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Giffords takes next step toward recovery By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will likely progress to the next phase of her recovery process at a rehabilitation center. Her condition was moved from “critical” to “serious” over the weekend and has not been altered since. The U.S. representative for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District sustained a brain injury via a gunshot wound to the head on Jan. 8 at a grocery store meet and greet called “Congress on Your Corner” in northwest Tucson. Giffords may move as early as Friday from the University Medical Center in Tucson to TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital in Houston, Texas depending on Valentina Martinelli/Arizona Daily Wildcat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords speaks to the Young Democrats in the Kiva the congresswoman’s recovery process. Room of the Student Union Memorial Center alongside Rep. Raul GriTIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation jalva on Oct. 27, 2010. Hospital is one of 11 not-for-profit care

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centers under Memorial Hermann, which serves the greater Houston community. “TIRR treats people with a range of disabilities, from complex conditions like brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple trauma and amputation, to rehabilitation for conditions including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, post-polio syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus,” according to the website. The health care centers made the Top 50 list in U.S. News’ America’s Best Hospitals issue for 2009-10. The new location will help Mark Kelly, Giffords’ husband in seeing his wife and aiding in recovery as it is close to his training facility. Dr. Peter Rhee, medical director of UMC’s trauma and critical care and professor of surgery at the UA College of Medicine’s Department of Surgery, said the services of

the entire military were made available to doctors there due to her husband’s status with NASA. UMC also confirmed that two other patients previously being treated in the hospital were discharged. Giffords is now the only patient from the shooting remaining in the hospital until her reported move. In light of the shooting, hundreds of stuffed animals have been delivered to Giffords’ office from the community, according to a news release by Darci Slaten at UMC. Officials from Giffords’ office also will be donating approximately 300 to 400 stuffed animals to UMC’s Diamond Children’s Medical Center today at 11 a.m. Representatives from her office also will be donating stuffed animals to Tucson Medical Center and Casa de los Niños.

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By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA’s first downtown property will be ready to hold classes starting next semester. The Roy Place building, on the corner of North Stone Avenue and East Pennington Street, is the first component of UA Downtown. The Pima County Board of Supervisors recently approved the UA to lease the building from Pima County at a rate of $1 per year, according to a Pima County Board of Supervisors memorandum. The UA currently has a five-year lease with an option to renew. Jan Cervelli, dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, said discussions to move the program downtown began about two years ago. Other programs with an emphasis on urban planning and public policy will also use the building. “It’s an unmatched option for our students to be engaged where the action is,” Cervelli said, who added that students will witness developments in downtown firsthand, including the process of designing infrastructure and streetscape. The historic building, most recently a Walgreens drugstore,

By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The team behind an asteroid sample space probe is preparing for what they hope will be the initiation of a decade of research for the UA. Their final 1,000-plus page report on the project is due Jan. 28. OSIRIS-REx — or Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer — is a space probe that would be slated to collect a minimum of two ounces of pure asteroid to study at the UA, a year into the project and backed by $3.3 million in NASA funding. The plan for the probe will be tested in a 10-hour site visit held in Denver on April 14, along with OSIRIS-REX, page 5

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The Roy Place building, located downtown on the corner of Stone Avenue and Pennington Street, has recently been leased by the UA for classroom use. The building is under renovation and is planned for use by the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture next semester.

will house classrooms, an urban design studio and the Drachman Institute architecture studio. The UA will invest $400,000 in renovating the building as

part of the lease agreement, including installing new carpeting and classroom partitions. Brint Milward, director of the School of Government and Public Policy,

said the university is working to make sure the transition is easy for students who will attend EXPANSION, page 5

Q& A Surgeon unfazed by life in spotlight By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

The Arizona Daily Wildcat sat down with Dr. Peter Rhee, the medical director of the trauma center at the University Medical Center and one of the primary physicians for the victims of Saturday’s shooting. Daily Wildcat: In the context of your work, what has the past week and a half been like compared to an average week? Rhee: I think the media we’ve gotten is not average. It’s a little unusual. However, I think the

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volume of the work we do and the type of work we do has not been much different from the work we do all the time. What has it been like, as someone who’s practiced medicine for many years, to be suddenly thrust into the spotlight as a prominent figure in the media? Well, I don’t know if I’m a national figure, so I’ll have to take your word for it. But, I haven’t been watching the news and I haven’t been watching the TV or things like that, so I don’t really know what impact that’s

having. I’ve been working here like we normally do. I do know that when I traveled to San Diego, people started recognizing me, which was a little disturbing. Because you’ve got to understand, when you have fame in medicine, you’re not doing yourself any favors. Were there any challenges medically with the victims of the shootings that you haven’t seen before? Individually, it was all very routine for us and something we take care of all the time. On

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Sunday, I was on-call and had a lady who was shot in the head and survived as well. This is something that does go on all the time. We just don’t get celebrities all the time as patients. Have there been challenges balancing caring for patients with communicating information through press conferences and media requests? It has been extremely disruptive to me and my schedule, but my partners who work with me have been covering as much as DOCTOR, page 5

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