In the News, February 2013

Engineers from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and White Sands Missile Range Navy (New Mexico) partnered with middle school students to allow for tests to be run on a recent test rocket launch. NASA systems manager Giovanni Rosanova, DC B ’96, loaned the students “an environmental data recorder that was attached to the rocket, measuring data that included pressure, acceleration and temperature while in flight.”

The students also got to visit the launch site a week prior to the launch. “They really see what they’re learning is worth something and it really can be used to benefit,” Rosanova said. Read the article for more

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The Huffington Post reported on an experiment in Biocryptology at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Two shops at the university have a machine that allows students to type in their birthday and then swipe their finger to make a purchase. This is one of the first experiments of such technology, that also detects a pulse in the finger, in the world.

Click here to read the full article for information on the technology and how it is being tested

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Kathy L. Lundborg, MT B ’93, was recently profiled for her career path and for opening a new hypnotherapy practice in Butte, Montana. Lundborg has spent the past seven years as a water manager in Utah and has a degree in environmental engineering from Montana Tech University.

She spent the previous winter in a 10-week program becoming a hypnotherapist. Her office of Advanced Hypnotherapy of Montana opened in January. Read more about her career path and current business here

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