Grants, Awards, & Books

News Release 2-Mar-2020
Researcher receives grant to study effects of hypersonic shock waves
Chris Combs, the Dee Howard Endowed Assistant Professor in UTSA's Department of Mechanical Engineering, is one of 40 young researchers who will receive a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research's Young Investigator Research Program.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research's Young Investigator Research Program

News Release 24-Feb-2020
Isabelle Guyon, Bernhard Schölkopf and Vladimir Vapnik win the BBVA Frontiers Award in ICT
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communications Technology category has gone in this twelfth edition to Isabelle Guyon, Bernhard Schölkopf and Vladimir Vapnik, for their 'fundamental contributions to machine learning,' in the words of the committee. The methods they developed in artificial intelligence are 'transforming the everyday world, improving fields as diverse as medical diagnosis, computer vision, natural language processing and the monitoring of climate change.'

News Release 20-Feb-2020
Culture-bearing women
This study examines the Black Women's Renaissance (BWR) - the flowering of literary talent among African American women at the end of the 20th century.