University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 5, 1986
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Creativity pays off for engineers
By PAMELA SPINGLER Staff writer
An engineering student can get as much as $30,000 a year for graduate research from a new university in the National Science Foundation.
The program, "Creativity Awards in Graduate Engineering," is based on creative ideas more than on academic achievement, according to the foundation. It is designed to make graduate students into engineering undergraduates and recent graduates nationwide.
Carl Locke, dean of engineering,
said he became aware of the prog
mapped last month. The program
The grant, which can be renewed twice, would pay for tuition, fees and student's research costs. It also allows students almost $1,000 a month for living expenses.
the selection committee can evaluate its technical merit.
would help students pay bills while dedicating their time to research, he said.
"It's sometimes difficult to find support at this level," he said yesterday.
Other factors in the selection process include three letters of reecommendation and graduate training and education.
"The competition is going to be fierce," Locke said. "For the 30 grants given, they should have at least three hundred applications, if not more."
The program is open to any prospective graduate student in engineering who is a U.S. citizen. Engineering students already in graduate school are not eligible for the award
Normally, NSF graduate awards are based on academic achievement, but the creativity awards will encourage students toward more creative research ideas, the NSF said.
Students must submit to the foundation a letter that describes the proposed research in detail so
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The Windham Hill concert tomorow at Liberty Hall is a gift to the city of Lawrence, according to Pamela McCord, the owner of the Kansas City, Mo., company that is promoting the concert.
Windham Hill recording artists Nightlife and Scatagnet, performing a concert of "new age" music at 8 a.m. to mornout in Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. Tickets are $6.50, $10.50 and $13.50 and can be purchased at Liberty Hall.
McCord said that Windham Hill, a record company that produces "new age" music, usually sponsored about four concerts in the Kansas City area each year, but they'd never made a tour stop in Lawrence before.
"Lawrence is actually too small of a community to support a big name like Windham Hill In fact, we'll probably only break even," she said. "But I love Lawrence and I think that the citizens of Washington would really enjoy a Windham Hill concert. So I arranged for them to come here."
Nightnoise, a Portland, Ore, based four-member band that is composed of a guitarist, a violinist, a flutist and a pianist. The player will be the featured act.
Scartaglen, a Celtic band based in Kansas City. Mo., will perform the opening act.
Billy Oskay, the violinist for Nightsee, formed a partnership with Meehall O'Donnell, an Irish
He said that he and O'Donnell made the "Nightlife" album in 1983 and said that it became so successful, they decided to make a second album, "Something of Time", which was released at the beginning of February.
Oskay said that he and O'Donnell were the sole performers on "Nightone," but that after the album came out, they decided to go
"We met while we were both playing gigs in Portland in 1979," Oskay said. "And we hit it off right away."
He said that in order to produce a richer sound in their live performances, they invited two more people to join the band.
One of the new band members is Triona Ni O'Donnell, a keyboard player who is also Meeshal's sister and a former drummer Daming, a flist from Ireland.
Oskay, who had played the violin since he was seven years old, explained how he changed his playing style from classical, to 'new age'
Oskay said the group intended to stay together for awhile, and that they already had planned an extensive nationwide tour for next year.
He said "new age" music was a blend of many musical styles, including jazz, folk, classical and acoustic.
"I like it because it's a melting pot for many different styles, and it allows me to express myself in several different ways," he said.
He said that many people who played "new age" music didn't like their music to be labeled, but he said he didn't know of any other word that was.
"It's difficult to describe
Oskay said, "It's nothing that was forced, it just sort of evolved. I mean, what can I say? We were both trained in classical music, and we both listened to the Beatles and that's what came out."
'I think people will enjoy the concert. The music is soft, and there is nothing rockish about it.'
Billy Oskay member of Nightnoise
something as abstract as music." he said.
"I think people will enjoy the concert. The music is soft, and there is nothing rockish about it. It expresses a sweeping range of emotions with a wonderful array of intertwining melodies."
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