Starting Thursday (Sept. 10), short courses, lectures, tutorials and case studies can be submitted for the first Middle East Turbomachinery Symposium (METS). The deadline for submissions is Feb. 1, 2010.

The TEES Center of Community Support (CCS) recently assisted two Texas nonprofit groups and the communities they serve obtain grant funds totaling $2,932,145.

Texas A&M University’s Dr. Valerie Taylor is developing infrastructure that will help engineers and application developers better understand how multicore systems work. She recently received $2.4 million from the National Science Foundation.