NIHS Success Stories
Brewing A Blast-Less Fertilizer
Date: February 17, 2010
Brewing A Blast-Less Fertilizer
Down in the green, rolling hills and farmlands around Lexington, Kentucky, Darrell Taulbee can be found mixing up a batch of his homegrown fertilizer. But he’s not looking to grow a better Big Boy or distill a smoother bourbon, he tells us.
Funded by the University of Kentucky and the Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), Taulbee sets his sights on something far more sinister.
Darrell Taulbee putters with this stuff to make sure another Oklahoma bombing never happens again.
Defusing Terrorism
Date: February 17, 2010
On the morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh pulled a yellow Ryder Rental truck into a parking area outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City then casually walked away. A few minutes later, the truck’s deadly 4,000-pound cargo blasted the government building with enough force to shatter one third of the seven-story structure to bits. Glass, concrete, and steel rained down. Indiscriminately mixed in the smoldering rubble were adults and children, alive and dead. Gone in one cataclysmic blast were 168 lives.
Making Protective Mesh Stronger
Date: February 17, 2010
Making Protective Mesh Stronger
Braden Lusk with the University of Kentucky has been developing a mining research program at UK focused on the use of explosives, and he admits that this research interest began a long time ago—when he was 10 years old.
A Real-Life Food Defense Challange: Bulk Milk Transportation
Date: February 11, 2010
A Real-Life Food Defense Challange: Bulk Milk Transportation, as featured in the Food Saftey Magazine.
High speed GigE camera used in Realtime 3-D Structured Light System
Date: October 9, 2009
The 3-D Imaging Lab at the University of Kentucky’s Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments has extensive experience in the area of 3-D and is credited with developing 3-D systems in the fields of machine vision, structured