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Boston UniversityOpenBU http://open.bu.eduBU Publications Campus Update1992-02Campus Update: February 1992 v.4, no. 1https://hdl.handle.net/2144/19024Boston UniversityB O S T O N U N I V E R Y M E o I t C E N T E R Boston University Medical Campus February 1992 Vol. 4 No. 1 Campus U P D A T E iiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^  Harrison Court to offer modern, secure housing near BUMC Boston University is devel-oping 60 secure, modem apartments across from the School of Medicine on Harri-son Avenue for the students, faculty and staff of the Medi-cal Center community. The residences are being built in a rehabUitated 19th-century building that is part of the former Boston Col-lege High School. Renova-tion of the elegant building, which has been named Har-rison Court, began last fall and is expected to be com-pleted by Aug. 1 1992. Harrison Court w i l l be composed of studios and one- and two-bedroom apart-ments. Each unit w i l l have a modern kitchen and bath-room and hook-ups for a washing machine and elec-tric dryer. A coin-operated laundry facility wLU be lo-cated in the building for the exclusive use of Harrison Court residents. A private covutyard w i l l give the building's residents a peaceful and relaxing place to enjoy the outdoors. Secure parking at Harrrison Court w i l l be available for an additional cost. Public transportation is easily ac-cessible, and the Medical Center's security escort serv-ice w i l l be available. • Rental infonnatbn Call the Medical Center Office of Rental Property Management at 1-800-344-BUMC (2862) to learn more about: • rents for specific units • floor-plan selection • assistance in finding a roommate Monthly rents for shared units are expected to range from $490 to $640 per person depend-ing on the type of unit and the number of people occupying the unit. Sin-gle-occupancy studios wi l l have a higher monthly rent. The units, which range from studios to two-bedroom units, w i l l be rented on a one-year lease basis. Medical Center staff people wHl be available to help plan summer sublets. • Harrison Court On hand to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemo-rate the opening of the new biomedicai research buiiding at 609 Al-tiany Street were BUSM Dean Aram V. Chobanian, Boston University President John Silber, Barbara Gilchrest, M.D., head of the Depart-ment of Dermatoiogy, and Spencer N. Franki, dean of the Schooi of Graduate Dentistry. Dedication of biomedical research building signals new era of growth Boston University President John Silber helped cut the ribbon on Tuesday, Jan. 14, to the new biomedical re-search building at 609 A l -bany Street. "The dedication marks a new chapter in the growth of the Medical Cen-ter along Albany Street: Across the street, piles are being driven for a 180,000-square-foot BUSM medical research building, the first structure in BUMC's Uni-versity Associates develop-ment, which w i l l be con-structed over the next 10 years. (See story, page 2). The new building at 609 Albany Street represents a major commitment by the private sector to support ba-sic research. Sponsors of the research being con-ducted in the new facility in-clude Christian Dior Inc. and seven other companies. Funding also is being pro-vided by the National Insti-tutes of Health. In his dedication address, Silber said the collaborative effort is a demonstration of the cooperation that is nec-essary i n today's tough econ-omy. He noted that in the new building, BUSM re-searchers w i l l be free to "ful-f i l l their life's work" in the advancement of basic sci-ence and research. Five floors house the Depart-ment of Dermatology, which is laying the basic-sci-ence groundwork for poten-tial breakthroughs in a num-ber of areas, including the prevention of malignant melanomas and the preven-tion of aging of the skin. The department also con-ducts one of the country's most extensive programs in human pigment cell biol-ogy, according to BUSM Dean Aram V. Chobanian, M.D. The building also pro-vides research space for the Goldman School's Depart-ment of Biomaterials. • Commuters, take note: Tlie destinations of the two evening shuttle buses have been swapped. Hie larger red Boston University bus now takes coininuters to the Broadway T-station, while the smaller white bus takes people to the parking lots. Tliis change makes the afternoon routes of the shuttle buses consistent with the morning ones. • Campus Update February 1992 /2 Anatomy of a building Construction begins on new biomedical research building During the next two years, members of the Medi-cal Center community w i l l have the opportunity to watch the step-by-step con-struction of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Re-search, the first building un-der development in the planned University Associ-ates medical complex along Albany Street. Campus Update invites its readers to keep abreast of the progression of the con-struction through the peri-odic accounts that w i l l ap-pear here. From the earhest stage of excavation to the rising of structural steel to the appUcation of the finish-ing touches, we w i l l be pro-viding i n s i s t into the way in which the building is con-structed. For the last five weeks, workers have been doing the preliminary work for constructing the foundation of the building This has in-volved driving 16-inch con-crete pUes 110 feet into the earth and pouring concrete pile caps over clusters of them. These pUe caps serve as the base for the columns of structural steel that w i l l be set upon them. In carrying out the pile-driving process, geotechni-cal and structural engineers first determined how deep the piles should be ham-mered into the earth. The decision was based on a de-termination of the degree of pressure that the building w i l l bring to bear on the piles and the amount of fric-tion that w i l l be created on the side of the pUes, as well as on the tip end bearing. Reinforced concrete grade beams wUl be formed and poured between the pUe caps, and the structural slab on grade wUl be placed atop that. The budding has no basement. Prior to placing the struc-tural slab on grade, all the underground utihties must be instaUed in various utU-ity trenches. Erection of structural steel is scheduled to start in April 1992 and w i l l be completed in the late summer of 1992. The construction consult-ant representing the Medi-cal Center for the building project is Lars Ivarson. Fred Barrett, the project manager for the Boston University Medical Campus, coordi-nates the day-to-day con-struction operations. The 180,000-square-foot research building due to be completed in late 1993, wi l l house School of Medicine and Coldman School of Graduate Dentistry biomedi-cal laboratories and offices. Part of the first floor wiU have retaU shops. • The Center for Advanced Biomedical Research pie cap Albany Slreet ap \ Mecbanical Penthouse stab on grade PaiMng / grade beam uilitles day 0 o 0 0 0 0 o 0 o o o ° o 0 o 0 O o o " O o o 0 o ° o " a » 0 P o n - " o " „ o ° e o ° 0 0 0 ,^ *^  0 o glacial HI pie dusters — is I> s . f < bedrodt \ Extended fiber-optic cabling offers more departments links to networks Several additional buUdings at the Medical Campus now have the fiber-optic cabling that provides departments with the physical capacity to hook into the Medical Campus and Charles River Campus computer net-works, as well as to Inter-net, a worldwide academic-science database network. The fiber-optic cabling which has been operational in the Instructional Building (L Building) and the Hous-man Research Center (R building) for the last year, now extends to the new bio-medical research building at 609 Albany Street, the first four floors of the Goldman School of Graduate Den-tistry and the School of Pub-lic Health (A Building). The Silvio O. Conte building (K Building) is expected to have cabling installed within the next six months. Cabling is also planned for the Center for Advanced Biomedical Re-search, which is under con-struction across Albany Street. (See story above.) The cabling gives the de-partments that are in these buildings the potential to tap into the network re-sources. To actually gain ac-cess to these networks, how-ever, several additional steps must be taken. De-partments' computers must use the same language/pro-tocol as the network com-puters, and they must have authorization to communi-cate through the network, which is gained using codes and passwords. Depart-ments interested in achiev-ing this access should con-tact Graham Ward, director of the Medical Campus Of-fice of Information Technol-ogy GIT). Ward can be reached at 638-8854 (x8854). The cost for the connection is paid for by the depart-ments or the individual in-vestigators requesting it . • Campus Update February 1992 /3 BCH pediatric team's efforts are sparking early interest in books Boston University physi-cians, early childhood educa-tors and volunteers in the Pediatric Primary Care Cen-ter at Boston City Hospital have undertaken a mission that extends well beyond trying to monitor and tend to the physical health of in-fants and toddlers. Under an innovative program called ROAR, begun in March 1989, they have taken on the task of trying to spark young children's in-terest in books and to im-press upon parents the im-portance of reading for their children's mental develop-ment. The pediatricians, in col-laboration wi th early child-hood educators, have incor-porated this effort into their medical examination ses-sions with the children and attending parents. At each of the 12 regular checkups during a child's first six years, the physician gives the child a book to keep. By integrating this gesture into the normal examination, the physician is able to de-velop a discussion about the impact reading can have or is having on a child's devel-opment. A supplement to this effort takes place in the waiting room, where volun-teers staff the office full time to read books to inter-ested children. There is also a bookshelf in the waiting room that the children may use. This innovative Uteracy program is designed to use the pediatric visit to prompt an interest in books among famihes whose children are at risk for reading failure. "Our approach is based on the belief that parents improve their children's chances of successfully learning to read and write by providing appropriate lan-guage stimulation from early age and that pediatri-cians can play an important role helping parents do so," Books (xtntinued on page 4 Dianne Cabral, administrative assistant for Associate Dean Daniei Bemstein, reviews the iit-erature on tips for quitting smok-ing, offered to employees and students by the Medical Cam-pus Office of Personnel in early January. The Medical Campus established a smoke-free policy in its buildings on Jan. 1. Two Medical Campus employees honored as Black Achievers Two members of the Medi-cal Campus community were honored as Black Achievers on Jan. 15, under the Greater Boston YMCA Black Achievers Program. The program, now in its 16th year, is intended to pro-mote the recognition of ac-complished black employ-ees and to foster the develop-ment of minority youth by exposing them to these posi-tive role models. The Medical Campus, the Evans Medical Founda-tion and the University Hos-pital have participated in the program for the last six years. Marguerita Eastmond, a senior secre-tary in the Office of Student Financial Management at the School of Medicine, and Billy C. Rover, D.M.D., a clinical instructor in the De-partment of Operative Den-tistry at the Goldman School of Graduate Den-tistry, were the 1992 recipi-ents of this honor from the Medical Campus. Under the YMCA pro-gram. Black Achievers agree to be matched wi th stu-dents in the Greater Boston area to serve as their men-tors for a year. During this time, they are expected to fulfi l l a minimum commit-ment of 40 hours of volun-teer time. Nominations for Medical Campus recipients of the award are made by deans, department chairper-sons, directors and principal investigators of depart-ments. To honor those recog-nized at the Medical Cam-pus, the University Hospital and the Evans Medical Foun-dation, and to focus atten-tion on the importance of such leadership in the black community, the Medical Center held its annual recog-nition program. Keynote speaker Ken Reeves, the mayor of Cambridge, spoke on the theme "Back to our roots: the family." Opening remarks were made by School of Medicine Dean Aram V. Chobanian, Wel-don S. Lloyd, D.Sc, associ-ate director of admissions at the School of Graduate Den-tistry, and Jacqueline Dart, executive vice president for operations for The Univer-sity Hospital. The BUMC Marguerita Eastmond choir performed a number of musical selections. Eastmond, who has worked for the School for three years and has been pro-moted, is active in her church and in the West In-BiliyC. Rover, D.M.D. dian community. She is a gourmet cook and a fashion consultant. Rover teaches dental operation procedures, as well as diagnosis and treatment planning. • The Department of Dermatology is now completely moved into its quarters in the new biomedical research building at 609 Albany Street. Please note the following information concerning the department: Main telephone numben fax number 638-5500 (x5500) 638-5515 (x5515) Mailing address: Department of Dermatology Building J, 80 East Concord Street, Boston, M A 02118 Campus Update February 1992 /4 Books continued from page 3 said Robert Needlman, M.D., a co-director of ROAR. The importance of prompting an early interest in reading is grounded in strong evidence that chil-dren not exposed to books at an early age struggle aca-demically in elementary school. Research indicates that more than 25 percent of inner-city children suffer from significant reading de-lays, a phght that stems from a number of factors. The results of a study conducted by Needlman and a number of other physi-cians and educators con-cluded that the literacy in-tervention offered by the BCH clinic significantly in-creases children's interest in books. The program is funded by a number of pri-vate foundations and the books given away by the clinic are bought at discount from booksellers or are do-nated. The books are cultur-ally sensitive to the patients who attend the clinic. By integrating books into the clinic visit, physicians are able to use them as a di-agnostic tool for assessing a child's behavioral develop-ment. In watching a child's response to a book, the phy-sician can observe his re-sponse to novelty, attention and language, his fine motor skills development, and his social interaction with the parent. The physician can make such insights by watching the way in which a child holds and turns the pages (fine motor skills), whether an infant is interested in looking at photographs of other infants (social skills), his oral language develop-ment (how he verbally re-sponds to the book) and his need to control the book (in-dicative of his need for autonomy and control). The exercise also can help the physician to com-municate with the parent about the importance of en-couraging reading at home. If, for instance, a child shows interest in a book, or is able to open i t and turn the pages, the physician can point out to the parent that this indicates the chUd is alert and functioning well. Such positive feedback to You say potato! New feature at CHEQUERS CHEQUERS is proud to announce the latest addi-t ion to its menu: a Baked Potato Bar. Top your baked potato w i t h the traditional butter and sour cream or go w U d w i t h broccoli and cheese, chi l i , bacon, stir fried vegetables and more!! CHEQUERS School of Medicine lower level Monday - Thursday 7 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Friday, 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. the parents provides effec-tive reinforcement about the importance of encourag-ing their children's interest in reading. Because of the limited literacy of many of the clinic's parents, or their restriction to a foreign lan-guage, the pediatricians stress that holding the child on one's lap, looking at pic-tures together and talking with the child are the most important ingredients of "book-sharing" If the physi-cian observes a parent's dis-comfort with books because of iUiteracy or a bad associa-tion with school, she or he can refer the parent to adult Uteracy programs. The interaction concern-ing the book also enables the physician to observe the parent's behavior toward the child. The parent may dem-onstrate pleasure at the child's interest in the book or may display a need to overcontrol the situation or push the child too severely. Needlman said he is heartened by the results of the program and urges peo-ple to volunteer their time as readers or to contribute money or books to the pro-gram. "When we pediatri-cians team up with early childhood educators and vol-unteers, we can have a sig-nificant effect on young chil-dren's chances for successful reading" he said Those interested in vol-unteering should call coordi-nator Karolyn Kirkjien-Jones at 534-7548. • Electronic security consolidated The Medical Campus Office of Security has consoUdated all cameras and monitors formerly located in the Medical Center Control Center into its new office in the basement of the new re-search building at 609 A l -bany Street. A l l electronic security for the Medical Campus is now based in an electronics console, which controls all card-access systems, and cameras throughout the Medical Campus. A l l security office person-nel wiU be relocated soon to the Albany Street headquar-ters. • Just before Cttristmas, a $400 check was donated to the Boston City Hospital Kids' Fund by Medical Campus groundsman Tyrone Crum-ble and lead custodian Larry Mastrangeio. Robert Vinci, M.D.,a phy-sician in the hospital's Department of Pediatrics and an assistant pro-fessor of pediatrics at the School, received the check on behalf of the fund. The money was received through the proceeds of refunds from recycled soda cans, which can be put in bins in the Chequer's cafete-ria, the Rite Bite Cafe and in various dassrooms. Fadiities Manage-ment Diredor Craig Lazenby (left) and Wiiiiam J. Gasper, associate vice president for Business Affairs for the Medical Campus, look on. Campus Update is published monthly by the Boston University Medical Campus Office of Business Affairs: Wilham J. Gasper, associate vice president. Article ideas may be addressed to Mr. Gasper or to Michael J. Donovan, executive director of the Office of Per-soimel and Administrative Services. The publication is produced by the Medical Center's Office of Publication Services: Owen J. Mc-Namara, director; Jeimifer C. O'Brien, editor/writer; Linda Luiso, designer. 

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