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Lipscomb by the numbers: SEJC victories
This week Lipscomb by the numbers follows four students and one professor almost 600 miles to Thibodaux, Louisiana, last weekend.
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Micro-home built by the Engineering Department is delivered
The Lipscomb Engineering Department shipped out its first-ever micro-home on January 21st. After the horrendous flood in Waverly, Tennessee back in 2021, the town is still rebuilding. The deadly flood caused people to lose jobs and many people became homeless. Green Street Church of Christ, a church that Lipscomb has partnered with for many years, has a micro-home community in partnership with various organizations that allow people who need transitory housing to live on their property. A micro-home is a structure that is typically 600 square feet or less with at least one window. When Second Chance Ministries was looking for ways to serve the Waverly community, they heard about…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: Beaman Library
This week Lipscomb by the numbers heads over to Beaman Library. The library sees a lot of traffic each semester. Students pick up and check out books for classes, books for research, and books for fun. Herd Media went to the library to see just how many books that is. Last semester, students checked out 1,297 books and read or downloaded 3,295 ebooks. The numbers are already rising this semester, despite being only a month into it. So far this semester, people have checked out 193 books. They’ve also read or downloaded 389 ebooks so far. With access to thousands of print books, ebooks, and articles, the library is the…
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The Dugan legacy continues
Will Dugan is a freshman right-handed pitcher with an incredible legacy sitting on his shoulders. The Dugan name is on several framed jerseys, cleats, and award plaques scattered around campus. It’s even on the baseball field itself. That’s no coincidence. His grandfather Ken Dugan is a Lipscomb baseball giant as both a player and a coach, a 1987 Lipscomb Hall of Fame inductee, 1991 Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame inductee and 2022 National College Baseball Hall of Fame inductee. Will is the fourth Dugan to be a part of Lipscomb’s baseball legacy. He follows not only in his grandfather’s steps but in his dad’s and his uncle’s as well. We spoke with Will about…
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Winter storms impact on Nashville plants
Last December brought the lighting of the green, but now all the evergreen on campus has turned brown and dead. Some may be wondering how this happened. Will the plants and trees revive themselves before spring? This past December a winter storm hit the midwest and parts of the south. From Dec. 21-26, temperatures dropped drastically and Tennessee even experienced a little snow. Following the drop in temperatures, the plants and evergreen shrubbery around campus and Nashville are more brown and dead looking than the usual winter lull. Mary Weber, the director of horticulture at Cheekwood, helped provide some insight into the impact the weather had on plants and gardens…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: IT
This week’s Lipscomb by the numbers heads over to the IT department. IT helps students with various tech problems, from internet issues to school software malfunctions. They assist students mainly through help desk tickets and phone calls. How many students do they help, though? In the fall 2022 semester, IT answered 1,920 phone calls. So far this semester, they have already answered over 200. Since their new help desk ticketing software went live on June 15th, the IT department has answered 5,753 help desk tickets. The fall 2022 semester saw 3,401 help desk tickets answered. Already this spring semester has seen 941 tickets submitted and answered. And even as of…
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Ambulances arrive on campus to science lab situation
Update Jan. 27, 11:45 am: Lipscomb University released the following statement. “Last night while conducting a routine lab experiment, three students came in contact, on their hands, with a substance identified as n-Bromosuccinimide (NBS). Out of an abundance of caution, the three students were transported last night to a medical facility for an examination of the skin irritation. They were evaluated, cared for, released last night and are back on campus today and attending classes as scheduled.” “The first two [ambulances] went by our house,” says Emma Shanahan, a senior political science major. “And then we went to our window, and a third one passed by,” says Shanahan, “we were…
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The coming of a new world – Artificial Intelligence
The world is full of many different forms of artificial intelligence. Voice assistants, for instance, Google, Siri and Alexa all use speech recognition, which is a form of AI. Voice typing, machine vision, and language processing are all common forms of AI. As the spring semester begins, there is a new world that Lipscomb students and faculty are having to navigate. Artificial intelligence is that new world. AI, in simple terms, is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. To learn more about this form of technology, checkout this video: The latest AI software is taking the internet by storm; ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a chatbot that…
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Lipscomb Academy hires Pro Football Hall of Famer Kevin Mawae to be its head coach
Ever since Lipscomb Academy’s 42-0 state championship victory over Christ Presbyterian Academy on Dec. 1st, speculation has swirled about who the Mustangs’ next head coach would be. Today, the Lipscomb community finally received the confirmation it had been waiting to see. Lipscomb Academy officially announced the highly anticipated hiring of Pro Football Hall of Famer Kevin Mawae as the next head coach of the football program. The announcement comes 55 days after former Mustangs head coach Trent Dilfer accepted an offer from the University of Alabama at Birmingham to become its next head coach. In Dilfer’s four seasons at Lipscomb Academy, the Mustangs compiled a 44-10 record while making three…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: Allen Arena attendance
1,681 students and fans crowded into Allen Arena on Thursday, Jan. 19, to watch the Lipscomb Bisons men’s basketball team take down the EKU Colonels. This was the highest-attended home basketball game since late November when the Bisons played the Covenant College Scots on the 21st. Interestingly, the biggest game this season was not the Battle of the Boulevard game in November, which had 3,772 students and fans in attendance, but the Homecoming weekend game against the Campbellsville-Harrodsburg Pioneers, which had 4,789 students and fans at the game. Last night’s game had the fourth-highest attendance of the season, even passing the attendance at the Navy game – although not by…
