VUCast: Calling all geeks; Vandy apps for your phone; and eco-friendly soap
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Vanderbilt University
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Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP4 file: "Video @ Vanderbilt - Videos - VUCast: Calling all geeks; Vandy apps for your phone; and eco-friendly soap. It’s VUCast time for Feb. 26, 2010." Vanderbilt University News Service. Princine Lewis hosts. She features a student engineering competition held at Vanderbilt during National Engineers Week. Student Jennifer Frankland speaks. Lewis reports on a team of Vanderbilt students who are creating iPhone and Android "apps" specifically for the Vanderbilt community. Hamilton Turner, an engineering student, describes their three apps. Lewis reports on the Vanderbilt Biodiesel Initiative, a group of students who collect used cooking oil from Vanderbilt dining facilities and convert it to biodiesel fuel in a shed on campus. The students have begun making soap from the oil as well. Senior Valerie Vara speaks.
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News stories, VUCast, National Engineers Week, E-week, Student engineering competitions, Apps, Android (Smartphone), Vanderbilt Biodiesel Initiative, EcoSuds, Turner, Hamilton, Vara, Valarie, Frankland, Jennifer