the engineering genesis award for multidisciplinary research was presented to 26 texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) researchers and their teams during a virtual award ceremony on dec 15 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: roozbeh jafari biomedical engineering $123 million grant from the department of defense-defense threat reduction agency for covid-19: rate-covid: rapid analysis of threat exposure operationalization pi: ranjana mehta industrial and systems engineering co-pi: saurabh biswas biomedical engineering $5 million grant from the national science foundation for b2: learning environments with augmentation and robotics for next-gen emergency responders pi: ankit srivastava materials science and engineering co-pis: patrick shamberger ibrahim karaman svetlana sukhishvili raymundo arroyave and yu xie materials science and engineering; alaa mohamed elwany industrial and systems engineering; mohammad naraghi aerospace engineering $47 million grant from the department of defense-army research laboratory for materials and manufacturing processes for the army of the future pi: le xie electrical and computer engineering co-pis: prasad enjeti and pr kumar electrical and computer engineering $4 million grant from the department of energy for secure monitoring and control of solar power distribution system through dynamic watermarking pi: pavel tsvetkov nuclear engineering co-pis: sean mcdeavitt and mark kimber nuclear engineering $36 million grant from the natura resources llc for research and development support for molten salt research reactor licensure pi: roozbeh jafari biomedical engineering co-pis: jack mortazavi computer science and engineering; melissa grunlan biomedical engineering; thomas ferris industrial and systems engineering $35 million grant from the national institutes of health for an unobtrusive continuous cuff-less blood pressure monitor for nocturnal hypertension pi: zachary grasley civil and environmental engineering co-pi: jeffrey bullard dallas little junuthula reddy thomas lacy civil and environmental engineering; arthur schwab soil and crop sciences $28 million grant from the department of defense for concrete and composites experiments and modeling for army applications pi: zheng oneill mechanical engineering $27 million grant from the department of defense-washington for securing grid-interactive efficient buildings through cyber defense and resilient system pi: swaminathan gopalswamy mechanical engineering co-pis: swaroop darbha and sivakumar rathinam mechanical engineering; dylan shell and zhangyang wang computer science and engineering; john valasek aerospace engineering; gholamreza langari george hw bush combat development complex $25 million grant from the department of defense-research laboratory for arl: air ground coordination pi: james wall texas a&m center for applied technology (tcat) co-pis: keith biggers tcat; john walewski civil and environmental engineering $17 million grant from the department of energy for facility data and technology integration pi: patrick shamberger materials science and engineering co-pi: emily pentzer and svetlana sukhishvili materials science and engineering; choongho yu and jonathan felts mechanical engineering; charles culp college of architecture $15 million grant from the department of energy-washington for salt hydrate eutectic thermal energy pi: mustafa akbulut chemical engineering co-pi: joseph kwon chemical engineering $15 million grant from the department of energy-office of fossil energy for dynamic binary complexes as super-adjustable viscosity modifiers for hydraulic fracturing fluids pi: samuel noynaert petroleum engineering co-pi: fred dupriest petroleum engineering $15 million grant from the department of energy for changing the way geothermal wells are drilled: physics-based drilling parameter selection workflow implementation and training in order to reduce non-productive time and increase rop pi: stephen cambone cro co-pis: jeyavijayan rajendran electrical and computer engineering; rainer fink ana goulart byul hur and wei zhan engineering technology and industrial distribution; gholamreza langari cybr $15 million grant from the department of defense-air force-research laboratory for hardware integrity verification utilizing scanning electron microscopy pi: arum han electrical and computer engineering $14 million grant from the national institutes of health for developing extracellular vesicle-based therapeutics against pre-term birth through the use of maternal-fetal interface on a chip pi: jim morel nuclear engineering co-pi: raymundo arroyave materials science and engineering; amine benzerga aerospace engineering; jean-luc guermond and bojan popov mathematics $14 million grant from department of energy-national nuclear security administration for collaborative research and development supporting llnl missions pi: jim morel nuclear engineering co-pis: marvin adams jean ragusa and mauricio tano retamales nuclear engineering; jean-luc guermond mathematics $14 million grant from the department of energy-national nuclear security administration for collaborative research and development supporting stockpile stewardship pi: mary mcdougall biomedical engineering co-pis: jim ji qemg; steven wright electrical and computer engineering; peter nghiem veterinary integrative biosciences $13 million grant from the national institutes of health for multi-coil multi-nuclear add-on system for clinical field strength nmr-based biomarker detection for duchenne muscular dystrophy pi: christopher limbach aerospace engineering co-pis: rodney bowersox and richard miles aerospace engineering $12 million grant from the department of defense-air force-office of scientific research for canonical validation experiments for hypersonic aerodynamics pi: yu ding industrial and systems engineering co-pis: jiang hu and pr kumar electrical and computer engineering; sarbajit banerjee chemical engineering $12 million grant from the national science foundation for cps: medium: real-time learning and control of stochastic nanostructure growth process through in situ dynamic imaging pi: mahmoud el-halwagi chemical engineering co-pis: joseph kwon chemical engineering; lucy mar camacho chico environmental engineering $12 million grant from the department of energy for deploying intensified automated mobile operable and novel designs diamond for treating shale gas wastewater (108) pi: amy martin civil and environmental engineering $11 million grant from the texas department of transportation for balanced mix design system for superpave hot-mix asphalt mixtures with rap pi: jack mortazavi computer science and engineering; co-pi: ricardo gutierrez-osuna computer science and engineering $11 million grant from the national science foundation for sch: int: personalized models of nutrition intake from continuous glucose monitors pi: danny davis public service and administration; co-pis: stephen cambone cro; william norris international affairs $11 million grant from the department of defense-office of net assessment for assessing warfare in the digital age pi: mladen kezunovic electrical and computer engineering $1 million grant from the department of energy-washington for big data synchrophasor monitoring and analytics for resiliency tracking