NOVEMBER 16, 2021 — Football players at a local high school are benefitting from innovative concussion research developed by the UTSA College of Engineering and Integrated Design. With expertise in concussion and helmet design, assistant professor Marzieh Hajiaghamemar and assistant professor of research Morteza Seidi of the UTSA Department of Biomedical Engineering are combining their knowledge to come up with

NOVEMBER 3, 2021 – Dr. John Murphy, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of UTSA’s Global Studies Center Italy, was recently awarded the title of Outstanding Alumni from Texas A&M’s College of Architecture. Murphy, who graduated with a B.S. of Building Construction (’82), M.S. of Construction Management (’83) and Ph.D. in Architecture (’93) from the

October 28, 2021 – UTSA’s engineering education program continues to honor the foundational commitment to educational accessibility, particularly for those from historically underrepresented communities. The program, housed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, currently comprises of three faculty members who are leading researchers and influential voices in the growing field of engineering

María Fernanda Trevino, originally from El Paso, Texas, is an alum from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Since graduating from UTSA with a Master of Architecture, she has had a string of accomplishments. Her time while earning her degree in architecture exposed her to the state of our environment. With growing knowledge

October 12, 2021 – Dr. Christopher Combs, Dee Howard Endowed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UTSA, recently secured a grant of roughly $1.5 million to study modeling and experimental measurements of hypersonic separation events. The grant, awarded by the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) in collaboration with the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

OCTOBER 6, 2021 – Estefania Barajas graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture in 2018 and is now working toward her graduate degree at Rice University. Earlier this year, Barajas used her knowledge to create an edible planter box. According to Barajas, “an edible planter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 – Dr. Guenevere Chen, Assistant Professor of the College of Engineering and Integrated Design’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently secured a grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) totaling approximately $5 million. The grant will fund research by the Consortium On National Critical

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 – UTSA’s School of Architecture and Planning proudly presents the first event of its 2021-2022 Speaker Series, to be held on September 29, 2021 at 5:30pm at UTSA’s Downtown Campus and online. We welcome Roadrunners and the broader community to join us as Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 – The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is expanding the Transfer Academy for Tomorrows Engineers (TATE) Dual Enrollment Program across Texas this fall. Leaders from both the UTSA College of Engineering and Integrated Design and Blinn College District Engineering Department have signed a memorandum of understanding to provide Blinn engineering

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 — A UTSA researcher is part of a collaboration that has set a world record for innovation in quantum computing. The accomplishment comes from R. Tyler Sutherland, an assistant professor in the College of Sciences’ Department of Physics and Astronomy and the College of Engineering and Integrated Design’s Department of Electrical Engineering, who developed the