Spring Break
The College of Engineering recognized the accomplishments of its students during the annual Honors Day Ceremony Feb. 23. Mandell Theater was packed, as 270 awards were presented. In addition to general engineering awards, each department bestowed additional specific honors.
The College of Engineering, along with the Steinbright Career Development Center, held a career fair in Behrakis Grand Hall Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is in its inaugural year; the CoE hopes to make it an annual event as part of the week-long Engineer's Week.
There are some subjects that I would love to write about in this paper, but I don't. For instance, things like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. I don't write about them because the stories are too long and too complicated for the 1200 word limit that the Sci-Tech editor so graciously allows me to go over each week.
The LinuxWorld Conference & Expo just passed last week in Boston. The event was full of big name companies like Sun, AMD, Intel, IBM, HP, and more. It also gave the chance to lesser known companies to show off their products to the men and women of the business sector.
Is your computer not running as smoothly as the first day you broke your system out of the box? Is your CPU processing light going to give you a seizure? Not ready to make the jump away from Windows? There are a couple of things you can do smooth out your performance.
Rod Tweten, of Ohio State University, gave a seminar in the Living Arts Lounge Feb. 22 on the mechanism of pore formation by cholesterol-dependent cytolysins. The Dept. of Bioscience and Biotechnology and the College of Medicine anthrax team gained insight about anthrolysin O, the anthrax protein, which is currently under study at our university.
