VOL. CXVIII, No. 58 DailyBarometer.com
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Oregon State University
Rising above the Ducks Nicki Silva | THE DAILY BAROMETER
Senior guard Gary Payton II soars for a layup in the second half of the Beavers 70-57 route against Oregon on Sunday. Payton II had 12 points, all in second half.
Beavers start the new year with a Civil War victory in front of a sell out crowd By Michael Kiever Sports Reporter
The Oregon State men’s basketball team secured its first Civil War victory of the Wayne Tinkle era Sunday evening, defeating Oregon in a 70-57 rout to begin Pac12 play. OSU was boosted by a tremendous team effort on both sides of the ball, taking an early lead in the first half and never looking back. “We put together our best 40 minute effort to this point,” Tinkle said. “Oregon’s really tough, they’ve got a lot of weapons and Dana [Altman’s] one of the top coaches around, and I’m just proud of our guys for finding a way.” With a minute left, the Beavers held a 15 point lead and Gill Coliseum was on their feet in pure ecstasy. The crowd showered senior guard Gary Payton II with praise for his big game, chanting “GPII” with a minute left as he hit the bench. Payton II, who shot zero for five in the first half, bounced back in the second half with 4-6 shooting to keep the Beavers afloat. He finished with 12 points, six rebounds, six assists, two steals and a handful of high-
light plays. Freshman forward Tres Tinkle, who paced the Beavers with a team-high 19 points and six rebounds, thought the atmosphere created by the sellout crowd of 9,604 fans helped elevate his game. “It was a lot of fun, we have the best student section and fan base in the entire Pac-12,” Tres Tinkle said. “They kind of helped as a sixth man, helped us get that extra boost.” The Beavers (10-2) were able to take a 34-19 first half lead despite shooting 35 percent from the field. While they were cold on offense, they found success by limiting Oregon to 35 percent shooting for the entire game, and also by out-rebounding them on the offensive end 10 to one in the first half. “[Rebounding] was a focus, [Schaftenaar] set the tone and [Eubanks] climbed all over the glass,” Wayne Tinkle said. The dominance on the boards was partially attributable to OSU’s visible size advantage in the front court. Oregon was unable to size up with the Beavers, as their
best counter to the duo of Drew Eubanks and Olaf Schaftenaar was senior forward Chris Boucher, who at 6’10 and 190 pounds was unable to size up. Boucher finished with a team-high 14 points and seven rebounds on five of nine shooting. Oregon was also bogged down by uncharacteristic sloppiness, committing 12 turnovers and only 11 assists. UO entered the game with the lowest turnover margin in the Pac-12. Junior forward Langston Morris-Walker was a key contributor in getting the Beavers into their offensive groove. Early in the first half he nailed an open three-pointer, and moments later, he stole a pass in the post and took it cross-court for a contested lay-up, exhilarating the crowd. Morris-Walker would finish the game with 12 points and two three-pointers on 4-7 shooting. Olaf Schaftenaar also had a nice showing for the Beavers, matching his career-high of seven rebounds in the first half and breaking it in the second half, finishing
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OSU researchers increase shelf life of human organs Advancement in procedures freezing organs, cells, tissue may save lives By Alexandra LaCesa News Contributor
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Professor Adam Higgins stands next to the bio safety cabinet used to create sterile environments for experiments in the bioengineering lab.
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Recent findings from OSU’s Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering have opened the door to a new approach, lengthening the shelf life of preserving organs and tissues in their entirety. This can be done through cryopreservation, a process of preserving cells, tissues and organs at sub-zero temperatures. This allows for longer lasting and ultimately a more efficent transfer when used later. Associate Professor Adam Higgins partnered with student researcher Allyson Fry, and has been conducting research since 2008. According to Fry, in the first few years of their developing research they focused mostly on vitrification is a process of preserving cells in a glassy state completely absent
of ice crystals which are damaging to tissue. Experiments could last as long as 10 to 12 hour days. Most experiments were performed in the biosafety cabinet or in our dark microscopy room. “We developed methods to monitor how the cells were being loaded and unloaded with CPA, as well as models to describe the process that could be mathematically optimized,” Fry said. Before returning back to his alma mater for teaching and research, Higgins studied Cryopreservation at Georgia Tech. “I hadn’t even really heard of cryopreservation before graduate school,” Higgins said. “But I was interested in doing research that involved cells and tissues, also something that involved mathematical modeling.” “It’s essentially not that different from frozen food,” Higgins said. He is now generating final proposals to seek funding for the next step of this project. Higgins said he
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