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The Brown and White Vol. 134 No. 23 Friday, May 4, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ $1 MILLION ON THE LINE Team Soterra advances to final round of XPRIZE By EMMA SATIN Assistant News Editor By EMILY SEGAL B&W Staff Lehigh extended its global reach last week as members of Soterra, a team of undergraduate engineers, traveled to Mumbai, India, and returned as one of five remaining teams in the Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE competi-tion. First prize is $1 million. According to the XPRIZE web-site, the goal of the of the compe-tition — which is open to all ages, genders and fields of study — is to “challenge teams to leverage tech-nology to empower communities with a transformative solution that ensures women’s safety.” Designs are required to silently trigger an emergency alert with-in 90 seconds and must cost less than $40 to manufacture. They are meant to connect at-risk women — predominantly in developing nations — to emergency services as quickly and discreetly as possible. Lena McDonnell, ’18, the team president of Soterra, said that since most users of the device will not have smartphone access, team members decided a dynamic mesh network was the only way to make Julia Pietruszka, ’20, knew she wanted to join the Beekeeping Club before she arrived at Lehigh. Her grandfather was a beekeep-er and served as her source of inspiration. Pietruszka signed up at the club fair at the beginning of her freshman year and now serves as its president. She said each year she looks forward to re-opening the hives Danielle Bettermann/B&W Staff In this November 2016 file photo, the former Beekeeping Club president Sabrina Fineberg, ’19, pulls a frame out of a beehive. The Beekeeping Club ordered around 10,000 bees to replace three hives that had died. after a long winter. But when the club opened its three hives on Mountaintop when the tempera-ture reached about 60 degrees this year, members discovered all their bees had died. “It was a massacre,” said club secretary Jason Taitz, ’20. “It was just dead bees everywhere. We went to check on them for the first time after break…It was so sad.” The beehives are located on a cleared, grassy space on Mountaintop campus. Members tend to the bees during the start of the fall semes-ter and the second half of spring semester. In the winter, honeybees clus-ter together in their hive to keep their queen bee warm. The queen bee is kept in the center of the cluster while the other bees move around to create warmth. The exact cause of the bees’ death is unknown. Andrew Januszak, a senior computing consultant at Lehigh and the adviser of the beekeeping club, suspected harsh winds and cold conditions played a large role. See BEEKEEPING Page 2 Photo courtesy of Brooke Glassman From left, Emily Randolph, ’19, Lena McDonnell, ’18, Brooke Glassman, ’19, Philanthropist Anu Jain, Cameron Cipriano, ’21, Michael Wu, ’20, and Matthew Ciolino, ’18, pose for a photo at Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE competition. They are members of team Soterra, which was the only team composed of undergraduate students. See SOTERRA Page 3 ‘It was a massacre’: Beekeeping Club loses hives
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 134 no. 23 |
Date | 2018-05-04 |
Month | 05 |
Day | 04 |
Year | 2018 |
Volume | 134 |
Issue | 23 |
Type | Newspaper |
Source Repository | Lehigh University |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Lehigh, South Bethlehem |
LCCN | 7019854 |
Source Repository Code | LYU |
Digital Responsible Institution | Lehigh University |
Digital Responsible Institution Code | LYU |
Issue/Edition Pattern | Semiweekly |
Title Essay | Published twice a week during the college year by the students of Lehigh University |
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Date | 2018-05-04 |
FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 134 No. 23 Friday, May 4, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ $1 MILLION ON THE LINE Team Soterra advances to final round of XPRIZE By EMMA SATIN Assistant News Editor By EMILY SEGAL B&W Staff Lehigh extended its global reach last week as members of Soterra, a team of undergraduate engineers, traveled to Mumbai, India, and returned as one of five remaining teams in the Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE competi-tion. First prize is $1 million. According to the XPRIZE web-site, the goal of the of the compe-tition — which is open to all ages, genders and fields of study — is to “challenge teams to leverage tech-nology to empower communities with a transformative solution that ensures women’s safety.” Designs are required to silently trigger an emergency alert with-in 90 seconds and must cost less than $40 to manufacture. They are meant to connect at-risk women — predominantly in developing nations — to emergency services as quickly and discreetly as possible. Lena McDonnell, ’18, the team president of Soterra, said that since most users of the device will not have smartphone access, team members decided a dynamic mesh network was the only way to make Julia Pietruszka, ’20, knew she wanted to join the Beekeeping Club before she arrived at Lehigh. Her grandfather was a beekeep-er and served as her source of inspiration. Pietruszka signed up at the club fair at the beginning of her freshman year and now serves as its president. She said each year she looks forward to re-opening the hives Danielle Bettermann/B&W Staff In this November 2016 file photo, the former Beekeeping Club president Sabrina Fineberg, ’19, pulls a frame out of a beehive. The Beekeeping Club ordered around 10,000 bees to replace three hives that had died. after a long winter. But when the club opened its three hives on Mountaintop when the tempera-ture reached about 60 degrees this year, members discovered all their bees had died. “It was a massacre,” said club secretary Jason Taitz, ’20. “It was just dead bees everywhere. We went to check on them for the first time after break…It was so sad.” The beehives are located on a cleared, grassy space on Mountaintop campus. Members tend to the bees during the start of the fall semes-ter and the second half of spring semester. In the winter, honeybees clus-ter together in their hive to keep their queen bee warm. The queen bee is kept in the center of the cluster while the other bees move around to create warmth. The exact cause of the bees’ death is unknown. Andrew Januszak, a senior computing consultant at Lehigh and the adviser of the beekeeping club, suspected harsh winds and cold conditions played a large role. See BEEKEEPING Page 2 Photo courtesy of Brooke Glassman From left, Emily Randolph, ’19, Lena McDonnell, ’18, Brooke Glassman, ’19, Philanthropist Anu Jain, Cameron Cipriano, ’21, Michael Wu, ’20, and Matthew Ciolino, ’18, pose for a photo at Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE competition. They are members of team Soterra, which was the only team composed of undergraduate students. See SOTERRA Page 3 ‘It was a massacre’: Beekeeping Club loses hives |
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