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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015
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Happy 154th birthday, Kansas! Kansas became a state in 1861 and created the coolest university in the country just four years later.
Grad students to present research at 2015 summit
SKYLAR ROLSTAD
@KansanNews
On Feb. 12, eight graduate students will represent the University at the 2015 Capitol Graduate Research Summit.
The students will join 10 Kansas State representatives, 10 from Wichita State, five from Pittsburg State and five from Fort Hays State at the summit to present their research. KU Medical Center and KU Law School are also represented with eight and five representatives, respectively.
"This summit is wonderful because those in the Capitol and at other universities can see what other graduate students are doing" KU Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies Roberta Pokphanh said. "It is a lovely event that shows the impact of what our graduate students are doing."
The summit was created in 2001 by a group of graduate students.
"The ability to impact the community and the state of Kansas for these students is a big opportunity," Pokphanh said. "The summit was created by students themselves, so this
is an initiative they've taken themselves."
Many students who were selected were overjoyed with the opportunity.
"I was really excited; it's a big event in my life to represent KU at the Capitol so there was a lot of excitement and joy," said Cyrus Maleki, a graduate student from Iran who holds master's and bachelor's degrees. Maleki will represent the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering program at the summit.
"I have been doing research since 2008, so it has kind of formed my philosophy of life and my job," Maleki said. "I live with research. I like the job that I do for the society, especially the subject that I work on."
Maleki studies carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere and has worked to stop the gas from deteriorating the environment. He will work to raise awareness at Capitol, where policy-makers and government officials will see him present.
Maleki said he hopes the impact of his and others' work is felt not only around the state of Kansas, but around the world.
"CO $ _{2} $ is one of the most important gases regarding climate
Another graduate student representing the University is Christina Amaro, who has been working toward providing healthy food for low-income families. Amaro will represent the Clinical Child Psychology program at the University.
change," he said. "The research that I do is to mitigate the effect of these greenhouse gases. I feel really good for the work that I do, I see myself as part of a big team that tries to create a better society for global citizens."
"What I look forward to most is speaking to policymakers in order to implement programs that could provide healthier food choices for kids," Amaro said.
Over the course of the past year, Amaro has worked with organizations that work to achieve this goal. Amaro is hopeful that her presentation in Topeka will benefit Kansas.
"This issue is important to farmers in Kansas as well as the people in the state, so my research can have a big impact on the community." Amaro said.
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from alcohol use.
The committee will also be proposing taxless textbooks. Admussen said both Republicans and Democrats seem to be in support of this bill, and he thinks that will help the bill pass successfully.
Finally, Admussen said the higher education committee
could "be on the chopping block" as far as funding goes, so they will lobby to prevent funding cuts.
A bill authored by Michael Walker to fund keynote speaker Dr. Mary Beltran at the 18th annual Graduate Symposium also passed through full senate.
The approved bill will allocate $1,000 to the Film and Media Graduate Council for the funding of the speaker.
A bill also passed which will fund a bachelor of social welfare event featuring social justice writer Michael Patrick MacDonald. He will visit in April and give a public presentation, and $4,780 will be allocated to the event.
— Edited by Laura Kubicki
LON HORWEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tommy Thompson holds a $50 pioneer gold piece retrieved earlier in 1989 from the wreck of the gold ship Central America. According to the US Marshals Service, Thompson, a fugitive treasure hunter wanted for more than 2 years was arrested in Florida on Tuesday.
Treasure hunter who found a fortune in gold is captured
ANDREW WELSH
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A treasure hunter accused of cheating his investors out of their share of one of the richest hauls in U.S. history — $50 million in gold bars and coins from a 19th-century shipwreck — was captured at an upscale Florida hotel after more than two years on the lam.
Federal marshals tracked Tommy Thompson to a Hilton in West Boca Raton and arrested him Tuesday. A warrant had been issued for him in 2012 in Columbus after he failed to show up for a hearing on a lawsuit brought by some of his backers.
The U.S. Marshals Service called him "one of the most intelligent fugitives ever sought"
by the agency and said he relied on cash and employed other means to stay under the radar. Authorities gave no details on how they found him.
Thompson, 62, made history in 1988 when he discovered the sunken SS Central America, also known as the Ship of Gold.
The sidewheel steamer went down in a hurricane about 200 miles off South Carolina in 1857;425 people drowned and tons of gold from the California Gold Rush was lost, contributing to an economic panic.
In a modern-day technological feat, Thompson and his crew brought up thousands of bars and coins, much of them later sold to a gold marketing group in 2000 for about $50 million.
The 161 investors who paid
Thompson $12.7 million to find the ship never saw the proceeds. Two sued — a now-deceased investment firm president and the company that publishes The Columbus Dispatch newspaper and had invested about $1 million.
Thompson was arrested on the civil contempt warrant issued in August 2012 and a criminal contempt warrant, which was issued in spring 2013 but was only made public on Wednesday.
Columbus attorney Rick Robol, who at one time defended Thompson's company, has said there is no proof Thompson stole anything. He said Wednesday that he has been concerned about Thompson's health, calling the arrest "the best thing that can happen for everybody."
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