Month: October 2013

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Engineer seniors to build lunabot, 3-D printer

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Autonomous robots and 3-D printers are everyday items for these senior engineering students. The engineering program is one of the largest and oldest traditional undergraduate programs that John Brown University offers, providing students opportunities to work with projects from NASA, the Institute of Affordable Transportation, National Institute for the Severely […]

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Education department sends students back to school

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Twent years ago, John Brown University’s education department began a partnership with the Siloam Springs School District, a partnership that Grace Davis has watched change over time. Davis said the partners’ most recent change is a transition to embedded field experience, in which a faculty member and their class go […]

Lifestyles

Scribes of Hope

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“To give us hope in the face of life’s many challenges, we catch the miracle of God’s spirit to regenerate his people from dead-end living.” These words describe a painting by artist Timothy Botts. Botts, a calligraphy artist, created a traveling gallery for the group Christians in Visual Arts. On […]

Lifestyles

Patience, the operetta is coming

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How much should outward appearance matter in love? This is a question that John Brown University students will seek to answer in their performance of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s satirical operetta “Patience,” showing Nov. 8-10 and 15-16. The University’s music theater workshop invites you to peer into a different […]

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Race card project spurs discussion

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Students, faculty and administrators at John Brown University have spent weeks thinking about how to have productive conversations about race. It started with six words. “’Imago Dei’ applies to all colors,” Abby Chestnut wrote. This Monday marked the end of the Race Card Project, an international movement to start conversations […]

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Faith and Halloween spawn differing perspectives

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Christians have different perspectives on whether to celebrate Halloween. Between children trick or treating for candy and people dressing up as ghosts, monsters and skeletons, the question is raised whether Halloween promotes good or evil. “I don’t have anything against it,” said Amber Moore, a junior. “But I don’t enjoy […]

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Debaters Triumph at Golden Eagles Invitational

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Four competitors from the JBU Forensics Team earned the crown as co-champions of Parliamentary Debate at the Golden Eagle Invitational held last weekend. The pairing of Justin Burchfiel and Walker Martin “closed out” the final round of the tournament with their squadmates Michael Burchfiel and Brad Johnson. To net the […]