Month: April 2018

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I was ambushed by cucumber water
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I was ambushed by cucumber water

Cucumbers are not for drinking. And yet they keep turning up in liquid form. Imagine going out to a nice restaurant with your family. Maybe Dad got a promotion, or your brother’s team won state. You sit down to a table set with napkins folded into roses and peonies unfolding in a vase in the...

Music, microphones, and mathematics: Student to present research project
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Music, microphones, and mathematics: Student to present research project

Music meets math in senior Justin Rogers’ research. For his senior project, Rogers is attempting to make a computer program that can listen to a tone and identify its note and what instrument made it. Although it is an area most closely related with voice-to-text and speech recognition, such software would have other uses, too....

Volume One Bookstore to reopen under new name, new management
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Volume One Bookstore to reopen under new name, new management

  Volume One Bookstore will reopen as Volume 2 Bookstore next week. Long-time store owner Richard Wunsch retired at 78 years- old and transferred ownership to Daniel Brown, Emily Wunsch, Sedrich Brown, and Tina Sanchez, who formed an LLC. The new owners are remodeling the store to make it into a community center and bookstore....

iFeel Alive Labs combat student stress with games
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iFeel Alive Labs combat student stress with games

Pursed-lip breathing may be the solution to surviving hell week stress. The psychology department recently installed new technology that helps students learn how to control their stress. The technology, a combination of a noninvasive sensors and computer software that reads the sensors’ data, was originally brought to the school for undergraduate research. Now, it is...