The Advancing Next-Gen Faculty Leadership Fellows program has been launched by the Division of Academic Affairs at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The program aims to train a diverse group of academic leaders who will mentor graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in accordance with UTSA’s Carnegie R1 classification.
The success of graduate education is crucial for UTSA to become a top public research university. The program emphasizes structured mentoring, constructive feedback, support for work-life balance, academic freedom, acknowledgment of contributions, and career development opportunities for all trainees.
It mandates mentorship training for all graduate faculty and written agreements to establish expectations within the first year of training.
The plan was developed by a committee consisting of deans from each academic college and representatives from Academic Affairs, Business Affairs, and Research and Economic Development.
Meanwhile, Binghamton University recently shared its plans to transform the Northeast region into a hub for battery technology and manufacturing.
With a significant investment of $114 million secured in 2022 to expand the battery economy in the area, Binghamton is now striving to receive an additional $160 million in funding for the development of the battery industry. The university’s New Energy New York project has been selected as a semifinalist to potentially receive up to $160 million through the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines Competition.
In 2022, Binghamton University secured $113.7 million in funding to establish Battery-NY, a state-of-the-art energy storage hub for technology development, manufacturing, and commercialization, making the Northeast region the epicenter for battery tech and manufacturing.
This includes $50 million in state funding and $63.7 million in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan’s Build Back Better Regional Challenge, awarded by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration.
The Battery-NY hub will focus on researching and developing next-generation batteries and clean energy technologies that can transform the transportation, military, and energy sectors.
The center will be led by Distinguished Professor and 2019 Nobel Prize Winner M. Stanley Whittingham, and Binghamton Associate Vice President Per Stromhaug is expected to create many high-skilled manufacturing jobs over the next decade.
The project cost totals $122 million, and it is part of the broader New Energy New York initiative. The center is expected to open within the next two years, with work set to begin this fall.
Binghamton University’s New Energy New York project is a semifinalist for up to $160M in the @NSF's Regional Innovation Engines Competition! 🔋💰 Thank you @SenSchumer for leading the charge! https://t.co/6MKVNYKchy
— Binghamton University (@binghamtonu) June 22, 2023
The Division of Academic Affairs has announced its 2022–2023 Advancing Next-Gen Faculty Leadership Fellows. Now in its fourth year, the fellowship program is designed to train and develop a new generation of diverse academic leaders at UTSA.
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— UTSA (@UTSA) November 17, 2022
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