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When a water supply is contaminated, people are usually ordered to boil their H2O. But if Dr. Curt Elmore’s emergency drinking water system proves reliable, people will be able to drink water that has been treated with ultraviolet energy. Elmore discusses the project on this month's TechnoFiles.
Jerrod Bourchard and his crew discuss their plans to break the collegiate human land speed record.
Listening to TechnoFiles, UMR's radio research program, has just gotten easier. In addition to the mp3 being in iTunes and available as a podcast, we're now happy to offer the program in a streaming format. This Friday, our guests on TechnoFiles will include Jerrod Bourchard and his crew. Tune into 88.5FM at 8:10 a.m. Friday to listen as they discuss Jerrod's plans to break the collegiate human land speed record.
UMR's chapter of Engineers Without Borders talks with TechnoFiles this month about their trips to Guatemala and Bolivia. Grab the mp3 here (25.1 MB).
Like what you hear? Go ahead and subscribe directly to TechnoFiles in iTunes, Yahoo or supply the following URL to your podcast receiver: www.mst.edu/podcast/sample.rss. Or browse the episode archive and listen online at Yahoo.
It's been a smidge more than a decade since I was in high school and had to answer all of the "what's next for you" questions. The daughter of a college science dean, I was certainly exposed to more biology than I ever cared to know. As a grade school student, I spent countless hours after school waiting in my dad's office and labs, where I saw students conduct experiments on animals and learn human anatomy by putting organs back inside life-sized mannequins. My parents, both trained as teachers, were always showing me how to do things -- from putting shingles on a roof to solving algebra equations.
Still, the thought of having to dissect frogs or other dead animals in a college biology class made me squemish. So, for me, the answer to what was next was any career path that kept me out of having to smell formaldehyde. With biology out of the question, I figured anything health-related was gone too. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed playing with my Apple IIE, but I never even considered the role computer science plays in the medical field.