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THE HAGLER INSTITUTE ABOUT THE INSTITUTE ABOUT JON L. HAGLER

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FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD

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EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD

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INSTITUTE STAFF

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INSTITUTE ADVOCATES

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ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL

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AFFILIATE MEMBERS

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LEGACY SOCIETY

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ABOUT THE HAGLER FELLOWS THE IMPACT

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RECRUITMENT

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HOW FELLOWS ARE SELECTED

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STUDENT INSPIRATION

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FEATURED ARTICLES THE NEW WAVE OF QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

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TWIN BREAKS SYMMETRY

BY ADDING SYMMETRY

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MODELING ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOELECTRONICS WITH DRUG DELIVERY CAPABILITIES

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THE HAGLER FELLOWS 2021-22 INDUCTEES

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2021-12 FELLOWS

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FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

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CHARTING THE WAY FORWARD

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THE HA G L ER F E L LOW S BRING TO TEXAS A&M THE IR INS PIRATIONAL LOV E FOR D I S CO VERY O F NEW KNOW LEDGE AND A D VA N CEMENT S FOR MANK IND .

J O H N L . J U N K INS

FOUNDING DIRECTOR

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REF LECTI ONS ON TH E F IR ST D EC A D E

BRILLIANT SCHOLARS ARE THE FOUNDATION ON WHICH GREAT UNIVERSITIES BUILD. AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, THE HAGLER INSTITUTE IS THE CORNERSTONE OF THAT FOUNDATION. THE INSTITUTE BRINGS THE WORLD’S FINEST MINDS TO TEXAS A&M TO

of these scholars are members of the national

idea I was determined to pursue. With the tenth

academy of medicine, science, or engineering,

group of fellows chosen, the Hagler Institute for

or have an equivalent honorific in other fields.

Advanced Study is a proven concept that has also

Twelve of the eighty-eight scholars in the first

proven its value. Thanks especially to the support

ten classes have chosen to join Texas A&M’s

of Chancellor John Sharp, President M. Katherine

permanent faculty. If this pattern persists, the

Banks, and consistent support by the executive

number could rise to twenty who join Texas

leaders of Texas A&M over the past decade, as

A&M’s faculty from the Hagler Fellows who came

well as the foresight and generosity of Jon Hagler

to campus during the first decade.

’58, the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study is a permanent part of the future of Texas A&M.

The Hagler Fellows bring to Texas A&M their inspirational love for discovery of new knowledge

By any measure, the Hagler Institute has proven

and advancements for humankind. They add

to be a success. Our staff is small; our presence,

to A&M’s abilities to perform frontier research

large. The returns for Texas A&M are many

and to solve some the world’s most challenging

times the institute’s cost. The institute’s role in

problems. These advancements result not only

enhancing the quality and national reputation of

in educational impacts for A&M’s students but

Texas A&M is unquestioned.

also in enhanced publication opportunities and

In its first ten years, the Hagler Institute has

greatly expanded career options.

attracted eighty-eight of the world’s finest

The collaborative research that the institute

scholars and leaders to Texas A&M for visits of

fosters is only one facet of its impact on our

up to a year, enabling meaningful collaborations

students. Another aspect is giving students

on research and other scholarly activities.

the financial means to focus their time on

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and rigorously vetted to ensure excellence. All

students, and national reputation was just an

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to enhance the quality of Texas A&M’s faculty,

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These scholars are nominated by the faculty

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More than ten years ago, an institute designed

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TEAM WITH OUR OUTSTANDING FACULTY AND STUDENTS.

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“When I helped with start-up money for what is now the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, I couldn’t understand why no one had supported such a great idea before. But I must admit the institute has exceeded my expectations. Indeed, the institute, coupled with the Chancellor’s Research Initiative and the Governor’s University Research Initiative, have been critical in attracting National Academy members to our Texas A&M faculty.”

JOHN SHARP Chancellor The Texas A&M University System

their research programs. As a key

prestigious presence on the Texas

Texas A&M. With encouragement

part of our investment in student

A&M campus on the eighth floor of

of broader college participation in

development, the Hagler Institute

Rudder Tower, near the Memorial

the institute, we are going to make

has funded nearly $3.7 million in

Student Center and Kyle Field

every effort to increase the average

graduate student fellowships during

complexes. The significance of the

number of fellows annually attracted

its first decade, using primarily

institute’s excellence mission has

to the Hagler Institute. The institute

earnings received from the Herman

attracted cash and planned estate

also is expanding its contacts and

F. Heep and Minnie Belle Heep

gift endowments from faculty and

associations with the forty-nine

Foundation Endowment. These

alumni to support future fellows and

academy-level scholars on the A&M

fellowships freed 123 graduate

graduate students. It also inspired

faculty, many of whom did not initially

students from other duties to work

Bill Carter ’69, a successful financier

arrive through the Hagler Institute.

directly with Hagler Fellows on

who has devoted significant time

The institute will facilitate more

frontier research. The institute is

to helping Texas A&M advance in

contact between our outstanding

already committed to funding an

stature, to convey his assessment

faculty and incoming fellows to enrich

additional $630,000 in fellowships

of the Hagler Institute for Advanced

both groups with a greater sense of

for students to work with existing

Study in a letter to Jon Hagler:

community and sharing of ideas.

I honestly believe from an academic

THE NEXT DECADE WILL BE A

perspective, this institute will do

HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT TIME

more to advance academics than any

FOR THE HAGLER INSTITUTE AND

program in A&M’s history.

FOR TEXAS A&M. I AM DEEPLY

Hagler Fellows and plans to support about twenty new graduate students annually in coming years. Fostering of collaborative research and our financial support of students exemplifies our commitment to

The Hagler Institute’s first decade

A&M’s educational mission and to

has been incredibly rewarding

underwriting the accomplishments

and exciting for many faculty

of some of our brightest young

and students, as well as for me

scholars. It also vastly increases the

personally. I am grateful that the

impact of Hagler Fellows on many

institute has earned some key

next-generation leaders across many

support from within the Aggie

disciplines. This approach virtually

network. Now, let’s look to the future,

guarantees that every Hagler Fellow

for we are just getting started.

will make an indelible impact that changes many lives and, in the process, elevates Texas A&M.

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INDIVIDUALS IN THE AGGIE NETWORK WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THE INSTITUTE. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE HAGLER INSTITUTE, I WOULD BE HONORED TO HAVE YOU JOIN ME IN INVESTING IN THE FUTURE EXCELLENCE OF THIS GREAT UNIVERSITY.

As the university enters a new chapter under the leadership of President M. Katherine Banks, we

The institute’s facilities have evolved

anticipate greater opportunities for

from small office spaces to a

the Hagler Institute to accelerate

H A G L E R I N S T I T U T E F O R A D VA N C E D S T U D Y

APPRECIATIVE OF THE MANY

Founding Director Hagler Institute for Advanced Study

ABOUT THE

THE HAGLER INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY IS THE ONLY INSTITUTION OF ITS KIND IN THE UNITED STATES.

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THE HAGLER INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY IS DEVOTED TO THE HIGHEST MEASURE OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE. The Hagler Institute is a cornerstone of

the national academies or having equivalent

academic excellence at Texas A&M and is

stature in other fields. The institute is devoted

renowned among US institutions of higher

to the highest measure of academic excellence.

education. It is the only institute of its kind in

In its first ten years, the institute has helped

the United States. Located in Rudder Tower in

bring eighty-eight Hagler Fellows to Texas A&M,

the heart of the Texas A&M campus, the Hagler

including three Nobel Prize recipients and

Institute serves all colleges, select institutes,

winners of many other prestigious honors.

Texas A&M at Galveston, and A&M’s School

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of Law in Fort Worth. The institute brings the

Now a permanent feature on campus, the

world’s most notable scholars—known as Hagler

Hagler Institute was the idea of its founding

Fellows—to campus for up to one year to inspire

director, John L. Junkins, a university

and collaborate with Texas A&M’s outstanding

distinguished professor in the Department of

faculty and students. A minimum criterion for

Aerospace Engineering and former Texas A&M

selection as a Hagler Fellow is election into

interim president. The concept was proven

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“Congratulations to the Hagler Institute for a decade of successfully recruiting exceptional scholars and scientists to Texas A&M to collaborate on extraordinary research and discovery with our outstanding faculty and students.”

JACK G. BALDAUF Interim Vice President for Research Division of Research

over a five-year period with startup funds provided by Chancellor John Sharp and Texas A&M’s Academic Master Plan. A commitment of continuing A&M funding by then Texas A&M President Michael K. Young and supported by President M. Katherine Banks, along with the resulting significant endowment provided

by Distinguished Alumnus Jon L. Hagler ‘58, ensure the institute’s stability.

The implications for the academic environment at Texas A&M are astounding. In essence, each year the Hagler Institute injects new academic excellence into a variety of fields of study at the university.

The typical fellow now spends more than six months in residence, spread over three years. Within any one year, thirty or more visiting world-class scholars are commonly on the A&M campus. The impact of the Hagler Institute on academic excellence will advance at a pace determined by donor support and by

The Hagler Institute broadly elevates the reputation of Texas A&M by: connecting A&M faculty and students with recognized scholars from across the United States and, thus far, twelve other countries;

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fostering advanced problem solving, research, and publications;

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increasing external research funding through efforts of current and former Hagler Fellows;

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attracting additional world-class scholars to Texas A&M’s faculty as a by-product of their in-residence visits, some using funds from the Governor’s University Research Initiative and the Chancellor’s Research Initiative; and

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attracting new outstanding faculty and students by providing a unique intellectual atmosphere.

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each college’s participation as reflected in fellow nominations.

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J O N L . HA G L E R ’58 IS HIGHLY REGARD ED AND R E S PE CTE D A T THE UNIV ERSITY FOR BOTH H IS LE A DE R S H IP A ND CONTRIBUTIONS TH A T H A VE S PANNED D ECAD ES.

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JON L . HAG LE R

Spirit, One Vision campaign from 2000 to 2006;

nationally as a leader in investment management

co-chaired the university’s 1999 strategic planning

as well as philanthropy. In 1984, he and wife Jo Ann

initiative, Vision 2020: Creating a Culture of Excellence;

founded the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, a private,

served as past chairman and trustee emeritus of the

independent foundation that has financially supported

Texas A&M Foundation Board of Trustees; and was the

Texas A&M as well as multiple philanthropic efforts

leading donor of the Texas A&M Foundation’s campus

across the nation.

headquarters named in his honor.

Hagler has shown an interest in supporting

He has offered valuable guidance as a member of the

overarching initiatives that elevate Texas A&M’s

institute’s external advisory board since its formation

academic stature and contribute to A&M’s long-term success. He is highly regarded and respected at the university for his leadership and contributions, both of which have spanned decades.

Texas A&M recognized Hagler with an honorary doctorate in 2015 and the 2005 Sterling C. Evans Medal for his dedication in supporting Texas A&M. He was named a Texas A&M Distinguished Alumnus in 1999 and is a past member of the board of directors of the Association of Former Students.

and through his generosity has helped make the institute a permanent part of Texas A&M. To ensure prestigious leadership in years ahead, Hagler endowed the director’s chair to provide research support for future directors of the institute.

Hagler received his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M

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Hagler chaired the executive committee of the One

throughout his adult life. Jon L. Hagler is recognized

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His devotion to Texas A&M has been evident

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ON THE A&M CAMPUS.

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ADVANCED STUDY TO ENSURE ITS PERMANENCE AS AN EPITOME OF EXCELLENCE

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JON L. HAGLER ’58 FUNDED A SIGNIFICANT ENDOWMENT FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR

in 1958, was a Corps of Cadets commander during his senior year, and served as a Ross Volunteer. He earned an MBA from Harvard University in 1963.

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FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD THE HAGLER INSTITUTE FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD IS CHARGED WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY OF STUDYING AND ANALYZING THE RECORDS OF NOMINEES FOR THE HAGLER INSTITUTE FELLOWS, ASSESSING THEIR QUALIFICATIONS, AND SELECTING THE SCHOLARS TO BE RECRUITED.

2022 MURRAY BARRICK Mays Business School

FULLER BAZER

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

KAREN L. WOOLEY Three of the nine seats on the Advisory Board are chosen by the university’s provost and the vice president for research. The remaining six seats are chosen by the electorate from among its members.

College of Science

2023 M. CYNTHIA HIPWELL College of Engineering

STEPHEN H. SAFE

College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

DOROTHY SHIPPEN

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

2024 ROBERT KENNICUTT College of Science

GLYNN S. LUNNEY JR. School of Law

JÖRG M. STEINER

College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

“During its first decade, the Hagler Institute has established itself as a powerful and consistent vehicle for elevating our faculty and educating our students. By nurturing long-term collaborations with internationally known scholars, the institute keeps Texas A&M on the vanguard of groundbreaking research.”

M. KATHERINE BANKS President Texas A&M University

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EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD THE HAGLER INSTITUTE EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD ANNUALLY REVIEWS THE ACTIVITIES OF THE HAGLER INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY AT TEXAS A&M TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE, ADVICE, AND RECOMMENDATIONS.

H. NORMAN ABRAMSON

Former Executive Vice President, Southwest Research Institute National Academy of Engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) ASME Medal Recipient AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Award

SUSAN R. BAILEY

Partner, Fort Worth Allergy and Asthma Associates President-elect, American Medical Association Regent Emerita, Texas A&M University System Distinguished Fellow, American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Distinguished Alumnus, The Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University Former President, Texas Medical Association

SHEILA E. WIDNALL

HERBERT H. RICHARDSON

Chancellor Emeritus, The Texas A&M University System Director Emeritus, Texas A&M Transportation Institute University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University National Academy of Engineering ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal

Institute Professor and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Former Secretary of the Air Force National Academy of Engineering American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Former President, AAAS Member, Columbia Accident Investigation Board

RAY ROTHROCK

Emeritus Members

Chairman and CEO, RedSeal, Inc. Venrock, Partner Emeritus Forbes Midas List Former Chair, National Venture Capital Association MIT Corporation, Member UTIMCO, Vice Chairman Distinguished Alumnus, The Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University Director, Check Point Software Technology, Ltd. Director, Roku Inc. Trustee, Carnegie Institute of Science Director, Nuclear Threat Initiative

RONALD L. SKAGGS

Chairman Emeritus and CEO, HKS Inc., Architects/Engineers/Planners President, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Chancellor, AIA College of Fellows Board Chairman and Vice Chair, National Institute of Building Sciences National Academy of Construction Distinguished Alumnus, The Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University

ANITA K. JONES

Professor Emerita, University of Virginia Former Director, Defense Research and Engineering, US Department of Defense National Academy of Engineering Committee Member, Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future Former Vice Chair, National Science Board

LINDA P. B. KATEHI

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University Former Chancellor, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis National Academy of Engineering American Academy of Arts and Sciences Alexander von Humboldt Research Award

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Chairman Emeritus, The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents Trustee, George and Barbara Bush Foundation Former Chairman, Ed Rachal Foundation Former Director, UTIMCO Fellow, American Bar Foundation Inductee, Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets Hall of Honor Fifth Generation Texas Rancher

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Distinguished Visiting Professor, Rice University Former President, Texas A&M University Former Chair, National Science Board Former Division Director and Deputy Director, National Science Foundation

JOHN WHITE

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Vice Chair RAY M. BOWEN

Former Director, GMO Former Chairman, Texas A&M Foundation Board of Trustees Former Co-Chair, Texas A&M’s Vision 2020 Planning Initiative Sterling C. Evans Medal, The Texas A&M Foundation Distinguished Alumnus, The Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University Honorary Doctor of Letters, Texas A&M University

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Former Under Secretary, US Army Former Chair and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation Former President, National Academy of Engineering Committee Chair, Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future National Medal of Technology University of Warwick Distinguished Lecture

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Chair NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE

V. LANE RAWLINS

President Emeritus, University of North Texas Former President, Washington State University Former President, University of Memphis NCAA Board of Directors

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STAFF

JOHN L. JUNKINS Founding Director University Distinguished Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering College of Engineering

CLIFFORD L. FRY Associate Director

ED FRY Deputy Director Associate Department Head for Development Department of Physics and Astronomy College of Science

GEORGE M. PHARR Faculty Liaison Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering College of Engineering

AMANDA SCOTT Assistant Director

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ADVOCATES

ADVOCATES FOR THE HAGLER INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY AT TEXAS A&M CHAMPION THE INSTITUTE TO ANYONE WHO SHARES AN INTEREST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEXAS A&M. IN ADDITION, ADVOCATES IDENTIFY LIKE-MINDED PROSPECTIVE DONORS WHO MAY WANT TO HELP ESTABLISH A

HAROLD AND JANICE ADAMS

CARL F. JAEDICKE ’73

THOMAS W. POWELL ’62

NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE

ANTONY JAMESON

J.N. AND ARUNA REDDY

MIROSLAV BEGOVIC

LINDA P. B. KATEHI

HERBERT H. RICHARDSON

JASON A. BLACKSTONE ’99

CHRISTOPHER LAYNE

JESS C. (RICK) RICKMAN III ’70

RAY M. BOWEN ’58

FRANK LITTLE

JEAN-LOUIS AND JANET BRIAUD

KARIN C. LOFTIN

IGNACIO AND MERCEDES RODRIGUEZ-ITURBE

BILL E. CARTER ’69

R. BOWEN LOFTIN

JERRY S. COX ’72

CAROLYN S. LOHMAN

JOHN L. CROMPTON ’77

GEORGE J. MANN

RONALD A. DEVORE

WILLIAM J. MERRELL JR. ’71

EDWARD S. FRY

RICHARD AND SUSAN MILES

RAM AND ANGELA GALINDO

CHARLES R. MUNNERLYN ’62

J. RICK GIARDINO

ALAN AND WANDA NEEDLEMAN

MELBERN G. GLASSCOCK ’59

H. JOSEPH NEWTON

JANET A. HANDLEY ’76

GERALD R. NORTH

WILLIAM C. HEARN ’63

ERLE A. NYE ’59

RODNEY C. HILL

ELAINE S. AND DANIEL ORAN

M. CYNTHIA HIPWELL

MARCIA ORY

MICHAEL A. HITT

GEORGE AND MARILYN PHARR

B. DON RUSSELL ’70 STEPHANIE W. SALE

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WILLIAM S. SARIC AND HELEN L. REED

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STRONG FINANCIAL FOUNDATION FOR THE INSTITUTE’S MISSION. 1

THOMAS R. SAVING

JAMES M. SINGLETON IV ’66 RONALD L. SKAGGS ’65 MICHAEL L. SLACK ’73 CHRISTINE A. STANLEY ’90 JAMES E. WOMACK KAREN AND MARK WOOLEY STRATOS AND MARIA ZARAI-PISTIKOPOULOS

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A D M I NISTR ATIV E COUNCI L THE HAGLER INSTITUTE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL OVERSEES THE OPERATION OF THE INSTITUTE AND REVIEWS ITS PROGRESS. THE UNIVERSITY’S PROVOST SELECTS THE INSTITUTE’S DIRECTOR.

Chair TIMOTHY P. SCOTT

Interim Provost and Executive Vice President Professor, College of Science

Vice Chair JACK G. BALDAUF

Interim Vice President for Research Professor, College of Geosciences

ROBERT B. AHDIEH

Dean and Anthony G. Buzbee Endowed Dean’s Chair, School of Law Professor, School of Law

JOHN R. AUGUST

Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

KAREN BUTLER-PURRY

Associate Provost and Dean, Graduate and Professional School Professor, College of Engineering

JOHN W. CRAWFORD

Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Division of Finance

SHAWN G. GIBBS

Dean, School of Public Health Professor, School of Public Health

CLARE GILL

Executive Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Research, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

R. DUANE IRELAND

Interim Dean, Mays Business School Benton Cocanougher Chair in Business University Distinguished Professor, Mays Business School

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VALEN JOHNSON

Dean, College of Science University Distinguished Professor, College of Science

DIMITRIS LAGOUDAS

Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering Robert C. “Bud” Hagner Chair of Engineering University Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering

FRED NAFUKHO

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Professor, College of Education and Human Development

KENNETH S. RAMOS

Associate Vice President for Research, Texas A&M Health Executive Director, Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology Director, Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine Alkek Chair of Medical Genetics Professor, College of Medicine

DEBBIE THOMAS

Dean, College of Geosciences Professor, College of Geosciences

JORGE VANEGAS

Dean, College of Architecture Professor, College of Architecture

TYSON VOELKEL

President and CEO Texas A&M Foundation

GENERAL (RET.) MARK A. WELSH III

Dean, Bush School of Government and Public Service Edward and Howard Kruse Endowed Chair Executive Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service

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A FFI L I ATE MEMBERS AFFILIATE MEMBERS ARE NATIONAL ACADEMY SCHOLARS ON THE TEXAS A&M FACULTY WHO DID NOT COME TO TEXAS A&M AS A HAGLER FELLOW. AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP IN THE HAGLER INSTITUTE IS OFFERED TO MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING, AND NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

KYLE T. ALFRIEND

ANTONY JAMESON

DARWIN J. PROCKOP

ROBERT AMBROSE

LINDA P.B. KATEHI

KENNETH S. RAMOS

College of Engineering

Texas A&M Health

MARK A. BARTEAU

PANGANAMALA RAMANA KUMAR

JUNUTHULA N. REDDY

College of Engineering

College of Engineering

DONALD J. DARENSBOURG

DAVID LEE

PETER RENTZEPIS

College of Science

College of Engineering

MARCETTA DARENSBOURG

W. JOHN LEE

HERBERT RICHARDSON

College of Science

College of Science

College of Engineering

College of Engineering

AKHIL DATTA-GUPTA

FRANCES LIGLER

College of Engineering

IGNACIO RODRIGUEZ-ITURBE

College of Engineering

RONALD A. DEVORE

GEORGE LIGLER

College of Engineering

B. DON RUSSELL

College of Science

NANCY W. DICKEY

RICHARD BRYANT MILES College of Engineering

WILLIAM S. SARIC

Texas A&M Health

BONNIE J. DUNBAR

WARREN “PETE” MILLER College of Engineering

MARLAN O. SCULLY

College of Engineering

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College of Engineering College of Engineering

Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering

ALI ERDEMIR

ELAINE S. ORAN

College of Engineering

CHANAN SINGH

YASSIN A. HASSAN

THOMAS J. OVERBYE College of Engineering

PATRICK J. STOVER

College of Engineering

DUDLEY R. HERSCHBACH

RODERIC I. PETTIGREW

School of Engineering Medicine

JAMES E. WOMACK

College of Science

M. CYNTHIA HIPWELL

GEORGE M. PHARR

KAREN L. WOOLEY

College of Engineering

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College of Engineering

College of Medicine

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LEG ACY SOCI E T Y THE LEGACY SOCIETY IS COMPOSED OF FORMER STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, AND FRIENDS OF THE HAGLER INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY WHO HAVE MADE GIFTS OR MADE PROVISIONS FOR PLANNED ESTATE GIFTS TO THE INSTITUTE.

ENDOWMENTS AND CASH GIFTS Signature Donors $10,000,000 or more JON L. HAGLER ’58

HERMAN F. HEEP AND MINNIE BELLE HEEP TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

$1,000,000–$9,999,999 TRISHA AND L.C. “CHAZ” NEELY ’62 THOMAS W. POWELL ’62 ERIC YONG XU ’93

$100,000–$999,999 JERRY (’72) AND KAY COX (’02) FOUNDATION MARY AND CHARLES H. GREGORY ’64 KARIN C. AND R. BOWEN LOFTIN ’71 JUDY AND ROBERT SKELTON BRADLEY L. WORSHAM ’88

ANTHONY J. WOOD ’90 AND SUSAN D. WOOD ’89

$99,999 or less NORM ABRAMSON JEAN-LOUIS AND JANET BRIAUD ALAN NEEDLEMAN KATEPALLI R. SREENIVASAN WILLARD AND ANNE LEVIN FOUNDATION

LEGACY PLANNED ESTATE GIFTS JANET BLUEMEL WALTER AND CHARLOTTE BUCHANAN JUDY AND CLIFFORD FRY ’67 JOHN GLADYSZ

JON L. HAGLER (’58) FOUNDATION ELOUISE AND JOHN L. JUNKINS OZDEN OCHOA ANONYMOUS CHRISTI L. ’98 AND TYSON T. VOELKEL ’96 RODERICK D. STEPP ’59

GRANTS $100,000

THE LYNDE AND HARRY BRADLEY FOUNDATION, INC.

$50,000

ED RACHAL FOUNDATION

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ABOUT THE

TH RO U G H TH E RE C RU I TM E N T O F I TS H A G L E R F E L L O W S , TH E H A G L E R I N S TI TU TE FO R A D V A N C E D S TU D Y RA I S E S TH E P RO FI L E O F TE X A S A & M — N A TI O N A L L Y A N D W O RL D W I D E .

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THE IN S TITUTE’S ANNUAL INFLUX OF TA LE NT ENRICHES T EXAS A&M’ S I NTEL L ECT UAL AT MOSPHERE.

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THE IMPACT

The Hagler Institute for Advanced Study is

associations can fundamentally enhance students’

a beacon of excellence that ensures such

career options.

Texas A&M’s intellectual atmosphere, enhances the quality of academic programs, accelerates solutions to complex research problems, and

lectures that reach a broad audience. In addition, the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study chooses one fellow each semester to present its public Eminent Scholar Lecture.

heightens Texas A&M’s reputation as a top-tier

Although the institute is not designed to recruit

research university.

permanent faculty, the time in residence gives

Another hallmark of a great university is that renowned scholars at other universities want to engage with its faculty and students. The Hagler Institute has proven an important magnet for such engagements at Texas A&M.

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A&M campus. That annual influx of talent enriches

In their host colleges, fellows often present

Hagler Fellows a valuable look at the opportunities and research facilities of this great institution.

During the institute’s first ten years, approximately 22 percent of fellows joined Texas A&M’s permanent faculty after completing their time in the institute. Each of these fellows represent the

During their time on campus, Hagler Fellows

cream of the crop of potential faculty additions.

engage in intense research with Texas A&M’s

Such distinguished faculty in turn draw other

internationally known senior faculty and rising-star

outstanding scholars. During the first ten years

junior faculty. Furthermore, the Hagler Institute

of the Hagler Institute, the university attracted

provides two graduate student fellowships per

well over thirty national academy–level faculty

fellow to ensure that A&M’s top students have

members. This outstanding talent has helped make

the opportunity to team with Hagler Fellows and

Texas A&M the first academic institution in Texas to

their A&M hosts in meaningful research. These

exceed $1 billion in external research funding.

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called fellows, for extensive visits to the Texas

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opportunities by bringing world-class scholars,

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FACULTY AND STUDENTS TO WORK WITH THE WORLD’S FINEST MINDS.

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ONE HALLMARK OF A GREAT UNIVERSITY IS TO OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR

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“Ten years ago, this institute was just an ambitious plan. Now, after a decade of operation, it has proven to be an astounding success and has dramatically elevated departments, colleges, and indeed, the university. As you read through Cornerstone, please be as appreciative, as I am, of the many people who helped this institute become a beacon of excellence for Texas A&M University.”

JOHN L. JUNKINS Founding Director Hagler Institute for Advanced Study

The following table shows A&M colleges

work in the Hagler Institute. The

Institute for Advanced Study while at

and institutes that added former

College of Science and the College

Rice University. These three highly

Hagler Fellows to their permanent

of Engineering joined forces to form

accomplished individuals were hired

faculty. Because fellows of the Hagler

a new Department of Materials

into either a Chancellor’s Research

Institute are among the best in their

Science and Engineering (MSEN) with

Initiative (CRI) position or a Governor’s

professions, each addition to A&M’s

Needleman as its most distinguished

University Research Initiative (GURI)

permanent faculty is a step forward in

faculty member. He was soon joined

position. Each CRI and GURI position

excellence for the hiring college.

by new hires of top professors,

came with two additional faculty

including George Pharr, another

positions and startup funds of about

noted researcher and member of the

$5 million. These three National

National Academy of Engineering.

Academy of Engineering hires were

Renowned scientist and engineer

instrumental in advancing the new

Edwin “Ned” Thomas later joined

MSEN department from startup to

the faculty of that department after

national and international prominence.

Within the addition of fellows to engineering faculty lies a unique success story. Alan Needleman, a 2012–13 fellow and one of the world’s most cited scholars, joined Texas A&M’s faculty upon completing his

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SCHOLARS IN THE FIRST TEN CLASSES HAVE CHOSEN TO JOIN TEXAS A&M’S PERMANENT FACULTY

HAROLD ADAMS RKTL International College of Architecture

JAMES E. HUBBARD JR. University of Maryland College of Engineering

LEIF ANDERSSON Uppsala University, Sweden College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

ROBERT KENNICUTT JR. University of Cambridge, England College of Science

LUIZ DAVIDOVICH Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering the late CHRISTODOULOS FLOUDAS Princeton University College of Engineering, Energy Institute the late KARL HEDRICK University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering ROGER HOWE Yale University College of Education and Human Development

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initially being attracted to the Hagler

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ALAN NEEDLEMAN University of North Texas College of Engineering ROBERT SKELTON University of California, San Diego College of Engineering EDWIN “NED” L. THOMAS Rice University College of Engineering WILLIAM G. UNRUH University of British Columbia, Canada Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering

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5

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Number of Permanent Fellows

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HAGLER FELLOWS’ MEMBERSHIP AND ACCOLADES WHEN INDUCTED INTO TH E HAGLER INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY

THREE NOBEL PRIZE SEVEN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE ONE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE TWENTY-THREE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIES ONE ACADEMY AWARD ONE NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDAL THIRTY-THREE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING TWENTY-EIGHT NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ONE HUBBELL MEDAL IN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP TWO STATE PRIZE OF RUSSIA ONE WOLF PRIZE THIRTY-SEVEN AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ONE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF EDUCATION ONE NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE ONE NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY

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NOMINATIONS ARE THE BEST MEASURE OF PARTICIPATION IN THE HAGLER INSTITUTE.

years

Each college and school may submit 2.5 names

fellows. The institute evaluates all nominees

per call for nominations (the half arising when

by the prominence of their professional

two colleges share a nominee’s time on campus),

contributions, their continuing productivity, and

with typically two calls per year. The nomination

evidence of mentorship potential for graduate

guidelines, which are not linked to college size,

students. Nominees do not have to be scholars,

favor smaller colleges.

for in some fields innovation or practice leaders

Figure 1 shows the percentages of the total nominations and fellows recruited for each

Because not all colleges are the same size,

college or school in the institute’s first ten years.

the percentages of nominations and recruits

Nominations are received and evaluated in the

can yield a potentially misleading picture of

DURING ITS

year before the arrival of recruited fellows from

colleges’ propensity to participate in the institute.

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among those nominees. The percentages of

Figure 2 shows nominations adjusted for college

YEARS, THE

nominees in Figure 1 reflect activity through fiscal

size and number of years eligible to nominate,

HAGLER

year 2021, whereas the numbers of fellows are

scaled to an average of 100. Those colleges whose

INSTITUTE

shown through fiscal year 2022.

adjusted nominations exceed 100 participated

The colleges of science and engineering have

during its first ten years.

fellows

HAS BROUGHT EIGHTY-EIGHT HAGLER FELLOWS TO TEXAS A&M.

attracted the most Hagler Fellows because those colleges submitted significantly more nominations (Figure 1). Those colleges participate fully in every nomination call. The data for the College of Science are higher because they include participation by the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, one of three institutes approved to submit a nomination.

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are more valued.

above average in the institute’s excellence mission

The four largest colleges are engineering, liberal arts, agriculture and life sciences, and science.

The College of Engineering is below average in participation because of its large size and limits on nominations per college. The School of Law is above average because of its smaller size and having had fewer years to nominate, as well as its many nominations. Liberal arts and the

The Hagler Institute’s Faculty Advisory Board of

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (COALS)

university distinguished professors evaluates

have historically been below average in their

nominees, who must have the equivalent of

participation in the Hagler Institute, although

national academy–level accomplishments and

the recent nomination trend for COALS is

honorifics to be considered for recruitment as

very positive.

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COLLEGE

PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL NOMINEES

PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL FELLOWS

Agriculture

7%

3%

55%

Architecture

6%

3%

152%

Bush School

1%

1%

84%

Business

5%

3%

114%

Education

4%

3%

78%

Engineering

21%

31%

92%

Marine Sciences, Galveston

1%

1%

23%

Geosciences

5%

3%

117%

Medicine

3%

3%

46%

Law

6%

6%

198%

Liberal Arts

5%

6%

34%

Public Health

2%

2%

94%

Science

24%

32%

213%

Veterinary Medicine

5%

3%

100%

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60

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TEXAS A&M FACULTY MEMBERS NOMINATE CANDIDATES TO BE NAMED AS HAGLER FELLOWS. THE INSTITUTE OFTEN MOTIVATES PROFESSORS TO ASK, WHO IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SCHOLAR IN MY FIELD I MIGHT NOMINATE AS A FELLOW? The fields, specialties, and all other aspects of the resulting annual cohort of fellows ultimately depend on faculty members’ desires and each college’s emphasis on enhancing its excellence through the Hagler Institute. For example, the first ten classes included fellows from eleven other countries. To promote collaboration, the institute requests that each Hagler Fellow be in residence from three months to one year, and it offers flexibility in scheduling those visits. Over the last two years, the average fellow was in residence for more than six months over a three-year period.

The institute chooses fellows through a rigorous evaluation process, by: •

Providing two nomination slots per college and one nomination shared by colleges for each call for nominations, and one nomination for each Hagler Institute College Chair

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Inviting all faculty members to confidentially nominate scholars they would like to work with, who meet the institute’s standards, and who are approved for recruiting by the college’s dean

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Considering for Hagler Fellow appointments only scholars or leaders who have made outstanding achievements in their field, have earned top professional awards, are active, and have a record as an excellent mentor

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Relying on a revolving panel of multidisciplinary university distinguished professors to evaluate and decide which confidential nominees will be recruited as fellows

Once a fellow is recruited, the Hagler Institute pays 70 percent of that fellow’s salary and provides two fellowships for graduate students to work with each fellow.

“Having been lucky to work with some of the most productive HIAS Fellows, we have witnessed collaborative efforts resulting in dozens of joint publications and funded NSF and other research projects.

But the true and lasting impact of HIAS fellows is that as role models, they help create a new culture of preeminence at Texas A&M, which, when mixed with our own long tradition of excellence and home grown success and pride, propels Texas A&M to another level of excellence and bright future!”

MIROSLAV M. BEGOVIC Department Head, Electrical & Computer Engineering College of Engineering

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FOSTERING JOINT RESEARCH BETWEEN TEXAS A&M’S ADVANCED STUDENTS AND WORLD-RENOWNED SCHOLARS

visibility and can affect where they begin

on fellowship to become personally

their career upon graduating.

acquainted with the visiting eminent scholar, and they often are career-altering associations. Such relationships offer meaningful guidance on research that

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Such collaborations enable each student

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IS ONE OF THE CROWN JEWELS OF THE HAGLER INSTITUTE.

Ashok Thyagarajan is a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

He works on prototypes, studying the

is important to a student’s career. The

implications of varying dimensions of an

research collaborations often lead to

apparatus that desalinates water at a lower

publications in prestigious journals and to

cost than existing techniques. Thyagarajan

conference presentations. Those types of

is working on this project with Vijay Dhir,

accomplishments give students national

distinguished professor, former dean of

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the College of Engineering at the University of California,

The work of Brennen Taylor illustrates the long-term

Los Angeles, and 2017–18 Hagler Fellow.

associations that Texas A&M’s students can form with Hagler Fellows, as well as the multidisciplinary research that

Ashok writes:

the Hagler Institute fosters. Brennen is a graduate student

The performance studies conducted using the air-water

in A&M’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering

two-phase mixture have resulted in two conference

working with former Hagler Fellow Jerry Tessendorf of

proceedings . . . while work on publishing research in a

Clemson University. Tessendorf, who earned his PhD in

technical journal is in progress. . . . I am honored and

physics, came to Texas A&M as a 2017–18 Hagler Fellow in

grateful to the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study

the College of Architecture’s Department of Visualization. He

for providing me the opportunity to collaborate and

received an Academy Award for his computer simulations

work under the guidance of Dr. Vijay Dhir, who is highly

of water in the movie Life of Pi. Tessendorf and Taylor

accomplished and greatly regarded in the field of

are working on improving computer simulations of light

multiphase flows and heat transfer. Working under the

impacted by a scattering medium by using path integral

guidance of a visionary like Dr. Vijay Dhir has significantly

formations. They have developed a method enabling faster,

enhanced my research experience at Texas A&M.

more accurate computations. The two are working on a conference paper submission and plan to collaborate on further research of image generation.

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Ashok Thyagrajan and

Brennen Taylor and

Vijay Dhir

Jerry Tessendorf

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Douglas also expressed that working with King has been

Professor Baroness Brown of Cambridge, from traveling

a great opportunity and that “the fellowship has given me

from London to the Texas A&M campus during the 2020–21

the opportunity to be invited to participate in the Dow BEST

academic year, that did not stop her from assisting Lacey

Symposium in August 2021.”

on a transformational design of a tetrapodal Janus textile for menstrual health hygiene products. Lacey writes:

associations with Hagler Fellows have on students.

Fellowships from the Hagler Institute during the 2020–21 academic year sponsored collaborative research for Texas A&M students in the departments of mechanical

The lack of viable, affordable, safe, sustainable, and

engineering, veterinary pathobiology, chemistry,

discreet menstrual hygiene products in low- and

aerospace engineering, materials science and engineering,

medium-income countries is a result of financial

management, horticulture, ocean engineering, nutrition,

constraints, scarce access to clean water, and social

mathematics, computer science and engineering, health

constructs. The proposed innovative menstrual health

promotion and community health sciences, and the Institute

product provides . . . the integration of low-cost materials

for Quantum Science and Engineering. The Hagler Institute

exhibiting antimicrobial properties with woven fabrics to

for Advanced Study enhances excellence in all fields of study

imbue unidirectional permeability.

at Texas A&M.

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Texas A&M’s Department of Chemistry. Lacey is working

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NewWave

THE

Quantum Technologies of

LUIZ DAVIDOVICH HAGLER FELLOW, CLASS OF 2019–20 Institute of Physics Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering Texas A&M University

The scientists who developed quantum physics in the beginning of the twentieth century were driven by curiosity.

The first giant step was the realization, based on the work of

German physicists Max Planck in 1900 and Albert Einstein in 1905 and later years, that light behaves, in some experiments, as an ensemble of particles, photons. Einstein pondered how to reconcile that finding with other experiments that clearly showed light behaving as a wave. The wave-particle duality was the source of many debates in the beginnings of quantum physics. It concerned not only light but also matter, as proposed by the French physicist Louis de Broglie in his 1924 doctoral thesis. The protagonists of this new science could not imagine that their discoveries would change the world one hundred years later. Their research resulted in lasers, transistors, powerful computers, nuclear magnetic resonance devices in hospitals, new drugs, atomic clocks, global positioning systems, and more.

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RIOSITY “THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WITNESSED A NEW WAVE OF QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES, MOTIVATED IN PART BY THE DEVELOPMENT IN SEVERAL LABS OF TECHNIQUES THAT ALLOWED THE PRECISE CONTROL OF INDIVIDUAL QUANTUM PARTICLES.”

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Sensing/Metrology

Simulation

Computation

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Engineering/Control Software/Theory Education/Training

Figure 1. The four pillars of the new quantum technologies, pierced by three main common ingredients and anchored on the solid ground of basic science. (From Antonio Acín et al., New J. Phys. 20, 080201, 2018).

Basic Science THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE NEW

A new era for quantum science has

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

emerged, with new and subtle perceptions

The end of the twentieth century witnessed

of the physical world, and outstanding

a new wave of quantum technologies,

quantum technologies. The four pillars of

motivated in part by the development in

these challenging and stimulating times are

several labs of techniques that allowed

shown in Figure 1.

precise control of individual quantum particles. Scientists could control, for instance, the interaction of a single atom A NEW ERA FOR QUANTUM

with a single photon. They demonstrated

SCIENCE HAS EMERGED,

devices that led to the on-demand emission

WITH NEW AND SUBTLE

of a single photon.

PERCEPTIONS ON THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND THE NATURE OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD, AND OUTSTANDING

on the role of information and the nature

My recent work has focused on quantum metrology and sensing.1 The aim is to answer some relevant questions in general terms but also for specific physical systems: Can quantum physics increase the precision in the estimation of parameters?

New ideas came about for subtle uses of

What is the effect of noise, which is found

quantum physics:

everywhere in nature? What is the best

•

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES.

•

quantum computation, which could solve difficult problems much faster

Quantum sensors have been applied to

than classical computers;

many areas of science and technology.

quantum simulation of physical systems;

•

•

measurement procedure?

Quantum gravimeters (Figure 2a) can measure the gravitational field on Earth’s surface and are used to survey

quantum communication, devised

underground water and oil. Placed

to secure the transmission of

on satellites, these gravimeters would

information; and

allow the mapping of the time-varying

quantum sensors able to estimate more precisely than any classical device the value of parameters such as a gravitational field, a weak electric or magnetic field, the duration of a process, the displacement of an object, or the temperature of a sample.

gravitational field, caused by changes in Earth’s water mass, leading to nextgeneration space-based climate-monitoring missions. Quantum magnetic sensors have allowed detailed brain imaging.

Highly sensitive detection of rotation speeds through quantum gyrometers and of acceleration through quantum accelerometers may lead to GPSfree navigation. Detailed imaging of

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biomolecules is made possible through the use of single-atom detectors (Figure 2b).

a

The most amazing example of a highly precise measurement was the observation on September 15, 2015, by an Earth-based instrument, of the direct signature of gravitational waves predicted by Einstein in 1916. The waves were produced by the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago. The first observation was made through a big device, an interferometer with orthogonal arms four kilometers long (Figure 3), which, under the arrival of the gravitational wave, would change their relative length by one ten-thousandth the diameter of a proton

b

(the nucleus of a hydrogen atom). That minuscule change of length was observed through the change in interference patterns of laser beams along the two arms. One of the main restrictions to increasing the range of observations even more is the quantum noise present in the laser beams.

A new version of this instrument, using concepts of quantum sensing, allows the observation of sources of gravitational waves about 15 percent more distant than before, implying that 50 percent more objects could be spotted. The idea behind that enhancement is to mitigate the quantum noise in the laser

Figure 2. (a) Quantum gravimeter, based on atomic interferometry, on Mount Etna—built by Muquans; (b) Use of a single atom to map the structure of a biomolecule (Picture from Antonio Acín et al., New J. Phys. 20, 080201, 2018).

beams by using squeezed states of light.

Figure 3. Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Hanford, Washington. A similar device was built in Livingston, Louisiana, so as to have a coincidence detection of the waves, to eliminate spurious effects. The two orthogonal arms are each four kilometers long. On September 15, 2015, the arrival of a gravitational wave, produced by the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago, changed the relative length of the two arms by one ten-thousandth the diameter of a proton. That event led to a change in the interference pattern of the laser beams along the two arms, which signaled the arrival of the wave.

(Photo from www.ligo.org)

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TAMING QUANTUM NOISE Quantum noise is unavoidable. It is related to a famous result obtained by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927: the uncertainty principle. Certain pairs of properties—what are known as complementary properties—of a particle cannot both be known with arbitrary precision. This is the case, for instance, of the position and momentum (which, in the absence of electromagnetic fields, is equal to the product of the mass and the velocity of the particle). The larger the precision in the position, the larger the uncertainty on the momentum and vice versa. Here, the product of the uncertainties should be larger or at least equal to ℏ ⁄ 2, where ℏ, the reduced Planck constant, is a fundamental constant of the universe.

A similar relation holds for electromagnetic waves, for which the position and momentum are replaced by equivalent quantities, namely, the quadratures of the electromagnetic field.

The Planck constant has an extremely small value, so that for macroscopic systems the product of uncertainties is much larger than the lower bound given by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. However, this bound becomes relevant when an attempt is made to increase the precision of measurements beyond the possibilities of classical physics.

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Similarly, for measuring small displacements of the arms of gravitational wave interferometric devices, one should reduce the uncertainty in the quadrature of the field relevant for estimating those displacements.

ENVIRONMENT MATTERS My own work on quantum metrology dealt with the effects of the environment on quantum sensors.1,2 This work is related to my longstanding interest in the transition from quantum to classical, or in other words, the emergence of the classical world from the quantum substrate: generally, this transition gets faster as the system becomes more macroscopic.3 This finding explains why atoms can be found in superpositions of two states, whereas the same is not valid for macroscopic systems, such as the famous cat devised by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 (Figure 4). The cat is locked in a steel chamber with a radioactive atom, which upon decaying and emitting radiation would kill the cat by releasing through a relay a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. The life and death of the cat is therefore conditioned on whether the atom decays. During the decay process, between the initial excited and the final decayed atom, the state of the entire system would have in it both the living and the dead

Quantum sensors play on the possibility of

cat. Observing this superposition in macroscopic

increasing measurement sensitivity by using

systems is a big challenge, however, because the

probes that have very small uncertainties in

omnipresent environment quickly transforms

the quantity to be estimated—even at the

this superposition into a trivial classical choice:

expense of greatly increasing the uncertainty in

the cat is either alive or dead. However, for

the complementary variable. For instance, for

mesoscopic systems (neither macroscopic or

estimating a force applied to a particle tied to

microscopic), it is possible to monitor this subtle

a spring, given that the energy of the oscillator

transition from quantum to classical.4,5 Similarly,

is fixed, one should prepare the particle in a

quantum sensors lose part of their quantum

state that minimizes the uncertainty in the

properties under the action of the environment,

momentum (thus squeezing the momentum

getting closer to classical sensors: that effect is

distribution while increasing the uncertainty

due to unavoidable fluctuations induced by the

in position), because the force to be estimated

environment, which adds to the uncertainty in

changes the momentum of the particle.1

the estimation of parameters.

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Figure 4. Schrödinger’s cat. A cat is placed in a sealed box, together with a flask of poison and a radioactive source. If a single atom from the source decays, the emitted radiation activates a relay that releases a hammer, which shatters the flask, thus killing the cat. During the decay process, between the initial excited and the final decayed atom, the state of the entire system would have in it both the living and the dead cat.

(Figure from Wikimedia Commons)

Considering the environment is actually essential when the

REFERENCES

parameters to be estimated are associated with the very effects

1. C. L. Latune, B. M. Escher, R. L. de Matos Filho, and L. Davidovich, “Quantum limit for the measurement of a classical force coupled to a noisy quantum-mechanical oscillator,” Physical Review A 88, 042112, 2013.

of the environment. Such was the case in a recent collaborative work6 with the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study. The challenge was to develop a theoretical framework to estimate the damping constant and the temperature of a sample (for instance, a slab of some transparent material) in contact with the environment.

The sample is assumed to be probed by a light beam, which upon detection yields information on both damping and temperature.

Our work showed that a stream of single photons leads to the best estimation, obtained with photon-counting detectors. We believe these findings should stimulate experimental work on physical and biological systems.

IN COLLABORATION WITH: Jiaxuan Wang, graduate assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science, Texas A&M University Girish Agarwal, professor, joint appointments with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science, and the Department of

2. B. M. Escher, R. L. de Matos Filho, and L. Davidovich, “General framework for estimating the ultimate precision limit in noisy quantum-enhanced metrology,” Nature Physics 7, 406, 2011.

3. L. Davidovich, “From quantum to classical: Schrödinger cats, entanglement, and decoherence,” Physica Scripta 91, 063013, 2016, invited comment.

4. L. Davidovich, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche, “Mesoscopic quantum coherences in cavity QED: Preparation and decoherence monitoring schemes,” Physical Review A 53, 1295, 1996.

5. M. Brune, E. Hagley, J. Dreyer, X. Maître, A. Maali, C. Wunderlich, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche, “Observing the progressive decoherence of the “meter” in a quantum measurement,” Physical Review Letters 77, 4887, 1996.

6. J. Wang, L. Davidovich, and G. S. Agarwal, “Quantum sensing of open systems: Estimation of damping constants and temperature,” Physical Review Research 2, 033389, 2020.

Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University

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Twins Break

By Adding

SYMMETRY SYMMETRY! EDWIN “NED” L. THOMAS HAGLER FELLOW, CLASS OF 2019–20 Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering George R. Brown School of Engineering Rice University

“Defective . . . imperfect,” generally harsh words with negative connotations, but some defects can be beautiful.

It turns out a twin

boundary defect adds symmetry instead of destroying it. How so? And why would someone care?

Defects often strongly influence the properties of materials, and certain types of defects even enable exotic properties.

Studying the nature of defects in hard atomic matter has been a heavily researched area for well over a century. By contrast, soft matter, the stuff of the biological world—colloids, liquid crystals, and polymers—also has myriad defects. But these have not been studied as extensively because of limitations in the degree of crystal order and in the ability of the usual X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy techniques to reveal the detailed crystal structure, never mind

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autiful “IDENTIFYING THE PRESENCE OF DEFECTS IN SOFT MATTER IS EASY – ONE JUST LOOKS FOR LOCAL DISRUPTIONS IN THE PERIODIC PATTERN WITHIN A CRYSTALLINE DOMAIN.”

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SERIAL ACQUISITION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION SEM IMAGES 1. Image (SEM)

Electron beam

2. Slicing (FIB)

3. Image (SEM)

Electron beam

Ga+ ion beam

Image Processing/Alignment

Figure 1. (a) Slice-and-view scanning electron microscopy uses two beams: one ion beam to slice thin sections and the other, an electron beam, to image the newly sliced surface.

By sequentially slicing and imaging, one can build up a stack of images that after alignment and image processing yield a high-resolution 3D tomogram of the structure. (b) Self-assembly of block copolymer molecules involves packing chains into ordered microdomains from the homogeneous disordered state.

Stack of slices

A/B DIBLOCK COPOLYMER

a

Homogeneous Disordered State

b

Disorder-Order Transition

Ordered State

Cool or evaporate solvent

the structure of the defects within

pattern within a crystalline domain.

other types that would strongly

the crystal structure. Defects can be

Any periodic pattern possesses

disrupt the symmetry of the crystal

both geometrical and topological.

various kinds of symmetries

over a large volume and therefore

A new high-fidelity technique called

(self-consistent combinations of

greatly increase the energy of the

slice-and-view scanning electron

translational, rotational, mirror, and

crystal. So can nature figure out

microscopy (SEM) tomography (aka

inversion). Defects “break”—that is,

how to break symmetry such that

SVSEMT) enables visualization of soft

they eliminate and change—these

the now defective material is not

matter on the nanoscale, allowing

symmetries. It turns out that defects

too unhappy?

unprecedented 3D analysis of the

that occur naturally are special in that

detailed crystal structures and

they locally break the symmetry in a

defects (Figure 1a).

prescribed way that does not unduly

Identifying the presence of defects in soft matter is easy; one just looks for local disruptions in the periodic

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raise the energy of the material.

Defects that do not increase the energy of the material very much are much more likely to occur than

One interesting class of soft matter crystals are block copolymers— polymer molecules made up of connected strings of two or more components—covalently linked into long, flexible chains (Figure 1b).

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Figure 2. Tubular network phases in PS-PDMS diblock copolymer imaged by 3D SVSEMT. The double gyroid structure contains two catenated chiral trihedrally coordinated networks with ten-membered rings (top). The double-diamond structure contains two catenated, nonchiral tetrahedrally coordinated networks with six-membered rings (bottom).

Figure 3. SEM image of a PS-PDMS block copolymer crystal showing an abrupt change of the intensity pattern across sharp lines indicating the presence of some type of defect. The silicon in the PDMS block creates a stronger secondary electron signal than the carbon in the PS block, so these regions are brighter. Each sharp defect in this image turns out to be a mirror plane in the doublediamond tubular network structure.

In the Thomas Lab in the materials

double-diamond (DD) structures

DD networks, finding mirror defects

science and nanoengineering

(Figure 2). Inspecting SEM images,

lurking about was both surprising

department at Rice University,

such as the one shown in Figure 3,

and intriguing in light of the need

researchers are searching to identify

sometimes reveals sharp disruptions

for low-energy structures and the

and characterize new defects in block

to the crystal patterns. These features

likely influence of mirror planes on

copolymer crystals and to understand

turn out to be a special type of 2D

physical properties.

their role in controlling properties.

flat surface defect in which the

Block copolymer crystals form by a

structure suddenly undergoes a

A mathematician would point out

self-assembly process. For example,

mirror transformation and are hence

a block copolymer composed of

called twin boundaries because the

point (–x, –y, –z) on the opposite side

polystyrene (PS) and polydimethyl

defect causes the two neighboring

of the mirror and that this reflection

siloxane (PDMS) assembles into

parts of the crystal to have reflection

symmetry operation changes the

complex tubular network crystals

symmetry. Considering the complex

handedness of the object. Using

such as the double-gyroid (DG) and

interpenetrating tubular DG and

SVSEMT, we created tomograms

that a mirror maps objects located at a point (x, y, z) into a corresponding

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from the sample volume in the regions

structure (which is a cube of about 100

where the patterns abruptly changed. In

nanometers on a side) and obtains a

our reconstructions (as in Figures 2 and

g per unit cell of 9. For a large piece of

4) the two independent PDMS networks

DG crystal, the genus is therefore huge,

are rendered in red and blue, and for

equal to nine times the number of unit

better visibility we make the PS matrix

cells, which would be for a 1 mm3 piece of

transparent. We first investigate sharp

material about 10 trillion handles.

changes in patterns in the DG crystal.

The DG is a cubic crystal with many types of symmetries, including that the red network is right-handed and the blue network is left-handed. Most interestingly, the perfect DG crystal has no mirror symmetries. To appreciate the challenge of inserting a mirror plane inside such a complex structure as the DG, one needs to first understand a bit about topology.

Unlike geometry, which focuses on precise measures of length, angle, and shape, topology basically ignores these Figure 4. Twin Boundaries in Double Tubular Network Soft Crystals SVSEMT 3D renderings of the two PDMS networks spanning the twin boundary (vertical mirror plane [yellow line] in the DG [top] and DD [bottom] crystals). In the DG crystal, the twin plane transforms the right-handed red network into a left-handed blue network and vice versa. In the DD crystal, the twin plane leaves the red network nearly unchanged, whereas the nodes of the blue network that are on the twin plane reorganize to create a planar six-membered ring with alternating five coordinated and three coordinated nodes.

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properties, focusing instead on how the structure is self-connected—that is, how the various pieces of a structure form

Now for the magic of the twin boundary mirror defect: In the DG crystal, the twin plane acts as a topological mirror; that is, the red (right-handed) and blue (lefthanded) networks on one side of the mirror suddenly but smoothly transform into the blue (left-handed) and red (right-handed) networks on the opposite side. In self-assembly, the molecules determine how the structure grows and the insertion of a defect must also be done cleverly such that the resultant structure remains of relatively low energy. The beautiful topological twin in the DG is such a structure.

continuous pathways. This connectedness

Now let’s consider the DD tubular network

property is called genus (denoted g), a

crystal that, incidentally, already contains

concept that basically counts the number

a whole bunch of mirror planes. Having

of handles on a sphere. Rather than

a defect that adds a new distinct type

explain, let’s just accept the following

of mirror to this crystal also turns out to

demonstration of genus: a sphere has,

be tricky. Like the DG, the DD phase has

of course, no handles and has g = 0,

two interpenetrating networks, but their

whereas a doughnut has one handle and

geometry and topology are different. In

has g = 1; a pretzel has three handles and

the DG, the smallest loop has ten nodes,

hence g = 3, and so on. Upon examining

whereas in the DD, the smallest loop has

the DG networks, one sees the endless

only six nodes (see Figure 2). In the DD,

catenated small and ever larger loops

the two networks are identical and achiral,

and thus handles and . . . what to do? The

merely translationally shifted, so the

clever mathematician, recognizing that the

insertion of the new mirror plane need not

pattern is repetitive, just counts the genus

be concerned about properly transforming

for a repetitive unit cell for the periodic

network handedness like in the DG. Upon

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inspecting the 3D reconstruction of the DD (Figure 4), we note one of the networks has its nodes offset from the twin boundary, whereas the other has nodes that are exactly cut by the plane of the mirror defect. The position of the twin plane for the red network turns out to be the same location as the twin plane in diamond. Indeed, carbon diamond exhibits the same twin defect, the only difference being in these hard matter (diamond especially) crystals, the scale of the crystal structure is only about

BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. X. Feng, M. Zhuo, H. Guo, and E. L. Thomas, “Visualizing the double-gyroid twin,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2108977118, March 23, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2018977118.

2. A. Reddy, X. Feng, E. L. Thomas, and G. M. Grason, “Block copolymers beneath the surface: measuring and modeling complex morphology at the sub-domain scale,” Macromolecules, 54, 9223-9257, 2021.

3. X. Feng, M. Dimitriyev, and E. L. Thomas, “Double-diamond growth twins in malleable block copolymer,” to be submitted.

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one one-thousandth the size. Now we

Xueyan Feng, postdoctoral researcher,

also need to consider the blue network

Department of Materials Science

(which single diamond doesn’t have) with

and Engineering, College of Engineering,

its tetrahedral nodes sitting right on the twin boundary. Because a tetrahedron

Texas A&M University (currently at Fudan University, China)

does not possess mirror symmetry, these

Abhiram Reddy, graduate student,

nodes must reorganize to create new

Department of Polymer Science

types of nodes and struts compatible

and Engineering, University of

with mirror symmetry. Fortunately, soft

Massachusetts, Amherst

matter exhibits considerable malleability

Gregory M. Grason, professor,

because the basic motifs (nodes) contain

Department of Polymer Science

thousands of flexible polymer chains with

and Engineering, University of

relatively weak physical interactions and

Massachusetts, Amherst

can readily reorganize at relatively low energy cost to form new boundary nodes and boundary loops in the blue twin boundary network. And of course these

Mike Dimitriyev, postdoctoral researcher, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

nodes, situated on the mirror plane, must exhibit mirror symmetry. Inspection of the 3D tomogram shows that the boundary plane consists of hexagonal loops with alternating nodes of five struts and three struts, precisely satisfying the mirror requirement of the defect along

______________________________________ Acknowledgment My research has benefited greatly over the years by continued funding from the National Science Foundation (Polymers Program in the Division of Materials Research) and from the Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences.

with very low distortion. Soft matter is smart matter.

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FEATURED ARTICLE

Modeling

Electrochemical Bioelectronics Drug Delivery Capabilities with

JOHN A. ROGERS HAGLER FELLOW, CLASS OF 2015–16 Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor McCormick School of Engineering Northwestern University

YONGGANG HUANG HAGLER FELLOW, CLASS OF 2018–19 Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor McCormick School of Engineering Northwestern University

Drug delivery techniques to treat, cure, diagnose, and prevent illnesses have substantially evolved from systemic absorption of medication through the human body to localized drug release in individual organs. Delivery methods range from typical ingestible tablets/capsules to sophisticated bioelectronics implanted near or at the affected organ. Modern drug delivery methods help researchers study the effects of a medication intended for a specific body region while decreasing potential side effects from unwanted interactions in other body regions. Most notably, for applications

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a

b

in cancer therapeutics (known for highly toxic chemotherapy affecting the entire body) and neuroscience behavioral studies (focused on specific regions of the brain that affect animal behavior), localized drug delivery offers a promising alternative to target malignant cells (for cancer) or small regions of the brain (neuroscience) directly while minimizing side effects.

Figure 1. Electrochemical bioelectronics used in drug delivery. (a) Demonstration of wireless fluid delivery and optical stimulation in a brain tissue phantom.1 (b) Illustration of the optofluidic nerve cuff system and cuff interface with the mouse sciatic nerve.2

The growing opportunities and benefits of localized drug delivery motivated the development of wireless implantable bioelectronics to overcome the limitations imposed by tethered

Emerging bioelectronic design

neurons, slow delivery is preferred to

approaches and to study the behavioral

concepts take advantage of

avoid damaging surrounding tissue; by

response to medication in small

electrochemistry (that is, using

contrast, for drug overdose cases, fast

animals without restricting their ability

electricity to generate a chemical

delivery is preferred to quickly reverse

to move.

reaction) to pump the medication

symptoms and potentially avoid brain

from the bioelectronic device to the

damage from lack of oxygen.

To deliver the drug without complications, implantable bioelectronics for drug delivery require a lightweight and compact size, minimal electrical power, and biocompatible materials (that is, materials safe to use near or inside biological tissues). The biocompatible material limits any negative effects derived from implantation or during continuous operation while near biological tissues and fluids. Excessively high temperature and electrical power can affect animal behavior and damage the implanted region, rendering the medication ineffective; limit the studies to non–temperature-sensitive drugs; and require bulky electronics (that is, a battery) that increase the size and overall weight of the bioelectronics, potentially altering the animal’s natural posture.

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target location in the animal with minimal change in temperature caused by electrical power. That modality makes them a suitable choice for neuroscience experiments involving drugs and can be combined with other stimulation platforms (such as optogenetics) to supply drug/ light stimulation with a single device.

Figure 1 shows two implantable bioelectronics used for combined drug/light stimulation in the brain and peripheral nerves of small animals.

Further, implantable bioelectronics design can be scaled to hold small or large drug volumes (for future adaptation to drug delivery in humans) and offer programmable control of drug flow rate during delivery—critical

The implantable bioelectric device features different subsystems: the electrochemical chamber, a soft flexible membrane, and a network of microfluidic channels. Figure 2 shows the twelve parameters related to the subsystems that influence the drug delivery process. Those parameters include initial pressure in the biological tissue, P0 ; microchannel cross-section a, b, and length, L; drug viscosity, μ; flexible membrane thickness, h, and radius R0 ; Young’s modulus, E; Poisson’s ratio, v, and stressstrain curve σ – ε; the temperature of the electrolyte solution, T; and the electrical current, i, supplied to the electrodes.

to ensure timely delivery. For example,

In these devices, drug delivery

in brain stimulation targeting specific

occurs as follows: A receiver coil

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Figure 2. Schematic of the implantable bioelectronic device.

(A) Cross-sectional view of the bioelectronic showing the subsystems and corresponding parameters.3 (B) Deformation of the flexible membrane into the shape of a spherical cap showing the relevant parameters.4

wirelessly harvests electromagnetic

animal’s target tissue/organ and

energy from a nearby transmission

the microfluidic resistance M* was

antenna to power the electronics

established with analytical solutions,

and deliver electric current to a

derived from the perturbation

set of interdigitated electrodes in

method for the drug delivery time

contact with an electrolyte. The flow

and volume temporal profiles. The

of electric current in the electrodes

analytic model, analysis, and results

initiates an electrochemical reaction

are important to optimal design of

(such as water hydrolysis), which

injectable microsystems for localized

in turn generates gas to increase

drug delivery studies. Figure 3

pressure inside the electrochemical

shows the volume temporal profile

chamber. The increasing pressure

for different microfluidic resistance

deforms the soft flexible membrane

corresponding to negligible,

that pushes the drug into the target

small, and large. As expected, the

location through the microchannels.

drug delivery time increases with

Previously, numerical models and

microfluidic resistance M*. The

finite element simulations that

analytical solution agrees very well

considered all twelve parameters

with the numerical solution at small

separately had to model the drug

M* (including negligible microfluidic

delivery process and the mechanics

resistance); however, the agreement

of the flexible membrane during

deteriorates as the microfluidic

deformation—making optimization

resistance becomes large since the

of the technology slow without a

analytical solution obtained from the

scalable understanding of how the

perturbation method assumes that

parameters interacted during the

M* is a small parameter. The analytical

delivery process.

solution gives (1) the time required for

A scaling law of delivery, based on the ideal gas law, that combines all twelve parameters into two nondimensional parameters related to the initial environmental pressure P0* in the

Figure 3. Drug delivery volume temporal profile.

Nondimensional volume temporal profiles from the numerical solution and from the analytical model with stretching-dominated deformation for an SBS membrane and the normalized microfluidic resistance M* = 0,0.0170, and 0.100. The normalized initial environmental pressure is P0* = .225.3

the flexible membrane to overcome the initial environmental pressure P0 and deform into the shape of the drug reservoir, and that time is inversely proportional to temperature

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Numerical Analytical

Figure 4. Effect of different materials on drug delivery time.

The volume temporal profiles for SBS and SIS copolymers with the nondimensional parameters P0* = 0.225 and M* = 0.0170.3

T and is independent of the microfluidic viscosity μ and

parameter individually was reduced to only two nondimensional

microchannel sizes; and (2) the time required for the

parameters that together control the drug delivery process and

drug of volume V to travel through the microchannels

that can be modeled analytically in minutes.

and into the target region, and that time is linearly proportional to

μL a4

but is independent of temperature

T and current i.

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Y. Zhang, D.C. Castro, Y. Han, et al. “Battery-free, lightweight, injectable microsystem for in vivo wireless pharmacology and optogenetics.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (43), 21427–21437, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909850116.

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Y. Zhang, A.D. Mickle, P. Gutruf, et al. “Battery-free, fully implantable optofluidic cuff system for wireless optogenetic and pharmacological neuromodulation of peripheral nerves.” Science Advances, 5 (7), 1–12, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw5296.

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R. Avila, Y. Wu, J.A. Rogers, Y. Huang “A mechanics model for injectable microsystems in drug delivery.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 156, 104622, August 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104622,.

4.

R. Avila, C. Li, Y. Xue, J.A. Rogers, and Y. Huang “Modeling programmable drug delivery in bioelectronics with electrochemical actuation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (11), 2021. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026405118.

The influence of the flexible membrane in the drug delivery process is accounted for through the function f(V), which depends on the material properties of the flexible membrane and can be divided into three categories: bending dominated (small deformation), a combination of bending and stretching, or stretching dominated (large deformation). Analytical formulas for f(V) are derived for the bending-dominated deformation, using plate theory, and stretching-dominated deformation, which models the deformed membrane in the shape of a spherical cap for any polymer material (such as styrene–butadiene–styrene [SBS] and styrene– isoprene–styrene [SIS] block copolymers) by using hyperelastic materials models such as the Mooney– Rivlin or Marlow without the need to run laborious finite element simulations. Figure 4 shows the effect of the flexible membrane material in the drug delivery where

Limei Tian, assistant professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University George M. Pharr, professor and holder of the Erle Nye ’59 Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University

SBS and SIS yield different times, as influenced by their

Andreas A. Polycarpou, James J. Cain ’51 Professor,

respective stress-strain curves.

J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Although iterative design and testing is required to scale these bioelectronics from use in small animals

College of Engineering, Texas A&M University Ayesha Asif, graduate student, Department of Mechanical

to humans, the present analytical model offers a

Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University

scalable understanding and theoretical framework on

Raudel Avila, graduate student, Department of Mechanical

how to select the nondimensional parameters for fast

Engineering, Northwestern University

or slow delivery applications. A process that would have taken weeks to do numerically by studying every

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Kien Bahsandeh, graduate student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University

THE HAGLER

TH E H A G L E R I N S TI TU TE F O R A D V A N C E D S TU D Y A T TE X A S A & M S E L E C TS I TS FE L L O W S F RO M A M O N G TO P S C H O L A RS W H O H A V E D I S TI N G U I S H E D TH E M S E L V E S TH RO U G H O U TS TA N D I N G P RO F E S S I O N A L A C C O M P L I S H M E N TS O R S I G N I F I C A N T RE C O G N I TI O N .

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K E V IN G . BOWC U TT Principal Senior Technical Fellow and Chief Scientist of Hypersonics Boeing Research and Technology

An internationally recognized

He earned a doctorate in

on a recently submitted proposal

expert in hypersonic

aerospace engineering from the

to NASA. He will enhance the

aerodynamics, propulsion

University of Maryland.

reputation and leadership of

integration, and vehicle design and optimization, Kevin Bowcutt leads advanced design efforts for Boeing’s hypersonic missiles, airplanes, and space planes. He also is the technical lead for Boeing’s hypersonic airplane investigation.

His accomplishments include developing the viscous-optimized hypersonic waverider, testing scramjets by launching them from a light gas gun, technically supporting the NASA X-43A

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics as well as the Royal Aeronautical Society and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Texas A&M in the hypersonics arena as well as the general areas of fluid mechanics and propulsion. His insight will contribute to the development of the new hypersonic test-range Ballistic-Aero optic and Materials

Honors include the von Karman

(BAM) facility at the RELLIS

Award for International

campus, and his participation

Cooperation in Aeronautics

in long-range planning for the

from the International Council

ground testing capabilities at

of the Aeronautical Sciences and

Texas A&M will be invaluable.

the National Aerospace Plane Program Chief Engineer’s Award.

BOWCUTT WILL COLLABORATE WITH FACULTY AND STUDENTS

scramjet flight-test program,

He served as a visiting professor

IN THE COLLEGE

originating and optimizing the

at Princeton University’s

OF ENGINEERING.

design of the X-51A scramjet-

mechanical and aerospace

powered demo vehicle,

engineering department, where

assisting with the investigation

he taught a course in hypersonic

of the space shuttle Columbia

airplane design.

accident, and leading Boeing’s contributions to the HIFIRE international hypersonic flight experiment program.

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Bowcutt is a fellow of the

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Bowcutt is a co–principal investigator on a joint Air Force research effort with Texas A&M and is a co–principal investigator

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J A CQU EL INE H. C HEN

Jacqueline Chen, whose work on

chemistry-turbulence interactions

Chen has received the Combustion

fundamental turbulence-chemistry

in combustion, as well as to

Institute’s Bernard Lewis Gold

interactions in combustion

develop and validate predictive

Medal Award, the Society of

helped advance the design of

combustion models used to

Women Engineers Achievement

automotive, gas turbine, and jet

design efficient and clean engines

Award, the US Department of

engines, is a pioneer in applying

reliably burning fuels as diverse

Energy (DOE) Office of Science

advanced computational methods

as bid-derived and synthesized

Distinguished Scientist Fellow

to understand combustion and

fuels and fossil fuels from

Award, the Asian American

chemical reactions relevant

evolving feeds.

Engineer of the Year Award, and the Sandia O.W. Adams Award.

The DOE has presented Chen with

Her achievements include a

been performed at conditions

cool-flame ignition mechanism

directly comparable to compact

discovery that is important in

laboratory experiments and

modern diesel engines with

with enough chemical realism

She is a member of the DOE

exhaust gas recirculation.

to differentiate fuel chemistry

Advanced Scientific Computing

effects on critical finite-rate

Research (ASCR) Advisory

phenomena. The DNS benchmark

Committee and its subcommittees

data are used by the turbulent

on exascale computing, synergies

combustion modeling community

of big data and exascale, and the

for validation and training.

ASCR@40 Report. She has served

combustion research group and is the principal investigator on the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project on turbulent combustion.

Her research interests are in developing and applying

Chen directed the ExaCT Exascale Combustion Co-Design Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

massively parallel direct numerical

She is a member of the National

simulations (DNS) of turbulent

Academy of Engineering and a

combustion with complex

fellow of the Combustion Institute

chemistry. These DNS are used

and the American Physical Society.

to understand fundamental

O F

multiple times.

on the board of directors of the Combustion Institute and belongs to the editorial boards of many combustion and fluids journals.

CHEN WILL COLLABORATE

Y E A R S

Chen leads a computational

its annual INCITE Allocation Award

1 0

At the petascale, the DNS have

C E L E B R A T I N G

to engines.

E X C E L L E N C E

Senior Scientist Combustion Research Facility Sandia National Laboratories

WITH FACULTY AND STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING.

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J E N NIFER H. EL ISSEEFF Jules Stein Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Morton Goldberg Professor, Ophthalmology Director, Translational Tissue Engineering Center Johns Hopkins University

Jennifer Elisseeff specializes in

and design technologies for

National Academy of Inventors and

engineered biomaterials, a broad

regenerative medicine. Her lab is

the American Institute for Medical

class of designer synthetic fibers,

examining hydrogels as a scaffold

and Biological Engineering.

gels, and other materials that can

for tissue engineering.

replace, repair, and sometimes

Mellon Young Alumni Award,

biomedical engineering from the

Arthritis Investigator Award from

Harvard-MIT Division of Health

the Arthritis Foundation, and the

Sciences and Technology, Elisseeff

Yasuda Award from the Society for

She has made significant

became a fellow at the National

Physical Regulation in Medicine

contributions to developing and

Institute of General Medical

and Biology. She recently received

commercializing injectable, soft

Sciences’s Pharmacology Research

the National Institutes of Health

materials that promote tissue

Associate Program, where she

Director’s Pioneer Award.

regeneration. In addition, her

worked in the National Institute of

current research on understanding

Dental and Craniofacial Research.

regenerate human tissues damaged by injury, disease, or genetic defect.

and controlling the immunological response to biomaterials is at the forefront of regenerative medicine.

STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND THE

Engineering at Johns Hopkins

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.

Tissue Engineering Center,

appointments in the Department

a collaboration between the

of Chemical and Biological

Department of Biomedical

Engineering and Department of

Engineering and the Johns

Materials Science and Engineering.

biologists, chemists, and engineers who work together to develop biomaterials, study stem cells,

H A G L E R I N S T I T U T E F O R A D VA N C E D S T U D Y

WITH FACULTY AND

Department of Biomedical University in 2001. She also holds

lab comprises surgical fellows,

ELISSEEFF WILL COLLABORATE

She joined the faculty in the

Elisseeff directs the Translational

Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. The

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Honors include the Carnegie

After earning a doctorate in

Elisseeff is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine. She is a fellow of the

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optical and energy transfer

harvesting, strong optical limiters,

Minority Mentorship Award,

in organic multichromophore

enhanced nonlinear optical

the Rackham Distinguished

systems for particular optical

effects, and quantum optical

Faculty Achievement Award, the

and electronic applications. His

effects, and as sensors in certain

University Faculty Recognition

research has been translated

organic and biological devices.

in Excellence Award, and the

into technology in the areas of two-photon organic materials for eye and sensor protection, large

Goodson earned his doctorate at the University of Nebraska.

Imes and Moore Mentorship Award. He has received the NSF American Innovation Fellowship

dielectric and energy storage

Goodson is a fellow of the

and the National Research Council

effects in organic macromolecular

American Association for the

Ford Fellowship.

materials, and using nonlinear

Advancement of Science, the

optical methods to detect

American Institute for Medical and

energetic (explosive) devices.

Biological Engineering, the Alfred

His research group uses several spectroscopic techniques toward

P. Sloan Foundation, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance.

investigating the optical properties

Honors include the Percy L.

and applications of novel organic

Julian Award, the Lloyd Ferguson

macromolecular materials. A

Young Scientist Award (National

major emphasis is placed on

Organization for the Professional

the new properties observed in

Advancement of Black Chemists

organic macromolecules with

and Chemical Engineers), the

branching repeat structures as

Camille and Henry Dreyfus

well as organic macromolecules

Foundation Teacher-Scholar

encapsulated with small metal

Award, the National Science

particles. These materials have

Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award,

been suggested as candidates

the US Army Research Office

He is senior editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry and belongs to the editorial board of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

GOODSON WILL COLLABORATE WITH FACULTY AND STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE.

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American Chemical Society

Y E A R S

Young Investigator Award, the

emitting devices, artificial-light

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for applications involving light-

focuses on investigating nonlinear

C E L E B R A T I N G

Theodore Goodson’s research

E X C E L L E N C E

Richard Barry Bernstein Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering Department of Chemistry University of Michigan

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ARTHU R M. JA FFE Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science Department of Physics Harvard University

Arthur Jaffe’s major scientific

During the 1980s, Jaffe served

de France; Boston University; and

work has been in the realm

on a National Research Council

the University of Rome.

of understanding quantum

committee to revitalize funding

theory and the mathematics

for mathematical research. He

that it inspires. Working with

wrote an article titled “Ordering

mathematician James Glimm

the Universe: The Role of

of Stony Brook University,

Mathematics,” which has been

Jaffe constructed the first

reprinted many times and

He was a founding member,

mathematically complete and

translated into several languages.

director, and first president of

nontrivial examples of relativistic quantum field theories.

widely quoted article with Virginia

International Association of Mathematical Physics and the American Mathematical Society.

the Clay Mathematics Institute, known for offering a $7 million prize for the solution of seven

Recently his research has

Tech mathematician Frank Quinn,

focused on the relation

titled ‘‘‘Theoretical Mathematics’:

between supersymmetry and

Toward a Cultural Synthesis of

Honors include the Dannie

a new mathematical subject,

Mathematics and Theoretical

Heineman Prize for Mathematical

noncommutative geometry, in

Physics,” which inspired an

Physics from the American

which one builds quantum space

extended discussion about

Physical Society and the Medal

into the notion of space-time.

mathematical proof and the

from the Collège de France.

As a National Science Foundation Fellow, Jaffe earned

relations between mathematics and physics.

mathematical questions.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow

a doctorate in physics from

He has held visiting

of the American Academy of Arts

Princeton University under the

professorships at ETH Zurich;

and Sciences.

direction of Arthur Wightman,

Princeton University; Rockefeller

one of the founders of the

University; the University of

axiomatic approach to quantum

California, San Diego; the Collège

field theory.

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In 1993, Jaffe collaborated on a

He served as president of the

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JAFFE WILL COLLABORATE WITH FACULTY AND STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE.

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N A NCY R . SOTTOS

Sottos is a member of the

response in self-healing materials,

National Academy of Engineering

Sottos and her group develop

mechanochemically active

and a fellow of the Society for

polymers and composites capable

polymers, and other coupled

Experimental Mechanics, the

of self-healing and regeneration,

systems such as composite

Society of Engineering Science, and

self-reporting, and self-protection

electrodes used in electrochemical

the American Association for the

to improve reliability and extend

energy storage and thin-

Advancement of Science.

material lifetime. She focuses on

film interfaces.

complex materials.

Sottos earned her doctorate in

boards of the journals Experimental

mechanical engineering from the

Mechanics, Multifunctional Materials,

University of Delaware. She joined

and Polymer Engineering and Science.

Her research is focused on

the faculty at the University of

creating materials systems with

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in

unprecedented functions through a

1991 and was named head of the

unique combination of bioinspired

Department of Material Sciences

design; new manufacture; and

and Engineering in 2020.

multiscale characterization at the intersection of chemistry, materials science, and mechanics.

SOTTOS WILL COLLABORATE WITH FACULTY AND STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING.

Honors include the Office of Naval 1 0

to manufacture these

She is a member of the editorial

Research Young Investigator Award, Scientific American’s SciAm 50

A key goal is to understand the

Award, the M. M. Frocht and B.

mechanical behavior of these

J. Lazan awards from the Society

complex, heterogeneous materials

for Experimental Mechanics, the

through meso- and microscale

IChemE Global Research Award,

characterization of deformation

the Society of Engineering Science

and failure mechanisms. The

Medal, and the Beckman Institute

group has developed experimental

Vision and Spirit Award.

C E L E B R A T I N G

new bioinspired methods

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tools to characterize material

in biological systems, Nancy

Y E A R S

Inspired by autonomous function

E X C E L L E N C E

Department Head and Holder, Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair Center for Advanced Study Professor Materials Science and Engineering Grainger College of Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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D ONNA T. STR IC KLA ND Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Waterloo Ontario, Canada

Donna Strickland received the

joined the University of Waterloo

medical applications, and

2018 Nobel Prize in Physics

in 1997.

detecting trace gases.

Today, her ultrafast laser group

Strickland is a recipient of a

develops high-intensity laser

Sloan Research Fellowship, a

systems for investigations in

Premier’s Research Excellence

nonlinear optics. Many nonlinear

Award, and a Cottrell Scholar

optics applications require two

Award. She is a fellow of the

synchronous pulses having

Optical Society, the Royal Society

different colors. One such

of Canada, and the International

application is mid-infrared

Society for Optics and Photonics.

for developing chirped-pulse amplification with French physicist Gérard Mourou, her doctoral supervisor. They published this Nobel-winning research in 1985 when Strickland was a graduate student at the University of Rochester in New York.

generation through difference

In addition, she is an honorary

Together they paved the way

frequency, mixing the two

fellow of the Canadian Academy

toward the most intense laser

colors. Most molecules have

of Engineering as well as the

pulses ever created. The research

distinctive spectral signatures in

Institute of Physics. Strickland is a

has several applications today in

the wavelength range of three

member of the National Academy

industry and medicine—including

to twenty microns, known as the

of Sciences and was recently

cutting a patient’s cornea in laser

molecular fingerprint region.

appointed to the Pontifical

eye surgery and machining small

Although much work has been

Academy of Sciences.

glass parts for use in cell phones.

done in producing wavelengths

Strickland was a research associate at the National Research Council Canada, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a member of the technical staff at Princeton University before she

below ten microns, there are still very few coherent sources at the longer wavelengths. Strickland’s group builds two-color lasers that can generate short pulses in the fifteen- to twenty-micron wavelengths. These sources could find applications in environmental monitoring,

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STRICKLAND WILL COLLABORATE WITH FACULTY AND STUDENTS IN THE INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, AND THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES.

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N I KOLAY I. Z HEL U DEV

European Physical Society, the

fields of metamaterials and

such as high-bandwidth, low-

Optical Society, the Institute of

nanophotonics that emerged

intensity optical-switching

Physics, the American Physical

early in the twenty-first century

solutions; wavefront-management

Society, and the Royal Society. In

at the crossroads of optics

dispersion and polarization-

addition, he is an international

and nanotechnology.

control devices; data processing,

member of the US National

optical tagging, and optical data-

Academy of Engineering.

groundbreaking contributions to the field of metamaterials with his article “Optical Properties on

storage devices; super-resolution imaging devices; detectors; and nanolasers.

Demand.” He also has developed

Zheludev received his doctorate

metamaterials with controlled

from Moscow State University and

dispersion, boundary conditions,

joined the faculty at Southampton

and polarization properties;

University in 1991.

pioneered a new generation of nonlinear, gain-switchable, nanomechanical, and memory metamaterials; initiated the groundbreaking concept of nanophotonics of structural transformations; and introduced and developed the “active plasmonics” paradigm.

He is the editor in chief of the Journal of Optics (IOP Publishing) and adviser to the Nature Publishing Group.

ZHELUDEV WILL COLLABORATE WITH FACULTY AND STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE

Honors include the Thomas Young

OF SCIENCE, THE COLLEGE OF

Medal and Prize; the President’s

ENGINEERING, AND TEXAS A&M

Science Award, Singapore; the

AGRILIFE RESEARCH.

Royal Society’s Leverhulme Trust

C E L E B R A T I N G

In particular, Zheludev has made

Senior Research Fellowship; the Senior Research Professorship of the United Kingdom’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; the Nanyang Research

His work lays the foundation for

Prize; and the Royal Society

developing a new generation

Wolfson Research Merit Award

of nanotechnology-enabled

and Fellowship.

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Zheludev is a fellow of the

electromagnetic spectrum,

Y E A R S

solutions operating across the

member of the closely interlinked

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Nikolay Zheludev is a founding

E X C E L L E N C E

Professor and Deputy Director of the Zepler Institute University of Southampton, United Kingdom Co-Director, The Photonics Institute Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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HAGLER FELLOWS As each Hagler Fellow Is inducted they are presented with Rodin’s statue of The Thinker.

CLASS OF 2020-21 R. GRAHAM COOKS

Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry Department of Chemistry College of Science Purdue University RESEARCH: Mass spectrometry, including fundamental phenomena, instrumentation, and analytical applications

ANDREW P. FEINBERG

Director, Center for Epigenetics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Whiting School of Engineering and Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University RESEARCH: Multidisciplinary research spans many fields, from genetics to computational biology and mathematics

JAMES J. GIOVANNONI

Director Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health Laboratory USDA-ARS Adjunct Professor Boyce Thompson Institute Cornell University RESEARCH: Molecular and genetic analysis of fruit physiology and ripening and signal transduction systems in the tomato and additional fruit species

PAULA T. HAMMOND

David H. Koch (1962) Professor in Engineering Head, Department of Chemical Engineering School of Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) RESEARCH: Macromolecular design and synthesis, targeted drug delivery for cancer, nanoscale assembly of synthetic biomaterials and electrostatic and directed materials assembly

TIMOTHY A. JUDGE

Joseph A. Alutto Chair in Leadership Effectiveness Department of Management and Human Resources Fischer College of Business The Ohio State University RESEARCH: Clarifies the role of personality in job performance, job attitudes, and career success

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JULIA KING

Professor Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Crossbench Life Peer, House of Lords, London Chair, Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials, Carbon Trust RESEARCH: Science, technology, and policy to support low-carbon and new negativeemissions science

GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS

Former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor Department of Educational Policy Studies School of Education University of Wisconsin RESEARCH: Examines the pedagogical practices of teachers who are successful with African American students, and investigates applications of critical race theory to education

RACHEL F. MORAN

Distinguished Professor School of Law University of California, Irvine RESEARCH: Education policy, civil rights, and race and the law

SHAUL MUKAMEL

Distinguished Professor Department of Chemistry School of Physical Sciences University of California, Irvine RESEARCH: Studies molecules by measuring their response to short pulses of light.

Pioneered the field of coherent ultrafast multidimensional molecular spectroscopy

LENA COWEN ORLIN

Professor Department of English Georgetown College Georgetown University RESEARCH: Expert on private domestic life during the Renaissance and specializes in works of Shakespeare

CLASS OF 2019-20 LUIZ DAVIDOVICH

Professor of Physics Instituto de Física Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro RESEARCH: Decoherence, dynamics of entanglement, laser theory, and quantum metrology

SHARON DONOVAN

Professor and holder, Melissa M. Noel Endowed Chair in Nutrition and Health Department of Nutritional Sciences College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign RESEARCH: Pediatric nutrition, focusing on optimizing intestinal and cognitive development and on development of the gut microbiome

MARIO ANDRÉS HAMUY

Vice President and Head of Mission, Chile Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Washington, DC RESEARCH: Established the use of supernovas to measure distances into the far universe, leading to the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe

PETER J. HOTEZ

Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine Professor Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology Endowed Chair in Tropical Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine RESEARCH: Neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development

KATHLEEN C. HOWELL

Hsu Lo Distinguished Professor School of Aeronautics and Astronautics College of Engineering Purdue University RESEARCH: Contributions to the three-body problem, the interplanetary superhighway, and artificial satellite theories

MISHA LYUBICH

Professor Department of Mathematics Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences College of Arts and Sciences Stony Brook University RESEARCH: Analytic low-dimensional dynamics of recursive maps

HENRY ROUSSO

Directeur de recherche de Classe Exceptionelle French National Centre for Scientific Research Paris, France RESEARCH: Link between history and memory and historical trauma

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MICHAEL J. DUFF

Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics Senior Research Investigator Imperial College London RESEARCH: Quantum gravity, quantum informatics, string theory, M-theory, and unified theories of the elementary particles

YONGGANG HUANG

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Northwestern University RESEARCH: Mechanics of stretchable materials and additive manufacturing

CAMERON JONES

Professor and holder of the R.L. Martin Distinguished Chair of Chemistry Monash University Melbourne, Australia RESEARCH: Facets of chemistry to refine existing views on structure, bonding, and stability

Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law Director, Classical Liberal Institute School of Law New York University RESEARCH: Legal theory property, torts, and employment

Michael Henry Strater University Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering School of Engineering and Applied Science Princeton University RESEARCH: Advancing rapid development of technology

TOM GINSBURG

ROBERT D. PUTNAM

JAMES E. HUBBARD JR.

Peter and Isabel Malkin Research Professor of Public Policy Kennedy School of Government Harvard University RESEARCH: Religion in society, the fall and revival of American community, and opportunity gaps

ANDREA RINALDO

Leo Spitz Professor of International Law Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar Professor of Political Science University of Chicago Law School RESEARCH: Multidisciplinary social scientific analysis to comparative constitutional law Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. ‘45 Chair I Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering Texas A&M University RESEARCH: Designs, develops, and defines the state of the art in robotic platforms

THOMAS J. STIPANOWICH

Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Director, Laboratory of Ecohydrology École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland RESEARCH: Theory of self-organized fractal river networks and efficient transportation networks

William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution Professor of Law Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution Caruso School of Law Pepperdine University RESEARCH: Commercial arbitration and dispute resolution

WILLIAM G. UNRUH

JERRY TESSENDORF

Professor of Physics Department of Physics & Astronomy University of British Columbia RESEARCH: General relativity and refining the foundations of quantum mechanics in relation to black holes

CLASS OF 2017–18 VIJAY K. DHIR

Professor of Visual Computing School of Computing College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences Clemson University RESEARCH: Fluid simulations in computer graphics for motion pictures

CLASS OF 2016–17

Distinguished Professor Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Samueli School of Engineering University of California, Los Angeles RESEARCH: Fundamental and applied sciences involving boiling

CHRISTOPHER C. CUMMINS

RICHARD A. DIXON

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Departments of Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering Duke University RESEARCH: Wavelets, mathematical methods

Distinguished Research Professor Department of Biological Sciences College of Science University of North Texas RESEARCH: Metabolic engineering of plants

Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry School of Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology RESEARCH: Synthetic chemistry, inorganic synthesis methodology

E X C E L L E N C E

VANDERLEI SALVADOR BAGNATO

Professor Department of Physics and Materials Science University of São Paulo and the Institute of Physics of São Carlos Brazil RESEARCH: Laser cooling, trapping neutral atoms, and applying the principles of optics and lasers in health sciences

H. VINCENT POOR

RICHARD A. EPSTEIN

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CLASS OF 2018-19

Head, Department of Immunology Founding Director Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology Germany RESEARCH: Vaccines for tuberculosis

Y E A R S

EDWIN L. “NED” THOMAS Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering School of Engineering Rice University RESEARCH: Development of novel photonic materials and determination of the morphology of black copolymers

STEFAN H.E. KAUFMANN

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Henry Adams Morss and Henry Adams Morss Jr. Professor of Applied Mathematics School of Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology RESEARCH: Quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently known algorithm running on a classical computer

C E L E B R A T I N G

PETER W. SHOR

INGRID DAUBECHIES

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Professor Emeritus Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering A. James Clark School of Engineering University of Maryland RESEARCH: Civil engineering, flood plain management

HUAJIAN GAO

RICHARD HOLM

CLASS OF 2015–16

MICHAEL KING

Research Professor Swanlund Chair Emeritus College of Law University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign RESEARCH: Law, economics, legal, scholarship, and legal education

Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Brown University RESEARCH: Mechanical and biological engineering

W. DAVID ARNETT

MARYELLEN GIGER

JOHN T. BROSNAN

A. N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor Department of Radiology Committee on Medical Physics The College at the University of Chicago RESEARCH: Computer-aided diagnosis, digital signal and image processing

ROBERT KENNICUTT JR.

Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, Emerita School of Physical Sciences University of Cambridge RESEARCH: Astronomy, star formation and galaxies

CHARLES E. KOLB

Former President and Chief Executive Officer Aerodyne Research Inc. RESEARCH: Atmospheric chemistry, air quality, and climate

V. KUMAR

Professor Department of Marketing The Peter J. Tobin College of Business St. John’s University, New York RESEARCH: Marketing research methods, customer relationship management

WILLIAM M. SAGE

James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence Professor Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care Dell Medical School The University of Texas at Austin School of Law RESEARCH: Law, national health care reform

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THOMAS S. ULEN

H A G L E R I N S T I T U T E F O R A D VA N C E D S T U D Y

Regents’ Professor Emeritus Department of Astronomy College of Science University of Arizona RESEARCH: Theoretical astrophysics, supernovae, and stellar astronomy Professor Emeritus Department of Biochemistry Memorial University of Newfoundland RESEARCH: Amino acid biochemistry

ROBERT A. CALDERBANK

Charles S. Sydnor Distinguished Professor Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Mathematics Director, Rhodes Information Initiative Pratt School of Engineering, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences Duke University RESEARCH: Computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics

RICHARD DELGADO

John J. Sparkman Chair of Law School of Law The University of Alabama RESEARCH: Critical race theory, law

RICHARD GIBBS

Wofford Cain Chair and Professor Department of Molecular and Human Genetics Director & Founder, Human Genome Sequencing Center Baylor College of Medicine RESEARCH: Genome science, human molecular evolution

the late J. KARL HEDRICK

James Marshall Wells Academic Chair and Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering University of California, Berkeley RESEARCH: Nonlinear control theory, automotive control systems

Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Harvard University RESEARCH: Bioinorganic chemistry Senior Research Scientist Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics University of Colorado Boulder RESEARCH: Atmospheric and space physics

STEVE POLASKY

Regents Professor, Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics Department of Applied Economics College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences University of Minnesota RESEARCH: Ecological/ environmental economics

JOHN A. ROGERS

Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurological Surgery Director, Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics McCormick School of Engineering Northwestern University RESEARCH: Materials science and engineering

MANFRED SCHARTL

Senior Professor Department of Developmental Biochemistry The Biocenter University of Würzburg, Germany RESEARCH: Biology, genetics

KUMARES SINHA

Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering Lyles School of Civil Engineering Purdue University RESEARCH: Civil engineering

SUSAN SULEIMAN

C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emerita Department of Romance Languages & Literatures Arts and Humanities Harvard University RESEARCH: Twentieth-century French literature

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RAKESH AGRAWAL

Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering Davidson School of Chemical Engineering College of Engineering Purdue University RESEARCH: Chemical engineering, invention

JACK DONGARRA

University Distinguished Professor Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Director, Innovative Computing Laboratory Tickle College of Engineering University of Tennessee, Knoxville RESEARCH: Computational mathematics

WILLIAM MARRAS

Honda Chair in Transportation Department of Integrated Systems Engineering Director, Spine Research Institute The Ohio State University RESEARCH: Ergonomics and occupational health

ED MOSES

President Longview Consulting RESEARCH: Fusion energy, high-power laser physics

YURI OGANESSIAN

Scientific Director Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna, Russia RESEARCH: Nuclear physics

ROBERT SKELTON

Wofford Cain Chair III and Professor Departments of Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering College of Engineering Texas A&M University RESEARCH: Systems and aerospace engineering

Professor Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Texas A&M University RESEARCH: Animal genetics

SATYA ATLURI

Presidential Chair & University Distinguished Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering Texas Tech University RESEARCH: Mechanical and aerospace engineering

CLAUDE BOUCHARD

John W. Barton, Sr. Endowed Chair in Genetics and Nutrition Boyd Professor and Professor in Human Genomics Pennington Biomedical Research Center Louisiana State University RESEARCH: Genetics and nutrition

the late CHRISTODOULOS FLOUDAS Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute Erle Nye ‘59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering Texas A&M University RESEARCH: Chemical and biological engineering

the late ROY GLAUBER

Professor Emeritus Department of Physics Harvard College Harvard University RESEARCH: Quantum physics

ROGER HOWE

University Distinguished Professor Department of Teaching, Learning & Culture College of Education and Human Development Texas A&M University RESEARCH: Mathematics

ROBERT LEVINE

Distinguished University Professor, English Departments of English and American Studies College of Arts and Humanities University of Maryland RESEARCH: Literary and comparative studies

WOLFGANG SCHLEICH

Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics Director, Institute of Quantum Physics Ulm University, Germany RESEARCH: Theoretical and quantum physics

CLASS OF 2012–13 JAY DUNLAP

Nathan Smith Professor Departments of Molecular and Systems Biology and Biochemistry and Cell Biology Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College RESEARCH: Genetics, biochemistry

PETER LISS

Professor Emeritus School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia, UK RESEARCH: Environmental sciences

ALAN NEEDLEMAN

University Distinguished Professor and Royce E. Wisenbaker ’39 Chair III Departments of Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering Texas A&M University RESEARCH: Materials science and engineering

ALEDA ROTH

Burlington Industries Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management Department of Management Wilburn O. and Ann Powers College of Business Clemson University RESEARCH: Global supply chain management

VERNON SMITH

George L. Argyros Endowed Chair in Finance and Economics, Professor of Economics and Law Founder, Economic Science Institute The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics, Dale E. Fowler School of Law Chapman University RESEARCH: Experimental economics

KATEPALLI SREENIVASAN

E X C E L L E N C E

Chairman Emeritus RTKL Associates Inc. RESEARCH: Architecture and building construction

Distinguished Professor and David P. Gardner Presidential Chair Department of Chemistry College of Science University of Utah RESEARCH: Organic chemistry

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LEIF ANDERSSON

Y E A R S

HAROLD ADAMS

PETER STANG

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CLASS OF 2013–14

C E L E B R A T I N G

CLASS OF 2014–15

Dean Emeritus of NYU Tandon School of Engineering Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering University Professor Departments of Physics and Mathematics College of Arts and Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University RESEARCH: Mechanical engineering

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HAG LER INST I T U T E

FINANCIAL OV ERVIEW

IN FISCAL YEAR 2017, JON L. HAGLER ’58 COMMITTED $10 MILLION AND A $10 MILLION ESTATE GIFT TO HELP ENDOW WHAT IS NOW THE HAGLER INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY. Jon L. Hagler’s endowment, coupled with the Academic

and putting Cornerstone, the institute’s annual report for

Master Plan funds ($1.8 million in 2016 dollars per year)

fiscal year 2020, online.

and Heep Foundation earnings ($400,000 per year) committed by former Texas A&M President Michael K. Young and sanctioned by President M. Katherine Banks, ensure that the Hagler Institute will serve permanently as a beacon of excellence at Texas A&M. REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES The institute’s current financing is enough to support an average of about ten new Hagler Fellows per year. Looking forward, we see a new era of growth in Hagler Fellows to an average in the mid-teens each year. Two major contributors that enable the institute’s growth are earnings from Jon L. Hagler’s cash endowment and earnings from endowed Hagler Institute college chairs. Those earnings will be generated each year in the future.

fellows of the institute, and the number shown includes cash transfers and encumbrances. Other expenditures were for operating expenses, staff salaries, and fellowships for students to work directly on research with Hagler Fellows and their A&M faculty hosts.

CASH ENDOWMENTS AND PLANNED ESTATE GIFTS Former students such as Jon L. Hagler have provided impressive support for Texas A&M. For alumni wanting to leave a legacy of ultimate academic excellence, the Hagler Institute is an ideal solution. For the life of the university, donors of a cash endowment or a planned estate gift will have their names associated with a series of the world’s most remarkable scholars. Endowed chairs for Hagler

Revenues exceeded expenditures in fiscal year 2021.

Fellows and endowed fellowships for graduate students

Revenues were increased from fiscal year 2020 inflows

to work with fellows are among the most prestigious

as a result of larger earnings on donor endowments in

on campus.

fiscal year 2021. Expenditures declined as the institute’s director and University Distinguished Professor John Junkins was appointed interim president of Texas A&M for the spring 2021 semester and was compensated with funds established for that position. In addition, the Hagler Institute reduced costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by canceling its February 2021 induction gala

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The largest expenditures were for stipends for incoming

H A G L E R I N S T I T U T E F O R A D VA N C E D S T U D Y

Three Hagler Institute college chairs of $3 million each are fully endowed and are generating earnings for their respective colleges to support Hagler Fellows. Those chairs were funded by Trisha and L.C. “Chaz” Neely ’62 (business), Eric Yong Xu ’93 (biology/science), and Thomas W. Powell ’62 (science).

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$1,960,623

HEEP Foundation $400,000

Endowment Earnings and Gifts $536,499

Texas A&M Funds $1,851,384

Fellow and Lecturer Compensation $1,015,095

Operating Expenses and Salaries $450,528

Student Fellowships $495,000

The mission of the Hagler Institute

professor emerita, mechanical

been made, including one from an

has inspired Texas A&M faculty

engineering. Walter Buchanan,

anonymous donor.

members who are not former

professor in the College of

students to contribute support for the

Engineering and a graduate of Purdue

institute. Some faculty have walked in

University and Indiana University,

unsolicited with a check in hand. Brad

along with his wife, Charlotte, donated

Worsham ’88, professor of practice

their estates to establish a chair for

in the College of Engineering, helped

the College of Engineering. Elouise

establish an $800,000 endowment

and John Junkins, founding director of

for fellowships for graduate students

the Hagler Institute, provided a chair

in engineering to collaborate on

from their estate to support Hagler

research with Hagler Fellows. Mary

Fellows in aerospace engineering.

and Charles Gregory ’64 established

Professor Janet Bluemel and

an endowment within the Hagler

University Distinguished Professor

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Institute to support graduate

John Gladysz, holder of the Dow Chair

IN THE EXCELLENCE OF YOUR

fellowships in any field.

in Chemical Invention, both from the

DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, AND

College of Science, made provisions in

TEXAS A&M. WE INVITE YOU

their wills to contribute to the Hagler

TO JOIN IN SUPPORTING THAT

Institute. Other estate gifts have

PRESTIGIOUS MISSION.

The first professor to establish an estate gift was Ozden Ochoa,

Former Hagler Fellows are another source of support. Robert Skelton donated funds to endow a discretionary account emphasizing graduate student support. Katepalli Sreenivasan—from the first group of fellows—made an impressive cash gift. Another former fellow, Alan Needleman, has made several cash contributions to the institute.

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T H E H AGLER INSTITUTE’S GOAL IS T O HELP SET T EXAS A&M ON A T RAJECTORY TO BECOME T H E N U M B E R- ONE PUBLIC UNIVERSIT Y IN T HE UNITED STATES.

2021 CORNERSTONE

C HART I NG THE WAY

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averaged nine new fellows of national academy stature

2021, Texas A&M reported to the National Science

each year for its first ten years. In the immediate

Foundation that the university’s total research funding

future, the institute hopes to increase the number of

for fiscal year 2020 exceeded $1.1 billion, making it

new fellows into the teens.

the first Texas university to top the $1 billion mark. In 2021, Forbes ranked Texas A&M number 17 of public colleges, while Washington Monthly ranked Texas A&M number 21 among all universities, private and public, based on how well the university serves the country as a whole.

U.S. News and World Report ranks graduate schools, and Texas A&M fared well. For example, four of A&M’s engineering departments ranked in the nation’s top 10.

Texas A&M’s School of Law, a relatively new program extensively involved with the Hagler Institute, ranked in the top 10 in two areas of law study. The College of Education and Human Development at A&M held the number 13 slot in the nation, with the Mays Business School at number 9 among public programs and

The Hagler Institute has proven to be a catalyst for growth of top scholars on A&M’s faculty. Of those fellows who completed their work in the institute, 22 percent joined A&M’s faculty. The COVID-19 pandemic has delayed visits to campus by Hagler Fellows, resulting in 34 fellows still active. If history repeats itself, another 6 or 7 fellows could join A&M’s faculty from the institute’s present group of scholars. Other academy level professors have come to A&M during the last decade, some directly recruited by former fellows. If this pattern persists, the Hagler Institute will not only continue to foster new ideas, inspiration, and collaboration with its visiting scholars, but will remain an important contributor of academy level talent to A&M’s faculty

number 22 among private and public universities. Texas

A long-term goal is to reach twenty Hagler Fellow

A&M Health ranked 18 nationally for its family medicine

appointments per year. When spending time

program. The Bush School of Government and Public

on campus in collaboration with A&M’s faculty

Service ranked 10 for its program in homeland security

and students, fellows inherently experience the

and 18 for its program in nonprofit management.

opportunity that A&M offers to enhance their own

The Hagler Institute’s goal is to help set

faculty at the current rate, a steady perpetual climb in

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of the nation’s five largest universities. In February

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academic quality of Texas A&M. The institute has

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The Hagler Institute has added dramatically to the

main campus in the fall of 2021, Texas A&M is one

C E L E B R A T I N G

With nearly 67,000 students enrolled at Texas A&M’s

E X C E L L E N C E

THESE ARE EXCITING TIMES FOR TEXAS A&M.

career objectives. Should fellows keep joining A&M’s

Texas A&M on a trajectory to become the number-one

world-class scholars at A&M will help move Texas A&M

public university in the United States.

to the top of the public school rankings.

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

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CORNERSTONE 2021

REACHING OUR LONG-TERM GOAL REQUIRES: •

stronger “buy in” by underparticipating colleges to use the institute to enhance their programs;

•

additional endowed Hagler Institute college chairs, at least one per college, to make fellows more affordable; and

•

additional fellowship endowments for graduate students to work with fellows of the institute.

Clifford L. Fry ’67, Ph.D. Associate Director,

A Hagler Institute college chair ensures a college’s participation in the

Hagler Institute for Advanced Study

Hagler Institute’s mission for the life of Texas A&M. For the donor who

979-458-5723

wants to increase a college’s participation, funding a Hagler Institute

cfry@tamu.edu

college chair is essential. Chair earnings typically pay for all costs of fellows

or

and are used only for that purpose.

Hagler Institute college chairs and graduate student fellowships are among the most prestigious in the university. College chairs come in two levels. Level I chairs at $1 million allow appointment and total support for a Hagler Fellow every three years. Level II chairs at $3 million are among the largest chairs on campus and permit appointment and total funding of a Hagler Fellow every year. Graduate fellowships can be endowed for $800,000 per fellowship. These chairs and fellowships are permanently named for the donors, and matching money is sometimes available.

For our long-term goal of bringing twenty new outstanding scholars to Texas A&M, the institute seeks new estate planned gifts. The institute’s planned gifts are established through the Texas A&M Foundation for the sole benefit of the Hagler Institute. These gifts can take many forms and can have beneficial tax advantages for the donor.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN SAID, “THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT YOUR FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” PLEASE JOIN OUR COLLEAGUES IN THE LEGACY SOCIETY AND HELP CREATE THE FUTURE BY GIVING BACK TO TEXAS A&M THROUGH THE HAGLER INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY.

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FOR INQUIRIES, CONTACT:

H A G L E R I N S T I T U T E F O R A D VA N C E D S T U D Y

Hannah Johnston–Antao ’11 Director of Executive Operations for the Office of the President, Texas A&M Foundation 979-845-8161 hantao@txamfoundation.com

“ I A M S O P R O U D O F T H E A C C O M P L I S H M E N TS O F THE HAGLER INSTITUTE DURING ITS FIRST DECADE. OUR MOMENTUM IS GROWING, BUT WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED. MANY OF OUR FACULTY AND STUDENTS HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY THIS INSTITUTE, BUT THE GOAL IS FOR EVERY COLLEGE TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD TWO HAGLER FELLOWS EVERY YEAR. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, WE WILL NEED TEN HAGLER COLLEGE CHAIR ENDOWMENTS AND TWENTY GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP ENDOWMENTS. PLEASE, CONSIDER JOINING US IN THIS PURSUIT. BY WORKING TOGETHER WE CAN TRULY ELEVATE THIS UNIVERSITY WE ALL LOVE.”

JOHN L. JUNKINS Founding Director

8th Floor, Rudder Tower College Station, Texas 77843-3572 hias.tamu.edu

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