The INSIDER - Fall 2022

DR. QUAZI SERVES AS NSF PRESENTER & PANELIST

Dr. Sohel Quazi (right) presents at the 2022 NSF Campus Cyberinfrastructure PI Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) hosted the 2022 Campus Cyberinfrastructure Principal Investigator (PI) Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota from September 19 through September 21. Among the list of renowned scholars presenting at the conference was Texas College’s Sohel Quazi, PhD, Division of Natural and

Computational Sciences Assistant Professor. His presentation to this academic community surrounded the current work on his recently awarded $100,000 NSF Planning Grant titled “Re - constructing the Campus Cyberinfrastructure of a Small, Liberal Arts HBCU in Order to Maximize STEM Innovation and Integration.” Through this grant, Dr. Quazi aims to enhance the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) throughout the Texas College campus, as well as across disciplines, to maximize outcomes in the preparation of students for entry into, and excellence in performance, in STEM graduate and professional programs. Texas College is currently utilizing the planning grant to complete an assessment of its current infrastructure in order to identify the elements needed to reconstruct the system to better accommodate the delivery of STEM and liberal arts subject matter, which allows for research that will propel Texas College students to excel in STEM graduate programs. The broader impact of the grant will generate not merely information, but actual knowledge that can advance STEM achievement among the country’s 5,228 liberal arts colleges within the United States, including the ten liberal arts HBCUs.

Dr. Sohel Quazi

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