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Show Monday March 16. 2009 Dental hygiene students take first place for smoking research IVERSmr MARKETING A team of Utah Valley University dental hygiene students recently received first-place honors for their research and presentation on third-hand smoke at the annual Utah Dental Association convention in Salt Lake City. Each year, dental hygiene schools across the state compete for honors at the conference through their respective table clinic presentations on various topics in oral health. At this year's convention, which took place Feb. 19-20, approximately 40 different presentation groups competed, representing each of the five hygiene schools in the state. Practicing dentists, hygienists and assistants viewed the presentations, which were then judged by a panel of dentists from the Utah Dental Association. Erin Michaels, Tricia Crandall an4 Colette Hinchcliff of UVU were recognized with first-place honors and a cash prize for their research on the effects of third-hand smoke. Third-hand smoke refers to the residual tobacco smoke contamination that remains after a cigarette is extinguished. This contamination takes the form of toxins left over from second-hand smoke and builds up on surfaces such as clothing, hair and furniture, posing a serious health risk long after the smoke is visibly gone. The UVU student researchers conveyed how this risk is highest for infants and children, whose developing brains are particularly affected by the toxins. In its efforts to support development in thefieldand advances in dental hygiene education, the UVU Department of Dental Hygiene has made more information on this subject available to the public at www.uvu.edu/csh/ dental. The department also houses a dental hygiene clinic, which is open to the public and provides affordable, professional dental hygiene care to the local community. Appointments can be scheduled by calling (801) 863-7608. "The Utah Valley University Department of Dental Hygiene is committed to fostering school and community • % Illustration by Aaron Anderson/ UVU Review service in our students and graduates," said department chair George Veit. "Our students are always out in the community, and [this recent recognition] is just another example of how students with faculty mentorship are engaged, creative and successful in what they accomplish." UVU's Department of Dental Hygiene currently offers two-year associates degree programs as well as a bachelor degree completion program, which will be available online beginning fall semester 2009. TANYA from • A1 people maybe get angry, but we didn't think people actually killed people. Denise did try to take my sister out three times or so and Nicole kept going back. Do you feel that justice was served for Nicole? No it wasn't. Not at all. When somebody does something wrong like this, there should have been huge consequences. How do you feel about O.J. Simpson and where he's at in life now? Tanya Brown talks about her personal experience with domestic abuse. Trent Bates/uvu Review UVU BOUKSTURE Your Campus. Your Needs. Your Store. It doesn't matter now. I've known this person since I was 7 years old. So I've known him pretty much my whole The Zome is the largest mathematical structure ever to be built. "Your body is a threedimensional object and your shadow is flat which from • A1 has two dimensions," Van Wagoner said. " [The Zome] along with Kathi Van Wag- is a shadow of a four dimenoner and Robert Williams' sional object, a compound of UVU's math department, of 75x16 cells." hosted the activity, offerNot only the complexing students a hands-on and ity, but also the beauty of inspiring experience to en- the structure was evident in hance their appreciation of its appearance. mathematics. "I build these because I Upon completion, the find them beautiful," RichZome was approximately 5 ter said. feet wide and 5 feet tall. The purpose for build- ZOME life. It's so surreal that you don't want to believe that it happened. You want to believe that they're not that person. But they are and people like that are dangerous. But now he's finally doing time... not just for Nicole and Ron [GoldmanJ but for all this stuff he's done. Tanya Brown More info: visit www.TanyaBrown.net or e-mail at Tanya@tanyabrown. net sation, we had to go down to the beach. How did you and your family We were also scrutinized heal from this traumatic even when we smiled, asking event? us why we were smiling. If we cried, they would ask why We never really did. We were we crying. We had kids were immersed in some- to think about. Our energy thing that was very intrusive. went to [the kids] and they We had helicopters over our were a good distraction, but it house, five to seven at a time, didn't permit us to really acfor months. People would knowledge our own grief. sneak into our community For me, five years ago this and we'd find them sitting in October, all that grief came our house. There were news out in one night and it put me reporters on every corner. in the behavioral health deWe had satellite, dishes zonpartment at our local hospital ing in on our conversations for 10 days. That's where my inside our house. Whenever we needed to have a conver- healing process began. Robert Jones/UVU Review ing the structure was to give students a hands-on experience for engaged learning in mathematics. Acknowledging the intricacies of the project, Van Wagoner noted, "[It] is pretty sophisticated, and it would take a, long time to explaining all of it." As part of Math Week, students had the chance to participate in other mindbending activities such as Chess and mind-teasers. What's your advice to people going through the healing process? Acknowledge your emotions. Don't ignore them. Whatever it is that you're feeling or going through, talk to somebody. If you have a hard time talking to somebody, then sit down with a journal and write it out. Don't hold it in because it will bite you later on. Just acknowledge your emotions because what stays in will eventually have to come out. Brown hopes for an ongoing open discussion of domestic violence prevention awareness after her visit to UVU. She recommends that people stay connected by visiting her Web site, by blogging, e-mailing her questions, or sending awareness campaign ideas. es Gift Cards are Her • iTunes STORE HOURS: Mon. - Thur. Fri. Sat. Sun. 7:45 AM - 7:00 PM 7:45 AM - 5:00 PM 9:00 AM-1:00 PM CLOSED j Ask for them in the Computer Department |