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Doctor finds dog spit good for growing hair
Lossless encoding offers CD-quality music in half the space
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Sports
Engineers win state meet Women’s track & field place fourth Red Hawks enjoy several top three finishes at states Title game loss motivates Red Hawks Engineers finish eleventh in ECACHL Women’s lacrosse hopes for first .500 season Engineers fall to Plattsburgh State Vikings fan mourns Moss Weekly Round Up
Women’s basketball selected for ECACs Depth, experience key for men’s tennis success
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Rensselaer in Brief
Exploring Engineering
This past Saturday, RPI hosted an Engineering Exploration Day for Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in the JEC in recognition of the 2005 National Engineers Week. The programs presented were designed to excite children about the potential of engineering in the world around them.
Over the past few years, the program has grown from a small outreach program to include hands-on seminars encompassing disciplines including electrical, aeronautical, and materials engineering. RPI engineering students led the day’s events, which included a program call “Circuits,” which involved using a fruit battery to power an LED.
The program was well received by this year’s participants, and its success was indicated by a marked rise in the number of attendeess. This program follows the Molecularium program of several weeks ago, which involved the animation of atoms and molecules in a planetarium setting for children. All of these programs continue in an effort to interest younger school children in the pursuit of careers in the fields of science and engineering.
Student “gets wings”
ore in Mechanical Engineering and Product Design and Innovation created new types of Red Bull apparel ranging from belts to book bags made from Red Bull cans and seat belts as part of the Red Bull Art of the Can contest.
McIntyre’s “wearable wings,” as he calls them, were selected from hundreds of entries nationwide to be displayed in a special one-week public gallery consisting of sculptures and other products made of empty red bull cans. The exhibition is taking place at the Artists for Humanity Epicenter in Boston’s Fort Point Arts District and is open through Sunday.
According to McIntyre, although it took him about 72 hours to model and plan the form of the “wearable wings,” the hardest part was finding a sufficient quantity of cans to complete the project the way he wanted.
As of Sunday evening, he was second in line for the People’s Choice Award. However, the judgment for creative concept, conceptual execution, and overall construction is evaluated by a panel of judges who will send the winner to the International Arts Festival in Venice, Italy.
Man dies after bar fight
Troy city police are currently investigating the sudden death of a 36-year old man who was involved in a minor bar altercation and died shortly afterward. The man was identified as Matthew Carlo, but an autopsy failed to show any trauma that could have been the immediate cause of death, and toxicology reports won’t be available for some time.
Carlo and two of his acquaintances were at the Hudson Duster bar, when the altercation broke out. He and the other two men were escorted from the tavern, but there was a second altercation among the same individuals, as well as others, once they were outside the bar.
After Carlo collapsed, he was taken by car to St. Mary’s Hospital, where he died a short while later. Investigators have not pressed any charges, either in the altercation or Carlo’s death, though they have spoken with Carlo’s friends and several customers and staff that were at the bar. Charges dealing with Carlo’s death will be determined by the ongoing investigation and the autopsy. |
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