The newest building on the Valparaiso University campus was designed with safety and energy savings in mind.

The Center for the Sciences: Chemistry and Biochemistry offers 54,000 square feet and a massive air handling system meant to keep students and professors safe while they work in the lab, with enough energy efficiency bonus points to earn a rebate from NIPSCO of almost $150,000.

"It's almost completely lab space," said physics professor Andrew Richter, co-chair of the building committee, Tuesday.

The structure features large glass windows; science-themed photo montage artwork in the stairwells put together by students; and a glass sculpture hanging in the two-story foyer designed by Hot Shop, a glass blowing studio in Valparaiso.

The building also includes "lots of student space and tons of ways for students to gather together," Richter said.

But it's the building's energy efficiency that garnered a rebate of $148,765 from NIPSCO's Business Energy Efficiency Program.

"With a building that exchanges air so often, the basement looks like the engine room of an aircraft carrier. You could just bleed money in energy in a building like this," Richter said.

The university, he said, needed a facility that was up to air handling standards for safety because of all of the chemicals and other matter being used in the building's multiple labs, many of which were located in the Neils Science Center.

The Center for the Sciences has LED lighting; energy recovery in its air handling units; and variable volume air handlers that "respond to demand in the building," said Jason Kutch, the university's energy manager and facilities engineer.

Kutch was charged with seeing where the building stood in meeting baseline safety standards, and applying for NIPSCO's incentive program.

Most of the energy savings are derived from meeting the state's energy code, which dates back to 2007, said Byran Zichel, a field manager for Lockheed Martin Energy, which manages NIPSCO's program.

The program has different categories, including one for new construction, which is where the Center of the Sciences qualified.

In total, the university said the construction project saved 954,533 kilowatt hours and 80,861 therm. Just one of them is the equivalent energy output of burning roughly 100 cubic feet of natural gas.

"Really, the goal is anything and everything that saves energy, NIPSCO is willing to take a look at," Zichel said.

Amy Lavalley is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.

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Incidence of prostate cancer is rising worldwide. Multiple factors have been suggested for the aetiology of prostate cancer including ethnic, genetic and diet. Vitamin D (calcitriol) has been shown to have role in cell growth and differentiation and its deficiency is implicated as one of the aetiological factors in prostate cancer. Prostatic epithelial cells express Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) as well as 1- hydroxylase enzyme that are required for the synthesis of calcitriol and its action. Polymorphism in VDR gene has been associated with prostate cancer in some epidemiological studies; but, there is paucity of information in the Indian context.

The present study was aimed to explore the association of VDR gene polymorphism with the development of prostate cancer.

Three Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP) sites viz., FokI, TaqI and ApaI were analysed in 120 cases of prostate cancer which were compared with their 120 healthy first degree relatives and 120 non-related controls in the Department of Biochemistry in collaboration with the Department of Urology.

Analysis showed significantly decreased incidence of Tt and Aa genotype in prostate cancer patients as compared to healthy non-relative controls (p=0.016 and 0.043 respectively). As compared to first degree relatives, incidence of Tt genotype is significantly lower in cases (p=0.005). No significant association was found with FokI polymorphism.

This study suggests the protective role of heterozygous genotypes of TaqI and ApaI polymorphism against the development of prostate cancer.

Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR. 2017 Jun 01 [Epub]

Pankaj Ramrao Kambale, Deepa Haldar, B C Kabi, Kalpana Pankaj Kambale

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, S.M.B.T. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Nashik, Maharashtra, India., Senior Resident, Department of Biochemistry, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India., Professor Director, Department of Biochemistry, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India., Senior Lecturer, Department of Periodontology, S.M.B.T. Institute of Dental Sciences and Research, Nasik, Maharashtra, India.

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UTs Sindhu Jagadamma and Rachel Patton McCord are recipients ofthe 2017 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU).

Chancellor Beverly Davenport recently presented plaques to Jagadamma, assistant professor of biosystems engineering and soil science in the UT Institute of Agriculture, and McCord, assistant professor of biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology, in recognition of the honor.

Often funding agencies require extensive preliminary data, effectively asking that a project be halfway done before funding it, said McCord.This can make things difficult for junior faculty who are just getting projects off the ground, but early support like this Powe Award can give projects momentum to be more competitive for extensive funding later.

From left, Julie Carrier, head of UTIAs biosystems engineering and soil science; Taylor Eighmy, vice chancellor for research and engagement; Sindhu Jagadamma; UT Chancellor Beverly Davenport; Rachel Patton McCord; Dan Roberts, head of the Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology; and Theresa Lee, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

McCord will usethe award to measure the 3-D structure of chromosomes inside metastatic cancer cells as they squeeze through narrow spaces or are exposed to drug treatments that help prevent metastasis. She will collaborate with scientists at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and will apply for additional funding from the American Cancer Society and the National Institutes of Health.

The expert peer review process of the Powe Award is extremely valuable, said McCord. The feedback I received on my project proposal will serve me well as we move forward with this project and future grants.

Jagadamma will use the award to support a graduate student who is assisting her on a collaborative project with Melanie Mayes at ORNL, aimed at understanding how soil moisture conditions constrain the microbial decomposition of organic carbon present in soil. The award will cover the cost of a weeklong training on techniques and tools to analyze microbial community data.

This award will help expand one of my current research focus areas and facilitate data collection that will help me to develop competitive grant proposals to the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, said Jagadamma. The Powe Award will also enhance visibility of my research program, which is critical to initiate new research partnerships within and outside the University of Tennessee.

The Powe Awards provide seed money for research by junior faculty atORAU member institutions. They are intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty and lead the way to additional funding opportunities. UTs Office of Research and Engagement matches the $5,000 award from ORAU.

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Mohini Singh is a PhD candidate in biochemistry at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University Credit: McMaster University

Research from McMaster University has identified new regulators of brain metastases in patients with lung cancer.

These regulators are the genes called SPOCK1 and TWIST2.

The discovery was made by researchers at the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and was recently published online in the journalActa Neuropathologica.

"Brain metastases are a secondary brain tumour, which means they are caused by cancer cells that escape from primary tumours like lung, breast or melanoma, and travel to the brain," said Mohini Singh, the study's primary author and a PhD candidate in biochemistry at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster.

"We set out to find which genes can regulate the cells that initiate brain metastases, which we've termed brain metastasis initiating cells or BMICs. In other words, what are the genes that are sending the signal to these lung BMICs to leave the lung tumour, go into the blood stream, invade the blood-brain barrier and form a tumour in the brain."

The study used samples from lung cancer patients with brain metastases. The samples were incubated to enrich for BMICs, then injected into the lungs, hearts and brains of mice. The subsequent development of brain metastases was studied by researchers.

"If you look at a set of lung cancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer," said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital.

"Patients who don't get brain metastases don't have these genes in their primary lung cancer."

Brain metastases are the most common brain tumour in adults and are a leading cause of death in cancer patients.

"If you can identify the genes that cause metastases, then you can determine a predictive model and you can work towards blocking those genes with possible treatments," said Mohini Singh.

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"To be confirmed as the 20th US Surgeon General is truly an indescribable honor," Adams tweeted Thursday.Adams is an anesthesiologist who previously served as the Indiana state health commissioner -- "in essence the Surgeon General for Indiana," he said in a statement to the Senate committee. Prior to that, he served as a staff anesthesiologist and assistant professor of anesthesia at the Indiana University School of Medicine, where he completed his medical degree. He earned undergraduate degrees in biochemistry and biopsychology and a master's degree in public health."The addictive properties of prescription opioids is a scourge in America and it must be stopped," wrote Adams in his nomination committee statement. He added that he shared US Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price's top priorities, including "the opioid epidemic, and untreated mental illness, which lie at the root of much of the current situation." "I bring to this discussion a unique perspective, and a proven track record of bringing together various groups to address the problem," Adams wrote in his statement. In May 2015, he revealed that his brother is an addict during testimony at a House Energy and Commerce Committee.

That same year, Adams dealt with the lasting effects of drug use as health commissioner. Two-hundred nineteen people were infected with HIV in Southeast Indiana as a result of injecting the prescription opioid Opana. A needle exchange program was put into place to slow the outbreak.

Adams also vowed to make "wellness and community and employer engagement a centerpiece of my agenda." He said the opioid epidemic, obesity, healthcare access and cost will not be successfully tackled if the nation continues to focus on handling these problems only "after they've taken hold."

"Many people call the US Surgeon General the nation's 'Top Doctor,' " Adams wrote in his statement. He said the moniker doesn't do justice to the many professions within the Health Corps, including nurses, pharmacists, therapists and scientists, and insinuates that one person can be "all things to health" -- but doesn't give "proper consideration to the vital role partnerships play."Adams tweeted: "The wonderful people of Indiana trusted and supported me, and ultimately this appointment is about what we've all accomplished together."

Adams noted at his hearing that he is a father to three children, ages 7, 11 and 13 years old.

"When making decisions, I literally have no choice but to think about both the immediate impact on our nation's children -- my own children included -- and the world I am leaving for future generations," he said at that time.

"I hope to make America healthier," wrote Adams in his statement. "Healthy people and communities are more productive, and profitable, and in turn attract more jobs and prosperity."

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Dr. James J. Lee, formerly of Freeport, died March 2017.

Born June 14, 1958, he was baptized and raised Catholic. He attended public school in Copaigue and graduated from Copaigue High School in 1976. He graduated valedictorian from Stony Brook University in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry. He received a full scholarship with stipend for graduate studies at Caltech. In the late 1980s, he received a Ph.D. in genetic studies from Columbia University. Post-doctorate, he interned at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

In 1980 he married Jo Anne, who was a childhood friend. She was killed in 1984 by a drunk driver in California. He later married his colleague, Dr. Nancy Lee, who has a Ph.D. in microbiology.

Since 1991, James and Nancy worked as the head of the research lab at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., where James held the position of professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the division of pulmonary medicine. He and Nancy researched the genetics of wild mice to isolate and study the gene that causes asthma.

James lifes work was improving our understanding of how eosinophilic leukocytes contribute to the pathogenesis of allergy, asthma and cancer, according to the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He was the past president of the International Eosinophil Society, where he served on the board of directors; was a member of the National Institute of Health Taskforce on the research needs of eosinophil-associated diseases; and served as co-editor-in-chief for the multi-author text Eosinophils in health and disease.

In addition to being well-known at Cold Spring Harbor Research Lab, Mr. Lee traveled the world and became a globally known scientist.

A memorial Mass, which was arranged by his family in Riverhead, will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, at St. John the Evangelist R.C. Church in Riverhead, Father Larry Duncklee officiating.

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From Kent University: Several Kent State University professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have been selected to receive Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). REU grants are designed to provide faculty with funding to create research positions and experiences specifically for undergraduate students. These students typically come from two- or four-year institutions that may not provide access to many research opportunities.

Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., a professor at Kent States Liquid Crystal Institute, and Mike Tubergen, Ph.D., a professor and chair in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, were awarded $360,000 by the NSF in March for the support of an REU Site in liquid crystals and advanced materials at Kent State. The three-year award started June 1, 2017, and ends May 31, 2020.

The goal of this NSF-REU project is to provide a diverse group of undergraduate students with a comprehensive learning and career-building experience that has advanced materials chemistry at its core, yet seamlessly crosses the disciplinary boundaries among materials science, biology and chemical physics, Hegmann explained. Undergraduate students will conduct research in Kent States Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, as well as the Liquid Crystal Institute, which are recognized centers of excellence in advanced materials, technology and education.

The NSF also offered an REU Site award of $259,200 to Evgenia Soprunova, Ph.D., and Mikhail Chebotar, Ph.D., both in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Kent State, for undergraduate research in geometry, algebra and analysis. This award started May 1, 2017, and ends April 30, 2020.

Chebotar, whose students will be studying the interaction of linear algebra and ring theory, has had previous success with REU grants.

So far, I have supervised 15 REU students, and theyve published seven research papers, Chebotar said. Six of them were published in Linear Algebra and Its Applications, the top journal in the area of linear algebra, and one in Involve, a journal that showcases and encourages high-quality mathematical research involving students from all academic levels.

In addition to these faculty awards from the NSF, Taylor Michael, a biological sciences major at Kent State from Mantua, Ohio, is one of eight undergraduate students selected for the Ohio State Universitys Stone Laboratory 2017 REU Scholarship Program.

The five-week program is a competitive, comprehensive research internship that gives students the chance to conduct scientific research in the field alongside top scientists at Stone Laboratory, Ohio States island campus on Lake Erie.

REU students receive a full scholarship to Stone Lab, including lab fee, room and meals, in-state tuition for the 2-credit research experience and a 4-credit, five-week course. The program runs concurrently with Stone Labs five-week summer term. Students spend their nonclass days focused on research, working closely with their supervisors to design an experiment, collect samples and analyze data. At the end of the program, they give a final presentation to their peers and the public.

This years program was held June 18 through July 22. Michael studied field zoology.

More information about Stone Labs REU program can be found here.

For more information about Kent States College of Arts and Sciences, visit here.

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Providence College receives Dreyfus Award

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is led by Dr. Seann Mulcahy and Dr. Kathleen Comely.

PC is the first college in Rhode Island to receive the award.

The Award

The $18,500 grant provides funding to bring a researcher to campus to give at least two lectures in the chemical sciences, and to interact with faculty and undergraduate students.

One of the lectures will be accessible and promoted to a wide audience that includes the general public, while the other lectures will be more technical and/or specific.

The grant will also fund two summer undergraduate research students selected from the pool of rising sophomore, junior, or senior chemistry/biochemistry majors.

Dreyfus Foundation

The Dreyfus Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the chemical sciences as a means of improving human relations and circumstances throughout the world.

The Jean Dreyfus Lectureship award is made to only four to six chemistry departments per year across the US, and is viewed as extremely competitive among the chemistry community.

Brown University

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"Brown University is a private institution that was founded in 1764. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,652, its setting is city, and the campus size is 146 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Brown University's ranking in the 2017 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 14. Its tuition and fees are $51,367 (2016-17)."

Providence College

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"Providence College is a private institution that was founded in 1917. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,201, its setting is city, and the campus size is 105 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Providence College's ranking in the 2017 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities North, 1. Its tuition and fees are $46,970 (2016-17)."

Bryant University

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"Bryant University is a private institution that was founded in 1863. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,459, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 435 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Bryant University's ranking in the 2017 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities North, 9. Its tuition and fees are $40,962 (2016-17)"

Salve Regina

#32 (tie) in Regional Universities North

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"Salve Regina University is a private institution that was founded in 1934. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 2,158, its setting is city, and the campus size is 78 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Salve Regina University's ranking in the 2017 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities North, 32. Its tuition and fees are $37,820 (2016-17)."

Roger Williams

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"Roger Williams University is a private institution that was founded in 1956. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,555, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 140 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Roger Williams University's ranking in the 2017 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities North, 35. Its tuition and fees are $32,100 (2016-17)."

Johnson & Wales

#67 (tie) in Regional Universities North

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"Johnson & Wales University is a private institution that was founded in 1914. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 8,768, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 126 acres. It utilizes a quarter-based academic calendar. Johnson & Wales University's ranking in the 2017 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities North, 67. Its tuition and fees are $30,746 (2016-17)."

Rhode Island College

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"Rhode Island College is a public institution that was founded in 1854. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 7,446, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 180 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Rhode Island College's ranking in the 2017 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities North, 137. Its in-state tuition and fees are $8,206 (2016-17); out-of-state tuition and fees are $19,867 (2016-17)."

University of Rhode Island

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"University of Rhode Island is a public institution that was founded in 1892. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 13,641, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 1,245 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Rhode Island's ranking in the 2017 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 159. Its in-state tuition and fees are $12,862 (2015-16); out-of-state tuition and fees are $28,852 (2015-16)."

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After Bhargava organised a controversial meeting at a research lab in Hyderabad in 1967, he was summoned by a committee set up by the Centre to be quizzed abouthis meat-eating preferences. Golwalkar was part of the committee.

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The following is an excerpt from a biography of Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, currently in preparation by Chandana Chakrabarti, and from a biography of Verghese Kurien. Bhargava passed away on August 1, 2017. He was 89years old. The excerpts have been lightly edited for style.

The year 1966 witnessed a mass agitation against cow slaughter organised by the [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)]. The demand was for a complete ban on cow slaughter in the country. It culminated in a huge demonstration lead by sadhus who tried to storm the Parliament house in Delhi. While the Shankaracharya of Puri went on a fast for the cause, the frenzied mob went on a rampage. A 48-hour curfew had to be imposed to control the situation.

It was against this background that the Society for the Promotion of Scientific Temper held a public discussion at the Regional Research Laboratory in Hyderabad in 1967, on the relevance of a ban on cow slaughter, with Dr Pushpa Bhargava (PMB) chairing it. At this meeting, one of the speakers, Dr P. Ramchander, a well-known physician, said, If we dont eat the cows, the cows will eat us. This caught the headlines of newspapers the following day. The statement offended those who were asking for the ban and PMB promptly started receiving verbal threats. Questions were asked as to how could PMB organise such a meeting in a government laboratory.

Subsequently, the Government of India set up a high power committee headed by Justice Sarkar, a former Chief Justice of India, to look into the issue. Guru Golwalkar, the head of RSS, Shankaracharya of Puri, Verghese Kurien (the Milk Man of India), and H.A.B. Parpia, the director of the Central Food Technological Research Institute, were members of the committee. PMB was summoned to Delhi to give evidence before the committee.

When PMB arrived at Krishi Bhavan to appear before the committee, a man sitting in the waiting room immediately started quizzing him about cow slaughter. His questions were unending: was PMB a Brahmin since Bhargavas are supposed to be Brahmins?; did PMB eat meat?; if he does eat meat he surely does not eat cows meat?; how does the body make meat?; and so on. PMB ended up giving the man a crash course in elementary biochemistry, saying that we eat food which has proteins. Those proteins are broken down in our [gastrointestinal]tract into amino acids, which are absorbed into the blood stream, and they go to various organs, where they get reconverted to proteins. But how is milk made, the man asked. Milk is made exactly in the same way as meat, PMB replied. Then why dont you drink milk instead of eating meat, the man asked. Why dont you eat meat like you drink milk, because both are made the same way, PMB replied. To PMBs surprise, this little encounter proved to be a curtain-raiser to what unfolded when he appeared before the committee.

Inside the meeting room, Guru Golwalkar asked PMB exactly the same questions. And when PMB replied to Golwalkars question, as to why he did not drink milk instead of eating meat, with another question that is, why by the same logic did Golwalkar not eat meat instead of drinking milk Golwalkarwent into a fit of rage. It took quite a while for the chairman and Sankaracharya to calm him down. Shankaracharya pleaded with Golwalkarthat he was spoiling their case. After PMB came out, he got a slip from Justice Sarkar asking to meet him before he left. Justice Sarkar cheerfully told PMB that he was fantastic and added that the only person who did better than PMB was a professor of Sanskrit who appeared before the committee and quoted from ancient Indian literature on the advantages of eating beef.

As it turns out several years later, while collecting material for a joint paper on biology in India from ancient times to 1900, PMB and I stumbled across the following statement made in the Charaka Samhita:

The flesh of the cow is beneficial for those suffering from the loss of flesh due to disorders caused by an excess of vayu, rhinitis, irregular fever, dry cough, fatigue, and also in cases of excessive appetite resulting from hard manual work.

Three decades later, PMB went to see Kurien in Anand, Gujarat, along with a friend. When PMB reminded Kurien about the incident, Kurien told him that over the years when he and Golwalkar became close friends, the latter admitted to him that the cow protection agitation was only a political agitation which he started to actually embarrass the government. Kurien would later describe this episode in his biography, which was titled I Too Had a Dream.

One day after one of our meetings when he had argued passionately for banning cow slaughter, he came to me and asked, Kurien, shall I tell you why Im making an issue of this cow slaughter business ?

I said to him, Yes, please explain to me because otherwise you are a very intelligent man. Why are you doing this ?

I started a petition to ban cow slaughter actually to embarrass the government, he began explaining to me in private. I decided to collect a million signatures, for this work I traveled across the country to see how the campaign was progressing. My travels once took me to a village in Uttar Pradesh. There, I saw in one house a woman who, having fed and sent off her husband to work and her two children to school, took this petition and went from house to house to collect signatures in that blazing summer sun. I wondered to myself why this woman should take such pains. She was not crazy to be doing this. This is when I realised that the woman was actually doing it for her cow, which was her bread and butter, and I realised how much potential the cow has.

Look at what our country has become. What is good is foreign;what is bad is Indian. Who is a good Indian? Its the fellow who wears a suit and a tie and puts on a hat. Who is a bad Indian? The fellow who wears a dhoti. If this nation does not take pride in what it is and merely imitates other nations, how can it amount to anything ? Then I saw that the cow has potential to unify the country she symbolises the culture of Bharat. So I tell you what, Kurien, you agree with me to ban cow slaughter on this committee and I promise you, five years from that date, I will have united the country. What Im trying to tell you is that Im not a fool, Im not a fanatic. Im just cold-blooded about this. I want to use the cow to bring out our Indianness. So please cooperate with me on this.

Chandana Chakrabartiis a biologist, consultant and joint secretary of the P.M. Bhargava Foundation, Hyderabad.

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More than 4,400 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students have been named to the Deans List for the spring semester of the 2016-17 academic year.

The following students from the Panhandle were honored:

Alliance: Alexandra Stich, freshman, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, animal science; Anthony Hare, sophomore, College of Business, accounting; Bailey OConnor, junior, College of Business, economics; Kevin Allen, senior, College of Engineering, computer engineering.

Broadwater: Jaslyn Livingston, senior, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, applied science.

Chappell: Nash Leef, freshman, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, environmental studiesagronomy.

Sidney: Anna Wistrom, senior, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, environmental restoration science; Caitlyn Deal, sophomore, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, veterinary science; Rose Nelson, junior, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, microbiology; LaNaya Gutierrez, senior, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, hospitality, restaurant and tourism management; Megan Neal, sophomore, College of Arts and Sciences, biological sciences; Hayden Lienemann, sophomore, College of Business, accounting; Calder Rosdail, junior, College of Business, accounting; Abigail Nguyen, sophomore, College of Business, marketing; Nicholas Castner, senior, College of Business, marketing; Ryan Birner, sophomore, College of Education and Human Sciences, pre-social science; Jordan Kennedy, senior, College of Education and Human Sciences, elementary education; Morgan Wolff, junior, College of Education and Human Sciences, elementary education and special education (K-6); Spencer Ellwanger, freshman, College of Engineering, civil engineering.; Logan Uhlir, freshman, College of Engineering, computer engineering; Mia Hernandez, sophomore, College of Journalism and Mass Communications, advertising and public relations.

Scottsbluff: Tiffany Adamson, junior, College of Arts and Sciences, psychology; Andrew Cook, junior, College of Arts and Sciences, biochemistry; Tyler McCarthy, senior, College of Arts and Sciences, classics and religious studies; Daniel Schaub, junior, College of Arts and Sciences, political science; Lawrence SeminarioRomero, senior, College of Arts and Sciences, mathematics.; Jedediah Weis, senior, College of Arts and Sciences, biological sciences; Derrick Goss, senior, College of Education and Human Sciences, secondary English grades 7-12; Alyssa Hoxworth, senior, College of Education and Human Sciences, elementary education; Lucas Parsley, senior, College of Education and Human Sciences, social science; Forrest Selvey, senior, College of Education and Human Sciences, elementary education and special education (K-6); Anna Torres, senior, College of Education and Human Sciences, elementary education; Matthew DeHaven, senior, College of Engineering, computer engineering.

Gering: Johnathon Boyd, junior, College of Arts and Sciences, history; Shelby Cripps, junior, College of Arts and Sciences, anthropology; Emily Hauck, senior, College of Arts and Sciences, environmental studies; Kali Rimington, junior, College of Arts and Sciences, psychology; Megan Copsey, sophomore, College of Business, management; Jasie Beam, junior, College of Business, management (entrepreneurship & innovation); Kyle Upp, junior, College of Business, finance; Karlie Johnson, sophomore, College of Education and Human Sciences, pre-elementary education; Katherine Stauffer, senior, College of Education and Human Sciences, elementary educationand early childhood education; Kayla Todd, senior, College of Education and Human Sciences, elementary education; Jared Powers, junior, College of Engineering, mechanical engineering; Austin Robinson, junior, College of Engineering, construction management.

Chadron: Lane Chasek, senior, College of Arts and Sciences, English; Shoilee Rahman, sophomore, College of Business, business administration; Jayden Garrett, sophomore, College of Education and Human Sciences, nutrition and health sciences (nutrition, exercise and health science option).

Kimball: Laura Flores, junior, College of Arts and Sciences, ethnic studies.

Mitchell: Aubree Ford, junior, College of Arts and Sciences, biochemistry; Valeria Rodriguez, senior, College of Arts and Sciences, Spanish; Rachel Beeney, freshman, College of Education and Human Sciences, pre-speech-language pathology; Kalesha Hessler, senior, College of Education and Human Sciences, elementary education; Olivia Michael, sophomore, College of Education and Human Sciences, pre-elementary education.

Chadron: Brittany Kouba, senior, College of Arts and Sciences, global studies.

Gurley: Tessa Lukesh, senior, College of Arts and Sciences, English.

Bridgeport: Jeff Post, senior, College of Arts and Sciences, chemistry; Kristen Fellhoelter, junior, College of Business, marketing.

Minatare: Elisabeth Wright, junior, College of Arts and Sciences, anthropology; JaLee Pilkington, senior, College of Journalism and Mass Communications, advertising and public relations.

Gering: McKenna Copsey, sophomore, College of Education and Human Sciences, hospitality, restaurant and tourism management.

Rushville: Cirsten Hinn, senior, College of Education and Human Sciences, speech-language pathologist.

Potter: Rebekah Hutchinson, sophomore, College of Education and Human Sciences, speech-language pathologist; Luke Johnson, senior, College of Engineering, agricultural engineering; Kenna Smith, senior, Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, theatre.

Gordon: Denie Jacobson, junior, College of Education and Human Sciences, textiles, merchandising and fashion design (merchandising).

Hyannis: Isabel Safarik, junior, College of Education and Human Sciences, mathematics.

Gordon: Nicholas Sasse, senior, College of Engineering, construction management.

Qualification for the Deans List varies among the eight undergraduate colleges. All qualifying grade-point averages are based on a four-point scale and a minimum of 12 or more graded semester hours. Students can be on the Deans List for more than one college.

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