Scientists’ silk structure is secret to successful process of regenerating salivary cells

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Nipple replacement startup NovoThelium sweeps pitch competitions

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UTSA Research awards seed funding to faculty members

The Office of the Vice President for Research’s internal seed funding programs support UTSA’s research enterprise by awarding faculty members seed funding to obtain preliminary data that can be cited in applications for extramural funding and enhance the breadth of scholarly and creative activity taking place on campus. These grants also support new areas of
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College of Engineering Graduate Student Summer Travel Award

Maximum award amount – $500.00 each. Basic qualifications: Must be current COE Graduate student travels between May 12 through August 31, 2017 Does not receive any travel award from the Graduate School. Support from your mentor and department should be at least $500.00 each (minimum of $1,000 in total) for your trip. Need to apply
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AET Library moves to new location

Starting August 22, UTSA’s Applied Engineering and Technology (AET) Library opens in a new location on the first floor of the AET Building in Room 1.104. UTSA Libraries’ main campus satellite location has been successful since opening in 2010 as the first bookless library on a university campus. The new library will continue to offer
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UTSA ranks among nation’s top minority-serving institutions for federal science and engineering expenditures

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) ranks No. 7 among the minority-serving institutions in the nation that received the most federal research obligations (expenditures) for science and engineering, according to updated data released by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for fiscal year 2015. In FY 2015, UTSA expended $23.3 million in federal funding
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Foundation work underway for Science and Engineering Building

June, The University of Texas at San Antonio broke ground on its $95 million Science and Engineering Building (SEB), the largest construction project in university history. The building is slated to open in June 2020. The 153,000 square foot building, which will be located on the Main Campus adjacent to the Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering
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Mikayla Rahman has spirit for biomedical engineering

Meet Mikayla Rahman. This UTSA Honors College student is balancing life as a biomedical engineering major and UTSA cheerleader. Rahman was born in China and was adopted when she was 13 months old. That’s when she moved to Colorado Springs to live with her new family. Rahman lived in Colorado for most of her life, but she
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NIST Funds twelve projects to make communities more resilient to disasters

Using biological materials as flame retardants, defining the characteristics of soil liquefaction during earthquakes and collecting disaster data with aerial drones are among the twelve disaster resilience research projects awarded just over $6 million by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST). The University of Texas at San Antonio received $798,892 for research
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ELSS Conference poster competition

This year’s Engineering Lean Six Sigma (ELSS) conference is being held in Orlando, FL, and participants are invited to compete in the poster competition at the conference. The conference is taking place September 25-27, 2017, in Orlando, FL, and is hosted by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). The 2017 ELSS Poster Session
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