2010 annual report - Texas Southern University

Renaissance researCHEight TSU students presented research papers at Rice University for the Rice Graduate Symposium.From left to right: Dr. Brooks de Vita, Sabrina Curtis, Alexandra Dairo-Brown, Ashley Alexander,D’Aundra McCoy, Jyme Roundtree, Alfonso Arteaga and Toni Walker (not pictured).Student ResearcherMeijun Liu (Graduate Student in the Department of Transportation Studies, COST) was selected to receive theThurgood Marshall College Fund /Department of Energy Graduate Student Technology Research Award. The programis designed to foster and support fundamental research to expand the scientific foundations for new and improvedtechnologies. It also emphasizes the importance of fundamental research in material sciences, chemistry, geosciencesand physical biosciences. Liu will receive a $5,000 grant from TMCF to be applied towards her research project.The Department of English Hosts “Multi-Cultural Voices in Literature and the Arts of the 1920’s:An Interdisciplinary Symposium”The Department of English at Texas Southern University hosted the Twelfth Annual Interdisciplinary McClearySymposium, in March of 2010. The general topic of the presentations, “Multi-Cultural Voices in Literature and theArts of the 1920’s,” focused on scholarly research and presentations in several areas, including: The Harlem Renaissance,The Lost Generation, Moderism in Literature, Art, and Music, Post WWI Thought, Expatriate Artists, Literature andWar, The Anti-war novel/short story and Surrealism.Research Week 2010The Research Week 2010 (RW 2010) program, “Improving Research Initiatives through Collaborations”, sponsoredby the Office of Research occurred on April 5–9, 2010. The program welcomed visiting scientists, faculty, students andcommunity supporters and was designed to enhance research development for faculty of TSU through training andincreased collaborative research efforts. Drawing from this focus, the overall goal of the program was to communicateto internal and external constituents the intellectual research resources present in the various disciplines at TSU.The program proved to be an exciting time on the campus of TSU as external and internal colleagues from theUniversity of Houston (UH) Central Campus, National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA), the HoustonTechnology Center, the University of Kentucky and Agilent Technologies presented and shared in their respectiveareas of expertise.13