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(0:03) Good morning, it’s coming up on 6:41 on KRLD.
(0:10) Novak Djokovic has just beat Andy Murray to win his third consecutive Australian Open title (0:17) is our latest news this morning.
(0:19) Meanwhile, close to home, Hearst, that’s where police are looking for a holdup man who stuck (0:25) up a Dollar General store.
(0:27) Last night, tied up the employees with duct tape while he robbed the place.
(0:32) Now the bandit got away with an undisclosed amount of money from the store.
(0:35) It’s in the 400 block of West Bedford Euless Road, right across the street from St. Andrew (0:40) Lutheran Church.
(0:41) Now, the robber is described as a white male in his early 30s with braces on his teeth (0:46) and some facial hair.
(0:47) He may have made his getaway on a motorcycle.
(0:51) Well, there’s a new center on the campus of UT Arlington.
(0:54) It’s called the SAVANT Center, and it’s using nanotechnology to enhance U.S. security, and (1:01) they’re hoping to become a Homeland Security Center of Excellence.
(1:04) Dr. Carolyn Kaysen is UTA’s VP of Research.
(1:08) SAVANT stands for Security Advances Via Applied Nanotechnology, and I think the exciting thing (1:14) here is the emphasis on nanotechnology.
(1:19) The impetus for the work stems in large part from the success of one of our faculty members, (1:27) Professor Wei Chen, in obtaining funding for some of the work that he has been doing over (1:34) the course of the past few years from the Department of Homeland Security.
(1:38) But the applications that he and his group are looking at have much broader implications (1:45) than just Homeland Security.
(1:48) They’re looking at all kinds of detection devices or approaches that could be used for (1:56) safeguarding people in a number of different arenas.
(2:00) It could include entertainment venues.
(2:02) It could include border security, of course.
(2:05) It could include airport security, so it really has some relatively broad implications.
(2:11) The goal of this new center at the University of Texas at Arlington is to be recognized as (2:15) a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate Center, which can then (2:21) provide you guys with funding, I understand, of more than $10 million annually.
(2:25) What will it take to get that type of recognition?
(2:28) I think it’s going to take the kind of recognition that this team is intending to provide, and (2:35) that is the development of scientific breakthroughs that are going to provide new and innovative (2:41) prototypes and methods for security.
(2:43) And that’s one of the things I think we have an opportunity here.
(2:46) What has been in place is technologies and detection systems that’s used fairly standard (2:54) detection techniques.
(2:56) And what this team is proposing to do is to provide new things, new scientific breakthroughs (3:03) that are going to permit us to have new ways of doing those detections, new methods of (3:09) security.
(3:11) I think less invasive, perhaps, but different ways of doing things that we really need to (3:21) have accomplished.
(3:22) And once we’ve managed to show the Department of Homeland Security that particular point, (3:27) then I think that it’s going to be easy to continue to do work that is valued by that (3:33) department and that they’re going to be interested in funding and supporting.