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Making waves Debbie Piper, a staff secretary in mechanical and industrial engineering and a sophomore majoring in art history, designed a stained glass window that was installed in the reception area of the Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems on the second floor of the Mechanical Engineering Lab. Piper, who once owned a stained glass studio, spent a week making the 3-foot by 3-foot window, which has an abstract design in shades of blue and green. The design is meant to focus on the water research done by the center.

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