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Issue 18, Volume 121

Monday, September 17, 2012

Great start, weak end for Tennessee football Austin Bornheim Assistant Sports Editor Disappointing, frustrating, deflating and surprised were the words the Volunteers used to describe Saturday night’s 37-20 loss to the Florida Gators. The Vols (2-1, 0-1 SEC) led the Gators 20-13 with 3:15 left in the third quarter. But then the wheels fell off. “I’m not really sure what went on,” said Tennessee running back Rajion Neal. “I can’t really put it into words what really happened. You could just feel it.” After the Volunteers seemed to have gained momentum from stopping Florida (3-0, 2-0 SEC) on a fake punt near midfield, Tyler Bray was flagged for intentional grounding and everything seemed to turn for the worse. Tennessee ending up going three-andout, and on the Gators’ first play after getting the ball Trey Burton gashed the Volunteers for an 80-yard touchdown run to tie the game. “We stalled them on a fake punt, then got a groundie ... and we had a lot of mistakes defensively,” head coach Derek Dooley said. “We didn’t get the check, gave up a huge play there.” From that point on the Vols couldn’t get anything going. Tennessee ran just 19 offensive plays, was forced into three straight three-andout’s, and punted on their final four drives. “It was just us not responding well,” said Bray. “We knew we were going to be the ones to have to stop us and we just kind of fell apart.” In front of a crowd of 102,455, the Vols came out in the first half and looked poised and ready for the big stage.

The offense was able to respond early after Florida scored the first touchdown and scored the first quarter touchdown against the Gators since 2004 on a Brayto-Cordarrelle Patterson pass. Tennessee struck again five minutes later when Bray was able to find tight end Mychal Rivera on a play-action pass. UT went into the half up 14-10 and a huge goal line stand to force the Gators to kick a field goal. Going into the half, Bray was 13-23 passing for 153 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. The Vols’ defense had also performed well, containing the Florida rushing attack to just 86 yards on the ground, but in the third quarter Tennessee fell apart. Florida racked up 170 yards on the ground, 57 through the air and 17 points. “We had a great game going and we just let it slip away,” Dooley said. Following Bray’s second interception, it took the Gators just three plays to trek the 70 yards and take the lead on a Jeff Driskel 23-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Reed. Driskel finished the night 14-20 for 219 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. “Big plays, turnovers,” said Dooley. “We lost both of those. I say it every week: big plays and turnovers.” Florida added 10 more points in the fourth quarter, capping off their 24-0 run to close out the game. Bray was 9-21, 104 yards passing, no touchdowns and two picks in the second half. “We just didn’t execute,” said Bray. Tennessee will look to rebound from the deflating loss next Saturday against Akron at 7:30 p.m. The game will air on CSS.

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

Coach Derek Dooley holds his head in his hand while watching his previously undefeated Tennessee team be drubbed by the Gators in the second half of the game on Sept. 15.

Professor lectures on pet cancer UT receives NSF Mollie Swayne Staff Writer Dr. Nathan D. Lee, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, gave a lecture on Friday entitled “A New Radiation Therapy for Cancer in Pet Animals”, kicking off a series of lectures this semester hosted by the UT Science Forum. The new therapy that Lee, assistant professor of radiation oncology at UT’s College of Veterinary Science, spoke of is IntensityModulated Radiation Therapy. IMRT has been used on humans for about 15 years, but is in its infancy in veterinary medicine. An improvement over the other method used, 3D Conformal Radiation Therapy, it improves the dose distribution, meaning that more radiation goes to the tumor and less spills onto the surrounding soft tissue. This results in fewer side effects and therefore heightened quality of life. IMRT also causes dry mouth in fewer human patients, 17 percent compared to 63 percent of patients who received Conformal Radiation Therapy. The radiation is delivered with a linear accelerator, and Lee believes that the UT College of Veterinary Medicine has the newest in the Knoxville region.

While IMRT is an improvement in treatment, there is still a long way to go toward curing cancer in animals. “We don’t like to use the word ‘cure’ in veterinary medicine,” Lee said. “Unlike humans, unfortunately, dogs and cats don’t really show that they have a tumor.” This makes it difficult to know if a pet has cancer until side effects, such as seizures or inability to urinate, begin to show. Still, IMRT treatment is a step toward bringing more precise, and thus better, cancer treatment to animals. Despite the specific and technical nature of the lecture, a variety of audience members were present. Many were retired professors from multiple science disciplines including animal science, biology, physics and psychology. Several attendees were students. Zoe Johnson, sophomore in chemical engineering, explained her academic and personal reasons for attending. “For every chemical engineering class you take a couple (of) CEs, which is continuing education, and you have to attend ten meetings or lectures or something having to do with science just to stay involved in the class. So we were given a list of lectures to come to and I just really like animals,” Johnson said.

Johnson aspires to enter the medical field, but not to become a veterinarian. “I would go into veterinary medicine, but I just love animals so much it would probably be too heartbreaking for me,” she said. Johnson was not the only ardent animal lover in attendance. Holly Greene, lecturer in management, also attended. She felt a “personal connection” to the subject, having lost her own dog to cancer. Greene’s interest as a pet owner led her to seek answers from Lee during the Q-and-A session after the lecture. Greene asked why cancer is seemingly more frequent now than in years past. Lee replied that pets are living longer, increasing their odds of having tumors. Veterinarians have also become much better at diagnosing cancer in pets — probably many pets have died of cancer because no one considered that could be the cause. The UT Science Forum meets from noon to 1 p.m. every Friday in dining room C-D in Thompson Boling Arena. Attendees are welcome to eat their lunch while listening to the speaker. The next presenter at the Science Forum will be Dr. Christopher Cherry, whose lecture is entitled “Electric Cars in China — Only as Clean as Their Coal.”

Around Rocky Top

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

An empty Neyland Stadium keeps its lights on after the loss against Florida on Sept. 15.

research award Staff Reports KNOXVILLE — Jimmy Mays, a chemistry professor at UT, has developed a substance that promises to replace conventional rubber in many products with something that is stronger, greener and easier to recycle. Now he’s joining forces with the College of Business Administration’s Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to turn his new discovery into a game-changing business. UT will receive $600,000 over two years from the National Science Foundation through its “Partnerships for Innovation” program to commercialize and optimize Mays’ newfound “superelastomers.” This is UT’s first NSF award focused on commercialization of research, and it is the Anderson Center’s first NSF award. Superelastomers are polymers that can be repeatedly stretched without permanently deforming the shape of the material. They can be stretched further than ordinary elastomers (or rubbers). What makes superelastomers “super” is that they hold promise for improved strength, recyclability and more efficient processing of materials used in many different products. This revolutionary new concept would open up applications in many areas, such as toothbrushes, gloves, skin care, audio devices and filtering technologies. “For example, the high

strength and superior elastic properties of superelastomers make it possible to make thinner surgical gloves, thus enhancing the surgeon’s dexterity in the operating room,” Mays said. “Conventional rubbers, like car tires, are virtually impossible to recycle. In contrast, superelastomers may be readily recycled just by melting the scrap material and reshaping it into a new product.” Thus, the innovation will have the capability of reducing the worldwide carbon footprint by replacing rubbers with a material that is both recyclable and requires less energy to make. MBA students and faculty will work with Mays’ students to assess the market for his technology and develop business plans for pursuing specific market opportunities. The typical team will consist of two students studying entrepreneurship and two technical students who will work with small businesses and experienced mentors to validate the market viability. About 24 interdisciplinary students will get hands-on experience in market assessment, business planning and technology transfer required to launch a successful technology-based start-up. “By pairing business with technical students, we expect that innovation capacity will be increased at the university,” said Joy Fisher, who oversees the center’s technology commercialization efforts. See NSF on Page 3


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