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On Friday, September 29th, Tekoa Academy hosts a brief tree wrapping ceremony with green, blue and white ribbons, signaling Tekoa’s green zone. Davon Chargois, Lamar University’s Grants Manager from the Center for Resiliency was invited to speak to the junior and senior classes at Tekoa Academy.

Fifteen SETx-UIFL members joins 2023 Urban IFL PI meeting in Rockville, MD. This marked the first annual meeting for the four Urban IFL projects, including CROCUS, SETx-UIFL, BSEC, and SW-IFL.

In an interview with Dr. Michelle Meyer, Texas A&M principal investigator and Equity team lead, the SETx-UIFL project is mentioned in Spirit, the Texas A&M Foundation Magazine.

Wednesday, September 6th marked a significant milestone as the first joint task force meeting was held in Beaumont with community members and professionals from the Beaumont-Port Arthur region.

Source: The University of Texas at Austin

On November 21st, 2022, Christa Brelsford, a SETx-UIFL research scientist presented “Topology is Amazing!”  to 120 3rd graders at Linden Elementary in Oak Ridge Tennessee about how she uses mathematical topology to address urban challenges.

Four Texas universities, led by The University of Texas at Austin, have been awarded a grant to establish a new research center to study the risks and impacts of flooding and air pollution in a fast-growing part of Southeast Texas. The scientists will focus on the interactions between these two key issues, as well as…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $66 million in funding for three projects, together involving over 20 institutions, that will develop Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (Urban IFLs) in Baltimore, MD, Chicago, IL, and the Texas Gulf Coast.