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Program Overview

Clustered & Connected Program

• Recruit approximately 40 new faculty positions

• Enhance competitiveness

• Help solve societal needs

Advance UTSA’s capacity to meet UT System goals:

• Improving the human condition

• Providing an educational environment

• Supporting research and creative works

• Supporting community engagement

• Filling workforce gaps

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The Clustered & Connected Program Objectives Support the UT System Goals

• Foster collaboration among existing faculty to enhance research visibility and competitiveness.

• Enable collaborative opportunities … to create new links among them to enhance UTSA’s national profile.

• Advance research capacity, competitiveness, success and progress towards the outcomes in the UTSA Vision and Strategic Plan.

• Enable the campus to devote a critical mass of faculty to convergent, transdisciplinary knowledge areas.

• Bring diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

• Strengthen existing curricular offerings.

• Advance the impact of UTSA programs by addressing society's needs, connecting with industry, government and institutional partners, and engagement with our communities.

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Evaluation Criteria

1. Ability to enhance national/international pre-eminence and campus leadership in a priority area.

2. Concretely link outstanding departments/disciplinary capacity across colleges to advance excellence to realize the goals in President Eighmy’s Vision and Strategic Plan for UTSA.

3. Demonstration of transdisciplinary collaboration and convergent approaches.

4. Diversity in backgrounds and perspectives that will enrich collaborations across traditional disciplinary and ideological divides.

5. Ability to increase external sponsored support to meet the federal funding goals for the next 10 years.

6. Commitment to share extant resources, take advantage of existing core facilities, and augment the facility infrastructure that supports research.

7. Inclusion of multiple units and at least two colleges.

8. Demonstration of a clear, hiring plan, and attendant 3–5-year research and teaching plan, collaboratively developed by deans that meets the programmatic goals and addresses institutional priorities to advance academic excellence and UTSA’s competitive position relative to other universities.

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Cross-Cutting Priority Areas

Proposals from cross-cutting priority areas are highly encouraged, though proposals from other research areas also are welcome.

• Artificial Intelligence

• Advanced Materials

• Biomedicine

• Climate including Disaster Risk and Resilience

• Cybersecurity for Future Systems and Connectedness

• Data Science

• Human Optimization and Performance

• Hypersonics

• Material Science for Energy Efficiency and Storage

• Next Generation Technology Systems (IoT, advanced wireless, etc.)

• Quantum Information Science and Engineering

• Space Science

• Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care

Transdisciplinary Comprehensive Approaches Are Integral to Solving Societal Grand Challenges

Program Overview

Proposal Process: Proposals are due April 1, 2024

Groups of proposing faculty (with one faculty specifically identified as lead, and team members stated) should prepare brief proposals (no more than 5 pages) describing the following:

1. The grand challenge.

2. National funding opportunities for convergence research/scholarship.

3. Evaluation of UTSA’s competitive position, including past funding successes and impactful research either in the targeted grand challenge area or in a supporting area.

4. Hiring concept and rationale.

5. Hiring plan to attract connected/clustered hiring of 2 to 5 leading or promising scholars to campus that addresses the CCP objectives and criteria, with rough estimates of required new infrastructure.

6. Fit with existing UTSA scholars, centers/institutes and infrastructure.

7. Plan to link proposed hires and existing faculty into functioning teams to advance UTSA’s competitiveness and realize the intended success.

8. Expected appointment structure (e.g., joint/cross/single departmental appointment).

9. Estimated costs, including salary and start-up.

10.Draft advertisement with proposed transdisciplinary search committee.

11. Support [and signature(s)] from cognizant college dean(s) and department chairs.