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AIAS will hold its first meeting of the spring semester tomorrow, Wednesday, January 27, in ARC C307 at 6 pm.  We’ll be getting a Career Fair run-down from our Career Fair officers, and Firehouse Subs will be served for dinner!  Even if you’re not a current member of AIAS, come join us and find out how you can get in on the fun this semester.

Here’s what you can look forward to this spring:

• T-shirt sales: 1st floor of A-building, from 11-1 on select Wednesdays (including tomorrow).
• Career Fair: Feb. 4-5, in the A-building foyer.  Contact a Career Fair officer for more information.
• Big Event: Mar. 27, the biggest one-day community service event in the nation!
• Shack-a-thon: Apr. 12-16, in front of Kyle Field. Come join AIAS in our shack.
• Officer elections: late March. This is your chance to be part of the AIAS officer team!

Maybe this will be available for all kinds of things in the future … like famous architectural sites ? ( cough … google … ) maybe some huge internet monster of a company can do this for all kinds of places all over the whole that have some significance … 

When geologists wanted a better look at a Yosemite rock face in years past, they only had one option: climb the cliff.

But now, thanks to super-high resolution gigapixel images created by a team of 70 photographers using GigaPan robotic imagers and a laser-mapping airplane, park geologist Greg Stock now has unprecedented access to the geological features of one of the world’s most famous parks. And all from the comfort of his laptop.

“When you’re climbing, your primary purpose is just surviving,” Stock said. “You can make some observations, but it’s a lot harder.”

The Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project is a Microsoft-sponsored collaboration between Los Angeles-based photography studio, xRez, and the National Park Service, intended to help Stock catalog and understand dangerous rock slides in Yosemite. Printed out at magazine-quality 300 dpi resolution, the photos stretch uninterrupted for 40 feet.

“People have been documenting rock fall in Yosemite for 150 years but we’re doing it now with a precision that other people couldn’t have dreamed of,” Stock said. “Every rock-fall event begins with the basic documentation: Where was it, how big was it, and why did it happen? And sometimes these photos are the only way of ascertaining those things.”

via wired

Emily Sunseri / U4 / President

Bio:
email:     emilysunseri96@msn.com

Erin Callahan / U4 / Vice President

Bio:
email:     erinalysa@gmail.com

Katie Ogden / U3 / Secretary (fall)

Bio:
email:     katieogden14@tamu.edu

Allison Gay / U3 / Secretary (spring)

Bio:   I “secretate” things here with AIAS.
email:    allie89@sbcglobal.net

Sarah Schlabach / U4 / Treasurer

Bio:
email:  haras419@aol.com

Jennifer Branham / U4 / Career Fair

Bio:   I help run/organize the event that will get you a job which includes finding firms to come, getting students ready, and making sure everything runs smoothly on the big day.
email:     jennlee7@gmail.com

Grace Koy / U4 / Career Fair

Bio:    I help coordinate the Architecture Career Fair here at Texas A&M. This includes recruiting firms, preparing the students, working with the college, marketing, coordinating with caterers, and doing everything I can to make sure it is a success!
email:     gakoy123@gmail.com

Jenny Whisenhunt / U3 / Career Fair

Bio:
email:     jleewhisenhunt@gmail.com

Robyn Hammond / U2 / Webmaster/Historian

Bio:    I find cool things to post on the website and document our lovely organization in photos.
email:     hammond.robyn@tamu.edu

Taylor Ballard / U4 / Social Chair

Bio:
email:     tayballard@neo.tamu.edu

William Weiner / U4 / Freedom by Design

Bio:    I head up the group of students that want to make a difference in our local community by going out and fulfilling small service projects. We design with three things in mind: safety, dignity, and comfort.
email:     wsweiner@gmail.com

Contact us at tamuaias@gmail.com.