FEDERAL FUNDING FOR RESEARCH, PROGRAMMING AT TAMIU REACHES IMPRESSIVE LEVELS As the late TAMIU president Dr. Pablo Arenaz used to observe...“it’s always a great day for TAMIU when Congressman Henry Cuellar visits campus.” That’s because most of those visits are often accompanied by hearty congratulations for TAMIU successfully securing yet another competitive federal grant for research or programming. For calendar year 2024, Congressman Cuellar was indeed able to share good tidings for TAMIU... all told, some $6,1898,732 in research and program funding will elevate the University’s research profile and share findings and insight worldwide. Among these: •$3,658,832 in competitive and transformative grants for the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program and College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP). The SANE continuation grant trains registered nurses to become sexual assault nurse examiners. The CAMP grant will provide academic advising and career readiness resources for students. •A $1 million grant for the new Center to Counter Human Trafficking, long a research interest for TAMIU given the alarming frequency of human trafficking on the U.S.-México border. Its mission is to communities of practitioners in the fields of healthcare and education, alongside their partners in trauma care, law enforcement, policy, and academia, as they work to liberate vulnerable persons from conditions of coercive exploitation in Laredo and its environs. •$799,853 in National Science Foundation awards to fund three separate awards for a center for physicsbased A.I. application training, enhancement of statistics curricula for A.I. development, and STEM recruitment. •A National Science Foundation grant of $370,347 to support acquisition of a state-of-the-art X-ray diffractometer (XRD), a technical device used for materials science research. •$260,700 from the Department of Defense Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions for a grant funding Research and Teaching Enhancement in Cyber-Physical Systems Using Pseudo Smart City Studio. •A $100,000 grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management through the Capacity Building for Repurposing Energy Assets initiative to support research focused on repurposing oil and gas wells in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale for geothermal and CO2 storage applications. Grant award for SANE, CAMP, and Center to Counter Human Trafficking Grant award for National Science Foundation 320
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