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down side    (?)

up side http://www.upi.com/Energy/Briefing/2007/07/18/germany_discusses_role_in_solar_industry/5344
1. radio controlled charging  bull
2. More on Mind switch

Two books
1.
Itzhak Bentov "Stalking the wildpendulum , On the mechanics of consciousness"  Copyright© 1988 Pub   Destany Books ISBN 0-89281-202-1
2 .
"Advertising pure and simple" by Hank Seiden   Copyright© 1967  Pub. Executive Books   ISBN 0-8144-7510-8 pbk

mit mind switch


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u tube charging  bull is radio controlled   
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scientest controol bull with radio in the 60's

scientist control bull with radio control brain implant
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what happined to mk ultra

Brain Implants   http://www.skewsme.com/implants.html

Direct neural control of complex machines is a long-term U.S. military goal. DARPA has a brain-machine
interface program aimed at creating next-generation wireless interfaces between neural systems and,
initially, prosthetics and other biomedical devices.
— Rodney Brooks, “Toward a Brain-Internet Link,” WirelessNewsFactor, 10 Dec 2003.

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How to build a fully encrypted NAS on OpenBSD :: projects :: geek technique
In this article I will try to give you all the clues on how to build yourself a fully encrypted NAS for your
home network. But first of all, why?
Well, I believe that my data is my data and not somebody elses. I’m not paranoia nor a pirate but having

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Flying Doraemon (R/C)
Shipping 10 to 15 Working days, 1.50 Kg(s) (EMS = EU: 28.00€, US: $38.62) $77.23 
 
Two books
1.
Itzhak Bentov "Stalking the wildpendulum , On the mechanics of consciousness"  Copyright© 1988 Pub   Destany Books ISBN 0-89281-202-1
2 .
"Advertising pure and simple" by Hank Seiden   Copyright© 1967  Pub. Executive Books   ISBN 0-8144-7510-8 pbk


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http://www.myoops.org/twocw/mit/Brain-and-Cognitive-Sciences/9-96Experimental-Methods-of-Adjustable-
Tetrode-Array-NeurophysiologyJanuary--IAP-2001/CourseHome/index.htm

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http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/profile/114/

http://mrelusive.com/books/books.html

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http://www.wbur.org/news/2007/65761_20070330.asp
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http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/profile/114/
Quest for simple rules that unwind complex brain structure
Matthew A. Wilson
Head of the Reinforcement and Emotion in
Ensemble Memory Formation Laboratory
RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research

An American engineer-turned-neuroscientist at RIKEN-MIT
 is bringing fresh approaches to the study of how the brain works
http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/profile/114/


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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/05/04/

http://akihabaranews.com/en/news-13759-USB+Virus+Chaser+by+DigiWorks+Korea.html

Not sure just how effective this will be, but you've got to admit that
 a portable anti-virus system can only be A Good Thing.
 This USB Virus Chaser, courtesy of Korean company Digiworks, is not
the first anti-virus-system-in-a-USB, as they've been
around for a couple of years (most notably Iocell's VaccineDrive).
The Virus Chaser is around from this month in 2GB and 4GB
 versions. – Ad Dugdale

USB VIrus Chaser by Digiworks [Akihabara News]


Comment    read more: computers security software usb virus
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4296920.stm
The world's master minds 
As part of the BBC's Who Runs Your World? series, Stephen Evans visits the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
 home to some of the best scientific brains on the planet.
 
Drew Endy is involved in taking apart the very stuff of life. Pic: Sriram Kowitz
So, who does run our world? Politicians? Of course. Business leaders and central bankers? Perhaps. Scientists?
This group rarely gets a mention, but you could make a case for them having more say over the way our lives are
lived than many other prominent movers and shakers.

Who can doubt that the people who split the atom or developed penicillin or gave us the internet impinge on every
day of our lives?

So what are they up to now? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the Cambridge bank of the Charles River
 across from Boston is widely regarded as the most impressive concentration of scientists on the planet. It has
Nobel prize-winners by the truck load and a tour round its campus makes the jaw drop.

Talk to Drew Endy, who is pioneering biological engineering, for example. He is at the forefront of what is a new
 science involving taking apart the very stuff of life - molecules of living organisms - and rebuilding them in ways
that may be useful.

It is about programming living organisms to do what we want them to do. It might involve, for example, engineering an
 organism so that it devours a pollutant, or altering a bacterium so that it attacks disease.


Matthew Wilson may one day be able to read the mind of a rat. Pic: Donna Coveney/MIT
Professor Endy talks of his dream of growing houses, no less. When the science is developed, he can't see why it
shouldn't be possible to alter the genes of a gourd so that it grows in a particular shape - like the shape of some
futuristic space in which we might live.

Or talk to Professor Ned Thomas, the Director of MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. Nanotechnology is the
 new science of the smallest particles. When you work with atoms of a material, that material takes on different forms.
 Gold, for example, is actually red coloured at the nano level; some materials that are flexible in everyday life become
 rigid when split into their atoms and re-assembled.

So Professor Thomas is devising new materials with new properties. He's designing a suit for soldiers - what he calls a
"combat suit" - that would be as flexible and comfortable as a vest, but which would morph into a rigid protection in
the time it takes a bullet to go through it. The bullet hits the suit which would cover the soldier from head to foot;
 the suit becomes rigid enough to stop the bullet and then becomes flexible again.

When you ask "Who Runs Our World?", remember that whoever dominates a battlefield will have a big say in who runs the
rest of our planet - and for that, Professor Thomas' contribution will be important.


MIT has Nobel prize-winners by the truck load. Pic: Donna Coveney/MIT
Or talk to Professor Matthew Wilson, who is studying the brains of rats. Electrodes in their brains record patterns as
 they sleep, and these patterns can be related to different activities while they were awake.

Eventually, it may be possible to work out what a rat has been doing through the day by the way its brain operates when
 it is asleep. In other words, it may be possible to read the mind of a rat.

This has obvious implications for humans way into the future. In a nightmarish world, it might be possible to read a
mind to discover that the subject had been behaving badly or well, had been feeling guilty or, say, rebellious. This,
 Professor Wilson says, is not on the cards now. There are technical bridges to cross before we get anywhere near the
ethical ones.

A lot of the work being done at MIT offers huge benefits but also ethical dangers. Reading minds is an obvious example.
 So is engineering organisms: Why not re-engineer humans to be the way we'd like them to be?

The scientists doing the work are highly intelligent people with a strong moral sense. They invariably say that they want
 full debate, and that it's for the wider world to decide what to do with their work. It's not for scientists alone to decide.

If you ask them: "Who Runs Our World?" they say that it shouldn't be them. It's for us, the citizens, to decide. "We,"
say the scientists, "should run our own world."

Master Minds is broadcast on the World Service on Sunday 2 October 0905 GMT. In some parts of the world broadcast times
 may change but you can find details by clicking on the link below

World Service schedules

matthew wilson mit
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ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE


 


If you wish to receive complimentary samples of polymeric artificial muscles, please contact Professor Mohsen Shahinpoor, shah@unm.edu




-Historic affiliation between The FacioScapuloHumeral (FSH) Muscular Dystrophy Society (http://www.fshsociety.org) and Artificial Muscle Research Institute (AMRI).
The Artificial Muscle Research Institute (AMRI) and The Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSH) Society, (http://www.fshsociety.org) begin a dialog to examine research applications of Artificial Muscle as applied to FSH muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Click HERE for more information.

Historic Seminar at AMRI; presented by PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES, Nobel Laureate
Click HERE for more information.
 


Thank you for visiting our site.

To receive complimentary samples of polymeric artificial muscles, please contact Professor Mohsen Shahinpoor, shah@unm.edu

CONTENT
ENJOY THE FOLLOWING VIDEO CLIPS ON ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES:
Myster Bony pedaling an exercycle
Wiggly little flexible robotic finger
Thick muscle moving up under a linearly varying direct voltage tp a maximum of 4 volts
Flapping pair of wings-version 1
Flapping pair of wings-version 2
Flapping pair of wings-version 3
-Heart-Assist Device
-Artificial Muscle Membrane and the Space Dust Wiper Muscle
-Resonance on Artificial Muscle
-A moving hand
-A great muscle dance (29 Mb)
-Robotic Shovel Muscle
-Waving Robotic Muscle
-Thick Robotic Muscle
-Flying Pair of Robotic Wing Muscle-1
-Toy Robotic Muscle
-Flying Pair of Robotic Wing Muscle-2
- Looping Robotic Muscle
- A robotic micro-gripper made with IPMC artificial muscles
- World's smallest pair of five-fingered robotic hand made with IPMC artificial muscles
- Robotic Muscle for Skeletal Joint Motion
-Swimming biomimetic robotic fish approaching a wall
-Swimming biomimetic robotic fish making a turn
-Enjoy the amazing dance of this twisting, twhirling, turning, rolling muscle and morphing antenna
-A bending liquid crystal elastomer artificial muscle
-A linear actuator type liquid crystal elastomer artificial muscle
-Dynamics of ionic hydraulic actuation and water movement in this strip of IPMC artificial muscle
-Dynamic Thermal field & internal ionic and water movements in a membrane of IPMC artificial muscle
-Enjoy the contraction of this thick PAN muscle lifting a bottle
-Enjoy the linear expansion and contraction of this PAN muscle
-Enjoy this mini-heart assist device equipped with a five-fingered hand made with ionic polymeric artificial muscles
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Enjoy this video on linearly contractile liquid crystal elastomer artificial muscle lifting a weight
-Enjoy the underwater maneuvering and swimming and turning of this
biomimetic robotic submarine fish equipped with synthetic muscles that
operate in water
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Enjoy the uncurling and twisting of this snake-1 muscle in air
-Enjoy the looping and unlooping of this snake-2 muscle in air
-Enjoy this uncurling and twisting snake-3 muscle in air
-Enjoy the power of this power muscle lifting a quarter 18 times its
weight in air

-Enjoy the unbelievable power of this power muscle lifting 28 times
its own weight in air and holding. Using these power muscles we are
developing materials whose stiffness can be modulated electrically

-Enjoy the lifting power of this long power stick muscle in air
lifting two quarters 42 times its own weight

-Enjoy the lifting power of this long power stick muscle in air
lifting three quarters 62 times its own weight


       http://www.artificialmuscles.org

 
 

SAN FRANCISCO, July 18 (UPI) -- Invest in Germany's executive luncheon in San Francisco addressed Germany's lead
in the photovoltaic and semiconductor industries.

Invest in Germany is the official investment promotion agency of Germany. The organization presented "Made in Germany --
 the Growing Success Story for Next-Generation Solar and Semiconductor Companies" during the second day of Semicon
West 2007 at Moscone Center.

Representatives of Qimonda, AMD, Applied Materials and Signet Solar discussed Germany as a location for both high-tech
 investments and groundbreaking cooperation between the photovoltaic and semiconductor industries. The event was
 attended by 140 executives from both industries.

Innovative semiconductor technologies and applications are being developed and tested in Germany. The techniques of
communication and cooperation that contribute to technological breakthroughs in the semiconductor industry can successfully
 be applied to tap the immense potential offered by photovoltaic applications.

A leading semiconductor investor in Germany is AMD. Company officials see their presence in Germany, and in Dresden,
as essential to their global market success.

"With over $5 billion total investment in Dresden to date, AMD continues to utilize the excellent skill base in the region to
 develop and optimize next-generation microprocessor solutions," William Haerle, associate general counsel and vice
president for worldwide government relations at AMD, said in a company statement. "Two state-of-the-art manufacturing
 fabs as well as dedicated design, engineering and operating system research centers play a central role in our worldwide
 operations."

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Tom McMahon
The Strategy of Bingo. The Excitement of Chess.
http://www.tommcmahon.net/gadgetstoys/index.html

07/16/2007
The Long-Ago Boyhood Pasttime of Metal Casting Toy Soldiers:
Kids and Hot Molten Lead, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
http://www.tommcmahon.net/gadgetstoys/index.html

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http://www.dunken.com/

The Dunken Company is dedicated to bringing you the finest in home casting equipment. Whether your
interests lie towards Alamo, Boy Scouts, West Point Cadets, Christmas Ornaments, Cowboys and Indians,
 Knights, World War II, Napoleonic era, Fantasy, Civil War, Vikings, the Nativity, Prussian or even
 themed chess sets, The Dunken Company has a wide variety of interesting molds to choose from.

In addition to molds we also offer a pleasing variety of casting equipment, including clamps, ladles,
files, and metals. For the beginner to this rewarding hobby we provide a Starter Kit, which contains
the basic equipment required to cast. Just choose a mold and some metal to compliment it and start
casting today.

Prince August supplies a wonderfully active forum to allow you to meet other hobby casters, with a
wide range of experiences and you can sign in and find lots in common. (Note: AOL and Netscape emails
can not be used to register with this forum, please contact princeaugusts webmaster if you have any
 questions about access.)

We even have a wonderfully clear and comprehensive series of quick tutorials to help you get the best
results FAST and become an expert caster and painter in an afternoon.

All our metal can be remelted as many times as you want, our molds are ecologically friendly, and you
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 ready cast.

Hobby casting is a family activity and is a great way to share some wholesome quality time with your
 kids. Our molds are not toys however and we always recommend adult supervision for any child under
the age of 14. Always cast in a well ventilated area and take sensible precautions when handling hot metal.
 
 
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Thanks to
Tom McMahon  http://www.tommcmahon.net/gadgetstoys/index.html
The Strategy of Bingo. The Excitement of Chess.

http://www.ssadams.com/book.php
06/10/2007
Life of the Party: A Visual History of S.S. Adams,
 Makers of Pranks and Magic for 100 Years
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/59e0/


http://www.geekstuff4u.com/new_products.php

http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/engagement/index.html


http://gadgets-circle.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_gadgets-circle_archive.html


http://www.ozshots.com/aboriginals/

http://www.artificialmuscles.org/

http://www.wwmag.net/backissu.htm

Title: Video of the Day: A Conversation With Stanley Bard
Link: http://gothamist.com/2007/07/17/a_conversation.php

3.
July 17, 2007

Video of the Day: A Conversation With Stanley Bard

2007_07_arts_hotel.jpg 2007_07_arts_stanley.jpg

Yesterday we headed over to the Hotel Chelsea to have a chat with Stanley Bard. Over the past month there have been many changes
at the landmarked establishment that have left an unsettling feeling amongst the community. This community is one that Bard himself
refers to as "A Mutual Admiration Society," and his description couldn't be more accurate.

He and the hotel residents really respect and know each other, the only problem is that neither group knows exactly what Bard's role is
 anymore - something that makes the future seem even more uncertain. This comes through in everything we hear from residents and
even Bard himself. When we asked about the recent rate drop at the hotel (the board had been pushing him to raise rates when he was
 still in charge) he told us, "I really have no idea, no concept of why they would consider something like that. They never brought me into it.
 They never asked for my advice, that's what concerns me."

Below is a our video interview with Bard from his office, which he still occupies, and from some of his favorite rooms in the hotel. He talks
about his recent support from Ethan Hawke, reminisces about Arthur Miller and his family, and reflects on his life's work at the hotel.

                                             

While nothing has physically changed about the hotel yet, there is a sense that so much has changed already with spirits being down after
Bard was overthrown by the board. Luckily with such an old hotel, history oozes from the walls creating an aesthetic and feeling that isn't
just going to leave without a fight, however there isn't a doubt in anyone's mind that the faceless "new management" will try bring upon
some unwelcome changes soon enough. So far we learned one interesting little addition: when new management took over, residents told
 us a painter showed up outside the hotel. We saw her yesterday and assumed she was there to support the Bards. We quickly found out
she is the girlfriend of David Elder, one of the board members who was instrumental in forcing the Bards out. The Hotel Chelsea bloggers
have more about Elder, here.

Camerawork by Kelly Loudenberg.


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4. Brown

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Distributed September 2, 2003
Contact Mary Jo Curtis
Profiles 
 Eleven new faculty to join arts and humanities departments this fall
Matthew Garcia in American civilization and ethnic studies; Kenneth Haynes in comparative literature;
Jean Feerick, Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Ravit Reichman in English; Robert Creeley, Erin Cressida
Wilson and Brian Evenson in English (creative writing); Roberto Simanowski in German studies; Nicolás
 Wey-Gómez in Hispanic studies; and Nomy Arpaly in philosophy.
[Return to news release 03-015, or see other faculty in social sciences, physical sciences, or life
 sciences.]
 
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2003-04/03-015a.html

Nomy Arpaly

Assistant Professor
Philosophy

Nomy Arpaly is intrigued by “the vagaries of the human heart.” When she speaks about the complexity of moral
 responsibility and behavior, she tells the story of a former student who interrupted her in class with an
obscenity-laden argument that “morality is for wimps” and “a weakness of humanity.”

The same young man came to her a few days later to ask to be excused from class to visit his mother for Rosh
Hashannah.

“He was not just observing a religious holy day, he was asking my permission – and being a momma’s boy,”
 she says. “Some people are bad ethicists but are very moral.

“I’m very interested in how good people can have bad principles” and vice versa, she adds. “People are often
 inconsistent in very interesting ways.”

Arpaly, who received her B.A. from Tel Aviv University in 1992 and a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1998, taught at
the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor for one year and has been an assistant professor at Rice University since
 1999. She is the author of Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry into Human Agency (Oxford University Press, 2002)
 and is currently working on a book about free will. She says she often makes examples of literary characters
 like Huck Finn – “or real people with names changed to protect the guilty” – in her writing and teaching.

“She has very interesting and unorthodox views about the interconnections between rationality, freedom, moral
 character and morally good action,” says David Estlund, interim chair of the Department of Philosophy. “She
 already has a strong reputation for someone so young. She has an unusually independent mind and a broader
 conception of philosophy than one usually sees in a junior person. I expect her to contribute a lot to the
 intellectual environment at Brown.”


Robert Creeley

Distinguished Professor
English (Creative Writing)

After spending the last 37 years at the State University of New York–Buffalo, joining the faculty at Brown
 feels “like a whole new ball game” to Robert Creeley.

“I felt whatever it was I could do by being there, I had pretty well done. So being invited to join the
writing program here was both an honor and stimulus – the veritable ‘pastures new...’ of one’s imagination,”
says Creeley. “You’ve also got some of the best company in the world for any writer, so that was certainly
 persuasive.”

Creeley’s own writing “has been and remains one of the most significant and influential bodies of work by
any contemporary North American writer,” according to Forrest Gander, director of the Creative Writing
Program. Creeley has published more than 60 books of poetry and another dozen books of prose, essays and
interviews.

Creeley attended Harvard University and completed his B.A. at Black Mountain College, where he also began
his teaching career, edited its innovative literary journal (Black Mountain Review) and became part of a
group of poets who defined a then-emerging counter-tradition to the literary establishment. He received an
 M.A. in 1960 from the University of New Mexico and briefly taught there; he also taught at the University
 of British Columbia and San Francisco State College before joining the faculty at SUNY-Buffalo.

Creeley has received many honors, including the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the
Shelley Memorial Award and various grants and fellowships. He served as New York State Poet from 1989 to
 1991 and was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999. Still, he comes to Brown as
 an eternal student.

“I’d like to see what I can learn – about writing and how most actively to propose its teaching, about its
contemporary means and possibilities, about all that it comes from and relates to,” he says. “Pound wrote
 years ago, ‘You cannot have literature without curiosity...’ I hope I’m still at least curious.”

Creeley will teach a course on the relationship between music, art and writing.


4.

July 18, 2007
On Education NY Times
Challenges for Black Colleges’ Brightest in the Lab
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
INDIANAPOLIS
On the June morning when James Lucas first met Stephanie E. Sen outside the research laboratory she
oversaw, he made one request. “Don’t put me on a project that’s too important,” he said. He could
already envision himself botching an experiment and losing Professor Sen a lot of money. He worried
that after all the hype about what a prodigy he was in chemistry, he wouldn’t measure up.
In her polite and genial way, Professor Sen spurned his plea. The reason Mr. Lucas had come to the
joint Indiana University-Purdue University campus here was to do important work. The entire point
was that a promising 18-year-old be dropped into a lab populated by graduate students and postdoctoral
 fellows.
Mr. Lucas, barely a year out of high school, was supposed to be awed by the mechanical menagerie, the
 instruments for spectrometry, liquid chromatography, nuclear magnetic resonance.
One other bit of personal history applied. Mr. Lucas had just completed his freshman year at Morehouse
 College in Atlanta, and he had been selected this summer as part of a new program intended to bring
gifted science students from the archipelago of historically black colleges and universities in the
South to two major research universities farther north for an eight-week immersion.
All are, in the self-effacing phrase of the laboratory, “working at the bench.”
“It’s been a great challenge, understanding the concepts and the vocabulary of research chemistry,
” Mr. Lucas said during a break from his experiment. “I haven’t gotten to this level in my classes.
 And on TV, when someone’s working in a lab, you don’t see how they’re tearing their hair 24 hours
a day.”
For all of Morehouse’s renown — it is the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the
 film director Spike Lee, and the term “Morehouse man” is lofty praise in black educational circles —
the college has been geared primarily to undergraduates. The multimillion-dollar cost of equipping and
 sustaining research laboratories exceeds the wherewithal of nearly all the historically black colleges.
Yet such colleges, even decades after segregation fell, continue to award a disproportionate share of
the bachelor’s degrees that black students receive nationwide. And going back to the Jim Crow era, when
 the South’s major universities barred black students, there was a pipeline carrying many of the most
ambitious across the Mason-Dixon line for graduate study, especially at the Midwestern state universities
 of the Big Ten.
Adam W. Herbert knew of that legacy as the son and nephew of alumni of two historically black colleges,
 Langston in Oklahoma and Southern in Louisiana.
When he became president of Indiana University four years ago, the first black to hold that position,
he set about trying to revive the tradition with a particular eye on science, technology, engineering
 and math, fields in which black students are woefully underrepresented.
A result of Dr. Herbert’s efforts, an initiative known by the acronym STEM for its four areas of
concentration, started last month with the arrival of five students at Indiana-Purdue in Indianapolis
 and four at Indiana’s main campus in Bloomington. While the students receive research experience, the
two universities get an inside track on recruiting talented blacks for graduate school.
“This is not Big Brother saying we have all the answers,” said Dr. Herbert, who stepped down as Indiana
University’s president on July 1 and remains a professor of public affairs. “What we are saying is that
 historically black schools are a very important part of the educational delivery system of America, and
 we want to help them produce more graduates in the STEM areas. Relationships like these are extremely
important. What we’re saying in this initiative is that we’re prepared to bring our assets to the table.”
THE annual budget this first year of the program is $125,000. While president, Dr. Herbert also set aside
 $2 million in discretionary money as an endowment.
For Mr. Lucas and the other students this summer, the money means free room and board, a $4,000 stipend,
 and various training sessions and lectures outside the lab, covering topics like writing grant
applications, drafting abstracts of scholarly papers and drilling for the Graduate Record Examination,
 a grad-school admissions test.
Even so, Mr. Lucas and his peers have had a hard time prying themselves off the lab bench. He has been
involved in research to determine exactly how, why and in what chemical combinations trans fat acids
damage human health.
Merrill Brouillette, who just completed his sophomore year at Langston, is working under a pharmacology
 professor, Jian-Ting Zhang, investigating whether a protein called C-36 can be effective in attacking
colon cancer cells.
Jamera Barnes, who will be entering her senior year at Jackson State in Mississippi, has assisted a
microbiologist, Randy R. Brutkiewicz, in determining if a cellular component known as CD1d can help
activate the body’s immune system against diseases, including breast cancer.
“From my point of view,” Professor Zhang said, “it’s very important to get exposed to science research.
 And the earlier you can get exposed to different fields — cancer research, neuroscience, whatever —
the better prepared you are to choose. And if you shy away from hands-on research, then you know this
isn’t the life in your future.”
The summer in Indianapolis has only confirmed the direction the black students already had, a direction
that in some cases is extremely personal. Ms. Barnes committed herself to a career in medical research
at age 15, when her father died of leukemia. During her weeks on the Indiana-Purdue campus this summer,
 her mother learned that she had breast cancer and underwent two operations.
“I look it at from the standpoint of not only just me but every woman,” said Linda Barnes, Jamera’s mother,
 who is retired from the state Human Services Department in Mississippi. “Because once you’re told you
have this disease, you think about all the other women being affected. So it’s a plus, just a plus, that
 if there’s a cure to be found, Jamera may play some part in it.”
Samuel G. Freedman is a professor of journalism at Columbia University.
His e-mail is sgfreedman@nytimes.com.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company



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