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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 VOLUME 87 ■ ISSUE 146
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13 Tech athletes named to All-American list The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association placed 13 Texas Tech athletes on its All-American list on Monday. Among the list were four topeight finishers at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships, including senior Isaiah Gill, who finished seventh overall in the 400-meter hurdles, and sophomore JaCorian Duffield, who placed seventh in high jump. Athletes who had multiple mentions on the list included sophomore Cierra White, who made first team in the 100-meter dash and second team in the 200-meter, and sophomore Kole Weldon, who made first team in shotput and second team in discus. Athletes who made second team included senior Katie Grimes in the 100-meter hurdles and freshmen Hannah Carson in javelin and Le’Tristan Pledger in long jump. The Lady Raider 4x400-meter relay earned second team AllAmerican. The 4x400 meter relay team consisted of seniors Candace Jackson and Olivia Lewis, junior Amoy Blake and sophomore Christen Rivers. Honorable mention included freshman Bradley Adkins in high jump, Rivers in the 400-meters, Pledger in the 100-meter hurdles and the Lady Raider 4x100-meter relay team. ➤➤bfox@dailytoreador.com
CampusConstruction ·· ·· ·· Total of eight projects under construction at Texas Tech Projects total $129.9 million
Completion dates range from August 2013 to July 2014
Projects were created by the Office of Facilities Planning and Construction
and approved by the Tech System Board of Regents
1 percent of the funds for construction projects is allocated for public art Construction is funded by the Revenue Finance System
Tech takes on multiple projects Walking through campus, it doesn’t take long to find construction workers and their equipment. The Office of Facilities Planning and Construction has eight projects under construction on Texas Tech’s campus approved by the Tech System Board of Regents, and each will be finished between August 2013 and July 2014. These projects range from an allnew residence hall targeted toward upperclassmen, graduate and international students to life safety upgrades to the Architecture building, Biological Sciences building and College of Human Sciences building. Photos and information provided by Gail Darden in the Office of Facilities Planning and Construction. Design by Catherine McKee and Kassidy Ketron.
VideoScoreboard ·· ·· Status: under construction Cost: $11 million
Completion: August 2013
What to expect: A 100-foot wide by 38-foot tall high definition screen,
riboon boards and a new sound system.
PetroleumEngineering
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Status: under construction Cost: $22.8 million Completion: January 2014
What to expect: A 40,000-square-foot LEED certified two-story Petroleum
Engineering Research building in the Engineering Key.
BurkhartCenter ·· ··
Court says human genes cannot be patented WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes, a decision with the potential to profoundly affect the emerging and lucrative medical and biotechnology industries. The high court’s unanimous judgment reverses three decades of patent awards by government officials. It throws out patents held by Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics Inc. on an increasingly popular breast cancer test brought into the public eye recently by actress Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had a double mastectomy because of one of the genes involved in this case. Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the court’s decision, said that Myriad’s assertion — that the DNA it isolated from the body for its proprietary breast and ovarian cancer tests were patentable — had to be dismissed because it violates patent rules. The court has said that laws of nature, natural phenomena and abstract ideas are not patentable.
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Status: under construction Cost: $10.6 million
Completion: September 2013
What to expect: An autism education and research facility near the
Education builiding.
ResidenceHall ·· ·· Status: under construction Cost: $54.8 million
Completion: August 2014
What to expect: A 455-bed village-style complex near 19th Street and
Texas Tech Parkway with a 5,000-square-foot food/retail space.
NorthEndzone ·· ·· Status: under construction Cost: $5.3 million
Completion: August 2013
What to expect: An 11-column colonnade enclosing the north end
zone of the Jones AT&T Stadium, creating 564 new seats.
HSC offers summer program for aphasia patients By EMILY GARDNER Texas Tech Health Sciences Center aphasia patients are busy on Tuesdays. A summer program is offered to those with aphasia from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays at Quaker Avenue Church of Christ’s Unity Center, said Melinda Corwin, an associate professor at HSC and director of the Stroke/ Aphasia Recovery Program. “Once a week, we’re having choir
rehearsal and art classes,” she said, “and then at the end of July we’ll have a final choir concert for the community and an art exhibit.” Choir rehearsal is at 10 a.m., followed by art class at 11 a.m., Corwin said. The program began Summer 2012 with a choir as an opportunity for people with aphasia to participate in the community and she said she also hopes to stimulate the brain and improve language. “Part two of that,” Corwin said,
“is that research has shown that when you stimulate the right hemisphere of the brain, or the right side of the brain, which is responsible for art and music, that can sometimes stimulate, or help, the left hemisphere, which is responsible for language, talking, reading, and writing.” According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s website, aphasia is a disorder, most often caused by strokes, resulting form damage to the parts of the brain containing language and can
cause the person affected to have problems speaking, listening, reading and writing. Brenna Price, the choir director and graduate from Tech’s Speech-Language-Pathology master’s program, said she became involved with the program due to a class where she learned about aphasia and how music can be a way to get people to start talking again. “I went to Melinda and said ‘I think it’d be really neat to start a choir. Do you think that’s something we could do?’ And she was on board with it,”
she said. Music, Price said, provides people with aphasia a chance to be a part of a group, express themselves and be around others who understand what they are going through. The participants, she said must be introduced to the music first. Compared to a normal choir, Price said she must speak slowly, simply and clearly to make sure the participants understand everything as best they can.
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