The Lapeer Area View recently wrote a story about the Kettering hockey team’s decision to play home games next season at the Polar Palace in Lapeer:
“We’re just very excited that they have chosen to have the Polar Palace as their home ice, and we look forward to some exciting hockey games,” said Janet Mann, the general manager of the Polar Palace Arena Complex. “Everyone should come watch some exciting hockey.”
Kettering University’s Dr. Corneliu Rablau, associate professor of Physics, became the chair-elect of the Ohio-Region Section of the American Physical Society (OSAPS) during the spring meeting at Ohio State University in Columbus, April 13-14.
$1,000 scholarships will be awarded to the winners of Cyber Challenge 2012 – a national, virtual “Capture the Flag” Competition in cyber security. Deadline to register is June 5.
Kettering students, faculty and staff are probably familiar with the Innovation Quest challenges, led by Dr. Doug Melton, that occur in the Great Court. Well, recently, some local middle school students got to experience those activities. From the Flint Journal:
What seemed like fun and games for the youngsters was also the beginning of a new partnership between the university and a local after school program aiming at introduce students to math, science and engineering at one of the country’s top colleges for those fields.
“We really just want them to get excited about science and math,” said James Yake, the Genesee Intermediate School District’s coordinator of student programs for expanded learning.
Yake brought the roughly 30 Atheron Middle School students to Kettering to work on the spaghetti towers and talk with Doug Melton, a Kettering professor who helped set up the program.
The program is modeled around Kettering’s Innovation Quest. In Innovation Quest, small groups of Kettering students collaborate on engineering challenges, from the same spaghetti and marshmallow challenge to building a ping pong ball launcher.
“These challenges, most of them translate pretty well from the college level (to the younger kids),” Melton said.
ABC 12 also did a video report of the experience.
Professor Joanne B. Ciulla with Al Sobey
Kettering University prides itself on producing graduates who possess both technical excellence and moral excellence. Joanne B. Ciulla, Professor and Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, discussed the topic of ‘moral excellence’ and how it relates to leadership in today’s Albert Sobey Lecture on Leadership and Ethics.
Ciulla’s lecture, ‘The Ethical Challenges of Leadership,’ used several examples of ethical dilemmas in leadership, from ancient times to the present.
“The moral obligation of leaders is the same today as it was in the ancient world,” she said.
Ciulla has taught business ethics and leadership in the Netherlands, South Africa and Jordan as well as at Harvard University, the Wharton School, Oxford University and Boston University. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles and papers, she is the author and editor of several books, including: The Ethics of
Leadership, Leadership and the Humanities and The Working Life: The
Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work. Kettering’s LS 489 class is currently using one of her books this term.
Blake Thorne of the Flint Journal did a feature story on a group of Kettering students who are working on launching a new website to generate and share content. From the story:
Here’s how sharing interesting things on the Internet usually works.
Jump on a social network like Twitter or Facebook, copy and paste the link to the video, picture, music or whatever it is you’re sharing. Then there it is, for all the world, or all your friends, to see.
For about eight seconds.
Then, it’s swallowed up under a sea of other content. Kicked off to the far corners of cyber space.
And if people do see your message in time, they’re often taken to another site to view and comment on the content. Because it’s the Internet, this other site probably means a whole new world of distractions pushing and pulling for the viewer’s attention. By now, they’ve probably forgotten how they got there in the first place.
A group of three Kettering University students has launched a new web site they believe can fix all this.
They’re calling it Lava.
The students are Billy Lindeman, of Stering Heights, Kettering graduate Mike Kochis, of Grand Blanc, and Kettering senior Eric Barch of Clarkston.
Trish Stommel and ME student Ian Milne
Kettering’s admissions booth on Scholarship Row was again the “most popular” among the universities recruiting students at FIRST World Games last week. And it was a great place for Trish Stommel to greet ME student Ian Milne, mentor to Team 1504.
Starting in April and continuing in May, the city of Flint is planting more than 1,000 trees at the Chevy in the Hole brownfield in an effort to remove contaminants from the ground at the former manufacturing site. NBC 25 has a story:
The trees will hope to remove contaminatnts by absorbing them from the ground and converting them into neutral entities.
Flint is using a $375,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund the project.
Rebecca Fedewa, executive director of the Flint Watershed Coalition, told MLive last year that “it’s an exciting prospect for the city and for the river and it will make the site a more welcoming place to go.”
Phyllis Denae Green
Phyllis Denae Green has been chosen as a State Finalist in the National American Miss Michigan Pageant July 28-30 at the Hyatt Regency, Dearborn, Mich.
The National American Miss Pageants are held for girls ages 4-18 and have five different age divisions. Phyllis will be participating in the 18 year age division.
Phyllis is a sophomore at Kettering University also a member of National Society of Black Engineers. Phyllis enjoys swimming, art and mentoring. She aspires to be a model. She also enjoys meeting new people.
Betsy Homsher, VP for Student Life and Dean of Students
Betsy Homsher, VP for Student Life and Dean of Students, has been appointed to the editorial board of the award-winning Society of Women Engineers Magazine. Her duties include writing, reviewing manuscripts and selecting articles for publication.
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