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Where the Heart Is Zobin Hopes Math Can Help Prevent Heart Attacks Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Williamsburg.VA Permit No. 26 Visit our Website http://www.wm.edu/wmnews/wm_news.html E-mail: [email protected] VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER 17 NeWSA Newspaper for Faculty, Staff and Students I THURSDAY, MAY I 1,2000 Where the Heart Is Zobin hopes math can help prevent heart attacks Associate Professor of Mathematics methods are also costly and painful—the pa¬ Nahum Zobin has heartening news: tient endures numerous artificially induced his research may one day help doc¬ heart attacks during the procedure. tors treat patients with ventricular tachycar¬ Zobin's mathematical model, which pro¬ dia, a critical heart condition affecting poses how the measurement of a patient's 200,000 Americans and a major cause of magnetic field can enable doctors to locate heart attacks. damaged tissue, began when he was a fellow In ventricular tachycardia, faulty heart at Israel's University of Haifa in the early tissue creates the so-called re-entry pathways, 1990s. The project's research group has since which lead to a rapid increase of the heart disbanded, but Zobin continues the work. rate and reduce blood flow through the "The model survived a lot of difficult heart, causing a heart attack. Since the same criticism from medical doctors," he said. biological problem occurs in epilepsy, when "Now there remains a lot of expertmenting faulty brain tissues lead to a propagation of and a lot of engineering." signals that cause seizures, Zobin's find¬ While the mathematical ings may eventually contribute to epi model is complete, Zobin lepsy research as well. hopes to partner with re¬ To stop the miscommunication searchers outside his field to within the heart, the damaged tis¬ address a variety of lingering sue must be eliminated. And if the issues, such as how to differ¬ precise location of the entiate the magnetic signals damaged tissue is in a human heart from similar known, it is signals elsewhere. rather easily ,* "I know the mathematics," removed with he said. "Now I need spe¬ modern sur¬ cialists in the medical gical tech¬ profession, electrical niques. But engineers and physi¬ with current cists to collaborate detection and continue." Residents of Lodge Four have heralded three decades of methods The obstacles College commencements with a colorful countdown. When doctors can of applied math¬ the display was a bit slow in appearing this year, the senior only iden¬ ematics are par¬ women of Lodge Six decided to keep the campus informed. tify damaged ticularly intrigu¬ Here (clockwise from top right) Neela Rathinasamy, Amy tissue 50 to 60 ing to the Rus- Cloud, Susie Sell, Susan Manoglu, Katie Andersen and Ales- percent of sandra Leri celebrate the week left until graduation on May 14. the time. Nahum Zobin holds onto the hope that interdisci¬ Continued Current plinary collaboration can help prevent heart attacks. on Page 3. Barka Investigates Bermuda's First Forts Staircase, skeleton, coins answer some questions, raise others The remnants of a staircase, a pas¬ World colonized the islands in July of these forts survive intact or as archaeo¬ Among the remaining forts is Smith's sageway chiseled from limestone 1612, and during the next decade or so logical sites. According to Harris, they Fort which, constructed in 1613, is the bedrock and a gun battery in the they built 11 forts on a line of islands constitute the best preserved early-17th- second oldest. Named for Capt. John shape of a D are all that remain of on Bermuda's eastern shore. At least six century masonry forts in the New World. Smith, the fort was discovered during a Bermuda's Paget Fort. This fort, the is¬ 1998 investigation on Governor's Island lands' first, was constructed in 1612, and now consists of portions of a shal¬ later remodeled, then destroyed in 1815 low ditch hewn into the bedrock. to make way for Upper Paget Fort. Yet The appeal of the Bermuda forts to the structure's remains—and the fish Virginia archaeologists is enhanced by bones, military buttons, hogge money the fact that both these forts and the one and bits of clay pipes left by its resi¬ at Jamestown were built by early 17th- dents—teach Professor of Anthropol¬ century Englishmen. Of all the forts in ogy Norman Barka and his students Bermuda, Smith's Fort most closely re¬ about the history of Bermuda's forts sembles Jamestown's, which is also be¬ and the men who constructed them. ing excavated. While the Jamestown fort With the First Bermuda Forts is the earliest in the present-day United Project, Barka and Edward Harris, di¬ States, Paget and Smith's forts are the rector of the Bermuda Maritime Mu¬ first masonry forts the English con¬ seum, study the English colonization of structed outside England. Bermuda through the archaeological "The remains of Smith's Fort have investigations of early-17th-century fort held up better than those at Jamestown sites. The project, begun in 1993, is because of the building materials," Har¬ scheduled to last 10 years. ris said. "The former is masonry, mostly Englishmen who were shipwrecked on Bermuda on their way to the New Continued on Page 3. 2/mrev\s May 11. 2000 makers A Fitting Finish Student commencement speaker Jim Finn to address seniors Sunday Facing tough decisions is part and in the choir and serving as a President's his service in the residence halls as a resi¬ "This year's competition featured an parcel of graduating from college. Aide—includes leading admission tour dent assistant and head resident best sum¬ exceptionally strong group of students, Just ask senior Jim Finn, who was groups, representing the Student Assem¬ marizes his college life because "you never and Jimmy was the committee's enthusi¬ recendy stumped, not by the decision to clock out—you're al¬ astic choice," says Vice President for Stu¬ serve as his class' student commence^ In full flower: ways on the job." dent Affairs Sam Sadler. "His presenta¬ tion will demonstrate his thoughtfulness ment speaker, or even what to say, but senior Jim Finn decided his last contribution to the and affection for his experiences at Wil¬ rather, where to sit. Finn will end Class of 2000 would be liam and Mary." Traditionally, the student com¬ his extensive mencement speaker enjoys a seat in the the student commence- Although he's mum on the specifics involvement official party's front row. However, Finn ment address. "I of his speech, the history and govern¬ at the College will stride to the podium from the choir's wanted to hear from ment double major is quick to say that, by addressing front row. And on his way to address the someone I could relate academically speaking, there's no place his fellow William and Mary Hall audience, Finn to, so I thought I'd give like home. After all, he postponed law will pass the President's Aides—another graduates it a try," he says. Twenty school to work at the New York firm of group that reserved him a seat. All these during of his classmates ap¬ Sullivan and Cromwell because he was seats are the result of Finn's extensive Commence¬ plied to the Com¬ afraid that "going straight from William campus involvement—in fact, you might ment on mencement Commit¬ and Mary to another school would be a get the idea commencement will be the Sunday, tee—made up of stu¬ mistake—I was pretty certain nothing first time he's sat down in four years. May 14. dents, faculty and ad¬ could match my experiences here." Seniors should find it fitting for Finn ministrators—for the Those experiences will be distilled to deliver their commencement address, honor. After narrowing into just a few minutes on Sunday after¬ because most have probably come to the field to five, each se¬ noon. "I'm honored to address my class¬ know him through his innumerable con¬ bly as its liaison to the Commonwealth nior presented a brief portion of his or mates," says Finn, "and really, it feels tributions on campus. An abbreviated list and adjudicating offenses as a member her address to the committee, and Finn quite natural."■ of those contributions—besides singing of the honor council. According to Finn, came out on top. by Jackson Sasser Cathy Hainer Endowment Remembers Swem Late alumna's battle with breast cancer inspired, educated USA Today readers Cathy Hainer '84, the journalist decision reflected her focus and her in¬ words that was her trade," said Dean of background for that, and I think she who chronicled her battle with terest in education and intellectual en¬ University Libraries Connie Kearns chose William and Mary because she knew breast cancer in the pages of lightenment." McCarthy. to pursue that type of writing career she USA Today, didn't hesitate when her edi¬ An English major, Hainer was known Twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, needed the strongest possible education." tors asked her to designate a charity to among her friends and classmates as a pas¬ Invariably, receive an endowment in her name. An sionate reader. As a student she tackled Hainer's writing insatiable reader whose journalism ca¬ texts in Old English—for fun. Later, she returned to reer began at the Flat Hat and WCWM would stump colleagues with her encyclo¬ books and read¬ radio, Hainer selected Swem Library. pedic knowledge of books and authors. ing: an article Friends, colleagues and strangers— "William and Mary was the only about book col¬ the readers Hainer touched with a series school she ever wanted to attend, and I lecting; a peek of personal articles detailing her illness— know she was very happy there," said into the book¬ have contributed almost $18,000 to the Hainer's father, Stanley Hainer, a book store singles Cathy Hainer Book Fund Endowment at publisher in Virginia Beach.
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