Word: peltier
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...into the area's fin-de-siecle streetscape, until you discern the scarification marks sandblasted onto the fa?ade. Then looking up, you begin to make out the painted ceilings inside; Yunupingu's stars flash. "It's something that you discover slowly, little by little," explains MQB deputy director Philippe Peltier, a member of the AIAC's curatorial team. "You really have to read the building and the pieces inside...
...Encoded in the architecture is the unfolding history of Aboriginal art. Peltier suspects Europeans will be surprised by the scale of the work in and around the building, but as Perkins points out, it takes the art back to its genesis: "Where do bark paintings start? Inside bark shelters, inside houses. They were painted on the roof. Rock art. This idea of working on that scale with that kind of prominence is not a new thing." While the Aboriginal concept of the Dreaming "forces one to think differently, and in a less linear way, about the relationship between creativity...
David J. Jakus ’06, Nicholas P. Orenstein ’06, and Ezra J. Rapoport ’06 submitted a project that markets a wireless fetal heart monitor to the Peltier Business Plan Competition at the University of Texas at Tyler this week. The trio, along with James D. Moran ’05, established LONO Medical Systems and has designed the prototype for a small wireless device that can attach to an expectant mother’s abdomen during pregnancy...
...comes after the group took first place in the 2005 Harvard Entrepreneurial Contest, sponsored by Harvard Student Agencies. To earn the Peltier prize, LONO beat out other projects that made it to the final round including a touch-screen for placing restaurant orders, a personal safety alarm in the form of a wireless key-chain, and a device that allows electronic textbook downloading...
Texas businessman Robert Peltier, who sponsors the national business plan contest, hopes to stimulate economic growth in the Tyler area through the Peltier Competition. Next year’s prize will offer $100,000 to the first-place winner and $100,000 more if the winning team locates their emerging business in Tyler...