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Tom Renner, chief engineer and engineering
manager at Electrical Geodesics, Inc.,
demonstrates on Friday how the geodesic
sensor net maps his brain.
Research
generates
revenue,
innovation
, UO research and licensed
inventions have jumped in
recent years, bringing funds as
well as advances in technology
By Caron Alarab
News Reporter
When it comes to University research
and the $1.82 million in inventions li
censed in 2003, administrators and in
ventors agree that the University isn't a
business as much as it is an engine for
new knowledge, social change and inno
vative research.
The University — which manages thou
sands of licensing agreements and has
produced hundreds of products to date,
categorized in bioscience research tools,
software and electronic multimedia, and
education technologies — has seen a
record-setting year.
The University's money-making pro
ductivity has quadrupled from the
$554,000 in revenue for 2002. For inven
tions, the number jumped from an aver
age of eight per year between 1996 and
2000 to 36 new inventions in 2003.
Despite the rapid pace of University re
search and innovation, Office ofTechnol
ogy Transfer Director Don Gerhart said
new inventions will always reflea a need
Turn to INVENTIONS, page 5
BRUSHING AWAY BLACKBERRIES
Eugene
Stream Team
member Lauri
Mullen
demonstrates
to students
and
community
members
how to plant
native foliage
along the
Willamette
River in place
of non-native
blackberry
bushes.
Lauren Wimer
Photographer
Riverbank bushwhacking
Despite unfavorable weather,
volunteers took part in a river
restoration project along the
banks of the Willamette River
By Chris Potter
Freelance Reporter
Volunteers dug, raked and cut their way
through blackberry bushes Sunday afternoon
near the Autzen Footbridge in a river restora
tion project organized by OSPIRG and the
Eugene Stream Team.
The event was part of a continuing restora
tion project to improve the habitat along the
banks of the Willamette River by removing
non-native blackberry bushes and planting
native trees and shrubs. The same site was
cleared by volunteers about six months ago.
Eugene Stream Team member Lauri Mullen
described the removal of blackberry bushes as
a "constant battle," but "each time it does get a
little easier."
Wind and rain confined the volunteers to a
treeless spot where there was no danger of
falling branches.
The new trees and shrubs will help create
shade that will stop the blackberry bushes
from growing back, shade the river and create
better a habitat for salmon, Mullen said.
Mullen was happy with the number of vol
unteers who turned out, "especially on a
windy, rainy day."
Sunday's project was the first time that Lane
Community College and University chapters
of the Oregon Student Public Interest Research
Turn to RIVER, page 5
Powwow celebrates tradition of dance
The Native American Student Union
hosted a powwow on Saturday night,
which included traditional dances
By Jennifer Sudick
Freelance Reporter
It seemed that Master of Ceremonies Tom Ball
was going to have to do something to get people
to take off their coats and gloves and put on their
dancing shoes on Saturday.
"In the old days, if a woman asked a man to
dance and he refused her, he would have to give
her something of value," he said to an audience
of more than 100 people at the Native American
Student Union Fall Pow-Wow. "So you can't re
fuse a dance."
With this in mind, most audience members
danced with friends, family and complete
strangers to traditional Native American songs.
Following the grand entry, in which a group
of dancing children followed flag carriers onto
the dance floor, a prayer was said to remember
U.S. military troops serving overseas and to
thank the University for hosting the 36th-annu
al fall powwow. Two groups of drummers and
singers then performed several songs, including
a victory song, while sitting in circles around
large drums.
"We are connecting with our mold and keeping
in touch with our Native American heritage,"
NASU co-Director Scott Minthorn said. "We mix
some of the old (dances and songs) with some of
the new."
Dressed in everyday clothing, audience mem
bers were able to dance with tribe members who
were wearing traditional, jingle and grass cos
tumes. Costumes featured feathers, beads, color
ful cloth and bells, and several dances were split
up into men's and women's categories.
According to a statement on www.pow
wows.com, "The outfits worn by the dancers, like
the styles of clothing today, evolve over time. It is
not a stagnant culture but a vibrant and chang
ing way of life."
Ball announced each performance with a de
scription of the dance and who would be dancing.
"There's a lot of stories about these different
dances," Ball said while describing the men's grass
dance. "These grass dancers; when they are danc
ing, one side is supposed to mimic the other."
Diane Teeman, who is studying for her doctor
ate in anthropology at the University, watched her
14-year-old daughter, Selena Sam-Teeman, per
form the jingle dance.
"It's good because there aren't many powwows
during the winter," Teeman said. "It's a good op
portunity to get the community together."
Teeman, a Bums Paiute tribe member, said she
has been to ten powwows at the University,
adding that her daughter has been performing
the jingle dance since she was a baby and has
Turn to POWWOW, page 5
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