2021 HT Faculty Grant Award Winners
2021 HT Faculty Grant Award Winners
| Faculty | Grant Title | Description | Amount |
| Rev. Donald Brewington
Dr. Jennifer Miles |
Religious Life/W.E.B. Dubois Scholars 5% Black College Fund 2020 | These programs enhance student persistence and learning outcomes (Religious life and W.E.B. DuBois Honors Programs and President Distinguished Speaker series)
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$62,406.00 |
| Allison Carter | MSI Technology Infrastructure Grant | This program is to assist the institution’s accounting departments with technology and technology related improvements that will help enhance the learning experience for their students who decides to pursue a degree in accounting or finance field.
|
$30,000.00 |
| Dr. Michael Hirsch
Jason Carter |
CARE – Research Pilot Study | The funds support a research pilot study to assess the rates of Black Indigenous and People of Color Communities (BIPOC) participation in ownership of and utilization of businesses that support companion animal ownership. | $10,000.00 |
| Dr. Amanda Masino | Public Health Informatic Technology | Project objectives are to collaborate with (i) develop and implement three public health informatics undergraduate courses and create curriculum resources that can be adapted across the consortium, (ii) integrate undergraduate research training in health disparities, bioinformatics, data science, and public health into the curriculum, and (iii) work with GET PHIT consortium members to support public health internships through co-curricular professional support and mentoring. | $125,000.00 |
| Tommy Mouton | Burdine Johnson Foundation | The English department plans to: scholarship prospective (and current) English majors, develop a department awards program that supports creative and technical/ professional writing scholarship among its majors, and begin an author reading and workshop series for HT students and the metro-Austin community.
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$40,000.00 |
| Dr. Yalin Ning
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Polymerization in Metalloporphyrin Metal Organic Frameworks | The study is to develop a recyclable metalloporphyrin MOFs (metalorganic frameworks) catalyst by means of a synthesis flow utilizing inexpensive starting materials for controlled selective polymerization. The work has the potential to yield a deeper understanding about the coordination environment of porphyrin with different metal centers.
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$298,895.00 |
| Dr. Azubike Okpalaeze | Living and Working with Robots | This program supports Huston-Tillotson’s robotics and further UT-HT collaboration on robotics education and research during the six-year LWR (Living and Working with Robots) project and beyond.
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$10,000.00 |
| Dr. Sarah Santillanes | TDFPS Youth Summit | The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services supports HT by providing logistics and undergraduate planning committee oversight in addition to planning and curriculum support to planning agency. The Supporting Agency will work in accordance with Breakthrough Texas providing support for the Texas Youth Summit which will be held virtually. | $37,488.00 |
| Shawanda Stewart | Labor Trafficking on Texas/Mexico Border | The purpose of this grant is to create digital and physical exhibit that displays artifacts and information about labor trafficking on the Texas/Mexico border. Students will research and create artifacts in linked courses during the fall 2021 semester.
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$5,000.00 |
