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cles is a major undertaking in the sustainable energy field.
"That's really new technology," she said. "No one's really touched that, so we're kind of giving him a space for him to find out and see if that's actually possible."
The building will be enclosed with used aircraft aluminum and glass allowing a high degree of visibility for spectators to see ongoing projects. Depcik believes this will highlight the building as well as the vehicles, and positively affect recruitment for EcoHawks. He said interested students can be taken to the Ecohawks building to see the program in a showroom type of setting.
Kevin Helton, the vice president of EcoHawks and a senior from Detroit, said the bigger facility will help to expand the program, further their research efforts in vehicle-to-building energy usage and storage as well as smart-grid technology.
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"The new building will allow the EcoHawks to evolve into one of the best research institutes in electrified vehicles, alternative energy and the energy infrastructure," Helton said.
Both Moore and Hunter Hanahan, a graduate student from Seneca, S.C. were drawn to the
Studio 804 program because of its non-traditional approach and fast pace.
Moore hopes the cooperative relationship of Studio 804 and Depcik's EcoHawks will have a lasting effect.
"Here, we're allowed to control so many more aspects, and kind of design on the fly as well. When we run into an issue on site, you have to design right there and then figure out how you're going to solve that problem," Moore said. "I just really like the fact that I get out from behind a desk, and I get to work with my hands. You apply what you've learned in the real physical world, and to me, that's really appealing."
"While we tend to build sustainably and with all of this energy consumption in mind, a lot of times, the end user doesn't really pay attention to that, whereas here with the EcoHawks facility we know that's one of their main goals," she said. "We're actually going to be able to physically measure how our building is performing."
"There's no other program that touches this," Hanahan said. "There are other programs that are design-build, but the end product of this program, you can't touch it. It's a high-caliber, professionally recognized building."
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believed to be the Jayhawks' first ever triple-double, although it is unofficial.
In his senior season, Born was once again named to the first-team All-Big Seven team and represented the United States in its gold medal-winning performance at the 1954 World Championships.
During his last two years at Kansas, he led the team in scoring with an average of 18.9 ppg in 1953 and 19.0 ppg in 1954.
Following his time in Lawrence, he was selected with the 22nd overall pick in the third round of the 1954 NBA Draft by the Fort Wayne Pistons. He did not join the team. Instead, he played in the Amateur Athletic Union in Peoria in the
mid-1950s.
Born's jersey was retired to the rafters on Feb. 15, 1992 in a ceremony honoring the 1952 NCAA title team.
He is a member of the KU Athletics Hall of Fame, the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame and the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame.
"He was certainly a gentleman and a great ambassador for KU through the years," Self said in his statement. "Our sympathies certainly go out to his family as they go through this difficult time, I'm sure our KU family is saddened today but also very proud of the legacy that he left as a faithful Jayhawk."
President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about his gun violence proposals yesterday at the Minneapolis Police Department's Special Operations Center in Minneapolis, where he outlined his plan before law enforcement personnel.
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Obama stands by gun control proposal while in 'Murderapolis'
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MINNEAPOLIS — President Barack Obama declared Monday on his first trip outside Washington to promote gun control that a consensus is emerging for universal background checks for purchasers, though he conceded a tough road lay ahead to pass an assault weapons ban over formidable opposition in Congress.
"We should restore the ban on military-style assault weapons and a 10-round limit for magazines," Obama said in a brief speech, standing firm on his full package on gun-control measures despite long odds. Such a ban "deserves a vote in Congress because weapons of war have no place on our streets or in our schools or threatening our law enforcement officers."
The president spoke from a special police operations center in a city once known to some as "Murderapolis" but where gun violence has dropped amid a push to address it from city leaders. Officers stood behind him, dressed in crisp uniforms of blue, white and brown.
The site conveyed Obama's message that a reduction in violence can be achieved nationally, even if Americans have sharp disagreements over gun control. That includes among members of his own party in Washington.
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he wants to give the bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines a vote. But he will not say whether he will support either, and advocates and opponents alike predict they are unlikely to pass.
The president unveiled his gun-control plans last month after the shootings at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. But many of the proposals face tough opposition from some in Congress and from the National Rifle Association.
Suggesting he won't get all he's proposing, he said, "We don't have to agree on everything to agree it's time to do something."
Putting the controversial measures up for a vote could put some Democratic senators in a tough spot. That includes some from conservative-leaning states who are up for re-election next year and face the prospect of voting against either fervent gun-rights supporters or Obama and gun-control supporters in the party's base.
Reid came in for criticism for declining to stand with the president by Minneapolis' Democratic mayor, R.T. Rybak, who accompanied Obama while he was in town. "He's dancing around this issue and people are dying in this country," Rybak said of Reid on MSNBC.
Democratic lawmakers and aides, as well as lobbyists, say an assault weapons ban has the least chance of being approved by the
Senate Judiciary Committee that is working up the legislation. They say a ban on high-capacity magazines is viewed as the next least likely proposal to survive, though some compromise version of it might, allowing more than the 10-round maximum that Obama favors.
Likeliest to be included are universal background checks and prohibitions against gun trafficking, they say. One lobbyist said other possible terms include steps to improve record keeping on resales of guns and perhaps provisions that would make it harder for mentally ill people from obtaining firearms.
Asked last week what was likely to be in his committee's bill, committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said he didn't yet know but "I don't know how anybody can be opposed to universal background checks." He added, "I think gun trafficking, you've got to be able to close that. I don't know how anybody, anybody can object to that."
It has been just over 100 years since the campus power plant steam whistle
began marking time on campus.
Early on, it was used as a 7:45 a.m.
wake-up call and a nightly announcer
order.
of curfew.
POLICE REPORTS
- A 19-year-old male was arrested yesterday on the 1600 block of 23rd Street under suspicion of violating his driver's license restrictions and driving while intoxicated. A $275 bond was paid.
- A 23-year-old female was arrested yesterday on 2000 block of 9th Street under suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence. A $500 bond was paid.
- A 20-year-old male was arrested yesterday on the 1900 block of Naismith Drive under suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence. A $500 bond was paid.
- A 22-year-old female was arrested Sunday on the 3400 block of 6th Street under suspicion of forgery and possession of drug paraphernalia. A $3,000 bond was paid.
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Jodi Arias listens to testimony in Maricopa County Superior Court, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 in Phoenix. Attorneys for Arias portray the victim as a liar and cheat who repeatedly deceived his girlfriends, family and family members.
Woman accused of murder recounts childhood abuse
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PHOENIX — A woman charged in the savage stabbing and shooting death of her lover told jurors Monday how she endured an abusive childhood at the hands of her parents and planned to commit suicide after she killed her on-again, off-again boyfriend.
Defense attorneys claim it was a similar scenario throughout her relationship with Travis Alexander, a successful businessman and motivational speaker, who Arias killed in June 2008, she says, in self-defense.
Arias' testimony aimed to portray her as a childhood abuse victim and naive teenager who stayed with boyfriends even after they cheated on her and became violent at times.
She is charged with killing the 30-year-old man in what prosecutors describe as a fit of jealous rage after she found out he'd planned
to take a trip to Mexico with another woman. Authorities say she stabbed and slashed him 27 times, slit his throat from ear to ear and shot him in the forehead, leaving his bloody body in the bathroom of his suburban Phoenix home to be found five days later by friends.
Her trial began in early January with a series of salacious details about a torrid romance between Arias and Alexander after they met at a Las Vegas conference in late 2006. She claims they dated for about five months, then broke up but continued to see each other for sex up until the day of his death. She initially told police she knew nothing of the killing, then later blamed it on masked intruders. She finally admitted her involvement, but claimed self-defense — kill or be killed by the enraged man.
Arias claims it was self-defense as Alexander attacked her after inviting her to his home for sex on the day of the killing.
In a soft-spoken voice, Arias calmly described how an idyllic childhood in California turned abusive when she was about 7 years old. She said her parents beat her with belts and wooden spoons, and the abuse later escalated into shoving her into furniture and slapping her in the face for misdeeds such as sneaking out of the house.
She testified Monday that she lied early in the investigation about not being at the scene of the crime because she planned to commit suicide so there would never be a trial.
Arias then went on to recount other stories from her youth that sometimes turned bizarre. She described meeting a high school boyfriend at a carnival when she was 15 and he was 18. Arias said the two dated for a while, but she broke it off because "he had all kinds of wild ideas."
Throughout the trial, defense attorneys have tried to depict Alexander as a liar and cheat who told Arias and other girlfriends he was a devout Mormon saving sex for marriage, while in reality he was having sex with multiple women, cheating on some with others. Prosecutors have portrayed Arias as a jealous ex-girlfriend who couldn't let go of Alexander and stalked him for months after their breakup until finally snapping and killing him.
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Student wins nationwide global health contest
When it comes to global health issues, Kirsten Devin has a unique passion for the work.
Devin, a first-year medical student from Omaha, Neb., was recently announced as the winner of the second Take A Trip With Timmy contest sponsored by Med Plus Advantage for the Timmy Global Health organization. The nationwide contest was for pre-med and medical students who had an interest in
global health and wanted the opportunity to participate in traveling and providing health care to underserved nations.
"I think there were two main purposes: to promote the interests of the organization, thus gaining exposure, and to
The contest was split into two portions. The first portion was an essay, which Devin submitted in November. After she received notice in December that she was one of 10 finalists, Devin had two weeks to make a video for the next portion.
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"After I found out, I was both surprised and relieved," she said. "When I submitted the essay back in November, I never saw myself making it this far, but it's made me very proud to be representing my school."
encourage medical students interested in international medicine to pursue it as a passion," she said.
Devin officially found out she had won on Jan. 31 via a call on Skype.
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'Fearless Felix' breaks sound barrier, new report confirms
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Supersonic skydiver Felix Baumgartner was faster than he or anyone else thought when he jumped from 24 miles up.
The Austrian parachutist known as "Fearless Felix" reached 843.6 mph, according to the official numbers released Monday. That's equivalent to Mach 1.25, or 1.25 times the speed of sound.
His top speed initially was estimated last October at 834 mph, or Mach 1.24.
Either way, he became the first human to break the sound barrier with only his body. He wore a
pressurized suit and jumped from a capsule hoisted by a giant helium balloon over New Mexico.
Baumgartner was supersonic for a half-minute — "quite remarkable," according to Brian Utley, the official record-keeping official who was present for the Oct. 14 feat. His heart rate remained below 185 beats a minute, and his breathing was fairly steady.
The leap was from an altitude of 127,852 feet. That's 248 feet lower than original estimates.
"He jumped from a little bit lower, but he actually went a little bit faster, which was pretty exciting," said Art Thompson, technical project director for the Red Bull-sponsored project.
"It's fun for us to see reaching Mach speeds and proving out a lot of the safety systems," Thompson said in a phone interview from his aerospace company in Lancaster, Calif.
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