technology

  • Today’s Technology Column

    • News
    • January 25, 2018

    Drones zip over Rwanda, leaving a trail of blood. The California-based company Zipline has been operating in Rwanda since fall 2016. As of Oct. 2017, Zipline drones have delivered 2,600 units of blood over the course of 1,400 commercial flights. Zipline has designed and built drones that can carry 1.5 kilograms of blood at a

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  • Alumni Relations revamps website

    Alumni Relations revamps website

    The Office of Alumni Relations at Elizabethtown College has just launched a completely revamped website in order to make it more accessible to viewers. The Office of Alumni Relations was hoping to expand the number of viewers who can use the website. Previously, the site had to be logged into in order to access the

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  • Texting language seeps into academic work

    Texting language seeps into academic work

    In coming years, students in Pennsylvania may be seeing tougher standards that will combat a declining quality in academic language use. According to an Associated Press release, press secretary Timothy Eller of the Pennsylvania Department of Education said, “The department [of education] is preparing to release new standards.” Eller emphasized that these standards will apply

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  • Verizon Wireless releases HTC Rezound and Droid Xyboard

    Verizon Wireless releases HTC Rezound and Droid Xyboard

    Verizon Wireless has recently released a new HTC smartphone and a new PC tablet from Motorola Mobility. The phone, the HTC Rezound, was released in stores this past fall on Nov. 14, while the Xyboard tablet came out on Dec. 9. Both the Rezound and the Xyboard run on Verizon’s newest 4G LTE network. The

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  • Prof. Hoffman energizes classrooms through thrilling experiments

    Prof. Hoffman energizes classrooms through thrilling experiments

    In the collegial community, only a handful of individuals achieve success in their respective field. Rarely do we see an individual who succeeds in multiple arenas of academia; however, some professors do. Meet the man who wrote “An Integral for Second-Order Multiple Scattering Perturbation Theory.” Where would a student find a man of this caliber?

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  • Elizabethtown Area High School implements new mobile safety initiative

    Elizabethtown Area High School implements new mobile safety initiative

    • News
    • January 26, 2012

    Elizabethtown Area High School recently instituted an anonymous text-and-tip line for students to express concerns they may have about bullying, suicide, alcohol, drugs and related issues. According to Elizabethtown Area High School Resource Officer Rick Farnsler, there has been “a county school violence hotline that’s been in place for years, where kids could call a

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  • Cyberbullying-inspired Android app examined

    Cyberbullying-inspired Android app examined

    Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. This schoolyard chant may be even less true now than when it originated. With today’s multiple outlets for technology, bullying others through use of harsh words has become easier than ever. Though anonymous, students can easily bully others via text messaging, Facebook,

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