Daily Archives: September 12, 2010

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Geek of the Week: Riley Geistmann, Freshman, Electrical Engineering

In Golden, Colorado resides the quaint campus of the School of Mines. It is littered with laser-pointing, computer-building, and video-game-playing students. Unbeknownst to them, they are in a competition for Geek of the Week. This geek must exceed the preconceptions of geekiness and transcend into the realm of ridiculous. For this week’s Geek, I searched Mines far and wide to locate that special outlier. His name is Riley Geistmann. Geistmann is a freshman from Redding, California, majoring in Electrical Engineering. He plays video games, builds computers, and never, under any circumstance, conforms.

Considering Civil?

The Civil Engineering department here at Mines has a lot to offer it’s students, probably more than one might first imagine. Association of General Contractors (AGC) Vice-President Ryan Sullivan elaborated on what you can expect to do within the department. “Mines, for undergraduates, is really good for geotechnical and structural [engineering].” Many members of the faculty in the department did their graduate studies in structural, so it tends to attract students that are interested in the same.

Scientific discoveries this week: 9-13-10

Kansas City, MO – The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives collaborated with  a Kansas City cardiologist and the curator of the Nelson-Atkins museum of art to reveal the identity of a 2500-year-old Egyptian mummy. The mummy, named Ka-i-nefer, is part of a new Egyptian exhibit at Nelson-Atkins that opened in May. Using CT scans of the mummy and making graphical drawings from those scans, the team of researchers from ATF and the cardiologist determined that the mummy was a man who lived to be 45-55 years old, and was five-foot seven-inches tall and wore a size 7 shoe. “The image of by ATF adds a powerful immediacy to this man who lived thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt,” said Robert Cohon, the curator of the art exhibit at Nelson-Atkins.

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