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realized its vision of growth and invested more resources toward research and faculty.
Jordan Wooden said that the Med Center's goal was to move into a top 50 institution in the nation. She said that St. Luke's use of branding would be limited to research and education and would not affect competition between St. Luke's and KU Hospital.
"We've been engaged in extremely intense negotiations with KU
Hospital to _get_ their blessing,
Jordan Wooden said.
The conflict was so intense that Irene Cumming, KU Hospital president, announced on Tuesday that she would be resigning at the end of June. McCulloch said that the resignation was partially due to conflicts with the Med Center.
"Irene thought the best thing she could do for the hospital would be to keep fighting for this agreement to be done right and allow fresh leadership to come in and take the
hospital the rest of the way under this new environment," McCulloch said.
Cumming will be succeeded by Bob Page, KU Hospital's chief operating officer.
Kansan staff writer Joe Hunt can be contacted at jhunt@kansan. com.
St. Luke's should vote on the proposal by Friday.
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Stiles, Prairie Village senior, has received two $1,200 awards and agreed that it was important for students to do research in college
Stiles other award, which she
'It's a good way to get involved and it helps definitely on your resume.' Stiles said.
Sites other won in 2003, was given to study how heavy ions in a particle accelerator broke apart. She said scientists thought such
collisions created environments that simulated what might the universe might have been like at its beginning.
ions, called anions. She said macrocycles could remove fluorine to purify drinking water, have medical-related uses and potentially make toxic waste less dangerous.
Stiles said she has used her research money to buy software, printing materials and gasoline
"They're very generous with the award that they give."
— to get her from Lawrence to her parent's home in Prairie Village. She also used the funds to travel to Mani, Hawaii, to present findings at a research conference and said she hopes to use her current grant to travel to Geneva, Switzerland, to install the Calorimeter.
"They're very generous with the award that they give." Stiles said.
Gwyndolyn Jones Lansing junior and $1,200 award winner is doing research a floor above Stiles in Malott.
Jones researches macrocycles, compounds that bind to negative
Jones said she spent part of her award to pay for college classes and materials. She said she was taking
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18 credit hours this semester and had a lot of books to buy.
"All the money is a great help," she said. "You
definitely have a lot of expenses in college"
Jones will present part of her research at the University's 10th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. The event, which will showcase the fruits of undergraduate research across the University, is April 14 from noon to 6 p.m. on the fifth and sixth floors of the Kansas Union.
Undergraduate research awards are available to all students. Those interested in undergraduate research awards can contact Nesbitt-Daly in his 208 Nunemaker Center office at 864-4225
Kansan staff writer Nathan Gill can be contacted at ngill@kansan.com.
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A flight deck director signals to move the F/A 18 C on board of the USS John C. Stennis Tuesday. The carrier is sailing in Persian Gulf waters.
U.S. shows off naval power
BY JAMES CALDERWOOD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABOARD THE USS JOHN C. STENNIAS - American warplanes screamed off two aircraft carriers Tuesday as the U.S. Navy staged its largest show of force in the Persian Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, launching a mammoth exercise meant as a message to the Iranians.
The maneuvers with 15 warships and more than 100 aircraft were sure to heighten tensions with Iran, which has frequently condemned the U.S. military presence off its coast and is in a face-off with the West over its nuclear program and its capture of a British naval team.
While they would not say when the war games were planned, U.S. commanders insisted the exercises were not a direct response to Friday's seizure of the 15 British sailors and marines, but they also made clear that the flexing of the Navy's military might was intended as a warning.
"Iran has adopted a very escalatory posture with the things that they have done" he added.
"If there is strong presence, then it sends a clear message that you better be careful about trying to intimidate others," said Capt. Bradley Johanson, commander of the Stennis.
The exercises began four days
after Iranian forces detained the I. Britons for allegedly being in Iranian territorial waters near the northern end of the Gulf. U.S. and British officials insist the team was properly searching cargo vessels inside Iraqi waters.
F/A-18 tighter jets roared off the Stennis' flight deck all day, mounting a dozen rapid-fire training sorties against imaginary enemy ships and aircraft. A sec-
said U.S. warships would stay out of iran territorial waters, which extend 12 miles off the Iranian coast.
"These maneuvers demonstrate our flexibility and capability to respond to threats to maritime security," said Navy Lt. John Perkins, 32, of Louisville, Ky., as the Stennis cruised about 80 miles off the United Arab Emirates after entering the Persian Gulf overnight.
None of America's naval coalition partners in the region joined the maneuvers.
A French naval strike group, led by the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulie, was operating just outside the Gulf in the Arabian Sea. But the French ships were
"These maneuvers demonstrate our flexibility and capability to respond to threats to maritime security"
LT. JOHN PERKINS
U.S. Navy
At the headquarters of the Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain, Cmdr. Kevin Aandahl said the maneuvers would last several days. He
supporting NATO forces in Afghanistan and not taking part in the U.S. maneuvers. Aandahl said.
"They're showing we can keep the maritime environment safe and the vital link to the global economy open."
At the Pentagon, spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Navy routinely conducts exercises
when its forces are deployed near each other.
"The exercise should reassure our friends and allies of our commitment to security and stability in the region," Whitman said. "We are not interested in confrontation in the Gulf."
The war games involve more than 10,000 U.S. personnel mounting simulated attacks on enemy aircraft and ships, while hunting submarines and looking for mines.
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