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Mentor, Friend — or Both? 3 Superstrong 'Buckypaper' Could Be Dream Material 5 British Architect to Redesign City Library 7 College Board Unveils Test for 8th Graders 10 Supersonic car targets 1,000mph 11 New feathered dinosaur discovered 14 Study probes clouds' climate role 16 Drug may reverse MS brain damage 18 Diet drug 'doubles weight loss' 21 Food 'poor' in hospital canteens 23 Dons fear degrees are dumbed down 25 Well, Excuuuuuse Meee! 27 American Dream a Biological Impossibility, Neuroscientist Says 32 Alternative Measure of Success 34 Cross-protective Vaccine May Treat Broad Spectrum Of Bacterial Diseases 36 Chronic Inflammation Can Help Nurture Skin Cancer, Study Shows 38 Ecosystem-level Consequences Of Frog Extinctions 39 Archaeologists Find Unique, Early US Relic Of African Worship 41 Biomarkers For Identifying Infant Infections 44 Cracking The Case Of Recycled Gadgets 45 Scientists Develop Drug Delivery System For Brain Cancers, Other Diseases 46 Common Respiratory Syncytial Virus May Hide In The Lungs, Lead To Asthma 49 Throwing Light On The Dark Side Of The Universe 51 U.S. Suicide Rate Increasing; Largest Increase Seen In Middle-aged White Women 53 Ancient Bone Tool Sheds Light On Prehistoric Midwest 54 Computer Model Against Unnecessary Use Of Antibiotics 56 Couples With Children With ADHD At Risk Of Higher Divorce Rates 57 Study Questions Whether Dinosaurs Were Truly The First Great Migrators 59 Marks The Spot: Sharpies Get Thumbs-up For Marking Surgery Sites 60 Evolution Of Genes That Trigger The Body's Immune Response To Viral Infection 62 Fertilizers: A Growing Threat To Sea Life 63 Physicists Find New State Of Matter In 'Transistor' 65 A Large Spiral Galaxy, NGC 7331, In All Its Splendor 67 Egg Whites Solve The 3-D Problem 69 Waterless’ Concrete Seen As Building Block On Moon 71 $2 Egg-beater Could Save Lives In Developing Countries 72 Serendipitous Observations Reveal Rare Event In Life Of Distant Quasar 73 Mechanical Pressure Accelerates Early Stages Of Colon Cancer 75 Workmen 'ignoring asbestos risk' 77 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Pupils to receive finance lessons 80 Fatty acids clue to Alzheimer's 82 Parents 'wrong' on child weight 84 High summits 'could harm brain' 86 Archaeological Dig Uncovers Roman Mystery 88 New Knowledge About Thermoelectric Materials Could Give Better Energy Efficiency 90 Five Basic Things To Know About Stem Cell Research 92 Why Starving Cells Prolong Life 96 Huge Gap Between World Demand For Fish And What Can Be Sustainably Harvested 97 New Properties Of Skin Stem Cells 101 Paleozoic 'Sediment Curve' Provides Tool For Tracking Sea-floor Sediment Movements 102 'Caffeine Receptor' Solved: Structure Of Important Neurological Receptor Defined 104 H. Pylori Bacteria May Help Prevent Some Esophageal Cancers 107 'New prostate' grown inside mouse 109 'One-stop' embryo test unveiled 111 Female Plant 'Communicates' Rejection Or Acceptance Of Male 113 Secrets From Within Planets Pave Way For Cleaner Energy 115 Modern Genetics Versus Ancient Frog-killing Fungus 117 Highest Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency Ever Reached 119 Seeing Red -- In The Number 7 121 Child Abuse Increases Risk For Later Sexually Coercive Behavior In Some Men 123 A Banquet of World Art, 30 Years in the Making 125 Picasso in Lust and Ambition 128 Shadows of Yaddo 130 Pompeii Style, B.C.E. (Before Catastrophic Eruption) 133 Mapping the Shadowy Corners of the Subconscious 136 How Breastfeeding Transfers Immunity To Babies 138 Optimized Radiation For Prostate Cancer Therapy 140 How Does Climate Change Affect The Water Cycle? 142 Soil Conservation And River Management Tied Together 144 Physical And Interpersonal Warmth Linked 146 Biodiversity In A Warmer World 148 Scientists Call For Policy To Guide Biofuels Industry Toward Sustainability 150 Climate Change, Acid Rain Could Be Good For Forests 152 Green Tea May Delay Onset Of Type 1 Diabetes 154 Victorian Manchester Home To First Youth Gangs 156 Dolphins Use Complex Coordination During Predation, High-tech Acoustics Study Finds 158 Human Brain Integrates Gravity Into The Action Plan 161 Phony Friends? Rejected People Better Able To Spot Fake Smiles 162 Why Some People Have A Better Head For Languages 163 Protein Compass Guides Amoebas Toward Their Prey 165 Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise In Patients With Bowel, Kidney And Prostate Cancer 166 Seabass And Chips: Harnessing Science To Predict Ocean Climate Change 168 Spirituality Protects Against Depression Better Than Church Attendance 171 First Inhabitants Of Caribbean Brought Drug Heirlooms With Them 172 Development Puts An End To Evolution Of Endless Forms 173 Potential Strategy To Eliminate Poisonous Protein From Alzheimer Brains Identified 174 Physical Strength, Fighting Ability Revealed In Human Faces 175 Love, Sex and the Changing Landscape of Infidelity 177 A Rise in Kidney Stones Is Seen in U.S. Children 180 21-Year Study of Children Set to Begin 183 The Mysterious Cough, Caught on Film 185 Prevention: Chest Compressions, to a Disco Beat 187 Polio Spreads to New Countries and Increases Where It’s Endemic 188 Workout Regimens You Can Live With 189 Stories in the Service of Making a Better Doctor 192 Nurses Speak Out, About Doctors 196 A Growing Array of Options for Fibroids 198 2 Infoteca’s E-Journal No. 44 October 2008 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Mentor, Friend — or Both? TAMPA — The session on mentoring minority doctoral students was proceeding swimmingly enough, as the panelists offered useful tips about how the traditional methods for guiding graduate students work (and don’t) for students of color, earning the kind of head-nodding agreement that is typical at gatherings of like-minded people. That all changed when one of the presenters, Javier Cuevas of the University of South Florida, said that he had changed his mind in recent years about one key question. “I used to think that you didn’t have to have a close relationship with the student to be a mentor,” Cuevas, an associate professor of molecular pharmacology and physiology at South Florida’s College of Medicine, said at the session at the Compact for Faculty Diversity’s Institute on Teaching and Mentoring here. “But I’ve come to believe that there’s a huge difference between an adviser, who may only be concerned about the student’s performance on a particular project, and someone who has truly taken on the role of mentor. To me, friendship is an essential component of being a true mentor.” The notion that a faculty mentor must — or at least should — be a friend to a graduate student or junior professor to be effective provoked intense debate among the several dozen academics in the room. “I agree that an emotional connection, a level of caring, is an essential component of being a mentor,” said Alvin Fox, a professor of microbiology at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and director of the medical school’s Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program. “But friendship is not the correct term. I think it says something beyond that.” The discussion that unfolded over the next hour suggested that the scholars were divided more by rhetoric, perhaps, than by greatly diverging perceptions of what makes a mentor effective — and where the boundaries are between caring and friendship. The philosophical question, “friend or no,” emerged from what was otherwise mostly a nuts and bolts discussion about effective mentorships, in which Arizona State University’s Carlos Castillo-Chavez discussed efforts there and elsewhere to encourage minority students to become mathematical scientists, and Gilbert John described Oklahoma State University’s outreach to Native American graduate students. When it was Cuevas’s turn, he quickly made it clear that he was most interested in talking about what qualified as good mentoring, regardless of who was being mentored. “Whether one is African American, Hispanic, or Caucasian, good mentoring will help a student get through the program,” he said. His definition of “good mentoring,” Cuevas said, required a faculty member working with a doctoral student or junior faculty member on two separate but complementary levels: first, professional and career development ("What does it take to be a pharmacy professor, a math professor? Giving them an understanding of the culture") and second, psychological and emotional support, especially for those who don’t have a background in higher education and may be unprepared (or underprepared) to adjust to the lifestyle of a professor. “Some mentors can’t provide both of those components, and so a person might need one mentor for one aspect of their career, and a different mentor for the other,” Cuevas said. But for those to whom he is a mentor, he said, “I think that providing that psychological and emotional support is a key component.” The difference between a true mentor and an adviser who is a mere “supervisor” is that the latter “may not mind if you take 10 years to get through the program,” Cuevas said. A mentor who cares about a student, he said, is “going to do what I can do in the rest of my life to make sure that the student moves through his or her career successfully.” Fox, the South Carolina professor, said he agreed that “emotional involvement” was important for a mentor, because “if you’ve got no soul, no heart, all you are is a supervisor.” But “friendship,” he said in an interview after the session, involves a “liking” that he said was not necessarily part of the mentor- mentee relationship. Another professor in the audience, who asked not to be identified, went further. “My concern about this ‘friend’ thing,” he said, is that some graduate students “come in with psychological problems that you 3 Infoteca’s E-Journal No. 44 October 2008 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila have nothing to do with,” and the more an instructor got involved in their personal lives, the more entangling it could be.