Until Blue Water Satellite Inc. came along, as company founder Dr. Robert Vincent puts it, “nobody had ever sold satellite monitoring of a reservoir to anybody.”

Six months after operations began, though, initial customers had bought into Blue Water enough that the Bowling Green State University spinoff company could make its first royalty payment to BGSU. The payment was modest ($213), but “there will be more, and they will be bigger,” said Dr. Deanne Snavely, interim vice provost for research and dean of the Graduate College. Blue Water, she said, is “the first official BGSU spinoff company that has commercialized BGSU intellectual property.”

Richard Mathey, a professor emeritus of music performance studies, has received two of the Barbershop Harmony Society’s highest honors.

Santa Fe-based painter Pola Lopez will give the keynote address at the 16th annual Latino Issues Conference, on Oct. 21.

The Fine Arts Center Galleries will host internationally recognized artists and a series of events both on and off campus Thursday-Saturday (Oct. 15-17).

Esteemed jazz guitarist John Hart will be the featured performer at the University’s annual Jazz Spotlight concert, at 8 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 15) in Kobacker Hall.

Dr. Shannon Orr, political science, will address “Cultural Meaning and Wilderness: Re-Envisioning Protected Land” in an ICS lecture Thursday (Oct. 15).