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Thursday, May 1
Calendar
What: KU Innovation Fair When: 4 to 6:30 p.m. Where: Kansas Union, Ballroom About: Learn about KU technology opportunities for entrepreneurial collaboration and network with faculty students and company representatives. Cash prizes will be given for best poster presentations in the graduate and undergraduate divisions.
What: Quickies: An Evening of Ten-Minute Plays
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: William Inge Memorial Theatre, Murphy Hall
About: KU Theatre graduate students will present an assortment of ten-minute plays. Attendance is free.
Friday, May 2
What: Pre-Hispanic Migrations in Central America: What we think we know and what we wish we knew
When: Noon to 1 p.m.
Where: Spooner Hall, The Commons
About: A free Department of Anthropology lecture from John Hoopes, director of the Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, addressing the causes and consequences of human migration.
What: KU Symphony Orchestra
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Lied Center
About: The KU School of Music presents the Symphony Orchestra in concert. Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for children, seniors and students.
Saturday, May 3
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What: Spring Arts and Culture Festival When: 1 to 3 p.m. Where: Spencer Museum of Art About: The Spencer Student Advisory Board hosts its seventh annual Arts and Culture Festival, featuring art by local and student artists, live music and more.
Sunday, May 4
What: Art Cart: Paing Laughter
When: Noon to 4 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art
About: The Art Cart is a drop-in art activity station where families and other groups can enjoy hands-on art projects together, taking inspiration from the works on view in the Museum's galleries. For this month's Art Cart activity, families will look closely at several painted Japanese scrolls. Participants will then use the materials provided to decorate a small hanging scroll.
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This year's Innovation Fair will encourage students to present research projects in the categories of design, science, technology and others.
Innovation fair to showcase student ventures and research
DALTON KINGERY news@kansan.com
The KU Innovation Fair will take place today in the Kansas Union Ballroom from 4 to 6:30 p.m. The event, sponsored by KU Innovation and Collaboration, showcases innovative research and ideas created by undergraduate and graduate students in the University community, with a heavy emphasis on commercializing those ideas and bringing them to the market.
"The purpose of the event is primarily to encourage students at the undergraduate and graduate levels to prepare and present work that they have done; it could be research or it could be design," said Rajiv Kulkarni,
Director of KU Innovation and Collaboration. "It's not just science and technology."
"What's really nice about the Innovation Fair is that it seems like there are people not only from the University, but from the industry coming by the event," said AJ Mellott, a recent Ph.D. graduate from Overland Park and a participant in the Innovation Fair.
Mellott, who had research on inner ear hair cell
The event, now in its second year, was created with the intent of celebrating the cutting-edge ideas of the University's students. Awards and cash prizes are given to the top three student presenters in the undergraduate and graduate divisions.
regeneration featured at last year's Innovation Fair, noted the distinct emphasis on the relationship between student ventures and the private sector.
"Students get to interact with individuals from the industry and see how they can possibly patent or commercialize their research and technology." Mellott said.
AJ MELLOTT Innovation Fair participant
"Students get to... see how they can possibly patent or commercialize their research and technology."
the marketability of student research and entrepreneurial ideas is a driving force behind the Innovation Fair, with industry professionals taking a keen interest in the research being presented. Firms in the private sector, through a partnership with KU Innovation and Collaboration, play a role in sponsoring student research and assisting students in licensing their technologies.
This focus on increasing
"Some students sometimes don't think about their ideas in commercial terms," said Bethany Scotchorn, Administrative Coordinator for KU Innovation and Collaboration. "We want them to think about their research and ideas that way."
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graduate students who study atmospheric science often follow storms once they understand their patterns.
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"You have to know why they develop, how they develop, where they mature and decay, where they will likely land ... all of that stuff before you can go out and expect to see a tornado," Rahn said.
Rahn, who grew up in Wyoming and spent several years living in Chile, has not yet witnessed a tornado on his own, but hopes to do so at some point. He initially became interested in weather when he was younger because he spent a lot of his time sailing.
"Most people get into atmospheric sciences for the severe weather, but I was just really interested in the wind," Rahn said.
The most important part of the whole process is knowing the patterns of the weather in order to stay safe. Last year, three chasers were killed in Oklahoma after getting caught in the middle of a tornado and mangled up with a truck.
When Riedl and his friends chase storms, they drive out to a general site, then find a place where they can connect their phones to the weather radar service to see where specifically the storm is.
"It's not the tornado that's dangerous. It's what's around the tornado and what's flying through the air that's the dangerous part," said Rahn.
"It's a hit-or-miss game," he said. "Sometimes you'll see one, sometimes you won't. Sometimes there will be multiple storms going on at all once and you have to choose which one you think is the best one."
Even though he has been chasing for years, Riedl has only seen three tornados in his life.
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