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Students also have a chance to see firsthand how research is applied, and can make better sense of the data.
Whitehead and Rosenberg studied for six weeks the effectiveness of biofeedback in reducing non-medical stomach pain in children.
Tanya Whitehead, a graduate student who does research in the department of pediatrics, said she was eager to share with other researchers the knowledge and experience she conducted with Allan Rosenberg, associate professor of pediatrics.
Chapman said the day allowed researchers to share their findings and hear about research being conducted in other fields.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Fifty-one research displays, six awards to research faculty and a keynote speech by a leader in genetics research highlighted Friday's ninth annual Research Day at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
One day is set aside each year to recognize outstanding research conducted by Med Center faculty, said A.L. Bornstein of graduate studies and research.
Med Center Research Day allows sharing of study ideas
and assistant-level faculty who are considered to be the rising stars in research, Chapman said.
Investigator awards were presented to Chuck Biddle, department of nurse anesthesia education, School of Allied Health; Joan Hunt, department of pathology and oncology, School of Medicine; Brooks Keel, department of medicine; Edgar Edahm, School of Medicine-Wichita; and Eddam Hema, School of Nursing.
A special award also was presented to John Kepes, professor of pathology and oncology. The senior-level award recognizes a distinguished faculty member in the last year of research before retirement.
To end the ceremony, C. Thomas Caskey, a national leader in genetics research, spoke about the advances in gene replacement therapy.
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Hideki Nagase, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, was the only recipient of the Senior Investigator Research Award this year. He is also a benefactor for his research in the cellular properties of arthritis and cancer growth.
Gene therapy is the placing of normal gene cells in cells containing genes responsible for inherited defects. The hope is that the normal genes eventually will replace the defective genes.
By Kerrie Gottschalk Kansan staff writer
Displays, awards and keynote speaker highlight annual event
Chapman said selected faculty members from the schools of Allied Health, Medicine and Nursing special awards for their research.
Caskey, director of the Institute for Molecular Genetics at the University of Baylor College of Medicine. She was born in mice born with a muscular defect.
The Investigator Recognition Awards are presented to associate-
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A former student who went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa left a professor injured in a meeting room but returned a few minutes later and killed him, a witness said yesterday.
The Associated Press
Paul Hansen, a research scientist in the physics and astronomy department, said that professors were 10 to 15 minutes into their weekly meeting Friday when Gang Lu stood up and shot three people.
The Senior Investigator Research Awards are given to faculty members who have established national and international research for their research, Chapman said.
Hansen said that Lu left the room at Van Allen Hall but returned and killed the injured man, associate professor Robert Alan Smith.
"I assumed he just wanted to be sure they were dead," Hansen told The Associated Press.
Gunman kills five at University of Iowa
medical student.
"The exposure proves (the research and its results) are real." Harris said.
Former student not chosen for dissertation award goes on shooting rampage
Jennifer Wagner, a second-year medical student, said it was helpful to see that the information students were learning could be applied outside the classroom.
The topics ranged from Alzheimer's disease to cell biology and from genetics to early childhood studies
The research displays provided information about the content, format and conclusions of specific studies.
Four of the five people killed were shot at Van Allen, home of the physics
"When Lu came back, I could tell what he was going to do by the way he was acting. I said, 'Gang Lu, don't.' That's when he told us to leave. He was pretty determined," Hansen said. Hansen said Lu didn't threaten them with a gun when he told them to leave the room.
The victims were shot at point-blank range Hansen said. Lu used the 38-caliber revolver, authorities said.
Hansen said he and others fled the room to call for help. A few minutes later, Hansen said he and Iver Cairns, an adjunct assistant professor who also was the meeting, went back into the room.
"He seemed quite relaxed. He didn't seem to be interested in us," Hansen said.
longer a student but regularly attended the weekly meetings because he assisted in research projects.
and astronomy department. They were department chairperson Dwight Nicholson, who was shot in his office, professor Christoph Goertz, researcher Linha Shan and Smith.
Lu then went to another building, fatally wounded an administrator and critically wounded a secretary before he killed himself.
Lu, 28, who was from Beijing, earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1991. He was upset that his dissertation did not include law, officials said. Shan won the award.
La was one of seven or eight people who gathered on the third floor of Van Allen Hall, Hansen said. He was no
The award enabled Shan to compete nationally for the Council of Graduate Schools and University Microfilms award, given for the nation's best dissertation, said Les Sims, dean of the university's graduate school.
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Informational meeting Monday, November 11,
1991, 7:45 a.m., in room 100 Stauffer-Flint.