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It’s a kid thing Children’s Day at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is coming up. Look for a complete schedule of events in the Centre Spread./Page 16, 17
July 5-11, 2012
Volume 4, Issue 27
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PSU doctor awarded $500K cancer grant By MARJORIE S. MILLER mmiller@centrecountygazette.com
UNIVERSITY PARK — A Penn State doctor and professor, Andrea Mastro, has been studying breast cancer and its bone metastasis for many years. Now, a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Army Medical and Materiel Command Breast Cancer Program is helping her further that research. Mastro, professor of microbiology and cell biology, has been studying bone metastasis, one of the common outcomes of breast cancer, for more than 10 years. Her “long-term, overarching goal,” she described, is to find some aspect of bone cell
metastasis that will allow it to be successfully treated. “As of now, there is no real cure for bone metastasis,” she said. According to her studies, breast cancer cells frequently metastasize to the skeleton where they grow and ANDREA MASTRO cause bone loss. “The cancer cells do not themselves destroy the bone but disturb the balance of the normal bone remodeling cells, osteoblasts and osteo-
clasts,” Mastro’s research summary, found on Penn State’s biochemistry and molecular biology website, states. Mastro said one of her main areas of interest is the immune system, and she has taught the Principles of Immunology for many years. “The source of immune cells is the bone marrow, which is also the place where cancer cells often metastasize,” she said. “A colleague, Dr. Carol Gray, is an expert on bone cells. She encouraged me to consider studying how bone cells and other cells in the bone marrow play a role in attracting cancer cells.” The grant, called the Idea Award, allows
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By SAMI HULINGS UNIVERSITY PARK — From July 12 through 15, the Centre County Historical Society will join with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the Pennsylvania Heritage Society to host the Pennsylvania Civil War 150 Road Show, a 53-foot expandable tractortrailer exhibit about the Civil War and its impact on Pennsylvania. Housed in the Bryce Jordan Center parking lot, the Civil War 150 Road Show will include numerous accounts of how Pennsylvania residents experienced the war through interactive features, an LED-lit map, Civil War era photographs and music, hands-on artifacts, animated stories, online scrapbooking and a story recording booth. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Mary Sorensen, the executive director of the Centre County Histori-
Mastro and her team to test some new ideas and approaches to issues with breast cancer research. “Metastasis, spreading from the primary tumor, is common,” she said. “However, not all cancer cells that circulate will grow. Some of them can remain dormant, especially in the bone, for many years. Then they begin to grow again. It is not known why.” Along with her colleague Dr. Erwin Vogler, professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State, Mastro has been using a three-dimensional bioreactor to
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PARTY WITH THE PARROT: Cooper and Oliver Brumberg, avid Pittsburgh Pirates fans, met their favorite team’s mascot last week at the Mount Nittany Medical Center. The Pirate Parrot made a stop on his “Cruise for the Cure” bike, which raised funds to fight prostate cancer.
STATE COLLEGE — Joe Paterno’s family has called on Pennsylvania’s attorney general and former FBI Director Louis Freeh to release all emails and records related to their investigations into the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal, saying a leaker or leakers have used selective emails to “smear” the late coach and university officials. Family lawyer Wick Sollers’ statement released earlier this week followed news reports of leaked emails between administrators about graduate assistant Mike McQueary’s 2001 account of an encounter between former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and a boy in the showers. CNN reported that one email outlined a change in plans among administrators after Athletic Director Tim Curley spoke to Paterno. “With the leaking of selective emails over
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Ice arena construction remains on schedule By CHRIS MORELLI editor@centrecountygazette.com
UNIVERSITY PARK — In his mind, Joe Battista can see it all: the seats, the locker rooms, the offices and — most importantly — the ice. As he walks through the construction site where the Pegula Ice Arena is being built, he can’t help but smile. “You stand there and just close your eyes and imagine where everything is going to be,” said Battista, Penn State’s associate athletic director. “It’s going to be a magnificent facility.” The project — estimated to cost around $102 million — is progressing nicely, according to Battista. “It’s truly amazing. I’m so impressed with the team of people we have working on this project. I spoke at a luncheon the other day and it’s Opinion ............................ 7 Health & Wellness ........ 8, 9 Send Story Ideas To editor@ centrecountygazette.com
clear that more and more people are becoming interested in the project as time goes by,” he said. The project is really beginning to take shape, as evidenced by the steel beams going in. If you look closely, you can see where the seats are going to be. The fact that steel is going in has made area hockey fans sit up and take notice. “There are weeks when I give so many tours of the site I almost feel like a Universal Studios tour guide,” Battista said with a laugh. “But I look forward to going up. It’s fun to go up there, look around and ask, ‘How long will it be until we put this in or how long will it be until we put that in?’ It’s really exciting.” Battista and several others offi-
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SITE SEEING: Construction at the Pegula Ice Arena is on track, according to Joe Battista, Penn State’s associate athletic director.
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