineering; rob gorham executive director manufacturing initiatives for texas a&m engineering experiment station and executive director secureamerica institute; dean schneider industrial and systems engineering and operations director secureamerica institute $48 million grant from the department of defense for national imperative for industrial skills pi: tanmay lele biomedical engineering and chemical engineering $5 million grant from the cancer prevention and research institute of texas for nuclear dysmorphia in pediatric cancers pi: reza langari mechanical engineering co-pis: dilma da silva and dezhen song computer science and engineering $7 million grant from the texas department of transportation for ava: automated vehicles for all diamond eg award the diamond eg award presented to researchers who secured research grants of $10 million or more was given to the following: pi: rodney bowersox aerospace engineering and executive director university consortium for applied hypersonics $107 million grant from the department of defense-washington headquarters services for the university consortium for applied hypersonics research relevant to enhancing the mission effectiveness of military personnel and supporting platforms systems components or materials pi: faisal khan chemical engineering and director mary kay oconnor process safety center co-pis: john pappas director center operations and director clean energy incubator; dimitris lagoudas aerospace engineering associate vice chancellor for engineering research senior associate dean for research and deputy director of the texas a&m engineering experiment station; stewart behie chemical engineering associate center director mary kay oconnor process safety center; and m katherine banks president texas a&m university and vice chancellor of national laboratories and national security strategic initiatives the texas a&m university system $388 million grant from the department of interior for operation and maintenance of the ocean energy safety institute (oesi 20)