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Inside OneTSU MAGAZINE The Office of Research Celebrates New Grant Awardees TSU’s Research Receives $430,000 Award The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a CAREER award of $430,000 over five years to Texas Southern University in support of Dr. Miao Pan, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science (CS) at the College of Science and Technology (COST), for his research proposal “CAREER: SpecMax: Spectrum Trading and Harvesting Designs for Multi-Hop Communications in Cognitive Radio Networks” (CRNs). The award is the most prestigious offered by NSF’s CAREER Program and provide up to five years of funding to junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of their organizations’ missions. Pharmacy Researchers Earn Patent Texas Southern University researchers Dong Liang, Mathew Joseph, Jyothy John, and Cyril V. Abobo were issued patent number 8703786 for formulations and uses of the drug Etravine. Recently marketed for the treatment of HIV infection, Etravine is the first drug in the se