Dr. Michael J. Starek, director of MANTIS, was recently promoted to Professor of Geospatial Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. This marks yet another great accomplishment in his portfolio, having recently been named Chair for Remote Sensing and Autonomous Systems for Geomatics for the Conrad Blucher Institute, and received a research and innovation excellence award all in the 2022-2023 academic year.