UTSA Receives San Antonio Area Foundation Grants

Seven faculty members and the UTSA Special Collections Librarian received grants totalling over $140,000 this year from the San Antonio Area Foundation, at its annual awards ceremony held at the Institute of Texan Cultures on May 22.

Foundation funds support projects in education, medical services, and health care, the environment, the arts and culture, community and social services, animal services, historic preservation, visual services and research, and biomedical research efforts that seek to improve the quality of life in the San Antonio community.

Grant recipients include professors Joe L. Martinez, Jr. for his project on "Genes of Addiction: Which Genes Are Turned On By Amphetamine Abuse;" James P. Chambers for "Improving of ApoE Alleles in Alzheimer's Disease;" Brenda J. Claiborne for "Estrogen Replacement Therapy and Neuroprotection;" Esther F.Wheeler for "NGF and Pain Regulation;" Hans W. Heidner for "Construction and Evaluation of a Double-Transgenic Alphavirus Vaccine Vector;" Manuel P. Berriozabal for the "San Antonio Prefreshman Engineering Program (PREP);" Dennis G. Medina for "Kathryn Stoner O'connor/SRT Collection Catalog;" and Aaron J. Cassill for "Teacher Summer Science Institute.

The Foundation combines gifts and bequests from many individuals, families and corporations into grant awards. Since it's inception in 1964, it has awarded more than $57 million in grants and in 2000 had $101 million in assets. The deadline for 2002 grants is December 15.