A&M-Commerce
prof gets Microsoft grant for computer ethics
Linda Morales
at Texas A&M University-Commerce has been
awarded $50,000 by Microsoft to prepare curriculum materials for ethics
in computer security to help combat the hundreds of billions of dollars
a year lost because of computer viruses, hackers, computer corporate
espionage, computer crashes, sabotage, and other information crimes.
Forestry research challenges 'fundamental' law of nature
When it comes to trees' metabolic rates, size doesn't matter; nitrogen
does. Though seemingly simple, this finding has the potential to topple
some long-standing theories of how an organism's metabolic rate is inversely
related to its size.
They're ba-ack: Bed bugs seek humans to snuggle
Bed bugs have made a comeback
across the United States and have been reported in the San Antonio area.
Molly Keck, Texas Cooperative Extension entomologist, said a more mobile
population and the use of broad-spectrum pesticides could be why.
WTAMU chemist lands USDA grant to study odor
Mark Olsen, an assistant professor of chemistry at West Texas A&M University,
has received a $100,000 seed grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to
conduct research on the effects of bioengineered baker’s yeast on the odors
produced at commercial animal-feeding operations.
Aggies work with NASA lab to design vehicles to collect, return
Martian samples
A team of Texas A&M University student engineers
is working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to send two landers the
100 million miles to Mars, land them, take samples of soil, rock and atmosphere,
and return the samples safely to earth. Scientists at hundreds of research
labs will study the samples for signs of past or present life on Mars.