China may have 23 million unwed men by 2021, research shows
By
the year 2021, around 23.5 million Chinese men may be unable to find brides,
reveals research by a Texas A&M University sociologist. Such
a gross imbalance could well mean an unprecedented crime wave, an AIDS
epidemic or even a potential war, says sociologist Dudley L. Poston Jr.,
an authority on Chinese demography.
WTAMU lands $205,000 NSF grant for olfactometry research
The Odor Lab at West Texas A&M recently was awarded a $205,000 Major Research
Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation to acquire a specialized
gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer-olfactometer to supplement ongoing research
to measure and control feedlot odors.
Urban plant detectives seek to solve mysteries
Dr. Kevin Ong, Texas Cooperative Extension plant pathologist, created the Urban
Plant Detectives program last year to help others identify what makes plants
get sick and develop treatments for plant disease prevention and cures.
A&M-Commerce
student studies real people in virtual roles
Computer
games are now among the hottest forms of entertainment. A&M-Commerce
psychology student Anna Park studied how personality impacts alter egos in
fantasy games, currently the most popular of roleplay games in which people
choose their own character.
Texas A&M
civil engineer and student team up to increase safety of space shuttle
launches
A Texas A&M University civil engineer and student civil engineer spent
their summer at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., where they
researched ways to decrease launch-pad debris that can collide with
space shuttles during launches.