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Freshman Samantha Sanders has easily moved into her role on the volleyball team and is a force to be reckoned with, according to her teammates. Kevin Chou — THE BATTALION
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rogressing from high school to collegiate athletics is a big jump, but freshman volleyball player Samantha Sanders has made it seem easy. Sanders’ volleyball career started in the sixth grade, playing at the middle block position. In high school, Sanders shifted to outside hitter, where she excelled at Midway and was named to the all-district first-team, all four years. She earned national recognition as well being named an Under Armour All-American Honorable Mention her senior year. Sanders also found success in club volleyball, being named to the all-tournament team after leading her team to a silver medal in the 2017 USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championship her senior year. Growing up in Waco, Sanders always wanted to play for Baylor, and verbally committed there her senior year. However, Sanders changed her mind after taking an official recruiting visit to A&M. “When I came here, it just kind of clicked. I fell in love with the team and the coaches and I knew it was where I wanted to be,” Sanders said. Since coming to campus in July, Sanders has played a large role on the A&M volleyball team, starting her first game on Aug. 26 against VCU. “I was very nervous. It was my first time playing in the gym, but overall I was just siked to get out and play,” Sanders said. Despite her nerves, Sanders played well with four kills in the team’s straight-set victory. Sanders’ confidence was augmented after A&M head coach Laurie Corbelli elected to start Sanders the following game against No. 2 Penn State. “I felt more comfortable in the Penn State game, it was my first start and that’s when I started to believe in myself because Coach [Corbelli] let me start in such a big game,” Sanders said. Sanders played well in the match with four kills and just one error. Since then, Sanders has started in every SANDERS ON PG. 2
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Professor Henry Musoma received recognition from the dean of Mays Business School for allowing a student to bring her son to class when she couldn’t find a sitter.
Henry Musoma’s section of Management 309 has around 450 students enrolled, comprising of juniors, seniors and on Thursday Sept. 7, a 10-month-old. University studies senior Ashton Robinson said she was surprised when her professor gladly welcomed her to bring her 10-month-old son Emmett to her lecture class. Robinson emailed her professor telling him that she couldn’t make it to class because she couldn’t find a babysitter. In response, Musoma, clinical assistant professor, emailed Robinson and told her to bring her son to class.
“I could not believe it,” Robinson said. “It just seemed like his plate was so full that he wouldn’t be able to handle a baby in the class, and I didn’t want to put that on him. But he told me not to worry about it and to just focus on the class.” Robinson then posted her experience on Facebook to share with her friends. By Sept. 19, the post went viral on Aggie social media. “Whenever I posted the story I was just posting my personal experience,” Robinson said. “But then everyone commented on it, people were saying from years ago when they had Musoma as a professor. It just speaks so much about his character.” Cooper Cox, construction science senior, is also a student in Musoma’s class. This is his first semester taking a class from Musoma and PROFESSOR ON PG. 4
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By Meredith McCown @mccown_meredith In early September, The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) awarded more than $9 million within eight grants to Texas A&M University for cancer research. More than $7.7 million was dedicated to academic research grants and the remaining $1.35 million towards a prevention grant. The largest amount within the total equaled
an almost $6 million grant given to Director for the Center for Advanced Imaging Michael Mancini and professor and Director of the Center for Translational Cancer Research Peter Davies, whose goal collectively aims to develop new therapies across a broad spectrum of cancers. Davies and Mancini share a leading partnership for the Center for Advanced Microscopy and Image Informatics in the Institute of Biosciences and Technology, College of Medicine. Regarding the Core Facility Support
Award (CFSA) given to Davies and Mancini, the money will support their collaborative core facility that is shared between Texas A&M University Institute of Biosciences and Technology and Baylor College of Medicine. Other institutions such as Rice University, MD Anderson and the University of Houston will have access to this facility. “The award is to support specialized core facilities to provide researchers with access to state of the art equipment and expertise to help support cancer research projects,” Davies said. “Specifically cancer research projects focused
on developing new therapies for cancer.” Davies said as of now, the main focus is to fund projects directly involved in new therapies for cancer. More specifically, cancers that are lacking in sufficient drugs. “It’s a facility to serve many, many investigations,” Davies said. “We anticipate that in any given year, 20-30 different projects will be running in the facility, in the program, supporting different aspects of cancer research for many different types of cancers.” Two years ago, A&M received a grant for RESEARCH ON PG. 4
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One of her roommates is setter Camille Conner, who said she has built a special bond with Sanders. Josh McCormack, Editor in Chief “Samantha and I have so much fun together, Mariah Colon, Life & Arts Editor Gracie Mock, Managing Editor living with each other, we’re always goofing around Cassie Stricker, Photo Editor Alexis Will, Creative Director and having fun, but when we step on that court we’re very comKaty Baldock, Social Media Editor Chris Davila, Multimedia Editor petitive and we’re there to win,” Conner said. Sarah East, Page Designer Angel Franco, Co-Sports Editor Though she has really come into her own and has established Ty Wilson, Page Designer Heath Clary, Co-Sports Editor herself at the collegiate level, it’s easy to forget that Sanders’ just Maya Hiatt, Page Designer Luke Henkhaus, News Editor Brad Morse, SciTech Editor stepped on campus a few months ago and has yet to scratch the surface of what she can achieve. 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AGGIE INJURY REPORT (Center) Trayveon Williams,(top) Otaro Alaka and (bottom) Connor Lanfear will all be available for the Southwest Classic, A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin announced Tuesday.
Football team almost back to full strength before playing Arkansas By Alex Miller @AlexMill20 Texas A&M missed the presence of several key players in last week’s game against Louisiana-Lafayette. But the Aggies are expected to be close to full-strength against Arkansas this Saturday in Arlington. Most notably, A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin confirmed at Tuesday’s press conference that sophomore running back Trayveon Williams will be available to play against the Razorbacks. Despite missing last week’s game against the Ragin’ Cajuns, Williams remains the Aggies’ leading-rusher. The emergence of running back Kendall Bussey, A&M’s second-leading rusher, gives A&M options in the backfield in terms of speed. “We know when the ball is in their hands, the ball can go for 70 on any play at any given time,” Erik McCoy, red-shirt sophomore
offensive lineman said. “We just know that we have to open up the holes for them and if we do we’ll be successful.” McCoy’s mainstay alongside him at guard, junior Connor Lanfear, also missed last Saturday’s matchup versus Lafayette. Sumlin confirmed that Lanfear will also be ready to go against the Razorbacks, likely in the O-line’s starting five. “Me and him have chemistry,” McCoy said of Lanfear. “We played every game together last year and he’s a big physical guy that knows what it takes, especially in SEC play to win games and be able to run the football.” After showing many different O-line combinations against Lafayette, including numerous freshmen, Sumlin gave insight as to how the O-line is expected to shape up on Saturday – sticking with the veterans. “You get to conference play, you’re going to have the experienced players in there to start the game,” Sumlin said. “I think what you’re going to see is that lineup of Koda [Martin], and [Colton] Prater at guard, and Erik McCoy at center, and then [Keaton]
Sutherland, Lanfear. Those are our experienced guys and they work well together.” On defense, junior linebacker Otaro Alaka went to the lockeroom against Lafayette early with a hamstring injury, but is expected to play this weekend as well. Freshman Anthony Hines filled in with Alaka out and pleased Sumlin with his play. “Alaka left the game Saturday, but I think he’s going to be fine,” Sumlin said. “Anthony being able to come in there and play weak side linebacker gives us some flexibility.” Safety Donovan Wilson remains out after suffering a foot injury in the season-opener against UCLA, giving way to senior Priest Willis coming from cornerback to the pivotal position. Willis said that while Wilson is out, he continues to mentor him from the sidelines and in practice while learning the new position. “He’s making sure I’m on point,” Willis said. “He’s giving me all the pointers of when he was there, taking me in, showing me the ways and showing me the ropes.”
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educational growth but also in their personal growth. Tomlinson said he consulted Musoma’s help for a presentation and after giving him feedback, personally contacted Tomlinson’s mom. “It meant a lot to me, because my mom is one of the most powerful influences in my life, and to take what I had presented to him, and then go directly out of his way to involve my family, meant the world to me and my mom,” Tomlinson said. From Musoma’s perspective, the whole event was a unique experience. “It was special in the nature of how it happened,” Musoma said. “I didn’t expect this. You don’t wake up one morning and expect something like this to happen.” A word Musoma mentioned was “Ubuntu,” which in Bantu language means, “I am because you are, and you are because I am.” Musoma said the spirit of generosity flows through A&M. He said he believes it is the generosity that sets Aggies apart. “[It] has manifested itself at A&M and defined my experience here, ” Musoma said. “It’s a place where people are excited about people’s dreams. Instead of being spectators, they become sponsors.” Musoma was later awarded the Mays Business School Spirit Award, on Sept. 14 by the Mays Business School Dean Eli Jones.
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$6 million to support new combination therapies for cancer. However, the recent grant will focus on imaging techniques. “It places Texas A&M as a leader in the medical center in supporting a program to develop new therapies for cancer,” Davies said. “This is actually the second of these CPRIT core facility grants to support cancer therapy that we at Texas A&M have received … and this is to help us use new imaging techniques for cancer.” Another CPRIT grant was that awarded to A&M went to professor from the Department of Chemistry and holder of the Emile and Marta Schweikart Professorship in Chemistry Wenshe Liu. He received $200,000 to fund a project aimed to expand the chemical diversity of a phage display library. This is the first grant Liu has received regarding cancer research. Currently, one of his students is working on a discovery with the SIRT2 enzyme. “We have a really good target right now,” Liu said. “It is an enzyme which can change human epigenetics … it can be a really good target for treating a cancer such as a breast cancer.” In the past, projects like this have taken five to 10 years to make about 100 molecules. However, this program will consist of two week experiments at a time producing billions of molecules.
“I think it will change the paradigm of the way of doing cancer research,” Liu said. “So a lot of people just look at one target and try to figure out how that target works and try to do rational design. We don’t do that. We make billions of small molecules and select ligands for multiple targets in a short period of time and figure out which one works better.” Similar to Mancini and Davies, Liu said translational research will pave a significant path with new discoveries. “I think it will change a lot dramatically in the chemical biology area by doing the biomedical type of research,” Liu said. “I see the university is very strong in doing biomedical research on the basic side, we haven’t done a lot of translational research, and this is really translational.” Liu said his passion for cancer research stems from personal experience. “I myself am a cancer survivor,” Liu said. “I did a lot of the basic research … but the thing is, we didn’t really move to the translational side like four or five years ago.” When lying on the hospital bed for treatment, Liu said he contemplated the things he had accomplished in his life to impact human health and decided he wanted to do more. “I want to do something that can change my life right away, which can also help other people to combat cancer too,” Liu said. “I think we will get something done really soon and will hopefully be very impactful. This is only the starting point.”