THE RMU WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
July 16, 2010
NEWS
-- RMU will host the 2013 Frozen Four, the NCAA Division I hockey championships, at the CONSOL Energy Center, April 11 and 13, 2013. The university will host the event in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Penguins and VisitPittsburgh. To learn more click here.
-- Three RMU-TV television shows were recently honored by the 31st Annual Telly Awards. Colonial SportsCenter, an RMU sports highlight show produced by students Josh Elsass, Ed Albert, and Chris Baginski; RMU-Live, a campus newscast produced by Baginski and Albert; and Campus Stories, an in-depth interview talk show produced by RMU alumnus Clark Cairns, each received a Bronze People’s Telly Award. The Telly Awards honor outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs; the finest video and film productions; and Web commercials, videos, and films. Click here to learn more.
-- The Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) at Robert Morris University is collecting cell phones to recycle, helping the environment while raising money to boot. According to the EPA, most cell phones contain lead, arsenic, beryllium, mercury, cadmium, lithium and other harmful elements that can leach into landfills if the phones are thrown away as garbage. The SAM students will collect used cell phones to be recycled by PaceButler Corp., which will pay the students up to $10 for each phone it receives. That money will fund the students’ trip to the annual SAM national conference and case competition. For a list of campus locations where phones can be deposited, click here.
-- The latest edition of RMU In The News is now available here.
PERSONAL MENTION
-- Gavin Buxton, assistant professor of physics, attended the Gordon Research Conference in Polymer Physics, where he presented a poster titled "Polymer Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery." The conference took place June 27-July 2 at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Buxton's research also was the focus of a talk by one of his collaborators, Anna Balazas from the University of Pittsburgh, who gave a talk titled "Designing Self-Propelled Polymeric Microcapsules."
-- Several RMU engineering faculty distinguished themselves at the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition last month in Louisville, Ky. They promoted the RMU manufacturing engineering program at their booth in the Manufacturing Engineering Pavilion exposition, an event also sponsored by RMU. They also presented five papers:
Arif Sirinterlikci
“Intelligent Rube Goldberg using Vex Robotics Development System” (with Sushil Acharya)
“Marrying Manufacturing Programs with Biological and Biomedical Engineering Fields”
“Teaching Reverse Engineering for Non-Industrial Applications”
“Design of a Flexible Thermoelectric Element”
Priyadarshan Manohar
“A Hands-on Course Curriculum for Supporting Design Education for Manufacturing Students”
-- Sirinterlikci and Murat Tiryakioglu published a paper in the
International Journal Of Modern Engineering, “Preserving Historical artifacts through Digitization and Indirect Rapid Tooling.”
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*WELLNESS TIP*
-- Boost your immune system and help wounds heal. Get Vitamin C by eating a balanced diet, including citrus fruits and juices, strawberries, tomatoes, leafy green vegetables, sweet and white potatoes. Recommended amounts vary based on age and gender.
EVENTS
July 17: The entire RMU community is invited to RMU Night at PNC Park. The RMU Alumni Association is hosting a cook-out and tailgate starting at 4:30 p.m. in the parking lot outside the stadium. Look for the RMU alumni gathering in parking lot Section 7B or 7C. Free hotdogs, hamburgers and soft drinks will be provided. Baseball action begins at 7:05 p.m. as the Pittsburgh Pirates take on the Houston Astros. Fireworks will follow Immediately after the game.
Two blocks of tickets have been reserved for RMU alumni, friends and students. Tickets are $7 per person for Outfield Grandstand seats in section 329 & 330 and $15 per tickets for outfield Box in section 103. For more details, click here.
July 23: Colonial Theatre presents "Boys Next Door" on July 23-24 and 30-31 at 8 p.m. and Aug. 1 at 2 p.m. in Massey Theater. All tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door. The play takes place in a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally disabled men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly burned out young social worker named Jack. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where little things sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the disabled, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time that they are allotted on this earth.
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