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Center of excellenceA&M was recently named a center of excellence by the National Nuclear Science Administration in a move that will bring $8 million to the school over five years.

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A&M professor presents research to Congressnation

Almost three full months after the devastating West, Tex-as, fertilizer plant explosion, researchers at Texas A&M

and members of Congress are working toward preventing similar disasters, while Gov. Rick Perry is concentrating on remedying current problems in the aftermath.

On June 27, Sam Mannan, director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center and professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in Washing-ton, D.C. He presented research he and his team of gradu-ate students had been working on regarding the prevention, mitigation and preparation of response teams for ammonium nitrate explosions such as those in West and Geismar, La.

“Congress’ interest in chemical safety is not surprising due to the explosions in West and Louisiana,” Mannan said. “They reached out to us and asked us to testify on the dif-ferent issues with current regulations and how to prevent ammonium nitrate explosions such as this one from occur-ring in the future.”

Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, the chairwoman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, said in a press conference Tuesday she had sent out letters to every governor, asking them evaluate the research and make plans to implement better federal legislation regarding ammonium nitrate.

“I made a pledge to the families [in West] and I’m not going to stop until there are more protec-tions in place to prevent chemical disasters like the one in West, Texas,” Boxer said. “There [are] a lot of things we can’t control … we can control this. We have the information.”

Tuesday also saw Gov. Rick Perry formally appeal the denial of a federal disaster declaration for West. A declara-tion would give the town, which experienced more than $35 million in public-sector damage, access to federal funds to assist with rebuilding, according to the Associated Press.

Zhe Han, chemical engineering graduate student and member of the research team, said she was researching the safety aspects of ammonium nitrate a year before the

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Chemical engineering professor Sam Mannan testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the ammonium nitrate explosions. See Congress on page 3

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Living with purpose4 students intern

at cancer foundationAllison Rubenak The Battalion

The iconic yellow wristbands with let-tering spelling out LIVESTRONG could be found on countless wrists

dating back to 2004. The nonprofit foundation provides cancer

support services for both patients and survi-vors, while also providing initiatives to fur-ther cancer research. Fifteen years after the foundation’s establishment, four Texas A&M students seized the opportunity to intern at the LIVESTRONG headquarters in Austin.

Senior Heather Fogus, juniors Juli-ana Boswell and Callie Zinsmeyer and graduate student Stephanie Whitehead are spending their summer interning with the LIVESTRONG Foundation.

The internships range from areas of devel-opment and fundraising, marketing, govern-ment relations and external affairs. Numer-ous sub-groups fall within those categories allowing each intern to meet their interest and passion.

Fogus, a political science major, said LIVESTRONG was a suitable choice be-cause of her desire to work with a nonprofit organization after school.

As part of “Team LIVESTRONG” Fogus works with fundraising and brainstorming in-centives to achieve donations.

“A lot of [fundraising] is spreading LIVESTRONG’s message to all [the] do-nors,” Fogus said. “You’re keeping good re-lationships so that the overall message is posi-tive. So you just want to make sure you’re giving the best impression possible.”

LIVESTRONG places a strong em-phasis on spreading cancer awareness and prevention to different communi-ties. For instance, the Promotores program trains people to act as a resource to the Hispanic and Latino population in lower socioeconomic areas, while educating those who have little or no knowledge of cancer prevention or research.

Boswell, junior international studies major and intern with the Promotores program, de-scribed the act of service as casting a signifi-cant role in her life and family.

“Promotores spreads out awareness for people who haven’t known much about Senior Heather Fogus and junior Juliana Boswell do their respective Texas A&M

wildcats at the LIVESTRONG Foundation in Austin. The internships allow students to work in fundraising, marketing, government relations and external affairs positions.

Pro-choice supporters protest in the Rotunda of the Capitol in Austin on July 2.

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EA Sports producers made the trip to Kyle Field to improve the gameday atmosphere in the NCAA 14 game, which adds yell leaders and Reveille.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House has ap-proved on Wednesday new abortion limits in a sec-ond special session, less than two weeks after Senate Republicans failed to finish work on the bill amid a filibuster and raucous protests.

A final vote could be held as early as Friday in the Senate, where the measure died as the first special ses-sion expired. The House voted mostly along party lines Wednesday on what has become signature GOP leg-islation.

Lawmakers spent more than 10 hours debating it Tuesday, and Republicans rejected every attempt to amend the bill. Throngs of protesters were missing for Wednesday’s mostly procedural vote after days of pro-tests by supporters and opponents.

The bill requires doctors to have admitting privileg-es at nearby hospitals, only allow abortions in surgical

centers and bans abortions after 20 weeks.Republican Rep. Jody Laubenberg of Parker out-

lined the bill that would require doctors to have admit-ting privileges at nearby hospitals, only allow abortions in surgical centers, dictate when abortion pills are taken and ban abortions after 20 weeks. Exceptions to the ban would only be allowed when the women’s life was in imminent danger.

Democrats and women’s rights activists have pro-tested the bill for weeks. The measure failed to win enough support during the regular session, then died in the first special session due to a 13-hour filibuster by state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat.

Davis’ successful filibuster put the Texas bill in the spotlight of the national abortion debate. On Monday

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EA Sports travels to Kyle Field for improved NCAA 14 video game video games

In previous versions of Electronic Arts Sports video game NCAA Football,

Texas A&M had a hard time showing what truly makes the gameday atmosphere at Kyle Field so unique.

When the Aggies started their first season of SEC play, the ever-increasing brand was seeking further expansion and the NCAA Football 14 video game, released Tuesday, looked like the perfect starting point.

Shane Hinckley, director of collegiate licensing at Texas A&M, reached out to EA Sports and spoke to them about what he was hearing from A&M fans.

“He got some of the feedback he had received from Aggie fans over the years —current students, former students — about

some of the details of the game that weren’t quite right,” said Kyle Pope, program di-rector of collegiate licensing at A&M,

Hinckley and Pope teamed up with EA Sports and invited the designers and producers of NCAA Football 14 to cam-pus to help expand the look and sound of Kyle Field.

On the weekend of the Arkansas-A&M game, NCAA 14 game producer Ben Haumiller and his crew set up their equipment to take in every dimension of Kyle Field.

“We brought out our scanning equip-ment, a brand new technology we have with the ability to scan stadiums to get the accuracy of the dimensions,” Haumiller said. Previously the way stadiums have been done was all based off of photo ref-

erence. Now we can go through and use these laser scanners and get accuracy of these dimensions to within a millimeter of the real world size.”

The process took three days, and Haumiller called Kyle Field one of the hardest stadiums to scan because of the tiered structure.

“I don’t think they had been to A&M in a long time, so they didn’t have the ex-act dimensions for Kyle Field,” Pope said. “They had two guys that went to almost corner of the stadium — from the first deck, the second deck, to the third deck taking digital measurements.”

While at A&M, Hinckley and Pope set up for the yell leaders to be in attendance as

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night, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke to abortion rights op-ponents. The Planned Parenthood Fed-eration of America announced a state-wide bus tour Tuesday morning, dubbed Stand With Texas Women.

“It seems like every time women looked up from doing their laundry of helping children with their homework, the Texas Legislature is right there taking aim at them again,” said Cecile Rich-ards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “Over the past few years, more than 50 women’s health centers have been shut down.”

Women from both parties who sup-port abortion rights introduced a series of amendments to water down House Bill 2, hanging coat hangers on the front podium to symbolize illegal abortions, which they say will become more com-mon if the law is enacted. Rep. Sen-fronia Thompson, D-Houston, called for an exception to the 20-week ban in cases of rape and incest, but Laubenberg rejected the proposal.

An anti-abortion voting record is crit-ical to winning Republican primaries in Texas. Texas Alliance for Life, a Chris-tian group that maintains a scorecard on lawmakers, sent out messages on Twit-ter opposing each amendment, signaling how lawmakers should vote for a high score.

Supporters of the restrictions insist that they will improve the health care women receive by placing more strin-gent conditions on abortions. Lauben-berg told the House on Tuesday that her bill would ensure that women get high-quality treatment while protecting “babies” after 20 weeks of gestation.

“What we’re talking about today truly is about the health and safety of a woman who would undergo an abortion, but also, I want to point out, we are talking about an unborn child,” she said.

Federal courts have ruled that states can regulate abortions but not to the ex-tent to make them impossible to obtain.

The National Nuclear Security Ad-ministration has named six universi-

ties as centers of excellence that will help work with the emerging field of predic-tive sciences involving nuclear warfare, with Texas A&M being one of them.

The designation as a center of ex-cellence will bring $8 million to the University over a five-year period, said A&M System Chancellor John Sharp in a statement.

“Our College of Engineering con-tinues to innovate and improve on their status as one of the top programs in the country,” Sharp said. “This designation as a center of excellence by the NNSA is evidence of the momentum.”

With countries such as North Ko-rea conducting nuclear testing under-ground, the NNSA has used simulation and modeling tools to assess nuclear weapon stockpiles.

The alliance with universities al-lows for training where graduate stu-dents and post-doctoral researchers will learn skills to eventually use on large- scale simulations.

“I feel this recognition is indicative of the caliber, quality and value of our pro-

gram,” said Yassin Hassan, head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M. “We are fortunate to have strategic administrators, dedicated facul-ty, hard-working staff and extraordinary students who are committed to setting our program apart.”

Schools were selected as multidis-ciplinary simulation centers or single-discipline centers, with A&M having a single-disciplinary system receiving $1.6 million per year under NNSA’s Predic-tive Science Academic Alliance Program II (PSAAP II) agreement.

“We expect the PSAAP alliances will continue to help develop the predic-tive science field and the workforce of the future, wherein simulations will be pervasive and instrumental in impor-tant, high-impact, decision-making pro-cesses,” said Robert Meisner, director of the NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing program.

For students within the Department of Nuclear Engineering, the alliance provides for unique opportunities that weren’t once available.

Chaz Mazzilli, sophomore radiologi-cal health engineering major, said the an-nouncement opens up the idea of pursu-ing a nuclear path and asserts the prestige of the A&M engineering program.

“This designation of the A&M pro-gram as a center of excellence by the NNSA affirms the program as one of the nation’s elite engineering colleges, which brings praise to both the faculty and the students,” Mazzilli said. “It shows that our researchers and professors are among the best of the best and promises that the program will only become larger, more refined and highly sought after in the future.”

The NNSA was established by Con-gress in 2000 as an agency within the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear sci-ence. The association is responsible for the management and security of the na-tion’s nuclear weapons, nuclear nonpro-liferation and naval reactor programs and responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

Mazzilli said the recognition will give himself and others within the College of Engineering a better idea of what is ex-pected of them when trying to pursue a nuclear engineering career path.

Other schools selected were the Uni-versity of Utah, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Stanford Univer-sity, University of Florida and University of Notre Dame.

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AbortionContinued from page 1

That hasn’t stopped Republican-led leg-islatures in Texas and several other states from passing laws in recent years that test the legal limits.

Opponents of the Texas restrictions say they would effectively ban abortion in much of the nation’s second most-populous state by causing the closure of 37 of its 42 abortion clinics.

Houston Rep. Sarah Davis, the only Republican opposed to the law, warned that the bill as written is unconstitutional and she offered an amendment to make it less stringent.

“I believe the bill as drafted will be a de facto ban on abortion,” she said. “No one wants to see abortions, it’s a terrible way to end a pregnancy, but it is a con-stitutionally protected right.”

They also say the Texas restrictions and those passed by other states conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which estab-lished that a woman has the right to get an abortion until her fetus could viably survive outside of the womb, which is generally at 22 to 24 weeks of the preg-

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could survive a court challenge. Federal courts have suspended aspects of the bill passed by other states. On Monday, a federal judge blocked enforcement of a Wisconsin abortion law requiring admit-ting privileges.

The Texas Medical Association, the Texas Hospital Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gy-necology oppose the bill, calling it un-necessary.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has more than doubled the num-ber of troopers at the Capitol due to the rallies and marathon hearings, said Sen. Kevin Eltife, a Tyler Republican who oversees the Senate Administration Committee. He declined to reveal the exact number of troopers or how much the boost in security cost.

Lawmakers told the DPS they want-ed plenty of troopers on the ground no matter the expense, he added.

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Pro-life supporters rally in Austin on Monday. Mike Huckabee, David Dewhurst and Gregg Abbott were guest speakers at the rally.

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After thousands of Uttarakhand people were immobilized by

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Heavy rainfall is not uncommon in India, usually occurring bi-annu-ally. However, the rainfall in June was more than 400 percent of the amount expected in the mountain-ous region, resulting in a death toll of more than 1,000 and displacing more than 4,000 villagers, said Sunny Goklani, graduate student and vice president of IGSA.

Rural lands throughout the state are especially vulnerable during these

“cloudbursts,” or heavy amounts of rainfall. Biren Parmar, an IGSA advi-sor, said this particular monsoon was the perfect storm. The heavy rain-fall caused landslides that destroyed homes and trapped thousands of residents.

“A lot of rainfall dumps a whole lot of water in a region in a short amount of time,” Parmar said. “These regions are not able to sustain this water.”

The devastating effects of the monsoon were not limited to rural areas, affecting urban centers such as Kedarnath. The city is a popular pil-grimage site for those practicing Hin-duism, leaving visiting tourists either swept away or stranded.

Goklani said the Indian Army force and non-governmental organi-zations are providing necessary relief such as evacuations, relocations, food

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more important than ever and I wanted to help fertilizer plants pre-vent these types of disasters in the future,” Han said. “This explosion and this research can be an alert to fertilizer plants and industries every-where.”

The team’s research focused on how explosions involving ammo-nium nitrate can occur, along with prevention and mitigation measures.

They specifically focused on the current regulations regarding am-monium nitrate and other chemicals and how these regulations can be improved.

“We looked at the data and came up with as many ‘what if’ questions as possible and then strove to answer

questions that we had not thought of already.”

As part of their research, the stu-dents visited West to collect data from the site and the investigators. They also spoke with residents, try-ing to gather as much information as possible.

“There was limited information because a lot had not been confirmed yet, but we learned a lot,” said Alba Pineda, chemical engineering gradu-ate student and member of the re-search team. “One thing we could not believe was that a typical con-struction material [to store ammo-

nium nitrate] not just in West, but also around the country, was wood.”

Castellanos said that an incident involving ammonium nitrate in Bry-an in 2009 should have alerted other fertilizer plants not to use wood.

During the incident, the El Do-rado Chemical Company caught fire on July 30, 2009. More than 80,000 Bryan-College Station residents were asked to evacuate, the Associated Press reported, and the University provid-ed temporary shelter at Reed Arena.

“The Bryan incident had involved wood and the plant had been rebuilt with better materials,” Castella-

nos said. “Other plants should have learned from that and done the same. You have to not only learn from the past, but invite other companies to keep looking and researching ways to prevent accidents like this.”

The research team does not know if they will be called upon for the follow-up hearings, but intend to continue their research in this area. A comparison of American regula-tions regarding ammonium nitrate with regulations around the world, especially Europe, may be evaluated in future research.

those questions,” said Diana Castella-nos, material sciences and engineer-ing graduate student and a member of the research team. “There were al-ready regulations in place that could have prevented the West explosion. We focused on filling gaps in current regulations and what precautions need to be taken to improve.”

When asked about the hearing, the research team said they were glad the Senate was taking the issue seri-ously, but were nervous when their research was being presented.

“It was our work being presented and it would be our fault if some-thing went wrong,” Castellanos said. “We were very nervous about what questions would be asked. Thank-fully, everything that was discussed and all of the questions had already been researched, and there were no

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and International Student Associa-tion have also shown support in the relief efforts.

“We are trying to support in any way possible,” Parmar said. “Any small amount is going to help.”

Monsoon conditions in Northern India resulted in a death toll of more than 1,000 and displaced more than 4,000 people.

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Boswell, junior international studies major and intern with the Promotores program, described the act of service as casting a significant role in her life and family.

“Promotores spreads out awareness for people who haven’t known much about cancer,” she said. “They know they have a support group out there and have people to be there for them.”

Even with the varying branches within the foun-dation, each A&M intern said the service and values behind the face of the LIVESTRONG brand are aspects of a career they seek in the future.

“The team at the LIVESTRONG Foundation is passionate about serving cancer survivors and strives to make decisions based on how it will impact these individuals,” said Whitehead, a marketing intern and marketing graduate student. “I admire their com-mitment to improving the lives of those affected by cancer, and hope to emulate these values in my own career.”

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well as Reveille and her handler. Haumiller and his team took detailed photos and video of the locker room, players’ facilities and practice fields as well.

They attended Midnight Yell, and when gameday rolled around, they were in awe of the A&M crowd.

“The yell practice was unlike anything we had ever experienced,” said Haumiller, a Florida State alumni. “We take microphone recorders and we record the crowd. We were able to use those yells in our game to make it sound more authentic.”

Midnight Yell provided the crew with clean, un-interrupted sound, which was perfect for translation into the video game.

Upon leaving campus, Haumiller began focus-ing on how he could implement all of what he had seen and learned about A&M into the game. The yell leaders and Reveille were the first things added to this year’s game, along with an updated version of Kyle Field.

“A&M just opened their doors and said, ‘Come take a look around at everything,’” Haumiller said. “Some things we were able to get in the game right away, like the yell leaders and Reveille. Others will be coming down the line.”

NCAA 14 also features yells that are on cue with game play. During kickoff, the fans can be heard doing the “Gig ‘em” yell and during lulls the “Ag-

gies” yell is heard. With the amount of information and footage

Haumiller and his staff were able to take in, he is sure that Aggie elements will be added in future games like the yell leaders being tossed into Fish Pond, locker rooms and practice facilities and even “sawing varsity’s horns off.”

“As we are able to make our crowds look better in the game, we’ll be able to get things in like the swaying fans that currently we aren’t able to sup-port,” Haumiller said. “That’s going to be a real cool visual piece as we move to a next generation of consoles to show the swaying fans and what that looks like. I was down on the field and you look up and it’s intimidating.”

It won’t be long before the crew will be back at Kyle Field getting scans of a renovated version, something Haumiller said would be easy now that initial scans have been completed.

Since a demo version of the game was released in June, with A&M being one of six teams featured, reception has been through the roof among A&M students and fans.

“Kyle Field in NCAA 14 is the first real Kyle Field there has ever been in an NCAA game as far as I am concerned,” said senior construction sci-ence major Brian McGhee. “Between the brand-ing, fight song, yells and the surroundings outside the stadium, this is the first time I have felt like I am playing at the real Kyle Field in the game.”

The game also had input from A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin, who visited EA Sports to give input

on how recruiting works. Haumiller said Sumlin was taken by surprise at how accurate the playbook looked in comparison to the real thing.

For Pope, the game was equally as realistic and helpful to the continued development of A&M’s brand after moving to the SEC.

“With our move to the SEC a lot more people are becoming aware of Texas A&M and wanting to know more about Texas A&M,” Pope said. “With the number of people that play this game, if they are wanting to play with A&M they also get ex-posed to how unique A&M is with our traditions and gameday atmosphere because the game is now more accurate than it used to be. It’s a huge thing for our brand to have EA out and make the game as realistic as possible.”

The cover of NCAA 14 features Michigan Wol-verine quarterback Denard Robinson, but A&M was only hundreds of votes away from having re-ceiver Ryan Swope on the cover in a nationwide fan vote.

McGhee said he appreciates the changes in-side the game and what the future holds with A&M and EA Sports, something Haumiller too is excited about.

“A lot of schools are gracious with us and a lot of schools work very closely with us,” Haumiller said. “But we haven’t had a school be as accepting as Texas A&M was to say, ‘We want to make sure these parts are in your game and yeah we could just send you a video, but we want you experiencing it.’ It’s been phenomenal to have that relationship.”

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