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April 2, 2009 Vol. 28, No. 17

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Rotation is key to understanding volcanic plumes

By James E. Kloeppel Physical Sciences Editor

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200-year-old report by a sea captain and a stunning photograph of the 2008 eruption of Mount Chaiten are helping scientists at the UI better understand strong volcanic plumes.

In a paper in the March 26 issue of the journal Nature, the scientists show that the spontaneous formation of a “volcanic mesocyclone” – a cyclonically rotating columnar vortex – causes the volcanic plume to rotate about its axis. The rotation, in turn, triggers a sheath of lightning and creates waterspouts or dust devils. The origins of these volcanic phenomena were previously unexplained.

“Rotation is an essential element of a strong volcanic plume,” said Pinaki Chakraborty, a postdoctoral researcher and the paper’s lead author. “By taking into account the rotation, we can better predict the effects of volcanic eruptions.”

In 2008, a photograph of the Mount Chaiten eruption in southern Chile showed what appeared to be a volcanic plume wrapped in a sheath of lightning. A search for references to other occurrences of lightning sheaths led Chakraborty, mechanical science and engineering professor Gustavo Gioia and geology professor Susan W. Kieffer to an obscure paper by a sea captain, published in 1811.

In that paper, the sea captain reported his observations of a volcanic vent that emerged from the sea in the Azores archipelago and formed a large volcanic plume.

According to the captain, the plume rotated on the water “like an (sic) horizontal wheel” and was accompanied by continuous “flashes of lightning” and a “quantity of waterspouts.”

This conjunction of rotation, lightning and

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Volcanic plume In 2008, the Mount Chaiten eruption in southern Chile showed what appeared to be a volcanic plume

wrapped in a sheath of lightning. This photo and a 200-year-old report by a sea captain are helping scientists at the UI better understand strong volcanic plumes.

waterspouts (or dust devils on land) is characteristic of a familiar meteorological phenomenon seemingly unrelated to volcanic plumes: a tornadic thunderstorm.

The same process that creates a mesocyclone in a tornadic thunderstorm also

creates a volcanic mesocyclone in a strong volcanic plume, Chakraborty said. “What happens in tornadic thunderstorms is analogous to what happens in strong volcanic plumes.”

A strong volcanic plume consists of a

vertical column of hot gases and dust topped with a horizontal “umbrella.” A volcanic mesocyclone sets the entire plume rotating about its axis. The mesocyclone spawns waterspouts or dust devils, and groups the SEE PLUMES, PAGE 8

Governor’s budget proposal includes more for higher education

By Sharita Forrest Assistant Editor

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he fiscal year 2010 budget proposed by Gov. Pat Quinn on March 18 was welcome news for officials at the UI and other public universities. Quinn proposed an increase in funding for higher education next fiscal year rather than the decrease that many people were expecting because of the state’s multibillion-dollar deficit.

Quinn’s FY10 budget proposal contained a 1.1 percent, or $16 million, increase in state general funds appropriations for all public universities – or a $7.8 million increase for the UI. The proposed budget would increase the university’s total general operating fund to $751 million and restore the 2.5 percent rescission the university received during the current fiscal year.

If Quinn’s budget is approved by lawmakers, the UI would receive capital funds for the first time in nearly a decade. Statewide, Quinn proposed $920 million for higher education capital projects, including $57.3 million to renovate Lincoln Hall, $20.03 million for construction of the Post Harvest Crop Processing and Research Laboratory, and $44.52 million

for constructing the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building at Urbana.

Another $60 million for construction of the Petascale Computing Facility at the Urbana campus was included in the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s budget.

Statewide, Quinn budgeted $40.9 million for repairs and renovations at colleges and universities, with $21 million of those funds slated for the UI. The proposed increases for higher education, capital projects and economic development programs throughout the state would be funded through increases in individual and corporate income taxes.

To help close an estimated $11.6 billion gap in the General Fund, Quinn recommended that state employees be required to take four furlough days, a measure he said would save the state $36 million. Workers who provide direct patient care or protect public safety would be exempt.

In a joint statement, UI President B. Joseph White and Niranjan Shah, chairman of the UI Board of Trustees, wrote that the proposed increase would reduce

pressure to raise tuition on incoming students and help the university address its deferred maintenance needs.

“Gov. Quinn’s proposed reforms and ‘belt tightening’ measures reinforce for us at the UI that we must be good stewards of the resources that the state provides,” White and Shah wrote. “We have in the past and will continue to routinely re-examine our

spending priorities and take steps necessary to maximize the level of resources supporting our core missions of educating students and creating new knowledge.

“State support is essential for the UI to provide a high-quality, accessible college education for the people of our state, and we look forward to working with students, SEE BUDGET, PAGE 8

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April 2, 2009

Senate task force to propose new structure for Global Campus

By Sharita Forrest Assistant Editor

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task force has been assembled to propose an alternative structure for the Global Campus online degree program, one of three possibilities for the future of Global Campus that President B. Joseph White will present to the UI Board of Trustees at its May meeting in Chicago.

In addition to reconfiguring Global Campus, White and the trustees will consider the possibilities of forging ahead with Global Campus in its present form or shutting it down.

The online degree program began in October 2007 and opened for classes in January 2008. It has 366 students in five degree programs and four certificate programs, with enrollment projected to reach 450 by May. Four more programs are being developed and expected to go to the trustees for approval in May, with classes to start in September, and enrollment projected to increase to 700 if those programs are begun.

Nicholas Burbules, chair of the Senate Executive Committee, is chairing the sixmember group drafting a proposed alternative structure for Global Campus. Burbules

told the Urbana-Champaign Senate at the senate’s March 30 meeting that as the group develops its proposal, it is drawing upon the expertise of specialists in online education inside and outside the university.

“Our goal in drafting this alternative is the following: to still serve the mission that the president rightly laid out of expanding access to affordable higher education opportunities through the development of online programs, but we believe it is possible to do this at a lower cost with a better fit with the culture of our university, with a broader base of support among faculty and administrators across all three of our campuses,” Burbules said. “I can’t really give you a lot of details about it, but I can tell you that the proposed alternative would not be an accredited entity and would not be giving out degrees or running programs itself.

“It’s very important to us that what we propose has as strong as possible a basis of faculty support, and we’re convinced that without this broad basis of faculty support this larger initiative cannot succeed.”

The task force, which comprises members from all three campuses, is to submit a final proposal to White by April 15. Bur-

bules said the task force also will submit the proposal to the University Senates Conference, which may share it with the campus senates or their executive committees.

Later in the meeting, the senate approved a proposal from the Educational Policy Committee that any degrees awarded by the Global Campus outside the partnership agreement of 2007 not bear the names of the Urbana campus or the Urbana-Champaign Senate.

Senators debated and amended, but ultimately returned to the Senate Executive Committee for further deliberation, a resolution on faculty commitments outside the Urbana-Champaign campus that said that faculty “should first focus on initiating and improving our own campus programs before considering commitments to entities outside our campus.”

During discussion, the senate agreed to amend the resolution to read “before considering commitments to university entities outside our campus.” The resolution was further amended to specify that “all agreements for such commitments must be cleared and approved by the appropriate administrators at the unit, college and campus

levels.”

Several senators, including Doug McDonald, chemistry, were concerned that the resolution was too broad and “unless it is modified, it gives carte blanche to administration to stop faculty members from doing any outside activities,” McDonald said.

Senators also passed a proposal that expanded the number of student members on the Committee on Student Discipline from four to six. William Maher, chair of the University Statutes and Senate Procedures Committee, told the senate that students wanted more representation on the committee, which also contains nine faculty members and the vice chancellor for student affairs.

The senate convened as a Committee of the Whole to view and discuss a presentation on dissertation deposits and publishing of them by ProQuest UMI that was given

by Rebecca Bryant, assistant dean of the Graduate College.

Other business considered by the senate and streaming video of senate meetings are available on the Web. u

On the Web: senate.illinois.edu

By Phil Ciciora News Editor

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wo UI faculty members, Martin D. Burke, a professor of chemistry, and Maria Spies, a professor of biochemistry, have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute early career scientists.

Burke and Spies are among 50 scientists chosen from a national competition of more than 2,000 applicants to identify the best biomedical researchers and provide them with flexible funding to develop scientific programs of exceptional merit. HHMI sought scientists in all areas of basic biological and biomedical research, and in areas of chemistry, physics, computer science and engineering that are directly related to biology or medicine.

The award allows “promising scientists to pursue their best ideas during this early stage of their careers,” said Thomas R. Cech, the president of the institute.

The Maryland-based institute is a private philanthropy dedicated to supporting biomedical research and science education in the United States.

Each early career scientist is awarded his or her full salary, benefits and a research budget of $1.5 million over the six-year appointment. The institute also will cover other expenses, including research space and the purchase of critical equipment, allowing the researchers to devote their time and energy to making discoveries in the laboratory and mentoring the next generation of scientists.

Burke excels at creating ways to generate diverse chemical compounds, including “small molecules that can imitate proteins that malfunction in diseases,” the institute said.

Burke calls the compounds “molecular prosthetics” because he hopes they may be able to help a person compensate for missing or dysfunctional proteins, much like a prosthetic limb can substitute for one lost to injury or disease. Burke believes such a chemical prosthesis could be the prototype for treating a number of diseases caused by protein deficiencies, including cystic fibrosis.

“The department of chemistry is very proud of Marty’s selection as an HHMI early career scientist,” Illinois chemistry department head Steven C. Zimmerman said.

“He offers a rare combination of talents.

He has demonstrated considerable skill as a synthetic organic chemist, having developed powerful new methods for preparing complex natural products and their analogs.

At the same time, thanks to his training as a medical doctor, he is driven to find new therapeutic approaches to disease that harness his synthetic skills but with an eye toward what is likely to be best for the patient.”

As an HHMI early career scientist, Spies will investigate what happens when DNA helicases, the molecular motors that drive DNA repair mechanisms, “find problem locations in the genome where their activity is needed,” HHMI officials said in announcing the award. According to the institute, Spies’ research is particularly promising because helicases are thought to be involved in breast and ovarian cancer, premature aging, stunted growth and ultra-sensitivity to sunlight.

“Dr. Spies’ selection as an HHMI early career scientist is a wonderful and welldeserved recognition of her current and potential contributions to this area,” said professor of biochemistry and department head Colin A. Wraight. “She has done a fabulous job at setting up her independent research program at Illinois, and her work on several helicases, and on mediator proteins of homologous recombination – a key element of high fidelity DNA repair – has already drawn a lot of attention. Maria’s research is an elegant combination of classical and single-molecule biochemistry, and has im-

portant implications for basic science and medical understanding.”

“These scientists are at the early stage of their careers, when they are full of energy and not afraid to try something new,” said Jack Dixon, vice president and chief scientific officer of the institute. “They have already demonstrated that they are not apt to play it safe – and we hope they will continue Martin D. Burke to do something really original.”

Four other UI faculty members have received HHMI awards. Chemistry professor Yi Lu was named an HHMI professor in 2002; physics professor Taekjip Ha became an HHMI investigator in 2005; and cell and developmental biology professor Phillip A. Newmark and chemistry professor Wilfred A. van der Donk were named HHMI inves-

deaths Thelma Irene Barkley, 76, died March 28 at her Tolono home. Barkley worked at McKinley Health Center for 14 years, retiring in 1995 as a clerk III. Ralph H. Geeseman, 67, died March 25 at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield. Geeseman worked at the UI for 29 years, retiring in 1998 as a research programmer in the department of kinesiology. Memorials: ALS Association or MDS Foundation.

Jack Kenneth Goodner, 75, died March 27 at the Veterans Affairs Illiana Health Care System, Danville. Goodner worked at the UI for six years, retiring in 1997 as a building service worker in Facilities and Services. Memorials: Alzheimer’s Unit at the vet-

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eran’s hospital, American Legion Post #210 or the Vermilion County War Museum.

Donald Frederick Hansens, 73, died March 27 at Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. Hansens worked for F&S for 33 years, retiring in 1996 as a locksmith foreman. Memorials: St. Matthew Catholic Church, 1303 Lincolnshire Drive, Champaign, IL 61822.

Thomas Woodley, 82, died March 15 at Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana.

Woodley was a professor of military science, retiring in 1975. He then taught general engineering until his second retirement in 1994. Memorials: St. Matthew’s Endowment Fund.

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Two professors honored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Maria Spies tigators in 2008. The Urbana campus has received numerous educational grants from the institute, beginning in 1993.

Burke and Spies will begin their six-year, non-renewable appointments to HHMI in September 2009. u

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Memorial service

A visitation for Leroy Louis Dreyer will be from 3 to 9 p.m. April 2 at Kutis Funeral Home, 10151 Gravois Road, Affton, Mo. A chapel service will begin at 11:30 a.m.

April 3 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, 2900 Sheridan Road, St. Louis. Dreyer, 83, died March 18 in Stockton, Calif. From 1952 to 1968, he worked in the Biophysics Lab and the Gaseous Electronics Lab as an electronics engineer; from 1968 until 1971, he worked in the Center for Electron Microscopy as an EM engineer/instructor.

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April 2, 2009

On the Job Mike Kobel

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Mike Kobel, crash rescue specialist coordinator at Willard Airport, has worked in emergency services for more than 20 years. Born and raised in Champaign, Kobel is a graduate of Central High School. He has a degree in automotive mechanics from Parkland College and became interested in emergency services after working at a farm equipment dealership as a mechanic. After considering what would happen if someone was hurt while working, Kobel was prompted to take a rescue technician and EMT class at Parkland. Since then, Kobel has obtained three other degrees from Parkland in fire service technology and from Eastern Illinois University and Southern Illinois University in fire service administration.

After working as fire chief of the Eastern Prairie Fire Department for six years, Kobel started working at Willard Airport in August 1994.

Tell me about your job.

As a crash rescue specialist coordinator at Willard Airport, I oversee a 12-hour shift of myself and another firefighter. We are trained in fire protection and rescue in the event of an aircraft accident. We also are trained to provide CPR and EMS to individuals at the airport who may need it. Customer service also is a large part of our job, so if someone accidentally locks their keys in their car or their car needs a jump start, we will help them with that. We wear a lot of different hats.

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Each of us must know the aircraft that are housed at the airport or those that have landed. We have gone through intense training to know the different systems on board each craft so that in the event of an accident we can respond to passenger needs effectively.

What’s your typical day look like?

Every day is different, but every morning I come in and touch base with whoever was on duty before me as well as with the fire marshal to see what events took place the night before. Sometimes we provide fire extinguisher training sessions during the day for students at the aviation school. Sometimes we will receive emergency calls from incoming aircraft that have smoke in the cabin or electrical or landing gear problems so we will get in our trucks and respond.

Although nine out of 10 times the landing gear will come down on a plane, you have to be there because you never know what may happen.

Throughout the day we are like a traditional fire department though. There are plenty of housekeeping duties that need to be done and those keep us pretty busy. We have six vehicles that we use so we spend time checking and running them to make sure they’re ready to go when we need them. And always, there’s training.

What do you like most about your job?

Something new and different happens every day. There’s nothing like stepping out onto a ramp and seeing an F-16 take off. I love planes and it keeps my job from getting stale. My favorite day was when former President Clinton’s plane got stuck in the mud after going off the runway. Even though I didn’t get to meet him, I did get to clean the mud off of his plane. Not everyone can say that they’ve done that.

Have you been able to meet any famous people?

Oh sure. I’ve met Jay Leno, Rod Blagojevich, Richard Petty, Mike Ditka and Bill Cosby. I remember asking Bill Cosby how his show at Assembly Hall went. He said, ‘Terrible, terrible … they wanted to run me out of town.’ I told him ‘Keep trying, you’ll get it right.’ He laughed and shook my hand. I’m hoping that one of these days I’ll get to meet President Obama since he (has ties to) Illinois.

What do you like to do off the job?

This will be my 11th year as a Champaign County Freedom Celebration member and I was recently appointed to the Champaign County Fair board. Right now we are in the middle of organizing Fire Apparatus Extravaganza, which will be a fire truck show with hands-on activities for families at the fair this summer.

When I get some time I’d love to race my stock car again. I am part of the fire safety team at Chicagoland Motor Speedway, which is awesome. My buddies at the track and I have driven the Richard Petty Driving Experience Cars, and I’ve even gotten my dad to ride in one. It’s a real hoot.

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April 2, 2009

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ix academic professionals received the 2009 Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence award at an April 1 campus reception. Now in its 21st year, the program honors contributions made by academic professionals on campus. Recipients are chosen for excellence in their work, personal and professional contributions to their fields, and the positive impact they have on colleagues, students and the public. Each award winner receives $2,000 – a $1,000 increase in base salary and a $1,000 one-time budget increase for their department.

The CAPE recipients and a summary of their expertise, according to the nominating documentation: Eric Adee, principal research specialist for the department of crop sciences and superintendent of the Northwestern Illinois Agricultural Research and Demonstration Center in Monmouth, has worked to initiate and execute relevant, applicable and creative research on problems of importance to crop producers for the past 13 years.

As superintendent of the center, Adee’s primary responsibility is to keep the center running smoothly while at the same time making improvements in equipment and working with a number of campus-based researchers, each with his or her demands and priorities. Adee handles his work with great skill and dedication, and his center is run with fewer errors than any other center in Illinois.

Adee collaborates with other faculty and staff colleagues in research, and also initiates his own research and Extension programs. He has many contacts with farmers, Extension professionals, industry representatives and the general public through monthly newsletters, newspaper columns and personal contact.

“Adee has clearly demonstrated his ability to manage a sizeable research operation; to cooperate with other staff both as a provider of physical facilities as well as carrying a significant part of the scientific responsibilities of several projects; to conduct independent research; to actively publicize the activities of the center; and to educate the clientele,” said Robert Hoeft, head of the department of crop sciences. “Adee is a conscientious scientist who insists on quality work on all projects at the center, whether they are being conducted as a part of his own program or for other staff.”

In the years Adee has been superintendent of the research center, the field area in research has increased from less than 60 to more than 75 acres, and the number of research trials has nearly doubled – from 25 to 45.

Adee has worked at the center since 1995 and was promoted to principal research specialist in 2002. vvv

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Six academic professionals honored with CAPE award

Karen Chan Eric Adee Alison Ahlgren, coordinator of quantitative reasoning courses in the department of mathematics since 2003, is responsible for ensuring the success of more than 25 classes each year and the teaching assistants who teach them. Ahlgren also is the coordinator of the math placement program through the Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces. Ahlgren helps about 7,000 freshmen navigate through a new electronic math placement exam.

As coordinator of quantitative reasoning courses, Ahlgren inherited Math 124, Finite Mathematics, and Math 181, A Mathematical World, which had not been revised in many years. Ahlgren initiated a complete redesign of the Math 181 course that caused it to surge in popularity among the students who take it and the teaching assistants who teach it.

Ahlgren oversees approximately 25 teaching assistants per year, serving as their mentor, advising them on teaching methods and visiting their classes several times each semester.

Ahlgren’s crowning achievement, one that is now bringing national acclaim to the UI, lies with a different innovation: her work

with a software assessment and remediation tool called Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces. ALEKS is a Web-based tool designed around sound mathematical theory and artificial intelligence principles.

An ALEKS assessment poses mathematical questions to the student, and based upon the answers given to the questions, poses additional questions, probing and honing in on the student’s knowledge. The results of an assessment inform the student of areas of strength and weakness and provide an overall assessment score.

Ahlgren, who has been using ALEKS to develop a new math placement exam for the UI, has always viewed proper placement of incoming students as a high priority, and after finding ALEKS she found a way to provide effective placement on a large scale. vvv Rick Atterberry, known as a “jack of all trades and a master of many,” is the team leader for Marketing and Distribution Services (within Information Technology and Communication Services in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences), a media communications specialist for statewide Extension programs

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Ruth McCauley and a marketing specialist for UI Extension’s East-Central region.

As MDS team leader, Atterberry manages the publications-distribution operation for the college and Extension. The agricultural services warehouse operation fulfills thousands of orders for educational materials each year, and Atterberry supervises the personnel, manages the budget and is responsible for managing an aging facility that needs frequent attention.

As media communications specialist for statewide Extension programs, Atterberry has developed a statewide and national reputation as someone who can make connections and get things done. He previously spent most of his time on organizational marketing concerns, but in the last few years his duties have evolved in a new direction.

At the state level, Atterberry represents Extension on the Governor’s Long-Term Flood Recovery Strategy Task Force. He coordinated Extension’s response to four federally declared flood disasters in Illinois in 2008.

The director of Extension in Illinois SEE CAPES, PAGE 5

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April 2, 2009 CAPES, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 nominated Atterberry to serve as the state’s representative to the national Extension Disaster Education Network, a federation of land-grant universities associated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In that capacity he serves as chair of the Information Clearinghouse Committee, is incoming secretary of the group, and is a member of the network’s executive committee.

In the 23 counties that make up the Extension’s East-Central region, Atterberry’s official title is communications and marketing specialist. Unofficially, he is part teacher, part consultant. He spends much of his time working with local Extension staff members on issues involving institutional identity, copyright, public relations, program marketing, the Open Meetings Act and production of newsletters and news releases. vvv Karen Chan, Extension educator in consumer and family economics, provides financial education to the public, seeking ways to meet the needs of the Chicago metropolitan area through a train-the-trainer approach that extends her reach beyond the number of participants she can teach directly.

The “All My Money” program is a prime example of Chan’s work. She led a team of five other educators in the research, testing and development of a train-the-trainer program for staff members and volunteers of agencies serving limited-resource clients.

Since 1998, Chan has personally trained more than 600 staff members from more than 280 community groups, social service agencies and banks on how to use “All My Money” with their clientele.

Chan consistently is among the top educators in the number of workshops delivered each year, delivering more than 100 workshops annually that reach 2,100 to 2,500 people. During her career, Chan has taught more than 25,000 people directly.

Fellow educators have adopted many

workshops that Chan has developed and delivered. She has developed teaching guides and trained other team members so that these programs are now available statewide. In response to budget cuts and reduced teaching staff, Chan initiated the use of distance-learning technology that allows Extension offices across the state to offer her “Who Gets the Money?” workshop.

Her team of educators recently adopted that model as a way of making programming in their subject area available to all Extension offices statewide on a monthly basis.

Chan has worked with many other agencies and organizations to further the reach of Extension. Those partnerships have resulted in greater recognition for Extension and increased opportunities for educating the public. She represents Extension in planning for the Federal Reserve Bank’s annual Money Smart Week in Chicago. She worked closely with the FDIC’s Chicago office to develop the train-the-trainer program and the national launch of their Money Smart program in Chinatown and the Spanish-speaking community of Pilsen in Chicago. vvv Hank Kaczmarski, director of the Integrated Systems Laboratory at the Beckman Institute for eight years, creates and maintains unique virtual reality environments that are used for teaching, research and public outreach activities. Kaczmarski supervises lab employees and manages the students and researchers who use the various ISL facilities.

The laboratory creates and manages facilities to advance scientific understanding of human-computer interactions. Its primary mission is to support the integration of advanced technologies so that researchers can conduct experiments in human multi-modal perception and cognition. The ISL facilities also provide teaching and performance support to faculty members across campus.

As director of the laboratory, Kaczmarski

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supports and participates in faculty members’ research projects, assists in the recruitment of faculty members and students to the Beckman Institute and the campus, participates in public service activities affecting both the local community and other communities.

Kaczmarski also works to make ISL facilities available for classes and special projects, such as the Cube and CAVE environments that faculty member George Francis uses to teach advanced mathematical concepts to his students.

Kaczmarski introduces new faculty members to the modeling and visualization capabilities of ISL and works with them to develop research projects. Two recent examples include a virtual surgery and an empathy research project. In both cases, Kaczmarski identified the appropriate faculty members to participate on the research teams and also became an active member of the research team.

“The Beckman Institute is in the process of a substantial upgrade, and the move of all of the virtual reality simulation facilities managed by Hank and has been a substantial undertaking that will, by the end of this year, further advance the research facilities for the university and our collaborations throughout the world,” said Arthur Kramer, professor of psychology and of neuroscience. “Without Hank’s dedication and tireless efforts, this upgrade and move of facilities would not have been as successful as it has been. Hank has done this while also supporting all of the research projects that he and ISL have in their ever increasing portfolio.” vvv Ruth McCauley, associate dean of students, plays a critical role in providing care to students through the Emergency Dean and Student Assistance Programs in a variety of ways. She helps students find housing in a pinch, locates students in the event

of family emergencies, and helps arrange appropriate interventions for students who may be at risk.

The programs have seen a significant increase in usage over the past several years as the undergraduate population has grown and the service expectations from parents have increased. McCauley has elevated the Emergency Dean program to a new level of professionalism and care since she started in 1994.

McCauley has strengthened the UI’s relationship with health-care providers and is respected by those who serve in local emergency rooms, and in area police and fire departments. She has worked with her staff to develop protocols for students in crisis and created numerous response teams.

Additionally, McCauley represents the UI by serving on a variety of community groups, including the Religious Workers Association of Champaign-Urbana and the Champaign Liquor Commission. Her impact with the Religious Workers Association is significant in that she has been asked to address numerous religious groups and her interaction with students at these important events gives the campus a personal face and makes the students aware that they are valued members of the UI community.

She also contributes to the community by volunteering with Illinois Radio Reader each week.

“As associate dean of students, Ruth displays a sensitivity to student concerns that is without comparison,” said Ken Ballom, associate vice chancellor and dean of students. “She demonstrates an exceptional proficiency in communication, problem solving, creativity, budget management, strategic planning, managing details and coordinating diverse groups while also serving as the staff member who keeps the office motivated by recognizing staff accomplishments and celebrating their successes.” u

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Social skills, extra activities in high school pay off later

By Phil Ciciora News Editor

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t turns out that being voted “Most likely to succeed” in high school might actually be a good predictor of one’s financial and educational success later in life.

According to a UI professor who studies the sociology of education, high school sophomores who were rated by their teachers as having good social skills and work habits, and who participated in extracurricular activities in high school, made more money and completed higher levels of education 10 years later than their classmates who had similar standardized test scores but were less socially adroit and participated in fewer extracurricular activities.

Christy Lleras, a professor of human and community development, says that “soft skills” such as sociability, punctuality, conscientiousness and an ability to get along well with others, along with participation in extracurricular activities, are better predictors of earnings and higher educational achievement later in life than having good grades and high standardized test scores.

“That’s not to say that academic achievement in high school doesn’t matter – it does,” Lleras said. “But if we only look at standardized test scores, we’re only considering part of the equation for success as an adult in a global marketplace. Academic achievement is part of the story, but it’s not the whole story. You’ve got to have the social skills and work habits to back those achievements up.”

With the generational shift from a manufacturing-based economy to a service- and information-based one, employers value workers who can not only boast about their GPAs and SAT scores, but are also able to get along well with the public and co-workers, Lleras said.

“I think we’ve known this intuitively for a long time that employers are looking for

something beyond cognitive skills,” Lleras said. “Leadership now is not an individual thing, it’s how well you get along in a team and get people organized.”

But thanks to the strict accountability measures of the No Child Left Behind law, struggling schools are increasingly cutting the extracurricular programs and activities that foster soft skills in order to focus almost exclusively on achieving adequate yearly progress on state-mandated standardized tests, Lleras said.

Consequently, low-achieving schools are put in a bind: Measure up, or lose funding. Either way, it’s a zero-sum game for students, Lleras said.

“There’s this pervasive idea that if we just teach and test the basic skills, students are going to do much better in school and in life,” she said. “It would be great if we could just snap our fingers and tomorrow everyone could read, write and do math at grade-level. But an obsession with testing and routinized thinking doesn’t foster the non-cognitive soft skills that pay off as an adult.”

Inadequate funding for education also has meant that many schools are not able to reduce class sizes or hire more qualified teachers, two important factors for “creating the academic and social environment that foster these kinds of soft skills in schools,” Lleras said.

“In addition to testing, what high-performing schools do really well is provide the kinds of opportunities through extracurricular activities, rigorous course work and high-quality teachers that help create good citizens and good workers and foster the kinds of work habits, behaviors and attitudes that we know employers value,” she said.

If high-stakes testing is the only remedy for low-performing schools, Lleras said, “then we may fail to help those students develop the soft skills they need to success-

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Ironically, the original version of the No Child Left Behind law had a behavioral component.

“NCLB did have this notion that there are other things going on in education besides testing, but it was grossly underfunded and targeted drug, alcohol, tobacco and violence prevention activities,” she said.

Lleras sees access to highperforming schools not only as an educational issue, but also as a social justice issue.

In the course of her research, she discovered that participation in fine arts programs was associated with “significantly higher earnings” for African-American and Hispanic students 10 years later, yet those students often attended photo by L. Brian Stauffer schools with fewer opportuniSkills for success Christy Lleras, a professor of ties for fine arts participation. human and community development, says that “soft The same measure had little skills” are better predictors of earnings and higher effect on the earning power educational achievement later in life than having good of white students. grades and high standardized test scores.

If we care about those low-achieving schools and their effect on velop the skills, habits and knowledge we students, it’s imperative for schools and know employers are going to reward.” educators to go beyond No Child Left BeSo what can parents take away from her hind, which is “only about testing,” Lleras research? said.

“I think that incentives are very impor“Most of our students don’t go on to col- tant, particularly for adolescents,” Lleras lege, and our young adults today are enter- said. “Teens need to see that their efforts in ing a workforce that’s very different from high school matter and will eventually pay what it was 30 years ago,” Lleras said. “It’s off. This gives parents evidence they can a very tenuous, volatile market, especially use to talk to their kids about the imporfor workers with a high school education or tance of working hard, getting along with less, and our schools are failing students by others and participating in extracurricular not providing enough opportunities to de- activities.” u

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TV news on organ donation says little about how to sign up

By Craig Chamberlain Social Sciences Editor

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ore than 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for an organ transplant, and an average of 17 die waiting each day, according to UI communication professor Brian Quick.

But you’ll rarely hear those facts in organ donation stories on TV network news, says Quick, the lead author of a study recently published in the journal Health Communication.

You’ll also rarely hear about the simple steps required to become a potential donor, he said.

said it was difficult to know what programs or specific broadcasts from any of the three networks might have transcripts missing from the database.)

Three students were trained as research coders to analyze the organ donation stories, once they were identified.

Over the period studied, the researchers found 1,507 stories involving organ donation, or about 100 a year, a number they labeled as “modest coverage.”

Of the 201 stories that mentioned health outcomes for living organ donors, 189 (or 94 percent) were positive, compared with 12

“You’ve got to communicate the need (for organ donation) before people are going to be motivated to become potential donors, and then they have to know how.”

–Brian Quick “We found that the networks didn’t spend a whole lot of time talking about the need, and they didn’t spend a lot of time talking about how to register,” Quick said.

Quick and his co-authors on the study drew from ABC, CBS and NBC news transcripts that were available through the LexisNexis media database, covering the period 1990 to 2005. The transcripts came from dozens of different news programs, including morning, evening and magazine shows.

(NBC transcripts were not available from LexisNexis for broadcasts before 1995, and Quick

stories about unsuccessful donor outcomes. Of the 755 stories that mentioned health outcomes for organ recipients, 617 (81.7 percent) were positive, compared to 138 about negative outcomes.

Less than 15 percent of all stories, however, noted the large number of people waiting for an organ, and most illustrated that need through narrative rather than statistics, Quick said. Less than 5 percent of stories specified the number of individuals who die waiting for an organ transplant.

Also, less than 10 percent of stories indicated how to become a potential donor: by signing a donor card, talking to one’s fam-

ily, signing the back of a driver’s license, or registering through a Web site.

These numbers are a concern, Quick said, because “you’ve got to communicate the need before people are going to be motivated to become potential donors, and then they have to know how.”

Quick said he was motivated to research the topic – and sign up early as a potential donor himself – based in large part on his own experience. “I’ve been on the receiving end twice,” he said, since his father has received transplants of both a kidney and pancreas, the first coming while Quick was still in high school.

Even though he’s experienced the benefits, however, he understands why many are hesitant to discuss the topic with family or to register as potential donors. To sign up as a potential donor means contemplating your own death, as well as concerns about disfigurement, he said.

The results of the TV news study have implications for those advocating organ donation and designing campaigns to promote it, Quick said.

The results are especially important, he said, because research suggests that TV is the primary source of information about organ donation. Research also shows that entertainment programs, such as medical shows in search of a compelling storyline, often reinforce common “fears and myths” about organ donation, he said.

“The news has a good opportunity to communicate the facts,”

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Quick said. “We need to continue to reinforce the positive because we are competing with Hollywood, which is really tough.”

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The rotation of strong volcanic plumes may be verified by observations from space, the scientists report. On June 15, 1991, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines was recorded by a satellite snapping hourly images. The images show that the edge of Pinatubo’s umbrella was rotating about its center, consistent with the presence of a volcanic mesocyclone.

The images also show that after rotating for a while, the umbrella lost axial symmetry and became lobate in plan view. This loss of axial symmetry is another effect of the rotation, which destabilizes the edge of the umbrella and makes it lobate, the scientists report.

Lobate umbrellas have been found in satellite images of other volcanoes, including Mount Manam in Papua New Guinea, Mount Reventador in Ecuador and Mount Okmok in the Aleutian Islands.

Satellite images of future volcanic plumes taken at intervals of a few minutes would make it possible to trace the evolution of umbrellas in detail, Gioia said. In addition, some of the tools commonly used in the study of thunderstorms could be deployed for the study of volcanic eruptions.

“The structure and dynamics of volcanic mesocyclones, as well as the presence of lightning sheaths, might be verified with Doppler radar and lightning mapping arrays, two technologies that have been scarcely used in volcanology,” Gioia said. u BUDGET, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 faculty, staff and alumni to communicate with the governor and General Assembly during the spring legislative session.”

White spoke to the Senate Higher Education Appropriations Committee on March 25, a week after Quinn released his budget proposal, and reiterated his belief “that this is not a good time to impose a stiff tuition increase on students and their families. We intend to do our very best to minimize any increase. Even modest increased support

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Understanding volcanoes Gustavo Gioia, left, professor of mechanical science and engineering; Pinaki Chakraborty,

a postdoctoral researcher; and Susan Kieffer, a professor of geology, have found the origins of “volcanic mesocyclones.”

from the state, as recommended by the governor, would help us greatly in this regard.”

The governor’s budget included significant changes to the state’s five public employee retirement systems, although most of them would apply only to new hires. Among the reforms Quinn recommended were raising the minimum age for early retirement to 62, capping service credit at 35 years, and redefining “final pay” for calculating retirement benefits as the final “eight-year

average” of employees’ compensation and limiting it to base pay. Current employees would be required to bump up contributions to their retirement plans by 2 percentage points; new hires would pay 1 percentage point less than the current rates.

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Drug agent knocks out multiple enzymes in cancer pathway

By Diana Yates Life Sciences Editor

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team of 24 researchers from the U.S., Europe, Taiwan and Japan and led by UI scientists has engineered a new anti-cancer agent that is about 200 times more active in killing tumor cells than similar drugs used in recent clinical trials. The study appears this week in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

The new agent belongs to a class of drugs called bisphosphonates. These compounds were originally developed to treat osteoporosis and other bone diseases, but were recently found to also have potent anti-cancer and immune boosting properties.

Drug developers have tried for years to design drugs to inhibit cell survival pathways in tumor cells, focusing on a protein called Ras since nearly a third of all human cancers involve a mutation in the Ras gene that causes cell signaling to go awry. These efforts have met with limited success.

Bisphosphonates act on other enzymes, called FPPS and GGPPS, which are upstream of Ras in the cell survival pathway. Inhibiting these enzymes appears to be a more effective strategy for killing cancer cells.

When used in combination with hormone therapy in a recent clinical trial, the bisphosphonate drug zoledronate significantly reduced the recurrence of breast cancer in premenopausal women with estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer. Similar results were

reported previously for hormone-refractory prostate cancer.

But zoledronate quickly binds to bone, reducing its efficacy in other tissues.

“We’re trying to develop bisphosphonates that will be very active but won’t bind to the bone, because if they bind to the bone they’re not going to go to breast, lung or other tissues,” said UI chemistry professor Eric Oldfield, who led the new study.

Oldfield’s team also wanted to design a compound that would inhibit multiple enzymes in the tumor cell survival pathway, rather than just one, an approach analogous to the use of multikinase inhibitors in cancer therapy. Anphoto by L. Brian Stauffer drew Wang, of Academia Sinica, Taipei, Beating cancer UI chemistry department research scientist Yonghui Zhang, left, chemist Rong Cao, chemistry and Illinois chemist professor Eric Oldfield, and their colleagues engineered a new bisphosphonate drug that is about 200 times more Rong Cao began by effective at killing cancer cells than a bisphosphonate drug used in a recent clinical trial. producing crystallographic structures of the target bound tightly to multiple enzyme papoulos, of Leiden University, “The new drugs are about 200 enzymes and drug candidates, al- targets, but not to bone. One of the Netherlands, showed that the times more effective than the lowing the researchers to identify the new compounds, called BPH- compound had a very low chemi- drugs used in recent clinical trials those features that would enhance 715, proved to be especially po- cal affinity for bone. In humans, at killing tumor cells and in actithe drugs’ ability to bind to the tent in cell culture and effectively compounds like BPH-715 and vating gamma delta T-cells to kill enzymes. Using this and other inhibited tumor cell growth and zoledronate have an added ben- tumor cells,” Oldfield said. “They chemical data, Illinois chemis- invasiveness. Tadahiko Kubo, of efit in fighting cancer: They spur also prevent tumor progression in try department research scientist Hiroshima University, then found the proliferation of immune cells mice much better than do existing Yonghui Zhang engineered new that BPH-715 also killed tumor called gamma delta T-cells, which bisphosphonate molecules.” u bisphosphonate compounds that cells in mice. And Socrates Pa- aid in killing tumor cells.

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briefnotes Krannert Art Museum Council

Petals & Paintings benefit is April 17-19 The UI Krannert Art Museum Council will host its 17th annual Petals & Paintings benefit April 17-19 in support of the museum’s upcoming exhibitions and related educational programming.

Champaign florist Rick Orr is guest curator. The exhibition will feature floral arrangements created by award-winning regional floral designers in response to works of art selected by Orr from the museum’s permanent collection.

The exhibition will open with a reception at Krannert Art Museum from 6 to 8 p.m. April 17. Guests will view the floral displays as they enjoy a selection of hors d’oeuvres, wine and music. There will be a raffle for original art by Illinois artist Joyce Reuland. The evening also will include a silent auction with artwork by local and regional artists.

Tickets for the opening reception are $65 for museum members, $75 for non-members. For information about the event, reservations or membership, call 244-0516. Limited tickets will be available at the door.

The exhibition may be viewed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

April 18 and from noon to 5 p.m. April 19. Docent-led tours will be available April 18 beginning at 10 a.m.

Krannert Art Museum

Art After Hours to take place April 4 Krannert Art Museum will host its first Art After Hours event from 7 to 11 p.m. April 4. This free event offers art, music and fun in a museum setting.

Event planners hope to break down the perception that many people have of art museums as quiet and stuffy and offer an alternative social event for young adults.

In addition to free hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar, the event will feature the Pure Euphoria Fashion Show at 7:30 p.m. sponsored by the student organization Runway.

From 8:30 to 11 p.m., local musician Lynn O’Brien will perform jazz with bassist Karl Kieser. To find out more and see who will be attending, check out Krannert Art Museum and RUNWAY on Facebook.

The Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Book-collecting contest entries due May 1 To foster the love of books and introduce students to the pleasures of book collecting, The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the UI has established an annual bookcollecting contest. The competition is co-sponsored by the University Library and The No. 44 Society. Undergraduates are eligible to win the Harris Fletcher Book Collecting Award, and graduate students’ collections are eligible to win the T.W. Baldwin Prize for Book Collecting.

First prize for each category is $1,000. Winners will be asked to talk about their collections at the May meeting of The No. 44 Society. Winners are encouraged to use some of their prize money to attend Bibliography Week in New York (generally held in late January), and they will be invited to a reception at the country’s premier book-collecting organization, The Grolier Club. Second prize is a one-year subscription to “Fine Books and Collecting.” All contestants receive a student membership in the Friends of the University of Illinois Library.

The contest is open to all registered UI undergraduates and graduates. To enter, each contestant must submit a brief statement describing the background and development of the collection, a brief annotated bibliographic list of the collection and a list of 10 titles the contestant would like to add to the collection. The deadline is 5 p.m. May 1.

For more information, go to www.library.uiuc.edu/rbx/ CollectingContest.htm.

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Changes in income tax withholding announced by IRS

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he IRS has issued new tax tables to reduce federal tax withholding required by the new economic stimulus law, officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. For 2009 and 2010, the Making Work Pay provision of the stimulus bill provides a reduction in withholding of $400 for those claiming single on the Form W-4, and $600 for those claiming married on Form W-4.

The new tables will be effective with payrolls paid in April. Eligible university employees will get the benefit of the reduced withholding without any action on their part. The new tax tables will adjust the withholding automatically.

However, there may be situations where taxes will be under-withheld if no action is taken: If an individual works for more than one employer the new tax tables will provide the reduced withholding for both employers. This would reduce the withholding by more than what an individual would be entitled.

Married couples with both spouses working and claiming married on the Form W-4 also will see the reduction in withholding for both spouses. This would reduce the withholding by more than what the married couple would be entitled.

Individuals claimed as a dependent on another individual’s tax return are not eligible for the reduced withholding. The reduction is automatic and could result in under-withholding for the year.

2008 International Alumni Award Winner

Speaker to discuss an Illinois education The recipient of the UI 2008 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement will return to campus April 16 to receive the award and deliver a lecture titled “Empowerment of a World-Class Education at Illinois and Its Relevance in a Global Economy.”

Bo Zhang, chairman and CEO of American Electronic Products Inc. and chairman of the Ningbo Bosheng Precision Machinery Co. Ltd. and Bestech Abrasives Co. Ltd., will speak at 9 a.m. in the first floor ballroom of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. The talk is open to the public and will be preceded by a continental breakfast reception at 8:30 a.m. in the first-floor Richmond Gallery, sponsored by the Alumni Association and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Zhang earned his master of science degree and doctorate from the UI in 1992 and 1999, respectively.

In pursuit of his lifelong passion to improve the economic welfare of his fellow citizens in China, Zhang has founded and managed seven national and three international companies that have introduced new technologies, created jobs and promoted economic development. He served as president of the Beijing Lianhua International Investment Consulting Co., one of the first consulting firms to introduce international business practices in China; and founded the Tianjin Dinglee Electrical and Mechanical Products Company, which designed and developed advanced hydraulic rescue tools specifically for the Chinese market, now the leading tools used in earthquake disaster relief.

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Individuals in this category may be under-withheld in their taxes for the year.

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Asian Educational Media Service

Final spring film screening is April 7 Organized by the Asian Educational Media Service, in collaboration with the Spurlock Museum, the spring 2009 AsiaLENS series concludes at 7 p.m. April 7 with “The Last Ghost of War” (Janet Gardner, 2006, 54 minutes). Joseph T. Miller, an academic adviser in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will provide an introduction and post-screening discussion of the film. The screening will be in the Knight Auditorium at the Spurlock Museum.

Following the legacy of Agent Orange into the 21st century, “The Last Ghost of War” reveals the devastating impact of this chemical defoliant on the generations living beyond its initial Vietnam War victims. Giving a human face to the medical statistics, the film traces Vietnamese victims’ attempts to find reparations through the legal system. Vietnamese victims and their lawyers, scientists, activists and a military historian take viewers to this new battlefield where moral responsibility and corporate accountability are debated.

For more information, call 333-9597, e-mail aems@illinois.edu or go to www.aems.uiuc.edu.

Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program

Human rights lecture is April 7 The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program is hosting its annual Balgopal Lecture on Human Rights and Asian Americans at 7 p.m. April 7 at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center.

Shamita Das Dasgupta’s talk is titled “In Search of Safety: Women in South Asian Communities in America.”

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Women in South Asian communities in the United States have taken on leadership roles in progressive activism and advocacy work such as labor, anti-racism, LGBT and immigrant rights. This leadership is especially prominent in the anti-violence against women movement.

Das Dasgupta will explore the historical trajectory of the anti-violence against women movement in the South Asian American community, its nuances, and the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, religion and residency status at its core. She also will discuss some of the paths this movement is taking in terms of initiating legal changes and transnational coalition building.

Stewart International Young Humanitarian Award

Alumna to address youth, reading in Haiti Elizabeth Pierre-Louis, who earned her master’s in library and information science at the UI, will present a lecture, “Yes to Books, Youth and Reading Against Exclusion in Haiti.” The lecture will be held at GSLIS at 4 p.m. April 15.

Pierre-Louis will be on campus to receive the 2008 Charles C. Stewart International Young Humanitarian Award given by the Office of International Programs and Studies. She is being honored for her work as the library program coordinator at La Fondation Connaissance et Liberté/Fondasyon Konesans Ak Libète (FOKAL) in Haiti.

The independent organization works to provide a range of economic and educational opportunities in Haiti, especially for women and children.

In her lecture, Pierre-Louis will speak about the place of books, reading and youth in Haitian society today. For more than a decade, she has worked with small community libraries in Haiti. Among the questions she will address: With half the Haitian population under 18 years of age, how should libraries address their reading needs in order to nurture and prepare this young population for their future?

Upon her graduation from GSLIS in 2003, Pierre-Louis was awarded the Jane B. and Robert B. Downs Professional Promise Award by GSLIS faculty.

Pierre-Louis will receive her award at the International Awards banquet April 16. In attendance also will be Consul General of Haiti Lesly Conde, and Pierre-Louis’ mother, Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis, the prime minister of Haiti.

School of Art and Design

New York artist to discuss his work New York artist Fred Tomaselli will present the 2009 Jerrold Ziff Distinguished Lecture in Modern Art on April 6. His lecture, sponsored by the School of Art and Design, will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Room 62 of the Krannert Art Museum and is titled “Fred Tomaselli Talks About Painting.” This event is free and open to the public.

Tomaselli’s paintings are a hybrid of nature and artifice, op art, advertising and the Los Angeles punk rock scene in which he came of age in the 1970s and ’80s. His dynamic compositions often swirl hypnotically in rings like a mandala. He first became well known for paintings made out of pills, psychoactive plants, cutout pictures of butterflies, and an assortment of bugs set in a deep plastic resin – a technique that recalls the kitsch hobbyist’s decoupage. The patterns and colors vibrate with optical intensity and at first seem to be entirely painted. Upon closer inspection, one sees the objects imbedded in the surface.

Tomaselli studied painting in college near Los Angeles and in 1985 moved to New York. His work of the late ’80s consisted primarily of installations with a pointed artificiality, but Tomaselli is known primarily as a painter. He shows

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Ebertfest 2009: Woodstock, vampires, animation and politics

By Craig Chamberlain Social Sciences Editor

T

he films will run from the strikingly visual to hard luck reality at the 11th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, April 22-26 in Champaign-Urbana.

The visuals will come from around the globe and from filmmakers’ imaginations. The reality will come from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and from a stripper and from chop shops in New York City.

A newly restored director’s cut of “Woodstock,” a famous film about a famous concert, will open the festival, and a newly restored “Baraka,” in 70mm, will close it. Ebert calls the latter “one of the most beautiful films ever made.”

Among the films in between will be “Frozen River,” photo by Marianne Rafter which received Oscar nominations for original screen- Trouble the Water (2008) Directors Tia Lessin play and for best actress for Melissa Leo. and Urbana native Carl Deal combined Hurricane Actor Matt Dillon plans to attend the screening of Katrina footage shot by New Orleans natives Kimberly “Nothing but the Truth,” a fictionalized political drama and Scott Roberts with reporting of federal neglect based on the Valerie Plame affair. Directors of many during and after the hurricane. All four are expected of the festival films also will be guests, among them to attend the festival. (8:30 p.m. April 23) Urbana natives Nina Paley and Carl Deal.

Once again the festival will offer a silent film – ac- been performed by his wife, Chaz, and festival director companied, for the seventh time, by the three-man Al- Nate Kohn.

Chaz Ebert and Kohn will again share onstage roles loy Orchestra of Cambridge, Mass. This year’s feature this year, but Ebert plans to return is “The Last Command,” from and to play a larger role with the 1928. help of assistive technology, acThe 12 screenings will take cording to festival organizers. place at the 1,500-seat Virginia This year’s full schedule of Theater, with other events on the films, with the current lineup of UI campus. The festival is an event guests is now available on the festiof the College of Media. val Web site. Other festival events, Ebert is a Pulitzer Prize-winning including panel discussions, will be critic for the Chicago Sun-Times announced soon. Updates will be and co-hosted “Ebert & Roeper,” posted online. a weekly televised movie-review Tickets for individual films will program, until 2006. He also is a go on sale April 6 through the the1964 Illinois journalism graduate ater box office; phone 217-356and adjunct journalism professor.

9063; fax: 217-356-5729. The price Ebert selects films for the fes- Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace will be $12 each for regular admistival that he feels have been overand Music, The Director’s sion and $10 each for students and looked in some way, either by senior citizens. Sales will be limited critics, distributors or audiences, Cut This film is about the 1969 to four per person. Festival passes or because they come from over- concert in upstate New York. are sold out. looked genres or formats, such as The newly restored version Those seeking additional infordocumentaries. Guests connected will include footage not seen in with the selected films are invited previous versions. Director Michael mation and updates on films, guests and festival events should contact to attend, and many appear on Wadleigh will be a guest. (7 p.m. April 22) Mary Susan Britt, at 217-244-0552 stage for informal discussions after or marsue@illinois.edu, or festival the screenings.

Prior to the 2007 festival, those discussions were director Nate Kohn, at 706-542-4972 or nate.kohn@ always with Ebert, who also introduced each film. As gmail.com. u the result of throat-cancer surgery and related health On the Web: www.ebertfest.com issues, however, the last two years those duties have

at James Cohan Gallery in New York and is in major collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and in many major European museums.

Annuitants Association

Workshop offers retirees coping skills Stephen D’Arcy, retired professor of finance, will discuss “Coping Skills for Retirees During a Recession” at the spring meeting of the UIUC Chapter of the State Universities Annuitants Association. The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. April 19 at the I Hotel and Convention Center, Champaign. Refreshments will be served prior to the meeting at

1:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

D’Arcy has a broad background in the area of risk management and insurance. A recent retiree, he was named the John C. Brogan Faculty Scholar in Risk Management and Insurance. He has served as the president of the American Risk and Insurance Association and of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Among the topics D’Arcy plans to cover are investing during a recession, preparing for the post-stimulus inflation, making wise insurance decisions and estate planning.

He also will provide handouts with recommended readings on these topics. Information about SUAA and D’Arcy’s presentation can be found at http://suaa-ui.org. u

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of events

lectures

2 Thursday

“The Significance of Islamic Intellectual History for Contemporary Muslims.” Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto. 7:30 p.m. Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum.

Global Studies; South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Religion; and Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics.

3 Friday

“Microbial Life in Yellowstone: A Catalyst for Environmental Change.” Abigail Salyers, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Friday Forum.

5 Sunday

“The Tibet Museum and the Challenge of Dictatorship to Cultural Heritage Management.” Helaine Silverman, UI. 3 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Museum. Archaeological Institute of American, Classics and Krannert Art Museum.

6 Monday

“Global Economic Change and Migration of Asian Women: What Are the Issues?”

Jean Pyle, University of Massachusetts. Noon. Center for Advanced Study. Center for Advanced Study.

“Fred Tomaselli Talks About Painting.” Fred Tomaselli, New York artist. 5:30 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Museum. Ziff Distinguished Lecture/Art and Design.

7 Tuesday

“Movement Toward Sustainability at the University of Illinois.” Dick Warner, UI. Noon.

Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Know Your University.

“In Search of Safety: Women in South Asian Communities in America.” Shamita Das Dasgupta, New York University.

7 p.m. Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Balgopal Lecture/Asian American Studies.

“Running Brave.” Billy Mills, former Olympian. 7 p.m. Third floor, Levis Faculty Center.

American Indian Studies.

10 Friday

“The Coming Age of Genomic Biology.” William Metcalf, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Friday Forum.

13 Monday

“Screening the Renaissance: From Romula to ‘The Sopranos.’ ” Cristelle Baskins, Tufts University. 5:30 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Museum. Art History Program Annual Phillip Fehl Lecture and Rosemary Coffey Lecture.

14 Tuesday

“Twelve Students, 1,600 Miles, Seven Days and One Mission – Rebuilding New Or-

leans.” Claire Brady and C.J. Holterman, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Know Your University.

“Is Culture Just A Drug?

History, Neuroscience and the ‘Great Transformation.’ ” Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University. 4 p.m. Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum.

MillerComm.

16 Thursday

“Science and Technology and the Survival of Humankind.”

Edison Liu, UI and Genome Institute of Singapore. 7 p.m.

Pollard Auditorium, The Forum, Carle Foundation Hospital, 611 W. Park St., Urbana.

Center for Advanced Study/ MillerComm, Biomedical Sciences, Carle Foundation Hospital.

colloquia

2 Thursday

“Climate Change, Societal Instability and International Security.” Jurgen Scheffran, UI. Noon. 356 Armory Building.

Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security.

“The Comparative Role of Political Repression in the Shaping of the American and European Labor Movements.”

Robert Goldstein, University of Michigan. 3:30 p.m. 111 Gregory Hall. History.

“Trust and Complacency in Human Interaction With Automated Systems.” Raja Parasuraman, George Mason University. 4 p.m. 2405 Siebel Center. Information Trust Institute.

“Agricultural Biotechnology: Pathways for Delivering Better Food and More Fuel.”

Robb Fraley, Monsanto Co. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Hong Lecture Series/LAS Development.

“Small Molecule Antagonists of Protein-Protein Interactions.” Andrew Hesse, UI. 4 p.m. 116 Roger Adams Laboratory. Organic Chemistry.

3 Friday

“A Double-edged Sword: Metals in the Biology of Bacterial Pathogens.” David Giedroc, Indiana University. Noon.

B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory Auditorium.

Biochemistry.

6 Monday

“Opportunities for Collaboration Between Animal Health Pharmaceutical Companies and Veterinary Schools.” Jane Owens, Elanco Animal Health.

Noon. 2271C Veterinary Medicine Basic Science Building.

Veterinary Medicine.

“In Vivo Optical Diagnosis of Oral Malignancy in Human Subjects.” Petra Wilder-Smith,

challenging global convenient

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University of California, Irvine.

2 p.m. 2269 Beckman Institute.

Beckman Institute.

“Strategies and Tactics Inspired by Seven Membered Rings in Natural Products.”

Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley. 4 p.m.

116 Roger Adams Lab. Organic Chemistry.

7 Tuesday

“The Inside Scoop on the Concert Promotion Business.”

Steven Schankman, author of “Produced by Contemporary” and co-founder of Contemporary Productions. Noon-1:30 p.m.. Room 192, Lincoln Hall.

Book signing follows at Illini Union Bookstore. School of Music.

“Politics and Culture of Dress in Early Republican Turkey, 1923-1945.” Hale Yilmaz, Southern Illinois University.

Noon. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building. South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

“Functional DNA Biosensors and Their Applications in Genomic Biology.” Yi Lu, UI. Noon. IGB Conference Center #612. Genomic Biology.

“Metal-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalysts for Low-temperature Oxygen Electroreduction.”

Scott Barton, Michigan State University. 1 p.m. 116 Roger Adams Lab. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

“Galaxies and Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization.” Yuexing Li, Harvard University. 4 p.m. 134 Astronomy. Astronomy Department.

“The Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions: Lessons From the Lanthanides and Actinides.”

William J. Evans, University of California, Irvine. 4 p.m. 112 Chem Annex. Inorganic/Materials Student Selected Seminar.

“Half a Wiring Diagram is Better Than None: Generating Flexible Behaviors From a Fixed Circuit.” Cori Bargmann, Rockefeller University Medical Institute. 4 p.m. Beckman Institute Auditorium. Neuroscience.

8 Wednesday

“Redefining the Mechanisms of Microtubule Formation and Nucleation.” David Agard, University of California, San Francisco. Noon. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Cell and Developmental Biology.

“Retrocommissiong@UIUC: Saving the Planet Two Buildings at a Time.” Karl Helmink and Damon McFall, UI. Noon.

Stephen J. Warner Conference Room, Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Drive, Champaign.

Illinois Sustainable Technol-

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Much of this information is drawn from the online Campus Calendars on the UI Web site at http://illinois.edu/find/calendars.html. Other calendar entries should be sent 15 days before the desired publication date to insideil@uiuc.edu.

More information is available from Marty Yeakel at 333-1085.

Note: $ indicates Admission Charge

ogy Center.

“Undisciplined Knowledge: The Politics of Exhibiting African Art.” Allyson Purpura, UI. Noon. 101 International Studies Building. African Studies.

“Effects of Argument Scaffolding and Source Credibility on Science Text Comprehension.” Tzu-Jung Lin and Richard Anderson, UI. Noon. 210A Education Building. Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning and Child Development Divisions.

“The Parallel Revolution Has Started: Are You Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?” David Patterson, University of California. 3 p.m.

1402 Siebel Center. Parallel@ Illinois.

“Effects of Moderate Protein and Carbohydrate Diets on Carbohydrate Metabolism and Associated Outcomes.” Denise Lasker, UI. 4 p.m. 103 Mumford Hall. Nutritional Sciences.

“Ion Spectroscopy of Small and ‘Large’ Molecules.” J. Mathias Weber, University of Colorado. 4 p.m. 112 Chem Annex.

Physical Chemistry Seminar.

Need for Speed Seminar Series: “Mobile Gaming.” Mark Johns, Tapulous. 4:15 p.m. B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory. Coordinated Science Laboratory.

9 Thursday

“What’s Right About Asian America? New Right Affects and Liberal Histories of a Settler Colonial Hawaii.” Bianca Kai Isaki, UI. 11:30 a.m. Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana. Asian American Studies.

“The Cold War, Space Exploration, and the Sino-U.S. Relationship: 1956-1972.”

Yang Zhang, Northeast Normal University, Peoples Republic of China. Noon. 356 Armory Building. Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security.

“Structure and Function of Microbial Communities Around Plants.” Jo Handelsman, University of Wisconsin. 4 p.m.

B102, Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory. Microbiology.

“Audubon at Work: The Making and Marketing of Birds of America.” Lee Vedder, author. 4 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Museum.

Library.

Second Ralph Simmons Lecture: “Superfluidity in Ordered and Disordered Solid Helium.”

H.W. Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State University. 4 p.m. 141 Loomis Lab. Physics.

10 Friday

“Strategies of Terrorism.”

Andrew Kydd, University of Wisconsin. Noon. 356 Armory Building. Arms Control, Disar-

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mament and International Security and Political Science.

“Probing Structure on Welldefined Functional States of the Nicotinic Receptor Using Systematically Engineered Ionizable Residues and Proton-transfer Events.” Claudio Grosman, UI. Noon. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Biochemistry.

“George W. Bush and the Third World.” Sue Roberts, University of Kentucky. 3 p.m.

219 Davenport Hall. Geography, Sociology and Urban and Regional Planning.

“Towards a Science of Parallel Programming.” Keshav Pingall, University of Texas. 3 p.m. 2405 Siebel Center. Parallel@Illinois.

4 p.m. 1005 Beckman Institute.

Neuroscience Program.

13 Monday

“Quantum Networks of Atoms.” Christopher R. Monroe, University of Maryland. 4 p.m.

141 Loomis Lab. Physics.

“Small Molecules Big Effects on Gene Expression: Transmission of Metabolic Signals Directly to RNA Polymerase.”

Richard Gourse, University of Wisconsin. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.

“Engineering Your Successful Career.” Marv Smollar, UI alumnus. 4 p.m. 1122 NCSA. Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering.

“Molecular Photovoltaics.”

Michael Graetzel, Ecole Polytchnique Federale de Lausanne.

8 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. John C. Bailar Jr. Lectures/Chemistry.

“Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Pharmacology of Gabapentin in Horses.” Levent Dirikolu, UI. Noon. 2271C Veterinary Medicine Basic Science Building. Veterinary Medicine.

“Four Important Concepts to Consider When Using High Performance Computers.”

Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee. 4 p.m. 1404 Siebel Center. Parallel@Illinois.

“Influence, Appropriation, Piracy: The Place of Spain in English Literary History.”

Barbara Fuchs, University of Pennsylvania. 5-7 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics; Germanic Languages and Literatures; Comparative and World Literature; French; English; and European Union Center.

14 Tuesday

“‘In the Name of Capturing Political Power’: Dalit Women, NGO Activism and Panchayati Raj.” Radhika Govinda, University of Cambridge. Noon. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

“Understanding Macroscopic Heat/Mass Transfer Using Simulations at Different Scales.” Dimitrios Papavassiliou, University of Oklahoma.

1 p.m. 116 Roger Adams Lab. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Global Cultural Heritage.

“The Collaborative Bi-National Afghan Initiative Project of the National Park Service.”

Barbara Little, National Park Service. 3-5 p.m. 109A Davenport Hall. Center for Advanced Studies.

“Beyond Optimality: How Good is Good Enough?” Eve Marder, Brandeis University.

15 Wednesday

“Loanword Adaptation as L1 Phonological Perception.”

Silke Hamann, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, Dusseldorf.

Noon. 210 Illini Union. Linguistics Student Association.

“Distributed Optimality Theory.” Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam. 4 p.m. 210 Illini Union. Linguistics Student Association.

Need for Speed Seminar Series: “Computer Vision.” Tom Huang, UI. 4:15 p.m. B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory.

Coordinated Science Laboratory.

16 Thursday

17 Friday

“Food and Consumption in the European Union.” Diana Mincyte, UI. Noon. Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building. European Union Center.

“Ubiquitin Signaling in Immune Responses.” Zhijian ‘James’ Chen, University of Texas. Noon. B102 CLSL Auditorium. Biochemistry.

“Formation and Evolution of X-Ray Binary Populations of Globular Clusters.” Pranab Ghosh, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research. Noon. 134 Astronomy. Astronomy.

“Expression and Action.” David Sussman, UI. 3 p.m. 213 Gregory Hall. Philosophy.

“Solar Hydrogen Generation From Water.” Michael Graetzel, Ecole Polytchnique Federale de Lausanne. 4 p.m. 112 Chem Annex. John C. Bailar Jr. Lectures/Chemistry.

theater

2 Thursday

“Three Sisters.” Brant Pope, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Studio

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3 Friday

“Three Sisters.� Brant Pope, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. $

4 Saturday

T.P.O. Company: “Farfalle (Butterflies).� 10 a.m., 12:30 and 4 p.m. Colwell Playhouse.

T.P.O. continues its exploration of “paintings in movement,� mixing theater, sensory boundaries, dance, visual magic, music and emotion. Recommended for ages 4 and up. $ “Three Sisters.� Brant Pope, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. $

5 Sunday

“Three Sisters.� Brant Pope, guest director. 3 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. $ Dessert and Conversation: 2 p.m. Krannert Room, Krannert Center. $

8 Wednesday

“Three Sisters.� Brant Pope, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. $

9 Thursday

“Three Sisters.� Brant Pope, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. $

10 Friday

“Drowsy Chaperone.� 7:30 p.m. Assembly Hall. The glamorous tale of a celebrity bride and her wedding day. $ “Three Sisters.� Brant Pope, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. $

11 Saturday

“Three Sisters.� Brant Pope, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. $ Dessert and Conversation: 6:30 p.m. Krannert Room, Krannert Center. $

17 Friday

“West Side Story.� 7 p.m. Assembly Hall. $ Illini Union Board.

18 Saturday

“West Side Story.� 2 and 7 p.m. Assembly Hall. $ Illini Union Board.

music

2 Thursday

Junior Recital. Delanor Benson, mezzo-soprano. 1 p.m.

Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Graduate Recital. Ju Ri Seo, composition. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

3 Friday

Rosenkavalier.� Ian Hobson, music director and conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Concert version of the opera, directed

by Nicholas DiVirgilio, features vocalists from around the nation. $

4 Saturday

Master of Music Recital. Rebecca DelVillano, clarinet. 11 a.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Junior Recital. Andy McBeath, percussion. 2 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

Senior Recital. Josh Benjamin, euphonium. 2 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

Senior Recital.

Gregory Polzak, composition. 5:30 p.m.

Music Building auditorium.

Faculty Recital. Jim Pugh, trombone. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. $ School of Music.

Master of Music Recital. Laura Chandler, piano. 7:30 p.m.

Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Senior Recital. Phil Pierick, saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble: “Songs of Ascension.� UI Concert Choir.

Chester Alwes, director. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. With visual elements by Ann Hamilton.

Combines the talents of MacArthur Award recipients Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton. $ Global Transfer Afterglow: Grazyna Auguscik. 9:30 p.m.

Lobby, Krannert Center.

5 Sunday

Master of Music Recital.

James Spigner, saxophone. 2 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

UI Percussion Ensemble. William Moersch, director. 3 p.m.

Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center. $ School of Music.

Senior Composition Recital.

Cheryl Krugel and Moon Young Ha, composers. 5:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Master of Music Recital.

Darden Purcell, vocal jazz.

6 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

Junior Recital. Rachel Wittrig, violin. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Brass Chamber Music. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

Concerto Urbano. Charlotte Mattax Moersch, director. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

6 Monday

Doctor of Musical Arts Project Recital. Kerry Heimann, harpsichord. 6:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Jazz Forum. UI Jazz Combo.

Dana Hall, director. Noon. 25 Smith Hall.

7 Tuesday Junior Recital. Eric McKnight, Champaign-Urbana Symphooboe. 5:30 p.m. Music Build- ny Orchestra Kinderkonzerts. ing auditorium.

Steven Larsen, music director Sinfonia da 42 Camera: “Der 9:56 inside ill 3/17/09 AM Page 9:30 1 and 11:15 and conductor.

Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra Kinderkonzerts.

Steven Larsen, music director and conductor. 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Special children’s concert. $ UI Jazz Saxophone Ensemble and Guitar Ensemble. Steve Jones and Shawn Purcell, conductors. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. $ School of Music.

Doctor of Musical Arts Project Recital. Darryl Friesen, piano.

7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Master of Music Recital. Andrew Hsu, violin. 7:30 p.m.

Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

9 Thursday

UI Jazz Trombone Ensemble. Jim Pugh, director. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. $ School of Music.

Junior Recital. Jennifer Stanuch, violin. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

Junior Recital. Katherine Denler, harp. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

10 Friday

Jazz Forum. UI Jazz Band II. Jim Pugh, director. Noon. 25 Smith Hall.

Junior Recital. Kristina Ditsch, viola. 4 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Master of Music Recital. Rebekka Kaupat, trumpet. 5:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Master of Music Recital. Kristen Richards, piano. 7:30 p.m.

Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Junior Recital. Jared Shaw, jazz saxophone. 7:30 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

11 Saturday

Junior Recital. Lek Teng Wu, piano. 11 a.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Junior Recital. Michelle Rivera, horn. 11 a.m. Music Building auditorium.

Master of Music Recital. Laura Kimmel. 2 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Senior Recital. Veesahi Modi, viola. 2 p.m. Memorial Room,

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Music Education Junior Recital. Allison Carter and Nick Loafman, trumpet. 2 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

Senior Recital. Jenny Wong, soprano. 5:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra: Presenting Emily Bear. Steven Larsen, music director and conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Six-year-old Emily Bear, piano, will perform. $

12 Sunday

Master of Music Recital.

Fang-Chi Chang, percussion.

2 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Senior Recital. Allison Zabelin, viola. 2 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Senior Recital. Wilson Wong, trombone. 2 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Yu-Chi Tai, piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Jan Matthews, viola. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

13 Monday

Discovery Company. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Students of Cynthia HaymonColeman.

Graduate Recital. Kyle Rowan, clarinet. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

14 Tuesday

National Philharmonic of Russia. Vladimir Spivakov, conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center.

With Denis Matsuev, Tchaikovsky Competition Fold Medalist, piano. $ UI Jazz Combos. 7:30 p.m.

Colwell Playhouse, Krannert

Center. $ School of Music.

15 Wednesday

Interval: Balkanalia. With special guest Georgi Andreev.

Noon. Lobby, Krannert Center.

Mariza. 7:30 p.m. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center.

Fado, the traditional music of Portugal, is this female singer’s genre of choice. $ Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Ka-Wai Yu, cello. 7:30 p.m.

Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

16 Thursday

Pacifica Quartet. With Erik RÜnmark, saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. The group with guest RÜnmark performs Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Quintet for alto saxophone and string quartet. $ Prelude: 6:30 p.m.

Tryon Festival Theater Foyer.

UI Jazz Band IV. Ryan Leatherman, director. 7:30 p.m. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center. $ School of Music.

Studio Recital. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium. Oboe students of John Dee and Aaron Jakublec.

Junior Recital. Jeffrey Spenner, trumpet, with Kevin Cole, organ. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Undergraduate Recital. Katharine Henry and Emily Divan, flute. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

17 Friday

Jazz Forum. Chip McNeill and Joan Hickey, leaders. Noon. 25 Smith Hall.

Boneyard Arts Festival: Center for World Music. 3 p.m.

Amphitheater and Stage 5, Krannert Center.

Master of Music Recital. Lon Fisher, soprano. 5:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

UI Steel Band. Ricardo Flores, director. 7:30 p.m. Colwell

Playhouse, Krannert Center. $ School of Music.

Master of Music Recital. Ingrid Hustvedt, oboe. 7:30 p.m.

Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Master of Music Recital. David Tribley, saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Master of Music Recital. Ryan Cavis, trumpet. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

18 Saturday

Annual Moms Day Studio Harp Recital. 11 a.m. Music Building auditorium. Students of Ann Yeung and Chen-Yu Huang.

Junior Recital. Brittany Mathis, clarinet. 11 a.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Junior Recital. Erica Charous, viola. 1:30 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

Annual Moms Day Concert.

With the UI Women’s Glee Club. Joe Grant, conductor.

2 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Annual concert to celebrate Moms Day. $ School of Music.

Master of Music Recital. Saul Nache, baritone. 2 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Master of Music Recital. Joe Madden, violin. 2 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Junior Recital. Brandon Runyon, percussion. 5 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

UI Black Chorus Moms Day Concert. Ollie Watts Davis, conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center.

Commemorating 40 years of the Black Chorus at the UI. $ School of Music.

Guest Artist Recital. Randy Hawes, bass trombone, and Kathryn Goodson, piano. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

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With Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Brian Blade. $ Enescu Ensemble. Sherban Lupu, director. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Master of Music Recital. Karim Yengsep, double bass. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Undergraduate Recital. Scott Rubin, composer. 7:30 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

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CALENDAR, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Hye-Won Jo, piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Geon Joo Kim, clarinet.

7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Senior Recital. Charles Lane, jazz saxophone. 7:30 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

19 Sunday

Guest Artist Master Class.

Randy Hawes, bass trombone.

1 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

Music Education Junior Recital. Emily Wilson and Jeremy Dassow, clarinet. 2 p.m.

Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Master of Music Recital. Robert Meier, jazz double bass. 2 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

Doctor of Musical Arts Project Recital. Nicole Leupp, voice. 2 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

UI Philharmonia. Louis Bergonzi, conductor. 3 p.m.

Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. $ School of Music.

Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Robert Hopkins, violin.

4:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

Master of Music Recital. Collin Wilson, saxophone. 5 p.m.

Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

UI Trombone Choir. Randy Hawes, bass trombone. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. $ School of Music.

Master of Music Recital. Hyesuk Lim, piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Senior Recital. Diane Kessel, flute. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Doctor of Musical Arts Project Recital. Joel White, tuba.

7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

15 Wednesday

Immigration Film Series: “Real Women Have Curves.”

Patricia Cardoso, director. 7:30 p.m. Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center. Center for Advanced Study.

16 Thursday

IPRH Film Series: “Enchanted.” Kevin Lima, director. 5:30 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Museum.

Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

Slavic Plus Film Series. “Ko to tamo peva?” (“Who’s Singing Over There?”). 7 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. Slavic Languages and Literatures.

sports To confirm times, go to www .fightingillini.com

3 Friday

Baseball. UI vs. Indiana University. 6:05 p.m. Illinois Field.

$

4 Saturday

Baseball. UI vs. Indiana University. 3:05 p.m. Illinois Field.

$

5 Sunday

Baseball. UI vs. Indiana University. 1:05 p.m. Illinois Field.

$

7 Tuesday

Softball. UI vs. Illinois State University. 6 p.m. Eichelberger Field. $ Baseball. UI vs. Bradley University. 6 p.m. Illinois Field. $

9 Thursday

Softball. UI vs. Bradley University. 6 p.m. Eichelberger Field. $

14 Tuesday

Baseball. UI vs. Eastern Illinois University. 6 p.m. Illinois Field. $

15 Wednesday

films

2 Thursday

Slavic Plus Film Series: “Grine Felder” (“Green Fields.”) 7 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building.

Slavic Languages and Literatures and Russian, East European and Eurasian Center.

7 Tuesday

Film screening and lecture/ discussion. “The Last Ghost of War.” 7 p.m. Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. Asian Educational Media Service/ East Asian and Pacific Studies and Spurlock Museum.

9 Thursday

Slavic Plus Film Series. “Voskhozhdenie” (“The Ascent”). 7 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building.

Slavic Languages and Literatures.

“Vikaren.” 7 p.m. 160 English Building. European Union Center.

Softball. UI vs. Indiana University. 5 and 7 p.m. Eichelberger Field. $

17 Friday

Baseball. UI vs. University of Minnesota. 6:05 p.m. Illinois Field. $

18 Saturday

Baseball. UI vs. University of Minnesota. 3:05 p.m. Illinois Field. $ Softball. UI vs. University of Michigan. 5 p.m. Eichelberger Field. $

19 Sunday

Baseball. UI vs. University of Minnesota. 12:05 p.m. Illinois Field. $ Softball. UI vs. University of Michigan. 2 p.m. Eichelberger Field. $

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2 Thursday

“Creating Effective Student

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Teams: From Problems to Solutions.” Cheelan Bo-Linn, UI. 3-5 p.m. 428 Armory. Registration required; call 3333370. Center for Teaching Excellence.

T.P.O. Company Demonstrations.

5, 5:30, 6, 6:30 and 7 p.m.

Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center. Explore the stage craft and artistry of the T.P.O. Company’s “Farfalle (Butterflies)” through a backstage tour and demonstration. Free, tickets required. Call 333-6280.

Public Workshop and Performance. “Navigation: An Investigation Into Physical Intelligence.” Jennifer Monson, UI. 5:30 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Krannert Art Museum.

“Decolonized Viewing: A Workshop on Analyzing TV Comedy.” Dustin Tahmahkera, UI. 7 p.m. Native American House, 1204 W. Nevada St., Urbana. American Indian Studies.

3 Friday

Open Biking. Noon. Outside ARC Entrance. Campus Recreation.

4 Saturday

Vet Med Open House. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Vet Med Sciences Building, 2001 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana. More info: http://vetmed.illinois.edu/openhouse/.

College of Veterinary Medicine.

Audubon Tour and Bird Walk.

10 a.m. Krannert Art Museum and Meadowbrook Park. Tour the exhibition and take a bird walk at the park. Participants must provide their own transportation and are encouraged to bring binoculars. Krannert Art Museum.

Canoe/Kayak Instructional Clinic. 10-11:30 a.m. ARC Adventure Center. To register, call 333-9780. Campus Recreation.

Open Kayaking. Noon-2 p.m.

Kauffman Lake. To register, call 333-9780. Campus Recreation.

Art After Hours. 7-11 p.m.

Krannert Art Museum. Spend the evening enjoying art and music. Cash bar. Krannert Art Museum.

job market

Careers and Employment at the UI • www.uiuc.edu/goto/uijobs Academic Human Resources Suite 420, 807 S. Wright St., MC-310 • 333-6747 Listings of academic professional and faculty member positions can be reviewed during regular business hours or online.

For faculty, academic professional and other academic positions: www.uiuc.edu/goto/acjobsearch

Staff Human Resources 52 E. Gregory Drive, MC-562 • 333-3101 Information about staff employment is online at www.pso.uiuc.edu.

Paper employment applications or paper civil service exam requests are no longer accepted by SHR. To complete an online employment application and to submit an exam request, visit the online Employment Center: www.uiuc.edu/goto/civilservicetests Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

Roundtable Discussion and Public Forum. “Financial and Structural Issues in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Human Development Perspective.” 3-4:30 p.m.

Alma Mater Room, I-Hotel and Conference Center. Participants: Sen. Michael Frerichs; Jim Edgar, Fouad Abd El Khalick, Lizanne DeStefano and Peter Nardulli, UI. Cline Center for Democracy.

“Any Which Way: Exploring Religious Diversity.” 7 p.m.

Multipurpose Room #3 in the ARC. Counseling Center.

“Higher Education and the Challenges of the 21st Century.” Richard Herman, UI. 7:30 p.m. Chancellor Ballroom, IHotel and Conference Center.

Cline Center for Democracy.

8 Wednesday

GSLIS Research Showcase 2009. 1-4 p.m. East foyer, Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

More info: 244-7316. Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Roundtable Discussion: “Illinois’ Sustainability Vision.”

9 a.m.-1p.m. Illini Rooms B & C. Illini Union. Office of Sustainability.

CITES Security Laptop Clinic.

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Undergraduate Library. Campus Informational Technologies and Educational Services.

Inline Skating Instructional Clinic. Noon-1 p.m. CRCE MAC Gym. More info: 3339780. Campus Recreation.

“PlanetU: The Human Story of Climate Change.” 5 p.m.

Illini Union. Keynote address: “The Silent Elephant in the Climatic Room.” Brian Fagan, author. 7 p.m. For more info: www.planetu.illinois.edu/.

Continues through April 10.

Office of Sustainability.

7 Tuesday

9 Thursday

6 Monday

Panel Discussion: “Climate Change and the Humanities.” 1 p.m. Humanities Lecture Hall, IPRH Building, 805 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Urbana.

Moderator: Dianne Harris, UI. Panelists: Lisa Lucero, Robert Markley and Gillen Wood, UI.

40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Keynote: Ayo Bamgbose, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Rooms A-D, Illini Union. More info: 3336335. Continues through April 11. Linguistics and African Studies.

“Simplicity, Self-Responsibility, Sustainability: Recharging Your Life.” A seminar for all Illinois faculty and staff. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Illini Rooms A, B and C, Illini Union. Registration required; visit FSS2009.

TheRegistrationSystem.com or call 333-8342. Center for Training and Professional Development.

“PlanetU: The Human Story of Climate Change.” Special presentation: “Visualizing the Story of Climate Change Science.” Don Wuebbles and Donna Cox, UI. Noon.

NCSA auditorium. More info: www.planetu.illinois.edu/.

Continues through April 10.

Office of Sustainability.

IPRH Annual Conference: “Disciplinarity.” Keynote Address: James Chandler, University of Chicago. 7:30 p.m.

Third floor, Levis Faculty Center. More info: 244-3344 or www.iprh.uiuc.edu. Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

10 Friday

Workshop: “Leadership Skill Development Through Community-based Learning.” Valeri Werpetinski, UI. 9 a.m. 428 Armory Building. Registration required; call 333-3370. Center for Teaching Excellence.

Open Biking. Noon. Outside ARC Entrance. Campus Recreation.

“PlanetU: The Human Story of Climate Change.” Plenary address: “Creating a Climate for Change: U’r Planet, U’r Future.” Suzanne Moser, Susanne Moser Research and Consulting, Santa Cruz, Calif.

4 p.m. Beckman Institute. More info: www.planetu.illinois. edu/. Office of Sustainability.

14 Tuesday

Nutrition Symposium. 1 p.m.

Monsanto Room, ACES Library. Keynote lecture. “Nutrition Meets Genetics: Is This the End of ‘One-Size-Fits-All?’ ” Jose Ordovas, Tufts University. 4 p.m. Monsanto Room.

Nutritional Sciences.

Travel-Adventure Series.

“Egypt: Of Pharaohs and Fables.” Sandy Mortimer. 6:30 p.m. Illini Rooms, Illini Union.

Reservations: 333-5000. Illini Union Faculty Staff Social Committee.

“Spend Smart, How to Start: Improving Your Financial Wellness.” 7 p.m. Multipurpose Room #3 ARC. Counseling Center.

15 Wednesday

Kayak Instructional Clinic.

4-5:30 p.m. ARC Adventure Center. Registration required; call 333-9780. Campus Recreation.

Travel-Adventure Series.

“Egypt: Of Pharoahs and Fables.” Sandy Mortimer. 6:30 p.m. Illini Rooms, Illini Union.

Reservations: 333-5000. Illini Union Faculty Staff Social Committee.

16 Thursday

A Hewlett Conference on Sustainable Biofuels and Human Security: “A Comparison of Brazil and East Africa.” Third floor, Levis Faculty Center.

More info: www.ips.uiuc.edu/ wggp/index.shtml. Continues April 17. Women and Gender in Global Perspectives, African Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Beckman Institute: “Celebrating Two Decades of Research Success.” 3:30 p.m.

Beckman Institute. More info: www.beckman.illinois.edu.

Beckman Institute.

17 Friday

Open Biking. Noon. Outside ARC Entrance. Campus Recreation.

Horseback Riding Instructional Clinic. 1-3 p.m. Stable near Lodge, (west of Champaign). Registration required; call 333-9780. Campus Recreation.

18 Saturday

Moms Day Horticulture Club

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CALENDAR, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 Flower Show. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Stock Pavilion, 1402 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Urbana.

Moms Day Craft Fair. 10 a.m.5 p.m. Illini Union. Parent Programs.

Boneyard Festival at the Spurlock Museum.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Spurlock Museum. Young performers will entertain visitors in the museum’s galleries and Knight Auditorium. Schedule: www. spurlock.illinois.edu. Spurlock Museum.

Spring Open House at Japan House. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Japan House, 2000 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana. Special presentations, tours and tea ceremonies. Japan House.

Middle East Story Time. 2 p.m. Megan’s Reading Room, Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green St., Urbana. South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

19 Sunday

Moms Day Horticulture Club Flower Show. 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Stock Pavilion, 1402 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Urbana.

exhibits “A Decade of the Humanities at IPRH�

Through May 8.

IPRH, 805 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Urbana. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Monday-Friday.

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“Collating Caedmon: Editing Old English Texts and the Evolution of Anglo-Saxon in Print�

Through April 30.

Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 346 Main Library.

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“Identity�

On view April 3-May 4.

Illini Union Art Gallery.

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“Children Just Like Me�

Through May 3.

Five galleries featuring the cultures of the world.

Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana. Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; Noon-4 p.m.

Sunday.

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“Petals and Paintings�

Rick Orr, guest curator.

On view April 18 and 19. “Jean Luc Mylayne�

Through April 5. “Audubon at Illinois: Selections From the University Library’s Birds of America� “Polaroids and Portraits: A Photographic Legacy of Andy Warhol�

Through May 24. “WowDesign: Marloes Ten Bhomer�

New Installation of the Rosann Gelvin Noel Gallery “The Archaeological Heritage of Illinois�

Through May 31. “Collecting East Asia: The Lee Wonsik Collection�

Through July 26.

Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Free admission; $3 donation suggested.

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I space, 230 W. Superior St., Chicago. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.

ongoing Altgeld Chime-Tower Tours 12:30-1 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Enter through 323 Altgeld Hall. To arrange a concert or

Bell Tower visit at another time, e-mail chimes@illinois. edu or call 333-6068. For other info: www.illinois.edu/chimes/ Arboretum Tours To arrange a tour, 333-7579.

Beckman Institute CafĂŠ Open to the public. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday. Lunch served 11 a.m.-2 p.m. For menu, www.beckman.illinois. edu/cafe Bevier CafĂŠ 8-11 a.m. coffee, juice and baked goods; and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch.

Bevier CafĂŠ Too 8 a.m.-3 p.m. weekdays in the IGB building. Gourmet coffee drinks, snacks, light lunch items and more.

Campus Recreation ARC, 201 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign.

CRCE, 1102 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana.

See www.campusrec.uiuc.edu for complete schedule.

UI Ice Arena. Public Skate: 11:15 am-12:45 pm (Noon Skates), Monday-Friday; 7-9 p.m. Wednesday; 7:30-10 p.m. Friday (when there are no Illini hockey games); 1:30-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. More info: www. campusrec.uiuc.edu/skating/ publicskate.html Center for Teaching Excellence Campuswide service unit that assists faculty, academic units and teaching assistants in improving instruction. More info: visit www.cte.uiuc.edu.

English as a Second Language Course 7-8:30 p.m. LDS Institute Building, 402 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana. Weekly on Thursdays.

Illini Union Ballroom 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-

Friday. Colonial Room. For reservations, 333-0690; walkins welcome.

Japan House For a group tour, 244-9934. Tea Ceremony: 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month. $5/person.

Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion Tours: By appointment, call 244-0516.

Gallery hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tuesday-Saturday, until 9 p.m.

Thursday; 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

The Fred and Donna Giertz Education Center: 10 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-7 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday Palette CafĂŠ: 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Monday-Friday.

Office hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Monday-Friday.

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Stage 5 Bar: Open at 4 p.m. most Thursday and Friday evenings. Close at 7 p.m. on nonperformance nights and until after the performance on show nights.

Krannert Uncorked: Wine tastings at 5 p.m. most Thursdays.

Intermezzo CafĂŠ: Open 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on non-performance weekdays; 7:30 a.m. through weekday performances; weekends from 90 minutes before until after performances.

Promenade gift shop: 10 a.m.6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; one hour before until 30 minutes after performances.

Ticket Office: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily, and 10 a.m. through first intermission on performance days.

Tours: 3 p.m. daily; meet in main lobby.

Library Tours Self-guided of main and un-

dergraduate libraries: go to Information Desk (second floor, main library) or Information Services Desk (undergrad library).

Meat Salesroom 102 Meat Sciences Lab. 1-5:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday. For price list and specials, 333-3404.

Robert Allerton Park Open 8 a.m. to dusk daily. “Allerton Legacy� exhibit at Visitors Center, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

For garden tours and more information, call 333-3287 or visit www.continuinged.uiuc. edu/allerton/.

Spurlock Museum Tours: By appointment with a three-week lead time.

Call 265-0474.

Museum hours: Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; Noon-4 p.m.

Sunday. Free admission.

Yoga at Krannert Art Museum Fridays at noon.

organizations Association of Academic Professionals For events: www.ieanea.org/ local/aap/.

Book Collectors’ Club – The No. 44 Society 3 p.m. First Wednesday of each month. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 346 Main Library. More info: 333-3777 or www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/ no44.htm.

Council of Academic Professionals Meeting 1:30 p.m. First Thursday monthly, location varies. More info: www.cap.uiuc.edu or mjreilly@illinois.edu.

UIUC Falun Dafa Practice

group 2:30-5:30 p.m. each Sunday.

405 Illini Union. More info: 244-2571.

French Department: Pause CafĂŠ 6 p.m. Thursdays, Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon St., Urbana.

Illini Folk Dance Society 8-10 p.m. Tuesday and some Saturdays, Illini Union. Beginners welcome, 398-6686.

Italian Table Italian conversation Mondays at noon, Intermezzo CafĂŠ, KCPA. Lifetime Fitness Program 6-8:50 a.m. Monday-Friday.

CRCE, 1102 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana. Kinesiology and Community Health, 333-2461.

Normal Person’s Book Discussion Group 7 p.m. 317 Illini Union. More info: 355-3167 or www.illinois.edu/~beuoy.

PC User Group For schedule, www.uiuc. edu/~pcug.

Secretariat 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. third Wednesday monthly. For location and more info: www.illinois.edu/ ro/secretariat.

The Deutsche Konversationsgruppe 1-3 p.m. Wednesday. The Bread Company, 706 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana.

The Illinois Club Open to male and female faculty and staff members and spouses. More info: www.

TheIllinoisClub.org.

VOICE Poetry and fiction reading, 7:45 p.m. Third Thursday of each month. The Bread Company, 706 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana. u

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InsideIllinois

April 2, 2009

Most effective zoning policies consider regional concerns

By Melissa Mitchell News Editor

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rnab Chakraborty, a professor of urban and regional planning believes the key to better land-use planning is greater cooperation among regional governing bodies. “Traditional approaches of local governments doing local zoning policy in isolation has not worked in the past 50 years,” he said.

Zoning laws have evolved, in large part, for the greater good of most communities.

In some situations, however, zoning regulations have been used as an unintended tool for exclusion of low-income and minority residents, he said.

“Where jurisdictions don’t want a certain type of resident or certain type of housing in their communities they could say, ‘I’m only going to allow a large-size residential development in my community,’ and in effect, exclude smaller-size development.

Smaller-size apartments and condominiums tend to have lower-income residents, so in effect, they are excluding those residents.”

The existence of exclusionary practices is well established, he said, and many such regulations routinely have been challenged successfully in the court system. But Chakraborty – along with a group of urban planning colleagues – wanted to determine whether zoning procedures actually reflect the society that creates them.

“If you go back enough, would you see that the zoning is consistently, systematically dependent on a certain racial category or certain income types in this community?”

The research team, which included University of Maryland-College Park planning professor Gerrit-Jan Knaap, postdoctoral fellow Doan Nguyen and graduate student Jung Ho Shin, conducted an empirical analysis of the effects of high-density zoning on multi-family housing construction from

photo by L. Brian Stauffer

Planning better Arnab Chakraborty, a professor of urban and regional planning, says land-use planning that doesn’t consider

factors relating to the needs of the broader region has yielded some highly undesirable outcomes – from urban sprawl to a shortage of affordable housing for lower-income residents.

zoning constraints vary systematically with distance from the central city and the community’s racial composition in 1960.

“That means the communities that had a higher percentage of white population in 1960 had lower amounts of multi-family housing zoned in their municipalities,”

“Many communities now recognize that exclusionary zoning contributed to sprawl and to income and racial segregation. Many places are now proactively working to address these issues.”

–Arnab Chakraborty 1990-2000 in suburbs of six U.S. metropolitan areas. Metro areas considered were Boston; Miami/Dade County, Fla.; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Portland, Ore.; Sacramento, Calif; and Washington, D.C. Their study, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Urban Studies, yielded two key results, Chakraborty said. First, they found that zoning regulations limit the construction of multi-family housing to below marketdetermined levels. Further, they noted that despite a wide variation of governing structures among the metro areas, multi-family

Chakraborty said. “And the farther away they were from the central city, the less they had zoned for multi-family housing.”

Chakraborty noted that the distance factor could be explained and validated in part by economic theory that posits that “the closer you go (to the central city), the higher the value of the land – and the higher the value of land, the higher the density, because more roads and more services are available.”

Nonetheless, the recent research supports a body of evidence that zoning laws adopted by some jurisdictions a half-centu-

ry ago have had detrimental effects on the pool of affordable housing.

“Many communities now recognize that exclusionary zoning contributed to sprawl and to income and racial segregation,” Chakraborty said. “Many places are now proactively working to address these issues.

“One of the tools that’s been argued to be effective in addressing these issues is the tool called ‘inclusionary zoning,’” he said. In general it refers to mandates local governments place on developers, such as requiring them to provide a certain percentage of higher density or less expensive units in new subdivisions than what the market would otherwise bear, such as apartments or condos.

Chakraborty and Knaap contributed to another empirical study with co-authors Antonio Bento, Cornell University, and Scott Lowe, Boise State University, which investigates the effects of such inclusionary zoning policies on housing prices and starts in California from 1988-2005. That study will appear in the spring issue of the journal Cityscape.

“We found that (in) these jurisdictions that have these policies, the developers tend to pass on those costs to the consumers who are buying the market-rate houses,”

Chakraborty said. “The housing values are higher, housing sizes are smaller, and the construction of new units is lower.”

The overall outcome remains subject to interpretation.

“It is helping create more housing for low-income people, arguably, than it otherwise would have,” Chakraborty said. “But there are costs associated. The jurisdictions are getting less development, and the consumers are paying higher prices for it and getting smaller units.”

“If we are to solve the problem that the inclusionary zoning policies originally intended to solve in principle, we need more regional coordination,” he said. Currently, Chakraborty said, Portland, Ore., is the only area in the U.S. with an elected regional government charged specifically with regulating land use.

“We need policies that these governments get together and talk about. If we have these policies in coordination, we have a more balanced approach to growth and can work out secondary-level policies that somehow compensate the jurisdictions that lose out on this growth through tax sharing agreements.

“There are models on how to do this,” he said. u