27M in Supercomputer Grants Incite Stampede of Knowledge
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World Theatre on Oct. 2nd at 8:30 pm. often go unreported nationally Mohawk at five By Nick Hadjigeorge According to a Rape, Abuse and $27m in supercomputer grants years Daily Texan Staff Incest National Network study, col- Fifth-year anniversary will lege-age women are four times more One in four women will be raped feature new bands like My like to be sexually assaulted than oth- at some point before they graduate Education and Transmography er women. incite Stampede of knowledge and 95 percent of these assaults will along with Marriage and Lean The film created for the event by go unreported, according to studies Hounds. Free show at 7:30 p.m., Inspire member and women’s and By Allie Kolechta never do in a classroom,“ she don’t know about.” by the Department of Justice and the doors open at 6:30 p.m. gender studies graduate student Juan Daily Texan Staff said. “It’s about approaching The new supercomputer will Center for Public Integrity. Portillo emphasized the concern that these complex questions. I think be available for use by some stu- A film screening and discussion college administrations are poorly Biology senior Jeevitha Patil the computer would be a really dent researchers until the grant is panel hosted Thursday by the UT handling the problem of widespread has conducted award-winning re- up for renewal in 2017. The com- sexual violence awareness group, In- sexual assault. search on what happens to fluids puter, which will be known as spire, provided statistics, strategies Investigative reporter for the — specifically grapefruit juice — Stampede, will provide students and commentary about a largely un- after it travels through the body. with the opportunity to research der-reported yet major problem fac- She has also studied cancer and with fewer limitations, said NSF ing college campuses across the U.S. ASSAULT continues on PAGE 2 epilepsy off-campus. Personally, research spokeswoman Lisa-Joy Zgorski. Patil is one of many student re- “The merit review panel that searchers who will soon have the has been teaching Quote to note evaluated TACC’s proposal for opportunity to utilize high-end the computer was no doubt im- me how to do real- “ technology used by profession- pressed,” she said. “What TACC “I think the thrill of als across the U.S. Because of $27 life problem solving brought forth was a powerful million in funding from the Na- “ combination of system and ser- ‘ tional Science Foundation, the that I would never doing something vices for open science research, a ‘ Texas Advanced Computing Cen- Gaga-related is key element of what this system ter will build a new supercomput- do in a classroom will enable.” you don’t have to er in the J.J. Pickle Research Cen- — Jeevitha Patel, Stampede’s system will allow ter by 2013. Biology senior student researchers to be involved emulate, you can do The supercomputer could be in advanced computation they whatever the heck extremely useful to student re- have not yet had the opportuni- searchers at UT if they are aware ty to deal with, Zgorski said. Ac- you want,” of it, because many research op- cording to a press release, Stam- portunities are not advertised pede will run on NSF’s “eXtreme — Haylan Teel enough to students, Patil said. cool thing to get involved with if Digital” program, which runs the Gagarazzi organizer Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff “Personally, research has been students knew about it, because Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez, Annette Saenz and Sacha Jacobson speak dur- teaching me how to do real-life there are a lot of research oppor- LIFE&ARTS PAGE 9 ing a presentation on sexual violence awareness on Thursday evening. problem solving that I would tunities here that students just GRANT continues on PAGE 2 P2 2 NEWS Friday, September 30, 2011 THE DAILY TEXAN ASSAULT Volume 112, Number 49 continues from PAGE 1 SUPER SMASH DONKEYS CONTACT US Center for Public Integrity Kristen Lombardi said in the film that reg- Main Telephone: ulatory and privacy hurdles the ju- (512) 471-4591 dicial process colleges use makes it Editor: difficult for victims to get justice. 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Photo Offi ce: Senior nursing student and partic- (512) 471-8618 ipant in Voices Against Violence, Sa- [email protected] cha Jacobson, said the most impor- tant tool in fighting sexual violence is Comics Offi ce: for victims to speak out and hopeful- Rebeca Rodriguez | Daily Texan Staff (512) 232-4386 ly become active in various programs Owner Monica Contreras creates a piñata using newspapers and glue at Jumpolin, a custom made piñata store located on East Cesar to promote awareness.