The IFSEEN consortium comprised of the University of
Texas-Rio Grande Valley, the University of Texas at San Antonio, New Mexico
State University, and the University of New Mexico is to create an educational
linkage to collaboratively enhance the presentation of underrepresented
Hispanics in the food/agricultural science area by generating future Hispanic
food safety/science professionals and leaders through collaboration among the
four major HSIs in Texas and New Mexico. To accomplish the goal, IFSEEN team
will outreach to local high schools, develop new course materials, target
incoming students, train them as cohorts as they matriculate through their
undergraduate education, conduct cross-disciplinary food science research, and
partner with USDA agencies and Tier 1 agricultural institutions nationwide.
Collectively, the IFSEEN program will increase the number of Hispanics that
pursue careers in the food/agricultural science fields.
Friday, September 4, 2015
Congrats for the newly procured USDA NIFA program!
Funded by a USDA grant, Mao is serving as the PI
with $500k/yr for 4 years on a brand-new program - Integrating
Food Science/Engineering & Education Network (IFSEEN).
Congrats for successful renewal of the NSF PREM program!
Led by Dr. Lozano, now Mao is serving as a co-PI of the $3M funded "PREM-UTRGV/UMN-Science and Engineering of Polymeric and Nanoparticle-based Materials for Electronic and Structural Applications" for the next five years!
New semester, new university!
After early tenured and promoted to Associate Professor, Mao enjoys the evening breeze with his group members for the new semester and new UTRGV!
Bye, Dr. Tian!
Dr. Tian, after spent one year as a visiting professor at the MAO group, returned to her home institute on August 9th, 2015.
Great job, summer high school interns!
Great research experience for three summer high school interns in the MAO research group! Corbin is attending TAMU at College Station, Hector is going to TAMU Corpus Christi, and Marie is continuing on the 12th grade!
Monday, June 8, 2015
Spring 2015 semester ends ...
MAO group celebrated the end of semester (with part of the group) and the graduation of group members Michael Anzaldua, Jennifer Bravo, Edna Garcia and Carolina Valdes!
Research on V2O5@PPy Nanocomposites for energy storage published!
X. Sun,
Q. Li, and Y. Mao, The Optimal
Ratio of Polypyrrole Decoration on V2O5 Nanofibers as
electrode materials for energy storage, Electrochimica Acta, 2015, in press.
Research on the particle size and crystal phase dependent photoluminescence of La2Zr2O7:Eu3+ nanoparticles published!
Madhab, good job!
M. Pokhrel, M. G. Brik, and Y. Mao, Particle size and crystal phase dependent photoluminescence of La2Zr2O7:Eu3+ nanoparticles, J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 2015, in press.
M. Pokhrel, M. G. Brik, and Y. Mao, Particle size and crystal phase dependent photoluminescence of La2Zr2O7:Eu3+ nanoparticles, J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 2015, in press.
Work on persistent luminescent nanoparticles published!
Congrats, Bhupendra!
B. B. Srivastava†, A. Kuang, and Y. Mao, Persistent luminescent sub-10-nm Cr doped ZnGa2O4 nanoparticles by a bi-phasic synthesis route, Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 7372 - 7375.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2015/CC/c5cc00377f#!divAbstract
B. B. Srivastava†, A. Kuang, and Y. Mao, Persistent luminescent sub-10-nm Cr doped ZnGa2O4 nanoparticles by a bi-phasic synthesis route, Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 7372 - 7375.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2015/CC/c5cc00377f#!divAbstract
Dr. Mao attended the ACS meeting in Denver, CO
Four talks were given plus one POD short (http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/events/acs-multimedia-lab.html).
MAO group attended March Meeting 2015 in San Antonio, Texas
Dr. Mao, Madhab (postdoc), Lin (graduate) and Alejandra (undergraduate) attended March Meeting 2015 in San Antonio, Texas. Three oral and two poster presentations were given!
MAO group highlighted on the 2014 Annual Report from the Office of Research!
The MAO research group has been
highlighted on the 2014 Annual Report from the UTPA Office of Research: http://portal.utpa.edu/utpa_main/daa_home/research/research_files/Research%20Report%20Final%202014.pdf
Congrats, Eddy on your NSF GRFP Fellowship!
On April 6, 2015, MAO group alumnus Eduardo (Eddy) Villarreal received a 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship!
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