WNBA, grad
school at Georgia Tech loom in Rowe’s future
MURFREESBORO — While
MTSU student-athlete Ebony Rowe wanted to be on campus for Scholars Day Friday
(March 21), a Lady Raiders team commitment meant she needed to be 2,420 miles
away in Seattle, Wash.
The 29-4 and C-USA tournament and regular season champion
Lady Raiders are preparing for a 7 p.m. CT Sunday meeting with Oregon State in the
first round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.
The Conference USA women’s basketball player of the year’s
mind and focus are in Seattle, but her research and poster collaboration with
graduate student Vijay Koju and physics professor Bill Robertson were among 180
posters in the Student Union Ballroom, where the Universitywide Scholars Day
was the grand finale to eighth annual Scholars Week activities.
Scholars Week promotes research and scholarly efforts by
students and faculty.
While Rowe has an opportunity to play pro basketball during
the summer in the WNBA, she said she has accepted an offer to attend graduate
school at Georgia Tech and study mechanical engineering.
“I got accepted into Illinois first,” said Rowe, who has a
3.6 to 3.7 GPA and will graduate in May. “They’re both top five schools, but
Georgia Tech was my first choice. I accepted their offer. … My No. 1 option is
still school right now, but if I get a chance to play, I probably will explore
that and try and go to school if not this (fall) semester then delay it until
the spring (2015) semester.”
Rowe, a native of Lexington, Ky., who comes from a family of
engineers who value education, said the academic effort is very important.
“You learn all these things in the classroom,” she said of
her education. “They give you all the tools, but it’s kind of useless if you
can’t apply it to things that are really going to change our world, real-world
application. It’s a chance to get your hands dirty, get out of the classroom
and really showcase all this university has to offer and all the great research
that’s being done here by students.”
Robertson, a 19-year faculty member, suggested the idea.
Koju and Rowe picked it up and ran with it.
Titled “Extraordinary Acoustic Transmission Mediated by
Helmholtz Resonators,” Rowe said the basic concept involves dealing with
acoustic waves and sound waves, “and having really small barriers for getting
nearly 100 percent transmission through those barriers.”
Rowe, the daughter of Nick and Tyra Rowe of Lexington, Ky.,
added that it is a computational project strictly confined to a computer using
specialized software.
“We conducted a lot of simulation in order to get some
really interesting results,” Rowe said.
Coach Rick Insell said the 6-foot-1 Rowe, who is MTSU’s
all-time leading scorer with 2,233 points and rebounder with 1,297) was here
for the education.
“Academics were first. Basketball came after that,” Insell
said.
Rowe was featured in an MTSU Magazine article titled “The
Science of Sport.” For more, visit
http://mtpress.mtsu.edu/magazine/index.php/the-science-of-sport/.
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