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NEWS
| October 9, 2003
Research
Draft outlining deal with Sandia awaits
UT System approval
The memo clarifies areas UTA and
the national firm would research together.
By Jake
Davis
Contributor to The Shorthorn
A document outlining loose framework for collaboration between the
university and Sandia National Laboratories is awaiting approval
from the UT System’s legal office.
The memorandum indicates general research areas the university and
Sandia will share.
Before the collaboration can go forward, the document has to be
approved by both the UT System and Sandia, Keith McDowell said.
“We have completed our end of the MOU draft. It’s been
sent to Austin for them to glance over,” said Dr. McDowell,
the university’s vice president for research.
The first meeting with Sandia took place in the Metroplex on Aug.
5, and a UTA delegation flew to Albuquerque, N.M., on Sept. 26 to
discuss university research initiatives.
Areas of mutual interest have been discussed with Sandia in previous
months, although no specific projects are highlighted in the memorandum,
said interim university President Charles Sorber.
The document only mentions between 15 and 20 possible areas of collaboration,
Sorber said.
Jim Phillips, an attorney in the office of the UT System General
Council referred the questions about the document to the system’s
Public Affairs Office.
“Everything in the document is still under legal review, therefore
we cannot discuss any aspects of it,” said Anthony De Bruyn,
a system spokesman.
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McDowell, UTA’s vice president for research,
says the university has completed as much as it can
before approval.
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