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WwCUs signs partnership a agreement with Brazil-based renewable ne cd pally From Staff Reports A Brazil-based renewable energy corporation is locating the headquarters of its U.S. operations at Western Caro-. lina University to take advan- tage of faculty resources and laboratory space in develop- ing new technology to help bring the worlds first green Olympics to Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Representatives of West. ern Carolina and Vale Energy Solutions (Vale Solucdes em Energia, or VSE) signed doc- uments Monday, Oct. 11, for- malizing the public-private partnership agreement. WCU Chancellor John W. Bardo called the agreement a true win-win scenario for the university and the com- pany. VSE will benefit from our faculty expertise and other resources. WCU faculty will benefit from having access to new high-tech equipment, and WCU students will bene- fit from hands-on educational experiences, internships and international exchange op- portunities in Brazil, Bardo said. The region and the envi- ronment also could be big winners because of the part- nership, he said. Tf the project works like we think it will, we may be able to build a manufactur- ing facility to make these new turbines, which could mean as many as 300 new jobs. We hope those jobs will be here - in Western North Carolina, Bardo said. This could re- sult in a new way to generate _ power that is not reliant upon M School, said after the signing petroleum, which will be bet- 7 FILE PHOTO nee Stetson, inventor of equipment purchased by VSE and recently installed in Western Carolina University s Kimmel School, Soe how the tech- nology can. be used to measure stress in turbine ee en ter for our environment. The new relationship is designed to enable VSE and its U.S. subsidiary, TAO Sus- tainable Power Solutions, to work with faculty and staff in WCUs Kimmel School.to engineer a new turbine power system that runs on renew- able energy sources. TAO will occupy offices located on the second floor of WCUs Center for Applied Technol- ogy building. VSE is interested in de- veloping this technology be- cause Brazil does not have a Jotofpe euplenmage an, dean ceremony. What Brazil does have a lot of is sugar cane, which can be fermented and used to create ethanol, The company turned to us for the expertise to make it happen. The agreements call for the company to bring to WCU several pieces of high- tech equipment necessary to create two. state-of-the-art aerospace engineering labs, including devices to analyze the strength and vibration of turbine blades and to test their stress and thermal character- istics, McMahan said. turbines, SE and TAO, said the asteement represents a the first step in a long- term partnership. This is a great honor for me and for VSE to be here to sign and to celebrate our technological collaboration agreement for the development of advanced Pessoa said. Im certain that this is the start- ing point of a long-range and very fruitful collaboration between VSE and Western Carolina University. Among possible projects in the future is a potential game-changer, another _ mew form of turbine that would. produce, not, only non- polluting energy but also fresh, drinkable water from such sources as salt water, brackish water and industrial effluent, he said, calling the project a game-changer. Steve Warren, chairman of the WCU Board of Trust- ees, called the partnership a celebration of a different way of thinking about how a modern-day university has embraced a new form of scholarship that enables students and faculty to apply their scholarly work in ways that can help the sur- rounding region. university educates its students, as the extraordinary chancellor, we celebrate a new way forward that provides an opportunity to increase the depth of the education of our students and provide jobs for the people of this region, Warren said. (Poet) Edwin Markham once wrote that decisions are the hinges of destiny. Upon this decision ~ the decision to combine a new approach to education with a company whose charge it is to develop environmentally _ responsi- ble energy technologies a brighter destiny awaits us, as we continue to find our new With the courage and am-: bition of VSE, combined with the path-finding vision of an way forward, he said. VSE discovered the ca- pabilities available at WCU in its Center for Rapid Prod- uct Realization through an engineering consultant who lives in nearby Franklin and whese son is a student at Western Carolina. Known as the Rapid Center, the facility focuses on education and ap- plied research in core areas of product development, rapid prototyping, laser machining, re-engineering and paramet- ric modeling. The engagement arm of the Kimmel School, the Rapid Center provides technical as- sistance to companies, orga- nizations and entrepreneurs. Over the past five years, it has worked with more than 250 -businesses across the South- east on projects ranging from a new form of artificial poplar siding for houses to a device to help patients with rehabili- tation from knee surgery, and from packaging for a Christ- mas tree ornament manufac- turing company to tiny fibe electronic connectors. ee WCU professor nets $397K to evaluate newly emerging methods of DNA analysis From Staff Reports Mark Wilson, director of the forensic science pro- gram at Western Carolina University, recently received an award from the National Institute of Justice in the amount of $397,098 to eval- uate emerging methods of DNA sequence analysis. Using deep sequenc- ing information from hair, mouth and blood samples, WCUs research will attempt to reveal whether the foren- sic DNA typing field might benefit in making interpre- tational changes in some as- pects of DNA analysis. Deep sequencing is a method to find minor variations within a DNA sequence that are present as a small percentage of the whole. This research may have an impact on the number of interpretations that are in- conclusive, Wilson said. In other words, if may result in Mark Wilson, director of the forensic science program at Western Carolina University, will conduct research to evaluate emerging methods of DNA sequence analysis. more definitive conclusions, although this remains to be seen. The research also might show the extent. to which deep sequencing can offer insight into DNA variations, which is important, Wilson said, because using the latest. technologies should strength- en forensic conclusions. Finally, the research might reveal the general level of sequence heteroplasmy (the presence of more than a single DNA type within a persons body) in hair sam- ples as compared with blood and mouth samples, all com- mon targets of some kinds of forensic DNA analysis. Wilson was inspired to ap- | ply for the grant by a solici- | tation for research proposals | in DNA analysis from the National Institute of Justice, an agency within the Depart- ment of Justice. Recent research suggests | ' that more work needs to be done in this area, Wilson said. Using deep sequencing techniques, some researchers | have found-as expected additional levels of variation, and they. made suggestions that this variation could im- pact forensic casework. Research is scheduled to | ] i | 4 4 H begin Noy. | and continue for | two years, with Wilson; Brit- | tania Bintz, a research scien- | i tist with the WCU forensic | and two | science program; graduate assistants working | on the project. _ N.C, puts a stop to _ end-of-grade testing _ requirements | Continued from front removed, a students teacher and principal will now have more say in wheth- er a student should progress to the next grade level or pass a class instead of relying on an end-of-grade or end-of-- course test. Kristy Kaylor, an English and history teacher for the Jackson County Pub- lic School system, thinks thats the way it should be. Not requiring a student to pass the standardized tests at the end of the year is won- | derful, if he or She has passed _- other work and tests through- out the year, that should be enough, Kaylor said. There are a lot of reasons behind why a student does not pass an end of grade or end of course test, from nerves to not getting enough sleep the 4 night before. { Smoky Mountain Shrine Club of Franklin Yam umtil? Smoky Mcwumrtain Shrine

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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