100 A&M projects receive $3 million from T3 Round 4
Texas A&M Triads for Transformation (T3) has closed its fourth round, providing $3 million in seed funding for 100 innovative and interdisciplinary research projects, each led by a three-member team of Texas A&M University faculty members, the Division of Research announced today.
Funded projects include investigations or improvements in a wide range of areas, including automobile technology, COVID-19 and cancer research, virtual simulation, artificial intelligence, emission reduction, neuroscience, biodiversity, social networks, space exploration and more.
A complete list of funded Round 4 projects is available at the T3 website.
“The T3 program inspires innovative collaboration among Texas A&M’s exceptional faculty members by creating new pathways between academic colleges and schools,” Vice President for Research Mark A. Barteau said. “This process forges new and dynamic relationships between research teams that lead to innovative approaches and solutions to globally challenging problems.”
T3, an initiative of the 10-year, $100 million President’s Excellence Fund, invests $3 million each year in 100 faculty-led projects at $30,000 each. Funded projects are designed for completion within 12 to 24 months.
Round 4 of the T3 program began in October 2020, and closed in mid-December 2020.
Each year, the T3 program invites all of Texas A&M’s tenured or tenure-track faculty to submit project ideas, which are posted online for all eligible A&M faculty members to review. To qualify for funding, a project leader must attract two other faculty members to form a Triad, which must include members from at least two different A&M colleges or schools. A semi-random process then selects 100 projects for funding from the pool of qualified Triads; this process is weighted toward Triads that include at least one assistant professor. Of the 300 faculty members funded in T3’s Round 4, 109 are assistant professors, 92 associate professors and 99 professors.
Funded Triads for all four rounds included faculty members from 16 A&M colleges and schools, University Libraries and the branch campuses in Galveston and Qatar.
