A&M Prof Wards Off Heat in Lab, on Campus
Jaime Grunlan cuts an intimidating figure on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. Six feet 8 inches tall, broad-shouldered and sporting impressive sideburns, Grunlan, a former college football player, looks like he just stepped off the set of an X-Men movie.
At 37, he is already a tenured associate professor in the university’s mechanical engineering department. His research has lifesaving applications — and it generates enough money to pay Grunlan’s salary and subsidize several others.
All of which makes him the ideal candidate for a new task he took on this year: outspoken defender of ...

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Nicholas Taylor via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why do the regents do nothing? Quite simple--the regents are Perry's cronies. A TPPF board memember, Phil Adams, also serves as a regent. With such cronyism and conflicts of interest at play it's apparent that an active effort is in place to push the TPPF "Solutions."
C Baker
We either support our research scientists now or buy it from China later.......Do the math!
This is nothing more than the rampant dumbing down of higher education.
Where's the Texan Backbone when we need it? I say send those guys back to Colorado on a rail..
You go Grunlan!!