Registration Now Open for TAMEST Natural Hazards Summit
Registration for Part I of the TAMEST Natural Hazards Summit — Responding to and Mitigating the Impacts — is now open. The summit will take place on October 19, 2021 and is hosted by the Hurricane Resilience Research Institute (HuRRI) at the University of Houston.
TAMEST Member Profile: Stephen Fuselier, Ph.D. (NAS), Southwest Research Institute
Stephen Fuselier, Ph.D. (NAS), Executive Director of Southwest Research Institute’s (SwRI) Space Science Directorate, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2021 for his achievements in original research. He holds key positions on several NASA missions and serves as Adjoint Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) where he gets to collaborate and mentor early-career researchers in his field of space physics. TAMEST connected with Dr. Fuselier to learn more about his career, passion for mentorship and the future of space research in Texas.
TAMEST Members News Roundup- August 2021
From award nominations to media interviews, TAMEST loves to share the accolades of our membership. Read the June compilation of our membership’s recent accomplishments, research breakthroughs and more.
TAMEST Helps Pilot Texas Science Policy Fellows Program with Rice University
TAMEST partnered with Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy to test a pilot program of science policy fellows in 2021 for the 87th session of the Texas Legislature. In May, fellows from the program joined the TAMEST Board of Directors virtually to share their experiences.
TAMEST Member Profile: Sylvia Trent-Adams, Ph.D. (NAM), University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
After a 33-year career in the uniformed service, Rear Admiral (Upper Half) Sylvia Trent-Adams, Ph.D. (NAM), was supposed to retire from the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Spring 2020, but she put retirement on hold to help handle the quickly unfolding hurdles of the COVID-19 pandemic. In October, she became the Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) at Fort Worth.
TAMEST Members News Roundup- June 2021
From award nominations to media interviews, TAMEST loves to share the accolades of our membership. Read the June compilation of our membership’s recent accomplishments, research breakthroughs and more.
Five New National Academy of Sciences Members Join TAMEST in 2021
TAMEST is proud to welcome five new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021. The five elected, including 2017 TAMEST Protégé Donald W. Hilgemann, Ph.D., and 2021 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science Nominator Margaret A. Phillips, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, were among 120 new members and 30 international members welcomed to the organization.