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UI to increase funding for humanities BY MARYCATE MOST STAFF WRITER
As part of the administration’s Strategic Plan, the University will begin to allot more funds to the humanities, beginning with a 50 percent increase to the Humanities and Arts Scholar Support program, Chancellor Phyllis Wise said. In the past, this program has given $1,000 to each professor within Humanities and Arts programs, said dean of FAA Ed Feser. This year, each professor will receive $1,500. Feser said that although most programs at the University saw their budgets cut over the past decade, cuts to Humanities and Arts has an especially large impact. “The programs that are able to self-generate revenue, those programs tend to naturally succeed on their own,” he said. “Those that are not able to generate revenue — those whose business model doesn’t
generate a lot of overhead and doesn’t generate a lot of flexible funding — rely more on the central funds.” In addition to the extra funding going to professors under the Humanities and Arts Scholar Support program, Wise also said the University is starting to pay more attention to faculty within the colleges of LAS and FAA. “We know we have to increase faculty salaries, particularly in LAS and FAA, because we know we haven’t paid enough attention to those faculty,” Wise said at the annual meeting of the faculty on Oct. 29. This year, FAA and LAS will have the opportunity to start hiring more faculty, which had been cut back severely due to budget cuts, Feser said. In past years, FAA has seen an increase in students per facul-
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Daily Bread Soup Kitchen to give backpacks to homeless STAFF WRITER
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ACES offers help to East African farmers
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The College of ACES, along with four other institutions, is partnering with Catholic Relief Services to join the United States Agency for International Development’s Farmer-to-Farmer Program in four East African countries. The Farmer-to-Farmer Program connects American farmers, agribusinessmen and others with knowledge in different agricultural fields with farmers and communities in developing countries around the world. The program, which was authorized in 1985, is funded by the
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The college of ACES has recently partnered with the Catholic Relief Services and four other organizations to send volunteers to four African counties — Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia. These programs will run along side other programs in other developing African countries.
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ACES supports farming development in 4 East African countries
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United States Agency for International Development and has been implemented in more than 80 countries since its inception, according to the agency’s website. This particular program will take place over the next five years and will offer aid in Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, said Bruce White, the program director for Catholic Relief Services. The College of ACES, along with the Food Resource Bank, National Catholic Rural Life Conference, National Association of Agricultural Educators and American Agri-Women, will
seek volunteers to travel to these countries. “They can help farmers move from subsistence production to getting into higher value commercial activities, for example being able to work towards being a supplier for agribusiness, or for the export market, or even a market in a larger city within that country,” said Rolin Oliver Ferguson, ACES’ international program coordinator, in an email. “This can raise farm incomes and by increasing farmer incomes you can positively impact their household well
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Walking down Green Street, students are likely to encounter some of Champaign’s homeless, people who don’t have the funds to give and receive gifts this holiday season. But starting Dec. 9, students can help them by participating in the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen’s Back Pack Project. Participants should fill backpacks with toiletries, cold weather items and other goods, according to the soup kitchen’s website. The backpacks should be labeled with the gender and size of the recipient, and children’s backpacks should be labeled by gender and age of the child. The Daily Bread’s goal is to donate 1,000 backpacks, which will be distributed on Dec. 19 along with a sack lunch. Filled backpacks can be dropped off at Ellen Harms’ home, 705 S. Elm Blvd.; Pam Hagle’s home, 713 S. Elm Blvd.; or at the Daily Bread, 124 W. White St., starting Dec. 9. “As a student, you see many of the people that we serve,” said Ellen Harms, board member
of the Daily Bread. “We think that so many of the people we feed, the backpacks are the only Christmas gifts they have. They’re really delighted to get a backpack because they’re full of things they use.” Harms said that although some might be “horrified” at receiving deodorant or lotion for the holidays, those who are homeless would appreciate these items. “For the people we see every day, they can’t run to CVS and buy lotion. People come in all the time asking for socks, hats and mittens. I think (donating a backpack) is a very heartwarming thing to do,” Harms said. Volunteers will sort and organize the backpacks on Dec. 18. Harms encourages students to donate backpacks in order to get involved in the community. “I think that college is a wonderful four years, but it’s kind of an unreal world and it’s important to get out of that every now and then and see what’s happening around you,” Harms said. Antoniya Ilieva, junior in
AHS, is the project coordinator of the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega and volunteers at the soup kitchen often. She said she would like her fraternity to get involved in this project. “I definitely want to help. I feel like it’s a good way to help guests (of the kitchen) and I think it’s a yearly thing and would be good for us to contribute. We have available resources to help,” Ilieva said. Nick Davis, senior in Media, has been volunteering at the Daily Bread for three years, and encourages students to volunteer because of the experience. “It’s a volunteer experience where you’re not just volunteering. You’re also building friendships and knowing other volunteers and building relationships in the community,” he said. “A lot of people come to U of I and only know students, and these are all adults who have lived in Champaign and have lived all over and have these different experiences.”
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UI team wins medical portion of MIT biology competition BY NYAJAI ELLISON STAFF WRITER
The University’s International Genetically Engineered Machine team won the Best Health and Medicine Project award in the undergraduate division of the 2013 international competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in early November. iGEM is the world’s largest competition based on synthetic biology, which is the design and construction of biological devices and utilities for various purposes. Synthetic biology is a marriage of technology and biology, and iGEM aims to further the future of the advancement of synthetic biology in the world. In the Health and Medicine category, 40 teams from around the world competed
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with the University’s team of seven people, which was awarded best project in this category. Ashley Moy, sophomore in Engineering, was the University team’s administrative director of iGem. “I am so proud of all of the hard work my team has put into making a probiotic to fight cardiovascular disease.” Moy said. C ardiovascular disease refers to a collection of heartrelated diseases, one of which Moy said her grandmother had been diagnosed with. “I see her struggle on a daily basis, and when I told her about our project, she was so proud and hopeful for the future of medicine,” she said. In addition, the iGEM team and their work has had a personal impact on Susan McKenna, assistant director of
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commu nic ations for the department of bioengineering. “The Illinois iGEM team and project mean something to me, personally, as I lost my father to heart disease 10 years ago, and I wish that didn’t have to happen to anyone.” McKenna said. “It is gratifying to see how excited and committed they are to the project — their effort encourages me to believe that they could one day fi nd a way to eliminate heart disease or, at the least, manage it to the point where it is no longer so serious and widespread.” Moy said she hopes to see their probiotic reach the market to help the hundreds of thousands of people affl icted with cardiovascular disease.
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