"From Salty to Sip-Worthy: Desalination Breakthroughs Seed Funding: Banerjee and Dhir Scaling Desalination for Disaster and Rural Applications To address critical water shortages in Texas, Dr. Debjyoti Banerjee, Mechanical Engineering Professor at Texas A&M University, James J. Cain '51 Faculty Fellow, and Texas A&M Energy Institute Faculty Affiliate; along with Dr. Vijay Dhir, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, former Dean of the University of California, Los Angeles Henry Sa

Robert Ambrose , Swaminathan Gopalswamy , and Lucas Krakow , The College of Engineering, were awarded a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for a project titled “TA 4 TO# 3: extreme terrain operation and recovery (extor) with physically cooperating robotic vehicles.”

The National Science Foundation has revised their Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) . The new PAPPG will be effective for proposals submitted or due on or after May 20, 2024. While this version of the PAPPG becomes effective on May 20, 2024, in the interim, the guidelines contained in the current PAPPG (NSF 23-1) continue to apply, NSF will present information about these changes in a webinar on March 12th at 2 PM EST. Sign up on the Policy Office outr