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Show Wednesday, October 4,2006 The Chronicle loves you. Love it back. s Visit us online at www.dadyulahchronicle.com THE UA1LY UTAH UHKUNUJLli Nurse awarded grant to develop patient survey Susan Beck, a nurse at University Hospital and a professor in the College of Nursing, received a $308,000 grant for a research project she has developed to better understand nursing care's effects on patients and their safety. The grant is part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which awards nine interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative grants to teams of nursing scholars each year. Each team receives approximately $300,000 to conduct a two-year research project designed to "generate, disseminate and translate research to improve the quality of care provided in hospitals." Beck's study is dedicated to developing and testing a questionnaire that will be. used to measure the opinions of patients about how. nurses manage their pain. The study will be conducted at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, St. Vincent's Healthcare in Billings, Mont., and the Norris Cottorr Cancer Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical' Center in New Hampshire. Natalie Hale Bomb scare in Research Park HAUHTED HOUSE SURVIVE THETIIGHTHIARE Be the Lucky 13* You and t3 of your friends could win an overnight stay inside the Nightmare on 13th Haunted House on the night of Friday the 13th. To enter, text message the word "Nightmare" to short code 59173* or enter on nightmareon13th.com WEEKDAY .©SAT r IHF0 LIKE 467-8100 www.NightmareOn 13 t h .com Look up before vou go uc We're focused on delivering low-cost reliable electricity to you safely. If you're about to clean gutters, prune a tree or start another outdoor project, ifs important to look up before you climb your ladder. Making contact with an overhead power line can be deadly, so keep yourself - and your tools - 10 feet away or more. For more safety tips and information, please visit rockymtnpower.net. Your safety matters to us. MOUNTAIN m ROCKY POWER An item that turned out to be harmless was destroyed after the Salt Lake Police Department was tipped to a bomb threat Monday night. Around 6 p.m., an ARUP Blood Services security worker noticed that a suspicious looking package had been left in a parking lot in the U's Research Park. He called the police, who promptly sent a bomb squad to survey the item located at 546 S. Chipeta Way, SLPD Detective Joe Cyr said. The bomb squad sent in a robot to examine the item, which had a battery and cables attached to it. "Because the package had no labels or contact information on it, it was regarded as 'highly suspicious,'" Cyr said. The robot, which resembles a miniature dune buggy, destroyed the item "rather quickly," Cyr said. ARUP night workers, who were told by police to stay inside, were allowed to go outside the building after it was discovered that the package did not contain any explosives. On Tuesday morning, a man called the police station and said he owned the package, which was a Global Positioning Device. The man said he left it in the parking' lot overnight because it was being used as a surveying machine for a local engineering company, said David Jackson, ARUP senior vice president of strategic services and facilities. No one was injured during the incident. If a suspicious item is spotted in the future, Cyr encourages the public to call the Salt Lake City Dispatch at 799-3000 or campus police at 585-2677 The price of the destroyed GPS is unknown. Ana Breton Pedestrians have the right of way. Even when they're in die wrong. Watch out for pedestriaris. Safe driving 13 up to you. Share Your Spaceend do all you can to ensure your own safety and Xhe safety of others. SAFE DRIVING IS RESPONSIBILITY, Make tho Commitment. U Risk & Insurance Management supports DRIVE SAFELY WORK WEEK, Oct. 2-6,2006 (www .Utah jedu/riskutanageinent) U ballet department to train in Russia Lauren Mangelson The Daily Utah Chronicle While many of their peers will be vacationing, 21 women from the U's ballet department will be spending their Spring Break in St. Petersburg, Russia, studying ballet at one of the most prestigious ballet academies in the world. The U's Character Dance Ensemble has traveled to destinations such as London, Vancouver and, most recently, Beijing, to study ballet and character dance amid other cultures, but it is this year's invitation to the Vaganova Ballet Academy that has the women of CDE reeling with excitement. "Vaganova is just a name you recognize," said junior ballet major Maria Waters. "I have friends in ballet departments across the country, and none of them have had an opportunity like this." The trip to St. Petersburg will include two technique classes at the Vaganova Academy as well as lectured demonstrations by Vaganova students. There will be time, however, for sight-seeing in the afternoons. Character dance is influenced heavily by Eastern European folk dances and may include props like tambourines and castanets. Though a ballet background is not necessary in order to learn character dance, it can be pertinent in terms of technique. This year's trip is budgeted at $44,000, roughly $2,000 per dancer. The CDE will be working in conjunction with the ballet department in order to raise the money by hosting events such as a special ballet performance in early January, a pasta dinner, a movie night and a character dance workshop for children. Emmaly Wiederholt, a junior ballet major, said she believes studying at the Vaganova Academy will bring more credibility to the U's ballet department. "Our director Rick Wacko has amazing connections," she said. "This is something I never dreamed I'd have the opportunity to do." lmangelson@ chronicle.utah.edu |