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Engineering gets NSF grant to study and improve road conditions
Texas State has received a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a research project titled, “Using artificial intelligence to improve the accuracy of automated pavement condition data collection.” Dr. Feng Wang will oversee the two-year grant using machine learning to detect cracking on roads in the U.S.

 Making driving better
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trey gomez Bobcat’s Google search leads to dream summer internship with NASCAR

Texas State English major Ernest "Trey" Gomez III will be returning for his senior year this month. He’s also pretty hopeful that his summer internship in Florida may lead to what he says is his dream job writing and researching for NASCAR.

Summer with NASCAR

earth DOE awards Texas State grant to improve climate change forecasting

Improved climate change forecasting is important to enable accurate assessments and informed decision making about climate risks. The $150,000 grant from the Department of Energy will support Salah Faroughi’s project, “ESMs (Earth System Models) Latent Space Exploration for Uncertainty Quantification and Spatiotemporal Downscaling.”

Forecasting climate change

shadi maleki Shadi Maleki (’21) named TRELIS-GS fellow by NSF

While a doctoral student, Maleki focused on applied research to foster healthy and resilient people and places with the Translational Health Research Center at Texas State University. TRELIS is professional development for women in the geospatial sciences in higher education.

NSF honors Bobcat

hiroshima nuclear bomb rubble Why are nuclear weapons so hard to get rid of?

Texas State political science professor Dr. Thomas E. Doyle II addresses this very important question in the latest installment of “The Conversation.” This month the members of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons are meeting at the United Nations to discuss.

Why we have nukes

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