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Orientation overtakes campus

Orientation week is in full swing across campus with more than 4,000 first-year students participating in spirit-building activities. The fun continues Friday with the annual Sidewalk Sale, the surprise concert in the Miller Hall parking lot and numerous faculty-specific events.

The ethics of driverless cars

Jason Millar, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy, spends a lot of time thinking about driverless cars. Though you aren’t likely to be able to buy them for 10 years, he says there are a number of ethical problems that need to be tackled before they go mainstream.

Bringing town teens to computer science

Brandon Turner leans over his keyboard and with a few key strokes shows what he’s spent this summer working on. A digital rendering of an enormous vertebra fossil appears on his computer screen, followed by a chipped femur and then the hulking skull of a haudrosaur, the duck-billed dinosaur of the Cretaceous period.