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Texas A&M Students Get Up Close And Personal With NASCAR Cars And Drivers At Texas Motor Speedway
To fans, a NASCAR race is fast, loud and exciting. To Texas A&M University students, it’s all that, but it’s also about performance and ensuring a car that can hit speeds of 200 miles per hour operates at peak performance. And that the driver is as safe as possible on the track. On Saturday, May 3, nine students from Texas A&M’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) got the chance of a lifetime to see what goes on behind the scenes at a NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway.
Campus Memorials Honoring Military Service Members
For nearly 150 years, Texas A&M University students have answered their country’s call to service. And in answering that call, many Aggies made the ultimate sacrifice. To honor them and their selfless service, Texas A&M has erected several memorials around its main campus to honor Aggies who served the United States during past wars and made the ultimate sacrifice.
Beyond The Screen: The Future Of Immersive Innovation At Texas A&M
Imagine being in a room with dinosaurs one moment and superheroes the next. Or maybe you want to take a stroll through ancient Rome or a galaxy far, far away. With virtual production, you can do all of that — often on the same day. What once sounded like science fiction is now a reality with virtual production, which uses high-resolution LED walls to project a scene or background, rather than being added in post-production like green-screen technology.
Service Beyond The Stars: Inspiring The Next Generation Of Aggie Leaders
Col. (Ret.) Michael E. Fossum ’80 has had his head in the stars for as long as he can remember. It’s hard not to when you’re born two months after the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, and you turned a tree house into a space station and built a rocket out of a wagon when you were barely old enough to walk. “I have a picture of my younger brother and me from around 1963,” Fossum recalls. “We’re sitting on an upside-down wagon that’s hanging from a tree branch.
Preparing Food For The Ultimate Road Trip: Space Travel
Eating in space is tricky, but Texas A&M University and NASA have partnered for nearly 20 years to make sure astronauts have nutritional (and tasty) food while on their missions. Gone are the days of astronauts having to eat “cube and tube” foods. These days, food scientists are creating menus for astronauts that are flavorful, but practical for consumption in a space environment.
Growing Chickpeas In Moondust
How do you grow food on the moon? The answer is with moondust and a lot of Aggie ingenuity. Jessica Atkin, a postdoctoral graduate student and researcher in Texas A&M University’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, collaborated with a colleague at Brown University to produce a first: chickpeas grown in moondust. The moondust was simulated, but Atkin and her colleagues were able to grow chickpeas in mixtures of up to 75% moondust.
Artificial Intelligence May Find Signs Of Alzheimer's In Neuroimaging Data
Shuiwang Ji, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, is one of the principal investigators on a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop artificial intelligence-driven methods to automate the process of finding subtle telltale signs of Alzheimer’s disease in neuroimaging data. Ji’s team shares $1.2 million of the grant.
Texas A&M Engineering Plays Key Role In Research Reactor Development
Texas A&M plays an important role on the team, supporting the design, thermal management and fuel characterization efforts toward the reactor. Courtesy of Sean McDeavitt Texas A&M University College of Engineering researchers will play a key role in a consortium sponsored by Natura Resources, LLC to build an advanced research reactor in the state of Texas.
Texas A&M Lands $7 Million Federal Grant To Study Automated Driving Systems On Rural Roads
TEES researchers will study automated driving systems on rural Texas roads. Getty Images The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has been awarded $7 million in federal grant funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to study automated driving systems. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L.
Texas A&M Part Of New U.S. Department Of Energy Consortium Addressing Water Security
A desalination plant in hamburg harbor. Getty Images Texas A&M University is part of the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI)consortium, which was recently awarded a five-year, $100 million Energy-Water Desalination Hub by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that will address water security issues in the United States.
Texas A&M part of new Department of Energy research consortium addressing water security in US
Texas A&M University is part of the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) consortium, which was recently awarded a five-year, $100 million Energy-Water Desalination Hub by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that will address water security issues in the United States. Led by DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NAWI is a research consortium with more than 35 members, including three national research laboratories, 19 university partners and 10 founding industry partners.
Texas A&M Alumnus’ Biomedical Company Wins 2019 Texas A&M New Ventures Competition
From left: Chris Scotti, chair of the Texas A&M New Ventures Competition, Daniel Powell and Balakrishna Haridas. TEES A Texas A&M University former student’s startup, Spark Biomedical, was awarded $50,000 as the winner of the 2019 Texas A&M New Ventures Competition (TNVC) hosted by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES). Daniel Powell is CEO of the medical device company, which is developing noninvasive neurostimulation solutions for opioid withdrawal and addiction.
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