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Show 6 The Magna Times West Valley News, Thursday, April 22, 1993 J Cyprus grad uses research award Cyprus High to study drought effects on plants offers May preschool A 1987 Cyprus High School graduate is using her biology scholarship at the University of Utah to learn if plants change genetically in response to drought. Laura Krause, daughter of Kathy Sundblom, Gabbs, Nev., and the late Daniel Johnson, is a junior majoring in biology. She is the granddaughter of Thelma Rushton, Cyprus High Preschool is now enrolling. Children ages three-fiv- e are welcome to sign up. Preschool begins May 4, 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon. Children will participate in art activities, story time, science, math, music, and have a nutritious snack. The preschool is a great opportunity to let kids socialize with others their age and learn something new. Space is limited, cost is $20. Exact days preschool is in operation will be furnished at time of enrollment. For more information, call West Valley City. Through the Department of Biologys Hughes Undergraduate Biological Research Program, Krause takes special seminars and enhances her classroom lessons with a part-tim- e job in the laboratory of Dr. Karl G. Lark, professor of biology. Krause grows soybean plants to a certain size, stops watering them to induce drought stress, and prepares them for genetic analysis. The aim of the research is to see if stress induces genetic changes. I enjoy being in the greenhouse, Krause said. I practically live there. In summer, Ill get to work outside with plants in the garden. To get a job in biology, lab experience like this is just as important as a degree. Im learning to use all kinds of neat instruments to measure transpiration rates, photosynthesis, and so on. Professor Lark is brilliant. Krause says that even as a high school student she was interested in becoming some kind of a scientist, but didnt 1 "enrolFm advanced placement biology. She is glad, however, that she mathematics. AP took After taking art and general education classes at Salt Lake Community Col- - Scholarships available collegiate athletic scholarships are available each year to male and female high school and junior college student Laura Krause studies how soybean plants respond to drought in a University of Utah greenhouse. lege, Krause entered the U of U in autumn 1992. Concerned about biodiversity and eager, she said, to save the rainforests, she quickly signed up for a class on rain forest ecology and conservation. The biology professors who taught the class wrote letters recommending her for the Hughes scholarship. The Hughes program introduced me to a lot of other biology students and has given me good connections to the faculty, too, she said, rve'm'de TTW W Hew .jiom friends enoUBS Krause focuses on plant biology rather than zoology, in part, she said, because I couldnt cut up little animals. Im a vegetarian! Com (XaI-O- I Fine Foods Days, at all S.L. Co. libraries. West Jordan Library will present Unicorns! at 3 p.m. for Celebrate National Library Week with unicorn ages six-1stories and jokes, and make a unicorn bookmark. Registration is required. Call 1. 6. TUESDAY, APRIL 27 Kearns Library offers Green Means Me, a puppet show all ages, presented by Strings N Things. The show begins at 7 p.m. for Morrill resigns as president of Granite Board of Education experience, but Im Morrill resigned from his post after serving 4& years on the board and as president of the board since January. He has accepted a call to serve a mission in Guatemala for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. boards an- ticipating another wonderful experience on a mission. He resigned from the presidency im- mediately, but will remain on the district board until the end of June when he leaves with his family for Central America. Morrill passed the gavel to board vice president Bob Arnold, who took over as president. Patricia Sandstrom was appointed board vice Support your local schools and attend the games! Great, affordable fun for the family! athletes. Contrary to popular belief, students dont have to to qualify. Much be of this money goes unused. A new publication with forms, sample letters, and tables of factual information research, she studies Latin, which helps her make sense of scientific terminology, completes a language requirement for an honors degree, and is entertaining. Although she hopes to all-sta- te is available for student athletes. It takes them step travel after graduation, Krause said, Maybe Ill go by step through the important for another degree. Ive realprocess of getting an athletic ly enjoyed school. scholarship and includes col- -' As part of the Howard lege and conference listings. For more information, Hughes Medical Institutes send a 10 effort to stimulate career interests in biological research, u stamped envelope to: the Hughes program awards SportSnFbuiid16n, lr$l,000L$lj90023ftflShP;tA nojgffAWiUoDtmfF.Ol Box about 40 freshmen and 940, Oakhurst, NJ 07755. sophomores each year. Other" Hughes programs at the U of U serve high school and junior high school students during the summer. d, Na-ttt- W f mmm Vital Links le Dennis Morrill has resigned as president of the Granite Board of Education. plementing her soybean Home and School: All Salt Lake County libraries will hold Fine Foods Days. Patrons may exchange food items for up to a $5 reduction in library fines accrued since the beginning of 1993. SATURDAY, APRIL 24 I am leaving with very mixed emotions, said Morrill. .Being involved with this board has been a wonderful -- j COREY CATTEN Over 100,000 23 943-463- 4 250-860-0. Library News FRIDAY, APRIL 14 by LILY ESKELSEN President, Utah Education Association My fifth grade son thinks Im mean. Real mean. mean. He also thinks Real nice. But being mean, nice. mom is that everybody elses tremendous the to understand and smile learned compliIve ment Im being paid. While we were on vacation, Jared lost his favorite Raiders baseball cap. He had it just the night before, but now it was gone. We searched the motel room. We looked out by the pool. It wasnt in the suitcase. Just gone. He was devastated. He loved that hat. And I felt bad for him. While we were paying in the lobby, someone saw the dejected look on his face and asked him what was wrong. Jared explained that hed lost his best hat. The man looked up at me and smiled, then said to Jared, Guess your mom will have to buy you a new one. Jared didnt quite get it. He said matter of factly, She didnt lose it. But then he sensed the sympathy in the mans voice. A touch of generosity and understanding and comfort conspicuously absent in his cold dealings with me. I saw his strategy adjust for his audience. In his best wounded puppy imitation, he whined, She never gets us new stuff when we lose something. She makes us pay for everything. The man looked at me like he expected me to protest. I just smiled. Jared thought it was a kind of mean smile. But I hope it was the kind of smile that said, If he saves his allowance and doesnt blow every quarter on some stupid video game, hell have enough for a new cap in a couple of weeks. I hope it was a smile that said, He earned that hat by himself in the first place. Thats why it meant so much to him. Hell earn the next one. Thats why hell be more careful. I hope it said, Kids who have everything handed to them never know the worth of what they have. My kids, on the other hand, know how to figure out sales tax. But my kids will not appreciate me for it. And neither will yours. They will say you dont love them. They will say you dont care. They will say that all their friends feel sorry for them and that no other kids have to work or save or buy the and CDs by groups essentials of life like Hypercolor like Kids with Bad Hair. They will say youre the with names meanest parent on the planet. And when they do, walk proud. Take the compliment. Look into their tortured faces and smile real mean. . Cyprus grad reports on catheter research A 1988 graduate of Cyprus High School recently reported to a national audience on his bioengineering research that might eventually make some heart bypass surgeries unnecessary. Corey Catten, son of Bonnie Catten of Magna and Dennis Catten of Bountiful, is a University of Utah senior majoring in electrical engineering with a minor in mathematics. At the 7th National Con- ference on Undergraduate Kearch neld atxne U of C Catten joined March 25-2- 7, approximately 1,500 undergraduates and their advisors from more than 200 colleges and universities nationwide who gathered to hear and discuss the results of their work. Working on a team with four classmates to fulfill requirements for a senior project, Catten helped design a catheter with a small microwave antenna that heats plaque so it falls away from artery walls and is carried the by away bloodstream. By clearing clogged arteries better than catheters that use lasers or operate like pipe cleaners, such a device might help paavoid tients bypass operations. Its really a timely project, Catten said. Students have approached us and asked us when our catheter will be available because they have family members who have clogged arteries. He said animal testing will start later this year at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Describing the conference as bumping elbows with the scientific community, Catten said, It was challenging to put nine months of five research peo- into a presentation. Our paper was selected to be published in the journal of the conference. Thats a big deal to us. For a scientist, nothing is valid until it is published. The opportunities that the ples university provides for undergraduate research are part of a national movement that is growing fast, said Dr. Peter L. Goss, associate dean of undergraduate studies and conference Students are taking what theyve learned in the co-chai- r. classroom and are applying it and discovering more. even The research done by Cat-te- n and his teammates was sponsored by Sonic Star International of Jamestown, N.Y., as part of the U of Us Engineering Clinic. The popular program provides undergraduate engineering d students with research experience. , $ In return for a $25,000 sponsorship fee, a company assigns a specific research project to a student team of four or five members, who a faculty,adviior. WorlLwith -Tattensteam iftasgulaSJby Dr. Magdy F, Iskander, pro- fessor of electrical engineering, who founded the clinic in real-worl- 1986. Professor Iskander worked with us really closely, said Catten. Hes an excellent lecturer and really good at helping you see whats going on. The U of Us computer, modeling capabilities allowed the students to test the effects of heat on arteries, plaque, blood, and muscles. Catten said their liaison at Sonic Star knows of only two other groups working on a similar one in Moscow catheter and one in Israel. Corey is an excellent student and a responsible person, said Iskander. He took a leadership role and really shined as a researcher. Clinic Engineering students sign contracts with sponsoring companies, subjecting themselves to the same kind of work pressures felt by professional engineers meeting schedules and deadlines, reporting periodically on the status fo their work, and accounting for their works quality. It was nice to have something to work on thats really important. It makes you feel good about yourself to actually be making a difference, said Catten. Also, Sonic Star is flying us to New York in May to deliver a final report to their engineers. Now, when I go to look for a job in the health care area as an engineer, I can say I have, a year of experience mid have done research. . Catten credits Cyprus High School with helping to prepare him to take advantage of the Us opportunities. He especially cites his calculus teacher, Gresh Ivey, who now teaches at Hunter High School. Mr. Ivey was , CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 |