Grants

Beginning in the Fall of 2019, faculty members at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will conduct research to enhance green power generation and smart grid security. Through the strategic alliance between the Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute (TSERI) at UTSA and CPS Energy, three new projects totaling approximately $750,000 will focus on improving grid security and resilience, solar energy generation and more efficient technology for power generation.

The UC Riverside team is developing a way to test whether chemicals cause musculoskeletal birth defects using lab-grown human tissue, not live animals.

A multidisciplinary research team from Michigan State University will use a $2.49 million grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a four-year study examining the impacts of autonomous vehicles on the future workforce.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded $11.7 million to the UT Marine Science Institute for ongoing recovery from 2017's Hurricane Harvey. The funding will allow the institute to complete repairs and renovations to remaining facilities, including a popular visitors center and the institute's mission-critical research pier.

Rice University astroparticle physicist Christopher Tunnell and colleagues are booting their search for dark matter into a study they hope will enhance all of data science. A $1 million NSF grant is allowing the team to reimagine data science techniques and help push data-intensive physical sciences past the tipping point to discovery.

Research team to study information latency with $7.5 million Department of Defense grant.