NEWS & NOTES
LETU Engineers Win 1st Place in Disaster Shelter Competition
LETU Sophomore Bound for Summer Medical Internship
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or the second consecutive year, LETU engineering students designed and built a rapidly deployable emergency disaster shelter, called “SafeHome,” that won 1st place in the 8th Annual Disaster Shelter Design Competition sponsored by Samaritan’s Purse International.
ETU sophomore biology major Benjamin Tebbe-Trujillo is headed to medical school this summer with his first internship after his recent acceptance into the Texas Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP). The program guarantees him acceptance into one of the nine medical schools in Texas once he completes his undergraduate degree at LETU. Tebbe-Trujillo grew up in South America where he saw great need in healthcare overseas, which encouraged him to pursue a career as a medical doctor.
LETU Chemistry Professor Awarded Fellowship in Technical Engagement
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ETU chemistry professor and patent agent Dr. Gary DeBoer will work in the technical engagement office of the U.S. Air Force Research Lab for the summer of 2019 on a summer faculty fellowship grant. He will work in intellectual property and technology transfer with scientists to identify their patentable research.
LETU Presents Spring Masterworks Concert April 15
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90-voice mass choir, full orchestra and soloists under the direction of LETU Director of Fine Arts Dr. Jim Taylor were featured during the free Spring Masterworks Concert April 15 in the Belcher Center. The evening included Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, and Pergolesi’s Magnificat, as well as the premiere performance of Taylor’s Cambridge Songs Suite No. 2, a 17-minute suite for choir, orchestra and soloists. Taylor’s composition is one that LETU choir members will present as part of a 125-voice choir and orchestra on June 10 at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Taylor’s original composition is based on an 11th century manuscript housed at Cambridge University for two centuries, which is said to be the most important collection of Latin poetry between Charlemagne and Carmina Burana.
SPRING 2019
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