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MOOCs will be offered for college credit. “Everyone is talking about this,” she said. Tucker agreed with Raineri, citing that the College of Business offers a regular, for-credit online course that has a BY MAGGIE SULLIVAN free, MOOC counterpart. STAFF WRITER While this MOOC cannot The convenience of be taken for credit, Tuckonline courses does er said exploration is an not often outweigh the important fi rst step. “The professors really expense, allowing students to learn online weren’t in it for the monwithout spending tuition ey,” Raineri said. “But it dollars. will make those profesMassive Open Online sors that we’re currently Courses, or MOOCs, working with see that we are free, online college recognize their outstandcourses. ing efforts.” In an effort to compenThis resolution comes at sate professors who spend a time when MOOC develtime creating MOOCs, opment is really taking the Academic Senate is off, Tucker said. set to discuss a resolution Edward Tanguay, an on providing funding for American software develprofessors who develop oper living in Berlin has MOOCs. been tracking his progVarious university pro- ress in MOOC courses on fessors around the world a personal website since develop these courses, 2012. which enroll tens of thou“I got an email stating sands of learners, said that there would be 187 Charles Tucker, vice pro- new MOOCs starting in vost for Undergraduate April,” Tanguay said. “It Education and Innova- just continues to grow.” tion. There are no prereqThe revenue MOOCs uisites to bring to take any the UniMOOCs. versity “ A l l is pr o you need jected to is an increase, i nter ne t Raineconnecr i sa id. tion and A lthough an email MOOCs address,” a r e Tucker offered said. for free, CHARLES TUCKER MOOCs upon comVICE PROVOST EDUC INNOV a r e pletion, a offered user can through choose to various purchase online platform com- a $49 certificate, which panies partnered with verifies the user completuniversities. ed the course. “The Un i v e r s i t y The University was the fi rst land-grant university receives half of the reveto partner with Coursera, nue from that certificate,” one of the largest MOOC Tucker said. Although Raineri said it providers, Tucker said. “There is a brand recog- was too early to tell what nition piece to this,” said the projected increase in Deanna Raineri, Associ- revenue would look like, ate Provost of Education she said it would bring a Innovation. “We felt that “nice bit of revenue” to this was a good opportu- the University. nity for the University of Tucker said MOOCs are Illinois to show the world not just single-purpose that we have very high material that only benequality education here.” fit online learners. Students cannot earn The material develcredit toward their degree oped for MOOCs is often through most Moocs. reused in traditional “It was sort of started online courses and blendas an ‘educate the world’ ed in classes. kind of mission,” Raine“MOOC development is ri said. “The philosophy not something that sits off was there are a lot of peo- in a box by itself,” Tuckple around the world who er said. “It’s part of the cannot access education, ecology of modern course so let’s bring education to development.” them.” However, R a i ner i mesulli2@dailyillini. believes in the future, com
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Deborah Frank Feinen smiles as she walks into the room to be greeted by her supporters and interviewed by the media at the Brookens Center on Tuesday.
Feinen wins election Champaign elects Feinen with 41 percent, defeats incumbent Gerard BY CAELI CLEARY STAFF WRITER
One hour and 17 minutes after tabulation began, Deborah Frank Feinen joined her crowd of supporters as
she was announced the new mayor of Champaign. Feinen won the mayoral race Tuesday with 41 percent of the votes and beat incumbent Don Gerard by 1,167 votes. Feinen led the race with 4,967 votes, as Gerard followed with 3,800 votes. Joe Petry and Karen Foster followed with 2,243 and 1,112 votes, respectively. Fei nen’s c a mpa ig n
0RUH RQOLQH Visit focused on decreasing gun our site for video of violence by working with the police department. Feinen’s acceptance She also pushed for more speech. economic development www.DailyIllini.com of the city’s broadband infrastructure. Craig Goad, Campus “I really think it can be the economic driver for Recreation employee, said the city of Champaign, but Feinen’s campaign and also an educational benefit supporters spent Tuesday for the city,” Feinen said. knocking on doors, mak“We’ll have more jobs comSEE MAYOR | 3A ing in because of it.”
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Students shared their anonymous stories of sexual assault at Ike
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Students recall their experiences of sexual assault at the Ikenberry SDRP on Tuesday.
Standing up to a packed room, students shed light on sexual assaults by reading aloud anonymously submitted stories. The event, It Happens Here UIUC, was held by several campus organi-
zations on Thursday for April’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month. “Let’s talk about what we don’t want to talk about,” was the slogan of the event, which encouraged survivors of sexual assault to
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Cancer drug successful in trials BY JANE LEE STAFF WRITER
A group of M.D. and Ph.D. students and professors at the University recently found successful results in treating breast cancer cells in mice with the new drug BHPI. The BHPI drug is currently in the preclinical trial, said David Shapiro, senior author of the research project and biochemistry professor. The team hopes to move the research forward into the clinical stage as rapidly as possible where they will be able to test it on humans and introduce it to the medical field. Neal Andruska, lead author of the research and M.D. and Ph.D. student, said the team wanted to try to identify possible drugs that would be effective on cancers and tumors already resistant to traditional therapies. He said this research began approximately six years ago. “ Estrogens play an important role in cancer and they promote the pro-
liferation of breast cancer cells and for that reason a lot of cancer drugs have been developed to target estrogen’s actions in cancer cells, called anti-estrogen drugs,” Andruska said. The team took a different approach to identifying a drug candidate, Andruska said.When drugs are being developed, most people think of a certain protein that would target the cell and kill it. However, the research did the reverse; the team identified something that worked well in the cells fi rst, and then determined how that overpowered drug-resistant cells. “Most people who do cancer studies, they don’t actually grow the tumors fi rst,” Andruska said. “We actually grew out breast cancer tumors in mice and then we began feeding it with our compound, which we call the BHPI.” Lily Mahapatra, team member and M.D./ Ph.D. student, said human cancer cells were put in mice to mimic what doctors would observe in a patient.
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University research finds new BHPI drug showing success University research tests new BHPI drug on mice that can shrink human tumor cells. BHPI was fed to mice for 10 days and the tumor shrunk 50%
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ER+ breast cancer: Estrogren positive
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Andruska said in ten days the treatment blocked the growth of cancer cells and prompted tumor regressions, shrinking the tumor by 50 percent. “The compound is effective in animals,” Andruska
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said. “In ten days it induced tumor regressions. It actually stopped growth of tumors.” Xiaobin Zheng, second author of the research and
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