Researchers hope cotton screening will stop bacterial blight in
its tracks
If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, what is a pound or a ton
of prevention worth? For High Plains cotton producers, the answer could be an
entire field or an entire crop when bacterial blight rears its ugly head.
Out of the
car and into the air: Texas A&M researchers aim
to improve air travel
An initiative aimed at getting more people
to travel via private plane for longer trips is gaining momentum, thanks
to the U.S. Congress, NASA and, in part, Texas A&M aerospace engineering
associate professor John Valasek.
Emergency responders train on gamelike but realistic software
Modeling
and simulation software used to help train emergency responders are become
more gamelike. James A. Wall of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station
helps define requirements for modeling and simulation software for the
research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. This fall, the agency will
give the simulation software "Incident Commander," for
which Wall was a resource, to emergency responders
TIGM discovery could lead to new understanding of spina bifida
The Texas Institute for Genomic Medicine announced in September that researchers
associated with the Institute and Lexicon Genetics Incorporated have discovered
that defects in the FKBP8 gene may play a role in spina bifida, a common
birth defect affecting the lower spinal column.
New computer program is a leap forward for pavement design
When the Texas
Transportation Institute completed its review of a revised pavement design
guide—a substantial leap forward in the way pavement
performance is analyzed—a new question emerged: What will it take
to implement the new procedure in Texas? The agency and the Texas Department
of Transportation are now working to answer that question