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CMU Today Celebrating a legacy CMU���s Events Center now features a display that commemorates the university���s relationship with the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. The partnership began when CMU athletic teams adopted the Chippewa name in 1942. The corridor display features art and artifacts on loan from the Ziibiwing Center. ��� Coming soon to a faucet near you A CMU chemistry professor has developed a water filtration method that targets contaminants including perchlorates in water ��� a technology that currently does not exist on the market. Perchlorates have been linked to certain cancers and developmental delays and are extremely dangerous to pregnant women and infants. Professor Anja Mueller developed a patent for the filtration technology and partnered with CMU Research Corp. to license and commercialize the product. It is expected to hit stores later this year. ��� Voyage into the deep ���A few days ago ��� our otter trawl pulled up a Dumbo octopus. Its skin was dark purple and it had floppy earlike flaps on either side of its head ��� the same appendages that triggered scientists to name it after the big-eared Disney elephant. It is a deep-sea octopus, so its skin was so soft with so little internal structure that I almost could not tell that I was touching it. Being able to handle a deep-sea creature ��� let alone something as cool and as intelligent as an octopus ��� has definitely been awarded a spot on my top 10 experiences for this trip so far.��� ��� blog post from Abigail Hollingsworth, CMU senior, who joined a team of student researchers and CMU biology professor Andrew Mahon on a six-week winter journey of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica to study little-known wildlife species. ��� 44 centralight spring ���13

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