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Seminar details primate studies
bpics discussed include stem cell research
Melissa Boughton
Intern
The North Texas Health
Science Center is hosting a
seminar on primate stem cell
research at noon Wednesday
at the Center for BioHealth in
Fort Worth.
The seminar, titled
"Primatology and Primate
Stem Cell Center," will discuss
what the center does and what
research it performs.
The seminar's lecturer is Dr.
John McCarrey, a professor from
the University of Texas-San
Antonio.
The Primatology and Primate
Stem Cell Center is a collab-
oration between the UTSA
Health Science Center and the
Southwest Biomedical Research
Foundation.
The center offers future
collaborations for researchers
interested in primate tissue
samples and stem cells.
"Our main thing is stem cell
research," McCarrey said. "With
the federal restrictions, the
next best thing is non-human
primate stem-cell research."
The center established a
National Primate Research
Center in 1998 that has 3,230
baboons, 242 chimpanzees
and 163 other non-human
primates.
"Stem-cell research with
humans is a big step," McCarrey
said. "We need to try it on the
most relevant non-humans,
which would be primates."
Robert Gracy, associate vice
president for research alliance
development, said everyone
could eventually benefit from
the research.
" [The center] is for potential
collaboration for research inter-
ests," Gracy said.
McCarrey specifically
researches the development,
differentiation and manipu-
lation of mammalian germ
cells, including differential
gene-expression in germ cells,
X-chromosome activity/inac-
tivity, genomic imprinting,
cloning and manipulation of
germ cells.
The seminar is primarily
directed toward faculty and
graduate students, Gracy said,
but anyone can attend.
Evacuation process successful
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However, she said she believes
the evacuation would have gone
smoother had there been alter-
nate routes planned, if people
had taken back roads and if
people had left by zip codes.
Dash said she is more
concerned with the aftermath of
both Hurricane Katrina and Rita.
In her case study of Hurricane
Andrew, she discovered that
areas with large minority popu-
lations recovered slower than
areas with predominately white
populations.
"Those groups have resources
and have the most access to what
they need to recover," Dash said.
"In the case of New Orleans,
among the poor, 50 percent
rented their homes and one-
third lived below poverty. The
poor will have to wait for others
to help them."
FEMAis straining its resources,
and the role of the agency is to
serve as a disaster recovery orga-
nization, Bland said. The task
of planning and responding to
a natural disaster falls on the
state and local government, not
FEMA, he said.
Bland cited Florida for having
effective emergency planning
methods for natural disasters.
Florida has their emergency
planners go through extensive
training, and a fee placed on
homeowners insurance pays for
the state's emergency planning
office. As a result of the fee, the
emergency planner's office is
larger and has the latest tech-
nology.
"Practice makes perfect, and
Florida is a state that takes the
lead in disaster preparedness,"
Bland said.
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Volunteer Fair
Students have the opportunity
to talk with volunteer agencies
at NT's Volunteer Fair, held
today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in
Silver Eagle Suites A and B. For
more information, call (940)
565-3021.
House Party
The effects of binge
drinking will be examined
at a simulated house party,
"Bringing Down the House."
The free event is sponsored
by the Women's Center
and the Substance Abuse
Resource Center and takes
place from 7 to 10 p.m.
Thursday at University
Courtyard Apartments. For
more information, call (940)
565-2787.
- Clarisa Ramirez
N history professor shares tales of catastrophic storm
Mason W. Canales
Intern
Andony Ybarra/NT Daily
Elizabeth Hayes Turner is the author of
"Galveston and the 1900 Storm."
Elizabeth Turner, NT history
professor, co-wrote "Galveston and the
1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst."
The book tells of the social and engi-
neering reconstruction of Galveston
after a hurricane devastated the city
in 1900.
The 1900 storm is known as the
largest natural disasters in American
history. It claimed 6,000 lives.
Turner specializes in American
women's history and history of the
American South. Because she is a
historian, she did not want to compare
the two modern storms, Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita, to the storm of 1900
but rather share the history of the
rebuilding after the 1900 storm.
Q: What lessons were learned from
the 1900 storm?
A: I think my final statement was
that we should be prepared for evacu-
ation and reconstruction of our cities.
Also, there is an element of human
will. People that want their city to
come back can reinvent their cities.
There was no federal aid and only very
little state aid, but yet the community
came back. ... Communities on the
Gulf Coast should take heart in the
story of Galveston.
Q: Do you think we learned the same
lessons from Katrina and Rita that we
learned in the 1900 storm?
A: Galveston made evacuation plans
for the present based on the 1900
storm. I think we may be in an era of
rethinking the protection of the unpro-
tected coastal lands.
Q: How did the modern storm relief
efforts differ from the 1900 storm
relief efforts?
A: The morning after the 1900 storm,
a group of civil leaders - survivors of
the storm - merged to create a relief
group because their area was affected
the least. They immediately began to
work; they commandeered a boat and
set off for the main land to seek help.
There was no federal presence
in Galveston. Texas militia came to
provide law, and 250 volunteers from
Houston returned and money did
come. I think the media is a third help
to the relief because they were there
in 1900 and gave their impressions of
what happened. It was how people
found out about the storm.
Q: What resources do we have now
that Galveston did not have then?
A: In Galveston there is the seawall.
After the storm they worked on the
seawall until 1962, making it stretch
10 miles. There was also the grade
raising, the slow lifting of building
and pumping of sand under the lifted
buildings, and construction of a multi-
lane causeway for exiting the city. Of
course, we have technology that warns
us of storms.
Q: How long did it take the people
of Galveston to recover from the
1900 storm?
A: One thing that I have noted people
saying is that their relatives never
talked about the storm. However,
by Sept. 8, 1901, the Woman Health
Proctor Association created a memo-
rial for the survivors to commemo-
rate the day, but also to celebrate the
future.
It is very difficult to know when
people recover psychologically from
the damage caused by the storm, but
by 1901, a year later, they were looking
hopefully to the future.
Q: After the 1900 storm, did the
people of Galveston want to stay
there, or were they forced out?
A: I read many letters that said they
wanted to stay and rebuild. "Let those
go who want to go, and we will live the
good life for some time after." I think
the women and children that left were
the ones that had lost everything.
Those that left came back when they
had places to come back to.
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