THE DAILY ILLINI
THURSDAY April 19, 2018
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Vol. 147 Issue 57
International students struggle
Counseling Center helps with unique challenges BY HAIPEI WU STAFF WRITER
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The Counseling Center is located at the Turner Student Services Building and provides services for international students dealing with mental health issues. The countries with the most international enrollment at the University are China, India, Korea, Indonesia and Turkey.
When Tzu-An Hu came to the United States 14 years ago to earn his Doctorate, he realized building relationships with his American classmates was not as easy as it had seemed on TV. Hu is now a counselor at the University Counseling Center, where his job revolves around helping international students who experience the same problems he once did. Along with the stress native college students face, international students face additional challenges, as they deal with
language barriers, discrimination and adjustments to a new culture. “When I came here, I struggled with the language, I struggled with making contact, building relationships with American classmates and, of course, dealing with homesickness,” Hu said. Hu said he often felt apologetic when he couldn’t communicate well in English. As a counselor, he found many international students feel the same way. “Maybe ( because of ) their values and cultural background, they don't want to bother others,” Hu said. “They apologize because they assume they are bothering others.” Hu said international students from cultures
where class participation is not expected may feel extra stress in classes where professors or teaching assistants require active participation. Hu said he never wanted to say anything unintelligent in front of his classmates, but he also didn’t want his professor to think he didn’t care about the class. “I always feel like I need to say something that is smart, which, in a way, should prove I deserve to be here,” Hu said. Nupur Sahai, another counselor in the center, immigrated to the U.S. from India seven years ago. Though it did not take a long time for Sahai to make SEE HEALTH | 3A
NASA funding aids in satellite creation BY MENGJIA XU STAFF WRITER
For the first time in 13 years, the Satellite Development Student Organization at the University will be sending a dual-satellite for launching preparation, thanks to a $250,000 funding from NASA. The satellite, which is called CubeSail, will be delivered to a startup company in California called Rocket Line. Rocket Line will then deliver the CubeSail to New Zealand for launching. The last satellite sent by SatDev, Ion, was involved in a rocket crash in 2006, said Dillon Hammond, freshman in Engineering, in an email. The SatDev organization receives grants from the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites and the Undergraduate Student Instrument Project, both through the NASA program, which provide engineering students with a hands-on design, building and testing experience with satellite systems. “All those (projects) are through the NASA funded programs, whose sole
purpose is to give students real-world experience in building satellites and project management and development,” said Jeremy DeJournett, senior in Engineering and head of command for SatDev. CubeSail is the size of a cereal box, but it will be launched to orbit around the earth, DeJournett said. “CubeSail is a technology demonstration; it’s basically to show you can have viable propulsion that is cheap and small in deep space,” he said. April 12 was the team’s final day working on CubeSail. DeJournett said he spent around 80 hours in the lab in the days leading to the shipment of CubeSail. There are only six paid positions for the 60 active members of SatDev, so most students work in an unpaid capacity, DeJournett said. “A lot of kids are just really in love with space, myself included, like I would do it for free. And I kind of like the volunteering aspect of it because it SEE NASA | 3A
Production from Korte helps team
UI alumna gets her ‘Revenge’
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Camera helps illuminate cancer tissue in patients BY REBECCA WOOD
Over the past four years, researchers at the University have developed a camera, inspired by the morpho butterfly, that illuminates cancerous tissue for surgeons to better detect and remove during surgeries. Viktor Gruev, lead researcher and Engineering professor, said they examined the nanostructures in the morpho butterfly’s eyes to create the camera. “We want to be able to detect tumor-targeted drugs that are fluorescent
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wavelength visible to the camera but invisible to the naked human eye. “This is one of the few technologies that can actually help during the time they are actually resecting,” he said. Gruev said surgeons are back in the dark ages while performing surgery, and patients are relying on the surgeon’s experience and condition, along with other factors. Garcia said a problem is other technologies are too big to bring inside the oper-
Lucrative financial aid deals from out-of-state schools, drawing Illinois high school students away from the state, has partially fueled the five-percent increase in the University’s $681 million budget request for state aid. The increase would allocate $10 million toward scholarships for undergraduate Illinois residents, $10 million toward faculty recruitment and retention, and $11 million toward addressing facility needs, said Jennifer Creasey, senior director of state relations for the University of Illinois system. “We’re obviously concerned that lots of schools in competing states are trying to compete for Illinois students. We know that many times, they are trying to give them scholarships, grants, awards to make them seem on par with our costs,” said Dan Mann, interim associate provost for enrollment management. “We have chosen here to provide most of our financial aid as needbased financial aid instead of merit-based.” According to the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the number of Illinois residents migrating out of the state for their college educations has steadily increased over the past decade, from more than 25,000 students leaving the state in 2006 to over 35,000 leaving the state in 2016. As of 2016, universities in Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and Wisconsin have drawn
Breast surgeon Julie Margenthaler, M.D., and clinical fellow Diana Hook (teal mask), M.D., perform surgery on Monday, March 26. A cutting-edge camera could allow surgeons to identify cancerous tissue and remove it completely, making patients truly free of cancer.
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during the surgery,” Gruev said. Gruev said the nanostructures allow the butterflies to see multiple colors, which provides better optical performance. He added when the majority of physicians perform cancer surgery, they typically use sight and touch to identify where cancerous and healthy tissue are located. Missael Garcia, postdoctoral researcher on the study, said they insert a chemical into a patient’s body, which causes cancerous cells to illuminate at a
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