twelve research projects have been chosen for funding as part of the texas a&m university system national laboratories offices multi-element program to increase engagement between researchers from the a&m system and the los alamos national laboratory (lanl) researchers could apply for funding in two different categories: developmental fellowships and research projects developmental fellowships are designed to formally initiate a research project between a&m system faculty and lanl researchers who have already identified a mutual interest this is a one-year proposal submitted annually each fall research projects are designed for a&m system researchers who have mature ties with lanl collaborators and have identified research topics suitable for a joint effort and joint funding from the a&m system and lanl these are up to four-year awards and proposals are accepted annually each fall the following funded proposals were selected after undergoing a review process that involved numerous technical experts from the a&m system and lanl research projects swaroop darbha j mike walker 66 department of mechanical engineering; and harsha nagarajan lanlmodeling and discrete optimization algorithms for robust complex networks ibrahim karaman amine benzerga and alan needleman department of materials science and engineering; and ricardo lebensohn lanldesign of novel thermo-mechanical processing approaches using inverse optimization for light-weighting rupak mahapatra department of physics and astronomy; and richard van de water steven elliott william louis and rajan gupta lanllos alamos a&m dark-matter and neutrino alliance narasimha reddy department of electrical and computer engineering; and brad settlemyer and gary grider lanlkey-value storage systems for hpc lin shao and frank garner department of nuclear engineering; and stuart a maloy lanladvanced reactor structural materials under extreme radiation conditions sherry yennello lauren (heilborn) mcintosh and evgeny tereshatov cyclotron institute; and jonathan d burns nuclear education and science center; eva birnbaum michael fassbender etienne vermeulen and stosh kozimor lanlproduction of radioisotopes (at-211 + tb-149) for cancer therapy developmental fellowships karim ahmed department of nuclear engineering (pi); and anders david ragnar andersson lanlquantitative mesoscale modeling of high burn-up structure (hbs) formation and evolution in uo2 carlos bertulani texas a&m university-commerce department of physics and astronomy (pi); and eddy timmermans lanlstudy of dilute gas bose_einstein condensates matthias katzfuss department of statistics (pi); and earl lawrence lanlscalable gaussian-process methods for the analysis of computer experiments michael nippe department of chemistry (pi); and stosh kozimor lanlcorrelating f-block covalency with magnetic exchange in actinide-lanthanide heterometallics: towards highly anisotropic 5f-4f spin systems sarah wolff department of industrial and systems engineering (pi); and don brown samantha lawrence and adam wachtor lanlcharacterizing components from the directed energy deposition (ded) additive manufacturing process for new materials yu xuan (kelvin) xie department of materials science and engineering (pi); and arul kumar mariyappan lanlcharacterizing understanding and predicting the deformation mechanisms of metallic systems