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(Left) Industrial engineering senior John Marc Kohl and Zac
Castillo work on editing music in the Modest House.
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“We have that on one front
and on the other are these local
artists, because there are a lot of
local artists, there are a lot of peo
ple who have talent but they have
no way of getting it out there,”
Dorman said.
A concern among the three
guys before beginning the re
cording sessions was that eventu
ally within the community they
would “tap the well dry after a
few artists,” said Dorman, a fear
that hasn’t phased them so far.
“It’s like, ‘Aw man, there are
not people here, everyone who
has talent is in Austin or Dallas,’
and that’s really not the case at
all,” Dorman said. “You create
the culture for people to come
to, you don’t wait and say, ‘The
people aren’t here.’ You have to
create it.”
Modest House Sessions is just
one of the ways in which the
Bryan-College Station art scene is
expanding. John Marc Kohl, in
dustrial engineering senior, is one
of the student singer-songwriters
who has recorded with Modest
House. Kohl said it’s a giant step
forward in providing local artists
an outlet for their craft.
“[The sessions are] really just
encouraging creative expression
and bringing the art out of people
and pushing people to play that,
are great but maybe aren’t sure of
themselves,” Kohl said. “And the
fact that they’re giving people a
place to do their art and play their
music is huge and is encouraging
to me as just a songwriter who
goes to school and [is] getting a
business degree. And I know it
has been encouraging to all my
friends and other people who
have seen it just think, ‘Wow
that’s so cool, I want to work on
my stuff.’ It’s a huge catalyst.”
The trio doesn’t necessarily
limit their recording sessions to
their home — they also facilitate
what they call “around town ses
sions.” One such session included
recording Nightowls at the Am
ity Building in Downtown Bryan
as well as the Northgate Vintage
clothing shop on University.
Dorman serves mainly as the
group’s public relations manager
and Davis handles the cinematog
raphy of the sessions, although all
three often delve into each oth
er’s area of expertise.
Castillo, who focuses mainly
on the audio and production as
pect of the sessions, said live re
cording sessions with artists, such
as Mahogany Sessions and Cardi
nal Sessions on YouTube, con
nect the featured artists with their
fans in ways that a solely audio
version of a song cannot.
“I think that’s what makes it
so attractive to people,” Castillo
said. “Our goal is that it’s inti
mate, it’s our house. And so we
try and get to know the artist that
we’re recording. It’s more of a
community thing.”
With some sessions, four to
five cameras are used to film the
artist and their music while some
sessions involve only a one- or
two-camera shoot, Dorman said.
Getting to know the artists being
recorded in an intimate environ
ment is a feat unique to recording
studios like Modest House.
“We try to capture the parts
that you wouldn’t normally see
like us talking to the artists and
connecting with them,” Dor
man said. “We’ve done where
we have artists come in and we
spend the whole day with them.
We hang out and that’s really
what we want to do.”
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Maria Esteve-Gassent examines a tick sample at the Lyme Lab.
By Connor Smith
When people think of ticks,
they tend to think of their cats
and dogs, however ticks also pose a
threat to humans. Ticks carry Lyme
disease, which has the potential to be
life-altering and even deadly if left
untreated.
Maria Esteve-Gassent, assistant
professor of veterinary medicine
and biomedical sciences, conducts
research on a potential vaccine for
Lyme disease at A&M’s “Lyme Lab.”
Several past studies have shown
promise in the development of a vac
cine, however there is not currently a
drug available to the public.
Esteve-Gassent’s work includes
much more than possible cures,
however, as she and her team try to
understand why Texas has such a low
amount of Lyme disease infections
despite an environment that provides
everything necessary for higher in
fection rates.
Esteve-Gassent studies tick ecol
ogy in Texas to understand the phe
nomenon. Through her research,
she intends to develop a better un
derstanding of the risk level that ticks
pose in Texas and other low endemic
states, or states in which the rate of
Lyme contractions are relatively low.
The Lyme Lab studies the differ
ent components that come into hu
man tick interactions, such as a tick’s
feeding preference. One question
they hope to answer is whether hu
mans are a first choice for ticks or
more of a last resort.
Esteve-Gassent also looks into the
truth behind a common Lyme per
ception — Lyme disease is typically
thought of as a summer disease, but
it’s unclear whether it is because the
summer is warm enough for north
east ticks, or if the spike in contrac
tions is due to more people going
outside.
A&M is not the only player in this
search for a cure. Last November a
paper came out in which a group had
developed a potential vaccine using
the same membrane protein that had
been used in a previous vaccine. The
previous vaccine had to be discontin
ued due to negative side effects, and
this group had found a way to stop
the side effects. Esteve-Gassent was
one of the reviewers of that paper.
“It’s all promising, because we
don’t have anything now, so any
thing that comes out is good,” Es
teve-Gassent said.
Adrienne Brundage, a profes
sor in the entomology department
who teaches a medical entomology
course, explained the different fac
tors needed for a vectored disease
like Lyme disease to take hold in an
area.
“When you think about a disease
cycle, you have to have quite a few
things all playing at the right time,”
Brundage said. “You have to have
your vector, you have to have the
disease agent, you have to have your
reservoir and then you have to have
a host. All together at the same time,
and active.”
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the chassis team and mechanical engi
neering senior, described the theme of
their project.
“The theme of this year’s design
was ‘the driver’s car,’ where the focus
was on making things more ergonom
ic and optimized for the driver,” Le-
tourneau said. “The intensive driver
training program at A&M helps us to
work with the best of drivers and so
most of our designs are justified with
their comfort in mind. A lot of schools
spend over $100,000 to compete with
a lot of third-party designs, but most
of the stuff we’ve got is either made
in-house or designed by our engi
neers.”
From software design to part fab
rication, students custom-engineered
the race car and reduced production
time and costs.
“We bought most of our stuff from
eBay or Amazon. For example, mi
crocontrollers for our indigenous data
acquisition system, where we devised
our own network protocols,” said
Ziam Ghaznavi, electrical team mem
ber and mechanical engineering se
nior. “This gave us increased flexibil
ity and scalability with the sensors we
use and also brought our costs down
from $1,500 to $300.”
Most of the students had no prior
experience with a project of this scale
or technical depth. Interns from the
Mays Business School also assisted the
Aggie race car team, which hopes to
expand to other competitions by in
creasing collaboration with other de
partments.
“It is their car — the seniors get
credit for their car and this is one dis
tinction we take pride in,” said project
manager J eff Brown.
The Aggie race car team has won
five championships in the last 15 years
and this year’s team will put its race car
on display at 5 p.m. Friday at the Stu
dent Recreation Center for the Red
Bull Paper Plane Contest.
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