wednesday, march 31, 2004
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the university daily kansan
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Scientists awarded scholarships
Two students receive award for strengths in research
By Rupal Gor
rgor@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Two students at the University of Kansas won a prestigious national scholarship that encourages research in science, math and engineering.
Stephen Floor, Lawrence junior, and Dyan Vogel, Overland Park junior, both won the scholarship that provides up to $7,500.
The Barry M. Goldwater
scholarship supports students who intend to pursue a career in research and show outstanding work in research as undergraduates, said Sue Lorenz, interim associate director of the honors program.
Thirty-five KU students have won the scholarship since 1989, when the program began. At least one student has received a scholarship each year.
Students who have an exceptional academic record, research experience and want to pursue a career in math, science or engineering were eligible for the scholarship.
Floor, a physics and computer science major, said he was shocked when he found out he
He said that although he did not have perfect grades, his research experience stood out. Floor has published two papers, has given talks at universities and travelled to Europe for presentations.
received the scholarship.
"It really motivates me to do as well as I can because that's what I have been doing in the past two years, and was rewarded for that," Floor said.
Right now, he is working on computer simulations of invented universes with Adrian Melott, physics professor. They design universities and watch gravity take its course as it builds galaxy clusters.
Vogel is working with an experiment called fluorescent microscopy to find a region of DNA that interacts with a gene from fruit flies. Fluorescent
microscopy allows her to watch the embryonic cells interact.
Floor said he was considering to attend graduate school in Germany.
The most interesting part of her research, Vogel said, was working on fluorescent microscopy because she can learn about new techniques in the lab and get ideas from other people. Vogel has been to conferences in Chicago, Houston and Columbia, Mo.
He's been to Sweden, Greece and Denmark for presentations and said he enjoyed European life.
She plans on using her scholarship toward graduate school, though she's not sure yet where she wants to go.
— Edited by Kevin Flaherty
Rehab fails to break smoking addiction
Studies show people leaving drug rehab tend to smoke, putting their lives at risk
By Joshua Kendall
jkendall@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Every year 725,000 people go through drug rehab to only be released with a stronger addiction to smoking cigarettes.
Studies show that people with a history of drug abuse also smoke.
This correlation goes predominantly unnoticed, said Kimber Richter, assistant professor of preventive medicine and public health at the KU Medical Center.
"Many drug users go through treatment for other drugs only to end up dying of tobacco," Richter said.
The deadliest drugs are the legal ones. Richter said.
Smoking is a big concern among the medical community because it stands as the No.1 preventable cause of death in the United States, said Melissa Smith, manager of health education department at Watkins Memorial Health Center. She said that most people do not consider smoking and drug abuse to be the same thing.
"It seems ironic that Medicare covers Viagra in every state but not nicotine replacement therapy."
Kimber Richter
Kimber Hunter Assistant professor of preventive medicine and public health at the KU Medical Center
"The rational is that drug problems differ from smoking because of their consequences," Smith said.
Drug use is perceived to have a larger impact on medical and social problems than cigarettes, which is not the case, Smith said.
trol reported that 1 percent of deaths in 1990 were attributed to drug use while nearly 20 percent were linked to tobacco.
The Centers for Disease Con-
A study conducted by Richter found that drug users are three times more likely to be smokers.
This ratio further increases when patients enter drug rehabilitation.
Richter cited a study by R.D. Hurt, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, that found that 50.9 percent of 845 people who went through addiction treatment died from tobacco-related causes.
One of the major issues with tobacco is that it is socially acceptable whereas drug use is not, said Patricia Denning, a physician at Watkins.
Although only minor smoking prevention is coupled with drug rehabilitation, physicians and nurses in nearly all hospitals encourage patients to quit smoking. Smith said. Patients at Watkins are asked as religiously about smoking as the required blood pressure reading at every check-up.
"There are plenty of people who smoke that do not have a drug addiction problem," said Denning. "But the vast majority that do have drug problems also smoke."
The trouble is that drug users are simply addicted and it is a hard cycle to stop, said Mel Young, an addiction counselor at the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism Center.
Richter said he thought that not enough emphasis was placed on treating smoking addictions that will ultimately cause more deaths.
"It seems ironic that Medicare covers Viagra in every state but not nicotine replacement therapy," Richter said.
— Edited by Robert Perkins
By Azita Tafreshi
atafreshi@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Recycled bicycles given fresh start
Children of the residents of Stouffer Place will get an extra surprise next holiday season thanks to a new partnership between the Department of Student Housing and the Lansing Correctional Facility.
The correctional facility is collecting abandoned bicycles from across the state for its inmates to refurbish and distribute to those in need.
Ten of the collected bikes will be given as prizes to kids at Stouffer Place during their annual holiday party cosponsored by the Stouffer Neighborhood Association and the KU Public Safety Office, said Debbie Ogden, president of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association.
The Kansas City, Kan., junior said she liked how the program would incorporate both recycling and providing for families that may not otherwise be able to afford bikes for their kids.
"It gives us an opportunity to give kids another avenue of recreation." Ogden said.
To participate in the program, the housing department has adopted a new abandoned bicycle policy in cooperation with the KU Public Safety Office and the Lawrence Department of Public Works, said Ken Stoner, director of the Department of Student Housing.
In exchange for contributing abandoned bikes to the program, the department will annually receive five boys' and five girls' bikes meant for children from ages 5 to 12. Stoner said.
Each year, 30 to 50 bicycles are typically abandoned on the property maintained by the Department of Student Housing. Stoner said.
He said the bikes used to be donated in their existing condition to local agencies like the Salvation Army or the Boys and
"It gave us an opportunity to give kids another avenue of recreation."
Debbie Ogden President of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association
Girls Club.
"We were always giving them away, and we were giving them away locally." Stoner said. "The piece that was missing was that they weren't always ready to use."
The bikes would often have defective parts or flat tires, and the various agencies didn't always have the time or expertise to restore them. Stoner said.
"Originally the program was a way to make sure the bicycles were in good shape when they were given to the various agencies here in town," Stoner said. "But then we thought maybe we could ask for a percentage of those bikes to come back to us, particularly on the children's side of it."
In early May, a notice will be issued to residents before the obviously abandoned bicycles are removed, Stoner said. The housing department will then record the serial numbers of the bikes and store them for 60 days.
Any bicycles not claimed in that time will be turned over to the Department of Public Works before being sent to the Lansing Correctional Facility for restoration, he said.
Members of the Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical Department will also provide free helmets to the children who win the bikes at the party.
Stoner said the department has already sent 39 bicycles to the correctional facility this year.
— Edited by Meghan Brune
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