2A- Wednesday, March 9, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2.maNA -Wedn~umxcesday, March 9, 2011Eda The Michigan Daily b - michigandailycom U P RO F. PIE R RE K AB A M BA Teaching with an eye Q: Where did you go to I thought, Gilbert is surely one school? of those dead Germans. And so I I did my undergraduate work at got here and, low and behold, my the University of Louvain in Bel- office neighbor is a gentleman by gium, and then I did my graduate the name of Elmer Gilbert. And work at Columbia University in I came to find out that he's the New York. Gilbert of the Gilbert Realization Q: Why did you decide to that I learned about as a graduate come to the University of Mich- student. It was awesome. igan? Q: What are you currently When I was looking for a posi- teaching? tion, I visited seven or eight plac- This semester I am teaching es, and the University of Michigan Introduction to Aerospace Engi- was really the best place. I mean, neering. This is an undergraduate this is really a fantastic College class. I am also responsible for an of Engineering. In my area, there undergraduate required seminar. is a famous problem called the Generally I teach courses in flight Realization Problem and it has dynamics and air control. This is severalsolutions, includingwhatI also my area of specialization in was taught as a graduate student my research. called Gilbert Realization. And Q:What are you researching? 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY st EditorinChief Business Mgaer 734-418-4115 eat. 0252 734-418-4115 eat. 1241 steinberg@michigandailyceom tmdbusiness@gmoaiLcom to the sky On the more mundane side, I've been doing a lot of work with a col- league, Prof. Semyon Meerkov in electrical engineering and com- puter science. We've been doing a lot of work on an areawe've ended up calling quasi-linear control, and we just published recently a textbook. 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He had .m.:- iicr~i rilr rA I a New genetic tests claim to identify athletic abilities 0 Scientists find genes that play role in strength, speed CHICAGO (AP) -Was your kid born to be an elite athlete? Mar- keters of genetic tests claim the answer is in mail-order kits cost- ingless than $200. Some customers say the test results help them steer their chil- dren to appropriate sports. But skeptical doctors and ethicists say the tests are putting profit before science and have a much greater price tag - potentially robbing perfectly capable youngsters of a chance to enjoy activities of their choice. "In the 'winning is everything' sports culture, societal pressure to use these tests in children may increasingly present a challenge to unsuspecting physicians," accord- ing to a commentary in Wednes- day's Journal of the American Medical Association. Scientists have identified sev- eral genes that may play a role in determining strength, speed and other aspects of athletic per- formance. But there are likely hundreds more, plus many other traits and experiences that help determine athletic ability, said Dr. Alison Brooks, a pediatrician and sports medicine specialist at the University of Wisconsin in Madi- son. Brooks and University of Mich- igan physician Dr. Beth Tarini wrote the commentary to raise awareness about the issue. A handful of companies are selling these tests online. In some cases, the tests screen for genes that are common even among non-athletes. As science advances, Brooks said, "My guess is we're going to see more of this, not less." Bradley Marston of Bountiful, Utah, bought a test online a year ago for his daughter Elizabeth, then 9. She's "a very talented soccer player," and Marston wanted to know if she had a variation of a gene called ACTN3, which influ- ences production of a protein involved in certain muscle activ- ity. One form of the gene has been linked with explosive bursts of strength needed for activities such as sprinting and weight lift- ing. The ACTN3 test sold by Atlas Sports Genetics was developed by Genetic Technologies Limited, an Australian firm. Atlas' $169 kit consists of two swabs to scrape cells from the inside of the cheek. Customers return the used swabs to the Boulder, Colo., company and receive an analysis several days later. 0 A woman pushes a cart full of dead fish through King Harbor, near Los Angeles, yesterday. An estimated 1 million dead fish washed up in the area yesterday, puzzling authorities and necessitating a mass clean-up. 1'-milon dead fish wash, upon California marina Friends, family gather for funeral of Mich. high school basketball player 16-year-old Wes Leonard collapsed after making winning shot HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) - Classmates, coaches and for- mer opponents were among the mourners who filled a southwest Michigan church yesterday to celebrate the short life of a teen athlete who friends and fam- ily say will have a long-lasting impact. Many of the more than 1,500 people at Wes Leonard's funeral wore orange ribbons, and some released orange and black bal- loons outside the church, mir- roring the colors of the Fennville High team that he made a game- winning shot for last week before collapsing on the basketball court. The night before they paid trib- ute to Leonard at the church, his teammates honored the 16-year- old junior as they played through their grief to win their first game in the state Class C tournament. Those who knew the "larger than life" football and basketball star always recognized thathe was special, even apart from sports, his uncle, Jim Leonard, said dur- ing the church service. National attention in the wake of Leonard's death has touted his character to a far broader audience. "It's just amazing that now the whole world knows how spe- cial he was," Jim Leonard said at Christ Memorial Church. "Wes will not be forgotten." Leonard died of cardiac arrest from an enlarged heart last Thursday, moments after his shota gave the undefeated Blackhawks a victory to wrap up the regular season. Opponents said they admired Leonard's game-winning feats in basketball and football - he also was the Fennville football team's star quarterback - but they also respected his grace, sportsman- ship and leadership. "No negativity," said Devin Brock, a Bloomingdale basket- ball player who competed against Fennville, said of Leonard. "He was always positive." Fennville is a town of about 1,400 near Lake Michigan, but the school district covers a broader area. A bus from the Gobles and Bloomingdale dis- tricts arrived at the funeral with more than 70 students. Experts: Mass fish deaths unusual but not unheard of REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) - An estimated 1 million fish turned up dead yesterday in a Southern California marina, creating a floating feast for peli- cans, gulls and other sea life and a stinky mess for harbor authori- ties. Boaters awakened to find a carpet of small silvery fish sur- rounding their vessels, said Staci Gabrielli, marine coordina- tor for King Harbor Marina on the Los Angeles County coast. Authorities said there was also a 12- to 18-inch layer of dead fish on the bottom of the marina. California Fish and Gameoffi- cials said the fish were sardines that apparently depleted the water of oxygen and suffocated. "All indications are it's a naturally occurring event," said Andrew Hughan, a Fish and Game spokesman at the scene. The die-off was unusual but not unprecedented, he said. "In the world of fishing this is an afternoon's catch," he noted. Nonetheless, the scale was impressive to locals at King Har- bor, which shelters about 1,400 boats on south Santa Monica Bay. "The fishermen say they've never seen anything this bad that wasn't red tide," Hughan said, referring to the natural blooms of toxic algae that can kill fish. Hughan said water samples showed no oils or chemicals that could have contributed to the deaths. He said some of the fish were being shipped to a Fish and Game laboratory for study but the cause was likely to be uncomplicated. The fish appeared to have come into the marina during the night and probably couldn't find their way out, he said. "The simplest explanation is the fish got lost. ... They get con- fused easily," he said. Hughan said there was no safety issue at all but "it's going to smell bad for quite a while." Fire Department, Harbor Patrol and other city workers set to work scooping up fish in nets and buckets. A skip loader then carried them to big trash bins. Local officials initially estimat- ed there were millions of fish, but Fish and Game roughly esti- mated about 1 million. City officials estimated the cleanup would cost $100,000. Fire Chief Dan Madrigal said the fish would be taken to a landfill specializing in organic materials. On the water, nature was tack- ling the problem in other ways. "The seals are gorging them- selves," Hughan said. Large groups of other fish could be seen nibbling at the floating mats of dead creatures. "The sea's going to recycle everything. It's the whaole circle- of-life thing," Hughan said. Although the Fish and Game authorities were focusingon the idea that the sardines simply gat con- fused,othertheoriesabounded. Hughan noted that some fish- ermen reported waves were com- ing over the harbor breakwaters during the night. That washes bird excrement off the rocks and into the marina and can cause the water to be depleted of oxygen. Gabrielli, the marina employ- ee, said the fish appeared to have moved into the harbor to escape a red tide, then possibly became trapped due to high winds over- night. Ed Parnell, a marine ecolo- gist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography called Gabrielli's theory plausible, although gen- erally he would expect that the wind would have mixed oxygen into the water. Parnell said these types of fish kills are more typi- cally seen in the Gulf of Mexico or the Salton Sea, the enormous desert lake in southeastern Cali- fornia where millions of fish die with some regularity. r r A