2022-2023 President's Annual Report

Nൺඍංඈඇൺඅ Sർංൾඇർൾ Fඈඎඇൽൺඍංඈඇ Pൺඋඍංർංඉൺඍංඈඇ

Dr. Iakhiav, Professor in the Division of Natural and Computation Sciences, continues significant efforts through grantsmanship with the National Science Foundation. His success has led to him receiving an award for a Catalyst Project of the Identification of New Regulators of Endothelial Protein C Receptor Functions . As PI (Principal Investigator) he has previous research experience and more than 30 publications in peer - reviewed scientific magazines. This work is carried out at Texas College (TC), where the focus is on undergraduate education. The PI adjusted his research goals to align them with courses he is teaching and ensuring that the research can be completed with available resources. As a result, Dr. Iakhiaev focused on the interdisciplinary research in computational biology and physics, which employs the data science approaches, including

mathematical modeling, computer simulations, and machine learning, for solving the scientific problems related to the STEM courses. The research goals are to advance scientific research and establish a sustainable interdisciplinary undergraduate research program at TC. This project is one more step toward establishing the research program and involve TC students in undergraduate research. This project will be carried out in collaboration with the laboratory lead by Dr. Rao from research - intensive institution of the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler. The collaboration with The University of Texas greatly enhances TC's research capacity by gaining access to world - class computational resources and research infrastructure. The education goal is to enhance students’ learning by involving under - represented students majoring in STEM disciplines in the scientific research and improving the curriculum of STEM - related courses. Dr. Sohel Quazi, Assistant Professor in the Division of Natural and Computational Science was awarded $100,000.00 from the National Science Foundation under the Capacity Planning Grant for Re - Constructing the campus Cyberinfrastructure of a Small, Liberal Arts HBCU in Order to Maximize STEM Innovation and Integration . The main focus of the

project continues to be beneficial to the subject areas of computer information science and engineering. As institutions of higher learning return to normality, a paradigmatic shift has occurred, thus little attention has been paid to the alterations and modifications that may be needed in the Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC) of a small, private liberal arts college in order to maximize outcomes in the preparation of students for entry into, and excellence in performance, in STEM graduate and professional programs. Texas College will utilize the planning grant to complete an assessment of its current infrastructure in order to identify the elements needed in order to reconstruct the system to better accommodate the delivery of STEM (Science, Math, Engineering, Technology) and

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