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The Graduate School and the Office of Inclusive Excellence are pleased to announce the next Transdisciplinary Team Grand Challenge: Social Justice. The events of 2020 have exposed to many people that disparities by race, gender, economic station, and region in access to healthcare, housing, education, and employment continue to be highly prevalent across society. 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 come up with solutions for current issues of discrimination and equity in today's society.
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 social justice. Project proposals can cover a wide variety of topical areas, including but not limited to immigration, criminal justice and policing, access to healthcare, labor practices such as hiring and wages, 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:
Dr. Anderson from the Office of Inclusive Excellence will provide two Q&A sessions including a brief overview of social justice, and participants will have the opportunity to engage with questions during the discussion.
DATE: September 29, 2020 at 2:30 PM
ACTION ITEM: Register here.
DATE: October 1, 2020 at 4:00 PM
ACTION ITEM: Register here.
DATE: October 16, 2020
ACTION ITEM: Notice of Intent due. For guidelines and submission information, click here.
DATE: November 23, 2020
ACTION ITEM: Proposals due. For information regarding required deliverables, click here.
DATE: December 15, 2020
INFORMATION: Awards announced. See full list of winners here.
DATE: January 15, 2021
INFORMATION: Funds awarded.
If you have further questions about this opportunity, please contact Dr. Rebecca Weston at Rebecca.Weston@utsa.edu.
