CU-WISE BLOGS ARE BACK!

We have officially reopened CU-WISE blogs after more than three years! These blogs will be about anything and everything. If it's interesting, we want to know about it, and we're assuming someone else does too. An exciting part of this year is that we will also be showcasing art, computer graphics, poems, short stories, and more. And we're accepting submissions all year!

While we do have our very own blog officer who will be entertaining (or educating) all year, we will also be accepting submissions from everyone. So, if you want to write about a seminar that you went to or a helpful guide to changing majors, let us know and you could be featured next.

And let's not forget about our newest entry: all things artistic. If you are an artist and want to showcase your talent, send it to us! While the general theme is in the fields of science, engineering, women, and university life, you can submit art (in whatever format) about other topics if you're inspired.

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How to Build Connections Online

by Anoushka Singhal It can be exhausting sending out cold emails or connections on LinkedIn and never getting a reply. There are many ways you can get noticed, whether it's by recruiters, CEOs, or people whose work you are generally interested in. Social networking has become very important with remote working, and many don't know where to start. Your very first step should be to create a LinkedIn profile. Personalize your LinkedIn LinkedIn is used by many professionals to recruit employees, make connections, or find mentors. It is the 'Facebook' of professionals. LinkedIn can lead to success, and it all depends on how you use it. Personalizing your LinkedIn plays a huge role in your connection requests getting accepted. Online, everyone wants to know who they are connecting with. Add a profile picture, a background image, and any achievements. Add your education, projects, languages you know, groups you are part of, volunteer experience, and basically anythi...

Francesca Tsimiklis, Leaving a Legacy

by Fareen Lavji We miss her so much; we could not help but feature her again. She is one of our favourites, it’s Franny! Francesca recently, and successfully, defended her master’s thesis entitled, “Design and Validation of a Force-Sensing Piano Key to Assess Pianist Biomechanics.” Her research began with an interest in musician injury. Although playing the piano is a common activity, the physical demand of playing is often overlooked. One study found that up to 71% of professional musicians and 87% of music students experience a performance-related musculoskeletal disorder at some point in their career. Francesca’s research looked to gain an understanding of why injury rates are so high at the base level of a finger-key interaction. She developed a novel force-sensing piano key. Her integrated sensing equipment inside of a replica piano key developed a method of measuring the position and 3-axis force application on the key. Francesca is also the recipient of the 2019-20 C...

This Month’s Top Story: The Artemis Program

History was made this month when 2 female astronauts, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, embarked on NASA’s first all-women space walk. What is the Artemis Program? Artemis is NASA’s new lunar exploration program which plans to send the first women and next man on the Moon in 2024. The first missions to the Moon were achieved by NASA, and landing the first man on the Moon in 1969. That program was dubbed the Apollo program. Fun Fact! If you are familiar with Greek mythology, you will know that Apollo is known as the Sun god. Artemis was Apollo’s twin sister and known as the Moon goddess. The all-women spacewalk was set to take place months prior, in March 2019. After experiencing the spacesuit in flight (not on Earth), Christina Koch and Anne McClain came to realize that plans would have to be scrapped as the large spacesuit size was not feasible to continue the spacewalk. A proper spacesuit fit is required for astronauts to preven...

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