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The Alumni Association has announced Butler University’s Top 100 students, honoring the top juniors and seniors for the 2017–2018 academic year.

The list is below, and Butler Collegian coverage is here.

The Top 100 students are determined by the Top 100 Selection Committee composed of representatives of each of the six colleges, student affairs, academic affairs, and alumni. Each candidate is judged against the core values of the program on a numeric scale. At the end of the judging period, all scores are tabulated, and the Top 100 students are selected.

Visit the Top 100 website to view guidelines for the program.  

The Alumni Association in conjunction with the Office of Student Affairs conducts the Outstanding Student Recognition program. The program is in its 57th year.

Due to a tie in scoring, more than 100 students are being honored for the 2017–2018 academic year. All honorees will be recognized at the Outstanding Student Banquet on April 13, when the Top 15 Most Outstanding Students will be announced. 

Full Listing of Honorees (in alphabetical order)

Katie Allee, senior, Communication Science and Disorders, College of Communication (CCOM)

Lynn Alsatie, junior, International Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS)

Siena Amodeo, junior, International Management, Lacy School of Business (LSB)

Deborah Arehart, senior, Middle-Secondary Education, College of Education (COE)

Thomas Baldwin, senior, Biochemistry, LAS

Adam Bantz, senior, Strategic Communication, CCOM

Alex Bartlow, senior, Accounting, LSB

Leah Basford, senior, International Management, LSB

Zach Bellavia, senior, Economics, LSB

Bri Borri, junior, Psychology, LAS

Lauren Briskey, junior, Actuarial Sciences, LAS

Amy Brown, senior, Accounting, LSB

Rachel Burke, junior, Mathematics, LAS

Jeremy Caylor, junior, Biology, LAS

Parker Chalmers, junior,

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Horizons Exploratory Academy students presented their spring semester projects Monday evening at the spring “walkabout.”

Their efforts covered a wide variety of subjects from mandalas to aeronautics, and each student gave a visual and an oral presentation to visitors at the alternative high school.

Parents, friends, school staff and school board members were in attendance at the biannual academic event.

Students receive credit for their projects and their presentations and chose their own projects based on their interests and academic goals.

Clayton Church, a senior, who is already pursuing a career in welding, did his project on historical metal work in the Mesopotamian, Viking and Roman cultures.

Church built his own forge for one of last year’s projects and this year put it to use creating representations of metal tools and weapons from each culture.

His first piece was a pair of Roman tongs used in metal work.

He also hand forged a Viking seax knife, a Roman battle axe head and a Mesopotamian spearhead.

Church said he didn’t have some of the equipment used by more advanced metal workers and mainly just used heat, metal and a hammer to make the artifacts.

He also had to do a lot of research into the forging methods and culture of each civilization for his maps and his oral presentation.

Keagan Haeck, 19, and Jack Leddington, a junior, presented on aeronautics with a visual demonstration of how the parts of an airplane work to maneuver the craft using a working model craft.

The pair had also created mock-ups of other aircraft and demonstrated

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Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to correct inaccurate information provided to Military.com describing Air Force secretary Heather Wilson’s visit to Austin.

When Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson visited AFWERX’s Pilot Training Next program in Austin, Texas, last year, she watched as trainees took flight from the seats in front of her — through the use of virtual reality.

Officials with Air Education and Training Command (AETC) are now gearing up to present Wilson’s successor with a business case for more widespread use of the system, within the force.

The focus on simulation comes as Air Force leaders work to overhaul the pilot training curriculum, introducing one that augments time airborne in the cockpit with simulators and technology on the ground. The Air Force overall is readying itself for the possibility of complex conflict with a peer-level adversary equipped with long-range missiles and advanced combat aircraft. It’s a future that may represent a strong contrast to recent decades, in which the Air Force has flown in largely uncontested airspace supporting ground troops.

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The service is attempting to boost its pilot ranks amid a longterm pilot shortage, even as its trainer fleet ages.

Air Force officials say they want to move away from the service’s old-fashioned,

Article source: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/05/inside-air-forces-plan-revolutionize-pilot-training.html

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has mandated that Boeing apply changes to some parts of the 787 Dreamliner. Changes are also expected to be applied to the jet’s flight control software.

According to Reuters, the FAA mandate was rolled out to address what the regulator referred to as “unsafe” operating procedures tracked from some parts of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

Boeing said the mandate was related to service bulletins released by the American jet maker in 2017 and 2018 that revealed damage-prone areas in the 787 Dreamliner’s tire and wheel “threat zones.”

Amid criticism and scrutiny from global regulators, Boeing stressed that the FAA directive was already resolved. “This issue has been long since resolved with system improvements that have been incorporated into production for all 787 models,” the airplane maker said.

This is not the first time the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was caught in controversy. In a New York Times report published last month, employees claimed that the South Carolina factory working on the model was home to poor production practices.

The report cited internal emails and interviews with current and former employees. Some employees said the Boeing 787 Dreamliner factory prioritized quantity over quality in its production. The company has since denied all claims.

Another Boeing model, the 737 Max, is also under the watchful eyes of international agencies and aviation regulators. The jet has been grounded worldwide following Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crash in October and March respectively.

Due to the 737 Max

Article source: https://en.businesstimes.cn/articles/111541/20190502/boeing-787-dreamliner-gets-flight-control-revamp-mandate-from-faa.htm

EVERETT — One day, cargo ships stretching 1,000 feet in length could berth at Port of Everett’s South Terminal, where workers would unload shipments of large airplane parts destined for the Boeing factory.

But first the port must deal with thousands of tons of contaminated sediment, a legacy of a century of sawmill and pulp mill operations, as well as enlarge the existing berth by 30 percent.

While a little of the work is done, it’s going to cost in the neighborhood of $105 million and take three to five years to finish it all.

Port officials don’t have all the money in hand. They did receive good news in April as lawmakers earmarked $16.25 million for the project in the next state capital budget.

Those dollars will come out of the state’s Model Toxics Control Account, which was reformulated this year to enable the state to pledge bigger sums to larger cleanups — like this one.

“We really appreciate all of the support the Department of Ecology has provided us to get this level of resources,” said Lisa Lefeber, the port’s deputy executive director. “We’re finally getting to the point that we have the legislative framework in place to know the state will be there when we’re ready to go.”

Weyerhaeuser is the former owner of the South Terminal property, also known as the Mill A site.

From the 1890s to 1980, the firm conducted a slew of wood-related industrial operations such as pulp manufacturing, saw milling, ship

Article source: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/state-commits-16m-to-clean-former-mill-site-of-contaminants/