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From the Pacific Ocean to ”T: the octopus has arrived

By Miriam Schmid
TECHNEWS WRITER

For most students at UT,
Wednesday, February 15,2012 was
Just another ordrnary day of class,
work, and meetrngs

For srx undergraduate
chemrstry, brology, and psychology
students, thrs was no ordrnary day,
but the start of an adventure rn
marlne research

Earlythatmornrngtheyreoerved
a text message “He’s herel” Our
grant paclfic octopus (Enteroctopus
doflelnl) had finallyarrlved atllllnols
Tech vra overnrght FedEx from
Canada andwas ready to settle down
rnto hrs new home rn the CRAB Lab

ln order to see the newest
resrdent of lllrnors Tech, you can
access a lrve streamrng Octo and Lab
Cam on the CRAB Lab websrte found
below The octopus rs most actrve
durrng hrs daylrght hours from 2
a m to 2 pm

Now that the octopus has settled
lnto hrs new home at the Illlnols
lnstrtute of Technology, rt needs to
be named

All members of the HT
communrty are rnvrted to cast thelr
vote for therr favorlte at http l/rs gd/
crablab

Currently, the frontrrunners
lnclude Poseldon (Greek God ofthe
Sea), Manotas (blg hands), Doug
Octoplcka, and ollre

Name suggestrons wrll be
revrewed, and a flnal votrng round of top
candldates wrll determlne the name

Desprte not havrng a name, the octopus
has created awhlrlwlnd ofactlvltyln the CRAB
Lab, from the chemrcal ecology study usrng
octopus water to begrn collectrng results and
the Psychology departments project trackrng
hlsbehavlor

ln addrtron to conductrng experrments
ln the lab, the undergraduate researchers ln
the CRAB Lab presented therr hypotheses
and prelrmrnary data at the Chrcago Area
Undergraduate Research Symposrum on

Saturday, March 3

Representrng the chemrcal
ecology project were Craran
shaughnessy, Marlah Kurtse,
and erlam Schmld On behalf
of the cognrtrve scrence group
Ruth Jlmenez, Davrd Burchell,
and Trm Carsel presented thelr
poster

Through therr
presentatrons, they were able to
share the Initiative: Ofthe CRAB
Lab wrth the greater Chrcago
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SGA SENATOR

when you are looklng forsomethlng to do
on campus,where do you go to get rnformatron,
especrally lf you need rt rnstantlyz

The best place rs the new Unrversrty
Calendar The Unrversrty Calendar has been
updated to a Google Calendar, allowrng easy
updatrng and rntegratron wrth the new llT
Google Apps account

Departments, offrces, and student
organrzatrons can easr1y add thelr events to
the calendar by srmply addrng calendar@rrt
edu as a guest

Addrng an enure calendar rs srmple as well
Just share the calendarwrth calendar@rrt edu

For full rnstructrons for addrng events to
the calendar, see the rrTToday artrcle at http //
wwwrrt edu/news/llttoday/7p:10$$ For an
rnterestedstudentlookrng forsomethlngto do,

SGA UCal Updates

the Unrversrty Calendar orrers several ways to
vrew the events on campus

The calendar rs avarlable for vrewrng
at http //www llt edu/about/calendarshtml
On thrs srte, you can add the calendar to
your personal Coogle calendar, whrch wrll
automatrcallybe updated wrth all of the events
on campus

Evenssharedwrth the UnrversrtyCalendar
wrll also appear on rrT Today on the day that
they are occurrrng

For example, there were a lot otevents on
Tuesday The MT Today for Tuesday, February
28,1lsts all ofthe events for that day, as well as
thelr tlme and place

ans lnformatlon rs taken drrectly from
the Unrversrty Calendar

ans tool rs an easy and effectlve way to
hndsomethrng to do on campus, and wrllbe
rnvaluable to anystudents who find themselves
looklng for ways to get rnvolved