The RSEC team endeavors to support research and analysis on intellectual property protection and research security. To this end, RSEC has partnered with Texas A&M University to support an annual graduate student capstone group, led by internationally renowned research security expert Dr. Kevin Gamache.
The 2022-2023 capstone project focused on operationalizing research best practices to prevent the exploitation of international research relationships. The project brought together U.S. graduate students from Texas A&M with international partners from the research enterprise in Brazil to discuss best practices in research management. The students produced a research paper and traveled to Washington, DC to present their findings to the U.S. Department of State. Additionally, RSEC sponsored Brazilian participants from the University of Sao Paolo to attend the 2023 Academic Security and Counter Exploitation (ASCE) Conference held at Texas A&M to interface with the capstone students and brief on the project findings to an international audience.