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AT UNIVERSE’S EDGE
A&M researchers help discover farthest known galaxy Wendy Davis
Because this galaxy is so far away, it took the light from this galaxy 13.1 billion years to get here.” — Casey Papovich, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at A&M and discovery collaborator
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Steve Finkelstein (from left), Vithal Tilvi and UT researcher Mimi Song work at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The team used Keck’s nextgeneration infrared instruments to confirm results on the galaxy originally taken by Hubble.
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he answer to how the cosmos formed lies at the edge of the universe, and astronomers at Texas A&M and the University of Texas, among other institutions, may have caught a glimpse of it. Texas A&M researchers and their colleagues announced Wednesday the discovery of the farthest — and youngest — galaxy known to mankind. At just 700 million years old, the galaxy gives astronomers an unprecedented look at the characteristics of the very young universe
and may begin to answer the question of how the Milky Way, and everything in it, took form. Time Travel If historians were suddenly given the ability to send a camera back in time 2,000 years to Ancient Rome, history as we know it would be revolutionized. This discovery, which astronomers modestly refer to as “z8_GND_5296,” See Galaxy on page 2
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A rendition of the 13.1 billion-year-old galaxy that would have glowed blue due to the intense heat of its early stars, but it is invisible to the naked eye due to “redshifting.”
Panel discusses US intervention Assistant professor for the Bush School, Joshua Shifrinson, speaks on the History of U.S. intervention and its effect on future policy.
ecent events such as the conflict in Syria have placed a global spotlight on the current U.S. policy on international intervention. The Bush School Community Dialogues Committee presented the “International Intervention and the U.S. Responsibility to Protect” dialogue Wednesday. The program featured three panelists who discussed the history and impact of foreign intervention. Joshua Shifrinson, Bush School assistant professor and panelist, said the U.S. is usu-
inside international | 5 Webcam in Afghanistan Students interact with a university in Afghanistan to promote tourism and break down the media portrayal of the country by sharing information about Afghan culture.
lifestyles | 3 Autumn brought by Pinterest Students use Pinterest for their fall decorations, food and parties.
cushing | 6 Award-winning research to be recognized Cushing Memorial Library to honor recipients of the Cushing-Glasscock Graduate Award, Thursday, in which the winners will present the award-winning research they conducted over the summer.
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ally involved with a large military operation every one to two years and elaborated on the reasons this occurred. “The U.S. doesn’t always intervene for one set purpose,” Shifrinson said. “The justifications of being involved include humanitarian goals or strategic purposes that hinge heavily on domestic politics.” Ashe Matocha, staff reporter For the full story, go online at thebatt.com
. Michael Ragan was named Wednesday as chief of the University Police Department. Ragan served with the UPD for 33 years and as interim chief since the retirement of the former chief Elmer Schneider six months ago Christopher Meyer, assistant vice president for safety and security, said Ragan is more than qualified for the position. “I’ve known and worked closely with Mike Ragan for several years and have witnessed firsthand his expertise, professionalism, integrity and firm commitment to ensuring the safety of our campus — its students, faculty, staff and visitors,” Meyer said. Ragan, Class of 1982, said he wants to
strive to make UPD a department that exemplifies excellence. “There is so much talent [in this department],” Ragan said. “We are trying to mirror what the University is, and the goal of the University is to be a Top-10 University. It’s the same in our profession. There are University police departments that strive for excellence and we need to have that same commitment to be the best of what we are.” Ragan said he is looking forward to being accessible to stuJ. Michael dents and encourages Ragan anyone to email or call his office if there is a need. “The reputation of this department is important to me and if I need to visit with someone and explain something or if I need to hear them out and say, ‘You have a good point and we need to change some things that we are doing,’ I want to be available,” Ragan said.
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Pro-life Aggies display symbolic cemetery Lauren Simcic
The Battalion iny crosses numbering 3,300 dotted the lawn Wednesday in front of the Academic Building. Pro-Life Aggies set up and supervised the outdoor display, the Cemetery of the Innocents, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The event was an extension of a nationwide pro-life demonstration by the same name. “The number 3,300 represents the 3,300 lives lost every day to abortion in the United States,” said Joseph Francis, junior history major and president of Pro-Life Aggies. “Our statistics are from the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood.” The organization shared information through silent protest and fliers, Francis said. Until this year, Pro-Life Aggies did not conduct the Cemetery of the Innocents and instead performed a procession called the Memorial for the Unborn, said Maria Arcibar, senior bioenvironmental sciences major and ProLife Aggies public relations officer.
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Pro-Life Aggies set up and supervised the outdoor display, the
See Cemetery on page 4 Cemetery of the Innocents, on Wednesday in Academic Plaza.
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Campus group promotes nuclear energy awareness, education A&M’s Women in Nuclear have engaged students throughout the week to raise nuclear energy awareness. As part of National Nuclear Science Week, the organization passed out lollipops with nuclear energy facts attached and will show the film “Powering America,” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 110 of the Civil Engineering Building. A panel of professors will respond to student questions in a Q-and-A session after the film. Lily Raabe, senior nuclear engineering major and social media chair for WIN, said the purpose of the lollipops and film
presentation is to bring attention to nuclear science. “We want to increase understanding and awareness of nuclear technology,” Raabe said. “Our hope is, through our outreach this week people would become curious about nuclear power and nuclear technology so that they can do research of their own and become more aware of it.” Raabe said she hopes people will understand that nuclear power and technology can be used in many positive ways. “Our goal this week was to make people think about their knowledge of nuclear technology and we want people to base their knowledge of nuclear power on facts instead of common misconceptions,” she said.
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“It’s one of the best options that we have ... [A]fter you extinguish all of your fossil [fuels] go ahead and you might as well use some nuclear.” Doug Maunder, senior electrical engineering major
“I think it is a good idea as far as energy goes but how the waste is removed needs to be changed.”
“It’s safe, it should be promoted. It’s not dangerous ... any time you have casualties [from accidents], it’s because of exterior causes that could have been prevented.”
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carries the same potential for astronomy, said Casey Papovich, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M and discovery collaborator. “Because this galaxy is so far away, it took the light from this galaxy 13.1 billion years to get here,” Papovich said. “So we see this galaxy not as it looks today, but as it looked when the light left it 13.1 billion years in the past.” Viewing such a galaxy, Papovich said, is seeing the universe as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang. That’s a view of the universe as it was just 5 percent into its lifetime. “The main goal of the research is to find the galaxies in the universe that had the very first stars that formed, and [to observe] how galaxies like ours formed and where they came from,” Papovich said. The newly discovered galaxy has already offered scientists some surprising answers about how the universe behaved only a few cosmic minutes into its lifetime. “This galaxy is forming stars at a very rapid rate,” Papovich said. “While our own galaxy is forming one sun’s worth of stars per year, this galaxy is forming 300 suns’ worth of stars per year. We’re seeing galaxies as they first come together.” The early galaxy would have been incredibly hot, and the stars that rapidly formed would shine a bright blue before burning themselves out and collapsing. A massive cloud of neutral hydrogen atoms that enveloped much of the early galaxy was also detected. With each new answer, however, comes more questions about the universe’s younger characteristics, said Aggie collaborator and post-doctoral student Vithal Tilvi. “What is interesting is, we found this one galaxy, but more interesting is that we did not find more galaxies,” Tilvi said. “We were expecting more.”
Finding the Invisible
While the newfound galaxy will be a research staple for years to come, finding it was a scientific achievement in itself. Complicating the search was the fact that the galaxy was estimated to be around 30 billion light years away and travel-
ing at very high speeds due to the expansion of the universe. “The estimate that we get is astonishingly fast,” Papovich said. “It’s about 97 percent the speed of light. It’s traveling at about 650 million miles per hour away from us.” The galaxy’s rapid speed complicated its detection through a phenomenon called “redshifting.” Light travels in waves and shares certain characteristics with sound waves. When something loud, like a train, travels past a listener, the sound waves bunch together in the front and elongate in the back to create the iconic high-pitched whine and low-pitched roar as it passes — this is the Doppler Effect. In the same way, as the galaxy speeds away from Earth, the light waves are elongated from the visible spectrum and into the infrared, giving rise to a redshift. Steven Finkelstein, assistant professor in the department of astronomy at the University of Texas and lead author on the galaxy’s findings, said astronomers first found evidence of the galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope. Results were later confirmed using the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, which recently received an upgrade that allows it to view infrared wavelengths in unparalleled detail. “We were looking for things that you don’t see at all in the visible light images from Hubble, but that you do see in the near infrared,” Finkelstein said. “That gives us a pretty good idea that they are really distant, and it gives us an estimate of their distance.”
Big Questions, Big Science
Both the contributors from Texas A&M and UT stressed that dozens of other researchers contributed to the discovery. The importance of the discovery extends beyond the reaches of astronomy to help mankind find its place in the universe, Papovich said. “To me it’s really to know our own origins from a very fundamental level,” Papovich said. “All the elements that are not hydrogen or helium were once fused in a now long-dead star. It’s interesting to see that some of the stars we are now looking at are making the carbon, the oxygen, the iron, the nitrogen, and as those stars die they will explode and send those elements back into the galaxy which will feed new stars, and new planets. Some of the elements in our own bodies may [have been] formed in exactly the stars that we are seeing.”
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Erin Hemlin of Young Invincibles gives a presentation Wednesday in the MSC.
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With the fall season, some students make Pinterest recipes such as these cinnamon chocolate cupcakes with Halloween bark and orange chocolate icing.
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pring may be a time for new beginnings, but there is something about the autumn season and transition into winter that students may find equally inspirational. Pinterest, a virtual bulletin board, has evolved into a go-to resource for people, including students, to plan and share ideas. The months of October, November and December are full of pinning novelty, as many users celebrate the changing of seasons and upcoming holidays. “Everyone was freaking out about fall,” said Alyssa Brady, freshman business major. “It was just like pages and pages of pins as soon as October hit.” Hannah Childs, freshman business major, said she thought it was interesting how social
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media platforms were able to stir reactions with just a recent change in the weather. “It just reminded me how social networking is using just like a hashtag to make people think ‘Oh, I want to wear sweaters,’” Childs said. “It was just one cold day of the week, like I heard that everywhere.” Bridgette Williams, junior economics major, said Pinterest allows people on Texas campuses, especially at A&M, to imagine an ideal fall and winter when they can’t experience distinguishable seasons in reality. She said the site can encourage students to dress for dropping temperatures even if the weather has yet to change. “It let’s us be excited about the season even if we’re not really feeling that in real life,” Williams said.
Baillie McKenzie, senior nutritional sciences major, said she feels like she pins more around particular seasons. With Halloween right around the corner, McKenzie said Pinterest can spark creative ideas and inspire people to construct rather than purchase a costume. McKenzie said last October she used an instructional pin to make her own parrot costume, complete with yellow leggings, a tutu, corset and handmade wings. “It was really simple, it was under $40 and it was fun to make and turned out really good,” McKenzie said. “This year I am going to be a minion from ‘Despicable Me’ with my friends and we’ll get it off of [Pinterest.]” People may be thinking of gift ideas for upcoming holi-
days, which Childs said could explain the increase in Pinterest activity throughout the fall and winter. “I think people are wanting to make things, like pictures or different ways of wrapping [presents] or baking,” Childs said. “Most of it is like DIY projects that look professional. You’re just not spending as much money.” Brady, Childs and friends have group boards where they pin recipes during the week to cook together on the weekends. “It’s fun because you get to cook with everyone and everyone is chatting, and then you get to eat the food that you make,” Brady said.
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n an effort to reach out to students about health care options, Aggie Pro-choice contacted Young Invincibles — a nonprofit, nonpartisan group based in Washington D.C. — to hold an informational presentation about the Affordable Care Act Wednesday on campus. The presentation provided students with information on the benefits and health care options of the ACA, also known as ‘Obamacare,’ they may have previously been unaware of. “There’s a lot of miseducation [about the ACA] out there, so [the Young Invincibles] just want young people to know what their options are,” said Erin Hemlin, national organizing and programs manager of Young Invincibles. “If people don’t have health care coverage, we’re here to give them information about where to go, how to find out if they are eligible and how to enroll.” In her presentation, Hemlin said the ACA health care reform has been a controversial subject since its passage in 2010. She said, however, it increased the coverage in many health insurance plans. Samantha Latta, city reporter For the full story, visit thebatt.com
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Sophomore cocaptain Jordan Jones gathers the ball for a move to the basket against Vince Rodriguez of the practice squad.
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he Texas A&M women’s basketball team unofficially tipped off its 2013 season Wednesday night at Reed Arena with the annual Maroon & White Scrimmage as the starters squared off against the second team and the men’s practice unit. Head coach Gary Blair said he saw development from his starters throughout the game. “I think the kids were a little nervous early because the other team knows exactly what we’re running,” Blair said. “They were in the passing lanes and we just have to do a better job of executing because the teams we play this year, they know what we run.” Behind Jordan Jones, sophomore co-captain and starting point guard, who scored a teambest 15 points in the Maroon’s 76-56 win over the White, the offense has evolved into a more fast-paced system, built on distribution and screens to create open space in the half-court model. Jones said her role in the new system was exciting as it gives her
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Francis said during the Memorial for the Unborn, prolife activists carried an infantsized casket in a loop around central campus to the tune of bagpipes. Francis became involved in Pro-Life Aggies by serving as
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an opportunity to showcase her abilities while also finding teammates with ease. “I feel like we have a lot of players who are more get up and go,” Jones said. “Our offensive ability is very capable of scoring in half court and full court, so our conditioning level is pretty high this year compared to last year and with the team we have we’ll be able to be pretty effective.” In the post, senior co-captain Karla Gilbert has taken over the void left by Kelsey Bone, who was drafted fifth overall in the WNBA Draft by the New York Liberty after she chose to forego her senior season. Gilbert, the sole captain over the summer before being joined by Jones and senior guard Kristen Grant just before Wednesday’s scrimmage, said she has high expectations for the season and looks forward to the upcoming challenges. “I feel like we definitely have a lot of potential going on,” Gilbert said. “We have a lot of team chemistry and I’m really excited for the season. I’m eager to go ahead and get the season started. We’ve been working hard since summertime and I think we’ll be really good and have a lot of high expectations.”
the bagpipe player for one of the processions. Pro-Life Aggies chose to replace the Memorial for the Unborn with the Cemetery of the Innocents in hopes of prompting a more prolonged impact, Francis said. While Pro-Life Aggies conducted the Memorial for the Unborn only two passing periods per semester, the Cemetery of the Innocents was visible for 12 hours. The Cemetery of the Innocents carries a more palatable message, he said. “It’s more positive and profound and less in-yourface,” Francis said. Senior industrial distribution major Stephanie Garcia said the size of the display contributed to the message. “[Pro-Life Aggies] made a bigger impact by demonstrating the number,” Garcia said. “When you see 3,300 crosses spread out like that, you’re like, ‘Whoa, is it really that many?’” Pro-Life Aggies is not affiliated with any religion or political group and the crosses are intended to symbolize graves, not Christianity, Arcibar said. Passersby showed varied reactions to the demonstration. “I love this,” said Natalie Prybyla, freshman international studies major. “It’s very touching because of the little white crosses. I’m glad I saw this.” Marina MacCabe, junior communication major, said the project makes her more aware of human lives lost. Kyrsten Bunck, senior political science and psychology double major, said the cem-
We have a lot of team chemistry and I’m really excited for the season.” — Karla Gilbert, co-captain and senior center
etery did not change her prochoice views. She said life begins when a fetus can live apart from the mother without excessive medical intervention. “They’re not children yet,” she said. After seeing the display, Garcia said her opinions regarding abortion were still not firmly set. “I am not sure,” Garcia said. “I feel that each woman should have a choice but I also feel that women should face the consequences of their decisions.” Garcia said her mother experienced an unplanned pregnancy in high school. “I recognize that if she hadn’t chosen to have me, I wouldn’t be here,” she said. “But my mother still had a choice.” Francis said Pro-Life Aggies’ work extends beyond the cemetery display, citing the $1,000 Pregnant and Parenting Student Scholarship awarded to a pregnant or parenting undergraduate student at Texas A&M or Blinn. Funds for the scholarship come directly from Pro-Life Aggies’ fundraising efforts, Francis said. “I think the scholarship shows that we don’t just care about the baby, or we don’t only care about the baby until it leaves the womb,” he said. “The mother matters just as much and we support them both equally.” The white crosses are a loan from Houston Baptist University, where HBU students recently conducted their own Cemetery of the Innocents.
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o break through the media-fueled perceptions of Afghanistan, 125 Texas A&M students took part in a project to speak with students from Afghanistan’s Herat University.
With live-video conference calls Monday and Wednesday, the primary goal of the international project is to stimulate tourism in Afghanistan and to break down barriers and constraints against traveling there, said Angela Durko, the recreation, park and tourism sciences professor who teaches the class participating in the conference calls. Durko said most of her students had little or no concept of the cultural aspects of Afghanistan aside from what they have seen in the media prior to the conference calls. Abbey Wedgman, junior RPTS major, said before the project the students were given a survey to see how much they knew about the culture in Afghanistan. “It turns out a lot of the students, including myself, knew nothing about Afghanistan,” Wedgman said. “All we
knew is what the American media has put up — primarily war and desert. It’s like we’re supposed to hate Afghanistan.” Wedgman said she gained a new perspective of gender roles from the conference call. “This project gives me an appreciation of being a woman in America,” Wedgman said. “Over there, women are strictly for working in the house. They don’t work outside and they don’t have much freedom so it really makes me appreciate the University I go to.” Further elaborating on her newfound differences between women at Texas A&M and women at Herat University, Wedgman said she found that women cannot be on the campus in Herat past 5:30 p.m. However, for all the differences Wedgman noticed, she said she also noticed similarities. “In the U.S. we usually see Middle Eastern women with headwraps and stuff, but the women there wear full traditional Middle Eastern at-
tire,” Wedgman said. Morgan Gipson, junior RPTS major, said the project has succeeded in changing her perspective on Afghanistan. “Having an opportunity to sit down and talk to them one-on-one has opened my eyes to see that they are people just like us and live similar lives to us,” Gipson said. “All I imagine is army tanks and dirt roads, but that’s not it at all. It turns out they’re just like us.” Durko said students were able to talk for an hour and ask any questions related to education and life. Durko said once finished with the calls, the students will do a project on what they learned from the interaction and how it changed their perspective. “At the end of it all, we will put all our information together and present a project,” Wedgman said. “Professor Durko is even trying to work it out with the professor [at Herat University] so that we can send our project to the
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students there so that they can see it and decide how accurate the information is.” Gipson said the project marks an attempt to bridge a gap, which could lead to further connections. “We’re really trying to bridge the gap between Afghanistan and the United States and expand the knowledge of students at A&M and Herat about our different lifestyles,” Gipson said. “I think both universities can benefit from this project by learning what it’s like in both places. It could even result in potential future studies there, be it study abroad or internships overseas.”
My group of nine attended the Auburn vs. Texas A&M game this past weekend. All but one was either an AU grad, about to graduate or attend AU. The one remaining was a Texas A&M graduate. We arrived in College Station around 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning from Houston. I just wanted to express my thoughts to the Aggieland nation. I have never felt more welcomed on any visitor campus in my life. Aggie fans went out of their way to say [“Howdy”] or “Welcome to Aggieland” before and after the game. You can never appreciate the traditions, unless you attend a Texas A&M game. We were proud of your cadets and what they mean to Texas A&M and our country. Your student body was terrific! I have been telling my friends and family, if you want to see college football at its best, you need to attend a game in Aggieland. We too are proud of our traditions on the Plains of Auburn and look forward to many great games with Texas A&M.
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2013 Aggieland yearbooks are here. If you did not order the 2013 Texas A&M university yearbook (the 2012-2013 school year), a limited number are available at the Student Media office, Suite L400 of the MSC. Hours: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Monday–friday. $85 plus tax. Cash, check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, accepted. If you pre-ordered a 2013 Aggieland, it has been mailed to your billing address.
hile some students used their summer for travels, two A&M graduate students spent their summer exploring archives and making striking discoveries without ever having to set foot off the campus. The Cushing Memorial Library will host a ceremony Thursday to recognize Bradley Cesario and Laura Perrings, winners of the Cushing-Glasscock Graduate Award. The students will have an opportunity to present on their research completed over the summer with the use of the Cushing collections. Bradley Cesario is a history graduate student and one of the award recipients. His project examined the relationship between the British Royal Navy and journalists from 1880 to 1914. Cesario said the Royal Navy originally controlled the press they received, but that this control evolved into something unmanageable and ultimately destructive. “As you get closer to WWI, the naval folks lose control of their own creation,” Cesario said. “Journalists create things that are more and more radical and fear mongering, leading to some of the negative effects of the First World War.” Laura Perrings, English graduate student and award recipient, spent the summer on her project, “Detectives in Context: Victorian Sleuths, the Supernatural, and Textual Materiality.” Her research analyzes elements of Victorian detective stories and includes an online database to allow public access to her research material. Perrings’ research focused partly on the supernatural aspects found in Victorian detective novels, which she said sparked her interest in the genre. “I’ve always been a fan of detective fiction and the Victorian era was when it all began,” Perrings said. “I had fallen in love with these stories and found it curious that in an era where there was so much emphasis on scientific advancement, there were so many stories that included prophetic dreams that revealed clues to the detective that he might not normally have or clairvoyant trances that gave him information.” Cesario relied heavily on materials found in Cushing Library’s Reagan Military History Collection and Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection. He said the ability
We admire our award winners and we are very grateful to them for joining us and for their ideas and their work. They bring our rare books, manuscripts, art works and historical artifacts to life.” — David Chroust, cataloging and Slavic resources librarian at Cushing Memorial Library
to access both collections in one location proved greatly beneficial to his research. “The reason I even applied for the fellowship in the first place was because Cushing has the Reagan Military History Library and the science fiction library, which was really helpful,” Cesario said. “There’s not a lot of libraries in the country that have both.” Cesario said he had been interested in military history since he was young, and that receiving an award to support his work and passion was a great honor. Perrings said she is grateful for the award as it allowed her access to valuable information that she couldn’t have seen otherwise. “It was wonderful,” Perring said. “The people at Cushing have been very supportive. It’s been great being able to further the research for my dissertation. It [has] been a rewarding experience to be able to dive in and have access to things I wouldn’t normally have access to, and be able to get an award for that.” The Cushing-Glasscock Award was established in 2001 to support graduate students in the humanities. Two to three students each year receive the $2,000 award to assist them with research that requires use of the collections in Cushing Library. “We admire our award winners and we are very grateful to them for joining us and for their ideas and their work,” said David Chroust, cataloging and Slavic resources librarian at Cushing Memorial Library. “They bring our rare books, manuscripts, art works and historical artifacts to life.”
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10.28-10.31 NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Promotion takes place between September 23, 2013 - November 15, 2013. For a complete list of dates and locations, go to https://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileUSA. Open only to legal U.S. residents who are 18 years of age or older and are currently enrolled as a student at a participating Campus. See Official Rules on display at Samsung Galaxy Experience on-campus events or at http://galaxystudio.creativezing.com/ for additional eligibility restrictions, prize descriptions/ARV’s and complete details. Void where prohibited. Samsung Galaxy Experience is not endorsed by the University and the University is not responsible for the administration and execution of the Promotion or Prizes. © 2013 Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC. Samsung and Samsung Galaxy are registered trademarks of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
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