FRIDAY,APRIL4.2003
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
Medical students present research
By Nikki Overfelt
noverfelt@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Dropping weights on the spinal cords of rats, measuring the rotation of a model pelvis and studying inflammation in rats all in a day's work for three students at the University of Kansas Medical School.
These were three of the 104 research projects presented Wednesday at the Student Research Forum at the school. Medical, graduate, nursing and allied health students conducted the research. Ninety-five students gave platform presentations and nine students gave poster presentations, said Kevin McIntire, who organized the forum.
The students presented their research to a panel composed mostly of faculty judges, McIntire said.
"The main purpose behind the Student Research Forum is to let students practice presenting data in an effective way," he said. "Every student at the Med Center will have to present data somewhere else in some way or another — either in the form of a diagnosis, or presenting data to an audience of international colleagues."
Chris Roark, second-year medical student from Prairie Village, said presenting his research was a little nerve-racking at first.
"It was one of the first times that I was actually presenting to a group of health professionals and doctors about work in their field," he said. "But overall it's a relaxed environment they provide and everyone there wants you to succeed."
Roark's research involved working on a new technique to study how the blood flow in the
spinal cord changes after a spinal cord injury. To do the study, he dropped weights on the spinal cords of rats and then scanned their spinal cords to examine the blood flow. Roark worked on his research for eight weeks in the summer and then for about four or five hours each month since the summer, he said.
Brennen Lucas, third-year medical student from Wichita, got a free trip to Greece because of his research. Lucas presented his research at a scoliosis conference in Greece with a professor at the medical school before he presented it at the forum, he said. Lucas said presenting his research felt fantastic.
In the summer between his first and second year of medical school, he started researching a way to measure pelvic rotation in patients with scoliosis. Lucas worked with a model pelvis and
marked the rotation on the model.
Brice Zogleman, second-year medical student from Wichita presented his research on inflammation.
Since May 2002, Zogleman has been looking at inflammation on a micro scale. His research involves studying the signal pathways responsible for initiation of an inflammatory response. He used rats to perform the experiments.
"Having the presentation done is a good feeling," he said. "That's a load off, I would say it's not actually done, though. There's still a lot of work that could done on the same project."
But Zogleman isn't finished now that his presentation is over. He said he planned to continue his research.
Edited by Christy Dendurent
Reservists fill gaps in U.S. Military
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — In the past four years, Sgt. Pat Shelton has spent a full 12 months away from his family and his job to serve with the U.S. military's 241st Air Traffic Control Squadron in St. Joseph, Mo.
Shelton is one of America's reservoirs, who signed up to be part-time soldiers but are receiving more frequent calls to duty as the United States battles terrorism and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
of paper."
"Most people joined the Guard as a volunteer force," Shelton said. "They didn't anticipate — I didn't anticipate — being activated this much. But at the same time, I put my name on that piece
With almost half of America's military force in the reserves, the country depends on part-time soldiers like Shelton to become fully devoted to any U.S. conflict.
Reservists served 36 million days of active duty last year, according to the Pentagon. That's a tremendous jump from the approximately 1 million days American reservists put in during the 1980s and triple the service typical during the mid-1990s.
The increase has some members of Congress and Pentagon officials concerned.
"We have people in the Reserves who have been in Bosnia, Kosovo and now Iraq," Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) said.
at a Senate Armed Services sub committee meeting last week. "How on earth they can continue to do that is beyond me."
U. S. Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Missouri) said he had advocated increasing the size of the active force in bills since 1995, but with no success. Skelton, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, says the Pentagon has resisted increasing the active military, apparently because that would be expensive. Reserves are cheaper to maintain because they are paid only when needed.
"The active duty is too small, especially the Army." Skelton said. "At some point, you are going to wear out those who are filling the gaps, mainly the Guard
and Reserve."
Many of the reserve units have specialized duties such as medical care, bridge building and chemical weapons response. Units with commonly needed specialties are called to duty more frequently.
It's a dramatic change from the "weekend warrior" routine in which reserve troops trained every fourth weekend and two weeks a year, but were otherwise free to live their lives.
Master Sgt. James Thompson, a reservist who has been on security duty at Fort Riley, Kan., for 18 of the last 19 months says it's not too much to ask.
"I was born and raised in the United States," Thompson said, "and when it calls, I go."
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