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The Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Economic Development, and Knowledge Enterprise (VPREDKE) are pleased to announce the COVID-19 Transdisciplinary Team Grand Challenge. In light of the upheaval due to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers around the globe now face the challenging task of solving myriad problems associated with its impact. Issues of this magnitude cannot be solved by researchers in an individual discipline alone. Therefore, the goal of this challenge is to assemble teams of UTSA graduate students from various disciplines that will develop proposals for transdisciplinary concept projects to address issues associated with the pandemic.
Teams should be formed in groups of 3-5 students from at least two different programs in two different colleges. Student groups will work together on a transdisciplinary proposal to address an issue associated with the pandemic. Project proposals can cover a wide variety of topical areas, including but not limited to economic or societal impacts, vaccine and treatment development, the preservation of civil and human rights, cybersecurity, communication strategies, scientific approaches towards understanding the biology of the infection, and more.
For a full list of rules, guidelines, and deadlines please click here.
It is anticipated that three teams will be awarded, subject to available resources.
If you are interested in competing in the challenge, please make sure you are eligible and understand the guidelines and deadlines:
DATE: May 15, 2020
ACTION ITEM: Letter of Intent due. For guidelines and submission information, click here.
DATE: June 1, 2020
ACTION ITEM: Community partner identified.
DATE: July 15, 2020
ACTION ITEM: Proposals due. For information regarding required deliverables, click here.
DATE: August 15, 2020
INFORMATION: Awards announced. See full list of winners here.
DATE: September 15, 2020
INFORMATION: Funds awarded.
If you have further questions about this opportunity, please contact Dr. Rebecca Weston at Rebecca.Weston@utsa.edu.
