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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 4 SPONGE continued from Page 1 money, but found that people were much more interested when they could see the magazine in print. "We had mostly been promoting within bioengineering, but we started to realize we'd get a lot more submissions if we opened it up," he said. The staff contacted other departments, such as neuroscience and pharmaceutics, and sent an email about The Sponge to invite more participation last year. The magazine provides a way to break out of the rigidity of science, said Georgia Sinimbu, a graduate student in biology and an editor who joined the publication last semester. "I was always interested in how science could use other ways of communication to get out there to normal people ... who are not scientificky," INTERFACE continued from Page 1 seeing important results," Wise said. "We're almost ready to spark a revolution in prostheses. Personally, I believe this could be the best treatment for severe Parkinson's disease." CLIMBING continued from Page 1 with a clip from a film about the 1963 American Mount Everest expedition. He said humans have long used climbing as a way of overcoming obstacles, not only physical but mental, and that recreation shapes identity. "Recreation is one of the primary ways we define ourselves through time," he said. "Climbers' tales cast light on themselves and the central themes of their time, nature, technology, etc." Taylor is the author of Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers and the Risk of Nature, upon which his lecture was based. Taylor said he has been a climber since his teens, but looking at climbing through a historical lens helped him see deeper themes than simple enjoyment. He said climbing had a predominantly social element up to the 197os, which resulted in large climbing groups that included social activities such as dinner parties and dating, rather than an individual approach like what exists today. "From its beginning to its end, climbing was social," he said. "Club members devoted more time to social things than to climbing. Long lines of climbers were extensions of the party." Matt Basso, director of the American West Center, said the center hosted the lecture she said. "The way you communicate yourself through science is very tight, and this allows you to be more yourself. It's more of an individual perspective." Sinimbu said she enjoys the skills the magazine is helping her build and the collaboration it promotes. "I'm learning every day ... it's giving me other expertise beyond [what] I work every day in school," she said. "I'm very happy to be part of the group and [it] promotes a very healthy communication." Nolta said the publication is now funded by the Student Media Council, which gave the group $1,500 for the 2011-2012 academic year. Full Disclosure: The Daily Utah Chronicle is also partially funded by the council. The group has been able to publish everything submitted so far and now offers contests and prompts to engage more students. The current prompt is a photography and poetry contest themed, "Water: A Natural Wonder," and includes a cash prize of $350 for the winning piece, donated by the Intermountain Section of the America Water Works Association. Nolta said an employee approached him at an award ceremony to offer the prize money to tie in with Utah's Water Week, which is the first week in May. Future goals include increasing funding and distribution and netting more student participation. "Everybody [is] always pretty excited when it comes out to see the copies floating about," he said. "You can tell people are ... proud when they see their work formatted and sent out to a bunch of people ... and [we'd] just like to be able to bring it to more students." The Sponge accepts creative writing and artwork from science and engineering students. Content can be anything from poems to opinion A lot of the setbacks in his project have to do with finding the right materials to use that won't interfere with the transmission of signals and that are suitable for safely implanting in the brain, Wise said. He also explained that many of the implants become coated in brain fluids, which shield the recording sites and make it difficult for the interface to function properly. To fix these issues, Wise proposes implants be made of flexible materials. "Things like these always look better on paper than when you actually try to do them," he said. "It ain't easy, but these things are coming." a.cook@chronicle.utah.edu in part because of climbing's relevance in Utah. "We think this is a topic of deep interest locally," Basso said. "Utah is one of the climbing hubs not only nationally, but in the world." Taylor said the rising standard of living and development of technology led to a decrease in clubs as a part of climbing in the 197os. "The development of technical climbing increased the seriousness and shrunk the size of climbing clubs," he said. "Rising standards of living lessened the need for clubs and by the beginning of the '705 club culture had basically gone into decline." Taylor said that after the 1970s, the sport became dominated by those who devoted themselves to it full time. This developed into a culture of lawbreakers who were also incredible athletes, he said. "In order to survive, these people were denying the laws but also were extraordinary athletes in some points," he said. Taylor said contemporary climbing culture is focused on individual accomplishment and uses more climbing gyms than outdoor spaces. Dynamics have also shifted to account for family values, like setting aside time for certain age groups in gyms, and yet climbing has lost its sense of togetherness, he said. "Climbing gyms are complicated social spaces," he said. "They are places filled with people and on a superficial level, you see the club culture emerging, but we still see rather discreet bodies associating with each other. We do not see that equivalent sense of an 'us' that used to be ... this is what has been lost in estranging trend." Erin Adcock, a U graduate in English, said she attended the lecture because of her interest in climbing. "I thought it was interesting to explore climbing culture and to have insight into where climbing culture is now and was then," she said. Camden Burd, a U graduate in history, said he also found the study of social dynamics in climbing appealing. "It was interesting to read into the change of the social dynamic of climbing as opposed to anything else. You can read into that with any kind of activity in the outdoors," he said. Taylor said his interest in climbing culture developed accidentally, when he was invited to a conference in Maui to present a paper on another topic and go surfing, but ended up presenting on climbing and bolting wars instead. The American West Center and the Utah Humanities Council presented the lecture, which was co-sponsored by the Marriott Library's Special Collections. m.gessel@ chronicle.utah.edu Tuesday, March 6, 2012 PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTHCARE Editor Nick Nolta hung copies of The Sponge on a tree in the Warnock Engineering Building in December. The literary magazine is by and for science and engineering students. pieces and photography to fiction. So sue are due March 23, according to far, all submissions have been pub- the website. lished. 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