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Billy C. Covington, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Research and Federal Relations
The primary commitment of the Office of the Associate Vice President for Research (AVPR) and Federal Relations is to support and promote the research and scholarship needs of the faculty and staff while promoting shared responsibility, compliance and scholarly integrity. Toward that end, the AVPR assists faculty members in their research endeavors, encourages interdisciplinary activities across campus and provides matching funds to support new programs and initiatives. In addition, this office provides administrative support for research activities through the Office of Sponsored Programs, the Office of Research Compliance and the Office of Electronic Research Administration. Six multidisciplinary centers and institutes also report to the AVPR.
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Spotlight on Research
Texas State wins prestigious P3 Award from EPA
A team of students from Texas State University-San Marcos and South China University of Technology has been named one of 15 college teams nationally to receive the prestigious P3 (People, Prosperity and the Planet) Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Following an initial peer review process, this year’s winners were selected from 45 competing teams after two days of judging by a panel of national experts convened in Washington, D.C., April 21-23 to provide recommendations to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
EPA selected the award-winning projects from the most competitive pool of teams ever, basing its decisions on the potential to provide innovative, cutting-edge sustainable solutions to worldwide environmental problems.
“The competition and expo are not only about EPA’s prestigious P3 Award, but also about supporting the next generation of this country’s innovators and entrepreneurs who are entering the environmental and public health field with passion to make a difference,” said Lek Kadeli, acting assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Research and Development. “The P3 program gives these students the opportunity to bring those ideas to realization and many have the potential to make significant impacts on our nation’s sustainable future and development of environmental technologies.”
Each P3 award-winning team will receive a grant of up to $90,000 to further develop their design, apply it to real world applications or move it to the marketplace. Previous P3 award winners have started successful businesses and are marketing the technologies in the U.S. and around the world.
Texas State’s team was honored for its project that converts rice husks, a byproduct of agriculture, into a starter material called lignocellulose for producing fabrics, biofuel and silica nanoparticles.
Other teams receiving the P3 Award represented Appalachian State Universiy, Butte College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Gonzaga University, Oregon State University, Princeton University, Santa Clara University, Southern Illinois University, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of California-Riverside, University of Cincinnati, University of Connecticut, University of Oklahoma and Vanderbilt University.
List of Awards in the month of February
| Project Name | Sponsor | Award Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Ecological Laboratory Lease Agreement | Grande Ocho Ranch, LLC | $8,924.00 |
| Transforming Culture at the Brenham State Supported Living Center | Department of Aging & Disability Services | $60,000.00 |
| Development of Thin Microaccelerometer with Wireless Readout Mems Technology | Korea Atomic Energy Research | $42,782.66 |
| Research Experience for Undergraduates in Mobile CPSS | National Science Foundation | $114,062.00 |
| Video-Based Professional Development for Teachers: Geography: Teaching | National Geographic Society Education Foundation | $30,242.00 |
| Reaching Beyond Staar: Professional Development for Geography Around the State | National Geographic Society Education Foundation | $38,959.00 |
| Microbiology and Immunology Inservice | Tx Dept of State Health Services | $8,680.00 |
| Why Geography is Important | National Geographic Society Education Foundation | $12,000.00 |
| Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program-Habitat Plan | City of New Braunfels | $22,500.00 |
| Genome-Wide Analysis Identifies Genes Required for Repair of DNA Strand Breaks | National Institute of Health | $107,495.00 |
| Seminar and Guest Speaker Series | Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation | $10,750.00 |
| Analysis of Nurturme Products | NurtureMe | $2,255.00 |
| Hydro-Climate Rhythms: Overlaying Annual & Intra-Annual Cycles to Assess | Utah State University | $25,341.00 |
| Soil Microbial Ecology of Human Decomposition | American Registry of Pathology | $10,000.00 |
| Summer Merit Program | Tx Workforce Commission | $61,474.00 |
| To Study Effects of Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent of Freshwater Mussels | City of Austin | $12,586.00 |
| Examining Species Diversity and Abundance of a Butterfly Community in a La Cypre | State of Louisiana | $25,013.52 |
| Equipment for Tech 3366 Class, Soils and Foundations | TEXO Education and Research | $6,000.00 |
| Exosystem Scale Abiotic and Biotic Drivers of Food Web Structure | National Science Foundation | $15,000.00 |
| Mix It Up: Correlation Physics and Math | Tx Higher Ed Coordinating Board | $141,000.00 |
| Success for All: Closing the College Participation Gap | E3 Alliance | $105,572.00 |
| Focal Larval Fish Species Distribution and Habitat Use in the San Antonio River | Tx Parks and Wildlife Department | $165,000.00 |
| Assessment of Focal Larval Fish Species in the San Antonio River | Tx Parks and Wildlife Department | $49,000.00 |
| ALERRT: Valor Project | Institute of Intergov’t Research | $198,000.00 |
| GAN-On-Silicon Epitaxial Deposition Project | Texas Instruments Incorporated | $60,000.00 |
| Modeling Precipitation Thresholds Required for Recharge into a Central Texas | Cave Research Foundation | $1,600.00 |
| Ecological Laboratory Lease Agreement – Robert J. Pier | Robert J. Pier | $1,200.00 |
| Commissioned Paper on How Media has Represented Issues of Higher Education | University of Michigan | $1,500.00 |
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