Texas A&M opens world’s largest academic controlled-explosions lab (IMAGE)
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Texas A&M University officially opens the world’s largest academic controlled explosions lab, the Detonation Research Test Facility. Here, researchers turn raw energy into physical breakthroughs that could reshape industrial safety, enable hypersonic flights, advance materials and deepen our understanding of the universe itself. (Left to right: Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus, associate dean for research of Texas A&M College of Engineering; Dr. Dimitri Lagoudas, interim department head of aerospace engineering; Dr. Susan Ballabina, recently announced as the sole candidate for president of Texas A&M University; Dr. Elaine Oran, DRTF scientific director; Dr. Scott Jackson, DRTF technical director; Dr. Rodney Bowersox, deputy director of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station; Dr. Joe Elabd, vice chancellor for research; Dr. John Barton, executive director of Texas A&M-RELLIS.)
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