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Nyampundu said Wil
liams had a captivating
personahty.
“If you met Nikki
one time, I promise you
will never forget Nik
ki,” Nyampundu said.
“That’s for sure.”
Ana Gonzalez, psy
chology junior and a
close friend of Emmou,
said she had a heart of
gold and a bright smile.
“She was so selfless
and supportive of not
only her friends, but
any stranger she met,”
Gonzalez said. “Even if
she had only met some
one once, the next time
she saw them she made
them feel like they’d
known each other for
ever. ”
Gonzalez said Em
mou was one of the
most dependable friends
she had.
“She helped me
through my toughest
times even when she was
going through tough
times herself,” Gonzalez
said. “And even when
you were about ready
to give up, she gave
you that extra push to
the light that made you
think to yourself ‘I can
do this, not just because
of my own strength or
God, but because I have
a friend that will be right
next to me every step of
the way.’ That friend
was Alexis. She is an
angel that everyone will
remember forever. ”
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condition and Corinthia "Nikki" Williams and Alexis
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car crash.
Allied health freshman Ronak Noorani washes one of the SCDMS
detectors.
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“For example if I try to pass my hand
through the wall, I can’t do it because
there is electromagnetic interaction
between the two. However, if I send
a gamma particle at the wall, it will
pass right through, because it doesn’t
interact very strongly with the wall,”
Mahapatra said.
Because of this property, dark mat
ter is extremely difficult to understand,
and expensive to research. There are
two dark matter projects in the United
States, and Texas A&M plays a major
role in one of them.
SCDMS includes roughly a dozen
universities, but only Texas A&M and
Stanford make detectors that — in
theory — will detect dark matter for
the first time. These detectors need
to be extremely sensitive, said Nader
Mirabolfathi, a physicist at A&M in
volved in the experiment. He said
they need to be sensitive enough to
detect energy well under one billion
times less than a mosquito landing on
a person’s skin.
Mahapatra said the detectors use
crystals made of germanium and sili
con that, theoretically, will vibrate
when hit by a dark matter particle.
The small amount of energy impart
ed by the collision will cause a tiny
change in temperature, eventually no
tifying the team that a particle passed
through.
“These sensors can detect very
slight vibrations as a change in temper
ature as small as a few micro-Kelvins,”
Mahapatra said.
The crystals are expensive, and
when all the costs are added up to
make one of the detectors, the result
is a price tag of roughly half a million
dollars.
“These detectors are truly the best
in the world,” Mahapatra said.
The unheard of sensitivity of the
detectors, while necessary, presents
a challenge to the experiment — it
can detect miniscule events that could
throw the experiment off.
“Our detectors are so sensitive, that
things that would not be background
[noise] for other experiments are back
ground for us,” Mirabolfathi said.
Due to this, the current experiment
is conducted in Soudan Underground
Laboratory in Minnesota, to block these
“background” cosmic rays from inter
fering with the detectors, but eventually
will move to a facility called SNOLAB
in Sudbury, Canada. At the new loca
tion, the detectors will be two kilome
ters underground. The aim of this is
to keep nearly all unwanted rays away
from the detectors.
There will be a total of about 60 ki
lograms of detectors, with each detector
containing about 1.5 kilograms of Ger
manium and 0.6 kilograms of Silicon.
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valuable, significant time is put into
making sure that they work correctly,
but at the current pace, the SNOLAB
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“I’m pretty strong in my faith, and so
to be honest I just felt called to go,”
Brewer said. “I just felt that I needed to
be able to do something. I understand
there’s a lot of people that really want
to do something, that want to go, they
just may not have the opportunity,
they may have families or commit
ments here in the United States, and
so with me being a graduating senior
in college I thought this may be a good
time to go.”
Brewer will be attending the Texas
A&M College of Medicine in the fall
and has worked as an EMT in addition
to his medical work in Haiti. Brewer
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said his team will be focusing on disease
prevention and treatment.
“The biggest thing that’s going
to start occurring in the next couple
of weeks is widespread epidemics,”
Brewer said. “We’re going to have a
cholera outbreak, a lot of tropical dis
eases coming in. I don’t really know
the incidence right now of typhus and
yellow fever down there, but we’re
expecting a lot of viral and bacterial-
borne infections, and so that’s really
what my team’s going to be concen
trating on.”
Brewer said one of the biggest dis
eases that is affecting Nepalese citizens
right now is cholera.
“There’s a big incidence of cholera
right now going on over there, we’ve
already had over 1,200 cases going into
the hospital,” Brewer said. “It’s a big
waterborne illness and so that’s really
what I’m hoping to focus on is just kind
of prevention of those diseases.”
While this is not Brewer’s first
medical mission, this will be the earli
est he’s responded to a disaster situa
tion, arriving only one month after the
earthquake on May 27. Because of this,
Brewer said he is feeling some degree
of nervousness.
“I was in Haiti a year post-earth
quake there, but going to Nepal one
month post-earthquake ... We have
team members on the ground and
they’re sending us updates and it’s go
ing to be a whole different world,”
Brewer said. “There’s a lot of chaos
down there — not really a whole lot
of stmcture, organization, the govern
ment can’t really bring in a lot of ma
terials right now, they can’t even land
large jets at the airport — and so it’s
going to be hectic.”
But more than nerves. Brewer is
anxious to be able to help.
“I’m a litde bit nervous for that, but
in the same sense, I love this,” Brewer
said. “I love doing this kind of work,
this is my passion, this is what I want to
do as my career and so I just absolutely
love this style of work and I feel semi-
comfortable being on a team.”
To many, the numbers of injured
and dead may seem daunting and insur
mountable. But Brewer said he is con
fident his help will be able to make a
difference, even if it’s on a minor scale.
“One thing I’ve learned is that if you
can make a difference in one person’s
life, to me, that’s worth it,” Brewer
said. “That’s made the entire trip worth
it. I mean, seeing, we’ve had patients
in Haiti that have come with diseases
and things like that, and being able to
see them be able to go back to their
families ... at the end of the day you
know that you were able to make a dif
ference in that one person’s life, that
makes all the work, all the sacrifice, all
the sweating, all the cold — it makes it
all worth it.”
Brewer urges anyone who can do
nate to do so, and suggests donating to
established rehef organizations, includ
ing the organization with which he is
going to Nepal, International Medical
Relief. People who are interested can
donate at intemationalmedicalrelief.
org.