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Show ,/THE Tuesday, February 26, 2008 DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Hair helps identify victims tope levels in a person's hair. gon. This pattern offered eviWith that information, they dence to police that she was ASST. NEWS EDITOR develop a color-coded water most likely a runaway from The police didn't know map to distinguish the types the East Coast, said detective who she was, where she had of water found in different Todd Park at the Salt Lake come from or how she had general regions where a per- County Sheriff's Office. Ehleringer came up with got there. All they knew is son stayed and drank local the idea for the study two that she had been murdered. water. Regions vary in size and years ago when he began colIt was Oct. 8, 2000, and hunters in the area had sometimes overlap in states, lecting hair samples from sahelped detectives recover 26 said James Ehleringer, a pro- lons in the 18 states his family bones, some hair, a T-shirt fessor of biology who con- visited during a summer road and a necklace from a shal- ducted the study. A person's trip. They ensured that each low grave near I-80, west of history depends on the length city had fewer than 100,000 people to make sure the hair of his or her hair, he said. the Great Salt Lake. "If you have long hair, we had come from locals and Eight years later, the woman whom police named Jane can find two, three, four years' not tourists. From there, they worth of history," Ehleringer researched the correlation Doe has not been identified. However, with a new tech- said. "For men with shorter between the hair samples, nology, scientists at the U hair, it's usually a couple of isotopes and tap water. Their findings were published onhave been able to pinpoint months." line in the journal ProceedWith the new technology, the woman's movements during the two years before her police were able tofigureout ings of the National Academy death by simply studying a that the 17- to 20-year-old un- of Sciences. "Your hair is like a little identified woman had moved couple strands of her hair. This technology, devel- around every two months tape recorder, taping away, oped by two scientists at the before her death, travelling telling stories on what you U, can tell the general loca- from the Salt Lake City area were doing," said Thure Certion of where a person drank to regions in Montana, Wyo- ling, a professor of geology water by looking at the iso- ming, Washington and Ore- and geophysics and of biology. Cerling also worked on the study with Ehleringer. Study finds hair tracks Three years ago, the two location through water professors co-founded IsoFoisotopes rensics Inc., a company that uses stable isotope analysis of forensic substances to find slight variations in chemi\ cals. % In the study, the researchers also looked at a hair sample from a person who moved from Beijing to Salt Lake City. With the new technology, police discovered the woman moved The hair that person grew around every two months before during the three months beher death. This pattern suggested fore he or she moved conto police that she was most likely tained relatively high levels of a runaway from the East Coast, oxygen and hydrogen, which said detectiveTodd Park at the meant there were high conSalt Lake County Sheriff's Office. centrations of those isotopes Ana Breton in Beijing drinking water. But in hair closer to the scalp that grew after the person moved to Utah, the concentrations of those isotopes dropped because of lower oxygen and hydrogen levels in Salt Lake City's drinking water. The findings will also help anthropologists and archaeologists by using the method to find where Native Americans and settlers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints migrated. "If we take it a little bit further, we can use it to learn it about animal migration," Cerling said. "But that's down the road." In the meantime, the researchers will continue to help the police department with criminal cases. With the new technology, Ehleringer said detectives can find more clues about unidentified victims and suspects. Police can also use the technology to check a suspect's alibi depending on the region where a suspect said he or she was at the time the crime happened. In Jane Doe's case, Park plans to take the information that notes the regions she last visited to search through missing persons records in hopes of identifying her. "It's probably the biggest step in finding what happened to the person, to go back and look at what they were doing before their death," Park said. "This technology gives you another piece of the puzzle." a.breton@ chronicle.utah.edu U moves up in Internet rankings news out. News like Mario Capecchi helps drive traffic to our site," said Jill Brinton, manager of the campus webThe U's worldwide Internet presence master office. ranking went up two places this year. Universities throughout the world are The U ranked 48th out of more than ranked based on their Internet websites 5,000 universities included in the Webo- by a research group in Spain called Cymetrics Ranking of World Universities. bermetrics Lab. The lab began ranking Universities are ranked based on several universities for their web-content in factors including the number of pages 1994. Cybermetrics initiated the webon a school's website and how many ranking to promote web publications scholarly publications are collected on and inspire university researchers to make their work available on the Interthe Google Scholar database. "The university has done so many net to researchers worldwide. great things and works so hard to get Stephen Hess, the U's chief information officer, attributes the U's webranking increase to work done by the How the U's online webmaster office and the number of publications released by U researchers. footprint compares |l We have a very robust web presUSA - Canada ranking Worldwide ranking ence—our websites are usually very 43rd in 2008 48th in 2008 current for people to get fresh informa45th in 2007 . 50th in 2007 tion from," he said. The U ranked 43rd among schools in Source: Webometrics Ranking of the United States and Canada, also up World Universities two places from last year. Cybermetrics Lana Groves STAFF WRITER STUDENTS CAN'T SWAY SENATE continued from Page I tors passed the bill with a vote of 24 to five. Bill sponsor Sen. Bill Hickman, R-St. George, said he was speaking "from his heart" when he urged senators to pass the bill, arguing that the legislation was a matter of Lab bases the university ranking system on four areas. The main indicator of a university's rank is visibility and how many external in-links, or links coming from other sites, a website has. The other 50 percent of the ranking is based on the number of web pages a site has, the number offilesin the site and the number of scholarly articles collected by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. "We work very hard as a team to make our web presence so easy to view and up to date," Hess said. He said the U's reputation as a top research university helps to bolster the ranking. The U is ranked as one of the top 35 public research universities in the United States by the Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance. "I think it's a combination between research at the U and how the websites axe presented," Hess said. For more information about the Cybermetrics Lab ranking for universities, visit www.webometrics.info. l.groves@chro n icle. utah.edu obeying the law. immigrants have constitution"You can't select the laws al rights, and the bill would you wish to obey and the laws create more problems than it you wish to ignore," Hickman would solve. said. "On one hand, this nation Hickman chastised the fed- puts out a 'No trespassing' eral government for "failing sign—you are not welcome— miserably" on the issue of il- and on the other hand, we put legal immigration and urged out a 'Help wanted sign' where the state to step up to address we say, 'We have work for you the issue. to do and jobs that cannot be Sen. Ross Romero, D-Salt filled domestically,'" Romero Lake City, voted against the said. "We don't exactly invite bill, saying undocumented them to participate in our communities...by labeling them temporary workers." He said racial profiling and discrimination would result from the bill, not only affecting undocumented individuals but those who might look like they are undocumented. Some student protestors displayed signs opposing SB 81 because of the effects, it would have on undocumented individuals and the judicial process. THE GREAT IMMIGRATION DEBATE: ej- MIGRATION, RIGHTS , & IDENTITIES: t^,.. MMIM/ Tl i r n A M/~lEXAMINING THE RANGE v^rOF I - ?. :vt Wasatch Drive to be renamed for Capecchi tist. Wasatch Drive starts at Foothill Boulevard and turns into Medical Drive, then runs to North Campus Drive near Primary Children's Medical Center. *It will be officially renamed "Mario R. Capecchi Drive" in a matter of weeks. U spokeswoman Coralie Alder said the Utah Department of Transportation recently gave the U permission to change the name. She said signs with the new street name will be placed at intersections along the stretch within a couple weeks. The U is also in the process of notifying businesses along the route of the name change. A ceremony will be held in the coming weeks to commemorate the new name. Carlos Mayorga A long stretch of road on campus will be renamed in honor of Mario Capecchi, officials announced Saturday at a gala held to honor the Nobel Prize-winning scien- Mario Capecchi RESEARCHERS' INFO HIDDEN mittee upheld. On one occasion, Utah Primate Freedom submitted a request for the types and number of animals being used for research continued from Page 1 at the U, which was also denied. research. "All this does is make the "It's more of a symbolic gesture on their part," Rose denials of our requests legal," said. "Unless they complete- Rose said. ly cease doing research, Although he said Utah Priwe're going to hear about mate Freedom has discussed it." challenging the legality of the Rose said none of the bill, it has not taken any legal names or addresses of re- action. searchers his organizaU President Michael Young tion has used to target re- said the U supports the bill searchers' homes was found because it protects the safety through GRAMA requests of animal researchers withor the Freedom of Informa- out significantly limiting tion Act, because the U de- rights. nied all of their requests. "This law is a very modest The group petitioned the U way of ensuring protesters for the identities, positions themselves stay within (the) and salaries of researchers bounds of (the) law," Young last year, but the U denied said. the request, a decision the r.mcconkie@ Utah State Records Comchronicle.utah.edu Senate Bill 113 What would it do? The bill would modify the Government Records Access and Management Act to classify records with the names, personal addresses and phone numbers of researchers who conduct medical or scientific research on animals at institutions of higher education as protected documents. _. • What's next? ' . The House of Representatives unanimously passed'the bill.The Senate already approved the bill, and it will now go to Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. to be signed into law. "I can't call the police. They have a new agenda," one student wrote on long pieces of masking tape that she taped to her arms in opposition to the bilL Theresa Martinez, U assistant vice president for academic outreach, attended the protest with several other U faculty members in support of the student protestors. Martinez has actively lobbied the legislature to oppose legislation that would make undocument- ed students pay out-of-state tuition. A senate committee is scheduled to vote on the bill, House Bill 241, today. "I think it is important for senators to know that their legislation impacts real people who have real concerns," Martinez said. "I hope senators and representatives take notice. We should listen to our young people." c.mayorga@ chronicle.utah.edu BRIDGING THE GAP: FACTS AND FICTIONS, IDEALS AND ILLUSIONS ETHNIC ORGANIZATIONS AND THE POLITICAL INCORPORATION PROCESS OF IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES SEYLABENHABIB ALEJANDRO PORTES YALE UNIVERSITY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LOCAL AND GLOBAL NEEDS The second annual international conference on human rights, conflict resolution, nonviolence, and peace hosted by the Barbara L.& Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28,2008 UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, DUMKE AUDITORIUM NOON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29,2008 ORSON SPENCER HALL, WALDEMER P. READ AUDITORIUM NOON Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and Director of its Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Alejandro Portes is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. www.humanrights.utah.edu Bttjr» L a I t a m C. Tes-* r C«r» s kt NONVIOLENT HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY mi i'\i\i.r"iiii UP III-II |