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DALLAS, Feb. 18 -- The University of Texas at Dallas issued the following news release:
Cosmologist Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki received a $180,000 NASA grant to embark on a two-year study of new models to explain why our universe is picking up speed while it tears itself apart.
Ishak-Boushaki, an assistant professor of physics and principal investigator of the UT Dallas Astrophysics, Cosmology and Relativity Group, is using mathematical and numerical tools to explore cosmological models, called Szekeres models, which may offer a more complete explanation of cosmic acceleration than previous models.
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