Dr. Alexis Lewis, Program Director for Materials Engineering and Processing, National Science Foundation

Get Funded by the NSF

NSF Grant Writing for Engineering Disciplines: Presentation and discussion on National Sciences Foundation grant writing, with specific focus on the engineering disciplines.

NSF Early Career Awards Grant Writing: The NSF Career Award is in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar  through the integration of outstanding research and education. This seminar provides an opportunity for UTSA faculty to receive relevant information on this NSF program, with specific focus on how to develop a successful application.

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Recognition You Deserve

UTSA Research is working towards ensuring everyone on a project gets the credit they deserve with its new Shared Credit Policy. This policy improves faculty collaboration across departments, disciplines, and colleges while ensuring everyone involved on a grant is fairly represented.

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7 Amazing Pathways to Funding

The Roadmap to Funded Research is a 7-workshop series designed to enhance grant seeking and writing skills for early to mid-career UTSA researchers, resulting in higher quality and more competitive proposals.

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Showcase Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry

​The fall semester is the perfect time to get students involved in the Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Showcase. This showcase highlights the fantastic work students are involved in from the arts to the sciences. Contact Donovan Fogt for more details.

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It's All About The Blast

Blast explosions have been the primary cause of morbidity and mortality in military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to being the primary cause of traumatic burns and amputations, blast exposure is the primary cause of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). 

This presentation will review the symptomatology, etiology, and epidemiology of PTSD and TBI after blast exposure. It will also review the research opportunities at UTHSCSA and UTSA to examine the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and treatment of PTSD and TBI in military service members and veterans.

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Recent Awards

Drs. Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.

TWC: Small: Attribute Based Access Control for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service--$500,000

Dr. Xiaodu Wang, Mechanical Engineering Dept.

Intrafibrillar mineralization vs bone fragility--$362,174

Dr. Michael Baumann and Rebecca Weston, Psychology Dept.

Spin, Unit Climate, and Aggression:  Near Term, Long Term, and Reciprocal Predictors of Violence Among Workers in Military Settings--$637,443

Dr. Jolyn Mikow, Social Work Dept.

Title IV-E-$284,774

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Dr. Eric Jing Du, Assistant Professor, College of Architecture

Researcher Awarded NSF Grant for African Food Security

Eric Jing Du, assistant professor in the UTSA College of Architecture, has been awarded major funding from the NSF Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science research program to complete a four-year research project about food security issues in West Africa using real-time simulation computer models.

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Patently Great Inventors

Congratulations to UTSA Inventors whose patents issued! The average time from disclosure to a patent being granted is about 5 years.  Inventor participation is required throughout the entire life of the invention. OCI reviews for patentability and commercial potential, directs outside counsel in the preparation and prosecution process, communicates status to and seeks input from inventors and requires an investment of more than $20,000 is usually required for a US Only patent to issue. Three of the five patents have been licensed and are in the process of commercialization. 

UTSA Patent Awardees Include:

Drs. Banglin Chen and Zhangjing Zhang

Patent #8,507,406

Drs. David Akopian, Mehdi Shadaram, and Catalin Lacatus

Patent #8,548,106

Drs. Doug Frantz and Hector Aguilar

Patent #8,722,716

Drs. Joo L. Ong and Sunho Oh

Patent EP2192876

Drs. Arturo A. Ayon and Cory Hallam

Patent MX317620 

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UTSA Researcher Part of $10.8 Million NSF Grant

Dr. Fidel Santamaria is part of the 36 NSF Early Concept Grants awarded for Exploratory Research (EAGER) to enable new technologies to better understand how complex behaviors emerge from the activity of brain circuits. These awards will contribute to NSF's growing portfolio of investments in support of President Obama's BRAIN Initiative.

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Funding for Undergraduate Research

The Office of Undergraduate Research is offering scholarships for students across ALL disciplines, but these students need your help. In order to be eligible, students must have a faculty mentor. Become a faculty mentor and encourage undergraduate research.

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Recent Invention Disclosures

Dr. Kelly Nash, Physics Dept.

Diagnostic & imaging tool for intracorporeal applications to identify different type of tissue.

Dr. Christopher Navara,

Biology Dept. 

Mitochondrial inhibitors to maintain pleuripotency of stem cells.

Drs. Sos Agaian and Richard Metzler, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.

Novel software for analysis and processing of digitized data.

Dr. Bing Dong, Edward Tyrone Hooks, Gaelen Patrick McFadden, and Johnathan Nathaniel Votion, Mechanical and Electrical and Computer Engineering Depts.

Device and method to count occupancy number in a space.