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Rethinking Screentime in Education

April 10, 2019

I can’t imagine the rest of my life without my screen babies: my computer, my tablet and my phone. That being said, I am...

Seattle U Digital Design Professor isn’t “Phoney”

Anna Kaplan, Author

April 19, 2018

“I joke about it with other people, I don’t want to be phoney,” Alexander Mouton, Associate Professor of Digital Design said to me with a smile in his office. On the table next to him was a device that many college students have either forgotten about or poke fun at: a black flip phone (circa the early 2000s). While many of us are falling in...

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Technology and ADHD: The Nuances of the Modern Attention Span

November 29, 2017

The iPhone X came out earlier this month, marking 10 years since the release of the first iteration of Apple’s ubiquitous de...

RevSU Upgrades Outdated Online System

October 25, 2017

The start of the new school year has brought many changes, one of them being the deconstruction of SU Online in a project cal...

Cities Scramble to Secure New Amazon Headquarters

October 25, 2017

Amazon and Seattle have a complex relationship. Seattle is the fastest growing city in the U.S., and Amazon has been one of t...

SU Alumna Fighting Ocean Pollution with Cora Ball

April 12, 2017

Ask a person what chores they dread doing, and one of the first to top their list will surely be laundry. A former Seattle University...

Rev SU: The What and Why of New I.T.

February 8, 2017

If you have not heard of RevSU, Seattle University’s attempt to modernize its outdated IT system, then by most indicators the...

Amazon Go Goes Where No Other Supermarket Has Gone Before

January 18, 2017

Self-service kiosks changed retail shopping by reducing the length of lines, but in Seattle, Amazon has changed shopping yet again...

Digital Design Thinks Outside the Box

January 11, 2017

From the eye-catching products of this past holiday season, to the unmistakable boxes from Amazon or Chegg in which this quarter’s...

Planting the Seeds for STEM at Pacific Science Center

November 16, 2016

The 10th annual Life Sciences Research Weekend was held at the Pacific Science Center last Friday, transforming the museum into...

YouTube Today: What You Need to Know

October 5, 2016

YouTube Red? YouTube Heroes? What do all these names mean? If you’re a purist, you probably remember the good ole days when...

Robots Building Robots: An Exhibit That Runs Itself

September 28, 2016

Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery came alive last Thursday in a cryptic blend of audio loops, seemingly random images collected...