Washington University School of Medicine Digital Commons@Becker Washington University Record Washington University Publications 3-26-2009 Washington University Record, March 26, 2009 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record Recommended Citation "Washington University Record, March 26, 2009" (2009). Washington University Record. Book 1173. http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record/1173 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington University Publications at Digital Commons@Becker. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Record by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Becker. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Medical News: Thieving St. Louis fashion: Students produce Washington People: Bang |j bacteria find ways to thrive w 80th annual Fashion Design Show follows an 'impulse to write' €1 Washington University in StlDuis March 26, 2009 record.vvustl.edu Champs again! Men's team brings home national title trophy for second straight year Senior Tyler Nading scored a second-team all-American by game-high 20 points and D3hoops.com following the game, senior Sean Wallis added finished his record-breaking sea- 16 points as the men's basketball son with 251 assists. He also broke team repeated as NCAA Division J.J. Siepierski's (1993-96) all-time III national champions with a WUSTL assists record with 566. 61-52 victory over Richard Nading shot 9-of-11 from the Stockton College at the Salem field as he finished his four-year Civic Center in Salem, Va. WUSTL career third in scoring The win was the Bears' 13th with 1,552 points. straight postseason victory. "My teammates did a great job WUSTL is now the fourth NCAA finding me tonight," Nading said. Division III team to repeat as "This is the best way to go out as a national champions, joining senior. This year's team had a North Park University (1978-80), completely new identity, and I am University of Wisconsin-Platte- so happy for all of our teammates." ville (1998-99) and University Wallis had seven points and six of Wisconsin-Stevens Point assists to lead the Bears in the first (2004-05). half as WUSTL shot 46.2 percent "As you have found out all year (12-26) from the field. The defense long with this team, we find ways was the story in the first half as the to win," Coach Mark Edwards Bears held Richard Stockton with- said. "It's great to be back to the out a field goal for 9:54 in the first city of Salem, but even greater to half. walk out of here with the big "It's a dream come true," Wallis trophy." said. "To be able to go out there Wallis was named the most and play the way I did the whole outstanding player of the tourna- tournament is something I am ment after averaging 15.5 points really proud of." and 7.5 assists per game in two WUSTL won 20 of its past 21 games over the weekend. games of the season to finish with The men's basketball team is showered with confetti after winning its second straight national title, Wallis, who was named a See Champs, Page 7 defeating Richard Stockton College, 61-52, March 21 in Salem, Va. Annual prostate cancer screening trial shows no early mortality benefit BY CAROLINE ARBANAS the study's lead author and principal investigator, Gerald Andriole, M.D., professor of surgery. The prostate cancer screening tests that have be- But it's too soon, he said, to make broad screening come an annual ritual for many men don't appear recommendations for all men based on the study's to reduce deaths from the disease among those with a initial findings. limited life expectancy, according to early results of a "So far, only a minority of men enrolled in the major U.S. study involving 76,000 men. PLCO study have died, so it may be premature to Results from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and make generalizations about the ultimate results of the Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial show that six trial," he said. "We don't have enough data yet about years of aggressive, annual screening for prostate the youngest men in the study — those in their 50s cancer led to more diagnoses of prostate tumors but — and it may be that over time, we will, in fact, see a not to fewer deaths from the disease. The study, led benefit from screening." by School of Medicine researchers and conducted at Nearly 6,400 men are enrolled in the study at the 10 sites, appeared March 26 in the New England School of Medicine. Robert Grubb III, M.D., assistant Journal of Medicine. professor of surgery, is a collaborator and the study's "The important message is that for men with a life second author. expectancy of seven to 10 years or less, it is probably The PLCO trial began in 1992 with funding from not necessary to be screened for prostate cancer," said See Prostate, Page 7 WUSTL engineer devises ways to improve gas mileage BY TONY FITZPATRICK gaseous medium such as air. has found that the actuators modi- Reduction in drag means less fuel fy the flow, which results in drag In the summer of 2008, it became would be required to overcome reduction, which in turn reduces very expensive to fill up a gas the fluid resistance encountered by the fuel amount needed. tank when gasoline prices hit close the moving vehicle. "The most promising actuators to $4 per gallon. Transportation Working with undergraduate are the so-called synthetic jet or by road or air consumes fuel, and graduate students, Ramesh oscillatory jet actuators, which are which not only increases our K. Agarwal, Ph.D., the William embedded in the surface of the dependence on foreign imports Palm Professor of Engineering, body (an airplane wing, for ex- but also is a source of greenhouse has successfully demonstrated that ample) and essentially perform gas emissions that impact climate the drag of airplane wings and injection and suction of the fluid Sharing culture through dance students perform an and global warming. cars and trucks can be reduced by from the surface in a periodic athletic and spirited dance native to the African nation of Mali A mechanical engineer at employing active flow control manner," Agarwal said. at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work's 15th WUSTL is developing techniques (AFC) technology. The transonic drag of an air- annual International Festival March 22 in the Lab Sciences that will lessen monetary pain at The idea behind AFC is to plane wing can be reduced by Building. In addition to performances of dance, song and the pump by reducing the drag of deploy actuators on the surface of 12 percent to 15 percent with the poetry from around the world, the festival featured a banquet planes, cars and trucks. Drag is an vehicles to modify the flow in a incorporation of actuators — and art exhibit. The theme of this year's festival was "The aerodynamic force that is the way that the overall resistance is about 20-30 spaced optimally on Cultural Express." result of resistance a body encoun- reduced. Using computational the surface of the wing. ters when it moves in a liquid or fluid dynamics software, Agarwal See Mileage, Page 7 I I II lllll II mi n ill ill n mini 2201 20361 9313 2 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Barbara and Andrew Taylor receive Harris Award for service BY BARBARA REA including the United Way of Greater St. Louis, for which he is Since its inception a decade a member of the board of ago, the Jane and Whitney directors. Harris St. Louis Community He also served as the 2008 Service Award has been given campaign co-chairman for the annually to a husband and wife United Way and is an ex-officio dedicated to improving the member of its executive commit- St. Louis region through service, tee. He serves as a trustee of the generosity and leadership. In a Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Feb. 26 ceremony, Chancellor the Naval Aviation History Mark S. Wrighton bestowed the Foundation and Washington 10th Harris Award on Barbara University. He is a life trustee of and Andrew Taylor. the Missouri Botanical Garden, a "Today we honor Barbara and past trustee of the National Urban Andy Taylor's civic and philan- League and past president of thropic engagement," Wrighton Civic Progress. said at the ceremony. "They have Barbara Taylor has established built a legacy of generosity and herself as a major advocate for the l-CARES Open hOUSe Himadri Pakrasi, Ph.D. (second from right), the George William and Irene region's progress. She serves as Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology and director of the International Center for Advanced involvement that contributes Renewable Energy and Sustainability (l-CARES), makes opening remarks at the second annual significantly to the cultural, edu- vice president of the board of l-CARES open house Feb. 27 at Wilson Hall. l-CARES encourages and coordinates University-wide cational and recreational oppor- commissioners of the Saint Louis and external collaborative research into biofuels and other alternative energy applications. tunities that St. Louis has to offer." Art Museum and is a trustee and It was announced at the open house that 36 research proposals from six different WUSTL schools This award gives the Taylors member of the executive commit- will be reviewed in 2009. With Pakrasi are (from left) Carl Hausmann, president and CEO of Bunge yet another way to give back to tee of Forest Park Forever.