FY 2026 Grants Awarded

Byron Housewright
$29,600 8/31/2026
Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
FY2027 Houston Livestock Grant-GA

Ilana Short
$2,500 7/16/2026
Department of Art
Humanities Texas
Of Birds and Texas: The Gentling Brothers and Their Magnificent Book (Multiformat) 

Katharine Halfacre
$25,000 7/16/2026
Health and Human Performance
Prairie View A&M University, Food Security Research Center (FSRC)
Cooking in College: A Multisite Culinary Intervention to Promote Student Nutrition Security

Michael Oldham
$100,000 6/30/2026
Health and Human Performance
Texas A&M University Research Excellence Fund
Strategic Research Initiatives (SRI) 

Heungman Park
$149,459.31 6/9/2026
Physics and Astronomy
NASA-Washington
Investigating protective transparent flexible films for organic semiconductor optoelectronic devices in the Martian atmospheric environment

Nikolay Sirakov
$5,000 5/27/2026
Mathematics
National Institutes of Health
Renewal

April Sanders
$2,613,073 5/21/2026
College of Innovation and Design
Moody Foundation
Moody Foundation Planning - Rural M-Pact Region 8

Ayman Elzohairy
$62,500 5/19/2026
Engineering & Technology
Texas A&M University Research Excellence Fund
Collaborative Discovery Grants

Ben Jang
$250,000 5/19/2026
Chemistry
Texas A&M University Research Excellence Fund
Collaborative Discovery Grants

Curt Carlson
$381,580 4/1/2026
Psychology and Special Education
Texas A&M University Research Excellence Fund
Graduate Fellowships Program

Jennifer Schroeder
$96,102.40 2/24/2026
Graduate Studies
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
ETAMU - Institutional Support and Scholar

April Sanders
$416,555 2/9/2026
College of Innovation and Design
Greater Texas Foundation
Competency-Based Education (CBE) Certified Teacher Preparation Program

Ryan Erck
$50,000 2/5/2026
Academic Affairs and Student Success
Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
Sub-Award: TAMUS: MSDF Partnership for Innovation in Advising

Jose Lopez
$1,000 2/1/2026
Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
Southern Agricultural Economics Association
SAEA 2026 Travel Grant

Zeeshan Siddique
$24,320 1/13/2026
Literature & Languages
Indiana University
Alliance for Decision Education Research

Veronica Reed

$2,981,500 10/7/2025
Department of Education: Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Federal TRIO Programs: Student Support Services (SSS) Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.042A
Trio Student Support Services -A&M-Commerce

Belinda Rudinger
$300,000  9/25/2025
Texas Education Agency: 2025-2026 Literacy for Students with Visual Impairments
2025-2026 Literacy for Students with Visual Impairments

Carlos Bertulani
$140,000  9/25/2025
Department of Energy: FY 2025 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
Symmetry Energy Studied with Hadronic and Electromagnetic Probes

Byron Housewright
$25,200 9/15/2025
Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
FY2026 Houston Livestock Grant-GA

FY 2025 Grants Awarded

Jere Hammer
$700,844.87  8/1/2025
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board: Nursing Shortage Reduction Program 2025-2027
Nursing Shortage Reduction Program 2025-2027

Jinoh Kim
$198,583 7/31/2025
National Science Foundation: Engineering Research Initiation
ERI: Deep Analytics Framework for Location Integrity and Awareness for Reliable UAV-assisted Operations

Lucy Pickering
$49,995  7/16/2025
National Science Foundation
LEAP Conference: Leveraging Ethical Authorship & Publishing Practices: Guidelines for Early Career Engineering and Computer Science Faculty

Jere Hammer
$149,839  7/16/2025
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Nursing, Allied Health, and Other Health Related Education Grant Program 2025-2027

Karen Walker
$1,000  6/5/2025
Southwest Educational Research Association
SERA Research Grant Application: Evaluating the Impact of a Data Visualization Professional Development Session on Early Childhood Educators

Jose Lopez
$600 1/23/2025
SAEA 2025 Travel Grant (Quiz Bowl)
University of Wisconsin System/ Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Nikki Barnett
$105,398  9/30/2024
Commerce Advocacy Project
Texas Office of the Governor-Criminal Justice Division

Kathryn Dixon
$2,701,808  9/1/2024
LeoTeach Bilingual Educator Advancement and Certification Opportunity Network for Paraprofessionals in Texas (LeoTeach BEACON)
Department of Education

Desire Djidonou
$1,000,000  10/1/2024
Integrated Research and Extension Program for a Sustainable and Profitable Urban Agriculture
USDA

LaVelle Hendricks
$200,000  1/31/2025
Texas Innovative Adult Career Educational Grant Program (ACE)
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Nikolay Sirakov
$5,000  3/20/2025
National Institutes of Health

Leslie Ekpe
$5,000  4/8/2025
Tell Me Something Good: Alumni Reconnections at HBCU Homecomings
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and Channing Briggs

Flavia Belpoliti
$16,585  6/24/2025
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
OER Curriculum for Spanish for Heritage Speakers courses

John Slovak
$7,000  4/17/2025
Joint Admission Medical Program
BioPride-JAMP 2025, an Intensive Orientation Program for Texas A&M University Commerce’s Biology Majors with Emphasis on Pre-Med and Allied Health Sciences