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TEXAS HAZARDOUS WASTE RESEARCH CENTER
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
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In the 1980s, Texas A&M University emerged as an internationally recognized center of learning. The University is located
on a 5,142 acre campus in central Texas. Approximately 41,000 students are enrolled in ten academic colleges. The College of
Engineering, with an enrollment of over 9,900 students, is the largest engineering program in the country. The university is among the top twenty nationally, and fifth among all public institutions, in the support it attracts from the
private sector. Texas A&M offers fifty endowed chairs and more than eighty named professorships. During the eighties, federal
support for research at the university almost doubled, placing Texas A&M among the top ten universities nationally in research.
More than 800 researchers are involved in some 2,000 funded research projects at Texas A&M. Their efforts have received an added
boost from the Texas A&M University Research Park, located next to the main campus. Texas A&M and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station offer the Gulf Coast Hazardous Substance Research Center the involvement
of faculty and researchers from a broad-based,integrated program covering a wide spectrum of technical activities. Researchers in a wide variety of departments are active in hazardous substance research and can apply the resources of their
laboratories to this work. These facilities include those in the Department of Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, Soil and Crop Sciences, and the Engineering Biosciences Research Center. Key participants representing the fields of chemical, environmental, and civil engineering and engineering toxicology will work to
answer questions associated with waste minimization processes, microbial degradation modeling of waste effluents, leaching of hazardous
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