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
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“(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.
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Hutchison: Gold nanopartides are attached to DNA strand
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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.”
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