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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2017
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UNT Career Connect ePortfolio
helps students in job markets
UNT Career Connect recently launched a free
ePortfolio that allows students to document real-world
experiences and marketable skills to improve their
chances when job-searching or pursuing an advanced
degree, according to a press release from the university.
Through the ePortfolio, students can build and archive
a digital collection of career-related experiences such
as internships, volunteering and research. Students can
access their ePortfolio though their my.unt account.
Denton’s first microbrewery closes
Audacity Brew House was locally owned in Denton. It closed Nov. 11. Jacob Ostermann | Staff
Photographer
BEER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
businesses who sold it.
The seven main beers, four seasonal
beers and three “Abbey Series” beers
could be bought at local restaurants,
corner markets and grocery stores.
At the UNT homecoming game on
Saturday, Nov. li, Thadera Salazar
sold the last two cans of Audacity’s
Bulletproof Texas Pale Ale at Apogee
Stadium.
Salazar said Audacity was one of the
more popular beers that game-goers
enjoyed at the football games.
“We had about three cases, and
there are several beer stands around
here,” Salazar said. “We sold out almost
immediately [at homecoming]. I would
say it is a popular beer, I am surprised
it shut down.”
Briggs said there was not enough
foot traffic in the taproom due to the
location and that shutting down was a
long time coming.
“Everyone is going through the stages
of grief,” Briggs said. “But at this point,
especially for me, it hit me last week,
‘Oh, we’re actually closing.’”
With deals like beer on tap for $2.50
on Wednesdays, Briggs said he was
confused why college kids wouldn’t
flock to it.
“We had a great group of regulars,”
Briggs said. “It’s kind of a strange thing.
I guess people go where they want to
go-”
After their last day brewing, the only
thing left to do was clean out the tanks
and get ready to sell them.
The beer was dumped but the freezer
remained because they wanted to make
sure there was enough beer on tap until
the last moment. Anything extra was
thrown out.
Midway Craft House off Hickory
Street in the Fry Street area also sells
cans of Audacity and has the beer
available on tap in their bar area.
Madison Moore, an employee at
Midway Craft House, said it didn’t seem
to sell that well there either.
“There were people who bought it
because it’s a local beer,” Moore said.
The dimly lit green building was
filled with memorabilia and barrels
of beer on display, with people around
drinking beer flights and playing board
games at tables.
Ranger the dog lingered around
the taproom like he was a customer
enjoying a brew and the ambiance.
The next thing for employees to do
was find newjobs, which Briggs already
secured at a brewery in Pilot Point.
“It is a bummer because it is such a
cool and unique place where you can
come in and there’s no overbearing
vibe,” Briggs said. “We have people
of all kinds here. I wish it was staying
around.”
@falconjulia22
Professor developing alternative to
sedation of pediatric cancer patients
By Sean Riedel
Staff Writer
UNT professor Manish Vaidya
is part of a research study that
may lead to an alternative to the
sedation of children who are
undergoing radiation therapy for
cancer.
Vaidya, who serves as
an associate professor in
the department of behavior
analysis, is working with
researchers at the University
of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center to develop a way to train
pediatric cancer patients to
stay still during radiotherapy
treatments as an alternative to
sedation.
Currently, children
undergoing radiotherapy for
cancer are sedated in order to
prevent movement. The children
are not allowed to move more
than two millimeters while
undergoing radiotherapy as they
risk damaging healthy cells.
Steve Jiang, vice chair of
Radiation Oncology at the
University of Texas Southwestern
and the principal investigator for
this research, said he began to
wonder if there was another way
to keep pediatric patients still
during radiotherapy.
“I’ve been doing cancer
research for more than 20 years,”
Jiang said. “I began to notice that
for pediatric patients, we often
gave general anesthesia so they
can stay still.”
Jiang said he once witnessed
children sitting very still with
their attention locked into a
program onscreen, causing a
lightbulb to go off in his head.
“I was thinking about how
to solve this problem,” Jiang
said. “How could I use this
phenomenon in place of general
anesthesia?”
The research is being funded
by a $900,000 grant from the
Cancer Prevention and Research
Institute of Texas, which was
awarded to the researchers on
March 1, 2016.
Jiang applied for the grant
and was searching for behavioral
experts on how to actually do
the training to keep kids still. He
then contacted Vaidya.
“This grant is just for the
clinical development, so it’s for us
to develop technologies, for us to
develop the training protocols,”
Vaidya said. “And then hopefully
the next grant will be the clinical
grant which actually will involve
kids with cancer, undergoing
actual radiation therapy.”
Graduate student Maria Otero,
who works with Vaidya, said they
are working on perfecting their
methods before going further
with trials.
“These kiddos, we don’t want
to have them spend an hour when
our procedures aren’t perfect,”
Otero said. “If they’re there just
to be at the hospital, they don’t
need to be there any longer than
we want them to be.”
Otero completed her
undergraduate at UNT and spent
a year in Vaidya’s lab doing other
research work before joining the
team.
The system works in that
pediatric patients sit on a table
and look up at a screen that
features some sort of program.
The program is meant to hold
their attention. On the side of the
screen are three lights: green,
yellow and red. Vaidya said the
training may not work for all
children, and that some will
still have to be sedated during
treatment as they cannot risk
damaging healthy cells.
If the child remains still,
the light stays green and the
program continues to run. If the
child begins to move, the light
will move to yellow, and if the
child moves outside of clinical
parameters the light becomes
red and the program stops. The
program acts as a motivator for
the child to remain still.
The children undergoing
radiotherapy, which itself is
actually painless, are likely
receiving the treatment six days
a week, for anywhere between
three to six weeks at a time,
Vaidya said.
“It turns out that 95 percent
of the cancers that kids get...are
in the upper body,” Vaidya said.
“Most them in the head, neck or
upper torso area, so those are
the areas we’re focusing on. We
can isolate the head movements
and specifically the torso
movements.”
Vaidya said there are several
compelling reasons to create
this alternative to sedation, such
as allowing them to eat, helping
their relationships with their
families, making their bodies
healthier and more prone to
recovery from radiotherapy.
“All this trouble they’re going
through is just for the sedation,
and the only reason we’re doing
the sedation is to keep them still,”
Vaidya said. “If we could just find
another way to keep them still, we
could avoid the nastiest part of
this treatment...which is actually
preparing for the treatment.”
@SeanRidel
Researcher Manish Vaidya and student researcher Maria Oteroare are working
with other researchers at Northwestern University on an alternative to the sedation
of children while undergoing radiation treatment. Brigitte Zumaya | Staff
Photographer
NEWS AROUND CAMPUS
UNT associate dean named to
prominent women engineering board
The Women in Engineering ProActive Network
named Nandika D’Souza, the UNT College of
Engineering’s associate dean for undergraduate
studies, to its board of directors, according to a press
release from the university. D’Souza said she likes
being on boards that help grow her awareness of
what needs to be changed. “Women in academia
need to realize it’s not what you’re doing, it’s what
the workplace is giving you,” she said.
UNT earns international MarCom
awards for excellence
The UNT Division of University Relations,
Communications and Marketing received several
MarCom Awards for excellence in promotional materials,
according to a press release from the university. URCM
earned a platinum award, two gold awards and an
Honorable Mention for the materials they submitted,
which promote the university’s range of innovative
academic, research and student programs. The MarCom
competition has more than 6,000 entries per year and the
winners range from individuals, media conglomerates and
Fortune 500 companies.
Brother of slain UNT
student asks for
community help
Amanda Clairmont | Facebook
STUDENT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Gawlik first learned of Clairmont’s death from her
father and said he thought someone was playing a joke on
him.
“I was in complete disbelief,” Gawlik said. “I didn’t even
know she had been shot until the day after.”
Corinth police are treating this case as a homicide and
are working with assistance from the Texas Rangers and
Denton County Sheriff’s Department. Jimmie Gregg,
lieutenant criminal investigations commander for the
Corinth Police Department, told The Dallas Morning
News it is the first murder investigation in Corinth in 17
years.
Although police have not made any arrests, Gawlik
believes law enforcement is doing all they can to bring her
killer to justice.
“I do feel like the state itself is using a tremendous
amount of resources for this case,” Gawlik said.
Kayla Ast, a friend of Clairmont’s, started a fundraiser
on Nov. 21 for Clairmont’s funeral service. She has raised
$2,680 since starting it and has a goal to reach $10,000.
According to the fundraiser, 51 people have contributed at
the time of print.
Ast said she started the fundraiser because Clairmont
was like family to her.
“I met Amanda as a sophomore in high school,” Ast
said. “She was a very genuine person who was very artsy
and beautiful inside and out. She taught me what it would
be like to have an older sister who could also be a best
friend.”
UNT spokesperson Leigh Anne Gullet confirmed
Clairmont attended Liberty High School in Frisco and
enrolled at UNT in fall 2014 to major in business.
Clairmont was also interested in makeup and recently
created an Instagram account to gain a following as a
freelance makeup artist in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
“Our deepest, heartfelt sympathies go out to the family
and friends of UNT student Amanda Clairmont,” UNT
President Neal Smatresk said in a statement. “Our hearts
are heavy with the news of the tragic loss of her life.”
Members of The Vocal Majority, an all male chorus, also
posted a video on YouTube dedicating “The Lord Bless You
and Keep You” for Clairmont. One of their members and
his family are close friends with Clairmont’s family.
Anyone with information is asked to call Corinth
Criminal Investigations at 940-498-2017.
Gawlik is asking people of the community to continue
sharing her story and spreading the word, saying the
sharing of Clairmont’s story has helped her family.
“I think if enough people start looking into it and start
getting involved, somebody might come forward,” Gawlik
said. “Maybe somebody might know something.”
@Zairalperez
@JamesTNorman_WL
UNT faculty member’s documentary to
premiere in Washington D.C. film festival
UNT faculty member Carolyn E Brown recently completed
a documentary him, “The Salinas Project,” which focuses
on a group of young adults whose parents were immigrant
farm workers in Salinas, California, according to a press
release from the university. “The Salinas Project” was
chosen to appear at the Greater Washington Immigration
Film Festival and the 6th Annual REEL TIME AT GALA,
both in Washington, D.C.
By Sean Riedel
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