"Chemical Research for Grand Challenges"
The 2025 WelchX retreat took place Monday, June 16 - Thursday, June 19 at The Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston in Houston. The theme was “Chemical Research for Grand Challenges” and we had 18 researchers join from University of Houston, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, Rice University, Texas Christian University, Baylor University, The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at El Paso, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, University of North Texas, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Lamar University.
The retreat’s activities were designed to spur creative, innovative and collaborative ideas that address the most challenging and unexplored issues in climate-smart chemistry, clean energy, materials production and usage, minerals processing, and clean water. Researchers paired off into nine teams of two and each team submitted a proposal for a collaborative $100,000 pilot grant based on the research they developed together.
