NASAs New Orion Spacecraft Completes First Spaceflight Test

Major Milestone on Agency's Journey to Mars

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NASA marked a major milestone Friday on its journey to Mars as the Orion spacecraft completed its first voyage to space, traveling farther than any spacecraft designed for astronauts has been in more than 40 years.

Todays flight test of Orion is a huge step for NASA and a really critical part of our work to pioneer deep space on our Journey to Mars, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. The teams did a tremendous job putting Orion through its paces in the real environment it will endure as we push the boundary of human exploration in the coming years. [image-69]

Orion blazed into the morning sky at 7:05 a.m. EST, lifting off from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The Orion crew module splashed down approximately 4.5 hours later in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles southwest of San Diego.

During the uncrewed test, Orion traveled twice through the Van Allen belt where it experienced high periods of radiation, and reached an altitude of 3,600 miles above Earth. Orion also hit speeds of 20,000 mph and weathered temperatures approaching 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it entered Earths atmosphere.

Orion will open the space between Earth and Mars for exploration by astronauts. This proving ground will be invaluable for testing capabilities future human Mars missions will need. The spacecraft was tested in space to allow engineers to collect critical data to evaluate its performance and improve its design. The flight tested Orions heat shield, avionics, parachutes, computers and key spacecraft separation events, exercising many of the systems critical to the safety of astronauts who will travel in Orion. [image-96]

On future missions, Orion will launch on NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket currently being developed at the agencys Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. A 70 metric-ton (77 ton) SLS will send Orion to a distant retrograde orbit around the moon on Exploration Mission-1 in the first test of the fully integrated Orion and SLS system.

We really pushed Orion as much as we could to give us real data that we can use to improve Orions design going forward, said Mark Geyer, Orion Program manager. In the coming weeks and months well be taking a look at that invaluable information and applying lessons learned to the next Orion spacecraft already in production for the first mission atop the Space Launch System rocket.

A team of NASA, U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin personnel aboard the USS Anchorage are in the process of recovering Orion and will return it to U.S. Naval Base San Diego in the coming days. Orion will then be delivered to NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will be processed. The crew module will be refurbished for use in Ascent Abort-2 in 2018, a test of Orions launch abort system.

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Study Finds Earths Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed

Oct. 6, 2014: The cold waters of Earths deep ocean have not warmed measurably since 2005, according to a new NASA study, leaving unsolved the mystery of why global warming appears to have slowed in recent years.

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, analyzed satellite and direct ocean temperature data from 2005 to 2013 and found the ocean abyss below 1.24 miles (1,995 meters) has not warmed measurably. Study coauthor Josh Willis of JPL said these findings do not throw suspicion on climate change itself.

"The sea level is still rising," Willis noted. "We're just trying to understand the nitty-gritty details."

In the 21st century, greenhouse gases have continued to accumulate in the atmosphere, just as they did in the 20th century, but global average surface air temperatures have stopped rising in tandem with the gases. The temperature of the top half of the world's oceans -- above the 1.24-mile mark -- is still climbing, but not fast enough to account for the stalled air temperatures.

Many processes on land, air and sea have been invoked to explain what is happening to the "missing" heat. One of the most prominent ideas is that the bottom half of the ocean is taking up the slack, but supporting evidence is slim. This latest study is the first to test the idea using satellite observations, as well as direct temperature measurements of the upper ocean. Scientists have been taking the temperature of the top half of the ocean directly since 2005, using a network of 3,000 floating temperature probes called the Argo array.

"The deep parts of the ocean are harder to measure," said JPL's William Llovel, lead author of the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. "The combination of satellite and direct temperature data gives us a glimpse of how much sea level rise is due to deep warming. The answer is -- not much."

The study took advantage of the fact that water expands as it gets warmer. The sea level is rising because of this expansion and the water added by glacier and ice sheet melt.

To arrive at their conclusion, the JPL scientists did a straightforward subtraction calculation, using data for 2005-2013 from the Argo buoys, NASA's Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites, and the agencys Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. From the total amount of sea level rise, they subtracted the amount of rise from the expansion in the upper ocean, and the amount of rise that came from added meltwater. The remainder represented the amount of sea level rise caused by warming in the deep ocean.

The remainder was essentially zero. Deep ocean warming contributed virtually nothing to sea level rise during this period.

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NASA spent $394M to build giant unused tower

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This April 17, 2009 image, released by NASA, shows the massive A-3 engine test stand steel structure jutting into the sky at the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Miss.(AP Photo/NASA, Danny Nowlin)

Four years ago, NASA knew it wouldn't likely use a giant tower originally intended to test rocketsbecause the testing program was canceled. Yet the agency kept building the A-3 test stand and finally finished the $349 million project in June.

And the costs keep coming, with the Mississippi structure expected to require $700,000 each year in maintenance, the Washington Post reports. "You lock the door, so nobody gets in and hurts themselves," says the project's former boss.

Now, the tower is a giant ode to an agency that has lost its "sense of purpose," David A. Fahrenthold writes: "There's no 'why'" at NASA these days, says its former No. 2.

The test stand, near Gulfport, was once expected to send people back to the moon and to Mars, at a projected cost of $119 million. But costs kept rising, and with plans to get back to the moon looking less achievable, President Obama in 2010 called for an end to the program, dubbed "Constellation," that included the tower.

But the Senate, in an effort fueled by Mississippi Republican Roger Wicker, voted to continue funding the construction. "When it comes down to their pork, theyre always going to defend it," a space policy expert told Bloomberg early this year in a piece that dubbed the stand "useless." Even now, to actually use the stand would require a few more years' work, says a NASA official.

It's one of seven stands currently "mothballed," with another being renovated nearby. (In other space news, NASA has an "oh my gosh" moment.)

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California Needs 11 Trillion Gallons to End Drought: NASA

Eleven trillion gallons that's the amount of water that NASA scientists say would be needed to replenish key California river basins in what they're calling the first-ever estimate of the water necessary to end an episode of drought. That 11 trillion gallons is the deficit in normal seasonal levels that NASA said a team found earlier this year in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins, using Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. The GRACE data, presented Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, showed those river basins losing about 4 trillion gallons per year more than state residents use annually, NASA said.

In another finding, NASA said airborne measuring indicates the Sierra Nevada range snowpack was half previous estimates. "The 2014 snowpack was one of the three lowest on record and the worst since 1977, when California's population was half what it is now," Airborne Snow Observatory principal investigator Tom Painter of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in the NASA release.

California has been blasted by autumn storms dumping inches of much-needed rain - but that's still not enough to get the Golden State out of its drought. "Recent rains are no reason to let up on our conservation efforts," Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, said recently.

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Life on Mars? NASA rover spots ingredients.

San Francisco NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found organic chemicals the carbon-containing building blocks of life on the Red Planet.

The discovery is not evidence that life exists, or has ever existed, onMars, researchers stressed. But it does mark the first time that organics have been confirmed inside Red Planet rocks, and it checks off a chief goal of the rover team.

"This is really a great moment for the mission," Curiosity project scientist John Grotzinger, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said during a news conference Tuesday (Dec. 16) here at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). [The Search for Life on Mars in Photos]

The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument (SAM) detected chlorobenzene and several other chlorine-containing carbon compounds in samples from a rock called "Cumberland," which Curiosity drilled into in May 2013.

SAM uses a tiny oven to cook samples, and then analyzes the gases that waft off. Martian soil and rocks commonly host a chlorine-containing chemical called perchlorate, which can destroy or alter organics during this heating process a fact that has complicated Curiosity's hunt for life's building blocks.

In late 2012, for example, mission scientists announced that SAM hadspotted simple chlorinated organicsin samples taken from a different site, called "Rocknest." But they have since determined that this earlier detection probably picked up carbon carried to Mars within SAM.

That's not the case with the more complex chlorobenzene, dichloroethane, dichloropropane and dichlorobutane discovered inside the Cumberland sample, researchers said.

"This is the first in situ detection of organics that are from Mars samples," Caroline Freissinet, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, told Space.com. Freissinet is lead author of the paper detailing the Cumberland results, which has been submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research.

The apparent ubiquity of perchlorate on Mars makes it tough to know if the original Cumberland sample contained chlorobenzene and the other chlorinated compounds, or some other types of organics. Freissinet, however, is leaning toward the latter explanation.

"Everything is Martian the chlorine and the carbon but it's from two different molecules, and it mixed together in the SAM oven," she said.

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NASA Rover Finds Mysterious Methane Emissions on Mars

New results suggest evidence for extraterrestrial life could be near at hand

NASA's Curiosity rover, seen here in a self-portrait from spring 2014, has found conclusive evidence of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. The gas is a potential sign of alien life, though it could also be produced through abiotic mechanisms. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Is there life on Mars? The answer may be blowing in the wind. NASAs Curiosity rover has detected fluctuating traces of methane a possible sign of life in the thin, cold air of the Martian atmosphere, researchers announced today at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Across Mars and within Gale Crater, where Curiosity is slowly climbing a spire of sedimentary rock called Mount Sharp, the methane exists at a background concentration of slightly less than one part per billion by volume in the atmosphere (ppb). However, for reasons unknown, four times across a period of two months the rover measured much higher methane abundances, at about ten times the background level. Further in-situ studies of the methane emissions could help pin down whether Mars has life, now or in its deep past, though it is unclear when or if those studies will ever take place. The findings are published in the journal Science. Most of the methane on Earth is produced by biology, and the hope has been that methane on Mars could be reduced to life on Mars, says lead author Chris Webster, a senior research scientist at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But we cannot yet distinguish whether the high methane levels were seeing are being produced geochemically or biologically. Webster and his team believe the unexpected bursts of methane are produced relatively nearby, somewhere north of the rover, before being carried to Curiosity on prevailing winds. The findings are a dramatic reversal from Curiositys earlier results released one year ago, in which it used data gathered over a third of a Martian year to all but rule out significant quantities of methane in the Martian air. That null result, it is now clear, was due to the actual background level of Martian methane lying just below the threshold of detectability for the standard operations of Curiositys instruments. To sniff out the methane, the Curiosity team had to look longer and harder. For these new results, they collected data over the course of a full Martian year, and gathered enriched samples of Martian air that were stripped of carbon dioxide to amplify fainter traces of methane. The one-part-per-billion methane background they eventually found, Webster says, translates to about 200 metric tons of the gas flowing through the Martian atmosphere each year. The Earth, by comparison, annually has about half a billion metric tons of methane cycling through its air. Most of Earths methane comes from anaerobic bacteria living in low-oxygen environments, such as stagnant water and the guts of animals, though abiotic processes such as hot water flowing through mineral-rich rock can also produce the gas. Marss minuscule methane background is broadly consistent with what should be produced by ultraviolet light striking the carbon-rich debris of meteorites, comets, and interplanetary dust that periodically fall to the Red Planet. But this mechanism cannot easily explain the methane spikes that Curiosity observed, as it calls for large, very recent meteoritic impacts or airbursts in the vicinity of Gale Crater that would leave clear signs which vigilant orbiting spacecraft should have spotted by now. Alternatively, the Curiosity team suggests the methane spikes may come from unseen, buried deposits of clathrates, lattices of ice that can trap gases such as methane in their crystalline structure. Another possibility is that the methane spikes arent small, transient events produced near Curiosity, but that they are instead whiffs of larger methane releases occurring much farther away on the planet. For more than a decade, various teams using noise-riddled observations from Earthbound telescopes or interplanetary orbiters have claimed to see signs of massive methane releases in the Martian atmosphere, at varying concentrations of between ten to nearly sixty ppb. In 2009, the leader of one of those teams, Michael Mumma, a senior scientist at NASAs Goddard Space flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., announced the detection of giant, globe-girdling plumes of methane periodically venting from localized regions on the Martian surface. Other researchers, notably Kevin Zahnle of NASAs Ames Research Center in Calif., cast doubt on the reality of the plumes. Zahnle says that the effects of Earths atmosphere could have contaminated Mummas telescopic data, and that the plumes purported transience required the unlikely existence of some potent planet-wide chemical catalyst to scrub the methane from the air. Curiositys early sniffs of seemingly methane-free Martian air were widely seen as a more definitive repudiation, since even with some unknown methane-scrubbing catalyst such huge plumes would still have left clearly detectable enhanced concentrations of the gas distributed throughout the planets atmosphere. Though the huge plumes he claimed in 2009 have now fallen out of favor, Mumma still suspects something like them, venting in large amounts far away from the rover, could be the source for Curiositys methane spikes. Arguments for a weaker, more local release, he notes, rely on assumptions about wind patterns in and around Gale Crater that are not yet fully backed by available data. What the Curiosity results really confirm is that we still do not understand the release and persistence of methane on Mars, Mumma says. In a nutshell, this is very exciting because it very clearly shows methane has a source on the planet. That source, however, could also be the rover itself, which has components known to have outgassed small amounts of methane in the past. The rover has a lot of methane in it, that is not disputed, says Zahnle, who is authoring a forthcoming commentary in Science on the findings. The real issue is what is the source of the methane in the samples: rover or Mars? The Curiosity team, Webster says, has gone to heroic lengths to test against possible confounding effects from the rover, repeatedly monitoring all its relevant components for signs of methane contamination. The team even carefully analyzed rock samples from the section of Curiositys traverse where it detected enhanced methane, just in case the rovers heavy wheels happened to crush any deposits of gas-rich material under its treads. Time after time, their results suggested the most plausible conclusion was that the methane spikes Curiosity measured were genuine signs of mysterious processes occurring elsewhere, outside of the rovers immediate vicinity. If those processes are biological, and Martian microbes are even now belching methane from subsurface refuges, Webster believes it is within our grasp to now find out. On Earth, bacteria are lazy, or rather, inefficient, he says. They like to use a lighter isotope of carbon, carbon-12. So the methane they produce is depleted in a heavier isotope, carbon-13, by up to fifteen percent. If Curiosity is lucky enough to observe another methane spike, Webster argues that relatively minor tweaks to the process of gathering enriched air samples could allow the rover to measure the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 well enough to distinguish between a biotic and abiotic source. All thats needed, essentially, is a larger number of measurements and a longer enrichment time for Curiositys air samples. Such measurements, however, face competition as steep as the climb up Mount Sharp that the rover is now attempting. The last time Curiosity sniffed the air for methane, Webster says, was five months ago. Curiosity was meant to be a mission to study signs of habitability on ancient Mars, not signs of life on Mars in the present day, says Paul Mahaffy, a senior Curiosity team member at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. An intensive search for more Martian methane could easily prevent Curiosity accomplishing those primary goals. Other, future missions, such as Europes ExoMars orbiter and rover launching later this decade, or NASAs next rover, a Curiosity clone slated for launch in 2020, could potentially take the next necessary steps in unraveling the mystery of Martian methane. Webster notes that instruments now exist which are a thousand times more sensitive than Curiositys methane-sniffing kit, instruments that could in theory discern the gass potentially biotic origins with ease. But those instruments are presently not planned for flight on any upcoming mission from NASA or any other space agency. Well continue to monitor for the methane, but unfortunately these experiments are power-hungry, Mahaffy says. They consume a lot of [Curiositys] resources, and there is always, always a lot of geology to do. At the same meeting at which the tantalizing methane results were announced, the Curiosity team also presented yet more evidence that, early in its life, Mars was warm and wet, far more Earthlike and probably capable of sustaining life. Alas, barring a major shift in the pace and emphasis of our present explorations, the question of whether the planet sustains life now may remain unanswered for many years to come.

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In Mississippi, NASA built $349 million laboratory tower it didnt need

Sealing towers fate

In the summer of 2010, Congress saved the tower in Mississippi for good.

It happened without anybody mentioning the projects name aloud.

This is a big day for America, said then-Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), as it was about to happen. Hutchison was speaking in July 2010 at a meeting of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

Were doing the right thing for America. For our economy. For our creativity, she said. For our science. And for our security.

Hutchison was announcing a new compromise with the White House, which would finally settle the fight over Constellation. Constellation was dead. Instead, the senators were telling NASA to build something that they had just made up: a Space Launch System (jokers at NASA call it the Senate Launch System).

The new plan for NASA was, as usual, long on how and short on why.

The senators were clear about what they wanted NASA to do: keep some Constellation-era projects going, with all their salaries and spending, and try to integrate them into a new system.

But what was the goal of all that? The moon was off the table. Instead, NASA is now focused on a less impressive rock: an asteroid. Sometime in the 2020s, NASA wants to capture one about the size of a house, and then have astronauts zoom up and examine it. This was not a mission chosen to captivate the worlds imagination. It was a mission chosen to use the leftovers that Congress had told NASA to reheat. (Mars still remains a distant goal: At the earliest, NASA might get there in the 2030s.)

At first, the Senates new plan looked bad for the tower in Mississippi. At best, it now would be a project built on spec: erected in the hope that someday NASA might return to the idea of a giant rocket engine that fired in a vacuum.

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How NASA spent $349 million on a useless tower

STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images NASA logo on a protective box for a camera near the space shuttle Endeavour.

In June, NASA finished work on a huge construction project here in Mississippi: a $349million laboratory tower, designed to test a new rocket engine in a chamber that mimicked the vacuum of space.

Then NASA did something odd.

As soon as the work was done, it shut the tower down. The project was officially mothballed closed up and left empty without ever being used.

You lock the door, so nobody gets in and hurts themselves, said Daniel Dumbacher, a former NASA official who oversaw the project.

The reason for the shutdown: The new tower called the A-3 test stand was useless. Just as expected. The rocket program it was designed for had been canceled in 2010.

But, at first, cautious NASA bureaucrats didnt want to stop the construction on their own authority. And then Congress at the urging of a senator from Mississippi swooped in and ordered the agency to finish the tower, no matter what.

The result was that NASA spent four more years building something it didnt need. Now, the agency will spend about $700,000 a year to maintain it in disuse.

The empty tower in Mississippi is evidence of a breakdown at NASA, which used to be a glorious symbol of what an American bureaucracy could achieve. In the space race days of the 1960s, the agency was given a clear, galvanizing mission: Reach the moon within the decade. In less than seven, NASA got it done.

Now, NASA has become a symbol of something else: what happens to a big bureaucracy after its sense of mission starts to fade.

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NASA satellites spy holiday lights from space

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- NASA is doing its best to get in the holiday spirit. On Wednesday, the space agency released a number of images showing what holiday lights look like from 518 miles above Earth's surface.

Scientists at NASA also used data collected by the agency's Suomi NPP satellite and its Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite to determine when and where lights shine brightest over the holidays. They found major cities shine up to 50 percent brighter over Christmas and New Years.

The new data isn't part of some intergalactic holiday light competition, its being collected and analyzed as a way to understand urban energy use patterns and ultimately improve conservation and allocation of resources.

"In the United States, the lights started getting brighter on the day after Thanksgiving and continued through New Years Day," NASA officials wrote in a recent news release. "The science team found that light intensity increased by 30 to 50 percent in the suburbs and outskirts of major cities."

In the composite images released by NASA, the color green is used to denote a uptick in energy use and light output during the holidays, while yellow suggests no change and red represents a decrease.

"It's a near ubiquitous signal," explained lead researcher Miguel Romn. "Despite being ethnically and religiously diverse, we found that the U.S. experiences a holiday increase across most urban communities. These lighting patterns are tracking a national, shared tradition."

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Three elected to National Academy of Inventors

December 17, 2014

Three UC Davis scientists have been elected as 2014 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, for work ranging from engineering new tissues to mass-producing superior surgical blades. They are: Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, distinguished professor and chair of biomedical engineering; Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor of entomology; and Saif Islam, professor of electrical and computer engineering.

The three professors are UC Davis newest additions to the relatively new National Academy of Inventors. UC Davis has two other members: Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, elected in the academys inaugural class of fellows, 2012; and Jerry Woodall, distinguished professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, elected in 2013.

The academy announced its 2014 class Dec. 16, bringing the total number of fellows to 414. All are academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.

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Kyriacos A. Athanasiou Department chair and distinguished professor of biomedical engineering, and the Child Family Professor of Engineering, who also has an appointment in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He studies the healing processes of cartilage, and works to augment them via the application of tissue engineering principles. Our approach entails the use of biodegradable scaffolds designed to incorporate suitable bioactive agents and signals to regenerate cartilage, his website states. Hes the recipient of the Marshal Urist Award for Excellence in Tissue Regeneration Research, the Thomas A. Edison Patent Award and a number of innovation awards.

Bruce D. Hammock Distinguished professor of entomology who also has an appointment at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Most recently, his laboratory found potent enzyme inhibitors that dramatically reduce inflammation, inflammatory pain and neuropathic pain. Compounds are now being tested in two ways: in clinical trials for companion animals, and in the Food and Drug Administrations Pre-Investigational New Drug Application Consultation Program, for the treatment of neuropathic pain in people with diabetes. Hes a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Entomological Society of America.

M. Saif Islam Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-director of the Center for Nano and Micro Manufacturing, or CNM2. His research focuses on ultrafast optoelectric devices, molecular electronics, and the integration of semiconductor nanostructures in devices for imaging, sensing, computing and energy conversion. He holds 37 U.S. patents. Hes the co-founder of Atocera, a startup that plans to bring its silicon surgical and razor blades to market as a less expensive alternative to ceramic and diamond blades. Atocera is housed in the College of Engineerings incubator officially known as the Engineering Translational Technology Center.

The induction ceremony for the new fellows is scheduled for March 20 during the academys fourth annual conference, to be held at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

UC Davis is a global community of individuals united to better humanity and our natural world while seeking solutions to some of our most pressing challenges. Located near the California state capital, UC Davis has more than 34,000 students, and the full-time equivalent of 4,100 faculty and other academics and 17,400 staff. The campus has an annual research budget of over $750 million, a comprehensive health system and about two dozen specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and 99 undergraduate majors in four colleges and six professional schools.

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