My daughter is graduating tomorrow from BYU Civil and Environmental Engineering. I am very proud of her!

Final FY24 budget for US research is a disaster.
Budgets of federal agencies are mostly or cut down

NIH $47.08B flat
NSF $9.06B (-5%)
NASA Sci. $7.33B (-6%)
CDC $9.2B flat
DOE Sci. $8.24B (+1.7%)
ARPA-E 0.46B (-2%)
DOD Sci. $2.6B (-9%)
DARPA $4.1B flat
Global Health $10B (-5%)

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The Society of Rheology's 2024 Bingham Award, our highest honor, goes to professor Michael Graham of the University of Wisconsin for his work in studying the flows of polymer solutions, viscoelastic instabilities, and other complex fluids. Congratulations!!

Don't throw away those old lithium batteries (or any batteries) in the trash.

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Congratulations to Emmanuel Canales for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

Great press release for earth day!

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Earth Day is the perfect time to remember that this beautiful planet and all things on it are the creations of God. And, as beneficiaries of this divine creation, we should care for the earth, be wise stewards over it, and preserve it for future generations.

As this recent video

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There are two openings for Master's students in my research group UTRGV. Please help retweet.

Our newest paper on plastic upcycling is now published. We show how hydroformylation of plastic pyrolysis oils can be used to produce amines from waste plastics. Houqian Li led this effort.

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It is great to have former graduate student Jungho Jae in town to give a department seminar.

Huber Research Group from 2009.

Over the last week, Russian terrorists used nearly 130 'Shahed' drones against Ukraine; fortunately, we were able to intercept the vast majority of them. More than 80 Russian missiles and nearly 700 guided aerial bombs were also used.

Rhetoric does not protect skies. Thoughts

Just 10 streams carry 95% of all river-borne plastic into the ocean. If you want to fix ocean pollution here is a good starting point. Excellent book on the matter by Hannah Ritchie: buff.ly/3xypWw8

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Simon Kuestenmacher Actually it’s more in the order of 1000 rivers.

Our research team and the authors of the ‘10 rivers’ study worked together and got to that new number. Small urban rivers in coastal cities in middle income countries is where most plastic comes from

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