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In the weeks since the Jan. 12 earth-
quake, several University-aliated
physicians have gone to Haiti, provid-
ing rst-wave emergency care, while
those on campus continue to raiseunds to support relie eorts.
Six members o the Brown com-
munity — ve aculty membersand one local nurse and midwie
— traveled to Haiti ater the quake,
according to the University’s Haiti
relie Web site, and three have since
returned.
“It was total chaos,” AmosCharles, clinical associate proes-sor o medicine, said o the week
he spent in Haiti immediately ater
the earthquake. “You had patients
with everything.”
Charles, a Haitian pulmonologist
who does not perorm surgeries in
the U.S., exercised only an adminis-trative role at the General Hospital inPort-au-Prince, organizing the mas-
sive number o patients into units
that doctors could manage.
“You stand in the middle o allthat as a physician, and you say ‘I
cannot help,’ ” Charles said. Becausedoctors could not process the many
patients constantly streaming rom
the ve operating rooms at the hos-pital, Charles created a postoperative
unit to create order.
Ater Charles placed patients intobeds, the three atershocks that tookplace while he was there interrupted
his work. Patients “ran out o the
unit” during each o the atershocks,
araid to be under a roo during theseismic activity, he said. Ater each shock, some patients
would reuse to come back inside,
and he needed to completely reor-
ganize the system. Post-traumatic
stress aected many patients, caus-
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By QIan yIn
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A salmonella outbreak aecting
people in 42 states has been linked
to the ground black pepper usedby a Rhode Island meat-curing
company, according to Annemarie
Beardsworth, spokeswoman or the Rhode Island Department o
Health.
Last week, tests on pepper sam-ples taken rom the plant ound thesame strain o salmonella associated
with the national outbreak, Beard-sworth said.Daniele Inc., a company based
in Pascoag, R.I., sells to retailers
throughout the country, includingleading stores such as Costco and Wal-Mart, according to a report by
the U.S. Department o Agricul-
ture’s Food Saety and Inspection
Service.
Daniele Inc. voluntarily recalled1.2 million pounds o pepper-coated
salami on Jan. 23. This Sunday, the
company added 17,000 pounds o
Italian sausage products to the re-call list, according to an FSIS newsrelease.
The expanded recall ollowed
positive salmonella test results ina cured-salami product in Illinois,
Beardsworth said. The recall in-
cluded three other ood items, alsopepper-coated, that are not distrib-uted in Rhode Island, she said.
The salmonella outbreak started
on July 4, according to a Centers
or Disease Control and Prevention
report. As o Feb. 2, the CDC had
conrmed 207 cases o the inection,including two in Rhode Island. The
inected individuals range rom in-
ants to 93-year-olds, and no deaths
have been reported.
Though the pepper samples
tested positive or salmonella, the
state health department is in the
process o determining i the patho-gen originated at the meat company or a New York-based spice distribu-tor, Beardsworth said. Daniele Inc.bought the pepper rom Brooklyn’s Wholesome Spice, which bought it
rom an importer, Beardsworth said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Adminis-
tration is in the process o tracing
back the supply train, she said.“The company’s goal right now
is to take prudent, proactive mea-
sures to do everything possible to
remove any products that do not
meet our high standards or quality and taste,” Daniele wrote in a state-
ment on its Web site last week.
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By BrIelle FrIedman
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A team o seven geologists returned
last month rom a three-month tripin Antarctica ater collecting morethan two tons o rock samples. Thegroup hopes to understand climate
conditions and climate change in
Antarctica and apply that knowl-edge to climate change on Mars
ater analyzing the samples.
The research team consisted
o two groups, led by Assistant
Proessor o Geological Sciences
Michael Wyatt and Proessor o
Geological Sciences James Head.
Although the two groups used di-erent research approaches, Wyatt
said both groups were concerned with climate change.
Wyatt said his group ocused
on how climate change aects
the mineralogy o rock composi-
tion while Head’s team ocused
on the physical landscapes o thisregion, specically the role water
has played in creating its unique
landscape.
“By understanding how all these
things operate in Antarctica, we’re
not only trying to better under-
stand Earth and Earth’s climate,
but also how all that can be appliedto a better understanding o condi-
tions on Mars,” Wyatt said.
By using spectrometers, instru-
ments that measure the refected
light that bounces o rocks, Wyatt
and his team were able to analyze
what most people would call a
“bunch o squiggly lines.” These
samples will then be compared
to those rom geological libraries
back at Brown in order to deter-
mine their mineralogy.
“It’s a very rewarding experi-
ence just to be able to get there,”
Wyatt said. “Proessionally and
personally, it aects you in a very positive way.”
Wyatt said saety was alwaysthe group’s rst priority. “It’s a harsh place and can be dicult
and stressul,” he said, adding it
was important that everyone had
the proper training beorehand.
The group used the Cave — the
computer science department’simmersive virtual reality acility — extensively during the year’s
planning o the trip.
The trip’s location, the AntarcticDry Valleys, was chosen because it is the “the coldest, most dry, windi-
est place on Earth,” wrote James
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Anthropodermic books are not allthe Hay has to oer by way o ec-
centric collection pieces, as indepen-
dent researcher S.J. Wole ound.
Nestled among the
John Hay Library’s rare book collec-tions is an 1859 broadside printed on
paper made o processed mummy
wrappings.
Wole, a senior cataloguer andserials specialist at the American
Antiquarian Society in Worcester,
Mass., is currently working on a
comprehensive database o all the
Egyptian mummies and mummy
parts that remain in the U.S. The
database has around 1,249 entries,
Wole said, and
represents about
550 individuals.Each entry in the database cov-
ers 25 categories, including the sexo the mummy, when it was rst im-ported into the U.S. and the museum
Courtes of Stephen Sullivan
While those remainin on campus raised funds for earthquake victims, some phsicians traveled to Haiti. Formore photos, visit lodailherald.com.
Courtes of S.J. Wolfe
S.J. Wolfe has alread archived over 1,200 mumm parts remainin in theU.S.
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Dnadec — anoptimization companfounded in 2007 Professor of ComputerScience Pascal VanHentenrck — recentlreceived $350,000 infundin from the SlaterTechnolo Fund, one ofthe initial partners in thecompan’s formation.The mone will e ke inthe development and rowthof Dnadec as a compan,said Van Hentenrck, who isan expert in optimization,the process of maximizin efficienc and minimizin wastewithin a compan’s economic constraints. He added thatthe rant would fund expansion of Dnadec’s sales force,development of its products and rowth of the sales processto estalish lon-term relations with their customer ase.Slater Technolo Fund tpicall provides investment forpromisin technolo-ased enterprises in Rhode Island,accordin to its We site.“Dnadec looks at developin solutions for customersto maximize profit and corporate solutions,” said RoertWilliams, vice president of sales and marketin for Dnadec.He added that Dnadec’s clients are often lare corporationsworkin in sectors like consumer oods, transportation,loistics and ener.“We are in the usiness of manufacturin and usinoptimization software,” Van Hentenrck said. Dnadecessentiall looks at helpin companies make etterdecisions, match tasks and minimize time and loistics,helpin to solve “complex prolems the cannot do hand,” he said.While Dnadec does use a software proram, the task ofoptimization still “requires a lot of skills and understandinof the complex workins of the software,” said VanHentenrck. Thus, Dnadec works with its client companies,talkin with them to see where the need optimization andtpicall helpin to solve prolems the have not seenefore, he said.
— Casey Bleho
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A new gray and black BigBelly Solar
Compactor arrived on Dec. 18 in
ront o the Sharpe Reectory. Thecompactor outside the Ratty is the
rst such receptacle on campus,
which was installed as a collaboration
between the Brown EcoReps pro-
gram and Facilities Management.Slightly larger than the average
trash can, it uses solar power to com-
pact trash to as little as one-th o
its original volume, allowing it to be
emptied less requently and giving
it a much larger capacity to hold
trash, according to Vice President
or Facilities Management Stephen
Maiorisi. In addition to compacting
trash, the compactor can send an
e-mail to an administrator when
it is ull, allowing it to be emptied
promptly, he said.
The unit is expected to yield a 50to 70 percent reduction in collection
activities associated with the trash
can and will pay or itsel within one
to two years, Maiorisi said.
He said the compactor has been
unctioning well so ar, but will see
its rst big test when the weather
gets warmer.
“People, especially in the spring,
were taking a lot o ood and eatingoutside,” Maiorisi said.Maiorisi said he hopes that thenew machine will also alleviate thetrash overfow problems that haveoccurred in the past. I eective in
that goal, Facilities plans to install
more o the compactors throughout
campus “in areas with heavy use,”
Maiorisi said.
“It allows our grounds crew to
be more productive,” he said. “It’lldenitely pay or itsel.”
Kai Morrell ’11, coordinator o
EcoReps, said the group had thought
about getting a compactor or Brownater hearing about successul instal-lations at college campuses such as
Harvard and Stanord.
A big push to get a trash compac-
tor on campus came rom Dean o
the College Katherine Bergeron,
who saw similar trash compactors
while visiting Trinity College in
Dublin last summer and made the
suggestion to Maiorisi.
The installation o a solar trash
compactor is part o a general push
by Facilities and EcoReps to make
Brown more energy-ecient. As
part o this eort, Facilities has planso installing photovoltaic cells on the
GeoChem Building.
“We’re always looking at new
technologies,” Maiorisi said.
Facilities has also been explor-ing less high-tech ways to reduce
consumption, such as organizingawareness campaigns. There areplans or holding a campus-wide
competition among dorms to reduceenergy consumption later this year,
said Ginger Gritzo, energy and en- vironmental programs coordinator or Facilities.“You could throw all the money
in the world at a building,” Gritzo
said. “But at a certain point, people just need to get involved with their behaviors.”
Though many students have seen
the new receptacle, some are not
completely sure what it does.“I knew it was there, but I didn’t
know it was a trash compactor,” said
Kara Kauman ’12.“It’s good to know that the Uni-
versity is doing its best to stay at the
edge o technology,” said Okezie
Nwoka ’11.“I thought it was a donation boxor Haiti,” said Christina Skonberg’12. Ater learning o the machine’s
benets, she added, “For Facilities,
I think it’s a great idea because
they have some o the hardest jobsever.”BigBelly Solar, ounded in 2003,
has already sold solar compactors tocities including Philadelphia, whichexpects to save more than $1 million
annually through its 500 solar com-
pactors, according to the BigBelly
Web site.
Nick Sinnott-Armstron / Herald
The new trash can outside the Sharpe Refector uses solar power tocompact trash.
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“It’s nice to see a horse that was aused in the past is nowale to e loved.”
— Equestrian team junior captain Allera Aron ’11
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While many students sat at home
catching re-runs o “Jersey Shore,”
members o the equestrian team
devoted part o their winter break
to training or the spring and volun-teering with a horse rescue project
in Florida. Eighteen o the team’s 35members headed south or our days
to ride in Wellington and volunteer
in Loxahatchee with Pure Thoughts,
Inc. Horse and Foal Rescue.
Ater arriving on Jan. 18 and train-
ing the ollowing day, the group be-
gan their volunteer eorts on Jan. 20
at Victoria McCullough’s TriumphProject stables in Wellington. Mc-
Cullough has been a donor and sup-porter o the team “or several years,”
said senior captain Rachel Grith’10. While the team has trained in
Florida over winter break longer
than Grith has been at Brown, last
year was the rst that they did vol-unteer work while they were there.McCullough invited the team to get
involved with these projects, Gri-
th said.
While the team was at the Tri-umph Project, McCullough “ex-plained a lot about her mission”to rehabilitate horses that would
otherwise have been slaughtered,
Grith said. She added that the
team also “visited the horses” that
the organization has rescued. Ater introducing the team to the horses
at the Triumph Project, McCullough
took the riders the next day to the
Triumph Project’s sister rescue, Pure
Thoughts.
The Triumph Project rehabilitates
abused and injured horses to be used
or competition. Pure Thoughts o-
ers horse adoption or a wide rangeo needs, such as “someone who just
wants a companion, a horse to taketrail-riding or a amily horse,” Gri-th said.
“Even i horses don’t have a u-ture as a riding horse, they have a
uture as a pasture pet, or living with
us,” said Brad Gaver, co-ounder o Pure Thoughts.
Both organizations nd abused
and neglected horses “rom all dier-
ent backgrounds,” Grith said.
“A lot o the horses are race-
horses,” she added. “They’re put intotraining really young, they race very
hard. It’s very strenuous.”
As a result, many o these horsesbecome too injured to race, and “end
up at slaughter auctions,” said ju-
nior captain Allegra Aron ’11. Horses
other than racehorses are brought
to slaughter auctions, too. Many o these are “older horses that peopleno longer want or horses that haveinjuries,” Aron said.
“With the economy being so
bad, many (racehorses) are going
to slaughter,” Grith said.Pure Thoughts attempts to save
these horses rom being slaughteredby going to the auctions, purchasingthe horses and restoring their healthso they can be ridden again, Grithsaid. Rehabilitation could take “any- where rom a month to years,” Gaver said, depending on the severity o the
horse’s condition.
The equestrian team helped out at
Pure Thoughts ater their Thursday
morning training session Jan. 21.
“They had between 20 and 40
horses” that were ully rehabilitated
and ready to be adopted, Grith
said. The team’s job was to “prepare
them or the Web site” by bathing,
grooming and photographing them,
she said.
In addition to nding new homes
or rehabilitated show horses, Mc-
Cullough’s mission at Triumph Proj-ect is about “making it easier or the
(rescue) projects to work together,
and really helping grassroots proj-ects get more resources,” Grith
said.
The most dicult obstacle inrehabilitating horses is not about
improving the physical or emotion-
al condition o the horses, Gaver
said.
“The biggest challenge, honestly,
is nancial. We can handle pretty
much every case we’ve had thrown
at us, but it’s just about paying or some o the procedures that need
to be done,” he said. Pure Thoughts
operates completely on donations
and grants.
Typically, those who adopt horses
rom Pure Thoughts live locally inFlorida, Gaver said. However, oneo their horses ound a home with
the equestrian team.
One pony, named Yahzi, had been
neglected and was rescued by Pure
Thoughts, Grith said. “Now he’s
actually one o our really sae begin-
ner horses.” Yahzi even competed
in the “walk-trot” portion o a com-
petition hosted by Brown this past
October, she added.
Horses at Pure Thoughts “look
just like any other horses,” Grith
said, adding that it is hard to tell that they were once abused or neglected.
“Most o them were pretty riendly and pretty resilient,” she said.
The horses at Pure Thoughts “arereally sweet and well cared or,” Aronsaid, adding, “It’s nice to see a horsethat was abused in the past now able
to be loved.”
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Last month, Chase Communit givin, a corporatephilanthrop proram, awarded two rants totalin$62,000 to ReadSetLaunch, a collee mentorin proramfor underprivileed students.ReadSetLaunch, founded freshmen at brown andyale last ear, “provides collee advisin to students aroundthe countr from disadvantaed ackrounds who cannotafford professional collee counselors,” accordin to arecent press release from the roup.Maa bretzius ’12, co-founder of brown’s chapter, saidthe roup is still decidin how to use the rant.“Since ReadSetLaunch is a proram which uses theInternet to connect its mentors and mentees, the monewill most likel o toward providin mentees with wecamsor asic laptops,” bretzius said. “Potentiall, it will e usedto susidize collee visits and SAT and ACT testin for thestudents.”Victor Vu ’12, the brown chapter’s other co-founder, saidmentorin “is immediatel ratifin, and the new meansof communication which are now availale to us make awider population of students accessile.”“The proram is a reminder not to discredit technolo;it is a tool to serve,” bretzius said.Chase Communit givin held an online poll open to allFaceook users to select rant recipients — and bretziusand Vu used their familiarit with the Internet to theiradvantae. The team campained on Faceook and AIM toarner votes for the rant, bretzius said.
— Liz Kelley
Courtes of Rachel griffith
Colleen broan ’10 was one of 18 memers of brown’s equestrian teamwho participated in a communit service trip over reak.
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