Challenge – The Buchtelite

NASA selects UA students’ spacesuit testing proposal

By Dylan Reynolds

February 29, 2016

A University of Akron student-led team recently proposed a uniform testing method for spacesuits, which NASA selected as one of the nation’s three finest. The proposal was created in response to NASA’s Textile Test Methods Challenge, a call for researchers to create a standard procedure that ...

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UA students take SNAP challenge

By Jaclyn Scarborough, Writer

November 23, 2015

Most people associate being broke as part of being a college student. Students sometimes have to be creative when trying to make ends meet, and sacrifices are often made with the hope of not having to struggle financially once students graduate from college. But do college students really have it as bad ...

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