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CHS student receives Eagle Scout Award

Daniel Wafer, 17, of Corvallis received his Eagle Scout award at an Eagle Court of Honor held May 22 at Northwest Hills Community Church.

Daniel is the son of Jim and Mary Ann Wafer of Corvallis, and is a junior at Corvallis High School. He is a member of Boy Scout Troop 3, sponsored by First Baptist Church of Corvallis. His Scout Master is Brent Adams. For his Eagle Scout service project, Daniel planned and installed a drainage system for an external structure at Heartland Humane Society.

Daniel started his scouting career as a Wolf in Pack 468. In fifth grade, he earned the Arrow of Light and crossed over to Troop 3. He attended summer camps at Meriwether, Baldwin and Melita Island in Montana. Daniel helped form and train Troop 3’s Honor Guard.

OSU student wins military award

Oregon State University student Zach Ellis received the 2011 Student Leadership Medal from the Society of American Military Engineers.

A senior management and business intelligence systems of the College of Business, Ellis was recognized for its leadership positions in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program and success in revitalizing the OSU Chapter of SAME. As president of that club, Ellis has organized speakers and field trips to engage other members. He traveled to the same national conference in May, held in Texas.

Student Leadership Medal is a national award given annually to a student member who made the most outstanding contribution to the same goals for the school year. Past recipients have come from schools such as the Air Force Academy, Virginia Institute of Technology, Vanderbilt, University of Virginia and George Mason.

Auxiliary awards scholarships

The Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center Auxiliary awarded 15 2011 Virginia Welch Scholarships in the amount of $1,000 to students planning a career in the medical field in a hospital setting.

foodconsumer.org - OHSU scientists discover new role for vitamin C ...

Portland, Ore. — Nerve cells in the eye require vitamin C in order to function properly — a surprising discovery that may mean vitamin C is required elsewhere in the brain for its proper functioning, according to a study by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience. "We found that cells in the retina need to be 'bathed' in relatively high doses of vitamin C, inside and out, to function properly," said Henrique von Gersdorff, Ph.D., a senior scientist at OHSU's Vollum Institute and a co-author of the study. "Because the retina is part of the central nervous system, this suggests there's likely an important role for vitamin C throughout our brains, to a degree we had not realized before." The brain has special receptors, called GABA-type receptors, that help modulate the rapid communication between cells in the brain. GABA receptors in the brain act as an inhibitory "brake" on excitatory neurons in the brain. The OHSU researchers found that these GABA-type receptors in the retinal cells stopped functioning properly when vitamin C was removed. Because retinal cells are a kind of very accessible brain cell, it's likely that GABA receptors elsewhere in the brain also require vitamin C to function properly, von Gersdorff said. And because vitamin C is a major natural antioxidant, it may be that it essentially 'preserves' the receptors and cells from premature breakdown, von Gersdorff said. The function of vitamin C in the brain is not well understood. In fact, when the human body is deprived of vitamin C, the vitamin stays in the brain longer than anyplace else in the body. "Perhaps the brain is the last place you want to lose vitamin C," von Gersdorff said. The findings also may offer a clue as to why scurvy — which results from a severe lack of vitamin C — acts the way it does, von Gersdorff said.

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