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MONDAY October 22, 2018
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UI to renovate Engineering facility for $41M BY ASHLEY FU CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The University will give the 68-year-old Mechanical Engineering Building a $41 million modernizing makeover, which is set to be completed in 2021. William Bowman, director of communications for mechanical science and engineering, said they will be renovating the existing space and attaching a five-story building, which includes a student center and a maker space. The renovation will also increase the number of classrooms available. “(The addition) is going to have a big maker space on the lower level for students across campus to be able to use for any dream and aspirations when it comes to innovation,” Bowman said. The maker space will include a computer lab, 3D printers, laser cutters and other tools. Scott James, sophomore
in Engineering, said most of the tools they plan to include in the maker space are already available in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. “It’s nice to have a second space because the MEL is also on the older side and (is) slightly more run-down. I feel like these newer facilities not only are aimed at undergraduate students but especially aimed at those doing research,” James said. The maker space will take over the basement of the new building. The main student center and a coffee shop will be located on the ground level. The top three floors will have active learning classrooms, which give students opportunities for team building. Instead of the chalkboards and singular desks that are currently
BY MADALYN VELISARIS STAFF WRITER
The Illinois Student Government Get Out The Vote task force is concerned with the visibility of the primary universal voting location on campus, which is located in Room 404 at the Illini Union. A universal voting location is where students who live anywhere on campus and are registered in the Champaign-Urbana area can vote. Room 404 is also the only early voting location on campus. The task force is planning to put up signs and a floor banner on the front side of the Main Quad
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Syeda Fauzi wears a grin as her and her husband, Muhamad, sit with their two sons, Fakhry, 3, and Faris, 9, in their home.
Lacking lactation spaces On campus, mothers exist and persist
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ISG task force boosts voting room visibility and is considering putting floor stickers and arrows to direct students to the fourth-floor voting location. The task force hopes its efforts will help students find Room 404 because the fourth-floor location is more difficult to find than rooms on the ground floor, said Kirsten Peterson, junior in LAS and cochair of the task force. She said the task force will be focusing on ways to make the location easier to find when early voting begins on Oct. 25. Rahul Raju, senior in SEE VOTING | 3A
BY JESSICA PETERSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Syeda Fauzi traveled to campus during the week with three separate bags: one for her books, her lunch and her breast pump after her son Fakhry was born in April 2015. Fauzi is entering her final year as a doctorate student in Human Resources Development at the University. Every morning, she’d pack up her supplies, sure to include not just the pump, but bottles to store the milk in and ice packs to keep it cold. Breast pumping was a necessary habit for Fauzi and one she was familiar with from when her first son Faris was born in 2008. However, where Fauzi would actually end up
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Kirsten Peterson and Rahul Raju discuss the accessibility of voting locations at the Illinois Student Senate Complex on Friday.
pumping each day continued to be unknown to her. The study rooms on the silent floor of the Undergraduate Library proved to be her best option. It was central on campus and usually had availability at the times when she’d need it. While the space provided an outlet and a door that would close, Fauzi still had to deal with a lack of privacy. She’d keep her back turned to the door and windows and the drone of her pump, a noise loud enough for other students to hear, would draw the attention of students nearby. Fauzi could make do with the conditions, although they were far from ideal. She noticed she was producing far less milk compared with
when she was breastfeeding her firstborn. According to the American Institute of Architects, the study rooms in the UGL do not suffice for an adequate lactation space, or wellness room. “Wellness rooms should provide, at a minimum, a lockable door, a work surface and chair, a small utility-type sink, storage for cleaning supplies and paper towels, adequate HVAC service and well-placed electrical outlets,” Liz York wrote in a best practice article. For Fauzi, just having a designated space to rely on and not having to chance all the study rooms being occupied, even without all the recommended components, would have made her
life a lot simpler. “Not having this lactation space slowed me down a little bit where sometimes I’d get frustrated and go, ‘You know what, I’ll just go home,’” Fauzi said. The need to always be thinking ahead about lactation spaces brought Fauzi unneeded stress, but she continued to juggle her academic and family duties while holding tight to the mindset that one day her sons would no longer need to breastfeed, and this wouldn’t be her reality forever. “If it doesn’t affect you, you’re not aware,” she said. Lauren Karplus holds her son in her arms with a tenSEE LACTATION | 3A
Bee study earns medical award BY DANIEL RENTERIA
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Gene Robinson, professor in LAS, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine for his research on the relationship between genes and social interactions through the study of honeybees. NAM announced the election of 85 new members who have made significant contributions to different fields of medicine on Oct. 15. Robinson, director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, was the only University professor selected this year. Much of Robinson’s work revolves around honeybees. He has been involved in discovering genes that affect the behaviors of honeybees and lead the project to completely map the honeybee’s genome, which may
be scaled to predict human behaviors. “I’ve been very interested in understanding this in honeybees, and also in using this information to be able to draw general insights that scale across bees and don’t apply to just bees, but to other creatures as well,” Robinson said. May Berenbaum, professor in LAS and head of the Department of Entomology, said it is rare for a bee researcher to be granted an award in medicine. Berenbaum compared Robinson’s election to the NAM to Karl von Frisch’s 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Frisch was an animal behaviorist who studied bees. “People don't typically think of honeybees and human health or medicine in the same sentence,” she said.
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Berenbaum said Robinson was the primary leader of the bee genome project early on. He revolutionized bee research and enabled researchers to answer many difficult questions about genes and social interactions, Berenbaum said. “Gene is the world leader in studying the genomics underlying behavior, and he uses bees as his model organism,” said James Collins, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and external adviser to the IGB. Robinson said he was thrilled and honored when he was notified of his election to NAM. “We have several other members on campus in that group and I was just so excited to get the news,” he said.
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