{"id":6203,"date":"2015-06-25T17:50:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T21:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2022-03-23T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:21:16","slug":"pitn-june-25-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/pitn-june-25-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"People in the News: RoboLobsterman, K Streeter, Top Baker\u2026and a beloved professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Read all about it! These members of the Kalamazoo College community are People in the News!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6204\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-and-RoboLobster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6204 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-and-RoboLobster-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College alumnus Dan Blustein tinkers with RoboLobster\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-and-RoboLobster-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-and-RoboLobster.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Blustein &#8217;06 and RoboLobster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dan Blustein \u201906<\/strong> earned his Ph.D. degree in January from Northeastern University in Boston where he helped to build and perfect a robotic lobster (no kidding) to help the United States Navy detect underwater mines near shorelines. His \u201cRoboLobster is a robot with eight legs (each with six wires to contract or extend the robot\u2019s leg \u201cmuscles\u201d) and an acrylic, cylindrical body containing an electronic circuit board (the brains of the operation). Besides potentially helping the Navy, the new and improved robot can run computational neuroscience models, enabling researchers to test biological theories by programming the robot with certain hypotheses, seeing what happens, and comparing it to real world observations. Dan is now headed to the University of New Brunswick in Canada to research new ways that patients control prosthetic limbs. Currently, amputees must look at their prostheses to move them. Dan is interested in finding what sensory information about joint movement can augment visual cues.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6221\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/96.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6221 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/96-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"K street lobbyist Sage Eastman\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/96-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/96-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/96.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage Eastman &#8217;96, K Street lobbyist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sage Eastman \u201996<\/strong>, the longtime right-hand man to former U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), is now a lobbyist at Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen Bingel and Thomas. Sage got his start in GOP politics roughly two decades ago with then-Gov. John Engler of Michigan \u2014 now himself a K Street mainstay at the Business Roundtable. After working for Engler, he worked a few more campaign cycles in Michigan before moving to Washington in 2003 to work in Camp\u2019s personal office. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/lobbyist-profiles\/245059-k-street-cultivator\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/lobbyist-profiles\/245059-k-street-cultivator<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6214\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-Eater-Young-Gun-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6214 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-Eater-Young-Gun-2015-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Sister Pie owner Lisa Ludwinski with a friend\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-Eater-Young-Gun-2015-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-Eater-Young-Gun-2015-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-Eater-Young-Gun-2015.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Ludwinski &#8217;06 (left), 2015 Eater Young Gun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Lisa Ludwinski \u201906<\/strong> has been named one of the best chef\u2019s in the United States by Eater, which bills itself as a national source for people who care about dining and drinking in the nation\u2019s most important food cities. Lisa, owner of Sister Pie Bakery in Detroit, was honored as one of the best in Eater\u2019s national Young Guns contest. She and 16 other rising culinary stars from across the country were f\u00eated at a gala celebration in June in Los Angeles.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eater.com\/2015\/6\/9\/8751385\/eater-young-guns-party-2015#4763400\">http:\/\/www.eater.com\/2015\/6\/9\/8751385\/eater-young-guns-party-2015#4763400<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Scarrow<\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, is the namesake for the 2015 Scarrow Friday Forum lecture series at Bay View, the resort community by Petoskey in northern Michigan. The series hosts leading professionals in areas pertinent to local, national, and world issues. The series is named in honor of Professor Scarrow, a long-time Bay View resident who recruited outstanding speakers to the Bay View campus for more than 15 years and remains active with the Bay View Education Committee and the Bay View American Experience Lecture week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petoskeynews.com\/news\/community\/scarrow-forums-begin-june\/article_fa653d10-ffd7-531f-8a27-3c319d0a10a5.html\">www.petoskeynews.com\/news\/community\/scarrow-forums-begin-june\/article_fa653d10-ffd7-531f-8a27-3c319d0a10a5.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read all about it! These members of the Kalamazoo College community are People in the News! Dan Blustein \u201906 earned his Ph.D. degree in January from Northeastern University in Boston where he helped to build and perfect a robotic lobster (no kidding) to help the United States Navy detect underwater mines near shorelines. 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These members of the Kalamazoo College community are People in the News!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6204\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-and-RoboLobster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6204 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-and-RoboLobster-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College alumnus Dan Blustein tinkers with RoboLobster\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Blustein &#8217;06 and RoboLobster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dan Blustein \u201906<\/strong> earned his Ph.D. degree in January from Northeastern University in Boston where he helped to build and perfect a robotic lobster (no kidding) to help the United States Navy detect underwater mines near shorelines. His \u201cRoboLobster is a robot with eight legs (each with six wires to contract or extend the robot\u2019s leg \u201cmuscles\u201d) and an acrylic, cylindrical body containing an electronic circuit board (the brains of the operation). Besides potentially helping the Navy, the new and improved robot can run computational neuroscience models, enabling researchers to test biological theories by programming the robot with certain hypotheses, seeing what happens, and comparing it to real world observations. Dan is now headed to the University of New Brunswick in Canada to research new ways that patients control prosthetic limbs. Currently, amputees must look at their prostheses to move them. Dan is interested in finding what sensory information about joint movement can augment visual cues.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6221\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/96.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6221 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/96-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"K street lobbyist Sage Eastman\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage Eastman &#8217;96, K Street lobbyist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sage Eastman \u201996<\/strong>, the longtime right-hand man to former U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), is now a lobbyist at Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen Bingel and Thomas. Sage got his start in GOP politics roughly two decades ago with then-Gov. John Engler of Michigan \u2014 now himself a K Street mainstay at the Business Roundtable. After working for Engler, he worked a few more campaign cycles in Michigan before moving to Washington in 2003 to work in Camp\u2019s personal office. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/lobbyist-profiles\/245059-k-street-cultivator\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/lobbyist-profiles\/245059-k-street-cultivator<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6214\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-Eater-Young-Gun-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6214 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/06\/06-Eater-Young-Gun-2015-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Sister Pie owner Lisa Ludwinski with a friend\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Ludwinski &#8217;06 (left), 2015 Eater Young Gun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Lisa Ludwinski \u201906<\/strong> has been named one of the best chef\u2019s in the United States by Eater, which bills itself as a national source for people who care about dining and drinking in the nation\u2019s most important food cities. Lisa, owner of Sister Pie Bakery in Detroit, was honored as one of the best in Eater\u2019s national Young Guns contest. She and 16 other rising culinary stars from across the country were f\u00eated at a gala celebration in June in Los Angeles.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eater.com\/2015\/6\/9\/8751385\/eater-young-guns-party-2015#4763400\">http:\/\/www.eater.com\/2015\/6\/9\/8751385\/eater-young-guns-party-2015#4763400<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Scarrow<\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, is the namesake for the 2015 Scarrow Friday Forum lecture series at Bay View, the resort community by Petoskey in northern Michigan. The series hosts leading professionals in areas pertinent to local, national, and world issues. The series is named in honor of Professor Scarrow, a long-time Bay View resident who recruited outstanding speakers to the Bay View campus for more than 15 years and remains active with the Bay View Education Committee and the Bay View American Experience Lecture week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petoskeynews.com\/news\/community\/scarrow-forums-begin-june\/article_fa653d10-ffd7-531f-8a27-3c319d0a10a5.html\">www.petoskeynews.com\/news\/community\/scarrow-forums-begin-june\/article_fa653d10-ffd7-531f-8a27-3c319d0a10a5.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13631,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/13631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}