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u Biology professor Dr. John McCarrey joined the Center for Male Reproductive Epigenomics, a new research center dedicated to sperm epigenomics.

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u Dr. Michael P. Doyle, the Rita and John Feik Distinguished University Chair in Medicinal Chemistry, was awarded the 2020 International Precious Metals Institute’s Henry J. Albert Award for his pioneering work with rhodium catalyst reactions.

CONNECT, The CONsortium on Nuclear SECurity Technologies, was awarded nearly $3 million in grant funding. CONNECT is partnered with Argonne National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory to explore areas of nuclear science and technologies.

u Dr. Stanton F. McHardy, a professor of research, associate professor of chemistry and director of UTSA’s Center for Innovative Drug Discovery, was named UTSA’s 2019 Innovator of the Year.

u UTSA was named a top university in natural sciences research output and the Department of Chemistry was ranked first among young U.S. universities by Nature Index, a database that provides information about high-quality research output and collaboration.

u UTSA won a $3 million NASA award to launch the Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments (NASA CAMEE), an interdisciplinary center that collaborates with NASA to push the boundaries of current measurement and modeling technology by conducting research in harsh and extreme environments.

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u Chemistry professor Dr. Oleg Larionov received $1.13 million from the National Institutes of Health to conduct research on the synthesis of sulfur-containing small molecules for the development of biological probes and therapeutic agents.

Chemistry professor Dr. Banglin Chen was inducted into the European Academy of Sciences as a Foreign Fellow and was accepted as a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry.

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u UTSA, UT Health San Antonio, Texas Biomedical Research Institute and Southwest Research Institute joined together for a groundbreaking partnership in precision therapeutics; the group was later awarded $200,000 for a collaborative study to develop a novel vaccine to combat COVID-19.

The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) was awarded a $1.5 million Continuing Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The Department of Chemistry hosted the third International Symposium on Carbene and Nitrene Chemistry at the historic Menger Hotel, marking the first time the biennial symposium was held in North America.

UTSA, Southwest Research Institute and Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute received an $18 million contract for the U.S. Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency to collaboratively develop a protective vaccine against Francisella tularensis, the bacterium that causes tularemia.

The Department of Computer Science hosted the fifth annual RowdyHacks, a 24-hour hackathon, fully online for the first time.

Researchers with UTSA’s MATRIX AI Consortium for Human Well-Being created the COVID-19 Resources & Recovery Site, a website that helped Texans share the location of scarce consumer goods in real time.

Computer science professor Dr. Murtuza Jadliwala was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant to fund his research on securing modern ubiquitous sensing and computing technologies against private data inference and exfiltration threats.

Biology professor Dr. Chiung-Yu Hung was awarded a President’s Teaching Award for Research Achievement.

Chemistry senior lecturer Dr. Hector Aguilar was awarded a President’s Teaching Award for Excellence in University Service.

Chemistry professor Dr. Aimin Liu received $4 million from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation to conduct research on iron-containing proteins.