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Medical News: Free health, Dance showcase: Original Washington People: Dicke wellness fair offered March 28 works performed by PAD students 4 provides 'world-class service' 8 Wishington University in St.Louis March 20, zoos rtc^i.^a^n Bang wins national award for poetry BY CYNTHIA GEORGES I am, it's in a very small sky. I mean, it is poetry!" Poet Mary Jo Bang, professor Calling the award a "bitter- of English and director of sweet honor," Bang said that poets The Writing Program, both write elegies for many reasons. in Arts & Sciences, has won the "They distract one from grief for 2008 National Book Critics Circle a moment here or there. They are Award in poetry. failed attempts to keep the loved Bang was recognized one alive a little longer. for "Elegy," a book of 64 For me," she said, "it was poems that chronicles the especially a way of con- year following the death tinuing a conversation of her son. Published in that had been going on October 2007 by Graywolf with my son for 37 years Press, "Elegy" is her fifth and had been suddenly book of verse. interrupted. The poems The National Book were a way of talking to Critics Circle Awards him." were announced March 6 Bang The book has been at a ceremony in New well received. According York. to Publishers Weekly, "Elegy" is a Bang said she was surprised "powerful fifth collection.... Bang to learn that her book had been interrogates the elegiac form and Ring that bell McDonnell Scholar Ming Zu (center) rang the opening bell of the New York Stock chosen from among five "very demands of it more than it can Exchange March 10 under the watchful eyes of Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton; James V. Wertsch, impressive" finalists. "I was give, frustrated, over and over Ph.D. (second from left), the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences and director of the touched to be honored by people again, with memory, which falls McDonnell International Scholars Academy; and members of the McDonnell Academy. The group who read widely and take writing pitifully short of life." toured New York over spring break and learned about the American political system. While there, seriously," she said. Said University of Houston students also had breakfast with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion and met with "My family thinks I'm a star," poet Nick Flynn, "These poems United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Bang said. "I remind them that if See Award, Page 6 Professor remembers shuttle astronaut: Monitoring device WUSTL provided firm foundation; Behnken had the 'right stuff fails to lower risk of anesthesia awareness BY CYNTHIA GEORGES AND TONY FITZPATRICK gineering and physics. studies," Sutera said. "I think he was motivated In May 1992, he was planning to stay for a by some of the same reasons as I. For one BY JIM DRYDEN Salvatore P. Sutera, Ph.D., senior professor of fifth year and earn a master's degree in me- thing, Caltech offered a one-year, non-thesis biomedical engineering and former chair of chanical engineering. Sutera would have been master's program, and he probably wanted to School of Medicine anes- the Department of Mechanical Engineering, his adviser. However, Behnken decided to take see the other side of the continent. But then he thesiology researchers have was watching a local newscast earlier this his WUSTL degrees and head to the California got hooked and stayed on for three more years found that a device to ensure month that featured astronauts greeting the Institute of Technology, where he spent the and a doctorate." surgery patients have no media with their customary grins and salutes next four years earning a master's degree and Sutera remembered Behnken as an ener- memories of their operations when he recognized a former student. doctorate in mechanical engineering. getic, cheerful, likeable young man. Looking may not lower the risk of the U.S. Air Force Major and NASA astronaut It could be that he was following the exam- up Behnken's transcripts, Sutera saw that he phenomenon known as anes- Robert Behnken, Ph.D., Mission Specialist 1 on ple of Sutera, who had done the same thing earned As and A-pluses in the courses he thesia awareness. the International Space Station, was a student after earning a bachelor's degree at Johns Hop- taught — grades he didn't give out lightly. "Anesthesia awareness of Sutera's between 1990-92. At the time, kins University many years before. "Bob was definitely a low-maintenance stu- implies that a person was able Behnken was an Air Force ROTC student earn- "I don't think it was coincidental that Bob dent, one who didn't need a lot of help with to form memories while ing bachelor's degrees in both mechanical en- chose my alma mater for his postgraduate See Astronaut, Page 7 under anesthesia," said prin- cipal investigator Michael S. Avidan, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology and of cardiothoracic sur- Bears basketball back to the Final Four gery. "It's extremely rare, only occurring in about one to two surgical patients per Second straight trip to Salem, Va. thousand, but because of the huge number of operations The men's basketball team is year ago, when the Bears earned a performed annually, the total headed to the Division III 58-55 win in the sectional final in number of people with Final Four for the second consec- Stevens Point, Wis. awareness during anesthesia utive year after earning a 57-46 "This team has found ways all is significant. It can be dis- win against No. 14 Millsaps year long to win, so this one tressing and can contribute to College in the sectional final at tonight didn't surprise me," said long-term psychological con- the WUSTL Field House coach Mark Edwards, who picked sequences such as anxiety and March 14. up his 475th career victory. "I even posttraumatic stress dis- Senior Troy Ruths earned Sec- couldn't be more proud of them. order in some cases." tional MVP honors after scoring This is probably one of the As reported in the March a game-high 23 points on biggest gut checks they've had all 13 issue of the New England 9-of-15 shooting from the field. season." Journal of Medicine, a team Junior Tyler Nading also was Before the sectional final, led by Avidan compared out- named to the all-sectional team, Ruths was named Division III comes in almost 2,000 sur- averaging 15 points, 7.5 rebounds player of the year as the winner of gery patients treated at and five steals per game. the prestigious Jostens Trophy, a Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Half The Bears advance to the Final national award created by the Ro- were monitored with a device Four for the second time in tary Club of Salem, Va., to honor that measures bispectral school history and will face No. 1 the outstanding men's and index (BIS). The BIS meas- Hope College in the national women's Division III basketball urement takes data from an semifinal at the Salem Civic Cen- players in the country. electroencephalogram that ter in Salem, Va., at 6 p.m. Friday, The trophy presentation is monitors brain waves. When March 21. scheduled for Thursday, March Tyler Nading (left) and Troy Ruths celebrate their second consecu- a person is fully awake, their No. 11 WUSTL and Hope last 20, at the Salem Civic Center in tive trip to the Final Four after defeating Millsaps College March 14. See Device, Page 6 met in the NCAA tournament a Salem, Va. Both Nading and Ruths were named to the all-sectional team. J 2 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS New sports management class at Olin includes all-star lineup of guest speakers BY SHULA NEUMAN ciplinary international risk man- agement and business solutions From allegations of steroid use company. He was recently elected to astronomical salaries, the president of the International business of professional Baseball Federation. sports has unique challenges Prior to his current work, rarely covered in a standard MBA Schiller served as vice president curriculum. The Olin Business of sports programming for Turn- School is an exception. This er Broadcasting System, president spring, the school is introducing a of Turner Sports, Inc. and presi- sports management course that dent and governor of the NHL will feature an "all-star" lineup of expansion Atlanta Thrashers. guest lecturers. Schiller also served as chairman The class will be co-taught by and CEO of YankeeNets, an inte- Todd Milbourn, Ph.D., professor grated sports-based media com- of finance, and by someone who pany with ownership of the New knows the business inside and York Yankees, New Jersey Nets, out: Seth Abraham, former CEO and New Jersey Devils and as ex- of Time Warner Sports and ecutive director/ Madison Square Garden. secretary general of the United "This will be a wonderful in- States Olympic Committee.