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Within the Biosens-ing Systems and Materials lab, Mike

McShane, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and biomedical engineering gradu-ate students Jason Roberts and Dustin Ritter have developed a new injectable material that could deliver drugs to targeted parts of the body.

The injectable material is composed of tiny microspheres encased in thin layers of nano-film that are suspended in a hy-drogel polymer.

The hydrogel, which is based on a polymer derived from al-gae, is injected into the body as a liquid. Upon injection, the microspheres change the liquid polymer into a soft, gelatinous

solid. This allows the material to stay in one specific part of the body and constantly distribute the drug from that spot.

The microspheres also con-tain the drugs that can be dis-tributed to specific parts of the body under conditions specific to the molecular makeup of the drug. The nanofilm acts as a membrane, regulating how much of the drug is released as the microsphere dissolves.

McShane said part of what makes the injectable material al-luring for biomedical use is the biocompatibility of the hydro-gel derived from algae and the microspheres made of calcium carbonate, a salt found in many antacids.

“One of the reasons this is so attractive to us is that it’s made

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Mike McShane (left) and Jason Roberts work to create localized vaccines.

A&M researchers develop material to target body parts

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Steven Oberhelman, interim associate dean of undergraduate programs in the College of Liberal Arts as of January and classics professor, sat down with city editor Jennifer Reiley to discuss his research focuses and more.

THE BATTALION: What is your favorite Greek myth?

OBERHELMAN: Medea. I find Medea fascinating as a very strong independent woman who is tossed aside and used and abused by an entire Greek cultural system as well as by those people for whom she has thrown away her entire

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Shelby Knowles — THE BATTALION

Texas A&M will finalize its 2014 recruiting class, ranked No. 2 nationally by ESPN, Wednesday

on National Signing Day.Signing day represents the first day a high school

athlete can sign a binding National Letter of Intent. A&M had 22 commitments from recruits at time of press. Of the 22, 10 are ranked four stars or better, according to ESPN.

Seven athletes signed as midterm enrollees, includ-ing Devante “Speedy” Noil and Kyle Allen, the No. 1 athlete and quarterback, respectively, according to ESPN. Several Aggie targets have yet to choose a school and could make decisions Wednesday.

A&M will be one of 12 schools at which ESPN will have an embedded reporter on campus. Cover-age of National Signing Day begins at 7 a.m.

Head coach Kevin Sumlin and the rest of his staff will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. to discuss the signees. The press conference can be seen on Ag-gieAthletics.com

Tyler Stafford, sports desk assistantSteven Oberhelman became interim associate dean of undergraduate programs in the College of Liberal Arts in January.

After playing four of its last five games on the road, the Texas A&M men’s basketball team will return at 8 p.m.

Wednesday to Reed Arena to host Mississippi State (13-8, 3-5 SEC).

Only three other SEC schools — Kentucky, Florida and Alabama — have a similar stretch of road games on their re-spective schedules. The Aggies have lost their last five games, dropping them to 10th overall in the SEC.

Head coach Billy Kennedy said the losing streak has had an effect on his team.

“Losing takes a toll on you and that’s something you have to keep fighting through,” Kennedy said. “We have some guys that are going through some things that they have never been through before. This is when metal hits metal and you find out what you’re made of.”

In their previous matchup this season, the Aggies (12-9, 3-5 SEC) lost 81-72 to MSU in Starkville in overtime, start-ing their current five-game skid. The Bulldogs were able to overcome career-best performances from two A&M players. Junior guard Jamal Jones led both teams with 24 points and freshman forward Davonte Fitzgerald added 20 points off the bench.

Since the game in Starkville, Jones and Fitzgerald have struggled to replicate their offensive success. In the last four games, Jones and Fitzgerald have averaged 7.8 and 5.8 points per game, respectively.

Despite its recent struggles, A&M has played well at home this season, going 11-2 overall and 2-1 in SEC play.

MSU visits College Station for the first time, led by sopho-more guard Craig Sword, whose 13.4 points per game is best on the team.

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Junior guard Jamal Jones lets a shot fly during a 75-67 win over South Carolina on Jan. 15, a game in which Jones scored 22 points and shot 9-12 from the free throw line.

Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION

Filing period for SGA spots opens Friday

elections

Filing for spring student body elections, which in-cludes the races for student body president, Stu-

dent Senate, yell leader, class president, Resident Hall Association president and class agent, begins Friday and closes at noon Sunday.

Filing will be online only and all candidates must be able to attend a mandatory candidate’s meeting from 8:30-10:30 p.m. Sunday.

Michael Dror, senior political science major, is a member of Student Senate and said he will not seek reelection due to graduation.

Dror said his motivation for running was to make a difference in the Student Senate after being unsatis-fied with its work. He said he encouraged students who felt similarly to do the same.

“I felt that I didn’t really have a voice as just a regular person on campus and I thought that I’d have a stronger voice and more means to react to senate if I was in the senate,” Dror said.

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from materials that are already considered pretty biocompat-ible, so the natural abundance of them makes it something that also is reasonably cost effective and sustainable long term,” McShane said. “We’re not concerned at this point about this particular material being something that relies on some rare product that may or may not be available forever.”

Ritter said with traditional drug delivery the drug gets distributed throughout the entire body. Not only is the drug being delivered to places where it isn’t needed, but also more of the drug has to be delivered because only a small fraction gets to the desired site.

“The advantage of targeted delivery is you’re not expos-ing every other organ system or tissue in your body to that drug, whatever that drug might be, and you’re also able to use much lower dosages because you’re delivering it directly to the intended site,” Ritter said.

Ritter said the lab has combined pre-existing methods in an innovative way that allows for a greater amount of control over the injectable material and its components.

“We haven’t developed a method to put proteins or nanoparticles into microparticles, we haven’t developed a method to put the coatings on those microparticles and we haven’t developed a method of turning that liquid alginate into a solid hydrogel,” Ritter said. “All of that has been done before. What we’ve come up with is a system that combines all of those different elements together in a synergistic way that affords a high degree of tunability.”

The hydrogel system could also be used to modify vac-cinations and how they distribute antigens, which is the part of the vaccine that stimulates the immune system to protect against a particular illness. Using this system with a vaccine, microspheres could be used to hold antigens and release them over an extended period.

“Generally if you can get the body exposed to these an-tigens over a longer period of time, your body can deliver a better response to it,” Roberts said. “This system allows us to potentially encapsulate pieces of antigens and release them over a much longer period of time so when you get a vaccine it’s not just a liquid that gets cleared very fast, it’s a solution that can be released over a much longer period of time.”

Roberts said he has his ideas as to what the injectable material could be used for, but he is content so long as his work is being used.

“A lot of people work on things and they put them in their dissertation or they publish them and nothing happens — nobody picks up the idea and uses it for something else,” Roberts said. “I would be just as excited to see somebody else pick it up and use it for something that I hadn’t thought about before. That would be great.”

In regards to the time commitment for members of Student Senate, Dror said it can be as little as a couple of hours per week.

“You get out of it what you put in,” Dror said. “But just being in senate by itself isn’t a huge time commit-ment.”

Maci Hurley, speaker pro-tempore of Student Senate, said students who want to make a difference on campus should consider filing.

During her campaign, Hurley ran unopposed. She said students do not realize how many races actually have only one or two candidates who file and that increased com-petition would benefit the organization and the decisions they make.

“Right now, there is not too much of an interest in senate,” Hurley said. “If you are thinking about running, just do it. Even if you don’t win, you can always write a bill as a student.”

Rachel Norman, senior class president, said students interested in filing for class president sometimes have mis-conceptions about what the position entails.

“A lot of people probably just assume that the class president is a part of SGA, but in reality we don’t do a lot with them,” Norman said. “Being class president means you are more focused on fundraising money for the class gift, which is your ultimate goal as class president.”

Norman said class presidents lead biweekly meetings for their respective class councils, which are responsible for upholding traditions such as Maroon Out, Ring Dance and Junior and Senior Elephant Walk.

“[Class president] is a lot more about representing your class in a tradition aspect,” Norman said. “This is not like your high school class president.”

Information on any of the positions up for election can be found at election.tamu.edu. Filing for student body president or yell leader requires a $20 fee. The fee for all other positions is $10.

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To spark discussion on police brutality, the MSC Woodson Black Awareness

Committee and the College of Liberal Arts will show the 2013 film “Fruitvale Station” on Thursday.

The presentation will reflect on the story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old man who was shot and killed by a police offi-cer in 2009 in Oakland, Calif., and con-duct a follow-up discussion on police brutality, crime and community. The story draws attention to justice because the officer who shot Grant, Johannes Mehserle, was sentenced to two years in jail.

“The experience will be a gut-wrenching one due to the very emo-tional nature of the film, but students will definitely walk away with a brief introduction to the occurrence of po-lice brutality, the representation of minorities and the law and the aware-ness that every citizen does not have the same equal encounter with law enforcement,” said Terrell Feathers, WBAC educational programs direc-tor. “Although some attendants will

not completely understand the depths of this issue and topic, this event will serve as the glasses to help them better understand the world around them as far as privilege, race, class and gender goes.”

Following the film presentation, the floor will open for questions led by a panel of Jeff Capps, College Station Po-lice Department chief of police; Jarvis Parsons, Brazos County district attor-ney; and John M. Eason, A&M sociol-ogy assistant professor.

Feathers said the film is not meant to parallel the conduct of College Station police officers.

“The story behind ‘Fruitvale Station’ in my personal opinion is not related to College Station,” Feathers said. “Col-lege Station’s law enforcement agency does a great job respecting the many different individuals who make up this very peaceful environment. With that, I think that only speaks volumes to [Capps’] — who will be featured as one of our panelists — leadership and char-acter as his influence trickles down to the officers that serve with him.”

Capps said avoiding police brutality in general has a high level of importance at the CSPD.

“Any time you have a case involv-ing excessive force or police brutality, it leaves a negative impact and deteriorates the public trust in the law enforcement

profession, whether or not the incident occurred in your jurisdiction or anoth-er,” Capps said. “We must ensure our staff are well trained and we must hold our officers to the highest standards.”

Feathers said it is important to show the film to encourage awareness of the challenges certain minority groups may face.

“The importance of showing ‘Fruit-vale Station’ from an organizational standpoint is to provide the Texas A&M campus an opportunity to be en-lightened about the different realities, whether positive or negative, its black counterparts face when encountering law enforcement agencies,” Feathers said.

The event will be from 7-10 p.m. Thursday in the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building.

“Our mission in WBAC is to edu-cate to the student body, faculty and the whole community about the culture, concerns, heritage and history of people of African origin,” said WBAC director Candace Morris. “I think showing this film will definitely highlight the concern that there are black men out there every day scared for their lives because of fear that they will be prejudged by the color of their skin, which is an everyday fear that other people often overlook.”

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During the Graduate Student Council’s (GSC) biweekly

meeting Tuesday, bylaws were up-dated to match the changes made to the GSC Constitution last meeting, which now allows GSC officers to be reelected.

The bylaws passed with a vote of 38-8 with 1 abstention.

Chris Lyons, co-chair of the GSC legislative affairs committee and plant pathology graduate stu-dent, proposed the changes made last meeting to the constitution as well as the updated bylaws that will take those changes one step further, eliminating term limits for officers.

Brittany Bounds, GSC president

and history graduate student, said the changes to term limits will al-low officers to take their ideas fur-ther by giving them more time to implement them. Bounds also said these changes will allow officers to gain valuable experience to further develop their leadership skills both inside and outside of the GSC.

Other topics touched on at the meeting were the upcoming writ-ing of the GSC Bill of Rights, the proposal for changes to May gradu-ations and a dissertation copyright proposal.

The next meeting will be held Feb. 18 in Koldus 144.

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Student organization trains guide and service dogs

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For 17 years, Aggie Guide-Dogs and Ser-vice-Dogs has trained puppies for a mis-

sion. These eight “rock-star puppies” can be

seen around campus in blue vests — practic-ing opening doors, flipping on light switches or just sitting quietly next to their trainers in the library.

These dogs, which are allowed into any building under the Americans with Dis-abilities Act, are trained to assist people with disabilities and disorders such as visual im-pairment, autism or post-traumatic stress dis-order.

Laura Stough, AGS secondary staff advisor, said she has been a part of AGS since its founding in 1997 when she met a student named Jesse Czelusta who had a vision for starting a student-run organization for raising puppies to become service dogs.

“At that time the only dog on campus was, of course, Rev-eille, and Jesse was living in a residence hall and so he had to get permission to bring up a service dog on campus,” Stough said.

Stough said she crossed paths with Cze-lusta, coincidentally, at the same time that she was also raising a service puppy. Upon seeing their respective puppies-in-training, they began to talk.

Stough said when people saw Czelusta on campus with his puppy he would be asked many questions. Soon other students wanted to know how they could be a part of service-dog training as well.

“After that, students in the pre-vet pro-gram became very interested in raising pup-pies,” Stough said. “The organization went on to really formalize the training and to

form a student-led group to support the people who were raising puppies, and then started raising puppies as part of AGS.”

Stough said AGS works to prepare dogs for working with people with mobility im-pairments and occasionally the AGS dogs go to children with such issues as balance prob-lems or cognitive impairments.

The dogs are taught how to do tasks on command such as opening the fridge, hand-ing a credit card from their partner to a ca-shier and even to urinate on command when outside. Stough said it’s been incredible to watch the program grow and change into what it is now.

“It’s a student organization, so students themselves change so much,” Stough said. “AGS is also getting an increased rate of puppies passing onto phase II training. The other change I have seen is that AGS just gets stronger and stronger. What the students do gets stronger as they mix old techniques with new ones for training, or for holding fun-draisers or with net-working for vet and

food support.” Stough said puppies are donated from

breeders who do temperament testing at as early as eight weeks old to see if the dogs would be good matches.

Alice Blue, AGS head staff advisor and veterinary medicine clinical assistant profes-sor, has been a part of AGS for more than 10 years. Blue said she usually gives the pup-pies a checkup and then educates the trainers on the commitment that are about to make after the puppies are donated and tempera-ment tested.

Stough said large dogs are generally used because they are better at helping people who are mobility impaired and, ideally the dogs are hypoallergenic and easy-to-groom.

Stough said AGS is just the first part of

training, taking care of the basic 25 com-mands service dogs need to know. The pup-pies learn basic obedience and socialization skills as well as advanced commands.

The puppies are still treated like puppies and get to have play-time every Monday on campus and celebrate their birthdays with parties thrown by their trainers.

After they graduate from puppy training, the dogs learn more specialized skills and are prepped for life with their future partners.

As a dog trainer, Katie Thompson, AGS director of programs and sophomore bio-medical sciences major, said the program is very rewarding.

“As a pre-vet student, I fell in love with the idea of how dogs can help people to be-come independent,” Thompson said.

Thompson has been raising a Labradoodle puppy, Maverick, for eight months, who will go on to be a mobility assistance service dog.

Thompson said the dogs usually take 10-18 months before they graduate to the sec-ond phase and said Maverick will move on in April.

“It is exciting — the fact that they get to go help someone else and do what they are supposed to do,” Thompson said. “It’s bitter-sweet because I know that I’ll miss him, but

he’s going to go do some great things and it’s better than what he could ever do with me.”

Samantha Darling, AGS member and se-nior psychology major, is also training a pup-py — a 10-month-old Goldendoodle who is training for mobility assistance and diabetic alert.

Darling said the most rewarding part is knowing her dog is going to be doing some-thing great in the world and the hardest part is dealing with the public.

“Part of our mission is educating the pub-lic in how to appropriately react to a service dog,” Darling said. “There are always new people around on campus so we always try our best to do that, but it’s always fun to see people’s reactions when you’re studying and a dog pops up from under a table. It’s dif-ficult because you’re trying to train the dog to behave but people’s little noises can get them excited.”

Darling said the members of AGS are thankful to those at A&M who give dona-tions, since the organization is mainly funded on donations.

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Shannon Barbeau, sophomore agricultural science major, gives Captain, her service-dog-in-training, a treat.It is exciting — the fact

that [the dogs] get to go help someone else

and do what they are supposed to do. It’s bittersweet because I know that I’ll miss him, but he’s going to go do some great things and it’s better than what he could ever do with me.”

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life. She has killed, she has betrayed her country, she has turned her back on everything that she stood for and yet she comes to Greece and she’s considered a barbarian. She’s considered an outsider and yet, she herself is intellectually, emotionally stronger than anyone that she meets. Those very strong qualities are what destroy her.

THE BATTALION: What does your current research focus on?

OBERHELMAN: My fi eld of research deals with folk medicine text and looking as to how pharmacology, which is used by village healers or by monks, have roots, no pun intended, going back to the classical antiquity and how the knowledge of medicine, particularly plant medicine, has continued on down over 2,000 years from antiquity down to the present day. I examine texts and then translate them, show the continuity of certain pharmacological recipes, but also showing the recipes will change according to which area

of Greece you are [in] because certain types of plants are not available in particular areas or the types of diseases which were treated will vary according to the local population.

THE BATTALION: Have there been any home remedies that you’ve come across that date back to classic times?

OBERHELMAN: Well what’s interesting is that the majority of plants that are used in the recipes are actually garden vegetables, and they are the kind that every Greek peasant still today will grow in the garden. When I was in a small, remote mountain village on Thassos last spring, this elderly woman in the village knows that I had some cracked skin on my fi ngers and she pulled out this ointment that she had made from the mastic plant as well as parsley and olive oil, and sure enough that’s a centuries-old recipe for dry skin.

THE BATTALION: What got you interested in studying the classics?

OBERHELMAN: I began my undergrad career at the University of Minnesota as a pre-med

— did not do very well. The late 1960s were a very volatile and very exciting time period and somehow organic chemistry and calculus were just something that did not attract me, but I had taken four years of high school Latin, was already taking senior level university Latin when I was a fi sh in college and I just continued on doing that.

THE BATTALION: Do you have an idea of where you want to go next?

OBERHELMAN: Well I’m trying to fi nish this

book in between my responsibilities here. After this, there are some medical texts that have been newly discovered in the Athens National Public Library. My intention is to go transcribe those and then study them. Those all date between the 16th and the 18th centuries.

THE BATTALION: What is your role at the Helios journal?

OBERHELMAN: I have been editor of Helios since 1984. It is devoted to the investigation of studies of ancient Greek and Roman literature

society and culture. What separates Helios from many classics journals is that we emphasize the use of new literary theory. This means I have a much younger audience sometimes publishing in our journal because classicists have a tendency to catch up to theory 20 years after it’s happened, but most of the articles that appear in [Helios] deal with gender, with the status of women in ancient society. Usually about 40 percent of our publications deal with one particular topic.

THE BATTALION: What is your favorite Greek food?

OBERHELMAN: My favorite Greek food is the horiatiki salata, the true Greek salad, not the American version. The horiatiki is just wonderfully homegrown tomatoes, particularly if you can get them from a Greek island like Santorini, which has the best tomatoes in all of Greece, with sliced cucumbers and onions and lots of feta cheese, some calimata olives and so much olive oil you can bathe in it.

Shelby Knowles — THE BATTALION

Steven Oberhelman, interim associate dean of undergraduate programs in the College of Liberal Arts, has been editor of the Helios journal since 1984.

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