The University of Texas at San Antonio has won a $3.1 million competitive grant from the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office to assist programs serving minority students, the department announced before Christmas.
The three-year grant runs from Jan. 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2027, and is meant to help DOE’s Office of Environmental Management develop a potential pipeline of new hires to help compensate for retirements at the agency. The grant seeks to do this through assisting technology, engineering, and math programs at colleges and universities with large minority populations, according to DOE.
DOE announced the award in a Dec. 19 press release.
According to its website, the University of Texas at San Antonio is “the only Hispanic Serving Institution — to hold all three National Center of Academic Excellence designations from the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.”
