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ABBY ROBINSON stops tumor invasion into healthy tissue How can I sign up RESEARCH NEWS and enhances the efficacy of chemotherapy, for a crime which suggests that chemotherapy may be prevention ? class to learn Using a combination of chemo- more effective when the target is station- ? ary,” said Ravi Bellamkonda, Carol Ann about campus therapy and radiation to treat brain safety strategies? tumors has improved clinical out- and David D. Flanagan Chair in Biomedical Engineering. “These results reveal a new comes — but few patients survive According strategy for treating brain cancer that could to Alex more than two years after their improve clinical outcomes.” Gutierrez, condition is diagnosed. In addition to Bellamkonda, collabora- crime pre- tors on the project include Jack Arbiser, vention The effectiveness of the treatment is a professor in the Emory University officer for hindered by how aggressively the tumor Department of Dermatology; Daniel the Georgia Tech Police invades healthy brain tissue, which makes Brat, a professor in the Emory University Department, crime preven- it difficult for the chemotherapy to reach Department of Pathology and Laboratory tion classes are available to the cancer cells and complicates surgical Medicine; and the paper’s lead author, all students, faculty and staff removal of the tumor. To address this chal- Jennifer Munson, who was a bioengineer- members. The crime preven- ing graduate student in the School of lenge, researchers from Georgia Tech and Image courtesy of Jennifer Munson Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering tion officers will provide Emory University have designed a new The image on the left is of an untreated when the research was conducted. classes on an as-needed/ treatment approach that appears to stop the tumor, and the image on the right is as-available basis. To request spread of cancer cells into normal brain tis- of a tumor treated with the compound “I formulated the imipramine blue com- a class, visit http://police. sue in animals. imipramine blue. Researchers count the pound as a triphenylmethane dye because gatech.edu/services. The researchers treated animals that had number of tumor cells (green) per the I knew that another triphenylmethane dye, invasive tumors by inserting a membra- area of healthy tissue (red) to quantify gentian violet, exhibited anti-cancer prop- Have a Tech-related nous pouch containing a molecule called the invasion of tumor cells beyond the erties,” Arbiser said. “I decided to use imip- question that you’d like “imipramine blue” into the animal. This tumor border (the blue dotted line). ramine — a drug used to treat depression answered? Email it to treatment was followed by conventional — as the starting material because I knew [email protected]. and the animals survived longer than ani- chemotherapy with doxorubicin. it could get into the brain.” mals treated with chemotherapy alone. With this treatment strategy, the tumors “Our results show that imipramine blue stopped expanding into the healthy tissue, CANCER, continued on page 2

NEWS BRIEFS ‘Rent’ Due at Mekong Green Tech Wins Ideas to SERVE DramaTech this Month Faculty, Staff Competition ARMINA KHWAJA Mekong COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING Members Honored Green Tech’s Georgia Tech’s campus is filled with integral piec- at Annual Luncheon technol- es of history, one being its very own theater com- ogy to pany, DramaTech. clean up Vietnam’s rural brick- making industry won first place and People’s Choice at The company the 2012 Ideas to SERVE (I2S) began in 1947 and, Competition. Read the full despite periodic eco- story at nomic and political turmoil, has oper- tinyurl.com/7kw9mam ated ever since, making it the oldest Tech Sponsors continually running theater company in Science, Engineering . DramaTech Festival Expo is located in a small Image courtesy of Melinda Ellington theater in the rear Rent will be performed at 8 p.m. on More than April 18, 19, 20 and 21. 25 faculty of the Robert Ferst and staff will Center for the Arts. travel to All this month, DramaTech is performing the rock musical Washington, Rent, winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical, which Image courtesy of Zach Porter D.C., April was reincarnated as a motion picture in 2005. The script is based on Puccini’s “La Bohème” and follows a year in the life 27 to 29, to demonstrate the On April 12, faculty and staff gathered to honor colleagues at Institute’s commitment to edu- of eight friends in the late 1980s. The characters are faced with the annual Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon. Pictured above cation in science, technology, social issues while struggling to make a living in New York City is the administrative team from Stamps Health Services, which engineering and mathematics and follow the tagline, “No day but today.” earned an Outstanding Staff Performance Award. For a full list of at the national level. Find out The culture of DramaTech, a student-run organization, can this year’s 25-Year Service Award honorees and Institute award recipients, turn to page 3. more at be described as nothing short of unique, according to Melinda tinyurl.com/cj65ygv RENT, continued on page 2 www.whistle.gatech.edu EVENTS Campus News

ARTS & Chair Named for Civil, Environmental Engineering CULTURE Reginald neering into the future,” said Gary S. May, ulty, staff and alumni,” DesRoches said. “This DesRoches has dean of the College of Engineering. “He is an is an exciting time for the civil and environ- April 22 active researcher and highly regarded educa- mental engineering profession, and I believe The Georgia Tech Chorale and been appointed tor. Reggie has the vision, scholarship, experi- that our program is well positioned to lead in Chamber Choir will perform with the the new Karen Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra at ence, temperament and outstanding reputa- educating and empowering our students to 3 p.m. at the Ferst Center. and John tion in fields critical to the school that make solve future global challenges.” www.music.gatech.edu Huff Chair him ideally suited and prepared to lead.” DesRoches earned his PhD in structural in the School As chair, DesRoches will oversee a school engineering from the University of California April 23 to June 1 of Civil and that is consistently ranked as one of the at Berkeley. His primary research interests The Innermost Room is an exhibition nation’s most prominent programs of its kind are design of buildings and critical infrastruc- of rescued photographs and public Environmental in both graduate and undergraduate educa- ture subjected to extreme loads, seismic risk documents. Featuring original images Engineering, and video, the exhibit will benefit Reginald DesRoches tion. assessment of transportation systems, and Operation Photo Rescue. It is open effective May 15. “I am honored to be chosen as the next application of smart materials in seismic- to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 5 school chair, and I look forward to working resistant design and retrofit. p.m. at the Robert C. Williams Paper “Without a doubt, Reggie is the very best with an outstanding group of students, fac- Museum. person to lead civil and environmental engi- www.ce.gatech.edu http://ipst.gatech.edu April 29 The Ferst Center presents Mohammad Tech Honored as Bicycle Friendly University Reza Shajarian and Shahnaz Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Call 404-894- Georgia Tech has earned the Committee (BIIC). “The criteria vary, but are 9600 for ticket information. focused on ‘the five Es’ — education, enforce- www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu national honor of being named a Bicycle Friendly University by the ment, engineering, encouragement and evalu- ation.” League of American Bicyclists. The CONFERENCES The BIIC convened in January 2011 to tack- Institute earned a silver designation le large-scale enhancements related to cycling AND LECTURES among the 2012 group of honorees, on campus. The group of students and staff making it the easternmost university has helped make visible cycling improvements April 18 to campus in its year and a half of operation, The Center for 21st Century to earn that ranking or higher. Universities will sponsor a town hall including additional bike lanes and sharrows. featuring Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun, “We submitted an extensive applica- “I want to commend our student leadership who will speak on innovation in higher tion, which was reviewed by the League of and members of the Bicycle Infrastructure Georgia Tech is the easternmost university to education at 2:30 p.m. in LeCraw American Bicyclists, as well as local judges Improvement Committee who have worked so earn the silver designation among the 2012 Auditorium, College of Management. diligently in making Georgia Tech an official Bicycle Friendly University honorees. www.c21u.gatech.edu who are familiar with Tech, Atlanta and peer institutions,” said Johann Weber, a gradu- ‘bike friendly’ campus,” said President G. P. “Bud” Peterson. reapply to maintain or improve its status. April 19 ate student in public policy who compiled The designation as a Bicycle Friendly The College of Computing’s Noonan and submitted the application as chair of http://bike.gatech.edu Distinguished Lecture will feature the Bicycle Infrastructure Improvement University lasts four years before Tech must Lance Fortnow, incoming chair of the School of Computer Science, who will speak on “Bounding Rationality by CANCER, continued from page 1 RENT, continued from page 1 Computational Complexity” at 4 p.m. in the Tech Square Research Building Because imipramine blue is hydrophobic and cannot mix with Ellington, a fifth-year international affairs major and president of Auditorium. RSVP at water, and the chemotherapy drug (doxorubicin) is toxic to the DramaTech. tinyurl.com/dy95xuw body’s cells, the researchers placed the compounds in membranous “Our theater is different from those at other colleges and universi- pouches called “liposomes” so that the drugs would actually reach ties,” Ellington said. “Even outsiders who experience DramaTech April 20 The Chartered Institute for IT and the the brain. can sense its quality. We don’t have a theater major here at Tech — Center for Advanced Communications Animals received one of the following four treatments: liposomes everyone who participates is eager to learn, has a passion for theater Policy will host the Turing @ Tech filled with saline, liposomes filled with imipramine blue, liposomes and is in it for pure fun.” symposium and luncheon at 10:30 filled with doxorubicin chemotherapy, or liposomes filled with DramaTech currently consists of approximately 125 active mem- a.m. at the Tech Square Research imipramine blue followed by liposomes filled with doxorubicin che- bers who stage three principal productions each year (one per Building. To register, email nathan. motherapy. semester); they also operate an improv group, musical theater group [email protected]. www.cacp.gatech.edu/turing All animals that received the sequential treatment of imipramine and instructional classes throughout each semester. blue followed by doxorubicin chemotherapy survived for 200 days Students interested in learning more about theater are invited to April 21 — more than 6 months — with no observable tumor mass. Of the knock on DramaTech’s door and join in the festivities. The Library is partnering with the animals treated with doxorubicin chemotherapy alone, 33 percent “People come in and help with lighting for one show, and that’s Inventors Association of Georgia for a were alive after 200 days with a median survival time of 44 days. OK,” Ellington added. “We are for the students, by the students, free one-day seminar, “Inventing the Animals that received capsules filled with saline or imipramine blue and we want to share our love for theater with a campus full of sci- Future 2012: A Seminar for Inventors, Entrepreneurs, Researchers, Students — but no chemotherapy — did not survive more than 19 days. ence and engineering students. There is always someone hanging and Professionals” from 8:30 a.m. “Our results show that the increased effectiveness of the chemo- out at DramaTech, working on homework or playing card games — to 4:30 p.m. in Clough Commons therapy treatment is not because of a synergistic toxicity between it is a fun place to be.” Auditorium. Register at imipramine blue and doxorubicin,” Bellamkonda said. “Imipramine DramaTech has a handful of rituals for each performance, one tinyurl.com/bv5kfog blue is not making the doxorubicin more toxic, it’s simply stopping being “the toaster.” Members consider the toaster a symbol of club the movement of the cancer cells and containing the cancer so that culture and incorporate it into all of the company’s performances. April 28 the chemotherapy can do a better job.” The toaster is not necessarily in the spotlight, but can often be seen Georgia Tech and Emory will host a symposium to honor Don Giddens The results of this work were published on March 28 in the jour- as a background prop, transformed into a purse or hung from the from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Academy nal Science Translational Medicine. In the future, the researchers are ceiling. of Medicine. planning to test imipramine blue’s effect on other types of cancer For information about tickets and upcoming shows, visit the orga- tinyurl.com/7xj9jdn such as prostate and breast. nization’s website:

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✤ 2012 Faculty/Staff Honors Recipients ✤ MISCELLANEOUS

Congratulations to the following faculty and staff members who were honored at the 2012 Faculty April 20 and Staff Honors Luncheon on April 12. Georgia Tech faculty, staff, students and fans are invited to Tech’s free Friday Night on the Flats Spring Recognition of CETL Curriculum Awards Game. The fun begins at 5:30 p.m. 25-Year Service Awards at Callaway Plaza. Pre-game concert the Georgia Tech Chapter Curriculum Innovation Award begins at 6 p.m. Stadium gates open ✤ Said I. ✤ Russell Earnest ✤ Anita M. Race Sigma Xi Awards Wendy C. Newstetter at 7 p.m., with kickoff at 7:45 p.m. A Housing Industrial and Abdel-Khalik Biomedical Engineering post-game fireworks show will take Young Faculty Awards Mechanical ✤ David G. Erickson Systems place at 9:30 p.m., and a post-game Raquel L. Lieberman Engineering GTRI Engineering Innovation in Cocurricular concert will begin at 9:45 p.m. Chemistry and Biochemistry ✤ Terre Adair ✤ Lee M. Evans ✤ Susan A. 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AMELIA PAVLIK the road, I’m usually doing things such as Apartment for rent in private home. COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING troubleshooting with the venue. Private entrance. 1BR/1BA. Utilities included, cable, separate alarm, use of W/D and Wi-Fi. $550 per month. Good Imagine that you’re hosting a What are three things that you always take neighborhood. Call 404-252-2486. breakfast event for more than 50 with you when traveling to events? I have a big blue case that contains every- Roommate wanted to share 4BR/2.5BA people, and you’ve shown up to the home in quiet Decatur suburb. $575/mo. thing I need for a mini office — including (utilities included). Call 404-704-6710. venue to discover that the power is Sharpies and tape, which can fix almost any- Ask for Ms. Ellen. out. thing. I also take a first aid kit and pictures 3BR/2BA peaceful, furnished, waterfront of my dogs. cottage along the southern outer banks For Julie Hawkins, this wasn’t a hypotheti- (Morehead City, N.C.); $750/mo. (rate cal situation — it’s one of the many on-the- Where was your favorite campaign event for off-season). Wi-Fi, Central HVAC, location? W/D, 400 ft. dock, hammock and boat job challenges she’s faced. slip. Incredible view. NO SMOKING OR “I was in Rome, Ga., to host a breakfast I really enjoyed San Juan, Puerto Rico, PETS. For more info, visit http://travel. Image courtesy of Julie Hawkins event promoting Campaign Georgia Tech,” Julie Hawkins with Buzz at a Campaign where we hosted a dinner for 150 people. I ajc.com/ads/158 or email jud.ready@ said Hawkins, who is stewardship event Georgia Tech event. was surprised at how many people in that gatech.edu. coordinator for the Office of Development. area had a connection to Tech. 3BR/2BA furnished house for rent in “When I arrived at the venue the morning of journalism, which led to an internship work- Decatur. $1,500, plus utilities. Ideal for How will your job evolve as the campaign sabbatical. Available Aug. 1, 2012, to the event, I discovered that a drunk driver ing in the promotions department at a radio July 15, 2013. Contact Stavros at 404- had hit a power pole nearby, which took out station. After college, I worked as a market- winds down? 894-6614 or [email protected]. the electricity. Initially, I had a moment of ing assistant at a concert venue and had an I will travel less and my focus will shift to planning more on-campus events for donors. Beautiful ranch house. 3BR/1.5BA for panic.” opportunity to organize a fundraising event rent in Doraville. Well maintained, good Then her focus shifted to creating a quality for a musical group. I loved being able to put neighborhood, large yard, screened event, in light of the situation. For example, my organizational skills to good use. Where is your favorite place to have lunch? porch, fireplace and hardwood floors. I like to go to Ms. Ruthie’s Deli in the Close to I-85, I-285 and MARTA for an since there were no refreshments, she asked easy commute to GT. Walking distance others to pick up coffee and breakfast food How did you arrive in your current position? Student Center and get a veggie wrap. With from shops and restaurants. $1,050/ from Starbuck’s and area grocery stores. Since the job at the concert venue was all of the traveling and eating out I do, it’s mo., plus utilities. Contact Johannes at Thanks to good weather, she was able to seasonal, I accepted a temp position at Tech nice to be able to get something to eat that is [email protected]. move the event from inside the venue to an as an administrative assistant in the provost’s familiar and always tastes the same. Finished basement for rent in Marietta outside area, which the guests enjoyed more office about six years ago. My supervisors 30068 — close to I-75. 1 to 2BR/1BA knew that I was interested in event planning, If you were stranded on an island, what is and garage. Security. $850 w/utilities. than being in the original space. 770-712-1436. “About 75 percent of my job is trouble- so I was given opportunities to work on the one book you would want with you? shooting and solving problems before anyone these projects. Eventually, my current posi- “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte. This is Lake Lanier deep-water lot and house discovers them,” Hawkins said. “This actu- tion opened up, and here I am. my go-to book whenever I need an old favor- on the south side of lake. Awesome ite to read. view, sidewalk to water, dock permit, ally ended up being one of the best campaign boathouse with swim dock attached, events so far.” What is an average day in your job like? electrical for dock. House has windows Tell us something about yourself that others Recently, The Whistle had a chance learn While the campaign is on, I have two types across lakefront side. Call 770-827-8706 might not know. or email [email protected]. more about Hawkins and her time at Tech. of days: office and on-the-road. When I’m I love to run half marathons. Also, my fam- in the office, I spend time on tasks such as Faculty member seeks undergrad or ily is a “Tech family.” My dad, Pete Dawkins, Did you always want to work in event prepping schedules and materials, gather- grad female roommate for large fur- has worked at Tech since the 1970s, and nished studio in Biltmore, 855 West planning? ing RSVPs and putting together presentation my mom, Sherry Dawkins, worked here for Peachtree, for fall 2012 and spring 2013. I guess it was destiny, given I was basically materials for people who will be attending Monthly rent per person: $550, plus the social chair of my preschool class. But the events, including Dr. Peterson and John about 20 years — they met on campus. So, utilities (trash, water, electricity). Email [email protected]. no, I didn’t expect to end up in this field. Brock, alumnus, campaign chair and CEO my sister and I basically grew up at Tech. In college, I wanted to go into broadcast of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. When I’m on 2BR/1.5BA townhouse in Panama City Beach. Great location. Pictures available upon request. $110K. Call 404-210- 8271 or email [email protected]. Register for 2012-13 Don’t Miss Final Parking Permit by June 15 Farmers Markets MISCELLANEOUS Honey combo dresser (storage/changing table) with magnetic security locks. $100. Registration is an opportunity for current students, faculty of Spring Semester Electronic VTECH and Fisher Price toys and staff to select their preferred parking areas for 2012-13. All for sale. Ages 6 months to 3 years. Email customers should register for parking permits, including those [email protected]. who want to keep their current permits. Samsung LCD 46-in. 1080p HDTV, excel- lent condition, 3 years old, needs a stand or wall mount. Samsung Blu-ray player Registration is currently open for annual and carpool permits. All other included. $450. Call 404-385-0380. permits will be available on July 30. The cost of an annual permit is $690 and a carpool permit is $590. For more information, visit For sale: queen size bed, includes box spring, mattress and frame. $40. JVC www.pts.gatech.edu Standard Definition 32-in. TV w/remote and stand. $50. Call 678-687-7884.

German Shepherd puppies. One black and tan/five white. First shots and dewormed. Mom and dad on premises. $250. Call or text 706-410-5883 for more Review Ethics Policy info. by April 30 Red microfiber sofa from Rooms To Go, $175. Wood dinnette set, $35. Two wood bookshelves, $10. Wood rocking chair, Faculty, researchers, staff and student employees are asked $25. Entertainment center with wheels, $20. Call 706-254-5642. to confirm their understanding of the Board of Regents’ (BOR) ethics policy by April 30. The King of Pops frozen treat cart has become one of the To do so, visit the website provided below. (This confirmation is required, more popular vendors at the weekly Georgia Tech Farmers Ads run for three issues in the order in which they are received. as it is a condition of employment.) The website also provides links to the Market held Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tech Walk. Don’t miss the last two markets of the season, which will be Email submissions to BOR policy and an online tutorial to help employees understand the policy. held on April 19 and 26. For more information, visit [email protected].

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