Collaborators | Research Title |
|---|---|
| Kami Hull Univ. of Texas at Austin Megan Robertson | "Chemical Recycling of Polystyrene to Value-Added Polymers and Chemicals" |
| Caleb Martin Baylor Univ. Anindita Das | "Embedding Lewis Superacids into Covalent Organic Frameworks: Recyclable Heterogeneous Metal-Free Catalysts" |
| Michael Rose Univ. of Texas at Austin Ananda Amarasekara Prairie View A&M Univ. Aditya Mohite Rice Univ. | "Detection and Extraction of Hot Carrier Dynamics in Silicon using Ultrafast Electron and Rational Surface Functionalization" |
| Ron Smaldone Univ. of Texas at Dallas David Powers Texas A&M Univ. | "Printing Therapeutics: Architecting Tandem Catalysts for Fine-Chemical Synthesis" |
| Zachary Tonzetich Univ. of Texas at San Antonio Anthony Cozzolino Texas Tech Univ. | "Soft Lewis Acid Directed Reductive C-C Bond Formation for the Generation of Platform Chemicals from CO2" |
WelchX Retreat and Pilot Grants
2023 WelchX Pilot Grant Recipients
[2023 WelchX Retreat application portal is CLOSED.]
Welch eXperimental (WelchX) Collaboration Retreats
This program aims to bring together Texas researchers to topically focused chemistry meetings and stimulate them to ideate on challenging issues of our time. Early- to mid-career tenured faculty will be invited to this fully in-person summer meeting to stimulate collaborations that foster lasting connections among the participants, thus increasing the density of research ties across Texas and spurring the growth of basic research in the chemical sciences.
The theme for the 2023 WelchX collaboration retreat is:
"Chemistry for Sustainability”.
The retreat’s program activities are designed to spur creative, innovative, collaborative ideas that address the most challenging and unexplored issues in climate-smart chemistry, clean energy, and materials production and usage. Including but not limited to:
- Climate-Smart Chemistry. Reactions driven by nanostructured materials, molecular and biomolecular complexes and Earth-abundant elements for; energy conversion, plastics production/upcycling, and novel ways to make H2
- Energy Capture and Storage. More efficient batteries, hierarchical organic molecules, perovskites and quantum dots for light harvesting, and plasmonic materials for enhanced light-matter interactions
- Sustainable Plastics. Polymers and processes for sustainable production and recycling at industrial scales)
- Organic Semiconductors (solar cells, sensors, novel applications)
- Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Materials (computational and data sciences to design and predict the properties of new materials)
- Chemical-Based Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change
Participation in WelchX is by invitation only. To participate, you must first apply and be selected by the WelchX organizing committee. WelchX retreat participants are eligible to develop the collaborative concepts they design at the retreat into funding proposals to be considered for WelchX collaborative Pilot Grants of up to $100,000 for 12 months.
WelchX Organizing Committee for 2023
Organizing committee members develop the WelchX annual topics, consult on the retreat’s programming, and review the participant applications to prioritize them for invitation.
Welch Foundation
Adam Kuspa, Ph.D. President
Carla J. Atmar, Director of Grant Programs
UT Austin
Jennifer Lyon Gardner, Ph.D. Associate Vice President for Research
Roger Bonnecaze, Ph.D. Dean, Cockrell School of Engineering
David Vanden Bout, Ph.D. Dean, College of Natural Sciences
Rice University
Mike Wong, Ph.D. Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Peter Wolynes, Ph.D. D.R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Chemistry
Texas A&M University
Ping Yang, Ph.D. Senior Assoc. Dean for Research, College of Arts and Sciences
UT Southwestern Medical School
David Mangelsdorf, Ph.D. Chair & Alfred G. Gilman Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology
Baylor College of Medicine
Thomas Westbrook, Ph.D. Welch Chair & Dir. of Therapeutic Innovation Ctr.
UT San Antonio
David Silva, Ph.D. Dean, College of Sciences
Audrey Lamb, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Chemistry
University of Houston
T. Randall Lee, Ph.D. Assoc. Dean for Research, College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Hanadi S. Rifai, Ph.D. Assoc. Dean for Research & Facilities, College of Engineering
Texas Tech University
Yehia Mechref, Associate Vice President of Research and Innovation