Camps will leave adults wishing they were kids again By: Christi Fish PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST Third through eighth graders from the greater San Antonio region are invited to enroll in one or more daylong science and engineering camps that will be offered next month by The University of Texas at San Antonio Interactive Technology Experience Center(iTEC) with

Joseph C. Salamone, chief scientific officer at Rochal Industries LLP, UTSA adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering and professor emeritus of Chemistry and Polymer Science at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, Mass., has been elected by his peers to become a Fellow in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The NAE is a member of

UTSA cyber security expert addresses National Academies’ research roundtable, GUIRR By: Christi Fish PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST Faculty and staff at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) lent their expertise last week to an elite group of government, academic and industry professionals at the winter meeting of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), an elite sub-group of the National

Bone scaffolding technology will advance spinal fusion and treatment of bone injuries and defects By: Christi Fish PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST San Antonio-based GenOsteo Inc. and Austin-based SpineSmith Partners jointly announced today that they have inked an agreement to commercialize a synthetic scaffold that can be used with Adult Stem Cells (ASCs) to produce a new and highly effective bone graft

By: Christi Fish PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST Third through eighth graders from the greater San Antonio region and as far away as Odessa flocked to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Main Campus on Saturday, February 12 to get their first glimpse of the 2011 Getting Excited About Robotics (G.E.A.R.) competition game. Jointly presented by

David Starr, driver of the No. 81 Toyota Tundra in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series sponsored by Zachry Holdings, visited UTSA Engineering recently. During his visit, Starr spoke with students and administrators, and talked shop with the members of UTSA’s student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). To view more photos from Starr’s

By: Christi Fish PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) today announced that C. Mauli Agrawal, David and Jennifer Spencer Distinguished Chair for the Dean of Engineering and Peter Flawn Professor in Biomedical Engineering, has been re-appointed to serve a second two-year term on the advisory board of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF).

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recently approved two new programs in the UTSA College of Engineering. The Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineeringand the Bachelor of Science program for Biomedical Engineering will be offered beginning Fall 2011. The addition of these programs brings the total number of degrees offered by the UTSA College of Engineering to 15. Degree programs offered