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Show StatesmanCampus News Friday, April 2, 2010 Page 3 USU innovators and inventors honored Briefs Campus & Community By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor Two titles for "Entrepreneur of the Year" were awarded Thursday morning to Robert Anderson, SensorCAD program manager for the Space Dynamics Lab, and Marie Walsh, associate professor in the nutrition, dietetics and food sciences department. Walsh received the award for filing 16 patents while working at USU and working abroad. Since the beginning of last April, Walsh filed six patents and two were licensed. Her licensed patents include the "Textured Whey Protein Product," issued Oct. 6, 2009. Her first patent was licensed in 1993, and her first patent licensed while working at USU was in 2003. Walsh said she hopes to file and license more patents than she was able to this year. "I didn't realize I had so many patents and patent applications," Walsh said. "I mean, I did, but I didn't know how I compared." She said she was completely surprised when she was called to receive the award and was scanning the crowd to see who the accomplishments being described could belong to. Her research is mainly in food product KENT TOBISKA, director of the USTAR Space Weather Center, spoke at the Innovation and Invention Day awards ceremony Thursday. CATHERINE URIE photo development, food bioprocessing, dairy protein and enzyme chemistry. Walsh is currently working on a research project with Chris Winstead, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, that involves preventing the death of horses from colic. Winstead said prevention system is a sensory device that locates colic in a horse and then alerts the owner about the problem through cell phone. "One of the key indicators of colic is if the horse rolls repeatedly, but if the horse shakes off, it's a healthy roll," Winstead said. "So, the alarm is turned off after the healthy shake." Horse deaths from colic cost the horse industry $76 million a year, and the monitor may decrease this number. Walsh and Winstead are working to give the monitor a long battery life with minimal false alarms. Glenn Whichard, senior commercialization associate for the Technology Commercialization Office, said "Entrepreneur of the Year" is "a person who has been consistent in supporting the movement of lab work to the real world out there." Anderson was also awarded "Entrepreneur of the Year" for his newly developed software system titled "Method and System for Modeling of Images with Distortion." He also does work with the USU Research Foundation. In addition to the entrepreneur awards, 19 USU and SDL inventors received plaques for their patents that were licensed since April 2009. Collectively, 29 patent applications were submitted this year and 16 were issued as of Thursday morning. Whichard said he hopes USU and its affiliations can produce more patents in the year to come, which will ultimately create a number of companies that markets the products. "Spin-out companies, we love to do," Whichard said. "They do take a lot of work, but provide many more jobs here in Cache Valley." During the Innovation and Invention Awards reception, researchers were able to update fellow researchers on their projects. Some of the projects included "Radiation Detection and Localization Stimulations," "Efficacy Study of New Antibiotics" and "Expansion of the ONE Application in the Western United States." — catherine.meidell@aggiemausu.edu Cache Valley kicks off Child Abuse Prevention Month Children's shoes lined the steps of the Logan City Courthouse Thursday represented local children who have been victims of abuse. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and the Child and Family Support Center of Cache Valley (CFSC) hosted its kick-off campaign Thursday in order to raise community awareness. Claire Christiansen, USU student and CFSC volunteer, said there were 681 cases of child abuse reported in Cache Valley in 2009. She said she and other members of the center hope to raise awareness, strengthen families and protect local children. The CFSC has services ranging from children's classes to women's workshops. Services at the center are free, with the exception of educational classes, which have a materials fee. The center has 24-hour crisis lines, 752-8880 or 877900-CFSC. Information about the center can be found at www.cachecfsc.org . — rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu A tam acktovits to toovoLestaiK/ a, tfotAKIE teeKa e cant E-week: The Entrepreneurship Club s open to all majors are a resource." Rossiter said the club is open to all majors, not just entrepreneurship. Rossiter described some of the student-launched businesses that produce clothing, sunglasses, watches and nutritional supplements that came from students of other majors and will be seen throughout the week. Rossiter said, "I'm excited for the different competitions and seeing the different companies that will come from that. It's very rewarding to see a student that is enrolled in school still find time to run their own business." Senior in international business and economics Sterling Morris will be in attendance and said, "I am excited to compete in the 72-hour competition and for Rail Jam." Rossiter said, "It will be a great opportunity to network and get involved with entrepreneurship. There will be great speakers, and we want everyone to come out see what we are doing and have a good time." E-week is from April 5-9. For more information, students can go to huntsman.usu.edu/entrepreneurclub or register for the Rail Jam at galvanicdesign.com/apply. — jessie.a.sweat@aggiemaiLusu.edu USU professor of English Phebe Jensen presented her Inaugural Professor Lecture March 24 in a presentation titled "Shakespeare's Clocks and Calendars." Jensen graduated with a bachelor's from Middlebury in 1981 and lived in Brooklyn for two years, where she worked as an editorial assistant to a documentary filmmaker, at The New Yorker. In the summer of 1983, she went to the Bread Loaf School of English in Oxford for a summer master's in English program, where she met her husband, Paul. In the summer of 1986 she and Paul were married and she graduated with master's degrees in English from Bread Loaf. In 1987, they entered the doctoral program at UNC-Chapel Hill. Joining the Department of English, Jensen began her career at USU in 1995, and has since become one of a group of scholars reconsidering the role of Catholicism in sixteenth century Protestant English culture. She has published articles on that subject in Shakespeare Quarterly, Literature and History, Reformation, Criticism and several essay collections and has been a plenary speaker at conferences at the Clark Library of UCLA and Louisiana State University. Jensen has also been the recipient of a Folger Shakespeare Library short-term fellowship, which she took in 2006 while finishing her first book, Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare's Festive World, published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. She has since completed two articles now forthcoming, one on Christmas carols at the Reformation, and another on a cache of Anglo-Saxon coins found in 1609 on the site of a Catholic graveyard in Lancaster. Jensen has been on sabbatical since August 2009, working on a second book project titled "Shakespeare's Seasons," the subject of her inaugural lecture. The Inaugural Professor Lecture Series is coordinated by the provost's office and is hosted by President Stan Albrecht and First Lady Joyce Albrecht. Faculty members in the series have been promoted to full professor within the last academic year and present a lecture that highlights their research, creative activity or teaching at the university. Fringe Film Festival entries due April 9 RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN photo continued from page 1 Professor discusses Shakespeare's Seasons The Caine School of the Arts at USU hosts the 2010 Fringe Film Festival, a short film competition. The festival takes place April 23, and film entries will be accepted with a postmark through April 9. Film entries may not be longer than four minutes in length and must include three out of 10 required elements. The complete rules are posted online, including eligibility information and the downloadable entry form. All entries must be mailed or delivered to the Caine School of the Arts with the $5 entrance fee by April 9. This is the second year the Caine School of the Arts has hosted a film festival. Madison Pope was the 2009 overall film festival winner. Pope ended up winning $1,000 for the Overall Film Festival Award as well as $500 for the Viewers' Choice Award. All entrants are eligible to win any of five awards for the 2010 Fringe Film Festival, including $1,000 for the Judges' Choice Award, an iPad for the Viewers' Choice Award, and iPod Touches for each of the three individual categories: Most Creative Use of Props, Best Comedy and Best Drama. More information about the Fringe Film Festival can be found at csa.usu.edu , or by contacting Courtney Lewis at courtney. lewis@usu.edu or 797-9203. LlCompiled from staff and media reports |