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IN BRIEF Exhibit commemorating Iraq war to visit Eugene “Eyes Wide Open,” a traveling memorial commemorating U.S. mil itary and civilian deaths from the Iraq war, will come to Lane County Fairgrounds’ Wheeler Pavilion on Sunday and Monday. The exhibit is hosted by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organ ization that works for issues of so cial justice. The exhibit features more than 2,000 boots and shoes that repre sent military and civilian casualties, a 32-foot wall of names and inci dents of Iraqi civilian deaths, and a multimedia display. AFSC Northwest Regional Direc tor Susan Segall said the response to the exhibit has generally been one of solemnity and mourning. “As you look at these boots, you’re compelled to imagine the people that stood in them,” she said. The boots were purchased or do nated from military surplus stores, though some of the boots came from military families who lost loved ones. Families also donated personal effects and memorabilia to commemorate their loved ones. Helen Park, a Quaker and the ex hibit’s local coordinator, said the ex hibit is not meant to be political. “The purpose of the exhibit, in my mind, is to bring together people from all sides of the political spec trum, whether they support or op pose the war,” Park said. “Everyone can respect the enormous sacrifice of these precious lives, honor their commitment and mourn their loss.” The exhibit is free and will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday. — Moriah Balingit Sponsors: Program gives offenders chance at new lives vsununuea rrom page 1 “(Chase) is held in high regard for his work in our community and he takes his community responsibility very seriously,” Piercy wrote. Piercy said in a phone interview that she understood from other city officials that Chase said no sex offend ers will be at the West University neighborhood location. Chase said he wasn’t sure where Piercy heard that because it is possi ble some sex offenders will live there — there just won’t be any who are considered to be dangerous threats to the community. “There are risk tools that parole and probation use to determine what level of risk the people pose to the community,” Chase said. “The idea that someone’s going to run out their front door and grab a baby out of the walker, that’s rare. That’s not the kind of people we’re going to have there.” Piercy said she is confident that if sex offenders are included in the West University neighborhood’s Sponsors, Inc. program, they will be the least dangerous and will be under the best supervision possible. “I know they do good oversight on the folks that they work with and are pretty rigorous about making sure that the community is not adversely impacted,” Piercy said. University student Jill Forni said she learned about Sponsors, Inc.’s plans to purchase property in the neighborhood from a flyer posted on a bulletin board at her sorority. Forni said a police officer had visit ed her house a few weeks earlier to discuss safety issues in the neighbor hood and informed her and her room mates of the large number of parolees and ex-convicts residing in the area. “We’re very nervous about it,” Fomi said. “We were very surprised to find out how many sex offenders live around us.” Eugene police officer Randy Ellis, who patrols the West University neighborhood, said Sponsors, Inc. is an outstanding community program that does positive work with the parolees and ex-convicts involved. “The people who are at Sponsors and are working in one of their pro grams have a higher success rate than those who aren’t,” Ellis said. Forni said she is not fully informed about the Sponsors program but wants to get the word out about the number of former convicts living in the neighborhood and learn about the supervision programs in place. Chase said it may be impossible to persuade some people to allow for mer convicts to live in the area, but he said it is important that they get a chance to turn their lives around. Chase said representatives from Spon sors, Inc. will be at the West Universi ty Neighbors’ April 7 meeting to con tinue addressing concerns and to clear up any confusion or misinfor mation neighbors may have. “That’s our goal in going to these neighborhood association meetings, ... so people will know exactly what it is that they should expect,” Chase said. meghanncuniff@ dailyemerald, com Hutchison: Gold nanopartides are attached to DNA strand Continued from page 1 shrinks, it becomes difficult for the switches to fully halt the flow of elec trons when turned off because of a phenomenon called quantum me chanical tunneling. Results of this problem include overheating and in creased energy consumption. Hutchison described this as a top down approach to transistor making, comparing the process to a sculptor chiseling a block of marble into a stat ue and discarding a lot of marble. In contrast, Hutchison builds tran sistors from the bottom-up, starting with tiny pieces of gold called nanoparticles. “The nanoparticle has the same di mension relative to a human hair as a human hair does to a football field,” Hutchison said. In Hutchison model, the gold nanoparticles are attached to a strand of DNA as a structural sup port and strung between the ends of the transistor. Hutchison said this process actually benefits from quan tum mechanical tunneling. “We took the weakness of tradi tional electronic devices and made that the strength for our new de vices,” Hutchison said. Hutchison said he developed the idea in collaboration with former University physics professor Martin Wybourne, who has since relocated to Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire. “It was a chemist and a physicist,” Hutchison said. “It was a good exam ple of an interdisciplinary research project. ... Two of us got together in the coffee stand down by the atrium and started talking about science, and this idea came out of that. ” Hutchison began his research in 1996, and when he submitted his first invention disclosure to the Universi ty’s Office of Technology Transfer in 1997, he said his work was still in the idea phase. Technology outreach offi cer Christine Gramer said the purpose of the technology transfer office is to commercialize inventions resulting from University research. “We patented it when we became convinced that it might be possible to make it,” Hutchison said. Gramer said Hutchison received a patent last May for developing a new way of synthesizing nanoparticles that is more productive and uses more environmentally benign materi als than previous methods. His cur rent patent is specifically for the elec tronic devices involved in his research, and Gramer said he has sev eral other patents pending. “The patent office only lets you have one patent per invention even if they’re all related to each other,” Gramer said. It is currently uncertain when and how Hutchison innovations will ap pear in consumer electronic devices. “We’re investigating test structures in an academic research iab, and there’s a big step from that to getting it into your wristwatch, your comput er,” Hutchison said. However, development may be in the works. “We’re in the early stages of discus sion with a potential licensee for this technology,” said Brian Smith, senior technology development associate in the Office of Technology TVansfer. When the University licenses tech nology invented on campus to compa nies that sell products or services based on the technology, profits are di vided between the inventor, the inven tor’s department or laboratory, and the University. Smith said the University’s share of profits earned through licens ing of inventions like Hutchison is in vested into new research, leading to an “innovation cycle.” evasylwester@ dailyenierald. com Premier Travel • Airfare Specials! • New York - $198.00* Miami - $198.00* Cancun - $342.00* London - $550.00* and Ices not included, restrictions apply . Subject to change without notice. Kurail Passes issued On-Site!!! E-inail: !ares(« lu\2tra\cl.com 1011 Harlow 747-0909 — poppiV— "The Land East" Traditional Greek & Indian Food Lunch Monday through Saturday Dinner 7 Nights a Week 992 Willamette Eugene, Or 97401 343-9661 Advertise in the ODE classifieds. 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