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Program Awards

One primary focus for the College of Sciences and Mathematics is the student educational experience, both the traditional classroom experiences as well as those outside the classroom activities that enhance the education of STEM students. These enhanced student experiences are an essential tool for developing the skills needed for student success, both during their academic studies and professional careers in the STEM workforce. Participation in these enhanced experiences increase the likelihood of College of Science and Mathematics graduates gaining admission into top-rated graduate and professional schools and competitiveness for premier employment opportunities.

College Of Science And Mathematics Impact Program

The COSM Impact Program has been created to support projects from faculty, staff, and students to provide enhanced educational experiences for students. The program awards up to $2,500 to students, staff, or students to support projects that provided new educational activities to students.

CHGP Ryan Morgan & Anne Egelston $2,500 Environmental Alliance Garden

CHGP Daniel Marble Physics Majors Visit Texas A&M and attend the Texas A&M Physics & Engineering festival

CHGP Stephen Bardowell (Student) $800 Outreach at the Tarleton Observatory

MATH Michael Warren $2,374 Faculty & Student Writing Retreat

TBFS* Phil Sudman $14,000 Bunkbeds for Timberlake Biological Field Station

TBFS Victoria Chraibi $2,500 Educational Pollinator Garden at Timberlake Biological Field Station

Total Funds Awarded $23,474

* funded via anonymous donor for purchase of 12 bunkbeds

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS DEAN’S RESEARCH AWARD

In continuing to support our growing research agenda, the College of Science and Mathematics will provide support for the purchase of research instrumentation, equipment, supplies, consumables, etc. associated with faculty research operations that lead to external grant submissions and/or peer-reviewed journal publications. The program awards up to $5,000 to faculty, and specifically supports:

• Projects that represent a new research direction

• Adding a new technology or instrumentation to a research operation

• Acquisition of preliminary data in support of a specific external grant submission

• Acquisition of data needed to complete a peer-reviewed journal article

BIO Victoria Chraibi $3,323 Diatom SEM Image Acquisition and Taxonomic Collaborations toward Publication

BIO Chad Brock $5,000 Biological Field Research in Southern Alaska

BIO Janise Speshock $3,431 Establishment of Microfluidic Air-Lung Interface “Lung on a Chip” Model

BIO Max Sanderford $5,000 The effect of mild intermittent hypoxia conditioning on measures of sympathetic neural activity in type 2 diabetic rats

College Of Science And Mathematics Student Research Awards

Qualified undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Science and Mathematics wishing to be engaged in intensive, facultymentored research are eligible to apply for up to $2000. Prior to applying, a faculty mentor must first agree to mentor the student and proposed research project. Awards are provided to support activities in the fall, spring, and summer semesters.

Stephen Bardowell CHGP Using the Shelyak spectroscope with Tarleton Telescope to obtain spectroscopic data on selected eclipsing binary stars and stars that host exoplanets.

Avery Campbell MATH Modeling Supraventricular Tachycardia Using Dynamic Computer-Generated Left Atrium (Goderya)

Samuel Garcia-Rodriguez MATH Silicon Building Silicon” Dynamic Modeling of Dust Crystal Formations in a Complex Plasm using NVIDIA GPUs (Wyatt)

Gavin McIntosh MATH Modeling Supraventricular Tachycardia Using Dynamic Computer-Generated Left Atrium (Wyatt)

Elizabeth Mary Mullins BIOL Mesocosm Experiments to Characterize Pulse and Press Disturbances on Algal Communities in Central Texas Lakes (Chraibi)

Matthew Williams BIOL The Effect of Mild Intermittent Hypoxia Conditioning on the Sympathetic Activity in Type 2 Diabetic Rats (Sanderford)

Zachary Watson MATH Silicon Building Silicon” Dynamic Modeling of Dust Crystal Formations in a Complex Plasm using NVIDIA GPUs (Wyatt)

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