Prof develops new microscope
Cell surfaces
illuminated
By Sandy Johnstone
Of the Emerald
Biologist O. Hayes Griffith is
"putting headlights" on cells
and proteins with a new micro
scope he has developed that
uses the photoelectric effect
(discovered by Albert Einstein)
to illuminate the surfaces of
cells.
Ten years of effort and more
than $1 million in research
grants have allowed Griffith, a
University professor, to develop
the microscope that allows
scientists to do research in
cancer
The Cancer Society, which is
part of the National Institute of
Health, funds his research He is
currently in the first year of a
three-year renewable grant for
$200,000 per year
"This is different from all
other microscopes in the
world,” says Griffith. "It is not a
replacement for other micros
copes, but it allows us to see
things we could not have seen
any other way — or at least see
them more easily."
Griffith says many people
doubted he could succeed
"They said if it could be done,
someone would have done it,"
he says
But Griffith says it's a simple
idea. "It just uses space-age
technology."
Not many scientists were in
terested in doing the work
"Typically biologists want to
be biologists, chemists want to
work in chemistry and phy
sicists want to work in physics
Here we do it all," Griffith says
Griffith's research focuses on
the difference between normal
cells and cancerous cells, but
most of his work is done with
normal cells, he says
Understanding how normal
Photo by Scott Levy
Hayes Griffith
cells function is necessary for
determining how they become
cancerous, Griffith says
‘It's like being in a desert at
dusk and trying to see a car far
away." he says "You can t see
it very well without headlights
Well, we're putting headlights
on a protein It's like beepers
allowing us to detect it."
Griffith is enthusiastic about
his work
“It's exciting doing some
thing related to life," he says,
"We do have long periods of dry
spells and then a breakthrough
Right now everything looks
good, but we ll be crossing an
other desert soon
When doing experiments,
Griffith doesn’t make a
hypothesis and set out to prove
it Instead, he plans an exper
iment and then follows the leads
it provides
“It's like exploring a cave
You can t see very far ahead of
you and you change directions
when you get new data," Griffith
says
Use of the photoelectron
microscope has already gained
international attention
"This particular research is
only being done here A lot of
people think everyone is doing
it. But it's not being duplicated
anywhere," says Griffith
Griffith's paper was one of 15
papers (out of 600 submitted) to
be read at the International
Conference on Electromicros
copy
"This particular research is
only being done here A lot of
people think everyone is doing
it But it's not being duplicated
anywhere," says Griffith
Voter drive termed a success
The ASUO voter registration
drive was a marketing success,
according to the results of a
survey, says Dan Wilson, ex
ecutive vice president of the
Marketing Association
About 60 percent of the 722
students who returned ques
tionnaires said they are regis
tered Lane County voters, says
Wilson, whose association was
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academic affairs, to conduct the
survey Survey questionnaires
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The high registration total is a
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tionally low counts, Wilson says
Eighty percent of the re
spondents indicated they knew
about the registration drive,
which shows the ASUO had a
good publicity drive," he adds.
The ASUO Political Faire was
not publicized as well, Wilson
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spondents said they had easy
access to information to make
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The fair should have been
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tive to th$ students, Wilson
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licized the voter registration
drive should have been used to
publicize the fair, he adds
The ASUO did the best pub
licizing job it could with the
manpower and facilities availa
ble, says Mark Cleveland, ASUO
director of University and
academic affairs. Students
could gain information from the
Emerald’s coverage of the
event, he adds.
Sixty-eight percent said they
would vote at their polling loca
tions on election day, he says
But 82 percent said they
would vote if transportation
were provided to and from the
polling location, Wilson adds.
"This difference is the reflec
tion of apathy, in a sense," he
says. "Students don’t want to
put in the effort to vote."
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