Photograph of the Pro Bene Meritis Award presented to W. Parker Frisbie on April 22, 2010. The award consists of a glass cylinder with an angled top, forming a flat area on its front side. The front of the award reads, "Pro Bene Meritis Award Presented by the College of Liberal Arts to W. Parker Frisbie, Ph.D. In recognition of outstanding service & contributions 2010."

Photograph of the recipients of the University of Texas Pro Bene Meritis Award at an awards dinner on April 22, 2010. The individuals have been identified as: (l-r) W. Parker Frisbie, Ellen Clarke Temple, and Frank Denius. They are standing side by side, looking to the left of the camera. Temple and Denius are smiling.

Photograph of recipients of the University of Texas Pro Bene Meritis Award with a man at an awards dinner on April 22, 2010. Members of the group have been identified as: (l-r) Randy Diehl, W. Parker Frisbie, Ellen Clarke Temple, and Frank Denius. They are standing side by side, looking at the camera and smiling.

Photograph of recipients of the University of Texas Pro Bene Meritis Award with two men at an awards dinner on April 22, 2010. Members of the group have been identified as: (l-r) Julius Glickman, Randy Diehl, W. Parker Frisbie, Ellen Clarke Temple, and Frank Denius. They are standing side by side, facing the camera and smiling. Frisbie is looking off to the right of the camera.

Photograph of three Pro Bene Meritis awards presented on April 22, 2010. Each award consists of a glass cylinder with an angled top, forming a flat area on its front side. They are all lined up on a table, facing to the left of the camera. The award in the center reads, "Pro Bene Meritis Award Presented by the College of Liberal Arts to W. Parker Frisbie, Ph.D. In recognition of outstanding service & contributions 2010."

The Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP) is a single, highly integrated technical program for maintaining the surety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. The SSP uses past nuclear test data along with current and future non-nuclear test data, computational modeling and simulation, and experimental facilities to advance understanding of nuclear weapons. It includes stockpile surveillance, experimental research, development and engineering (D&E) programs, and an appropriately scaled production capability to support stockpile requirements. This integrated national program requires the continued use of current facilities and programs along with new experimental facilities and computational enhancements to support these programs. The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC) is a cornerstone of the SSP, providing simulation capabilities and computational resources to support the annual stockpile assessment and certification, to study advanced nuclear weapons design and manufacturing processes, to analyze accident scenarios and weapons aging, and to provide the tools to enable stockpile Life Extension Programs (LEPs) and the resolution of Significant Finding Investigations (SFIs). This requires a balanced resource, including technical staff, hardware, simulation software, and computer science solutions. In its first decade, the ASC strategy focused on demonstrating simulation capabilities of unprecedented scale in three spatial dimensions. In its second decade, ASC is …

Photograph of Alan Tully (left) and Frank Denius (right) at the University of Texas Pro Bene Meritis Awards dinner on April 22, 2010. They are standing side by side, looking at the camera and smiling. Denius has his right arm on Tully's shoulder. A nametag on Denius' suit jacket reads, "College of Liberal Arts[,] The University of Texas at Austin[,] Frank Denius[,] 2010 Pro Bene Meritis Recipient."

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.

A new aluminium complex bearing a dianionic phenylene-diamine based ligand has been synthesized and shown to catalyze the intramolecular hydroamination of various aminoalkenes.

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of the audience at the University of Texas Pro Bene Meritis Awards dinner on April 22, 2010. Members of the audience can be seen standing around dining tables, demonstrating the Hook 'em Horns hand sign with their right hands. They appear to be singing. A man and woman in the center of the photograph are looking at the camera.

Photograph of the audience at the University of Texas Pro Bene Meritis Awards dinner on April 22, 2010. Members of the audience can be seen standing around dining tables, demonstrating the Hook 'em Horns hand sign with their right hands. They appear to be singing.

Semi-weekly newspaper from Bastrop, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Cost growth and schedule delays are prevalent problems in acquiring defense weapon systems. Manufacturing systems has proven difficult, particularly as programs transition to production. In December 2008, the Department of Defense (DOD) issued an updated version of its acquisition policy that reflects earlier consideration of manufacturing risks. A joint defense and industry group developed manufacturing readiness levels (MRL) to support assessments of manufacturing risks. Use of MRLs on all weapon acquisition programs has been proposed. In response to a congressional request, this report assesses the manufacturing problems faced by DOD, how MRLs can address manufacturing problems, how MRLs compare to manufacturing best practices of leading commercial firms, and challenges and barriers to implementing MRLs at DOD. In conducting our work, we contacted DOD, military services, and contractors; held interviews with leading commercial firms; reviewed program documents and policy proposals; and spoke with manufacturing experts."

Photograph of Brennwyn Romano at the University of Texas Pro Bene Meritis Awards dinner on April 22, 2010. She is looking to the right of the camera and smiling. People can be seen holding beer bottles and wine glasses in the foreground of the photograph, out of focus and partially out of frame.

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.

This report describes the components of tribal CSE programs and discusses issues related to jurisdictional matters, paternity establishment, child support enforcement methods, nonpayment problems, and consistency of tribal programs with each other and with state CSE programs.

Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Cooper, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As consumer debt has risen to historic levels, a growing number of for-profit debt settlement companies have emerged. These companies say they will negotiate with consumers' creditors to accept a lump sum settlement for 40 to 60 cents on the dollar for amounts owed on credit cards and other unsecured debt. However, there have been allegations that some debt settlement companies engage in fraudulent, abusive, or deceptive practices that leave consumers in worse financial condition. For example, it has been alleged that they commonly charge fees in advance of settling debts or without providing any services at all, a practice on which the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced a proposed ban due to its harm to consumers. The Committee asked for an investigation of these issues. As a result, GAO attempted to (1) determine through covert testing whether these allegations are accurate; and, if so, (2) determine whether they are widespread, citing specific closed cases. To achieve these objectives, GAO conducted covert testing by calling 20 companies while posing as fictitious consumers; made overt, unannounced site visits to several companies called; interviewed industry stakeholders; and reviewed information …

In this study, a hydrodynamic model based on the unstructured-grid finite volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM) was developed for Bellingham Bay, Washington. The model simulates water surface elevation, velocity, temperature, and salinity in a three-dimensional domain that covers the entire Bellingham Bay and adjacent water bodies, including Lummi Bay, Samish Bay, Padilla Bay, and Rosario Strait. The model was developed using Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s high-resolution Puget Sound and Northwest Straits circulation and transport model. A sub-model grid for Bellingham Bay and adjacent coastal waters was extracted from the Puget Sound model and refined in Bellingham Bay using bathymetric light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and river channel cross-section data. The model uses tides, river inflows, and meteorological inputs to predict water surface elevations, currents, salinity, and temperature. A tidal open boundary condition was specified using standard National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predictions. Temperature and salinity open boundary conditions were specified based on observed data. Meteorological forcing (wind, solar radiation, and net surface heat flux) was obtained from NOAA real observations and National Center for Environmental Prediction North American Regional Analysis outputs. The model was run in parallel with 48 cores using a time step of 2.5 seconds. It took …

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.