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"Marcos Flores and Haley E. Hagg were named the Barry M. Goldwater Scholars. This is a national competition of college sophomores and juniors, with 60 Scholars annually, with most winners from institutions such as Caltech, Stanford or MIT. Lindsey Cameron, an African American undergraduate received the US Department of Defense Scholarship until the completion of her undergraduate education. She has also received the Smithsonian Fellowship in Physics and is one of the Coca-Cola National Young Science Talents."
Dr. Witold Brostow of University of North Texas
"The results obtained and the software and algorithms developed in the research done under this grant has enabled us to obtain a grant for $515,268 from the National Science Foundation for follow on work which applies the algorithms and software to adaptive control of distributed systems."
Dr. James Browne of The University of Texas at Austin
"Having this grant allowed me to be well positioned for receiving a major NSF grant. Indeed, in February 2002 I received a 4-year NSF grant in the sum of $605,000."
Dr. Walter Burggren of University of North Texas
" . . . this grant has opened unforeseen channels of communication between UTD and our commercial partners at Zyvex and Plexon involving additional engineers and neuroscientists. Our regular meetings have grown to include specialists in miniaturization, radio-frequency identification and advanced signal processing techniques. These interactions have greatly refined our plans for next generation probes and have focused our vision toward the most commercially attractive final product. In particular, we have identified alternative applications that increase the potential market for a version of our brain probe that is less difficult to manufacture. We have developed an improved strategy for brain signal acquisition that employs our brain probes but far surpasses current trends in the field. The commitment of the THECB embodied in this grant has encouraged Zyvex to take this project more seriously."
Dr. Lawrence Cauller of The University of Texas at Dallas
"Blythe King was an undergraduate student who worked in our lab in the summer/Fall of 2000. She won a highly prestigious scholarship (Bill Gates Millennium Scholars program) to finish her undergraduate work at Columbia University in New York. Her success in winning this scholarship was facilitated by having worked on the project in my lab which in turn was facilitated by the ARP (Advanced Research Program) grant. I am pleased to report that Blythe will be returning to Texas to our lab and plans to apply to the Ph.D. program here in Pharmacology. This is significant because Blythe can choose to attend graduate school anywhere in the country (Columbia has been pressuring here to stay). Yet Blythe choose to come to us because of her good experience in our lab which was made possible in part by the ARP grant."
Dr. William Clarke of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
"Experience in the project helped to propose and achieve two contracts: Total Maximum Daily Load Project Area 1 ($3,600,000) and Centre for Research Excellence in Science and Technology ($5,000,000)."
Dr. Andrew Ernest of Texas A&M University - Kingsville
"This has been a highly successful and cost effective project. The ARP (Advanced Research Program) award has made possible the reconditioning of our synchrotron radiation bemline facility and up-grading of our on-campus resources for photoelectron spectroscopy by adding a new high-performance electron energy analyzer, developed under ATP (Advanced Technology Program) support, and a high-intensity resonance lamp source. Without this support our highly-successful 20 year program of synchrotron radiation/electron spectroscopy research would have ended due to obsolete and severely run-down instrumentation. Comparable new instrumentation would have cost $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 (conservatively). By upgrading and reconditioning existing facilities, we now have excellent facilities at a fraction of the cost, and have provided support for several undergraduate and graduate students who participated in the project."
Dr. James Erskine of The University of Texas at Austin
"Photodigm, formed to commercialize the GSE lasers being developed and transferred on this TDT grant, now employs about 20 full time employees along with several consultants and contractors in a 20,000 square foot facility in Richardson, TX. Investors in Photodigm include Corning, TriQuint, West Staeg and several venture capital firms. TriQuint has recently donated cleanroom components to SMU (Southern Methodist University) which reduces the cost of installing a clean room in the new Jerry Junkins Electrical Engineering building from about $1,500,000 to less than $500,000 . . . As part of the intellectual property agreement with SMU, Photodigm provides $125,000 to SMU and combined with net income (above operating costs) of ~ $75,000 from clean room usage fees . . ."
Dr. Gary Evans of Southern Methodist University
"The project allowed me to obtain sufficient preliminary results on the CikA protein to get a large 4-year grant ($751,500) from NIH for the project. I had no other funding to support personnel to get the needed preliminary work done to justify the grant. The project has strengthened my collaborative work with a scientist at UC-Davis who is providing us with some very important reagents that will speed the work in the coming year."
Dr. Susan Golden of Texas A&M University
"I used our research in South Texas as the basis of recruitment talks to recruit at a community college and an undergraduate institution. This resulted in several students enrolling at TAMU (Texas A&M University) in the Geology & Geophysics department in the undergraduate and graduate programs."
Dr. Bruce Herbert of Texas A&M University
"The support from this ATP project has been instrumental in developing a testing methodology to study structural integrity of plastic high-density area-array packages. This is an important reliability concern for packaging development and the project has attracted a good deal of interest from the semiconductor industry and has led to research contracts and in-kind support from Semiconductor Research Corporation, Texas Instruments, Motorola and 3M Corporation, with total funding exceeding $300,000."
Dr. Paul Ho of The University of Texas at Austin
"The collaboration with our industrial partners, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Texas Instruments, Motorola and 3M has yielded great benefits to this project. Specifically, SRC has provided funding to support research program and graduate students. Texas Instruments and Motorola have provided funding for students and test structures to evaluate interfacial fracture in low k interconnects. Together we have developed a research laboratory for graduate students to work closely with the microelectronic industry and an experimental facility for the industry to investigate reliability problems for high-density plastic packages."
Dr. Paul Ho of The University of Texas at Austin
"I was awarded a large NIH grant to continue our studies on mitochondrial protein import, based in large part on the preliminary data that we were able to gather while being supported by this TARP grant. The total amount of the NIH award is $1,267,595 over four years. Thus, the TARP grant functioned as it was designed: it was an investment that led to establishing a new research program that is funded by NIH."
Dr. Arthur E. Johnson of Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
“The work done under this ATP (Advanced Technology Program) shows exactly the power of this program. A new problem arose that had to be solved to see the commercialization of our original technology and offered new opportunities for technology development. We were able to jump on the opportunity right away and now have a totally new commercial opportunity. We improved on two new technologies for immune regulation. One was inducible vaccines. We have shown that we can introduce a vaccine at one point and induce the immune response at a later point. The second was genetic tolerization. We showed that immunization with a antigen in a specific way tolerizes the mice to the antigen. We showed that this system can relieve inflammation of the heart in a mouse model system. Finally, we added a new aim of making genetic immunization work in primates and humans. We have made progress and have purchased the monkeys to conduct the trial. Patents were filed on all three technologies and the licensing is under negotiations."
Dr. Stephen Johnston of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
"Astronomical observations supported with this grant were crucial to the success of a proposal to the NSF which resulted in a grant of $281,100."
Dr. John Lacy of The University of Texas at Austin
"Some results of this project have generated interest with Federal defense agencies and helped win two large programs (total external funding of $2,250,000)."
Dr. Han Le of University of Houston
"The undergraduate student, Mr. Brad Holmes, was awarded an NSF fellowship directly as a result of his proposal to work on the project described in this grant."
Dr. Andy LiWang of Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
"One of the students (Hugo Valle) who worked on this project recently graduated in May 2002 with a Bachelor's degree in physics. He is currently employed as a high school science teacher with the Hidalgo School District. He will be joining, along with the other students in fall 2002 to take graduate courses in physics. Another student, Allan Figueroa who worked on this ARP (Advanced Research Program) project received an Outstanding Presentation Award at the Texas Section APS meeting in October 2001. This is in fact the first time in the history of UTPA, that a physics student has received an APS award. He obtained a prestigious research internship position this summer at IBM (Austin). Another student, Akash Dania who participated in this research project also obtained a summer internship position in industry. He went to work for AMD at Austin."
Dr. Akhtar Mahmood of The University of Texas–Pan American
"Initial results from the 1999 ARP Award "Designer Protein Synthesis via Novel Enzyme Engineering" to Susan Martinis and James Briggs has already attracted significant external national and international funding beginning in the year 2001. A four-year grant for over $900,000 was awarded by the National Institutes of Health to collaborators Martinis and Briggs. A second three-year grant for $750,000 sponsored by the Human Frontiers Science Program funds an international team comprised of the laboratories of Dr. Martinis at the University of Houston and leading scientists from Tokyo Japan, Grenoble France, and UT-Austin."
Dr. Susan Martinis of University of Houston
“In part because of work supported by this grant, we have been awarded a National Science Foundation IGERT Award in Cellular Engineering. It is for research training and for $2,500,000 over five years. The program is excellent in making investments in high-risk research."
Dr. Larry McIntire of Rice University
"Equipment loaned to us by Motorola was crucial in the success of the channel measurement stage of this project. It would have cost us over $100,000 and several months of time to obtain this equipment on our own. In addition, Motorola sent us one of their engineers for two days to train us on how to us the equipment. Also, Boeing allowed us to perform propagation measurements in one of their large commercial aircrafts. This allowed us to generate data that very few researchers would be able to obtain."
Dr. Scott Miller of Texas Engineering Experiment Station
"The current ATP (Advanced Technology Program) project has allowed us to receive the following federal grant (NSF, $493,762), a TDT (Technology Development and Transfer) grant and a project from a company (Kestrel Corporation) willing to match a TDT grant ($160,000) that will result in licensing the technology developed."
Dr. Sunanda Mitra of Texas Tech University
"One aspect of this project is related to application of interstitial heating for promotion of angiogenesis in the heart. This has been licensed to CardioFocus. So far UTMB (The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) has received three payments (a total of about $100,000) as part of technology transfer agreement that it has signed with CardioFocus. CardioFocus has continued to demonstrate commitment to the development of the proposed technology. During the past 2 years, the company continued to provide a licensing fee to our institution and encourage filing additional patent applications that the company plans to license as part of the original agreement that the company has with UTMB. Considering the progress we have made in our project, the company has expressed interest in providing additional support to continue the critical studies that are needed to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach in large animal studies and develop the appropriate technology for promoting angiogenesis in heart."
Dr. Massoud Motamedi of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
“The support provided by the Advanced Technology Program grant has allowed us to continue our research project on post-transplant tumor vaccines. Because of the ongoing progress made possible by this grant, additional data was generated on the subject which was critical in obtaining a 4-year, highly competitive American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant ($913,000). This will allow the project to continue to be productive for at least 4 years after completion of the THECB ATP grant.”
Dr. Craig Mullen of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
"With preliminary data from this project, we were able to secure a large federal grant from USDA under the Initiative for Future Agricultural and Food Systems (IFAFS) program. The grant was awarded in the Fall of 2000 for $4,100,000, and partners Texas A&M University with the University of Florida and the University of California at Davis in a four-year-long consortium effort to improve the safety of fruits and vegetables in all three states."
Dr. Elsa Murano of Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
"This project allowed me to apply for and obtain a large federal grant ($648,000) that expands the originally proposed investigations to include the effects of developmental cadmium exposure on cocaine/heroin self-administration. In addition, I have received a supplemental grant from NIDA ($150,000) to look at the effects of early metal exposure on acquisition of the initial habit of selecting for a psychoactive drug. Finally, I have two minority graduate students joining our laboratory (Angelica Runno; Rodrigo Valles) and they will be supported by NIH on a special Texas Neuroscience Minority Consortium grant. All this was made possible by the ARP (Advanced Research Program) award."
Dr. Jack Nation of Texas A&M University
"We appreciate the support of this project. We would not have been able to pursue this work without ARP (Advanced Research Program) support and obtained NASA ($166,087) support. We have also used this experimental approach in a biodefense proposal to the NIH. The support of the ARP program has been extremely valuable to our efforts.
Dr. David Niesel of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
“. . . funding from the Advanced Technology Program provided the resources to validate our approach and to seek from the NIH funding on a larger scale. . . . This grant was funded ($1,419,534). The ATP monies thus were instrumental in obtaining a large award from the NIH.”
Dr. Michael Norgard of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
"Texas Instruments has donated an Applied Materials Centura plasma etcher. It is in excellent condition with all the required peripherals and has an estimated new value of $2,700,000. This will certainly help us to further investigate industrially important plasmas in the future.”
Dr. Lawrence Overzet of The University of Texas at Dallas
"The P.I. submitted an RO1 grant to the NIH based on the studies in this proposal. The first round of reviews enabled preparation of an excellent grant that was resubmitted. The data obtained as a result of the ATP (Advanced Technology Program) grant were very helpful in addressing the criticisms of the previous review. This grant ranked in the top 4th percentile and was funded for the full amount of $1,800,000 beginning in April 2002. Without the ATP funds, we would never have been able to enter this new area of research and get competitive funding! The ATP program is a terrific asset to research and education and both awards I have won, have been tremendously valuable in leveraging new funds from NIH.
Dr. Pragna Patel of Baylor College of Medicine
“This financial support has allowed my lab to generate important data about how endocrine cancers develop due to mutations in the Menin protein. We anticipate producing several more strong publications and further developing a rich training environment for cancer biologists.”
Dr. Curt Pfarr of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
"My research with ATP project focused on the effectiveness of recycled materials for providing comprehensive stabilization of expansive soils of Texas. I was able to use this research experience to write two strong research proposals to National Science Foundation and City of Arlington, Arlington, Texas. Both proposals received funding early this year (total $302,211). I strongly believe my research experience with ATP helped me in writing more focused research proposals."
Dr. Anand Puppala of The University of Texas at Arlington
"The project work prepared me to win a National Science Foundation CAREER award with $300,000 in the area of process monitoring and control. Three of my current graduate students are now applying the developed methods at AMD Fab 25 in Austin Texas for fault detection of chip manufacturing. One of my graduate students worked on this project applied the proposed multivariate method to a refinery in Indonesia which detected a large process failure 2 days before the operator had noticed, preventing a potential accident from happening."
Dr. Joe Qin of The University of Texas at Austin
"The U.S. DOE has indicated that they will provide $450,000 to perform pilot plant testing of the process concepts developed by this project. The testing will be performed in two 18-inch columns located at the Pickle Research Center in Austin. Six companies have provided additional funding for this project."
Dr. Gary Rochelle of The University of Texas at Austin
"The project provided the basic science to win a four year BRP award from the NIH." ($1,580,000 in external funding reported)
Dr. H. Grady Rylander of The University of Texas at Austin
"Although education is not the primary objective of TDT (Technology Development and Transfer) grants, we have had the good fortune to utilize our Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board supported Hyperspectral Imaging microscope as an exceptional teaching tool. Mr. Robert (Bob) Wyatt is a science teacher within the Irving school district. He has been supported to work part-time on this project throughout the school year and full-time during two summers through a THECB Teacher Supplement. As a result, Bob has become very familiar with our instrument and it’s medical and research capabilities. He has brought his high school honors and advanced placement to our university to demonstrate the power of this investigative tool. For many of these students the concepts of doing applied research, of interactions between the corporate and university sectors, and of the potentials for scientific careers in industry have proven more interesting than the actual scientific concepts that underlie our imaging technologies."
Dr. Roger Schultz of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
"Undergrad Physics BS Student Marcelo Alvarez won admissions with financial support to several of the leading Astronomy Ph.D. programs in the U.S., including Johns Hopkins Univ., Ohio State Univ., U. of Illinois, and UT Austin, based upon his involvement in numerical simulations for this project. In 2000-2001 he started graduate school in the Astronomy Ph.D. program at UT Austin, thanks to his strong interest in continuing participation in the ARP (Advanced Research Program) project with PI Shapiro and Co-PI Martel, and is now Shapiro's Ph.D. student. Ph.D. student Marcelo Alvarez has been awarded a highly selective, 4-year, Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship to pursue Ph.D. studies with P.I. Shapiro, on the strength of his abilities and accomplishments demonstrated by his involvement in this ARP project."
Dr. Paul Shapiro of The University of Texas at Austin
"Bati Myles, an African-American undergraduate student who has been working on the project, was able to win a Mellon Undergraduate Fellowship, which has supported her continued participation in the project. Her success at winning this fellowship was based on the outstanding work that she had already done on the project."
Dr. Charles Stewart of Rice University
"Our continued success during this project helped us in obtaining a large grant from the Texas Instruments, Inc. ($225,000). We also received substantial funding from the National Science Foundation ($250,000). We are working closely with Enova Systems Inc, a California based company specialized in hybrid vehicles' drive trains to transfer our technology developed under this grant to them.”
Dr. Hamid Toliyat of Texas Engineering Experiment Station
"Dr. Chen, a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. The sum of the award is $82,000 over two years. The fellow ship was based in large measure on work that could not have been pursued without ARP (Advanced Research Program) funding to support his research activities."
Dr. Glenn Toney of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
"The PI strongly feels that Texas Coordinating Board support for this research has been ESSENTIAL to its success to date. The industrial collaborators are impressed that the State is investing significantly in this research, and it has been a strong selling point for their decision to collaborate. A spin-off application of the sensor and navigation system funded by the current ARP has been picked up by aerial refueling systems giant Sargent-Fletcher, Inc. A licensing agreement with TAMU is nearly complete, in which the Vision-Based Navigation System (VisNav) will form the primary relative position sensor and algorithms of a new system designed to enable autonomous probe-and-drogue aerial refueling of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) for the United States Navy. This system will permit UAVs to safely and reliably refuel in the air from other aircraft, without human supervision or intervention. The Department of Defense anticipates the potential cost savings and operational flexibility provided by this capability to be of major significance in future UAV operations."
Dr. John Valasek of Texas Engineering Experiment Station
“This grant was critical for allowing the PI to obtain a large ($2,200,000) R01 grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to study leptospirosis in the Peruvian Amazon. The concepts of the ATP (Advanced Technology Program) grant and that of the NIH-funded project are similar: what animals transmit leptospirosis to people.”
Dr. Joseph Vinetz of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
"The funds that I received from the ARP (Advanced Research Program) were instrumental in providing the preliminary data that was essential for obtaining the three foundation grants (total of $717,000) and successfully renewing my NIH program project ($709,000)."
Dr. Edward Wakeland of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
"The ARP (Advanced Research Program) award established a fact of active interactions among investigators, which enables us to successfully obtain a federal grant from the National Cancer Institute. The award amount is $654,321, which is among the largest grants awarded to statistical methodology RO1 proposal."
Dr. Naisyin Wang of Texas A&M University
"A graduate student working on the ARP funded project won a travel award to present her research at the American Chemical Society and the Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native Americans in Science National Meetings. After attending these meetings she decided to pursue a PhD in Biochemistry."
Dr. Linette Watkins of Texas State University - San Marcos
"The PI was able to recruit an ex-MS student (Brijesh Rao) away from industry to begin his PhD program with funding from this project. A masters student (Deepak Warrier) funded by this project is expected to finish his MS degree this summer and will begin his PhD program this fall with funding from this project. A second MS student (Guhan Subbarayan) who is being funded will complete his degree next May. The project has generated a considerable amount of interest among students and two additional MS students (Sharath Bulusu and Javier Hernandez) have contributed to the project without being supported as a means of completing the projects required for their degrees. They will both graduate this summer and the PI has recruited one of them (Sharath Bulusu) to begin his PhD program this fall with funding from the project."
Dr. Wilbert Wilhelm of Texas Engineering Experiment Station
“I am deeply appreciative to the ATP (Advanced Technology Program) for funding an exploratory project at an early point in discovery and development. This particular award has boosted our undergraduate genetics majors into early research recognition and into the finest graduate program. It has provided graduate students with their own publications - one of them received a Sloan Fellowship. This project has exceeded its research goals. In addition, this project has resulted in publications and manuscript in journal review, an international workshop and distinguished lecture series, a Senior Fulbright Award, a Guggenheim Award, a book contract with Cambridge University Press, an award from the German Academic Exchange (DAAD), one undergraduate research prize, a Sloan Fellowship, federal grant proposals and two workshop awards, classroom data for honors population genetics and a patent disclosure to the Texas A&M System. This has been the most productive research award that our conifer research group at TAMU has received to date."
Dr. Claire G. Williams of Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
"I am proud to say that the availability of this (Advanced Technology Program) grant allowed me to recruit two terrific graduate students. These young men are among the very best in the nation and they had offers to attend graduate school at several other top institutions. They chose to come to the University of Texas to work on this problem. The work led to a summer internship for one of the students at ETEC Corporation in Hayward, CA. There, Andrew Jamieson managed to complete a study of low voltage electron beam exposure of a silicon resist material that led to production of very small, nanometer scale images. The work was presented by Andrew at an International Conference and is the subject of a publication that has been accepted."
Dr. Grant Willson of The University of Texas at Austin
"The two listed as Research Staff are a high school science teacher, Donna Slaughter (Physics and Astronomy) from Stony Point High School in Round Rock, Texas, and a high school senior, David Reaves, from Fort Worth, Texas. They have both made significant contributions to the research and are co-authors on the conference proceeding listed, two more, which we are preparing for submission, and a refereed journal article also in preparation. The funds to support the high school teacher came from a grant from The Texas Higher Education Board in affiliation with ARP (Advanced Research Proram). The exemplary performance of these two individuals opens the door for future participation by high school students and teachers in this astronomical research at McDonald Observatory.
Dr. Don Winget of The University of Texas at Austin
"Our studies of high-density plasmas as part of the ARP project were largely responsible for two industrial contracts totaling $228,000, in cash, with an additional $150,000, in-kind, from Axcelis Corporation. Axcelis is a leading manufacturer of resist stripping equipment for integrated circuit manufacturing. They have a license to technology developed at UH with their support. This collaboration was essential to the rapid development (in less than 6 months) of the surface wave discharge (SWD) etching system that is critical to the goal of our ATP project."
Dr. John Wolfe of University of Houston
“By leveraging the measurement capabilities we are developing under this ATP (Advanced Technology Program) grant, we have recently received three federal grants totaling $548,000 to study various issues in military communications.”
Dr. Guanghan Xu of The University of Texas at Austin
“By leveraging the measurement capabilities we are developing under this ATP (Advanced Technology Program) grant, we have recently received three federal grants totaling $548,000 to study various issues in military communications.”
Dr. Guanghan Xu of The University of Texas at Austin
"A high school senior student, Thomas Tsai, participated in the genomics project. He presented his work at Texas State Science Fair and won the first prize. Thomas has been accepted by Harvard. He was also offered a scholarship from UT Southwestern Medical School pending his graduation from Harvard."
Dr. Wei Zhang of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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