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"By ignorance the truth is known."
— Henry Suso
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Agniology is the philosophical study of ignorance.
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CRIME REPORT
KU Public Safety officers arrested a minor in possession of alcohol driving while under the influence and while in possession of another person's driver's license on Jayhawk Boulevard Saturday.
A 29-year-old KU student reported an aggravated burglary in the 2400 block of Alabama Street Monday.
A 57-year-old KU employee reported an aggravated burglary and theft at a loss of $230 in the 700 block of Ash Street Sunday.
A 26-year-old KU student reported disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia in the 900 block of New York Street Saturday.
A 23-year-old KU student reported criminal trespass and criminal damage at a loss of $150 in the 800 block of Maine Street Saturday.
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What's going on?
TUESDAY
August 24
Instructional Services is hosting a workshop, "Community of Science," at 1 :30 p.m. in Anschutz Library.
University Governance is holding a SenEx meeting at 3 p.m. in the Provost Conference Room of Strong Hall.
WEDNESDAY August 25
There will be an Unclassified Senate Executive Council meeting from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Alcove G of the Kansas Union.
KU Libraries will be hosting a pizza party from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Learning Studio of Anzibt Library.
SATURDAY
THURSDAY
August 28
The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies will be hosting "50 Years of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies in the American Heartland," a conference, all day in the Kansas Union.
Student Union Activities will be hosting its annual SUA Carnival from 8 p.m. to midnight in the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center parking lot.
August 26
Student Union Activities will be hosting "Tea at Three" with free tea and cookies from 3 to 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
The Department of Theatre will be hosting "Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suifrage Satire," a free onewoman show staring KU graduate Michelle LaRue, at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall of Murphy Hall.
SUNDAY
August 29
The Department of Theatre will be hosting "The Trojan Women", a restaging of the KU Summer Theatre in Greece production, at 7:30 p.m. in the William Inge Memorial Theatre of Murphy Hall.
FRIDAY August 27
- Student Union Activities will be hosting "Tunes at Noon," a free concert with Down with Gravity, from 12 to 1 p.m. on the plaza outside the Kansas Union.
The Department of Theatre will be hosting "The Trojan Women," a restaging of the KU Summer Theatre in Greece production, at 7:30 p.m. in the William Inge Memorial Theatre of Murphy Hall.
MONDAY August 30
RESEARCH
The Office of the Vice Provest for Research and Graduate Studies will be hosting a conference, "Biosecurity: Our Regional and National Response", from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Mo.
$17.9 million awarded to ice sheet research program
BY KELLY STRODA kstroda@kansan.com
The radars on the Meridian are so strong, they can penetrate ice to measure its thickness. The Meridian, an unmanned aerial vehicle that was designed and built at the University, flies itself to Greenland and Antarctica to facilitate research about polar ice.
But technology like the Meridian wouldn't be possible without the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, or CreSIS.
in 2005, the center received a $19 million award from the NSF to research rapid changes to polar ice and the implications of these changes, said David Braaten, deputy director of the center.
CreSIS, which is on the West Campus, recently received a $17.9 million renewal award from the National Science Foundation to continue research about polar ice using technology like the Meridian project that is developed at the University.
"We've seen changes over the past decade that we wouldn't have thought possible two decades ago." Braaten said.
The NSF reviewed the center's progress so far and its plans for the future before granting the award.
Braaten said these changes are disturbing because researchers can't figure out why the changes are happening so rapidly.
NSF awarded the money to CreSIS to fund the second phase of the center's research. Braaten said the first five years of research focused on developing technology like the radars and the UAV.
"The renewal was awarded based on the excellent progress made by the center in accomplishing its stated goals and objectives in research, education and knowledge transfer," said Prasad Gogineni, director of CreSIS.
The research will focus mostly on data collection for the next five years.
One of the goals of the project is to understand the changes in
polar ice in relation to changes in sea level. Polar ice is shifting from sitting on land to sitting in the oceans.
In an attempt to understand this, faculty and students from several departments at the University to work together to develop technology, collect data and analyze results.
CreSIS is a collaborative project involving faculty and students from the aerospace engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, geography and geology departments.
Emily Arnold, a doctoral student from Hillsboro, helped build the Meridian as an undergraduate at the University. She said working on the vehicle helped give her an advantage above some of her colleagues.
"I got hands on experience with manufacturing, but also working with a material you don't generally study in-depth as an undergraduate," Arnold said.
Edited by Roshni Oommen
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
KU graduate student and research assistant Lei Shi, left, consults Electrical Engineering Professor Chris Allen, technical director of CReSIS, on radar settings during an October 2009 research flight.
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