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Q&A: Senior wins award for cell-death research
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After winning a Student Presentation Award at the 2014 Society for Advancement of Hispanics/ Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). Marcus Florez, a senior from Bel Aire, sat down to talk with the Kansan.
KANSAN: Can you describe the SACNAS conference?
KANSAN: How did you find out you had won a Student Presentation Award?
FLOREZ: I presented the research I did over the summer through my internship at Harvard Medical Center over mechanisms of cell death. The conference was huge, because there were tons of presenters there, along with representatives from each university, students who just wanted to watch and industries where people could apply for jobs.
FLOREZ: It's actually funny, because they presented the awards on the very last day of the conference, and I wasn't even going to go to the awards ceremony because I wanted to spend time with my long-distance girlfriend who was actually there. I ended up going anyways, and I was
really surprised when I saw my name on the giant screen. I even messed up when I submitted my application, because I put that I was affiliated with Harvard rather than KU because I thought it was referring to my research. So when they showed my name, it also read that I was from Harvard.
FLOREZ: I had been to the conference twice before, although I only presented once, and I don't think the judges liked me. This time around, I just didn't believe the presentation went well, so I was happily surprised.
KANSAN: Why didn't you believe you were going to win?
KANSAN: What made you choose the topic you presented?
FLOREZ: I came into KU thinking I wanted to be a doctor because I liked medicine and helping people. Then I took an honors seminar that was research-focused, and we had to choose a topic of interest, and I chose Alzheimer's because my grandpa had died of it. Everything I learned fascinated me, so when I got to Harvard, I listed neurological diseases and loss of cells in the brain as some of my preferred areas of
study since they both applied to Alzheimer's. Luckily, this is what my lab group and I ended up focusing on.
KANSAN: So, you don't want to be a doctor anymore?
FLOREZ: My dream job is to be a physician scientist, which requires getting both an M.D. and Ph.D. This way, I could spend about 30 percent of my week seeing patients in a hospital or clinic, and the rest in a lab running experiments. It would be cool to even use samples from my patients so that I could relate what I do in the clinic to my research.
KANSAN: How did you go from being in a researchfocused seminar to studying at Harvard Medical school?
FLOREZ: I started doing research here with the help of Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) through the Office of Diversity in Science Training. IMSD functions to help underrepresented students in STEM fields, whether it be Hispanics like myself, women in math or engineering, or first-generation college students. They helped me find and fund a research lab, and assisted me throughout my entire undergraduate career.
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job creation, so I think there are some serious challenges for the current budget situation, but also for the future, because the future is really about great educations and having good jobs so our children and grandchildren can stay in the state.
What do you think about Gov. Sam Brownback's recent decision to rescind your anti-discrimination bill?
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Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will speak at the Dole Institute tonight. She is also the former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
You're here to talk about the potential of a first female president in 2016. Do you think that's a possibility?
SEBELIUS: I found it just incredibly troubling and shocking. At a time when the world and the country seem to be embracing the civil rights of gay, lesbian, transgender individuals, Kansas is taking a step back. We just talked about really serious challenges that the state has about the future. This executive order has been in place for eight years. I have no idea what problem his rescission is trying to solve. As far as I know, there hasn't been a single issue brought forward that needed correcting, and I find it a very troubling signal to the rest of the country that Kansas is really taking a step back and embracing possible discrimination in the workplace. So I'm baffled and troubled and find it a really shocking statement to make at this day and age for the state of Kansas.
SEBELIUS: Oh, I think that it's very much a possibility. This is the second time the Dole Institute has actually had these conversations. They had a series in 2006 about a woman president and the possibility and had a series of speakers come in and out. You know, Kansas has a long and very proud history of women in elective office, of women being supported. Kansas women could vote years before they could vote nationally. Kansans were electing all-women governments at a time when women couldn't even vote, so the people in this part of the country understand that it's really about the talents and attributes of a candidate, not really about the gender, and I think this is a great place to have this discussion. If Hillary Clinton is a candidate, she will be
a very formidable candidate in the 2016 election, and I think she has a very good opportunity to become the first woman president.
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two rows of service men and women who attended in support of the bill to stand up.
"All of the people I just asked to stand up are potential officers," Farlow said. "They could potentially be leading your sons and daughters onto the battlefield. But these are also fellow students - these people are jayhawks." After the bill passed 41-1-1, Wolfe he's happy the bill was able to come to fruition.
"Senate's been on a good course with diversity so far, and [dealing with events involving minorities] this year, this is just another part of that - increasing representation to student groups that don't have the same access as a CLAS senator has," Wolfe said. "I think it's also important [that] the more people we get involved in the governance process, the more people feel like they belong here." Farlow also expressed his feelings on the bill getting passed.
"I'm at a loss for words. It's such a great accomplishment, because when I graduate here, I will become the one-hundredth commission class at KU which translates to almost 100 years of ROTC's misrepresentation in university governance," Farlow said.
Additional Senate business Student Body President Morgan Said discussed the
Senate passed funding for SPECTRUM's 'Gaypril' events, which will fund certain events such as 'LGBT 101' and 'Brown Bag Drag.'
Funding for a Middle East ecture series also passed. The bill will fund two out-of-state speakers who will focus on introducing discourse of political, social, cultural developments and happenings within Palestine.
senate's approval of permanently closing Jaybowl in the Union. The goal is to make room for renovations in the coming year.
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Government relations director Will Admussen reported on the senate's travels to Higher Education Day. The rebate on textbooks was introduced on Tuesday, and the hearing is to be scheduled. Lastly, Admussen said the higher education funding received mixed reviews, but a lot of legislatures were supportive and realize the need for higher education funding. Director of Diversity and Inclusion Jameelah Jones announced her progress with cultural competency training and new mandatory training sessions for student senators. Jones said more information about the logistics of the training will be available in the next two weeks. She also announced a diversity round table which will be held with the Chancellor on Friday morning.
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To further his efforts, Rana is starting a Greek allies program, which many universities have in place to support their LGBT communities on campus. The program will educate and aid in the development of a more inclusive Greek community. As if he doesn't already have enough to do, he also has a part-time job at the Applied English Center working with international students.
campus should be a safe environment for everyone and make sure everyone feels that they have access to everything, no matter their race, gender, beliefs or sexuality," he said.
But he said the project he is most excited about hasn't been completed yet. Rana and his friends are working to create a bill to help minority women feel more comfortable on campus, though the details are still being discussed.
His friends say Rana's empathy is matched by his buoyant and gregarious personality.
"Whenever I see Omar on campus, I either see him going up to talk to someone or someone running up to him to give him a bear hug. Farlow said. "Omar is someone you can always trust to pick you up after you've had a terrible day. He can cure your sorrows with a quick joke and make you cry of laughter."
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"You may think what you're doing is minute," he said, "but a little work goes a long way and can mean so much, even if you just help one person."
While he said he thinks the University does a good job making minority students on campus feel welcome and accepted, "there's always room for improvement," Rana said. He would like to see admission standards that are more supportive of minority populations, more promotion of multicultural organizations and their events and more required Eastern culture history courses.
Rana plans to go to law school and one day work for a lobbying organization focusing on minority rights. For now, he's happy to make a difference on campus.
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