This federal Project Grant award, with an obligated amount of $733,343, was provided by the Institute of Youth, Family, and Community, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The award is funded through the Higher Education Challenge Grants Program (CFDA 10.217), which supports innovative educational initiatives in food, agricultural, natural resources, and human sciences.
The purpose of this grant is to train faculty at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, a Hispanic-serving institution, in the language of systems thinking. The goal is to help faculty move beyond a reductionist, siloed approach to complex, dynamic problems that cross scientific disciplines. The training will enable faculty to translate these problems into digestible, transparent, and compelling stories and hypotheses, and to test them using cutting-edge simulation. These enhanced skills are expected to lead to breakthrough teaching, research, and extension programs at the university.
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