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Xu and Zhang receive $300,000 award from NSF
Shouhuai Xu and Weining Zhang have been awarded $300,000 for a three-year project titled "Collaborative Research: CT-ISG: Secure Knowledge Management: Models and Mechanisms." The project is based on approaching knowledge management from a whole-picture perspective; the research plan includes establishing a comprehensive system architecture and techniques to develop a service-oriented computing paradigm with practical and industrial potential. Knowledge management includes efficiently managing large quantities of useful information and, in particular, sharing it safely among users. The three-year goal of Xu and Zhang's project is to establish a thorough understanding of how knowledge providers can be ensured that they can profit from the sale of or investment in large volumes of knowledge. Xu's expertise is in information security and cryptography; Zhang specializes in databases.
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Ponomarenko and Xie awarded $300,000 for project
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $300,000 over three years to Alyson Ponomarenko and Hongjie Xie for their project "MORE Science at UTSA." The primary focus of the grant is on undergraduate research and includes a 10-week summer research internship, a 10-day field trip to west Texas, semi-monthly seminars, two new UTSA courses, and a community outreach program in the public schools. The overall goal of this project is to encourage a greater number of underrepresented undergraduates to pursue careers in the earth sciences.
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Tian receives ARO award
Qi Tian is the Principal Investigator on the 3-year project "Self-Supervised Learning and Information Fusion for Multimodal Systems," funded by the Army Research Office (ARO) under the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) 2005 Program in the amount of $282,536.
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Jurena, Bodour, Bush awarded $350,000 for project
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $350,000 over three years to Paul Jurena, Adria Bodour, and Janis Bush for their project “Building a Research Based Bridge Between an HIS and a Land-grant University for Graduate Studies in Environmental Sciences.” Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students from UTSA and Texas A&M University (TAMU) will connect through a joint research project that will enable minority students to acquire important research skills and knowledge through hands-on experiences. It will also introduce UTSA undergraduate and graduate students to potential careers in agricultural and environmental science.
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