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Show The Daily Utah UrffiOMCLE University of Utah Monday January 7, 1991 Welcome Back! Exhibit: Contemporary Vol. 100, No. 61 Researchers patent smaller artificial heart Works of Mixed Media: "New Automatism," Layne R. Meacham, Union Gallery, 9 a.m. 4 p.m. (through Jan. police recover stolen lab U. equipment, arrest suspect rr-c-?i 7 By Melissa Garber Chronicle Staff Writer Wtfit) -- 19). Seminar: Psychology: "Implicit Memory Research and Its implication for Education," Dan J. Woltz, 305 MBH, noon. Lecture: University of Utah Museum of Natural History Winter Lecture Series: "The End of Nature," Bill McKibben of The New Yorker magazine, East High School Auditorium (840 So. 1300 East), 7:30 p.m. ($3 admission). Inside The End of Nature? of is Natural History. sponsoring a series of six separate lectures on the world's bill of health. Author Bill McKibben gets the series underway tonight The Utah Museum at Salt Lake City's East High School. See Page 9 A SportsMonday complete wrap-u- p of all U. athletic events over the break. Coverage includes men's and women's basketball, and skiing. Plus, the Chronicle's annual Western Athletic Conference basketball preview. See Pages 14-1- 9 Flashback On Jan. 7, 1971, the Chronicle reported: '"We have no major problems other than overcrowding, which we always have,' said Gerald Walk, University Book Store manager, after what he judged to be the busiest part of the quarter for his establishment. 'We have too many people and not enough space' he lamented. 'There have been a lot of people, but I'm not sure just how many. There are no exact figures available. It seems like there were over 20,000 each day.'" University of Utah biomedical engineering researchers were granted a patent in December for the Utah 100, an artificial heart designed to prolong the lives of patients awaiting permanent heart transplants. Researchers have been working on the new artificial heart since the early 80s after they lost Food and Drug Administration approval for the Jarvik-- Salt Lake City can expect cloudy and hazy skies Monday with only a slight chance of snow in the afternoon and evening. High: 33, Low: 21. Tuesday: Continued yucky. Highs in the low 30s. Lows in the low 20s. Sunrise: 7:52, Sunset: 5:16 Sunday's High Temperature: 30 CHRONICLE WEATHERTom Wiscomb F - Thar it artificial heart when they became 7 If ?A- rs . Donald Olsen, biomedical engineering institute director, said the Utah 100 uses the materials that were in the Jarvik-7- , but its design is more compact and it can pump a greater amount of blood with each beat about 100 milliliters. He said another benefit of the Utah 100 heart is the way the housing ventricles are designed. Their design will make their construction easier and the heart much more reliable. According to John Holfert, Utah 100 mechanical engineer who has been involved with the artificial organs program from its inception, said, "The U. 100 is designed to fit better into the chest space of the patient. With the Jarvik heart we couldn't pounds." implant it in a patient below 150-16-0 But, with the Utah 100 he said, "we will be able d to fit it into the chest cavity of a patient and be successful." "The first thing we are preparing to use the device for is to use it as a bridge to transplanting. The heart can be a holdover device until a real heart becomes available," Holfert said. Now that researchers have acquired a patent they are awaiting FDA approval. Holfert is optimistic for the U.'s chances of receiving approval because he said, "Of the four schools which have received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the U. artificial heart program, if it's not the top school, is definitely right up there with the other schools." But once biomedical engineering researchers receive FDA approval of the Utah 100, Holfert said, they must be sure to keep up with the program. see "heart" on page four i 11 - 1 &m&niim. By Susan Williams Chronicle Staff Writer University of Utah police arrested a suspect Friday after recovering between $30,000 to $40,000 of U. property. Rex Bood, U. detective, said Sidney Williamson, a former medicinal researcher at the U., was arrested Friday at 9:30 p.m. after U. police obtained a search warrant Friday afternoon. Salt Lake City police charged the suspect on two felony counts of burglary and possession of stolen property, Bood said. U. police plan to file additional charges Monday or Tuesday. The suspect was apprehended Dec. 17 after city police were called to a burglary alarm at which the suspect was allegedly found with a stolen U. van, he said. All of the recovered property was taken from within U. boundaries, he said. Some of the recovered property is part of more than $8,000 of equipment stolen from the Annex building on Nov. 2. Not all of the equipment missing from that burglary has been recovered. Computers, printers, labware, janitorial equipment and several fire extinguishers were recovered, he added. Part of the property was found in the van. The burglaries may have been staged over two or three years, he said. The van was reported stolen on Dec. 8 from campus near the Annex Building. Wayne Shepherd, U. police chief, said serial numbers on the property have confirmed and that much of the equipment came from the Annex Building. The recovered equipment will be returned to the department. social and behavioral college packed 1000-- g 1 1 1 - -- 900- - 8001 : 700i CO 5 300 Jz 200-- 5 rr DQ 100- - same. According to a study by the college, the number of students majoring in the social and behavioral sciences has increased from 1,800 students in 1985 : - -- OJ "XX m 111 1 in CO ' CO CD Soc. Behav. Sci. co CO ' LO CO CD science classes has increased since 1984. However, the number of faculty members expected to educate them has remained the ' 400-- i Although the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is graduating more students than other colleges on the University of Utah campus, its classes are still overcrowded due to a lack of funding, a U. official said. Donna Gelfand, college dean, said the number of students registering for behavioral dE 500- - By Heather Johnson Chronicle Staff Writer 1984-9- 0 1 1 1 600-- E S si University of Utah police recovered a university van and an estimated $10,000 to $20,000 in computer components and miscellaneous laboratory equipment after the arrest of a burglary suspect. Number of graduates from U. colleges, 1O I CHRONICLE PHOTOUniversity Police 123-poun- 0 I ... research. U. rCti ,J " delinquent in filing reports on the status of their Weather CloudyHazy TV IX?' 1 Science m j o co cr CO CO CO r- CO CO ' CD CO CD CD CD to more than 2,700 in 1990, an increase of 51 percent. Meanwhile, the number of faculty members has stayed the same. 1 j CO CO CO CD iu ' Tf CD Humanities Additional full-tim- e faculty members cannot be hired in the near future because the college lacks sufficient funds to hire new faculty, Gelfand added. "The faculty has done a tremendous job with these overcrowdingl problems," she said, see "crowded" on page two Non-Prof- it Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT |
