SEU Portfolio of Significant Active Government Grants, Subawards, and Contracts - Spring 2022

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

SC2, National Institute of General Medical Sciences: A Biomimetic Approach to Elucidating the Role in Disease of the Oxygenase Enzyme Acireductone Dioxygenase (ARD). PI: Santiago Toledo Carrion. Award amount $330,602; grant period 2020-2023.

NIH Cancer Institute: Modeling Cancer Risk and Environmental Exposures Using Residential Histories. Awarded to Virginia Commonwealth University; Subrecipient Co-PI: Montserrat Fuentes, SEU President and Mathematics. Subaward amount $324,221; grant period 2021-2025.

National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF Integrative Research in Biology: Collaborative Proposal: Integrating trait diversity across hierarchical scales to predict biological resilience in an era of extreme environmental change. Total award of $1,402,568 to two collaborators: $524,421 to University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and $878,147 awarded to University of Wyoming with subaward to SEU; Subrecipient PI: Kimberly O’Keefe, Biological Sciences. Subaward amount $341,093; grant period 2021-2026

DUE, Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program: Maker Education and Community Building as Tools to Recruit, Develop, and Retain STEM Teachers. PI: Steven Fletcher; Co-PIs Glenda Ballard, Gary Morris, Mitch Phillipson, and Santiago Toledo. Award amount $1,181,608; grant period 2020-2025.

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program): Institute for Interdisciplinary Science (I4): Preparing Students for the 4th Industrial Revolution. PI: Andrea Holgado, Biological Sciences. Co-PIs: Raychelle Burks, Charles Hauser, Bilal Shebaro, and Paul Walter. Award amount $1,499,950; grant period 2018-2023.

RUI, Division of Integrative Organismal Systems: Examining Molecular Players Integrating Autophagy and Neuronal Development and Maintenance.  PI: Andrea Holgado, Biological Sciences. Award amount $634,500; grant period 2017–2023.

IRES Track I: Comparing the influence of economic incentives and land use patterns on the conservation of tropical forests and primates in Panama, Cost Rica, and Uganda. $299,877 awarded to Indiana University; Subrecipient PI: Peter Beck, Environmental Science and Policy. Subaward amount $51,000; grant period 2019-2023.

Department of Education

College Student Migrant Program (CAMP). PI: Sonia Briseno, CAMP Director. Award Amount $2,125,000; grant period 2020–2025.

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program. PI: Molly Minus, Associate VP Academic Affairs. Award amount $1,189,650: grant period 2017–2022.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

NIFA; A Conference Proposal for “Building STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Mathematics) at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. PI: Gloria White, Director Sponsored Programs. Award amount $50,000; grant period 2019–2022.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

NASA ROSES: Three-dimensional mapping of Texas air quality using a combination of multiple-scale modeling and Pandora monitoring network. Awarded to Baylor University; Subrecipient PD: Mark Estes, Mathematics. Subaward amount $41,676; grant period 2022-2024.

NASA ESSP: Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere (DCOTSS). Awarded to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC). Subrecipient PI: Paul Walter, Physics. Subaward amount amount $10,574; grant period 2021-2022.

State of Texas

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ); TRACER-AQ to University of Houston: TRACER AQ Analysis in Houston). SEU subrecipients PI: Mark Estes, Mathematics; Co-PI: Paul Walter, Physics. Subaward amount: $47,868. Grant Period: 2022-2023.

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ); Air Quality Data Collection Support for TRACER-AQ in Houston. Awarded to the University of Houston. Subrecipient PI: Paul Walter, Physics; Co-PI: and Mark Estes, Mathematics. Subaward amount $115,899; grant period 2022-2023.

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ); Air Quality Data Collection Support for TRACER-AQ in Houston. Awarded to the University of Houston. Subrecipient PI: Paul Walter, Physics; Co-PI: and Mark Estes, Mathematics. Subaward amount $69,971; grant period 2021-2022.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB): Work-Study Mentorship Program. PI: Gloria White, Director Sponsored Programs. Award amounts total $177,000; Annual funding from 2012–2022. Additional $12,000 awarded for 2021-2022.