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Rensselaer in Brief
Troy water main breaks
Late Monday afternoon, an 80-year-old 16-inch pipe broke and damaged Hoosick Street in the vicinity of 15th Street. Following the break, some motorists had parts of their cars damaged as the street surface gave way, but no one was reported injured. Later that afternoon, police officers were directing traffic at Hoosick and 15th Streets and at Burdett and Peoples Avenues as a result of the break.
For at least the next few days, Hoosick Street will be closed between Burdett Avenue and 10th Street. 15th Street will also be closed between Peoples Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue.
Water service to many dormitories was said to be discontinued temporarily and some local businesses had natural gas service cut off until the pipeline could be stabilized. Later, water service to the dorms was made available again, but at lower pressure as a result of water being diverted to the campus away from the area of the break. Contest winners announced
Following a $1 million donation by Sean O’Sullivan ’85 to create a new competition to encourage entrepreneurship and stimulate ideas that improve life worldwide, the five inaugural awards were given out on Saturday during the halftime of the Homecoming football game.
The winners of this year’s “Change the World Challenge” were Casey O’Donnell, an STS doctoral student, Joseph Choma ’10, an architecture student, Brendan Kavanagh ’06, and Danika Patrick ’06, both mechanical engineering students, and Cheuk Wa Yuen, a graduate student in architecture. Their ideas included car safety systems, portable temporary housing, and a virtual DJ to help children learn math.
Submissions to the contest, now scheduled to run every year, will be judged on how they solve a problem facing humanity in a long-term sustainable way that is both novel in concept and sensible with the technology and resources available in the present. Land pledged to farmhouse
George Jacques, a resident of Troy with a reputation for taking on large community projects, has received a pledge of land in Prospect Park from the Troy City Council contingent upon raising money for the construction of a replica of Uncle Sam’s farmhouse.
Uncle Sam, known to early residents of Troy as Samuel Wilson, ran a meatpacking business that supplied soldiers with meat during the War of 1812, leading to the use of the name “Uncle Sam” as a popular term for the personification of national pride ever since.
Jacques, a mechanical engineer, intends to set up an organization to raise money for the building’s construction and is also looking to raise money by publishing a book and producing a video. |
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