Monthly Archives: April 2013

Community Spotlight: Powder7

Most students at Colorado School of Mines know Bent Gate Mountaineering as the only ski and board shop in Golden, but on the north end of town, about as far as one can go on highway 93, there is a little ski shop called Powder7. Though Powder7 operates mostly online, they keep all of their inventory at their Golden location, including a small display room where they show off a fraction of their entire gear selection. Although the display room is small, they are always willing to bring merchandise from the storage room to the display room to show customers if they ask. Additionally, they have no qualms about selling equipment in person.

Ethics Across Campus: Beliefs and Actions

A few weeks ago, I argued that, when faced with two contradictory beliefs, we ought to reject one of the beliefs that cause the contradiction. We ought to do this, I argued, because if we do not, we are forced to believe anything whatsoever. Specifically, I argued that most of us have deeply held ethical intuitions that conflict with ethical relativism and that, since our intuition about the ethical status of suffering (i.e., that suffering is bad) is strong and plausible, we ought to reject relativism. This week, I’d like to consider what actions we might be committed to given our strong ethical intuitions about suffering.

Attention all hipsters: Athena & Ocean, LLC Still Hiring

Students still desperate for summer experience still have a chance with Athena & Ocean, LLC, or A&O. A&O is a small engineering firm that embraces hipsters’ ironic lifestyle, but students probably have not heard about them. A&O attended Spring Career Fair, but did not have many applicants, as their unpaid summer internships were not very desirable compared to typical high-paying engineering internships. However, students not wanting a mainstream internship missed out if they did not apply to A&O.

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Club Sport of the Week: Tennis

Tennis at Mines has a long history, existing in some form or another since at least 1913 and perhaps even earlier. From the early 1970s until 2005, Mines men competed at the varsity level, garnering four RMAC championships and countless postseason appearances. On and off since at least 1972, Mines women have fielded a club team, but to this day have never officially competed in NCAA play. Club Tennis in its current form has existed since 2005, with each year since then proving to be more fulfilling than the last.

Mines celebrates Persian new year

The Iranian Student Association (IRASA) and the International Student Council (ISC) hosted the first ever Persian New Year party (or Nowruz as the Persians call it) Tuesday, March 26 at the Colorado School of Mines campus. The event was a large one with over 100 people in attendance. The celebration started with both Farshad Harirchi and Kamyar Mosavat explaining the celebration to the audience. “We celebrate the new year in springtime and we believe that spring is the beginning of the year.” Mosavat when on to explain that much life in the natural world begins in the spring, “You know the trees blossom and the birds wake up,” concluding that it would make sense for the year to start in spring along with the start of many other things.

Tunnel boring technology digs deeper

Jeff Petersen, chairman of UCA SME summarized the developments in the field of tunneling before discussing the Kemano Backup Tunnel Project last Wednesday. According to Petersen, the underground construction industry is expanding rapidly with some companies experiencing 20% growth in employee size each year. The work involved in underground construction is so complex that individuals from a large variety of fields and degrees can be successful in the industry.

Scientific discoveries this week: 4/8/13

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By growing and analyzing stem cells from patients’ blood, scientists were able to shed light on a common bleeding disorder. They discovered the cause of the disease in individual patients that can enable doctors to prescribe more effective treatments according to the defects identified in the patients’ cells.
Researchers at the National Heart and Lung Institute, at the Imperial College London focused on von Willebrand disease (vWD) which is estimated to affect 1 in 100 people and can cause excessive possibly life-threatening bleeding.

Quran and Science

“From the Atom to the Galaxy: Quran and Science” lecture, presented by the Muslim Students Association brought together a large number of multicultural students and faculty to hear Abdulaziz Alaswad speak. The room was quickly filled with students and the smell of falafel sandwiches with lots of anxious buzz about the lecture. Alaswad started by addressing the Muslim belief that perfection is God’s creation and these creations are to be contemplated. Alaswad is currently a Ph.D. candidate in physics working with photovoltaic cells, and says his research is based in the science in the Quran.

Magnification, compression and cloaking using light

Alexander Gaeta, of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University, conducts research focusing on using light for imaging and other processing typically done today with electrons. Using electrons ultimately caps the frequency of processing, and Gaeta argues that using light instead can put sampling speeds into the TeraHertz regime, or on the order of Gigasamples per second. This presents useful applications in non-destructive, contact-free testing especially in biological specimens.

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