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Hundreds of students gather to sing the alma mater Monday at Traditions Night at Memorial Stadium. This event is a way for freshman to learn the songs and chants associated with the university.
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Both wet labs and dry labs are located in the building meaning a variety of research and development can take place.
"Companies could be doing pharmaceutical research, bioengineering, biofuels, biochemicals and related information technology companies," Novak said. "It gives us that flexibility to go after a lot of different companies."
we had proper citations he had more trust in our writing. And so that credibility is really key to getting a good grade."
Authority all helped to fund the roughly $7.25 million project.
Glassman instead finds herself usually clicking the first option Google suggests.
Google Sage.
"I feel like I like to think I have a pretty good gauge of what seems reliable and what doesn't on the Internet," Glassman said.
The BTBC recently signed its first tenant, a software company called CritiTech. The company
That strategy is far from foolproof, Glassman recalled an assignment in high school where she used one source for a paper only to find another the day before it was due that refuted most of what she had found.
Similar scenarios occurred when Northwestern researchers conducted their study at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Students sat at computers with researchers and were asked to perform a series of tasks online.
develops software applications for government bodies to help create and track legislative bills and assist with other governmental functions digitally. CrittiTech will move into the BTBC Tech. 1.
One task was to search for AIDS testing in the city. Hargittai said that many students selected a clinic that charged for testing, one of the first search results, while several free options existed. Another task asked for students to find a section from Romeo and Juliet and found that, had they dug deep enough, the entire text could be found for free.
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
The School of Pharmacy, 2010 Becker Dr. moved its facility at the beginning of August as part of a major expansion within the school. Construction on the 110,000-square-foot building began in May 2009. The new building not only helps the School and the University, but also the shortage of pharmacists across the state.
"In some ways it's so easy to get content that people forget that to get the most relevant content in concentrations you still need to go a little deeper," Hargittai said.
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"With the expanding class sizes, we needed more teaching space, which is a premium on this campus," Audus said. "We think we've helped the main campus as well because we freed up some classrooms."
Ken Audus, dean of the School of Pharmacy, said one of the main reasons for the $45 million expansion was because when the school was located in Malott Hall, there wasn't much room for expansion.
When the school was in Malott Hall, classrooms could only accommodate 105 students. The new building allows for many more students. The incoming class for this year has 150 students, Audus said, and the additional space also allows students from other majors to take pharmacy classes if they're interested.
Thomas Whitson, second-year pharmacy student from Olathe, is looking forward to the new lab space. Previously, labs were small and split between two floors.
"Our students took priority, but now we can let other students who are interested in the pharmacy discipline take classes as well."
"It's like going from a closet to a banquet hall." Whitson said. "It's an amazing shift."
Classrooms in the new building are bigger, but are more technologically savvy, too. Larger classrooms have projection screens and microphones to allow students to ask questions without yelling, said Val Stella, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry.
Better technology will also allow Stella's lectures to be captured on video and beamed to various locations around the world. The school currently teaches an online master's program that uses video capture. Next year, classes will be beamed to classes at KU Medical Center in Wichita to allow students at that campus to benefit, too. But that won't be where the benefits stop.
"Wichita might as well be Bangalore, India or Shanghai, China," Stella said. "It will really allow us to go global with our education."
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CRIME
Flower-carting thief explains technique
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Edward Pemberton said his technique was self-taught and his targets were self-explanatory: "It's where the money is. That's all," he said in a handwritten statement Wednesday.
NEW YORK — The city's so-called Bouquet Bandit told police he used plants as props to deflect suspicion in a series of bank robberies spurred by drinking and drug use, newly released documents show.
Pemberton, 44, was arrested after a security camera photo of a flower-toting suspect at a Manhattan bank counter on July 15 generated front-page headlines in the city's tabloids. He has since been charged with three bank robberies and an attempted bank robbery; he has pleaded not guilty to all.
The bouquet, neatly bundled in pink tissue paper and plastic, concealed a note that demanded $50 and $100 bills, authorities said.
Pemberton said in his July 21 statement that hed picked up the flowers in a store on the way to the bank, a floral flourish he said hed used in at least two other bank capers going back to 2009.
In one, he swiped a potted plant off someone's stoop and carried it during a July 8 heist, according to his statement.
Though apparently unarmed, he presented a note that warned "I will shoot!" and was given about $1,900, according to court documents and his statement.
"I picked up the plant because if they would have seen me dirty and a male black like that, they would have gotten suspicious right away," Pemberton wrote.
Pemberton's statement recounts six heists and attempted robberies dating to April 2008. He has been charged in four; charges related to two incidents, in 2008 and 2009, were added Wednesday. Defense lawyer Justine Luongo noted Pemberton isn't charged with hurting anyone.
On the morning before the $440 bouquet heist in July, "it just hit me. I was going against the grain. I was drunk and a mess. I just did not want that life no more," he wrote.
My client is accused of handing a teller some flowers and politely asking for money," she said Wednesday.
Police have said he has a history of arrests on drug charges and other petty offenses. His statement portrays him as a former cocaine addict who started holding up banks to support his habit.
Pemberton is being held on $250,000 bail.
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