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Program helps transfer students transition to UI

By Sharita Forrest Assistant Editor

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Park perks

Recent studies support the idea that access to nature is essential to people’s physical, psychological and social well-being.

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University Scholars Six outstanding faculty members have been recognized as University Scholars.

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Creative solutions

Students are encouraged to enter and interdisciplinary design competition and help keep e-waste out of landfills.

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bout 25 students are participating in a pilot program this academic year that the UI is conducting in conjunction with Parkland College to help transfer students make the transition from community college to the university.

The students are participating in the Parkland Pathways to Illinois program, a dualenrollment, dual-admission program being developed by the UI and Parkland that the UI plans to adapt and offer at partnering community colleges throughout Illinois within the next two years. Through Pathways, qualified students take one class per semester on the UI campus as non-degree students while earning their associate’s degrees as full-time students at Parkland. During their final semester at Parkland, students apply for admission to the UI as transfer students. If they’ve maintained a competitive grade-point average for their intended major at Illinois, they are guaranteed admission to Illinois in that program.

While earning their associate’s degrees, students are required to maintain full-time status of at least 12 credit hours, including their course at the UI, each semester. They also must meet once a semester with academic counselors from Parkland and the UI. For the courses that the students take at Illinois, “we tried to stipulate courses that aren’t available at Parkland to add value to their educational experience,” said Keith Marshall, associate provost for enrollment management at Illinois. “Students also have the opportunity to live in the UI’s residence halls, and have access to student resources such as libraries and computer labs. They can pay to use its recreational facilities and McKinley Health Center, and ride fan buses to sporting events. Our goals are to create a seamless and successful transition to the UI, to help them get comfortable at the Urbana campus and build strong connections with them.”

Another unique aspect of the Parkland Pathways to Illinois program is that while students are earning their associate’s degrees the tuition rate for their courses at the UI is comparable to

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Pathfinder Holly Herrera (left), admissions and records coordinator in the College of

Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, reviews materials about the Parkland Pathways to Illinois program with Heather Manhart, one of 25 students enrolled in the pilot program this year. Pathways helps students successfully make the transition from community college to the university while earning their associate’s degrees. The UI plans to adapt and expand the program to community college partners throughout Illinois. the per-credit tuition rate they pay at Parkland.

“We’ve presented Parkland Pathways at two conferences – the annual conference of the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students and the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Transfer Institute – and that got the biggest gasp from the audience,” Marshall said. “They’re surprised that we’re able to do that because it’s a significant commitment of resources on our part.”

This academic year, the Pathways program is being offered to qualified students interested in transferring into the College of Engineering and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Beginning with the fall semester, the list of available majors will expand to include selected majors in the Col-

lege of Applied Health Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Fine and Applied Arts, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the College of Media.

In the fall, Pathways enrollment will be expanded to about 100 students for Academic Year 2009-2010, and it may be expanded to a total of 200 students in the future. During AY10-11, the UI plans to adapt Pathways so it can be offered to other community colleges in the state, perhaps offering the UI courses online or at Chicago to students at partnering community colleges that aren’t in close proximity to Urbana and for whom on-campus courses aren’t an option. As enrollment in Pathways grows, UI officials hope to broaden the racial, ethnic and socioeconomic diversity among its SEE PATHWAYS, PAGE 3

Emergency-messaging system ready to go

Accountability sought for campus energy use

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By Sharita Forrest Assistant Editor

embers of the campus community are urged to verify their contact information online for a new campus emergency text and e-mail messaging system called Illini-Alert.

Although the Urbana campus began a mass text and e-mail alert system in October 2007, campus officials recently chose a new service provider, MyStateUSA, to provide better service to the campus community. They began preparing to change over to the new system during the winter holiday break, and after a few weeks of testing with small groups of users, the new system was activated at 4:30 a.m. Feb. 8.

The system will be used to broadcast information to the campus community in the event of a potentially life-threatening emergency.

Students and faculty and staff members are asked to log on to http:// On the Web: emergency.illinois.edu to register or emergency.illinois.edu to verify their current information if they enrolled in the previous system.

Users now can add two additional contacts to their accounts, such as spouse, significant other or parent or guardian. The new system allows users to send test messages to their cell phone and e-mail accounts for verification.

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By Sharita Forrest Assistant Editor

he UI is in the process of acquiring a software system that will enable it to decentralize its budgeting and expenditures for energy when the new fiscal year begins July 1. The software system, which the University of Michigan has used for about five years, is expected to help the UI gain control over its soaring utilities costs by promoting cost-management and individual accountability for energy consumption at the college and departmental levels.

The university, which spends about $100 million annually on energy, has had a shadow billing system in place for about a year and has been issuing energy-usage statements – but not bills – to the units that are its largest energy consumers.

Effective July 1, the 81 academic facilities that use 90 percent of the energy at the Urbana campus will be allocated their own funds to budget and pay for their energy consumption directly. Auxiliary systems buildings such as Assembly Hall, the Illini Union and Housing Division already pay their own energy costs.

To activate a unit-based billing system, the UI is procuring a software package called Energy Billing System that will work with the Banner financial software system and with the Enterprise Distributive Network Architecture system that is used to monitor and control utilities production at Abbott Power Plant.

EBS is a Web-based program that allows departmental users to view historical and current costs and consumption data. The software is designed for the needs of large users with hundreds or thousands of buildings spread across multiple campuses and is capable of operating autonomously or of integrating with existing business systems and automated meter reading/data collection devices.

“There’s a tremendous amount of work that’s required to install SEE ENERGY, PAGE 2

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Providing efficient heating, cooling is a changing game he arctic air masses that swept through Illinois this winter have given Abbott Power Plant a workout. Abbott provides the steam that heats most campus buildings and that generates a portion of the campus’s electricity with steam-driven turbines through the process of cogeneration.

“The cogeneration process is more efficient, and as a result costs less and produces less pollution than a commercial power plant,” said Mike Larson, director of utility operations.

The power plant uses a variety of fuel sources – natural gas, fuel oil, and coal – to produce heat for workplaces, residences, classrooms and the myriad other environments that make up the university campus.

With the bitterly cold temperatures that the campus experienced during January and early February, “peak steam production with the subzero temperatures was around 660,000 pounds an hour,” Larson said. “When we get numbers in that range, we start to lose some of the redundancy”

provided by having multiple boilers using a variety of fuel sources. “We could handle a little bit more load, but as we add more load we lessen the amount of backup systems that are able to support the campus in the event something should happen,” Larson said.

During the summer months, steam production may dip to about 300,000 pounds an hour. When the temperatures are soaring outdoors, steam powers some of the chillers that provide air conditioning. The campus has about 30,000 tons of chiller capacity provided by five plants – on Oak Street in Champaign, the North Campus Chiller Plant east of Beckman Institute, at the Main Library, in the Animal Sciences building, and at the Veterinary Medicine complex. The Oak Street plant was constructed as part of a $45 million expansion and upgrade project that centralized the system a few years ago.

“We’re in the process of getting the controls and data at the chiller plants into a common digital control system,” which is expected to take about two years, Larson said.

Since Abbott was built in 1941, the fuel

source for the plant’s boilers has changed several times as the university sought to operate the plant as economically as possible.

Abbott’s boilers were all fired by coal when the plant began operating in 1941, but in the early 1970s the campus discontinued burning coal and switched to natural gas, which was to be provided by Illinois Power Co. But when Illinois Power didn’t receive a sufficient allocation to meet the UI’s energy needs, Abbott had to burn fuel oil instead.

In 1978, Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson asked the UI to convert Abbott back to coal to boost the state’s coal industry by demonstrating that the high-sulfur coal mined in Illinois could be burned safely. The plant uses electrostatic precipitators to remove particulates and a wet scrubber to remove potentially hazardous sulfur dioxide, which can cause respiratory problems, from the plant’s flue gases before they are released into the atmosphere. “The wet scrubber technology that we have for flue gas scrubbing is one of, if not the, best available today, and it has been in place for about 20 years,” Larson said.

ENERGY, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and implement this package,” said Terry Ruprecht, director of energy conservation at Facilities and Services. “We’ve started that work while we’re waiting for the purchasing process to be completed.

“The funds that the units will get are based on a base-year consumption. Primarily we will look first and foremost at fiscal year 2008, but we also have pretty good data from FY07.”

As an incentive to be good stewards of their energy dollars, units will be able to retain any savings they achieve “but if their consumption goes up, they’re going to have to cover the overage. That sword swings two ways,” Ruprecht said.

The campus is addressing conservation efforts through several initiatives. A retrocommissioning team, funded by the Academic Facilities Maintenance Fund Assessment Fee paid by students, has renovated heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in seven buildings – including Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Newmark Laboratory and Turner Hall – and reduced their energy consumption by

an average of 29 percent. The retrocommissioning project has been so successful that the AFMFA advisory committee agreed to fund a second team, which began work last month.

“Each team can only retrocommission six to eight buildings a year,” Ruprecht said.

“Once we started seeing the positive results, we knew that we needed a second team if we wanted to make rapid progress.”

Departments on campus have selected 135 people as energy liaisons who will promote energy-management initiatives and accountability within their departments.

Andy Blacker, a publicity and promotion specialist at F&S, has been holding orientation meetings with the liaisons over the past few weeks, providing tips for conserving energy and an energy-conservation tool kit that contains posters, fliers and materials the liaisons can use to communicate with their colleagues about energy issues. Because departments have distinctly different environments and operations, the liaisons can customize the materials to meet their units’ needs.

“In the orientations we’re finding that there are pockets of people in the departments who are doing great things as far as energy conservation but there’s been no connection between all of those,” Blacker said. “One of the goals of the liaison program is to create a network across campus so people can share what’s happening in their areas.”

The energy liaisons are not intended to be “energy police” – just colleagues who help build awareness about energy practices and remind people how small changes such as turning off fume hoods, computers and lights when they are not in use can have a significant impact on energy consumption campuswide.

“We’re seeing a lot of enthusiasm from the liaison level,” Ruprecht said. “There are folks who really believe in doing this and understand the importance of using less energy, not only from a cost standpoint but from a climate standpoint. It’s pretty exciting.” u

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MESSAGING, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Among other enhanced capabilities, Illini-Alert delivers messages at “true text” speed, greatly reducing delivery times in comparison to the previous system. The registration process for Illini-Alert also is easier because it does not require users to enter the e-mail address of their phone provider; they simply enter their phone number.

Another important feature of the new emergency-messaging system is that it is not hosted on campus; therefore, it would not be disrupted by a major crisis on the Urbana campus, such as a natural disaster.

On Feb. 17, a full-scale test of Illini-Alert was conducted at about 10 a.m. with test messages sent to all of the approximately 25,000 people who had signed up for the emergency-messaging service and to all email addresses on the illinois.edu domain.

Users who signed up or who have campus e-mail addresses but did not receive a message during the test are asked to contact the Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services Help Desk at 2447000 or consult@illinois.edu. The campus community will be alerted prior to future tests.

Authorized UI personnel – including the chancellor, provost, executive director of public safety/chief of police, university president or their designees – can activate the Illini-Alert messaging system during emergency situations.

The campus has signed a contract with MyStateUSA to provide the emergencymessaging service through 2013 at an ini-

tial cost of $65,000 plus a fee of $3,700 per year for recurring maintenance. The previous emergency messaging system was a free system that was developed by Mutare Software.

Illini-Alert is just one of several emergency alert systems in use at the Urbana campus. Other emergency-notification systems include the Emergency Web Alert System, which posts messages on participating campus Web sites; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather radios; mass e-mail; UI Channel 7; the campus telephone tree; public broadcast media, and the 265-UIPD (265-8473) automated voice-mail number.

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Editor Doris K. Dahl 333-2895, dkdahl@illinois.edu

Assistant Editor Sharita Forrest Photographer L. Brian Stauffer Calendar Marty Yeakel Student Intern Brittany Small News Bureau contributors: Craig Chamberlain, communications, international programs, social sciences Phil Ciciora, education, GSLIS, library Jan Dennis, business, law James E. Kloeppel, physical sciences Melissa Mitchell, applied health sciences, arts, humanities Diana Yates, life sciences

“The university has an air permit from the Environmental Protection Agency that regulates how we operate the plant,” Larson said. “On our coal boilers, we have continuous emission monitoring equipment online at all times. If we stray out of the permitoperating parameters, we have to react and report that to the EPA.” All of the energy-production equipment in Abbott can be monitored and/or controlled online through different software systems.

When fuel oil prices rose as a result of the nation’s oil embargo that began in 1973, three boilers were converted in 1979 so they could run on natural gas or fuel oil, providing the flexibility to take advantage of the best market prices. “Coal has been the cheapest fuel source by far in recent history,” Larson said. “If that changes, we have the flexibility to go either way” with the other fuel sources. “With coal boilers, there are times when you have to take them offline for a week or two for maintenance, and we need some kind of backup in order to do that.” u

Energy use at the UI n The Urbana campus consumes enough energy in one year to power 40,00045,000 average homes in the U.S. n 10 of the top 12 energyconsuming facilities on campus are labs/research facilities, because their fume hoods are energy hogs. n Abbott Power Plant produces 93 percent of the campus’s energy. n During 2008, recycling initiatives at the Urbana campus yielded 5.5 million pounds of recyclable

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deaths Keith B. Brown, 84, died Feb. 9 at the Champaign County Nursing Home, Urbana.

Brown was a building supervisor at the Illini Union when he retired in 1988 after 23 years of service. Memorials: The American Heart Association and First United Methodist Church of Urbana.

Ralph Nelson, 81, died Feb. 7 at home in Ames, Iowa. Nelson joined the UI as a professor of clinical medicine in 1979. He later became the head of the College of Medicine, retiring in 1997. He was known for his research with bears, looking for treatments for osteoporosis and kidney disease. He continued his research until 2004. Memorials: Carle Foundation, Urbana.

Marvin Ted Pickett, 73, died Jan. 31 at home in Champaign. Pickett worked in

the UI department of physics for 28 years, designing high-speed digital circuits in the Nuclear Physics Lab. He retired in 1990.

Wanda I. Rollings, 66, died Feb. 2 at home in Fairland, Ill. Rollings first worked at the UI from 1976 until 1979 as a building service worker for Facilities and Services. She returned to the UI in 1984 as a linen maid with the Housing Division until she retired in 1999.

Curtis Wilson, 82, died Feb. 6. Wilson came to the UI in 1959 as a professor of agronomy and USDA researcher. He spent most of his career studying corn protein until retiring in 1991. Memorials: Crow Walk (Church World Service), Audubon Society or Community United Church of Christ. u

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On the Job Dorlene Clark

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Dorlene Clark, administrative assistant with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, has worked at the UI since August 1995. She started as a customer service representative with what was then called the Division of Environmental Health and Safety, and was promoted to administrative aide at GSLIS in January 1998.

Prior to joining the UI, Clark worked at Wellesley College in Massachusetts as secretary to the college’s board of trustees; as assistant to the chief of police at the River Falls Police Department in Wisconsin; and as the assistant to the bursar at Western Illinois University. She has worked in service, business, administrative and academic units throughout her career in higher education.

Born in Colorado, she and her family eventually settled in Macomb, Ill., where her father became the first chair of the geology department at WIU. Clark studied law-enforcement administration at WIU before switching to organizational management, when she decided one law-enforcement officer in the family was enough. Her husband is O.J. Clark, former UI executive director of public safety and chief of police, who retired in December 2005. They have two children and three grandchildren.

Tell me about your job.

My job is dynamic and diverse. My main functions are to provide oversight to the school’s administrative support services, and support the dean’s work, travel and calendar. On any given day I may be fielding questions and providing advice to senior staff and faculty members, sitting in on school and campus meetings, training new employees, hosting international dignitaries, juggling calendars, researching policy or simply keeping the dean on schedule. Some days you have to be a willow tree and other days you need to be an oak. You just never know what will come with each new day.

It sounds like you manage to stay busy.

The work is always abundant and fast-paced, but that’s OK. I don’t like being bored, and anytime someone tells me they’re bored I tell them we can fix that – and we do. (Laughs.)

What do you like best about your job?

First and foremost it’s the people. They are caring and supportive, which makes it nice to come to work. We have such longevity here, and to me that speaks to the kind of place this is. My colleagues are collaborative, dedicated and cohesive. They’re amazing, really, and I’m honored they adopted me into the GSLIS family. My colleagues on campus are equally awesome.

One of my favorite tasks is promoting our staff members and supporting their professional development. I tell everyone that I’m going to take the front-office crew on the road for show-and-tell as an example of how an office should run.

It’s been fascinating to watch GSLIS grow in so many ways in the 11 years that I’ve been here. It’s hard work maintaining our No. 1 ranking, but we are very proud of that achievement.

You’ve worked in higher education for a good part of your life. What’s the appeal?

For me it was a natural fit, probably because I grew up with a father who was a professor, a mother who was an academic clerical, and a spouse who also teaches.

What do you like to do off the job?

My husband and I love to travel. We make an annual pilgrimage to San Diego in January that really refreshes and rejuvenates us. We’ve been fortunate to travel abroad a few times. We’ve danced in a castle in Sweden – it never crossed my mind growing up that someday that could happen. We’ve seen first-hand the beauty of Ireland. In both of those trips, the people were so gracious, warm and welcoming. We look forward to more opportunities for foreign travel.

My other hobbies are reading, sewing, performing occasional volunteer work and visiting with friends and family.

Of all the places you’ve lived, which one was your favorite?

Oddly enough, I would say North Hudson, Wis., which is about 20 miles outside of Minneapolis and St. Paul on the St. Croix River.

It could be cold and snowy eight months of the year. The year we moved there it snowed on Memorial Day, and the fall before we moved to Wellesley there was a blizzard on Halloween. Five feet of snow fell in two days – and all the little trickor-treaters still came out. The day we moved to Wisconsin it was snowing and there were students outside playing football in their shorts. I thought that they had been afflicted with permafrost of the brain, but I came to realize they just had thicker blood than we did. We eventually adapted to it, and loved it.

– Interview by Phil Ciciora, News Editor

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Exploring the highway experience in America The myth of the open road and the reality of the American driving experience is explored by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle in their new book, “Motoring: The Highway Experience in America” (The University of Georgia Press/2008).

“Motoring” unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience – commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical – as it takes a timely look back at Americans’ historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, the book covers dozens of topics related to drivers, cars and highways and explains how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation called the “open road.”

Jakle, a professor emeritus of geography and of landscape architecture at the UI, and Sculle, head of research and education at the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, have collaborated on five previous books on the history, culture and landscape of the American road. Here, with an emphasis on the

driver’s perspective, they discuss garages and gas stations, roadside tourist attractions, freeways and toll roads, truck stops, bus travel and the rise of the convenience store while making readers think about aspects of driving that are often taken for granted.

Although driving originally celebrated freedom and touted a common experience, it has increasingly become a highly regulated, isolated activity. The motive behind America’s first embrace of the automobile – individual prerogative – still substantially obscures this reality.

“Americans did not have the automobile imposed on them,” say the authors, who ask why some of the early prophetic warnings about American car culture went unheeded and why the arguments of its promoters resonated so persuasively. Today, the automobile is implicated in any number of environmental and social problems. As the wisdom of our dependence on automobile travel has come into serious question, reassessment of how we first became that way is more important than ever, they write. u

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Women and warfare in early modern Europe In the military campaigns of early modern Europe, there were a great multitude of women – some of whom went under the guise of men to fight, others as prostitutes, seamstresses, cooks and nurses who tended to the many needs of the army. In addition, because armies often lacked adequate state funding, women were integral in the pillaging of defeated foes and plundering to help finance the campaigns.

In “Women, Armies and Warfare in Early Modern Europe” (Cambridge University Press/2008), author John A. Lynn, a professor of history, examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. Lynn argues that before 1650, women were fundamental to armies because they were integral to the pillage economy that maintained troops in the field.

But as state funding for armies increased and the pillage-supported armies went out of fashion, so did women in the camps. Part of this was a result of enforced discipline

of the soldiers and an increased efficiency in military campaigns.

“Before 1650 women were vital to the very existence of field armies,” Lynn said. “They, in part, explain why the men were there, owing to their part in creating ‘the libertine lifestyle.’ The daily lives of women became inescapable aspects of military life, army reform and state formation. These were some tough ladies.”

To understand the role of women in the campaigns of early modern Europe is to understand the nature and history of Europe itself. As society moved toward Reformation and formal, efficient armies, women moved home and changed the dynamics not only of military conquests but of the entire continent and European society as a whole.

“I hope I have succeeded not only in dealing with my subject but in presenting it in a way that interests military historians, historians of women and gender, and the profession in general,” Lynn said.

www.cambridge.org/us/ PATHWAYS, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 students.

“I think it’s really important that the Pathways program sends a message to area high schools that we value the education that students will receive if they choose to go to Parkland,” said Dan Cullen, visiting assistant director of undergraduate admissions in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at Illinois.

“We believe in Parkland and Parkland believes in us. We work well together as partners. I think it’s a win for Parkland, for Illinois and for the students.”

The first cohort of students did “fairly well during the fall semester 2008, their first semester in the program,” Marshall said, but they expressed concern about having a resource person from the UI available at Parkland to answer their

questions. The university plans to have a staff member from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions available at Parkland a few hours a week to assist them.

The program is a component of the Transfer Experience and Advising Mentors initiative on which Ruth Watkins, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the principal investigator.

Pathways and TEAM are being funded in part by a three-year, $899,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation for Education, a private foundation based in Indianapolis that strives to expand access to and success in postsecondary education, particularly for people from underrepresented groups. u

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Chinatowns project unrealistic image of China, study shows

By Melissa Mitchell News Editor

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I doctoral student Grace Yan was born and raised in China, but when she visited Chicago’s Chinatown to collect data for a study on identity and ethnicity issues related to tourism in that neighborhood, what she found was largely unfamiliar.

“I’m Chinese, but I consider myself a stranger to that culture and landscape of Chinatown,” she said. “Every time I visit there, I feel like I am living in a movie, in China in the 1930s.”

In large part, according to Yan and UI recreation, sport and tourism professor Carla Santos, the image of China that many Americans tourists cling to is that of an exotic place with ancient, ornate architecture, colorful lanterns hanging everywhere and restaurant menus offering unusual delicacies such as duck, and chicken feet.

That’s because when they visit Chinatown – either the one in Chicago or similar neighborhoods located in several other urban centers around the world where Chinese immigrants have settled – “they’re peeking into a China that doesn’t really exist,” Santos said.

“It’s a privileged peek at Chinese history, not something you’ll find if you go to China.”

While Americans may not be particularly familiar with actual, present-day Chinese culture, Santos doesn’t fault them for having an outdated perspective.

As tourists, they’re more likely to have visited a Chinatown

neighborhood than they are to have traveled to China. And what tourists find in Chinatowns is a social and economic construct that has more in common with a stage set on a studio back lot.

She doesn’t blame Chinatown residents for cultivating and feeding that image to tourists either.

Instead, she said the research she and Yan conducted – supported by a grant from the UI Research Board and published in the current issue of the journal Annals of Tourism – makes sense, considering the backdrop of society’s intense interest in multiculturalism.

“What we found in (Chicago’s) Chinatown is that Chinatown is living within a multicultural agenda,” she said. “We hear a lot about it. There’s an assumption that if we just bring everybody together, we will all get along. And if we just understand someone else’s culture, it’s all beautiful.

“But what we are failing to recognize is that these multicultural agendas are a white, middle-class idea. It works for us, but it doesn’t necessarily work for those on display.”

Nonetheless, Santos said, many of the 26 Chinatown residents she and Yan interviewed in depth understood and accepted their roles in this culture, especially as it relates to commerce and sustaining their way of life.

“That’s their social reality,” she said. “So what they do is feed back to us what we expect of them.

Scholars put so much emphasis on what is authentic in tourism. And yet, what we found is that individuals in Chinatown are not re-

ally that concerned about whether something is authentic or not.”

Santos said that’s because residents – including the owner of a tea shop they interviewed who admitted many of the wares she sells aren’t Chinese – “recognize there are authentic practices in Chinatown.” Those practices usually take place in the “backstage areas,” outside the view of casual observers.

“But when it comes to tourism,” she said, “they are going to give us that which we demand. It’s a business.”

And in recent decades, it’s become a business that elected officials and other urban leaders have been courting aggressively.

Although Chinatowns originally tended to become established in areas isolated from other city neighborhoods, and historically became associated in the American consciousness as being “dirty, seedy places” that have attracted prostitution and drug cultures, that has changed to a large extent, the professor said.

“Chicago’s Chinatown has worked very hard to put out a new image of themselves. They’re putting a new façade to it.”

In the report on their work, which received this year’s Travel and Tourism Research Association award for best research conference paper, Santos and Yan noted that urban ethnic tourism is hardly a new phenomenon. The practice dates to the early 20th century when white, middle- and upperincome visitors “would visit metropolitan areas inhabited by the poor or socially disadvantaged to

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Changing Chinatowns Recreation, sport and tourism professor

Carla Santos, right, and graduate student Grace Yan found that Chinatowns project an unrealistic image of China, but it's an image that residents and visitors mutually negotiate satisfactorily. shop and gawk at the residents.” ”What makes the contemporary situation different is the fact that those interviewed (in the current research) promote and welcome the opportunity to be gawked at.”

Even though the situation may

be mutually negotiated – albeit, unspoken – Santos advised that “when going into these places asking for authenticity, we need to be cognizant that what we’re going to get is what we’re asking for.” u

Intellectual Property in the 21st Century Lecture & Lunch Thursday, February 19 | 12:00 PM | 301 Coordinated Science Laboratory Invention 2 Venture: Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences Saturday, February 21 | 8:00 AM | Chemical Life Science Lab (CLSL) Auditorium TEC’s First Annual Entrepreneur Film Fest Sunday, February 22 | 12:30 – 7:30 PM | The Savoy 16 Theaters DesignMatters2: Brooks Scotts of Patagonia Co-sponsor: School of Art + Design Monday, February 23 | 5:30 PM | 100 Gregory Hall

InnovationWeek In an effort to celebrate the rich history and culture of innovation at Illinois, the Technology Entrepreneur Center in the College of Engineering and the School of Art + Design in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, with support from the Office of the Provost, are hosting the second annual InnovationWeek 2009 at Illinois from February 17 – 25, 2009.

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Discarded to Precious Displays Co-sponsor: School of Art + Design Monday, February 23 | All day | Location TBD Discarded to Precious Awards Lunch Co-sponsor: School of Art + Design Tuesday, February 24 | All day | Location TBD Entrepreneur in Residence: Brian Frizzell Tuesday, February 24 | 1:00 - 4:00 PM | 469A CSL DesignMatters2: John Paul Kusz, Head Sustainable Enterprise Center Co-sponsor: School of Art + Design Tuesday, February 24 | 5:30 PM | 100 Gregory Hall 2009 Innovation Celebration Co-sponsor: The Champaign County Economic Development Corporation Tuesday, February 24 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM | The Forum at Carle, Carle Foundation Hospital, 611 Park St., Urbana TEC’s Start-Up Career Fair: Panel Discussion Wednesday, February 25 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM | 1404 Siebel Center TEC’s Start-Up Career Fair: Networking Reception Wednesday, February 25 | 5:30 - 8:00 PM | Brother’s Bar & Grill

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Research suggests access to nature is essential to human health

By Diana Yates Life Sciences Editor

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lderly adults tend to live longer if their homes are near a park or other green space, regardless of their social or economic status.

College students do better on cognitive tests when their dorm windows view natural settings. Children with ADHD have fewer symptoms after outdoor activities in lush environments. Residents of public housing complexes report better family interactions when they live near trees.

These are only a few of the findings from recent studies that support the idea that nature is essential to the physical, psychological and social well-being of the human animal, said Frances Kuo, a professor of natural resources and environmental science and of psychology at the UI. Kuo presented her own and other findings on the subject at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago on Feb. 13.

“Humans are evolved organisms and the environment is our habitat,” Kuo said.

“Now, as human societies become more urban, we as scientists are in a position to look at humans in much the same way that those who study animal behavior have looked at animals in the wild to see the effect of a changing habitat on this species.”

Humans living in landscapes that lack trees or other natural features undergo patterns of social, psychological and physical breakdown that are strikingly similar to those observed in other animals that have been deprived of their natural habitat, Kuo said.

“In animals what you see is increases in aggression, you see disrupted parenting patterns, their social hierarchies are disrupted,” she said.

Considerable research has found that violence and aggression are highest in urban settings devoid of trees and grass, for example.

Kuo has studied how access to nature influences crime and conflict resolution among residents of public housing facilities in Chicago. These facilities provide an ideal laboratory for studying the “green effect,”

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Nature nurture Frances Kuo, a professor of natural resources and environmental

science and psychology at Illinois, studies how environmental factors, such as access to nature, may influence social, psychological and physical health. she said, because their occupants are randomly assigned to standard housing units, some of which have grass and trees nearby.

In a 2001 study of the Robert Taylor Homes (recently demolished), Kuo and her colleague, UI landscape architecture professor William Sullivan, found that those who lived in housing units with no immediate view of or access to nature reported a greater number of aggressive – including violent – conflicts with partners or children than their peers who lived near trees and grass.

In another 2001 study, Kuo and Sullivan looked at two years of crime statistics in relation to specific addresses in the Ida B. Wells public housing facility in Chicago.

After controlling for other factors, the researchers found that crime rates were highest for residences with little or no proximity to nature. Identical units with views of grass and trees were associated with significantly less crime.

“Roughly 7 percent of the variation in

crime that can’t be accounted for by other factors can be accounted for by the amount of trees,” Kuo said.

Humans suffer a variety of negative social effects when living in barren landscapes. Kuo and her colleagues have shown that these effects include decreased civility, less supervision of children outdoors, more illegal activity, more aggression, more property crime, more loitering, more graffiti and more litter.

“We might call some of that ‘soiling the nest,’ which is not healthy,” she said. “No organisms do that when they’re in good shape.”

Certain psychological problems are also likely to appear more often in those lacking access to nature, she said.

“In our studies, people with less access to nature show relatively poor attention or cognitive function, poor management of major life issues, poor impulse control,” she said.

Other researchers have found that access

to nature positively influences a person’s mood, life and work satisfaction, she said.

Kuo has seen such psychological effects in children with ADHD. In a 2001 study, she and her colleagues asked parents of children with ADHD which after-school activities worsened – and which soothed – their children’s symptoms. The parents consistently reported that outdoor activities in natural settings lessened their children’s ADHD symptoms more than activities conducted indoors, or in built environments outdoors.

In a 2008 study, Kuo and a colleague, Illinois postdoctoral researcher Andrea Faber Taylor, studied children with ADHD who went on field trips in green or manmade environments. After the trips, other researchers (who didn’t know where the kids had been) tested their concentration.

Children with ADHD had significantly better concentration after a walk in a park than in an urban setting. The difference was comparable to what is achieved with standard ADHD medication, Kuo said, although “no one knows how long the green effect will last.”

More recent studies by various teams in Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the U.S., are showing that access to nature – or lack thereof – can also have significant physical effects. A large-scale study in the Netherlands found that general health is predicted by the amount of green space within a 1-mile or 3-mile radius, Kuo said. Another study found that elderly Japanese adults lived longer when their homes were within walking distance of a park or other green space. These effects were independent of their social or economic status.

While none of these studies proves conclusively that nature is essential to optimal functioning in humans, Kuo said, the body of evidence strongly points in that direction.

“So when people say: ‘As a scientist, would you say that we know this now?

Do we know that people need nature?’ I say: ‘As a scientist I can’t tell you. I’m not ready to say that,’ ” Kuo said. “ ‘But as a mother who knows the scientific literature, I would say, yes.’ ” u

Carbon nanotube avalanche process nearly doubles current

By James E. Kloeppel Physical Sciences Editor

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y pushing carbon nanotubes close to their breaking point, researchers at the UI have demonstrated a remarkable increase in the current-carrying capacity of the nanotubes, well beyond what was previously thought possible.

The researchers drove semiconducting carbon nanotubes into an avalanche process that carries more electrons down more paths, similar to the way a multilane highway carries more traffic than a onelane road.

“Single-wall carbon nanotubes are already known to carry current densities up to 100 times higher than the best metals like copper,” said Eric Pop, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UI. “We now show that semiconducting nanotubes can carry nearly twice as much current as previously thought.”

As reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, the researchers found that at high electric fields (10 volts per micron), energetic electrons and holes can create additional electron-hole pairs, leading to an avalanche effect where the free carriers multiply and the current rapidly increases until the nanotube breaks down.

The sharp increase in current, Pop said, is due to the onset of avalanche impact ionization, a phenomenon observed in certain semiconductor diodes and transistors at high electric fields, but not previously seen in nanotubes.

While the maximum current carrying capacity for metallic nanotubes has been measured at about 25 microamps, the maximum current-carrying capacity for semiconducting nanotubes is less established.

Previous theoretical predictions suggested a similar limit for single-band conduction in semiconducting

nanotubes.

To study current behavior, Pop, graduate student Albert Liao and undergraduate student Yang Zhao first grew single-wall carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition from a patterned iron catalyst. Palladium contacts were used for measurement purposes. The researchers then pushed the nanotubes close to their breaking point in an oxygen-free environment.

“We found that the current first plateaus near 25 microamps, and then sharply increases at higher electric fields,” said Pop, who also is affiliated with the Beckman Institute and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the UI. ”We performed repeated measurements, obtaining currents of up to 40 microamps, nearly twice those of previous reports.”

By inducing very high electric fields in the nanotubes, the researchers drove some of the charge carriers into nearby subbands, as part of the avalanche process. Instead of being in just one “lane,” the electrons and holes could occupy several available lanes, resulting in much greater current.

The avalanche process (which cannot be observed in metallic carbon nanotubes because an energy gap is required for electron-hole multiplication) offers additional functionality to semiconducting nanotubes, Pop said. “Our results suggest that avalanche-driven devices with highly nonlinear turn-on characteristics can be fashioned from semiconducting single wall nanotubes.”

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Current events Electrical and computer engineering professor Eric Pop, from left, worked with undergraduate Yang Zhao and graduate student Albert Liao, both in ECE, to demonstrate a remarkable increase in the current-carrying capacity of carbon nanotubes.

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Rote memorization of history adds to collective cluelessness indictment of the way history is taught in grades K-12, according to a UI professor s fans of talk-show host Jay Le- who studies and teaches historical instrucno’s man-on-the-street interviews tion. know, Americans suffer from a Brenda M. Trofanenko, a professor of national epidemic of historical curriculum and instruction in the College and civic ignorance. But just because most of Education, says that teaching history by Americans know more about “American rote – that is, by having students memorize Idol” than they do about American govern- historical dates and then testing them on ment doesn’t necessarily mean it’s entirely how well they can regurgitate that data on their fault. a test – is a pedagogical method guaranteed Americans’ historical apathy is also an to get students to tune out and add to our collective civic and historical cluelessness.

“Everybody thinks of history as being really boring – and it is, if it’s solely the recitation and recalling of facts,” Trofanenko said. “The concern is always, ‘Our kids don’t know history!’

But if we’re just talking about the recall of facts and dates, that’s not solely what you want to know about history.”

While Trofanenko does believe there should be a baseline body of historical knowledge taught in school, the memorization and recall methods of inundating students with redletter historical dates neglects contextualizing those events within the broad sweep of history.

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and their community affiliations,” she said.

“But its relevance lies not just in knowing historical fact but being able to see what can be gleaned from historical inquiry, including cause and effect, progress and decline, and historical significance. You still have to know what happened, but you also have to be able to put it into a larger context of what was happening at the time, why it was happening, and what relevance it has to the current day.”

Facts and important historical dates, Trofanenko said, are easily measured and quantifiable through tests, which is why they remain so popular in elementary and secondary education. The emphasis on memorizing facts and dates has its roots in standardized testing and has only been given further pedagogical credence by the accountability measures of the No Child Left Behind law.

“In elementary- and middle-school grades, history is one of many subjects of social studies, which is not a testable subject or focus of current NCLB laws,” she said. “And if it’s not testable, it’s often not taught. Asking a student to write an essay explaining the moral dilemmas of the American Revolution can’t be put into a bubble answer.”

Since the federal government uses only math and reading scores to measure a school’s progress, there’s little incentive for schools to teach students non-tested subjects such as history. But history, according to Trofanenko, “is just as important as everything else. Everything is set in time, and experiences typically change in significance over time.”

“If you were looking at the evolution of scientific knowledge,” she said, “you would want to understand just how significant the Scopes trial was, and not just the result and the year it was decided. And, to further historicize, how that decision is still relevant to a science curriculum in modern-day Kansas.

“So it’s not just knowing facts but being able to place everything in a period of time so you understand how the past continues to

inform current issues.”

While it’s important to know facts and dates, Trofanenko believes history teachers should challenge students, especially high school students, to think like historians.

“We need to start thinking differently about our students’ abilities,” she said.

“They can think critically and engage in historical inquiry if they’re actually given the opportunity. Instead, we make them learn facts and test them on their ability to regurgitate them at the end of the week. I think that’s really insulting to them.”

Trofanenko believes that students today are a lot more critical than they were in years past.

“With the amount of information that’s out on the Internet, I don’t think you can fool kids anymore,” Trofanenko said. “They’re much more savvy now about looking things up than they were even a few years ago.

They’re certainly critical about other things in their lives, so why can’t they be critical of history as well?”

Thinking like a historian, according to Trofanenko, entails studying primary source documents, thinking about the historical context, weighing the evidence and then making an argument – “something all high school students are capable of doing,” she said. “That helps students develop a historical consciousness, which is the ability to ask why a particular historical narrative or a historical concept is advanced or not.”

Teaching students to look at history with a critical eye also helps students see past the jingoism that sometimes passes for history in classrooms.

“History is used as a way to instill nationalism and patriotism and commitment to a country, and it particularly becomes strong when there’s a threat against the nation, like in the United States after Sept. 11.

But that often blinds everyone to unsavory historical events that have happened in the past. That’s why it’s important to foster a healthy bit of critical skepticism in students instead of training a generation of expert test-takers.” u

Ending stimulus as important as launching it, economist says

By Jan Dennis Business & Law Editor

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ulling the plug on a governmentbacked stimulus plan once the U.S. economy rebounds is as important as launching one now, a UI economist says.

Left unchecked, the $787 billion package of spending and tax cuts would be a long-term economic drag by compounding an already massive federal deficit, said J. Fred Giertz, the interim head of the UI economics department.

Deficits undermine the economy by increasing interest rates for consumers as well as the federal government, which means more tax dollars are effectively wasted to pay down the nation’s debt, economists

say.

“While a fiscal stimulus leading to large deficits may be desirable in the short term, the country needs to find a way to reduce long-term deficits that will mount from the demands of an aging population relying on Social Security and federal health-care programs,” Giertz said. “Just as it is important to get the stimulus package in place quickly, it is important to stop it once the economy is in better shape.”

Giertz says the stimulus plan approved

by Congress last Friday would likely provide a short-term economic boost.

How quickly, he says, remains clouded by questions over how soon new spending programs could get under way and how

much of temporary tax increases people would actually spend.

Temporary tax cuts typically provide less of an economic jolt because people tend to spend less than if the cuts were permanent, Giertz said. But he says the government cannot afford permanent cuts with hefty costs for aging baby boomers looming.

With those challenges ahead, Giertz cautioned Democrats and Republicans to use the stimulus package only for a short-term economic boost, not as inroads to advance party goals.

“The stimulus package should not be a back door way of achieving permanent tax cuts for Republicans or a larger-sized gov-

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He says proposed tax cuts, infrastructure improvements and aid to state and local governments offer the best hope for the economy, while long-term commitments such as expanding health-care benefits are bad ideas.

“There are right and wrong components of the package,” Giertz said. “It probably doesn’t make a lot of difference if a few good things are left out and a few bad things are included.” u

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Kanti Jain elected to National Academy of Engineering

By James E. Kloeppel Physical Sciences Editor

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llinois electrical and computer engineering professor Kanti Jain has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

Jain was among 65 engineers selected for membership in the academy, which was established in 1964 under a charter from the National Academy of Sciences as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers.

Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions in engi-

neering. Current membership includes 2,246 U.S. engineers and 197 foreign associates.

Jain was cited for his contributions to the development of high-resolution, deepultraviolet excimer lithography for microelectronic fabrication.

“This prestigious honor is an indication of professor Jain’s pioneering contributions to the field of optical engineering,” said Chancellor Richard Herman. “We are extremely proud of his accomplishments, which are emblematic of the continuing legacy of excellence of our university.”

Jain’s research focuses on developing novel micro- and nano-fabrication technologies that enable the patterning and microstructuring of a variety of organic and inorganic materials – including new polymers, semiconductors, metals and biological materials – and producing structures, devices and systems previously not deemed possible.

His research objectives include integrated, distributed, multifunctional sensors, antennas and electronic modules produced on flexible substrates using novel large-area

fabrication techniques.

He earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1970, and his doctorate in electrical engineering and physics in 1975, both from Illinois.

Jain, who joined the faculty in 2006, is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Optical Society of America and the International Society for Optical Engineering. He holds 68 patents, including inventions of core lithography technologies for the production of integrated circuits and displays. u

University recognized for its community-engagement efforts

By Phil Ciciora News Editor

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he UI’s Urbana campus has been selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in the foundation’s 2008 community-engagement classification.

The UI was selected in the Curricular Engagement and Outreach & Partnerships category, which honors institutions with substantial commitments to teaching, learning and scholarship that engage faculty, students and community in “mutually beneficial and respectful collaboration,” the foundation said.

“Receiving the Carnegie Foundation recognition documents our longstanding land-grant commitment to engage with the citizens of the state and the world to assist them in addressing key societal issues,” said Richard Herman, the chancellor of the Urbana campus. “It is impressive that nearly 70 separate programs were described in the documentation submitted to support our selection. This demonstrates the breadth of our public engagement at Illinois.”

Colleges and universities with an institutional focus on community engagement were invited to apply for the classification.

Illinois was required to submit documen-

achievements engineering Nathan Price, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award. The award is given to junior faculty who “exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations,” according to the foundation’s Web site. The title of his research grant is “Systems biology and engineering of Clostridium beijerinckii for Enhanced Butanol Production.”

liberal arts and sciences Penelope Soskin, senior assistant dean and director of honors, scholarships and experiential learning initiatives in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the 2009 Medallion of Honor, the most prestigious annual award given by the Moms Association at the UI. Soskin will be recognized for her contributions April 18 at the Moms Association annual board meeting.

The Medallion of Honor Award was created in 1966 to recognize those people who, by example and service, have used their talents to enrich the lives of others. Since 1977, the award has been given to women affiliated in some way with the UI. Among Soskin’s duties are administering the college’s scholarship-selection program, serving as the primary support to out-of-state LAS students, and organizing the LAS senior thesis program. Her main charge is the oversight of the Edmund J. James Scholar Honors Program for the college.

John Hedeman, an assistant dean in the College of Business, has noticed the effect her support has had on her students. “By encouraging young undergraduates to set the highest possible standards for themselves, she inspires her James Scholars to … pursue undergraduate research, apply for the most prestigious scholarships … and to give back to the world through positive civic engagement.”

The 2009 American Society for Microbiology will honor Carl R. Woese, the Stanley O. Ikenberry Professor of Microbiology, with the Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award during the society’s general meeting in May. Woese also is a professor

tation describing the nature and extent of its community engagement, including descriptions and examples of institutionalized practices of community engagement that showed alignment among mission, culture, leadership, resources and practices.

The UI was one of 119 U.S. colleges and universities selected for the community-engagement classification.

Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by Congress, the foundation is an independent policy and research center based in Stanford, Calif., whose primary mission is “perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and

On the Web: www.carnegiefoundation.org dignify the profession of the teacher.”

The foundation, through the work of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, developed the first typology of American colleges and universities in 1970 as a research tool to describe and represent the diversity of U.S. higher education. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education continues to be used for a wide range of purposes by academic researchers, institutional personnel, policymakers and others. u

A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members

of biology in the School of Life Sciences and a professor in the Institute for Genomic Biology at the UI. Sponsored by Abbott Laboratories, this is the society’s premier award for sustained, remarkable contributions to the microbiological sciences.

Woese is being honored for changing perceptions of microbial diversity. His phylogenetic analyses of ribosomal RNA sequences led to the recognition of a third domain of life – the Archaea – which revolutionized the view of life’s history and brought order to the understanding of microbial diversity and classification.

lege. “Through her Web site created for the Global Studies Library at the UI she continues to engage users in international studies.”

liberal arts and sciences & engineering Jay Bass, a professor of geology; Albert Valocchi, a professor of civil and environmental engineering; and Donald Wuebbles, a professor of atmospheric sciences,

have been elected fellows of the American Geophysical Union.

“The union is a worldwide scientific community with a membership of 50,000 researchers, teachers and students that advances, through unselfish cooperation in research, the understanding of Earth and space for the benefit of humanity,” according to its Web site. u

fine and applied arts The Pacifica Quartet has added a Grammy Award to its growing collection of musical achievements.

Pacifica, the faculty quartet in residence at the UI School of Music, won the 2009 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance for its recording of Elliott Carter’s String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5. The announcement was made Feb. 8 at an afternoon ceremony held prior to the televised Grammy Awards program.

Ensemble members are Sibbi Bernhardsson and Simin Ganatra, violin; Masumi Per Rostad, viola; and Brandon Vamos, cello.

The quartet recorded Carter’s quartets, on the Naxos label, in celebration of the composer’s centenary.

Mentoring Inside/Out

library Lynne M. Rudasill, a professor of library administration and a global studies librarian, has been named the 2009 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries Law and Political Science Section Marta Lange/CQ Press Award. The award honors an academic or law librarian who has made distinguished contributions to bibliography and information service in law or political science. CQ Press, sponsor of the award, will present the $1,000 award and plaque during the 2009 American Library Association annual conference in Chicago.

“As the first and only global studies librarian at the UI, Lynne has made a number of contributions to the library profession through articles published in books, peer reviewed and general academic library journals and through a host of presentations both at home and abroad,” said Leslie Homzie, chair of the award committee and senior reference librarian at Boston Col-

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Disruptions in daily routine can affect a couple’s conversation

By Craig Chamberlain Social Sciences Editor

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s the communication in your relationship a little frosty?

It may be the little things you’re not doing in daily routines are playing a part, says researcher Leanne Knobloch. Things like forgetting to walk the dog or fuel the car or take out the trash.

Disruptions you cause in your partner’s routines can affect the quality of conversation, separate from your general satisfaction with the relationship, says Knobloch (pronounced kuh-NO-block), a UI professor of communication.

In a study published in the December issue of the journal Communication Research, Knobloch studied 125 married couples, using both questionnaires and short, lab-based conversations captured on videotape.

She found that those who reported more interference from their partners “were less fluent in their messages, their conversations were less coordinated, and they showed less liking,” she said. Those who reported more facilitation from their partners “were warmer and showed more affiliation in their conversations.”

“In general, couples who said that they were interfering with each other were a lot less warm, and their conversations were a lot more negative in tone,” she said.

“When you take relationship satisfaction into account, you still see these effects. There’s something apart from just the overall climate of the relationship that makes what my partner is doing on an everyday level really matter in my communication.”

In conducting her study, Knobloch was working from a theory called the Emotion-in-Relationships Model, which suggests that emotion within a relationship is rooted in how your partner either interferes with or facilitates your daily routines. Facilitation can include welcome interruptions in routines, such as surprising a partner by making dinner.

These actions are important, she said, because a key part of building a relationship is figuring out how to integrate the two partners’ daily schedules.

“The theory says that routines are mindless, but when the interruption happens, we really focus on it and we attend to it and we get charged up … we experience some

emotion,” she said.

What Knobloch was seeking to do in her study was extend the theory beyond the experience of emotion, to see how those interruptions affect partners’ communication behavior.

“Trying to understand how interruptions leak out in people’s behavior is, I think, very important,” she said.

“Emotions can kind of come and go – everybody experiences negative and positive emotion in relationships – but if the interruptions carry over into how I talk to you and how you talk to me, then that becomes part of the fabric of the relationship.”

In conducting the study, Knobloch and a team of three graduate students recruited 125 married couples from the local community. During a session with each couple at a campus research lab, the partners separately completed questionnaires about the relationship, including questions about how much interference and facilitation they received from their spouse.

Next, they were asked to talk to each other for 10 minutes, alone but recorded on camera, about a positive aspect of their marriage. They then separately completed questionnaires about the conversation. A similar process was followed for a second 10-minute conversation in which they discussed a surprising event in their marriage.

In evaluating the conversations later, using both the selfreport questionnaires and the coding of independent student observers who viewed the videotape, Knobloch found that the nature of the relationship often showed through. “You start the cameras and you get a real sense of the climate of a relationship, even though it’s in a lab, even though couples know that cameras are watching,” she said.

The link between interference/facilitation and the nature of couples’ conversations was shown to be statistically significant but not huge, Knobloch said. This is not surprising given the nature of the study and the need to rely on short artificial conversations in a lab, she said.

“If these effects are showing up in the lab, what are these couples doing at home when there are no cameras?

If they’re trying to be on their best behavior, in some ways that’s a more stringent test,” she said.

The results are important, Knobloch said, given the wellestablished link between the quality of communication in a

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relationship and satisfaction with that relationship.

“If we can help people do more facilitating and less interfering, then they’re going to have better conversations, and if they have more pleasant conversations, they’re going to be happier.” u

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UI dietitian helps students one plate at a time

By Brittany Small News Bureau Intern

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ust step into Robin Allen’s Clark Hall office and it is evident that she loves what she does or that she gets really hungry on the job – or both.

A small table is set up in the corner with a myriad of alternative food products, from gluten-free Rice Chex to bread crumbs and cookies. A handful of fiberissexy.com pins sit next to Allen’s “Ask the Dietitian” signs that started appearing in dining halls around campus last October.

Allen, a dietitian for 30 years who has a master’s degree in public health education from Illinois, became the dietitian for Dining Services last July.

“The university has had dietitians in the past, but this particular position is new,” Allen said.

Allen may be new to Dining Services but she is not new to the UI. She recently worked as a research dietitian for the department of food science and human nutrition and has worked at both McKinley Health Center and the SportWell Center in the Illini Union for the past eight years.

“It is part of my job to make sure that students have a well-balanced meal so that they can study and exercise well,” Allen said.

As the university’s dietitian, Allen has a position that encompasses a variety of jobs.

Chief among them is working with students.

Allen said that she deals more one-on-one with students to help them have more nutritious alternatives in the residence halls.

“If a student has a food allergy, I will meet with them where they usually eat, and we’ll both sit down with the dining-hall manager to see how we can meet the student’s needs better,” Allen said.

Sophomore Christine Milne, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., has celiac disease, an autoimmune disease that prevents her from

consuming products that contain gluten or wheat. She first met with Allen in September.

“We met to organize the services that are available to me in the dorm, and she gave me specific foods to eat in order to stay energized enough as an athlete,” Milne said.

“She also provided me with a lot of information about foods and meal plans that work for people like me who have celiac disease.”

“I think I learn more from students than they learn from me,” Allen said. “They are quite the experts when it comes to what foods they can and can’t eat or what medicines work the best.” Allen regularly works with 10 students, and some of them are now helping each other, she said.

For students such as Milne or those who have food allergies, Allen spends time researching and ordering products so that the students can have a nutritious diet that doesn’t interfere with their sensitivity to foods that are found in the residence dining halls.

“Gluten is found in wheat, rye, barley, pasta and even beer,” Allen said. “Most of my students with gluten allergies know which things will cause a reaction, so I will try to find a similar product without gluten.”

Milne appreciates Allen’s efforts because she is able to eat normally in the residence halls despite the limitations of celiac disease.

“She helps me have food in the dorms that I can eat, and she is always looking for new food that is gluten-free,” Milne said.”

From the University Housing and Dining Services Web site, students can e-mail Allen if they have questions concerning food allergies, special diets or general nutrition.

“Students will e-mail me and let me know if they think there isn’t anything nutritious to eat. When that happens, I do my best to work with them to make or iden-

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Nutritional concerns Dietitian Robin Allen, left, consults with Christine Milne, a student who requires a gluten-free diet because she has celiac disease. Allen, who works for UI Dining Services, considers education her top priority. tify nutritious choices,” Allen said. She receives about 10 e-mails per week with questions from students regarding weight loss, dining-hall menus and vegetarian alternatives.

Allen also spends a good amount of her time updating the EatSmart menu-management system that can also be accessed through the University Housing Web site.

“I’m trying to get our recipes accurate and up to date so the proper nutrition can be displayed,” Allen said. EatSmart, introduced last year, provides students with a nutritional analysis of foods served in the dining halls.

With obesity and food allergies on the rise, Allen said that educating students about gluten-free products and nutritious

food options is important. Since the “Ask the Dietician” and “Ask for Gluten-Free” signs were distributed in the residence dining halls last October, Allen has received more inquiries through e-mail from students with health concerns.

“We’re really trying to strive for healthier choices in the residence halls along with better education through residential life programs,” Allen said. “Sometimes you’ll even see me in the dining halls behind a table giving out samples and information.”

“I’ll do education in any way that I can – online, point of service, one-on-one, you name it,” she said. “We’re always looking for new ways to get the word out about nutrition. Food is about fun and culture and I want to promote that in any way I can.” u

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ix Urbana campus faculty members have been recognized as University Scholars. The program recognizes excellence while helping to identify and retain the university’s most talented teachers, scholars and researchers.

Now in its 23rd year, the program provides $10,000 to each scholar for each of three years to use to enhance his or her academic career. The money may be used for travel, equipment, research assistants, books or other purposes.

“The University Scholars Program, inaugurated in 1985, recognizes faculty members who are nominated by their colleagues as among the very best in their fields,” said Mrinalini “Meena” Chatta Rao, university vice president for academic affairs. “The University Scholar designation is not awarded for a specific project or proposal, but rather, it symbolizes the recipient’s excellence and the university’s commitment to foster outstanding faculty members and their work.”

The recipients (with comments from their nominating papers): Ann P. Bishop, professor of library and information science, a co-founder and co-director of the Community Informatics Initiative, is recognized internationally for her research in the field of community informatics. Community informatics examines how information and communication technologies are used to help geographic communities achieve their goals. Her commitment to endeavors to improve social and educational institutions is manifested in direct research and service engagements with public schools and community organizations. She started the Booker T. Washington After-School Program for children of recent Spanish-speaking immigrants; it is now entering its third year. In 1998, she was recognized by President Bill Clinton for her zeal in creating and promoting access to technology for underserved populations.

Ollie Watts Davis, a professor of music, has performed as a vocal soloist with major orchestras throughout the U.S. and around the world. She has had an equally active and successful career as a conductor. 2007 marked her 25th year as musical director and conductor of the 110-member UI Black Chorus, an organization she created. In 1991, she founded the Black Sacred Music Symposium, a four-day on-campus biennial conference hosted by the Black Chorus in cooperation with Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, School of Music and other campus units. She also teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and has been recognized for her outstanding teaching with a Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Barbara Minsker, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, focuses her research on improving the management of complex environmental systems through new and innovative systems-analysis techniques. She is the leader in the emerging field of environmental information technology. She and her students and postdoctoral researchers have conducted research that has led to the development of computationally efficient methods based on genetic algorithms that have enabled solution of problems of great interest to environmental engineering practice that have not been previously solved – for example, long-term monitoring design, in situ bioremediation design and risk-based mediation design.

Klara Nahrstedt, a professor of computer science, has established herself as one of the world’s leading experts in multimedia systems, including contributions that are now regarded as seminal in the field. Her research group is evaluated as the best group in the world in the area of network quality of service and quality of service management. Qual-

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ity of service is the ability to prioritize applications, users or data flows to guarantee a certain level of performance for a data flow. As one of the first researchers in this area in the 1990s, Nahrstedt defined the concept of media quality in distributed networked systems. She serves as an active member of the College of Engineering advisory board for Women in Engineering, and is actively involved with the Women in Computer Science student organization.

Michaelene Ostrosky, a professor of education, has focused her research on interventions to change the learning environments of young children with disabilities as a means to support their learning and development, with a focus on

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Ostrosky has been influential in the development of conceptual papers that describe an intervention approach for addressing social emotional competence for children with persistent challenging behaviors. She had devoted herself not only to conducting research in these areas, but also to translating the emerging research into guidelines for practice that can be used in early-childhood classrooms.

Kelly A. Tappenden, a professor of food science and human nutrition, enhances the lives of children and adults

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A chance to journey through the molecular world of photosynthesis, look on as atoms are formed into letters, and watch the unrehearsed reactions of friends and family to strange objects are just some of the extraordinary experiences awaiting visitors to the Beckman Institute Open House.

More than 30 exhibits will bring to life the wide range of research taking place at Beckman. Visitors may find themselves viewing molecular worlds, as 3-D computer simulations developed by Beckman researchers provide a glimpse into the essential process of photosynthesis. Or they may explore the world of insects using a rare and extremely powerful microscope.

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unrehearsed reactions to product design is one exhibit not to be missed, as is a display that uses a microscope to shape atoms into letters and, perhaps, a lucky visitor's name. Many exhibits will demonstrate the birth of new technologies.

The Beckman Cafe will also be open, serving entrees, sandwiches, snacks, desserts, and a full selection of coffee, juice, soft drinks, and more.

The Beckman Institute is located on the Illinois campus at 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, at the intersection of Mathews & University Ave. Metered parking is available in the parking deck East of the Institute. Parking is free on Saturday.

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By Diana Yates Life Sciences Editor

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he leaves of soybeans grown at the elevated carbon dioxide levels predicted for the year 2050 respire more than those grown under current atmospheric conditions, researchers report, a finding that will help fine-tune climate models and could point to increased crop yields as CO2 levels rise.

The study, from researchers at the UI and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Plants draw CO2 from the atmosphere and make sugars through the process of photosynthesis. But they also release some CO2 during respiration as they use the sugars to generate energy for self-maintenance and growth. How elevated CO2 affects plant respiration will therefore influence future food supplies and the extent to which plants can capture CO2 from the air and store it as carbon in their tissues.

While there is broad agreement that higher atmospheric CO2 levels stimulate photosynthesis in C3 plants, such as soybeans, no such consensus exists on how rising CO2 levels will affect plant respiration.

“There’s been a great deal of controversy about how plant respiration responds to elevated CO2,” said UI plant biology professor Andrew Leakey, who led the study. “Some summary studies suggest it will go down by 18 percent, some suggest it won’t change, and some suggest it will increase as much as 11 percent.”

Understanding how the respiratory pathway responds when plants are grown at elevated CO2 is key to reducing this uncertainty, Leakey said. His team used microarrays, a genomic tool that can detect changes in the activity of thousands of genes at a time, to learn which genes in the high CO2 plants were being switched on at higher or lower levels than those of the soybeans grown at current CO2 levels.

Rather than assessing plants grown in chambers in a green-

house, as most studies have done, Leakey’s team made use of the Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment (Soy FACE) facility at Illinois. This open-air research lab can expose a soybean field to a variety of atmospheric CO2 levels – without isolating the plants from other environmental influences, such as rainfall, sunlight and insects.

Some of the plants were exposed to atmospheric CO2 Andrew Leakey levels of 550 parts per million (ppm), the level predicted for the year 2050 if current trends continue. These were compared with plants grown at ambient CO2 levels (380 ppm).

The results were striking. At least 90 different genes coding the majority of enzymes in the cascade of chemical reactions that govern respiration were switched on (expressed) at higher levels in the soybeans grown at high CO2 levels.

This explained how the plants were able to use the increased supply of sugars from stimulated photosynthesis under high CO2 conditions to produce energy, Leakey said. The rate of respiration increased 37 percent at the elevated CO2 levels.

The enhanced respiration is likely to support greater transport of sugars from leaves to other growing parts of the plant, including the seeds, Leakey said.

“The expression of over 600 genes was altered by elevated CO2 in total, which will help us to understand how the response is regulated and also hopefully produce crops that will perform better in the future,” he said.

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Students developing creative ways to re-use electronic waste

By Melissa Mitchell Arts Editor

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hat’s in your closets, basement, garage or attic?

If you’re like many Americans, chances are you have at least one piece of electronic waste – an obsolete or non-functioning computer, printer, television, DVD player, cell phone or other electronic device – stashed somewhere.

“Each person stores their computers for an extra two years before they give or throw (them) away,” estimates Willie Cade, the chief executive officer of PC Rebuilders & Recyclers, based in Chicago. Cade’s comments appear in a draft report compiled by UI industrial design students who studied electronic waste, often called e-waste.

The reason for keeping e-waste around is simple: People don’t know what else to do with old electronic equipment. Although some communities have recycling sites, in many cases, e-waste gets carted off to the local dump or landfill. And even if it is “recycled,” the end result may not be nearly as environmentally sound as one might expect.

Cade, who was scheduled to present testimony about e-waste before Congress on Feb. 11, serves as a guest lecturer and industry liaison for the new course, which began last fall.

“In the United States, we probably have upwards of 2.5 million tons of this stuff dumped on the waste heap each year,” said industrial design department chair and professor William Bullock.

Bullock developed and taught the e-waste course with assistance from Cade and other guest lecturers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and elsewhere. Bullock, who also continues to teach a course on sustainable design, is offering a followup e-waste course this semester that focuses on the potential for creating innovative solutions to the growing international problem. According to Bullock, the curriculum – developed, in part, with support from the university’s Environmental Council and the campus’s Facilities & Services’ Division of Safety & Compliance – is believed to be the only one of its kind offered by an industrial design program.

“Right now, unfortunately, there are no laws in the United States that I’m aware of that prevent you from throwing it (e-waste) in the municipal waste stream,” Bullock said. “Unfortunately, it either winds up being incinerated or, more likely, if it is recycled, in many cases, it winds up being shipped to foreign countries where the toxic materials in it – mercury, lead, cadmium and other materials – are recovered with rudimentary means by hand, at great danger to the individuals involved. You’ve probably seen the pictures of children digging through trash heaps on foreign shores. … This is just sad.”

Better alternatives Industrial design class on e-waste solutions: back row, from left, Greg Platt, sophomore in international studies; Amy Cade, senior in industrial design/painting; Lindsey Young, sophomore in industrial design; front row, from left, Marisa Dolin, graduate teaching assistant for class (in urban and regional planning); Paul Cade, sophomore in urban and regional planning; Daniel Carmona, sophomore in industrial design; Alex Lobos, visiting professor in industrial design; and class instructor William Bullock, professor of industrial design.

To give this semester’s students the chance to develop creative, potentially viable solutions to the e-waste problem, Bullock decided on a hands-on, competitive approach that focuses on re-use. The rationale, he said, was to say, “OK, let’s harness our collective energy to illustrate what we can do with some e-waste.”

“We have perhaps the brightest students in the nation in industrial design and engineering, and in marketing and business, the arts and design, and other areas. We’ll give them the challenge of doing something positive and showing how they can design to extend the life of this electronic waste.”

To that end, an interdisciplinary design competition – open to all UI students – is under way. Participants are competing for prizes that include scholarships.

Students, working alone or in teams of up to five people, may register for the competition through March 16 at http://ewaste. illinois.edu/.

Entrants will compete in two categories: “designer/artist,” for entries that focus on the aesthetics and human factors of design; and “geek/technical,” for entries that use electronic components to create functional devices.

Submissions are due by April 16 at Lincoln Hall (exact location to be announced).

Entries will be exhibited and judged on the

UI Quad later that day.

Also planned in conjunction with the competition is a communitywide e-waste collection, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Feb. 21 at Lincoln Hall. Community members are invited to clean out their closets and other storage areas, and drop-off e-waste at Lincoln Hall’s circle drive on Wright Street.

Acceptable donations include CPUs, monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, scanners and cell phones. Televisions will not be accepted. Drop-offs are limited to a car load.

Collected materials will be made available to design-competition participants, who are encouraged to re-use and/or incorporate the electronic devices – or parts from them – in their creations.

Bullock said he hopes this year’s competition will be a pilot for a broader, national competition that might be organized at Illinois next year.

He also wants to expand on what he and his students have learned so far by exploring opportunities to fund and develop an International Center for the Advancement of Reuse of E-waste, or ICARE. Bullock credits Cade with the idea for the center.

“Such a center would research the ewaste problem and develop new policy and creative solutions, including better product design.”

Bullock said it’s obvious that U.S. con-

sumers have a “new-is-better mentality,” and appreciates that “we have a wonderful lifestyle.” However, he said, “We also use a disproportionate amount of the world’s resources to achieve that.”

“As we’re now part of a more global community, we have to be cognizant of our place and be good neighbors to our global partners,” Bullock said.

“We only have one green planet as far as I know. If we took our lifestyle and had the rest of the planet come up to what we’re doing, and the wastefulness that we have, the planet would be ‘bye-bye’ pretty quickly.”

As an industrial design professor, Bullock said he has an even more personal motivation for exploring more viable means of addressing the mounting e-waste problem: “because we create the waste.”

“My field, industrial design, is responsible either directly or indirectly for a lot of this e-waste that occurs. So my interest is that we should at least be involved in trying to do a better job.

“As good environmental stewards, we should be aware of what happens to this stuff and be better about designing it appropriately, and designing things that help individuals that are not going to wind up on the trash heap.” u

On the Web: http://ewaste.illinois.edu

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ORGANIZATION

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to report that the 2008 Campus Charitable Fund Drive (CCFD) completed an impressive and successful campaign by surpassing its $1.4 million goal.

PAGE 13 NUMBER OF GIFTS AMOUNT OF GIFT PERCENT OF GOAL

American Cancer Society

760

87,431

6.25

America’s Charities

409

66,883

4.78

Black United Fund of Illinois

127

15,216

1.09

Community Health Charities of Illinois

541

78,459

5.60

Community Shares of Illinois

571

108,099

7.72

Earth Share of Illinois

430

74,701

5.34

Global Impact

444

99,712

7.12

Independent Charities of America

441

70,860

5.06

Special Olympics

212

19,973

1.43

United Negro College Fund

187

23,803

1.70

1752

761,517

54.39

$1,406,654

100%

United Way of Champaign County TOTALS

SECTION

SECTION NAME

KL

ACES, College of

88,128

81,014

109

KY

Applied Health Sciences, College of

19,399

17,309

112

NY

Assembly Hall

609

1,403

43

LH

Beckman Institute

9,176

11,835

78

AF

Business & Financial Services

35,104

38,572

91

Please join me in thanking the CCFD volunteer leaders for their extraordinary efforts to raise awareness and to instill faith in all of us that even during difficult financial times our hearts can remain open. This campaign would not have been successful without them.

KM

Business, College of

54,721

52,009

105

SL

Capital Programs/Real Estate Services

2,448

1,226

200

LS

Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society

120

102

118

NA

Chancellor, Office of the

18,807

19,430

97

LN

Continuing Education, Office of

4,877

5,626

87

I also appreciate the guidance of the CCFD Advisory Board under the steadfast leadership of Dr. Bob Dodds, who served as our 2008 Chair.

NU

Division of Intercollegiate Athletics

13,140

17,102

77

KN

Education, College of

63,110

62,015

102

KP

Engineering-East, College of

92,052

82,072

112

KQ

Engineering-West, College of

133,686

111,794

120

LK

Environmental Council

100

506

20

AA

Executive Offices

22,983

18,507

124

NN

Facilities & Services

61,805

85,000

73

KR

Fine & Applied Arts, College of

50,381

53,082

95

KW

General Studies, Division of

403

1,886

21

TA

Global Campus

6,311

4,883

129

KS

Graduate College

4,122

4,848

85

LE

Institute of Aviation

3,649

4,024

91

NS

Institutional Advacement, Vice Chancellor for

3,904

2,786

140

LQ

International Programs & Studies

4,248

6,568

65

LG

Labor & Employment Relations, School of

5,929

5,811

102

KU

Law, College of

35,052

37,771

93

KV

Liberal Arts & Sciences, College of

229,839

252,181

91

LP

Library & Information Science

22,752

16,399

139

KT

Media, College of

15,676

13,868

113

LB

Medicine at UIUC, College of

19,857

19,417

102

FW

Nursing

549

829

66

AB

Planning & Administration, Office of

23,175

24,746

94

NB

Provost & Vice Chancellor for Acad Affairs

58,085

50,086

116

NH

Public Affairs, Office of

2,616

3,248

81

NM

Public Engagement, Vice Chancellor for

3,705

1,316

282

LF

Public Safety

2,718

2,692

101

NE

Research, Vice Chancellor for

79,515

62,072

128

LL

School of Social Work

12,361

10,956

113

NJ

Student Affairs, Vice Chancellor for

91,961

89,765

102

AM

UI Foundation

15,590

12,538

124

AD

University Audits

2,440

1,580

154

LR

University Library

33,041

29,553

112

GP

Urban Planning & Public Affairs

1,519

1,462

104

LC

Veterinary Medicine, College of

21,110

23,374

90

AP

VP Chief Financial Officer

194

81

240

AH

VP for Academic Affairs

18,815

15,316

123

AJ

VP Technology & Economic Development

7,082

6,637

107

Retirees and Direct Donations

9,790

With many of our own neighbors experiencing the consequences of the current recession, the Illinois community came together and gave generously to those in need. The funds that you contributed are having a direct impact on those served by the eleven participating agencies and the hundreds of programs they support.

This was indeed a challenging year for everyone who participated in the CCFD. Yet you stepped up and met the challenge. I could not be prouder of our Illinois community.

Thank you for caring,

Richard Herman Chancellor

TOTALS ALL SECTIONS

TOTAL GIFTS

$1,406,654

GOAL GOAL%

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By James E. Kloeppel Physical Sciences Editor

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raphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, holds remarkable promise for future nanoelectronics applications. Whether graphene actually cuts it in industry, however, depends upon how graphene is cut, say researchers at the UI. Graphene consists of a hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms. While scientists have predicted that the orientation of atoms along the edges of the lattice would affect the material’s electronic properties, the prediction had not been proven experimentally. Now, Illinois researchers say they have proof. “Our experimental results show, without a doubt, that the crystallographic orientation of the graphene edges significantly influences the electronic properties,� said Joseph Lyding, a professor electrical and computer engineering. “To utilize nanometer-size pieces of graphene in future nanoelectronics, atomically precise control of the geometry of these structures will be required.�

Lyding and graduate student Kyle Ritter (now at Micron Technology Inc. in Boise, Idaho) report their findings in a paper accepted for publication in Nature Materials. The paper is posted on the journal’s Web site.

To carry out their work, the researchers

developed a method for cutting and depositing nanometer-size bits of graphene on atomically clean semiconductor surfaces like silicon. Then they used a scanning tunneling microscope to probe the electronic structure of the graphene with atomic-scale resolution. “From this emerged a clear picture that edges with so-called zigzag orientation exhibited a strong edge state, whereas edges with armchair orientation did not,� said Lyding, who also is affiliated with the university’s Beckman Institute and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. “We found that pieces of graphene smaller than about 10 nanometers with predominately zigzag edges exhibited metallic behavior rather than the semiconducting behavior expected from size alone,� Lyding said. “This has major implications in that semiconducting behavior is mandatory for transistor fabrication.�

Unlike carbon nanotubes, graphene is a flat sheet, and therefore compatible with conventional fabrication processes used by today’s chipmakers. But, based on the researchers’ experimental results, controlled engineering of the graphene edge structure will be required for obtaining uniform performance among graphene-based nanoelectronic devices.

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Graphene’s edge structure affects electronic properties

Proof Electrical and computer engineering professor Joseph Lyding has proven that the orientation of atoms along the edges of the graphene lattice would affect the material’s electronic properties. Atomic resolution scanning tunneling microscope image of a nanometer scale piece of graphene on silicon is shown.

“Even a tiny section of zigzag orientation on a 5-nanometer piece of graphene will change the material from a semiconductor into a metal,� Lyding said. “And a transistor

based on that, will not work. Period.�

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Ethanol plants no panacea for local economies, study finds

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ust over a year ago, the U.S. ethanol industry was still in overdrive, fueling a wave of new factories to keep pace with surging demand for the corn-based gasoline additive.

But the boom has since stalled amid a deep economic downturn that has stifled demand, one of many threats to the fledgling industry that were forecast in a 2007 study by two UI researchers. “Our research found lots of storm clouds that posed risks for ethanol plants, even though the industry was go-go-go at the time,� said Andrew Isserman, a professor of agriculture economics and of urban and regional planning. “The last 15 months have proven just how risky it is.�

Isserman and UI doctoral candidate Sarah Low studied the ethanol industry in 2007 to gauge what areas might be good locations for ethanol plants and whether factories would provide an economic boost for towns that were then clamoring to hitch onto the ethanol bandwagon.

Their findings, first released in late 2007 on the campus’s farmdoc.uiuc.edu Web site and which now appear in the current issue of Economic Development Quarterly, foreshadow an industry downturn that has seen dozens of plants shuttered or forced into bankruptcy as excess production capacity yields mounting financial losses.

The study found that plants are beset

with a host of uncertainties, ranging from shifts in federal energy policy and global economics to changing technology that threatens the long-term viability of corn as an ethanol blend.

Although factory growth has been halted by a sour economy, the findings could help guide economic development decisions when the industry rebounds, said Isserman, a member of the UI Institute of Government and Public Affairs, a campus think tank. “Ethanol plants are a risky business, so communities need to be careful,� he said. “And even if a plant is a good fit, community leaders need to realize it’s not going to transform their economy.�

He says a dramatic shift that cut gasoline prices in half since last summer – closing plants and shelving plans for others -showcases a key economic peril of ethanol plants.

As gasoline prices slid, so did prices for ethanol, which is tethered to the energy market. But corn prices remained relatively high, netting production losses that put some plants out of business and landed others in bankruptcy, halting several years of robust growth for the fledgling industry. “The bottom line for local communities is to consider the employment volatility that could occur, not just the employment growth,� Low said. “You could end up sitting on a shuttered plant.�

Jobs are a big draw for small, rural communities seeking to capitalize on their

proximity to cornfields that feed the plants.

But the study found that industry forecasts vastly overestimate employment gains.

While the industry projects plants producing 100 million gallons of ethanol a year can create more than 1,000 plant and spin-off jobs, the study found that similar plants would net a maximum of 250 jobs, based on an analysis of ethanol facilities proposed in three Illinois communities and one in Nebraska. “The critical flawed assumption was that plants create a lot of local jobs growing corn,� Isserman said. “But the corn would have been grown anyway. It was just sold to different markets.�

Job and economic gains also have to be weighed against sometimes hefty infrastructure expenses, such as water, sewer, road and rail improvements needed to serve plant needs, the study says. “I think a lot of communities see ethanol as a panacea, but there is no silver bullet,� Low said. “Every community needs to think about their own pros and cons, whether they’re recruiting an ethanol plant, a manufacturer or any other facility.�

Plants also could fall prey to new technology that seeks to make ethanol with less costly cellulosic materials – such as switchgrasses or miscanthus – rather than corn, the study says.

Low says it may be possible to retool existing plants, but suspects many smaller ones would spring up near less-productive

land because farmers are unlikely to convert profitable cornfields to lower-grossing cellulosic materials.

She hopes the study guides local leaders if technology nets a new wave of Andrew Isserman plant building. “I think we’re going to see a lot of smaller plants with even smaller economic benefits,� she said. “If those communities have the needed infrastructure, a plant may be good economic development policy. But the message of our research is that they need to be realistic about the employment effects and the economic impact of those projects.�

The study found that more traditional agricultural-based facilities, such as a plant that makes corn chips, offer economic benefits similar to ethanol plants, without the risks. “I think what we learned from this research was that even if your community has what it takes to land an ethanol plant, it’s not so clear that you want to jump into it,�

Isserman said. “This is a rapidly changing industry and ethanol plants are not a savior for local economies.� u

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Asian Educational Media Service / Spurlock Museum

AsiaLENS series to present films monthly Organized by the Asian Educational Media Service in collaboration with the Spurlock Museum, the spring 2009 AsiaLENS series will present films the first Tuesday of the month.

AsiaLENS features free public screenings of recent documentary and independent films addressing issues of contemporary life in Asia, introduced by local experts who lead audiences in post-screening discussions.

Upcoming films: “Kabul Transit” on March 3, and “The Last Ghost Of War” on April 7. Complete information on the AsiaLENS series can be found at www.aems.uiuc.edu/ events/asialens.htm.

AsiaLENS films are screened in the Knight Auditorium at the Spurlock Museum. For more information, call 3339597 or e-mail aems@illinois.edu.

Child Development Laboratory

Apply now for 2009-10 child care The Child Development Laboratory, 1105 W. Nevada St. and 1005 W. Nevada St., Urbana, is accepting applications for the 2009-2010 school year. Half-day preschool programs for 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old children meet Tuesday through Friday for three hours a day during the regular academic year. Full-day child-care programs for children from 6 weeks to 4 years are in session Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. on a year-round basis.

Orientation tours of both facilities are offered weekly.

Hourlong tours depart from the lobby of the Early Child Development Lab on Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m., and on Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. Visitors should use the Lincoln Avenue entrance off of the Jimmy John’s parking lot. Tours are suspended during the enrollment months of April and May. For full consideration, applications for the half-day programs are due by April 1 and for the full-day programs by May 1. Online enrollment applications are available at cdl. uiuc.edu. For more information or to schedule a tour, call 244-8622.

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Venomous, carnivorous centipedes horrify in Insect Fear Film Festival

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he theme of this year’s Insect Fear Film Festival is “Centipede Cinema,” even though everybody– with the possible exception of horror movie writers, directors and actors – knows that centipedes aren’t insects.

“We can still call it an Insect Fear Film Festival because generally the people who are in movies with centipedes or millipedes call them insects,” said May Berenbaum, a professor of entomology who heads the department and founded the festival in 1984.

Millipedes, which are slower, gentler and usually more legged than centipedes (and which belong to an entirely different class of arthropods), will also make an appearance, although not on the big screen. They will star in the insect petting zoo part of the event, since centipedes can bite and inject venom and as a result aren’t accustomed to petting.

The evening will include two short animated Disney films, “Woodland Cafe” (1937), and “Mickey’s Garden” (1938). A “recurrent gag” in animations involving centipedes has their segments going in different directions “and then eventually reconstituting themselves,” Berenbaum said.

“What everybody wonders is how you coordinate when you have anywhere from 15 to 191 pairs of legs,” she said.

Center for Children’s Books

2009 Gryphon Award given to ‘Frogs’ “Frogs,” written and illustrated by Nic Bishop, has won the 2009 Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature.

The award, which includes a $1,000 prize, is given annually by the Center for Children’s Books at the UI. The center is a unit of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

The prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding English language work of fiction or non-fiction for which the primary audience is children in kindergarten through fourth grade. Award winners best exemplify “those qualities that successfully bridge the gap in difficulty between books for reading aloud to children and books for practiced readers,” said Christine Jenkins, the director of the center and a GSLIS professor.

According to Jenkins, “Frogs” (Scholastic, January 2008) combines photographs worthy of National Geographic with an information-rich text featuring frogs of all sizes, colors, habitats and habits.

“Bishop’s accessible text and brilliant photographs create an engaging book that young readers will return to again and again,“ Jenkins said.

Two Gryphon Honors winners also were named: “Bad Kitty Gets a Bath,” written and illustrated by Nick Bruel; and “Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog,” written and illustrated by Mini Grey.

The award was established in 2004 to focus attention on transitional reading – “an area of literature for youth that, despite its importance to the successful transition of children from new readers to independent lifelong readers, does not receive the critical recognition it deserves,” Jenkins said.

I Space

Faculty exhibition on display A new exhibition of drawings, paintings and collages is on view through March 14 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the UI. “Sam Ainsley and Barbara Kendrick: Atlas of Encounters” features drawings and paintings by Ainsley, and collages and mixed-media drawings by Kendrick.

Until recently, Ainsley was the head of the master of fine arts program at the Glasgow School of Art. She serves as the school’s unofficial “international ambassador” and also teaches part-time in the painting department.

According to Kendrick, professor emeritus in the UI School of Art and Design, she and Ainsley, who have exhibited together at the UI’s Krannert Art Museum, are concerned with “an emotional mapping” of the body.

“In both of our work there is a tension that arises from

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Another short to be presented at the event, a 1954 episode of “Watch Mr. Wizard” that explores the mysteries of insect locomotion, will shed light on the issue.

Being venomous, carnivorous, fast and multi-legged makes centipedes good subjects for horror movies, and the two feature movies, “Centipede!” (not rated), and “Centipede Horror” (rated R) exploit those qualities. In “Centipede!” the filmmakers supersize the arthropods and give them other traits not yet observed by trained entomologists, Berenbaum said.

“At one point the giant centipede that’s chasing the humans is cut in half and becomes two giant centipedes, which isn’t exactly the way it works,” she said. Although many centipedes can grow new segments (each of which includes a pair of legs) later in life, “once they lose their heads that’s the end of that,” she said.

“Centipede!” does refer to an actual centipede, Scolopendra gigantea, which grows large enough – up to 12 inches long – to catch and eat bats.

“Centipede Horror” includes sorcery-induced centipede attacks and several scenes of humans spitting up centipedes, Berenbaum said.

Doors will open at 6 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Foellinger Auditorium. Early activities include an insect petting zoo and Bugscope (courtesy of the UI Beckman Institute’s Imaging Technology Center), which will provide a peek through a scanning electron microscope for an “up close and personal look at various insects,” Berenbaum said. Face painting will be available, and the winners of a centipede art contest will be announced at 7 p.m. “Centipede!” will begin at 9:30 p.m., followed by “Centipede Horror.” u the ‘argument’ between abstraction and representation,” she said.

That argument will be advanced to another level in the exhibition, which will also feature a collaborative work by both artists.

The gallery is at 230 W. Superior St., Chicago. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Communications Professionals

Public Affairs offers workshop series Public Affairs is offering a series of workshops designed to cover a variety of topics of interest to communications professionals. All workshops are free of charge and are open to the campus community. Topics include: n “Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite for Non-designers,” March 17 n “We Think We’ve Got News – Now What?” April 22 n “Design and Marketing With the Toolbox,” May 21 n “Lights, Camera, Action!” June 16 For session overviews, panel members and to register, visit: http://publicaffairs.illinois.edu/communicators/work shopseries.html.

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Krannert Center hosts ‘Day of the Drum’ on Feb. 24

Center for Training and Professional Development

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Training center has new name Training for Business Professionals has changed its name to The Center for Training and Professional Development. The new name describes the variety of services offered: training programs as well as strategic planning assistance, process improvement consulting and coaching.

The center’s new Web site is www.trainingcenter.illinois. edu. Contact Renee Lyell at rlyell@illinois.edu for more information.

Survey Research Laboratory

Free survey research methods seminars The Survey Research Laboratory is offering four introductory seminars on survey research methodology this semester. The series is free to UI faculty and staff members and students. Attendance for each seminar is limited and advance registration is required.

All seminars are scheduled to meet from noon to 1:30 p.m. in classroom 201, 505 E. Green St., Champaign.

Topics include: n “Introduction to Questionnaire Design,” Feb. 25 n “Introduction to Survey Sampling,” March 4 n “Web Surveys,” March 11 n “Survey Data Analysis,” March 18 To register, go to www.srl.uic.edu/seminars.htm.

Urbana Chapter of AAUP

Promotion-tenure workshop is March 5 On March 5, Provost Linda Katehi will be the principal panelist at a workshop on “Achieving Tenure and Promotion – Policies and Procedures on the UIUC Campus” sponsored by the UI Chapter of the American Association of University Professors. The program will begin at 2:30 p.m. in Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Katehi and her fellow panelists will make short presentations, lead the discussion and answer questions from the audience. This program should be of particular interest to new and continuing tenure-track assistant professors and to associate professors seeking promotion.

The panelists (and the topics they will address): Katehi and Vice Provost Barbara Wilson (campus policies, threeyear review procedures); James A. Imlay, a professor of microbiology, past chair of the Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee (procedures followed by the UI Promotion and Tenure Committee); and Billie Jean Theide, a professor of art and design, chair of the UI Faculty Advisory Committee (appeal procedures). There also will be a representative from AAUP. Registration is not required and all faculty members are welcome. Refreshments will be served. For further information, contact Harry H. Hilton, 333-2653 or h-hilton@illinois.edu, or Donald Uchtmann, 333-1829 or uchtmann@ illinois.edu.

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Pre-symposium events announced The second annual UI Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held at the Illini Union on April 7. The symposium provides undergraduates with the opportunity to present the fruits of their research and creative activities to the larger university community. Students may offer oral presentations, artistic performances or poster displays at the symposium.

To participate, students are encouraged to submit a proposal by 11:59 p.m. Feb. 22.

A series of pre-symposium events have been scheduled to support students in preparing both proposals and their

rannert Center for the Performing Arts will host “Day of the Drum” Feb. 24. The event will comprise four main performances, three of which are free lobby events.

The drummers of Kodo (pictured) will anchor the event with a 7:30 p.m. performance in the Tryon Festival Theatre. The drummers wield astonishing rhythmic technique to imitate a delicate heartbeat or brute force to conjure a call to arms. Their angular frozen poses and playful tapping contribute to an electrifying atmosphere at turns thunderous and tranquil.

The free lobby events will be a noon “Interval” performance (Glen Velez with Lori Cotler, and Liam Teague with Robert Chappell), at 5 p.m. “Traffic Jam” with Dahui, and a 9:30 “Afterglow” with the Rocky Maffit Group.

In addition Maffit will be featured at noon at the University YMCA. Maffit, a noted percussionist and former member of the band Champaign, has joined with Krannert Center to curate the “Day of the Drum.” In this lecture, Maffit will share stories from his own career as well as a sampling of his rhythmic styles.

“Day of the Drum” also will feature two workshop sessions (at 2 and 3:30 p.m. on Stage 5), and displays

presentations: A workshop for those seeking advice on preparing a proposal for the symposium will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Undergraduate Library, Room 295.

Once proposals have been accepted, workshops designed to help students develop their presentations effectively will also be available from 6 to 7 p.m. March 17 and March 18, both at the Undergraduate Library, Room 295. Students may choose either date.

Encouragement and support from the faculty will help make this event a significant part of the undergraduate experience at the UI. More information about the symposium may be found at http://provost.illinois.edu/ugresearch/. Questions should be directed to Wayne Pitard at wpitard@illinois.edu.

College of ACES

ExplorACES scheduled for March 13-14 ExplorACES is a two-day event designed to acquaint prospective students and their families with the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the UI. The event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 13 and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 14.

Details about ExplorACES can be found at www.aces. illinois.edu/ExplorACES/.

The Web site includes information about exhibits as well as an interactive map to help guide visitors through the buildings and activities and online registration to attend receptions for admitted freshmen and others.

“The College of ACES is one of the largest colleges at Illinois, but this event lets students and their families see how comfortable and friendly it really is, despite the size,” said Jeremy Robinett, one of the coordinators of the event.

Current ACES students plan the event, handle publicity and staff the exhibits. There will be dozens of hands-on exhibits relating to classroom work, club activities and honors research. Visitors also will have opportunities to tour lab and classroom facilities and meet ACES faculty members.

The College of ACES offers 10 undergraduate majors with 39 different concentrations, and ExplorACES helps prospective students get an overview of the potential areas

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from Ten Thousand Villages and the Robert E. Brown Center for World Music.

During the 5 p.m. lobby performance, the group Dahui will bring more than 100 percussion instruments to share with audience members who wish to play along.

Everyone is encouraged to bring drums for this collaborative music-making experience.

Throughout the day, Intermezzo cafe will be open for service, and the Stage 5 Bar will offer drink specials.

For a complete schedule of events visit KrannertCenter.com or contact Bridget Lee-Calfas at 333-6282. u of study, including bioengineering, community development, economics, human nutrition, plant breeding, and preveterinary studies.

For more information, call 333-2728.

University Primary School

Annual art exhibition opens Feb. 20 “Artistic Conversations,” the University Primary School Annual Art Exhibition, opens Feb. 20 with a reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on the third floor of the College of Education building. A pizza-dinner fundraiser also will take place in the north lobby and will cost $5 per dinner. The exhibit will remain open to the public until March 6.

Saving Our Lives Hearing Our Truths

Exhibition on black girlhood on display An exhibition of artwork, poetry and photography by local artists that celebrates black girlhood will be on display at Krannert Art Museum through Feb. 27.

“Reflections of Black Girlhood: Necessary Truths” will feature works created by black women and girls involved in the Saving Our Lives Hearing Our Truths outreach program and SOLHOT/Sisterhood, a collaboration between SOLHOT and Urbana Middle School.

SOLHOT is an experience for and about black girls living and learning in Central Illinois co-founded and led by Ruth Nicole Brown, a professor of gender and women’s studies and of educational policy studies at the UI. SOLHOT provides a space for black girls to explore their experiences and what it means to be young, black and female in today’s society.

SOLHOT encourages black girls to create spaces of their own – physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually – to express who they are and desire to be through discussion, song, storytelling, dance, photography, poetry, video and other media.

To celebrate the exhibition and the publication of Brown’s book, “Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip Hop Feminist Pedagogy” (Peter Lang Publishing, 2008), a reception will be at the art museum from 5-7 p.m. Feb. 19.

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4 Wednesday

20 Friday

“Clean Energy is Costly; Who Should Pay?” Clark Bullard, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Friday Forum.

23 Monday

“Multiculturalism and Immigrant Integration: Political Debates and Social Realities in Europe.” Karen Schoenwaelder, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, Germany. Noon. Center for Advanced Study. Center for Advanced Study.

24 Tuesday

“My Olympic Journey.” Justin Spring, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Know Your University.

25 Wednesday

Dubois Lecture. Julian Bond, American University. 7 p.m.

Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center. African American Studies.

27 Friday

“Surveillance of Virtual Worlds.” Lisa Nakamura, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Friday Forum.

3 Tuesday

“Diversity and Inclusion on the University of Illinois Campus.” Anna Gonzalez, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Know Your University.

“Migrant Remittances: Transforming Communities.” Gale Summerfield, UI. 4 p.m. Music Room, Levis Faculty Center.

Center for Advanced Study.

“Black Women and the Pursuit of Freedom: Reconsidering Lincoln.” Arvarh E. Strickland, University of Missouri, Columbia. 4 p.m. Third floor, Levis Faculty Center. Office of the Chancellor.

“Living as a Greek: The Houses of Hellenistic Sicily.” Barbara Tsakirgis, Vanderbilt University. 5:30 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Museum. Archaeological Institute of America, Classics and Krannert Art Museum.

5 Thursday

“Migration and its Discontents: Ethnicity, Identity, and the Visual Arts in Western Europe.” Cora Lacatus, UI. 5:15 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building.

Germanic Languages and Literatures. “ ‘My Man Bovanne’: A Black Feminist Critique of Black Power and the Institutionalization of Movement Politics.” Roderick A. Ferguson, University of Minnesota. 7:30 p.m. Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. MillerComm.

6 Friday

“How Digital Kids are Changing the World.” Michael Furdyk, Co-Founder of TakingIT Global. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Friday Forum.

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19 Thursday

“Nonproliferation Export Controls in Argentina.” Evangeline Reynolds, UI. Noon. 356 Armory Building. Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security.

“Force-Controlled Biomolecular Function – Newton Revisited.” Hermann Gaub, LudwigMaximilians University. 4 p.m.

141 Loomis Lab. Physics and Analytical Chemistry.

“Kinase Cosubstrate Promiscuity.” Mary Kay Pflum, Wayne State University. 4 p.m.

116 Roger Adams Lab. Organic Chemistry.

20 Friday

“Getting the Message: Is the Anticodon Enough?” Margaret E. Saks, Northwestern University. Noon. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Auditorium. Biochemistry.

“Public Private Partnerships for Biomedical Research: the NIH Perspective.” Barbara Mittleman, National Institute of Health. 1:30 p.m. 1003 Beckman Institute. Labor and Employment Relations.

“Cognition and Empire.”

Clifford Ando, University of Chicago. 2 p.m. 210 General Lounge, Illini Union. Classics; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; Religion; and Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics.

“Watching Johnny Read: Agnes Varda’s ‘Gleaners and I.’” Leon Sachs, University of Kentucky. 4 p.m. Room 2090B Foreign Languages Building.

French.

“DNA As a Programmable Force Sensor in a Parallel Format Small Molecule Binding Assay.” Hermann E. Gaub, Ludwig-Maximilians University. 4 p.m. 116 Roger Adams Lab. Analytical Chemistry.

23 Monday “Research

Challenges

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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.

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Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems.” Tarek Abdelzaher, UI. 4 p.m. 1404 Siebel Center.

Computer Science.

24 Tuesday

“The Ethnic Composition of Iranian Society: State and Minorities Relationships.”

Shahyar Daneshgar, Indiana University. Noon. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

“Maintaining the Center by Transforming Space: Keeping the Nation at the Center of Daily Life in Zagreb, Croatia.”

Rob Whiting, UI. Noon. 101 International Studies Building.

Russia, East European and Eurasian Center.

Global Cultural Heritage: “ICOMOS and Heritage Preservation, Heritage Management and Heritage Studies.”

Douglas Comer, International Council on Monuments and Sites. 3-5 p.m. 109A Davenport Hall. Center for Advanced Study.

25 Wednesday

“The Invisible Woman: Judicial Use of Competition and Culpability in Women’s Reproductive Health Cases.”

Beth A. Burkstrand-Reid, UI. Noon. 911 S. Sixth St., Champaign. Gender and Womenís Studies.

“Chemical Structures and Imaging for Cancer Pathology.”

Rohit Bhargharva, UI. Noon.

1005 Beckman Institute. Beckman Institute Directorís Seminar.

“The Life of Synaptic Vesicles, Revealed by Single Quantum Dot Imaging.” Qi Zhang, Stan-

Feb 19 - March 8

ford University. Noon. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Cell and Developmental Biology.

“Civil Rites: A Queer History of Naturalization in the U.S.” Siobhan Somerville, UI. 3:30 p.m. 307 Gregory Hall.

History.

“How Do Salts and Osmolytes Stabilize/Denature Proteins?” Paul Cremer, Texas A&M University. 4 p.m. 112 Chem Annex. Physical Chemistry.

26 Thursday

“Transformation Optics With Metamaterials: A New Paradigm for the Science of Light.” Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue University. 4 p.m. 141 Loomis Lab. Physics.

“Microbial Community Structure, Cell-Cell Communication, Biofilm Formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.”

Matthew Parsek, University of Washington School of Medicine. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.

2 Monday

“From Single Neurons to Brain Regions: Using Mass Spectrometry to Probe Cell to Cell Signaling.” Jonathan Sweedler, UI. Noon. 2271C Veterinary Medicine Basic Science Building. Veterinary Medicine.

3 Tuesday

“Conquest, Rasa and Personal Redemption in Kalidasa’s ‘Abhijnanasakuntalam.’”

Dheepa Sundaram, UI. Noon.

Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building.

South Asian and Middle East-

ern Studies.

“A Perennial Philosophy of Judaism and Religious Diversity.” Jerome Gellman, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. 4:30 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. Religion.

4 Wednesday

“Lipin and the Art of Nuclear Envelope Maintenance.” Orna Cohen-Fix, National Institute of Health. Noon. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Cell and Developmental Biology.

“Metabolic Engineering in a System’s Biology Framework.” Yong-Su Jin, UI. 4 p.m.

103 Mumford Hall. Nutritional Sciences.

5 Thursday

“Safety, Soldier, Scapegoat: The Battle to Interpret the Death of Pat Tillman.” Jonathan Ebel, UI. Noon. 356 Armory Building. Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security.

“Rethinking Black Racial Identity Theory: A Quest for Humanity.” Helen Neville, UI. Noon. 242 Education Building. Bureau of Educational Research.

“Pertussis Toxin: Intracellular Trafficking and Role in Bordetella Pertussis Infection and Disease.” Nicholas Carbonetti, University of Maryland School of Medicine. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.

“Islam, Human Rights and Interfaith Relations: Some Contemporary Egyptian Perspectives.” Valerie Hoffman, UI.

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CALENDAR, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 4 p.m. 213 Gregory Hall. Global Studies and South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

“Reimagining Liquid Transportation Fuels: Sunshine to Petrol.” Ellen B. Stechel, Sandia National Laboratories.

4 p.m. 116 Roger Adams Lab. Chemistry.

6 Friday

“P-20 Initiatives Shaping the Future of Education in Illinois.” Christopher Koch, Illinois State Board of Education.

Noon. I-Hotel and Conference Center. Education.

theater

20 Friday

“Necessary Targets.” Linda Gillum, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. An American therapist and a human rights worker interview Bosnian women who have endured the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. $

21 Saturday

“Necessary Targets.” Linda Gillum, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. $

22 Sunday

“Necessary Targets.” Linda Gillum, guest director. 3 p.m.

Studio Theater, Krannert Center. $

26 Thursday

“Mentoring Inside/Out.” 1-4:30 p.m. Rooms B and C, Illini Union. Featuring the CRLT Players from the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. Graduate College.

5 Thursday

“How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

Robert G. Anderson, director.

7:30 p.m. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center. Frank Loesser’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy. $

6 Friday

“How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

Robert G. Anderson, director.

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

7 Saturday

“How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” Robert G. Anderson, director. 7:30 p.m.

Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center. $ Dessert and Conversation: 6:30 p.m. Krannert Room, Krannert Center.

$

music

19 Thursday

Thursdays@12:20 Concert.

12:20 p.m. Beckman Institute Atrium. Beckman Institute.

Hugo Wolf Quartett. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Selections

by Haydn and Berg and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.” $ Prelude: 6:45 p.m. Krannert

Room, Krannert Center.

20 Friday

UI Chamber Orchestra. Donald Schleicher, conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. $ School of Music.

Master of Music Recital. Rosa Chang, piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

22 Sunday

Junior Recital. Jennifer Stanuch, violin. 2 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Illinois Brass Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Classic brass music with Ronald Romm and Jake Walburn, trumpet; Kazimierz Machala, horn; Elliot Chasanov, trombone; and Mark Moore, tuba. $ School of Music.

Master of Music Recital. Justin Kothenbeutel, piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

24 Tuesday

Day of the Drum. UI Drum Line. 11 a.m. Lobby, Krannert Center.

Day of the Drum. Interval.

Liam Teague and Robert Chappell; Glen Velez and Lori Cotler. Noon. Lobby, Krannert Center.

Day of the Drum. Traffic Jam: Dahui. 5 p.m. Lobby, Krannert Center.

Day of the Drum. Kodo. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. Experience the crushing power of ancient rhythms in contemporary contexts. Recommended for ages 8 and up. $ Day of the Drum. Afterglow.

9:30 p.m. Lobby, Krannert Center. Rocky Maffit, lifelong musician and writer, is joined

by Chad Dunn, Neal Robinson and Amasong.

25 Wednesday

21st Century Piano Commission Award Concert. 7:30 p.m.

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

26 Thursday

Thursdays@12:20 Concert.

Flute Duo. 12:20 p.m. Beckman Institute Atrium. Beckman Institute.

Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra. Derek Gleeson, music director and conductor. With Conor Linehan, piano. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. $

27 Friday

Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra. “The Irish Spectacular.”

Colman Pearce, principal conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center.

Featuring traditional fiddle and banjo, Irish flute, Uileann pipes and bodhrán with original orchestral arrangements by Irish composers. $ Faculty Recital. Mark Moore, tuba. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. $

5 Thursday

School of Music.

Hall.

28 Saturday

8 Sunday

Doctor of Musical Arts Project Recital. Simon Rowe, jazz saxophone. 2 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra. “A Tribute to John Williams.” Steven Larsen, music director and conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center.

Celebrate the music of Steven Spielberg’s films. $

1 Sunday

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

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

Sara Bareilles. 7:30 p.m.

Foellinger Auditorium. Tickets available at Ticket Central in the Illini Union or by calling 333-5000. $ Star Course.

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

2 Monday

Faculty Recital. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall. Larry Gray, jazz double bass; Chip McNeill, jazz saxophone; John (Chip) Stephens, jazz piano; and Dana Hall, jazz drums.

4 Wednesday

Junior Recital.

Matthew Plaskota, jazz drums. 7:30 p.m.

25 Smith Hall.

5 Thursday

Thursdays@12:20 Concert.

McNeill Combo. 12:20 p.m.

Beckman Institute Atrium.

Beckman Institute.

Junior Recital. Amy Hutter, soprano. 1 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

Angela Hewitt, piano. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. $ Master of Music Recital. Rosa Chang, piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

6 Friday

Jazz Forum. UI Jazz Combo.

Tito Carrillo, director. With the UI Jazz Guitar Ensemble.

Noon. 25 Smith Hall.

Senior Recital. Sarah Watson, mezzo soprano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

7 Saturday

Doctor of Musical Arts Project Recital. Nathan Mandel, saxophone. 11 a.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Senior Recital. Jacquelyn Evers, saxophone. 2 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Junior Recital. Cody Jensen, percussion. 2 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

Sinfonia da Camera Concert Series. “Classics and Contemporaries.” Ian Hobson, music director and conductor.

With Menahem Pressler, piano. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. $ Junior Recital. Joel Caracci, jazz drums. 7:30 p.m. 25 Smith

Master of Music Recital. Travis Juergens, conductor. 3 p.m.

Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

An Evening of Jewish Music: Maxwell Street Klezmer Band. 7 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center.

Chicago-based band that celebrates the traditional folk music of Eastern Europe that was brought to the U.S. by Jewish immigrants and melded with Dixieland, early jazz and swing and Yiddish rhumba. $

opera

19 Thursday

“Rappaccini’s Daughter.”

Eduardo Diazmunoz, conductor, and Stephen Fiol, director.

7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. A powerful love story with a decidedly science fiction feel. $

20 Friday

“Rappaccini’s Daughter.”

Eduardo Diazmunoz, conductor, and Stephen Fiol, director.

7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. $

21 Saturday

“Rappaccini’s Daughter.”

Eduardo Diazmunoz, conductor, and Stephen Fiol, director. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. $ Libretto: 6:30 p.m. Krannert Room, Krannert Center.

22 Sunday

“Rappaccini’s Daughter.”

Eduardo Diazmunoz, conductor, and Stephen Fiol, director.

3 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. $ Libretto: 6:30 p.m. Krannert Room, Krannert Center.

dance

3 Tuesday

Cirque Éloize: Nebbia. Daniele Finzi Pasca, director. 7 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. Recommended for ages 6 and up. $

4 Wednesday

Cirque Éloize: Nebbia. Daniele Finzi Pasca, director. 7 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. Recommended for ages 6 and up. $

films

19 Thursday

“My Favorite Year.” Richard Benjamin, director. 5:30 p.m.

62 Krannert Art Museum. Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

25 Wednesday

Lincoln Bicentennial Film Festival. 6 p.m. 112 Huff Hall.

Phi Alpha Theta.

3 Tuesday

Film Screening: “Kabul Transit.” 7 p.m. Spurlock Museum.

Asian Educational Media Service and Spurlock Museum.

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“The Freshman.” Andrew Bergman, director. 5:30 p.m.

62 Krannert Art Museum. Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

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

20 Friday

Wrestling. UI vs. University of Michigan. 7 p.m. Huff Hall. $ Hockey. Illini vs. Iowa State University. 7:30 p.m. UI Ice Arena. $

21 Saturday

Hockey. Illini vs. Iowa State University. 7:30 p.m. UI Ice Arena. $

22 Sunday

Wrestling. UI vs. Michigan State University. 1 p.m. Huff Hall. $ Women’s Basketball. UI vs.

Pennsylvania State University.

2 p.m. Assembly Hall. $

26 Thursday

Men’s Basketball. UI vs. University of Minnesota. 6 p.m.

Assembly Hall. $

6 Friday

Hockey. Illini vs. Illinois State University. 7:30 p.m. UI Ice Arena. $

7 Saturday

Hockey. Illini vs. CSCHL AllStars. 7:30 p.m. UI Ice Arena.

$

et cetera

19 Thursday

“Systematic Test Construction and Effective Item Writing.” Jiyoung Kim, UI. 3 p.m.

428 Armory. Registration required, call 333-3490. Center for Teaching Excellence.

21 Saturday

Cross-Country Ski Instructional Clinic. 9-10:30 a.m. ARC Adventure Center. Registration required; call 333-9780. Campus Recreation.

Electronic Waste Collection Drive. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Lincoln Hall. More info: 390-8291 or http://ewaste.illinois.edu/. Industrial Design.

“Heirlooms, Artifacts, and Family Treasures: A Preservation Emporium.” Noon-4 p.m. Spurlock Museum. Preservation Working Group of the University of Illinois and the Spurlock Museum.

Story Time. “Journey to the Middle East – Lebanon.” 2 p.m. Megan’s Room, Urbana Free Library. South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Urbana Free Library.

23 Monday

Discussion.

“Peoplehood.”

Tom Holm, University of Arizona. Noon. Asian American Studies Conference Room.

American Indian Studies.

Student Workshop. “Publish-

ing in American Indian Studies.” Tom Holm, University of Arizona. 3-4:30 p.m. Native American House. American Indian Studies.

24 Tuesday

“How to Love the Skin You’re In: Winning the Battle Against Negative Body Image.” 7 p.m.

Multipurpose Room #3, Activities Recreation Center. Counseling Center.

25 Wednesday

Secretary of State’s Mobile Unit on Campus. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. 314 Illini Union. Office of the Chancellor.

Around the World Wednesdays. 9:30 a.m.-noon. Spurlock Museum. Crafts and activities. $2 donation. Spurlock Museum.

Survey Research Seminar.

“Introduction to Questionnaire Design.” Noon-1:30 p.m.

Room 201, 505 E. Green St., Champaign. Registration: edu/ SEMINARS.htm. Survey Research Laboratory.

“How Am I Doing? Using Informal Early Feedback and Other Strategies to Get Information on Your Teaching.” Sandy Finley, UI. 4-5:30 p.m. 428 Armory Building. Registration required, call 333-3370. Center for Teaching Excellence.

Need for Speed Seminar Series: “Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing.” Dan Roth, UI. 4:15 p.m.

B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory. Coordinated Science Laboratory.

“TA-to-TA: Learning From Experienced TAs, Managing the College Classroom.” David Roof, UI. 7-8:30 p.m. 42A Education Building. Registration required; call 333-3370. Center for Teaching Excellence.

26 Thursday

New Directions in Digital Humanities Scholarship Symposium. Keynote address: Mark Kornbluh, Michigan State University. 5 p.m. 126 GSLIS. More info: www.library.uiuc. edu/hpnl/news/new_directions. html. Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Poetry Reading. “Artists and Authors.” Vera Pavlova. 7 p.m.

Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. Russia, East European, and Eurasian Center.

27 Friday

Voice Reading Series. 3:30 p.m. The Rosann Gelvin Noel Gallery, Krannert Art Museum.

Showcasing fiction writers and poets from the MFA program.

Creative Writing Department and Krannert Art Museum.

28 Saturday

Kids@Krannert. 10 a.m.-noon.

Krannert Art Museum. Demonstrations, hands-on art projects, dance, music and storytelling.

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CALENDAR, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 Walnut Point Hiking Trip.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Walnut Point.

Registration required, call 3339870. Campus Recreation. “Exploring the Multiple Purposes of Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs).�

Sandy Finley, UI. Noon-5 p.m.. 428 Armory Building.

Registration required; call 3333370. Center for Teaching Excellence.

WorldFest 2009. 12:30-4 p.m.

Spurlock Museum. Celebrating performance arts practiced around the world with handson activities. $5 recommended donation. Spurlock Museum.

2009 Insect Fear Film Festival. “Centipede Cinema.� 6 p.m. Foellinger Auditorium.

Entomology Graduate Student Association.

3 Tuesday

Travel-Adventure Series. “Cruising Russia: St. Petersburg to Moscow.� Clint Denn.

6:30 p.m. Illini Rooms, Illini Union. Tickets: 333-5000. Faculty Staff Social Committee. “Beyond Counting Sheep: Dealing With Sleep Difficulty.� 7 p.m. Multipurpose Room #3, Activities Recreation Center. Counseling Center.

4 Wednesday

Around the World Wednesdays. 9:30 a.m.-noon. Spurlock Museum. Crafts and activities. $2 donation. Spurlock Museum.

Survey Research Seminar. “Introduction to Survey Sampling.� Noon-1:30 p.m. Room 201, 505 E. Green St., Champaign. Registration: www.srl. uic.edu/SEMINARS.htm. Survey Research Laboratory.

Need for Speed Seminar Series: “Computer Vision.� Narendra Ahuja, UI. 4:15 p.m. B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory. Coordinated Science Lab. Symposium. “A New Green Revolution? Meeting Global Food and Energy Demands.�

Keynote address: “From Food Crisis to Sustainable Food Security: Can We Get There From Here?� Per PinstrupAndersen, Cornell University.

5 p.m. Chancellor’s Ballroom, I-Hotel and Conference Center. Info/registration: www. ciber.illinois.edu/aspx/jacs/.

Continues through Friday. African Studies; East Asian and Pacific Studies; Global Studies; International Business Education and Research; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental; European Union Center; International Engagement, Communications and Protocol; Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security; Russian, East European and Eurasian Center; University of Illinois Extension; and Women and Gender in Global Perspectives.

Travel-Adventure Series.

“Cruising Russia: St. Petersburg to Moscow.� Clint Denn.

6:30 p.m. Illini Rooms, Illini Union. Tickets: 333-5000. Faculty Staff Social Committee. “TA-to-TA: Learning From Experienced TAs, Creating a Fair Deal Between the Students, the Professor and You: Grade Books, Rubrics and Clear Communications.�

Adam Irish, UI. 7-8:30 p.m.

428 Armory Building. Registration required; call 333-3370.

Center for Teaching Excellence.

Workshop. “Achieving Tenure and Promotion – Policies and Procedures on the UIUC Campus.� Linda Katehi, Barbara Wilson, James A. Imlay and Billie Jean Theide, UI. 2:30 p.m. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. American Association of University Professors.

5 Thursday

Gallery Conversation. “Birds in Art: Audubon Prints and Mylayne Photographs.� Jo Kibbee, Jeffrey Brawn, Richard Burkhardt, Gregory Lambeth and Jennifer Monson.

5:30 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Krannert Art Museum.

7 Saturday

“Doodle for Wildlife.� 6 p.m. IHotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., Champaign.

Info/registration: http://vetmed.illinois.edu/wmc/doodle. html. Wildlife Medical Clinic.

exhibits “Knotted Passion Box�

Through Feb. 28.

Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada, Urbana.

8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

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“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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“Early Birds: A Selection of Bird Books From Belon to Audubon�

Through March 2. “Collating Caedmon: Editing Old English Texts and the Evolution of Anglo-Saxon in Print�

On view March 6.

Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 346 Main Library.

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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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“Reflections of Black Girlhood: Necessary Truths�

Through Feb. 27.

“Something That Happened Only Once�

Through March 29. “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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“Sam Ainsley and Barbara Kendrick: Atlas of Encounters�

Through March 14.

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. http://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. 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. For more info, go to http://www.campusrec.uiuc. edu/skating/publicskate.html Center for Teaching Excellence Campuswide service unit responsible for assisting faculty,

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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

academic units and teaching assistants in improving instruction. The staff consults and advises on a variety of instructional issues. Info: 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.

Faculty/Staff Assistance Program 8 a.m.-5 p.m. 1011 W. University Ave., Urbana. 244-5312.

24-hour crisis line: 244-7739.

Illini Union Ballroom 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. MondayFriday. 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. TuesdayFriday, 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 Interlude: Open at 4 p.m. most Thursday and Friday evenings.

Close at 7 p.m. on non-performance 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 undergraduate 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 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: http://.cap.illinois.edu.

UIUC Falun Dafa Practice group 2:30-5:30 p.m. Sundays. 405 Illini Union. More info: 2442571.

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. 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. For 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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Handbook serves as guide to KAM’s vast collection

By Melissa Mitchell Arts Editor

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Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society, New York

avid Park’s oil painting “Standing Couple” is just one of more than 150 works highlighted in the Krannert Art Museum’s justpublished, first-ever collection handbook.

Flipping through “Krannert Art Museum, Selected Works,” the casual observer may be amazed to find some of the biggest names in art history represented in the 358page handbook and in the museum’s collection. The 9,000-piece collection – which is still the second largest fine arts collection in Illinois – includes works by such arthistorical stars as William Blake, Louise Bourgeois, John Singleton Copley, Gustave Courbet, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Win-

slow Homer, Gustave Courbet, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Max Weber, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston. And the list goes on … and on.

The small, but densely packed, full-color publication serves not only as a guide to the collection – which spans ancient to contemporary eras – but as a portal to the university’s arts history as well.

“What makes this different, but not unique, are the handbook’s four inserts,” said museum director Kathleen Harleman, referring to the narrative inserts that provide a timeline of KAM events and chronicle the history and legacy of the university’s celebrated 1948-1974 Contemporary American Arts Festivals. Text for two of the inserts originally was published in an

This just in Andy Warhol’s “Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger, and Unidentified Women and Men” is one of 152 photographs by the pop-art icon recently donated to Krannert Art Museum by the Warhol Foundation through its Legacy Program.

The foundation distributed more than 28,500 original photographs to 183 college and university museums and galleries nationwide. A selection of images added to the UI museum’s collection is on view in the exhibition “Polaroids and Portraits: A Photographic Legacy of Andy Warhol” through May 24.

essay by UI art history alumna Muriel (Mickey) Scheinman in “No Boundaries: University of Illinois Vignettes” (UI Press), edited by Lillian Hoddeson.

“It’s interesting to learn about what the university has done over time to show its commitment to the arts,” Harleman said.

“Kathleen was instrumental in resurrecting the project and making it a real priority,” said Harleman’s assistant, Diane Schumacher. “Also the museum staff put in countless hours to make this book a reality.”

Harleman said the project was initiated by former KAM director Josef Helfenstein. She also credits long-time museum volunteers Jim Sinclair, who provided significant funding for the project served as chair as of the committee charged with working on the content, and Residents A painting from Krannert Art Museum’s Robert Smith, who also served permanent collection is featured in the museum’s on the handbook and research collection handbook: “Standing Couple,” by David committees.

Park, an oil on canvas (1958).

Designed by Chicago design “What I loved about the project is that it firm Studio Blue, the handbook has what Harleman characterized as a “contempo- reflected what our community is – gradurary, zippy design.” Its somewhat compact, ate students, faculty members, community portable size makes it well-suited for mu- members and docents,” Harleman said, addseum visitors to carry along while touring ing that a handful of outside contributors were tapped for their expertise as well. the galleries.

“My favorite part about it is this mix of Another notable feature of the handbook is its 60-plus essays by a diverse range of voices that reflects who we are as an acacontributors – most of them from the cam- demic and community museum, and what we want to be.” u pus and local communities.

“Krannert Art Museum, Selected Works” The handbooks, which cost $39.95, will be available in early March by contacting the museum, 333-1861, kam@illinois.edu. A copy also will be available for checkout soon in the museum’s Giertz Education Center. iPod audio guides also will be available for checkout.

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