Principal Investigator Dr. Roy Xu (US citizen) worked as an aerospace structural engineer in China. He came to the US and received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Materials Science from California Institute of Technology in 2002. He started his interdisciplinary faculty career as a civil engineering faculty at Vanderbilt University, and a mechanical and aerospace engineering faculty at University of Texas at El Paso and New Mexico State University (NMSU). His honor and award include an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 2003, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2012. He is the Chair of the ASME Fracture and Failure Mechanics Technical Committee. As an author of 46 journal papers, …show more content…
For one of his inventions, he has received the NM-Launch award for technology commercialization, completed multiple Aggie I-Corps programs of the NSF I-Corps site project (PI Dr. Xu is the co-PI) , and is working in conjunction with Los Alamos National Labs to improve a spectrophotometer module that he designed. Gorsuch received a BS in Cognitive Neuroimaging from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Gorsuch is currently working on his MS in Industrial Engineering from NMSU. His focus is on discrete optimization and he will be pursuing a PhD after completion of his MS. He is taking three courses per semester and he is well-known as a hard worker.
I-Corps team mentor Jaime Bari (US citizen) has an MBA degree from State University of New York at Buffalo; Masters of Technology Administration, a joint degree program with the University of Minnesota and Goddard College, VT; and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota. Bari was hired as Director of Financial Services for Doña Ana County, New Mexico in March 2004. His responsibilities include management of the county’s fiscal activities and collaborating with executive management to formulate the county’s strategic fiscal plan. Prior to joining Doña Ana County, he was employed as Director of Financial Services for the County of Monroe, Rochester, NY, where he was primarily responsible for the county’s functional business
Most people go through life not worrying about others thoughts, just throwing stereotypes around without any justification or knowledge of the person being alienated. Some are ungrateful for the religious freedom that most of us are able to carry. Some do not realize the fight that people went through over 300 years ago to gain religious freedom and work through and around the profiling given by the hierarchy of society. No one worked harder for the freedoms to be provided and stereotypes to be dissolved than Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island. Williams, born in London in 1603, was a seasoned young man early on, after witnessing many burnings at the stake of puritans for being "heretics" and not following the religion of the
When a man is a product of his environment and the environment is filled with violence and hatred, the possibilities are horrifying. Richard kuklinski is a prime example of just that. His childhood was something no human, let alone a child should go through. His anger built up and his life eventually was overcome by it. He then progressed to a cold-blooded killer, starting small, and then ending with the mob until his capture.
One of the most influential black politicians in American history, Andrew Young has made countless contributions towards the advancement of civil liberties across the globe. In the third chapter of Andrew J. DeRoche’s biography Andrew Young: Civil Rights Ambassador, he successfully details how Young applied his experience in the Civil Rights Movement to his political career to help achieve peace and promote human rights in the United States and throughout the developing world. DeRoche’s research uses many primary sources such as a personal interview, excerpts from Young’s own autobiography, and direct quotes from speeches he made in Congress, making his study both thorough and reliable. Ultimately, DeRoche’s
Robert Guthrie, MD, Ph.D. was born on June 28, 1916 in Marionville, MO and died on June 23, 1995 in Seattle, WA, at the age of 78. He was survived by his wife, Margaret, of 53 years and their six children. Dr. Guthrie attended the University of Minnesota where he earned his Medical Degree in 1942 and his Ph.D. in bacteriology four years later. In the earlier part of his career, Dr. Guthrie was a cancer scientist at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. In 1947, during his time working in Buffalo, Dr. Guthrie and his wife gave birth to their second son, John, who was born with a mental handicap. According to research, Dr. Guthrie had been motivated by his sons’ condition to pursue research solely focused on the prevention of mental retardation. Furthermore, in 1958, when his niece was born and diagnosed with Phenylketonuria, also known as PKU,
multi-instrumentalist, arranger and music student of history Bobby Horton will share the melodies and stories of nineteenth century America amid a show at Troy University on Tuesday, April 26.
In Robert Remini’s introduction (rpt. in Robert Remini, A Short history of the United States:From the Arrival of Native American Tribes to the Obama Presidency, 1st ed. [New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008] xv-xvii), the author voted for the Obama-Biden campaign in the United States presidential election of 2008. In the introduction, he clearly shows that he is pro-Obama. Remini shows this by praising the Obama campaign, insulting the McCain-Palin campaign with his subtle use of words, and using a certain tone throughout the introduction.
I will be representing on behalf of The John Howard Society of Canada, and advocating on behalf of people who are imprisoned in Canada. I aim to contend the court the recognition of prisoners as right-bearing people, and the need of scrutiny when applying s.1 of the charter to any legislation that arbitrates with the prisoner’s rights. To begin with a brief introduction on our organization’s. The John Howard Society of Canada is national organization that “fills a role in public education, community service, and in pressing for reform in the criminal justice area.” Our mission and core values are, “Effective, just and human responses to the causes and consequences of crime. We are an, “Organization of provincial and territorial Societies comprised of and governed by people whose goal is to understand and respond to problems of crime and the criminal justice system. They are fiscally responsible for the continuance of the work and service of the National Office.”
I don't consider myself a political activist, but I've sent a letter or two to politicians when I've felt strongly about an issue. I am writing to you now to urge you to pass H.R. 1599. Coming from an agricultural state, I am troubled by the lack of a consistent standard with respect to the labeling of GMO foods. This legislation, also known as the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act, would bring consistency and uniformity to what is quickly becoming a quagmire of competing state regulations.
b. What policies did he try to pursue, and what mistakes did he make as chief executive?
Would you notice if the block next to you was cleared and a carpark grew on it? Joni Mitchell and Bruce Dawe both discuss the environmental issues about the world. Bruce Dawe has been considered as one of the most influential Australian poets of all time with his warmth and sadness for humanities follies and Joni Mitchell’s song, Big Yellow Taxi, has been known for its environmental concern and has been recorded by many other artists later on such as The Counting Crows. Protest Poetry is highly effective at raising awareness of issues such as the environment due to its accessibility to a wide general audience, conveying a simple but poignant and memorable message.
The 1952 constitution is the most recent document that has increased executive responsibility. Islam is the official religion, and Jordan is declared to be part of the Arab ummah (“nation”). “Jordan is divided into 12 administrative muḥāfaẓāt (governorates), which in turn are divided into districts and subdistricts, each of which is headed by an official appointed by the minister of the interior.” All the cities and towns have a mayor which it represents. The king remains as the country’s ultimate authority and wields power over the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
One of the most remarkable stories is the one of John Norman. He was a deputy chief of the New York City fire department. He was asleep whenever the first tower of the World Trade Center was hit. He had turned off the ringer on his phone because he was on vacation from work. His plan that day was to sleep in. He was completely unaware of what was going on outside. Then his answering machine got an "all call" message from the department. Still he didn't know what fully was going on so he turned on the television. He said, “As I’m just about to turn off the TV and head for the door, the south tower collapses. I thought it was a bomb." It took him and hour and a half just to get to the city and where he needed to be. He was put in shock whenever
Experiment Two: Stiffness Report from laboratory work performed on 12 May 2011 as a part of the unit of study CIVL2201 Structural Mechanics
Robert Boyle was born at Lismore Castle, Munster on 25 January 1627, the fourteenth child and seventh son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Robert Boyle was educated mainly by tutors and himself. He had no formal university education but read widely and made contact with many of the most important natural philosophers of his day, both at home and abroad. He had independent means which enabled him to have his own laboratory and to support religious charities. He was active in the ‘Invisible College’, an informal body devoted to the ‘new philosophy’ which in 1663 became the Royal Society, of which he was a Council member. He moved to Oxford in 1654, where he set up a laboratory with Robert Hooke as his assistant