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FEATURES Statistics vs. Anecdotes Trifecta tradition When the Professor Is a Pop Star 17 By Dean Richard B. Schwartz These winners are three of a kind. A&S Virtuosity Is Its Own Reward 18 students won a trio of national academic Poetic Justice 20 Academic statistics are always interesting. As I began to write this titles in 2005 and elevated MU as one of Gift of Gab 24 introduction, I received the fall enrollment numbers. Students in the only 17 institutions in the nation with Dog Psychology 26 College represent nearly one-third of MU’s 27,985 record total. Since Truman, Goldwater and Udall scholars in For All We Call Mizzou: my arrival in summer 1998, the University has added more than 5,000 the same year. A Million Thanks 28 students — the equivalent of a small to medium-sized liberal arts college. The winners are Harry S. Truman That Was Creepy! 32 Since 1998 the size of the College faculty has grown, the endowment has more than Scholar Annie Morrison, a biological sci- Check Out These Plants 34 doubled and the growth of external research support has skyrocketed. What is clear, ences and English major from West Plains, Sharing Space at the however, is that although statistics are important, they tell a very partial story about a Mo.; Barry Goldwater Scholar Matt Top of the Math World 36 university’s success. Simpson, a physics major from Columbia; Investing Heart and Soul for 25 Years 38 The real stories are the stories you hold in your hand — the stories about people and Morris K. Udall Scholar Jared Cole, Will Work for Funds 40 and the manner in which those people change other peoples’ lives. The stories concern a sociology and environmental studies Rock Icon Leads a Master Class 42 distinguished teaching, incisive and innovative research, impressive student accom- major from Leawood, Kan. This Is the Future 43 plishments, the fascinating career tracks of our graduates, and the great generosity of As one of only 75 Truman Scholars

Brothers Bonded 44 our supporters. nationally, Morrison received $30,000, PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER This issue may take the prize for stories with unique slants, with an account of which she plans to apply toward medical in a campus recycling effort called Sustain Outstanding students, from left, Jared Cole, Annie Associate Professor Deb Bell’s prize-winning English toy spaniel, to visits by rock star school. Morrison founded and coordinates Mizzou. Morrison and Matt Simpson won national acclaim as The College gratefully thanks the A&S Alumni Udall, Truman and Goldwater scholars. Organization for financial assistance with the Sting and Preston Sharp of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. We know that we have Women of Worth (WOW), a mentoring All three winners say the application production of Mosaics magazine. a beautiful campus and a serious, successful academic enterprise, but it is good to know program that pairs college women with process for the national scholarships can So why is Ries spending so much time that we also have fun and that we provide students some wholly unexpected but truly troubled girls and teenage mothers. The be daunting, especially when combined talking about tight writing and pointing Send all comments to [email protected] memorable experiences. program supports young women who seek with regular class requirements. out dangling participles in student papers? Our new provost, Brian Foster, is fond of quoting former A&S Dean Milt Glick’s assistance with health issues and education. A friend kept Cole on track by urging Ries, winner of a 2004 William T. On the Cover: Husband and wife Nadine Meyer frequent observation that “data is the plural of anecdote.” Anecdotes have an advan- Morrison says her work with women him to finish the process when he talked Kemper Fellowship for teaching excel- and Steve Gehrke are seasoned winners of poetry awards, but even they were stunned with two recent tage over data, however, in that because data are notoriously manipulable, their audi- who are struggling under the health care of quitting. Morrison just wanted to lence, teaches the statistics department’s announcements. Photo by Karen Johnson. ence is inherently skeptical. The audience for our anecdotes, however, is more recep- system has challenged and inspired her. survive the six-week process of applica- writing-intensive senior seminar. It’s one tive, because everyone loves a good story. “Good health is a real possibility in our tions, written revisions and interviews. of the numerous courses offered as part The virtue of these stories, of course, is that they are all true as well as interesting. society if we take a responsible approach Simpson was relieved at having had the of MU’s nation- Unfortunately, we must restrict their number and cram them into a magazine of 44 to our citizenship,” she says. advantage of research experience. ally recognized pages. This is our greatest challenge. Those of you who have recently received depart- Talking with Simpson about his phys- The threesome is encouraging peers to Campus Writ- mental newsletters know that we could fill Mosaics with accounts of recent doings in ics research takes considerably more keep the trifecta tradition intact at Miz- ing Program. two or three of our 30-plus departments and programs. effort than a casual conversation. He zou in future years. For the To give but a single example, we have included an account of Professor Gabor For- works in atomic force microscopy. Under fourth con- gacs’ work. In Gabor’s department, physics and astronomy, there have been two other the guidance of Professor Haskell Taub, Principals and secu- major grants this fall, the total value of the three being more than $10 million, and the Simpson probes samples of alkane miner- participles research involved is even more interesting than the amounts of the grants. Enjoy our als to measure their physical structure In their comment cards, stories, knowing that they are representative but not all-inclusive, and enjoy your role and friction. When he’s not engaged in students praise Larry in our wonderful community. research or his own study, Simpson shares Ries’ ability to teach his talents as a tutor in the Physics Help statistics. They refer to Center. some of his lecture material as wor- Winning a national title is a familiar thy of a stand-up comedy routine and mosaics is published annually for alumni and friends of the College of Arts and Science at routine to Cole, who collected his second value his clear explanations of such the University of Missouri-Columbia. consecutive Udall scholarship in 2005 and subjects as p-values. PHOTO BY CHRIS DETRICK EDITOR Nancy Moen, 317 Lowry Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, (573) 882-2209 Composer Stefan Freund, right, took inspiration from E-mail: [email protected] reached the finals for the Truman award. Larry Ries teaches writing skills to students faculty colleague Leo Saguiguit, left, and piano stu- PHOTOGRAPHERS Chris Detrick, Dan Glover, Rob Hill, Karen Johnson, Justin Kelley He’s known at MU for his work as an as he teaches statistics. dent Patrick Dell to win a national composition title. ART DIRECTOR Blake Dinsdale environmental activist and his leadership PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER

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tive year, teachers such as Ries have 2003. helped put MU’s name in the U.S. News • The Modern Language Association se- & World Report’s “Best Colleges” issue. lected John Foley’s experimental edition- The 2006 publication lists Mizzou’s translation of South Slavic oral epic The Campus Writing Program among the Wedding of Mustabjey’s Son Becirbey as nation’s best “writing in the disciplines” Performed by Halil Bajgoric as winner programs. of the MLA Award for a Distinguished Ries enforces the rules of good writ- Scholarly Edition for 2004–05. The prize ing by asking students to write critiques represents the highest national award for of magazine or newspaper articles that scholarly editions of literature. Foley is involve uses or misuses of statistics. Other Curators’ Professor of English and Classi- times he requests written explanations cal Studies. of statistical procedures and concepts • Heading down the national highway geared toward different audiences. In one again is a familiar route for history Pro- assignment he asks his students to explain fessor Steve Watts as he lectures and signs a p-value to a student who has no knowl- PHOTO BY ROB HILL books to promote his newest, Henry Ford, edge of statistics. and radiology Professor Kattesh Katti is Carol Anderson’s knowledge of history earned her a The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and “The papers I have read on that topic the 2005–06 recipient of the renowned position on the historical advisory committee for the the American Century. Watts has been U.S. Department of State. have been quite interesting. It is one thing Gauss Professorship. Katti was selected featured on PBS, C-Span and National to understand something but quite an- from nominees worldwide. He is known in Madrid this August. The prestigious Public Radio. other to explain it to someone who lacks for his innovative nanomedicine tech- group meets only every four years. • Chemistry department Chair Jerry PHOTO COURTESY OF MU PUBLICATIONS context,” he says. niques to combat prostate cancer and is • Instructor of Japanese Marty Holman Atwood became a Fellow of the Royal Perhaps one of his finest — and funni- Walter Johnson Auditorium, the landmark auditorium in Middlebush Hall, is renamed after the economics To qualify for teaching a writing-in- the principal inventor on 14 patents that and some of his MU students will appear Society of Chemistry in May. One month est — moments occurred during a class in professor who gave lectures to 40,000 students. tensive course, Ries attended a three-day deal with cancer diagnosis and therapy. at the Kennedy Center in Washington, later he lectured at the 50th anniversary the 1970s when a streaker dashed across training workshop with his campus col- • Statistics department Chair Nancy D.C., for the national Cherry Blossom of the Institute of Physical Chemistry the front of the room as Johnson lectured. Auditorium will be a fixture in quality un- leagues who teach similar courses in their Flournoy attended the World Academy Festival. Holman, a new faculty mem- of the Polish Academy of Sciences in The students from that class remember dergraduate education,” says department own curricula. of Art and Science General Assembly in ber in the Department of German and Warsaw, where he received the Honorary Johnson’s swift response to the incident. Chair and Professor David Mandy. Just as Ries admits that with all the rewrit- Zagreb, Croatia, in November to discuss Russian Studies, involves the students as Medal of the Institute of Physical Chem- An unflustered Johnson regained Walter Johnson was a fixture. ing and grading, these classes are a lot evolutionary challenges of the 21st cen- puppeteers in a Bunraku Japanese puppet istry, Polish Academy of Sciences. Atwood control with a witty observation: “There Alumni and friends who would like to of work but worth the effort. As a side tury. The United Nations-sponsored as- troupe that he directs. works in nanoscience. goes a perfect example of the gross na- make a memorial gift to honor Johnson benefit, the experience has improved his sembly of 500 fellows and experts meets • Piano Adjunct Instructor Sara • Economics Professor Michael Pod- tional product.” may send checks to the Walter L. John- own writing skills, too. every five years to deal with global issues. Renaud, MM ’03, won the 2005 Studio gursky has been appointed a scholar-in- Johnson’s MU teaching career spanned son Opportunities for Excellence Fund Flournoy is a fellow of that organization Fellowship Award of the Music Teachers residence at the Ewing Marion Kauffman more than 33 years and touched more in Economics. Please make the gift to News in a flash and several others. National Association, the oldest profes- Foundation in Kansas City for the 2005- than 40,000 students. In honor of that the University of Missouri-Columbia, On the road and at home, Mizzou arts • History Associate Professor Carol sional music teachers association in the 06 academic year. The foundation funds remarkable legacy to students, the Uni- indicate the name of the fund on the and science faculty members participate Anderson has been appointed a member of United States. The award honors her numerous programs in education and versity recently renamed its landmark memo line and mail it to 317 Lowry Hall, in national and international activities. the historical advisory committee for the work as a piano teacher, but Renaud also operates the Center for Entrepreneurial auditorium in Middlebush Hall after him. Columbia, MO 65211. • Chemistry Associate Professor Sheryl U.S. Department of State. The nine-mem- maintains an active performance schedule Leadership. On Oct. 21, 2005, Johnson’s former Tucker won a 2005 Presidential Award ber committee established by Congress with musicians and ensembles. colleagues and students from the Depart- White’s Trash for excellence in science mentoring. She provides oversight on the preparation of • Theater Professor Suzanne Burgoyne Never forget ment of Economics, Columbia Mayor Dar- plays in New York accepted the $10,000 national award the Foreign Relations of the United States has a national commitment for five years. Walter Johnson is a legend of the lecture win Hindman and Chancellor Emeritus Hillbilly love and flyin’ refrigerators hit in Washington, D.C. Tucker’s Magic of series. She’s president-elect of the Association hall. Former students remember the Richard Wallace joined with Johnson’s New York for two weeks in August when Chemistry program encourages girls to • In a first for the mathematics for Theater in Higher Education and will professor of economics, who died in 2001, wife, Mary-Angela Johnson, to dedicate a play written by David White, an MU perform hands-on chemistry experiments department, the International Congress step into the two-year presidency of the for lively lectures that were stimulating the newly renovated facility. Sonja Step- doctoral theater student, was selected and exposes them to female role models. of Mathematicians has invited an MU group in 2007, followed by a two-year and informational as well as entertaining. toe, BA economics, BJ ’82, represented for the annual New York International • The Academy of Sciences in Got- professor, Steve Hofmann, to deliver a term as past president. The group named For nearly two decades Johnson taught department alumni for the ceremony. Fringe Festival. The festival features 200 tingen, Germany, announced that physics lecture at its 2006 international meeting her Outstanding Teacher of the Year in Principles of Economics. “The fully modernized Walter Johnson companies performing plays at more than

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20 venues. est. National rankings by Philosophical The exotic location where Hobbs lives is is known principally through images The six performances of Trash reunit- Gourmet 2004–05 list the department not in or even near Europe. The place she of starving children. Hobbs joined the ed four MU actors and technicians who as in a tie for eighth place in philosophy of calls home has a monsoon season that lasts United States Agency for International students took the play to the York Theatre religion, tied for ninth place in decision from June through October, and in many Development (USAID) five years ago in New York for Mizzou on Broadway: theory and tied for 14th place in episte- parts of the country, people can travel and is an education team leader based in White, Jeff Lange, BA ’03, doctoral stu- mology. only by boat or on raised oxcart trails. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. dent Eric Love and Bill Kennedy, BA ’04. Strength in publishing also showcases Hobbs’ mailing address is in At the U.S. Embassy there, she man- Trash is the first Mizzou on Broadway this respected department. Associate Bangladesh. ages the U.S. foreign aid that supports production picked up by other companies. Professors Robert Johnson and Matt She loves her life in a country that education and early childhood develop- Trash is an Ozark folk tale set in the McGrath recently received extraordinary fictitious town of Last Chance, Mo., professional recognition for their written somewhere along the Missouri/Arkansas works. state line. In the comedy, three friends Johnson’s article, “Virtue and Right” living in the Ozark Mountains discover — first published in Ethics, the world’s how the junkyard they call home can help leading journal of selected moral philoso- them cope with tragedy, triumph and all phy — was selected by The Philosopher’s the abandoned appliances littering the Annual as one of the 10 best philosophy hills. articles published in 2003. McGrath White is literary manager at the Eu- received the prestigious Oxford Studies gene O’Neill Theatre Center in Water- in Metaphysics Younger Scholar Prize for ford, Conn., and is working on his MU 2005 for his paper “Four-Dimensionalism doctoral dissertation. He takes inspira- PHOTO BY BRANDIN RACKLEY and the Puzzles of Coincidence.” John Senekdjian gathered MU theater faculty and tion from and writes about his child- fellow alumni to produce the contemporary romantic The future brings new potential, as hood stomping grounds in the Ozarks of drama Burn This in Hollywood. well. André Ariew, whom Kvanvig calls Missouri. “I find myself thinking about the most prominent and promising junior how the Ozarks (area) is so inherently and he declared a theater major his sopho- philosopher of biology anywhere, will theatrical,” he says. more year. “I’ve always had a passion for join the faculty in fall 2006. Ariew is an who appeared recently on the televi- theater, television and film,” he says. “I associate of the Museum of Comparative Hooray for Mizzou sion shows Grey’s Anatomy and House, owe a great deal to Jim Miller for keeping Zoology at Harvard University and was in Hollywood consulted as an adviser, and Senekdjian me sane and believing in my talent.” a 2004 visiting professor at Cambridge The Theater District in Hollywood is the himself played a featured role. Burn This is a contemporary romantic University. He is writing a book on two newest scene for a convergence of MU Senekdjian’s allegiance to Mizzou had drama that premiered in Los Angeles in models of natural selection. stage talent. John Senekdjian, BA ’00 brought him back to campus a few years 1987 with John Malkovich playing the “I knew we had to hire him when I theatre, co-produced the play Burn This ago for an emotional reunion in theater lead role of Pale. Many alumni joined the saw his work cited in the writing samples during the month of June with the help of to honor Miller, who has been a mentor. Mizzou cast and crew at a party after the of the other candidates,” says Associate a group of alumni and faculty. “It was an experience I will carry with final performance of Senekdjian’s produc- Professor Andrew Melnyk, a member of The journey toward Senekdjian’s pro- me for the entirety of my life and one that tion on June 26. the search committee. duction took six months. After casting the showed me the true family that is the MU production, finding a theater and buying theater department,” Senekdjian says. Think about it Hobbs lives life insurance, he looked no further than Miz- “As I ventured into this project in Los An- At professional meetings across the na- as an adventure zou for talent. geles and people from MU kept offering tion, philosophy department Chair Jon A history degree and adventurous spirit Senekdjian, who uses the stage name their support, all of those feelings came Kvanvig frequently fields inquiries from have helped Mary Hobbs discover the John Seitzer, invited Professor Emeritus rushing back.” nationally and internationally known phi- world. As a student, Hobbs, BA ’85, Weldon Durham to direct, Professor Jim Senekdjian entered MU in 1996 with losophers who ask about the possibility of prepared for an international career and Miller to design the costumes and B.J. the intent of earning a law degree. He joining MU’s department. fantasized about working in Italy or PHOTO BY KAREN JOHNSON Jones, BA ’00, to do production art. Actor quickly discovered that the prospect of Many recent department accomplish- Greece. An international career is what Mary Hobbs pursued as a student of the arts and sciences. She hoped for a life Brent Briscoe, BA ’84 communication, sitting behind a desk scared him to death, ments are the reasons behind that inter- It didn’t quite work out that way. in Italy or Greece but loves where she landed.

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ment. Hobbs works in partnership with language spoken by more than 50 million finalists. Then a guest editor who is con- the international agency Save the Chil- people. sidered a leading travel writer makes the dren and with Sesame Workshop. Senior Derek Coleman of Columbia final decisions. The 2005 guest editor is She says the majority of Bangladeshi enrolled in the Swahili classes to complete Jamaica Kincaid. National Geographic’s schoolchildren come from families with his foreign-language credits but now sees Adventure magazine led the field with no literate parents, and even with an career potential in combining Swahili four articles selected for publication in impressive 95 percent enrollment in early with an art history and archaeology ma- 2005. grade school, the dropout rate is high by jor. He and other students of Odalloh are If travel writing is done well, it can second grade. considering applying to the Peace Corps. transport readers to the farthest edges That high failure rate is predictable, Swahili borrows much of its vocabu- of the Earth and open minds to cultures Hobbs says. “There are no books in the lary from Arabic. It is spoken mostly in beyond the familiar. The Missouri Review houses and no educational toys.” Save the East Africa and is part of Bantu, the articles that met that standard include Children helps prepare these youngsters largest language family in Africa. Swahili two that won other honors. for school by developing tools that even shares the same alphabet as English and “A Vocabulary for My Senses” won illiterate parents can use to teach non- the same sentence construction with the author Timothy Bascom the 2004 Mis- readers. One of the projects is a picture order of subject, verb and direct object. souri Review Editors’ Prize for nonfic- book of local folk tales that includes letter “It’s a lovely language with a long tion. Bascom’s essay vividly describes recognition and simple words. “It’s em- poetic tradition,” says Assistant Professor his experiences as the child of Christian PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER powering to the parents,” she says. Vickie Carstens, a linguist of African lan- missionaries at a mission hospital in the David Brunsma’s recent book explores the effects of Hobbs’ home city is roughly the size guages. “People tend to pick it up pretty Wallayta region of Ethiopia. school-uniform policies. of New York with a population of 12 mil- easily.” Most people recognize at least The 2005 Jeffrey E. Smith Prize win- lion people. The city has no skyscrapers, a few Swahili words, such as safari and ner for nonfiction is Tom Ireland’s “My through clothing. Students dislike them and commuters ride in bicycle-powered bwana, from adventure movies. Thai Girlfriends,” a funny collection of for the same reason. three-wheel rickshaws rather than cars, During class, Odalloh encourages observations of Thai culture that Ireland For years, conventional wisdom has but Hobbs sees a veneer of the first world the new speakers to use full sentences. pulls from his experiences after living in held that students who wear uniforms do in the thriving construction, textile and After just three weeks of the lecture and Thailand for a year. better in school. In a test of that theory, china industries. conversation classes, his students were Equally as compelling is Charles Mar- David Brunsma, assistant professor of so- An international job may have been already writing compositions. Their prog- tin Kearney’s “Maps and Dreaming,” an ciology, researched the subject and wrote inevitable for Hobbs, who grew up in an ress pleases him. essay that recounts the author’s extended the book The School Uniform Movement academic environment with MU pro- PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER “Tomorrow I’m giving a speaking travels with a female companion through and What It Tells Us About American fessor, Daryl Hobbs, for a father. The Sudan. She’ll miss the luxuries of roads Fulbright Scholar Dennis Odalloh teaches Mizzou’s exercise,” he says, “tongue twisters.” It Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India and Education: A Symbolic Crusade. family socialized with MU’s international and schools but expects to have running first set of language and conversation classes in will be a new experience for the students. Pakistan. Brunsma used evidence from eight Swahili. students and lived for a time in Peru when water and solar power in the camp where Meanwhile, Odalloh himself is enjoying Missouri Review Editor Speer Morgan years of research to determine that Hobbs was 8. she’ll live until houses are built. classes while taking two MU classes in the new food, new friends and new expe- considers the high number of travel-writ- school-uniform policies do not affect stu- “I was given a good sort of window As for that dream of life in Italy journalism toward a degree in advanced riences in Missouri. ing pieces selected for the 2005 showcase dent achievement, attendance or behav- on the world,” she says of her Mizzou and Greece, Hobbs says, “I still like to linguistics. to be “solid recognition” of The Review’s ior, including curbing violence. degree. She credits courses in general his- vacation there.” The Department of Romance Lan- A journey in words recent efforts to elevate its award- Brunsma studied students from tory, Latin American history, diplomatic guages and Literatures initiated a course What do The New Yorker and The Mis- winning nonfiction record to the elementary, middle and history, political science, economics, clas- Say it in Swahili in Swahili in fall 2005 when a Fulbright- souri Review have in common? Both status of its record for fiction. high schools and found sical studies, French, and art history and Sema kwa ki Swahili sponsored program chose Mizzou as a periodicals had three nonfiction pieces that schools with greater archaeology as the foundation for her in- As temperatures tumble, Dennis Odalloh host site to teach the language. A director selected for publication in The Best What not to wear numbers of students who are terest in foreign affairs. “I honestly think of Kenya wonders what winter will be of the Institute of International Educa- American Travel Writing 2005, a show- School uniforms. You may lower-achieving, minority and I had the best courses and best teachers like in a place where the weather is cold tion selected Mizzou after visiting the case of the best 20 or so travel articles of remember those khaki slacks poor, as well as schools with here. In liberal arts, the whole world is but the people are warm. This is Odal- department’s Web site. He was intrigued the year. or pleated skirts worn with lower parental involvement, open to you.” loh’s first time out of Africa. by MU’s Afro-Romance Institute. Editors of The Best American Travel polo shirts and navy sweaters. are the most likely to adopt a Soon Hobbs will begin another ad- The Fulbright Scholar is teaching Swa- Likewise, Odalloh’s students say they Writing read items from hundreds of Parents like them because uniform policy. He reports that venture with a new assignment in South hili language and conversation are intrigued by the melodic African periodicals to establish a list of 50 to 100 they stifle student expression elementary schools have imple-

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mented uniforms at the greatest rate. “It’s a great honor that they chose geoscience societies, recipients of alumni “We look toward them,” Lepley said. Brunsma began the study in 1996 after a to come here,” says Associate Dean Ted awards and honorary lifetime members of “Especially undergraduates, who aren’t push for school uniforms occurred in the Tarkow. “The association selects locations the Geology Development Board. in tune yet with the outside world, can early 1990s in public schools nationally. where the classical studies are thriving.” Alumni who served as geoscience see what one can do with a degree.” With the expanded interest in school The availability of MU’s Museum of Art society presidents are Mike Bahorich, Lepley is one of two students who serve uniforms, perhaps manufacturers will and Archaeology and Ellis Library helped BS ’79, Society of Exploration Geophysi- on the Geology Development Board, consider producing better-looking duds draw the national assemblage that serves cists; Richard Bishop, MA ’69, American which assists the department with for kids. some of the nation’s finest high school stu- Association of Petroleum Geologists; John private support. dents of Latin and Greek. Burst, PhD ’50, Society for Mining, Met- Three of the honorees, Marshall, Ho- Herd of this? MU’s classics and ancient history allurgy and Exploration; Earle McBride, lifield and Bishop, spoke after department Soon after Cristo’s exhibit of saffron professors enjoyed working with the MA ’56, Society of Paleontologists and Chair Kevin Shelton read the honor roll. banners closed in New York’s Central lively participants. Typically these Mineralogists; and M. Ray Thomasson, At 81, Marshall says he’s having way Park, MU art students installed their own students thrive on academic discussions BA ’53, MA ’54, American Association too much fun drilling for oil to even public art display on the lawn of the Fine and fiercely competitive activities that of Petroleum Geologists and American consider retiring. There are few things he Arts Building on University Avenue. range from quiz bowls to Latin sight- Geological Institute. loves as much as working on oil wells or Art enthusiasts and passers-by en- reading. They are the caliber of scholars Distinguished alumni award winners for the geology department. “I owe a debt countered a collection of 3-D abstract the department hopes to attract when include Bishop; Ray Holifield, BS ’59, MA to this department,” he said. “I could shapes that resembled pine trees, an arch, they reach college age. ’64; John H. Marshall Jr., BA ’49, MA match wits with anyone when I walked basket, fountain, dome, plant, barrel and Visiting Assistant Professor Michael ’50; Herman Ponder, BA ’55, PhD ’59; out of here.” He still can. And does. other architectural designs. Students of Barnes attributes the increased awareness and Thomasson. Bishop retired from Exxon-Mobil and Assistant Professor David S. East created of classical studies to such pop culture Honorary lifetime board members are now works as a consultant. “I went to a the pieces out of flexible wooden strips subjects as movies about Troy and Alexan- Marshall and Hugh Looney, BA ’47, MA lot of schools,” he said, “but this one is at and plastic zip ties for an exhibit titled der the Great as well as books and movies ’48, honored posthumously. my heart.” Like a Herd of Puryears. of the Harry Potter series. The ceremony attracted a crowd that Holifield thanked the department for The three-week project on public “There’s a great resurgent interest in included students. Doctoral student Scott its outstanding faculty, such as Raymond art was inspired partly by the work of mythology in all its forms, and that leads Lepley of Chicago said he understands Peck and Walter Keller. “It was very Martin Puryear, a contemporary sculptor. to a greater interest in ancient cultures,” the significance of what the alumni have much an honor to be adopted as a poor PHOTO BY JUSTIN KELLEY The student artists planned their pieces pieces to graze the lawn on University Students of David S. East treated the campus commu- Barnes says. “Once the door is open to accomplished and their return visits to boy by those professors,” Holifield said. to create an attractive public display suit- Avenue. In spring 2002, East’s class nity to an outside display of 3-D abstract art shaped these cultures, you see what a fascinating campus. The alumni returned to MU for their able for the landscape and architecture of produced several wooden cows in various from strips of flexible wood. subject it is. Ancient history has a lot of the site. poses. The motivated scholars were among lessons to offer.” “This is a collaborative project, so the East coordinates the 3-D design the more than 1,400 classical studies In one of their final activities, the stu- students are also dealing with the experi- program with the assistance of Visiting students who invaded campus for a week dents paraded in costume around the clas- ence of proposing, planning and executing Assistant Professor Shannon Blakey and in August. Although they came to conquer, sically lovely Francis Quadrangle, where a piece as a group,” East says. Teaching Assistant Eric Carlson, a gradu- for the most part, these gladiators were it’s nearly impossible to ignore someone East had to do some collaboration of ate student in the ceramics program. Stu- seeking victory in mind games. dressed in a toga. his own. He coordinated the display with dents in the 3-D class generally work on Students from high schools across the MU Campus Facilities, whose workers four projects during the semester and are nation converged on the Midwest for the The writing is tend the buildings and plan the mowing happy to exhibit their art. annual conference of the National Junior on the wall schedules of green spaces on campus. Classical League. Mizzou’s Department The writing is on the wall in the Geo- East also used the project to teach That’s classic of Classical Studies provided faculty to logical Sciences Building. The names and students to work with scale and incite The students in Professor Charles Saylor’s help lead forums, discussions and contests accomplishments of several outstanding curiosity. As the Cristo exhibit did, East lecture on mythology in Renaissance art (certamen) on the ancient world. For alumni have been carved in stone — green hopes that activities such as Herd of egged him on to tell more. Those in Assis- entertainment, the students participated serpentinized marble — to form a Geo- Puryears give the public an opportunity to tant Professor Anatole Mori’s session were in Olympika track and field events and logical Sciences Wall of Fame. PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER experience surprise, interest and wonder. so into the lecture that they would call out browsed bazaars of hand-made arts and Among the honorees are geologists Richard Bishop, John Marshall Jr. and Ray Holifield, from left, enjoy a ceremony to announce members of the The exhibit is the second herd of art the answers to her rhetorical questions. crafts. who served as presidents of national Geological Sciences Wall of Fame.

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twice-yearly board meeting to strategize As luck would have it, there were coexistence; and Wayne Anderson, profes- bread and butter of his casework relates about support for the department. The other connections as well. Link and Tay- sor emeritus of psychology, who discussed to military campaigns. With new technol- goal this year is to raise $1 million for lor exchanged marriage vows in Memphis how people are manipulated by their ogy, his teams now are investigating cases scholarships and fellowships. after her May graduation. Taylor, who is fears. from World Wars I and II and the Korean Since the board’s founding in 1981, the from St. James, Mo., will graduate this To receive the Peace Studies Review, conflict. Researchers use dental records members have raised $3 million and take year. patrons may send a contribution to the and more recently DNA as they push the pride in that tradition of fund raising. Peace Studies Program, 53 McReynolds limits of science in their investigations. Marshall, for example, made his first gift Inaugural issue Hall, Columbia, MO 65211. Among Holland’s most memorable of $5 shortly after his graduation in 1950. The University of Missouri Peace Studies solutions is the identification in 1998 of He’s been adding to that and encouraging Review, a peer-reviewed journal, made its Puzzle master the Vietnam Unknown Soldier from Ar- gifts from other alumni ever since. debut in summer 2005. Tom Holland has never watched an epi- lington National Cemetery. “How can you Students such as Lepley can see the The publication will print articles on sode of the television series CSI. It’s too beat that as an intellectual puzzle?” he writing on the wall. They’ve received methods of resolving conflict in all as- much like work for him. Holland, BFA says. help from the alumni, and their time to pects of life, developing a culture of peace ’79, MA ’85, PhD ’91 anthropology, and In 2001 Holland led a team that as- help will come. and discovering the relationship of peace his teams of forensic anthropologists solve sisted in identifying victims of the attack to social and economic justice. “Peace as a forensic mysteries every day. on the Pentagon. Routinely he assists the Connecting links scholarly pursuit encompasses all academ- As scientific director, Holland heads FBI in high-profile cases. As an expert Elise Link turned disappointment into ic areas of the modern university,” the the U.S. Army Central Identification Lab- witness and consultant, he testified in the triumph as a high school student search- journal’s mission statement explains. oratory in Honolulu, the agency respon- Sam Sheppard trial. ing for the perfect theater program. She The inaugural issue featured two sible for the recovery and identification In a current project, Holland’s applied to a college she wanted to attend, essays by Nobel Prize Laureate John of all U.S. victims of military conflicts. researchers are trying to identify two only to learn the college didn’t want Hume: “The Theory and Practice of His staff of 250 is the largest and widely skeletons found in the ruins of the U.S.S. her. She opted then for Mizzou, where Peace Making” and “Martin Luther King regarded as the foremost skeletal-identi- Monitor, an ironclad ship from the Civil a hometown friend from Memphis had Celebration Speech.” fication lab worldwide. Holland himself War. They need to find a maternal rel- enrolled. Co-editors Charles Cowger and Daryl holds diplomate status with the American

At Mizzou, Link never looked back. PHOTO BY WHIT LOY Hobbs envision the journal as a reflection Board of Forensic Anthropology, arguably She parlayed her superb acting abil- Heather Carver, who adapted the script An internship with the York Theatre in New York and of the scholarship of a research universi- the highest recognition a forensic scien- ity into reaching the national finals of from a novel by the same name. Professor an acting audition through the Kennedy Center are ty. Cowger is a professor emeritus and an tist can achieve. the Irene Ryan acting auditions at the Suzanne Burgoyne helped prepare the duo opening doors for theater student Elise Link. adjunct professor of peace studies. Hobbs Holland has led recovery expedi- Kennedy Center. She won an eight-state for competition. design assistant and served as production is a professor emeritus of rural sociology. tions for war dead into such areas as regional acting competition that clinched “I consider Elise Link one of the most assistant for the Oscar Hammerstein Gala MU’s Peace Studies Program and Iraq, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, entry to the Washington, D.C., seminar gifted actors I’ve had the opportunity honoring Carol Channing. several related divisions serve as a natural North and South Korea and Kuwait. and performance week that is considered to work with,” says Burgoyne, who has The internship also gave Link experi- foundation for the new twice-yearly pub- The lab’s 18 search and recovery teams the Tony Awards of collegiate theater. directed many talented students. “Elise ence in wardrobe preparation and as a lication. MU has numerous top-ranked scatter around the world to conduct Then, at the Kennedy Center competi- has emotional depth and believability, can backstage assistant. Finally, she snagged programs — the dispute resolution searches that may require special under- tion, Link won a three-week all-expenses- play a wide range of characters, has great the job as a stand-in for the assistant stage program in the law school, the Freedom water or mountain skills. Two Mizzou paid trip to the Sundance Playwriting timing and glows with that special radi- manager. It was an intense experience. of Information Center in the journal- alumni work with Holland as jungle Institute. ance we call stage presence.” “I’ve run crew stuff before, so it wasn’t ism school, and family and community specialists: Gregory Fox, PhD ’92 an- Link and her acting partner, Ross Taylor possesses similar gifts, so to- a whole new world,” she says. “It was a medicine in the medical school — that thropology, and Gwen Haugen, BA ’90 Taylor, who won the best acting partner gether they create a theatrical experience bigger world.” offer in-house resources for a journal on anthropology. award, were selected for the Kennedy that captures the audience’s emotions. Link learned to stuff the cards of ac- peaceful coexistence. The American government has made Center performance from a field of 800 Through the Mizzou on Broadway tors and directors into her pockets and to MU’s arts and science faculty members an effort to recover its war dead since competitors. program in New York, Link earned a take their advice to “call me” when she’s contributed essays to the first issue. They the Civil War, so what Holland calls the They were nominated for the awards 2004 internship at the York Theatre. That in the city. “The best thing about work- include Steven Keller, associate profes- based on their performance in The Fool’s summer she read and evaluated scripts ing with the York Theatre is that I’ve sor of chemistry, who wrote on science Anthropology alumnus Tom Holland directs the 250 experts who conduct the recovery and identifi- Journey, a play by Assistant Professor for new musicals, worked as a graphic made some connections,” she says. and rationality in sustaining a peaceful cation of all U.S. victims of military conflicts.

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ative of someone on the Monitor. “We have great remains and a good plea for help. rationality of acts of groups of people, biological profile,” Holland says. “We can Also receiving support is philosophy such as committees. An Invitation for Member- put together a substantial case but not Professor Paul Weirich for a study on the ship from the Arts & Science confirm it without DNA. That’s the miss- Alumni Organization and ing piece. Unless a family steps forward, Alumni Footprints the MU Alumni Association we may not find this missing person.” If the description of Holland’s work Former A&S students make communication, one of four “rising ❑ Individual, Annual $40 reads like an outline for a good book, it’s national headlines with stars” in academia. Dixon, an assis- ❑ Individual, 65 or older $30 no coincidence. Holland recently sold two performances, prestigious titles tant professor at Southern Methodist ❑ Dual, Annual $60 manuscripts about forensic anthropolo- and awards. University, reflects the quality of ❑ Dual, 65 or older $45 gists to Simon and Shuster. Look for his • Oscar Award winner Chris MU’s communication department. A ❑ $1,000 Life Member ❑ $1,500 Dual first, One Drop of Blood: A Novel, sched- Cooper, BGS ’76, will star in a lead study by the National Association of uled for publication in May 2006. role in the movie Breach, a spy thriller Graduate and Professional Students Name ______based on the Robert Hanssen espio- found that MU’s communication stu- ______A&S is like family nage story. Cooper will play Hans- dents had the highest overall satisfac- Chris Stevens: “You should sen, a former FBI spy who in real life tion of any communication doctoral Address ______always be proud of your family.” is serving a life sentence for selling program in the nation. ______PHOTO BY JUSTIN KELLEY Chris Stevens’ life revolves around Miz- “State money has dried up a bit, so we Chris Stevens, president of ASAO, is an accredited fine secrets to the Soviet Union. The film • With the November election of zou. It started with his first “A,” in an need to supplement that to help the Col- art appraiser. He and his wife, Jennifer Perlow, BA will be released this year. Cooper won Tim Kaine, BA ’79 economics, as City/State/ZIP ______art history and archaeology class, he says. lege attract and retain the brightest fac- ’94 psychology, own and manage Poppy Fine Art and a 2002 Oscar for best supporting ac- governor of Virginia, the nation has ______Then the College’s family atmosphere ulty and thus the best students,” Stevens Poppy Fun Art in Columbia. tor in the film Adaptation. His most two Mizzou–educated sitting gover- reeled him in. says. “The Heart of Mizzou Endowment recent starring role was in the 2005 nors. Ted Kulongoski, BA ’67 political E-mail address ______The outgoing Stevens, BA ’91 com- will be used for scholarships and faculty sponse in the first round,” Stevens says. film Capote. science, JD ’70, was inaugurated in ______munication, is relationship manager for development.” More than 20 faculty members applied • Averill Curdy, PhD ’04 Eng- January 2003 and is serving his first Boone County National Bank in Columbia Members of the committee have for the financial assistance, and Stevens lish, may never know how she came to term as governor of Oregon. Phone ______with a Mizzou clientele that brings him to pledged leadership gifts to the fund and expects even more applications for the win one of the 2005 Rona Jaffe Foun- • Gerald Koocher, MA, PhD ______campus often. On July 1 he expanded his are heading a campaign to reach arts and 2006 prizes. dation Writers’ Awards and $10,000 ’72 psychology, is president of the University ties with a new role — presi- science graduates. As Stevens says, it’s all ASAO earns its budget from the prizes. Applications and nominations American Psychological Association ❑ Spouse attended MU. dent of the Arts and Science Alumni Orga- about building relationships. Alumni Association by working with the are not accepted, and the selection for 2006. A pediatric psychologist, Spouse’s name ______nization (ASAO). “I would like A&S alumni to see how A&S Student Council as well as co-host- committee is anonymous. Writer Koocher is a professor and dean of the ______Stevens took the reins from past presi- far MU has come in the past 10 to 15 ing A&S projects such as membership Rona Jaffe established the national School of Health Studies at Simmons dent Bev Yarger of Versailles, Mo. Yarger years,” he says. “Many alumni have lost campaigns, alumni events and the alumni literary awards in 1995 to honor College in Boston. He lectures and Make your check payable to: led the A&S alumni group for three years. touch. We want to bring them back to awards program. The group receives promising female writers. Curdy supervises interns and postdoctoral MU Alumni Association Other members of the ASAO governing Mizzou, get in front of them and show funding from the A&S Dean’s Office teaches poetry writing at Northwest- students at Harvard Medical School or charge committee are Margrace Buckler, Marie them what’s going on. We need to build and through membership fees from the ern University. and is editor of Ethics & Behavior. ❑ Visa Hunter, Don Laird, Marc Long, Wally that affinity for the College because it’s Alumni Association. • The board of the Chicago • Valerie Lemmie, BA ’73 politi- ❑ MasterCard ❑ Discover Pfeffer, R.D. Ross and Lucille Salerno, like family, and you should always be That’s why Stevens and the group are Children’s Choir appointed Chris- cal science, has served three cities Card # ______all of Columbia; John Shaw of Leawood, proud of your family.” urging alumni to join ASAO. “If we can tina Deaton DeMarea, BA ’93 as city manager: Petersburg, Va.; Expiration ______Kan.; and Debbie Snellen of Wildwood, Stevens is betting that alumni will expand membership, we can give more English, president and CEO of the Dayton, Ohio; and Cincinnati, Ohio. Signature ______Mo. want to give back to their departments of these grants,” Stevens says. (See the choir, which operates in more than 50 She’s now a scholar in residence with (Required for credit card use) The group is dedicated to supporting and College, either through volunteerism ASAO application form on Page 15.) Chicago schools and promotes multi- the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, the College through its students and fac- or philanthropy. The 2005 incentive awards, ranging cultural harmony through music. Dea- where she conducts public policy Mail this form to: ulty. With the vision of a new president, The ASAO Faculty Incentive Grants up to $1,500, are helping professors to ton has worked with the international research. As an MU student in 1972, MUAA ASAO will focus on two projects: The offer funding to faculty members who hire students as assistants, cover research touring group for eight years. Lemmie learned firsthand about 123 Reynolds Alumni Center Heart of Mizzou Endowment and Faculty need financial help in research or other expenses and even rebuild a ceramics • The Chronicle of Higher Educa- public service when she worked as a Columbia, MO 65211 Incentive Grants. academic projects. “We had a great re- kiln, which Stevens’ says was his favorite tion named Maria Dixon, PhD ’05 Summer Welcome leader. UAN

14 | ARTS & SCIENCE WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 15 A&S Awards 2005 The College of Arts and Science When the Professor Is a Pop Star began a tradition of honoring What’s not to love about a reality class? distinguished alumni in 1984. Awards for distinguished service rt students enjoyed class to the extreme when Preston Sharp, a started in 1989, and awards for designer with ABC’s Extreme AMakeover: Home Edition, delivered a honorary alumni made their de- surprise lecture. but in 2001. A&S has recognized With his television crew following ev- 144 alumni and friends with the ery step, Sharp took over teaching duties awards, which are announced in Mark Lengeneckert’s Drawing 4 class on the first day of the fall semester. during Arts and Science Week Sharp, who is a furniture historian and each February. The 2005 win- designer, offered to teach the class while he was on campus capturing background ners include the following: material for a show involving the family PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER of Mizzou junior Trace Teas, a psychology The College of Arts and Science recognized these alumni and friends during A&S Week 2005: back row from left, Recent Alumni Jack Fishman, Thomas Holland and John Shaw, with Dean Richard Schwartz; in front, Vicky Riback Wilson, major. The ABC crew was in the midst of • Melanie Moore Paxson, BA ’94 Janet Campbell, Melanie Moore Paxson and Michael Ching. a surprise home redo to reward Teas and theatre, has built a performance career on his big-hearted family. Teas’ parents used stage as well as in film and television. She venture capital, strategic partnering and highest award. their retirement funds to build a camp- has earned starring roles at the presti- international business. Most recently she • Attorney John Shaw, BA ’73, MA ground for disabled children. gious Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago served as president and CEO of InforMe- ’77 English, JD ’77, is a partner with Extreme Makeover typically features and played the role of Sarah Brennan in dix, an investor firm in the health care in- Berkowitz Stanton Brandt Williams & heart-wrenching stories of generosity NBC’s Happy Family. She is recognized dustry. She founded Potomac BioScience Shaw LLP in Kansas City, where his that often leave television viewers sobbing as the “Glad lady” in TV commercials for Partners, an early-stage venture fund. practice focuses on the securities indus- as the stories of tragedy or triumph unfold Glad products. • Jack Fishman, BA ’71 mathematics, try. He has served as lead trial and appel- and the makeovers emerge. is an internationally recognized expert in late counsel in a variety of commercial, While the rest of the Extreme design- Honorary Alumni the field of atmospheric chemistry and an product liability and securities matters. ers and carpenters were redoing the Teas • Vicky Riback Wilson, M Ed ’81, advocate for ozone research. A scientist As president of the Gertrude Marshall So- family home in Purdy, Mo., Sharp was is a public servant who has worked for at NASA’s Langley Research Center ciety, he recruits support for MU’s Peace collecting Mizzou decorative items for PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER the people of Missouri since 1996, when in Hampton, Va., he has received that Studies Program. Trace’s bedroom and enjoying his “pro- sketched nature, Sharp walked among Preston Sharp of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home she was elected to her first of four terms agency’s Medal of Exceptional Scientific fessorship.” Sharp introduced himself them to check their work. He reminded Edition takes over as guest teacher of Mark Lenge- neckert’s drawing class for a day. in the House of Representatives. She Achievement, the highest award NASA Distinguished Service by writing “Professor Sharp” on the the students that nature has produced has shown consistent focus on issues of bestows on its scientists. • Michael Ching, artistic director of board and set his students at ease with some of the world’s most beautiful works Extreme carpentry crew was creating a health, mental health and programs for • Thomas D. Holland, BFA ’79, MA Opera Memphis and composer of the mu- the assurance that he would not spring a of art. bed with a footboard of Ionic columns. low-income people, women, children ’85, PhD ’91 anthropology, is scien- sical drama Corps of Discovery, serves as surprise quiz on them. “Thanks for being such good sports,” Sharp and camera crew exited the and the disabled, and she gladly mentors tific director of the U.S. Army Central a mentor to students and alumni of MU’s He did surprise the students, though, Sharp said to the class and Lengeneckert. Fine Arts Building with a black and gold students. Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, the School of Music. As he worked with the by asking them to gather their art sup- “Mizzou is a great school, isn’t it?” “welcome” mat and other MU treasures government agency responsible for the school on that original score, which MU plies and accompany him outdoors for a He wrapped up the lecture and left destined for Trace’s room. Distinguished Alumni recovery and identification of all U.S. commissioned for the Lewis and Clark seven-minute sketching assignment of line for a video shoot in front of the Columns. The program aired Oct. 16. Details • Janet Campbell, BA ’74 Spanish, has victims of military conflicts. (See story on Bicentennial, Ching involved the students contour drawing. “Watch out for chig- Sharp was pressed for time. He had to re- on the Teas family makeover are available worked with several national and interna- Page 13.) The American Board of Forensic in the extraordinary process of shaping gers,” he warned. turn to the Teas family home to complete online at abc.go.com/primetime/xtreme- tional companies in investment banking, Anthropology has honored him with its new music. As the students sat in the grass and Trace’s Mizzou-themed bedroom. The home.

16 | ARTS & SCIENCE WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 17 nspiration and innova- styles — pop, rock and jazz Freund’s piece a doctoral degree in tion are signature marks — for listeners to hear in two composition and cello. of Stefan Freund’s music. distinct sections. “Screams” is a dialogue Cello is Freund’s Freund was so inspired by is a disjunct movement that principal instru- the virtuosity of a colleague becomes a dialogue between between the ment. He doesn’t play and a student in the School the saxophone and piano saxophone and the saxophone, and of Music that he composed as the saxophone plays in although he does play a piece to suit their talents. altissimo, an ultra-high range piano that the piano, Freund says That innovative music won that is above the key range of challenges the he’s no expert; he quit Freund a distinguished the instrument; “Grooves” lessons during high national award in composition. displays a more flowing style musicianship of school. “Screams and Grooves,” a piece for with the two instruments Freund has received saxophone and piano, emerged as winner playing together. A tune the artists. two William Schuman of the 2005 Music Teachers National As- emerges near the end. Prizes and the Boudleaux Bryant Prize sociation annual competition and earned Freund calculated correctly that his from BMI, five ASCAP Morton Gould Freund the title of 2004 MTNA-Shep- chosen performers could handle the mu- Grants, six ASCAP Standard Awards, a herd Distinguished Composer of the Year. sic. He has known Saguiguit since high Music Merit Award from the National So- The date reflects the year the music was school and for years has admired his skill ciety of Arts and Letters, and the Howard written. on the saxophone. Saguiguit, he says, can Hanson Prize. “It’s the greatest feeling in the world squeeze a sensuous tone from the saxo- He has received commissions from the getting this music realized,” he says. “It’s phone and play aggressively as well. Phoenix Symphony, the New York Youth nice to like your own music, but it adds Dell attacks the piano with a fiery, Symphony, the Pittsburgh New Music sugar when other people do, too.” energetic style and plays loudly with an Ensemble and Lincoln Center. Freund’s virtuosity Freund, who teaches composition and edge. His ability to handle complicated music has been performed at such venues music theory, wrote the music to match rhythms convinced Freund that the stu- as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the skills of saxophonist and Assistant dent could provide the steady foundation the National Gallery of Art and the Royal is its own reward Professor Leo Saguiguit and Patrick Dell, the piece demanded. Dell was thrilled to Irish Academy of Music. a senior majoring in piano and composi- be asked to play. tion. “I wanted to take advantage of the The creative process spread over a It’s a drumroll year in the music composition career of Stefan Freund. With a national award, virtuosity of the players, and this does,” year. As Freund wrote “Screams and Demanding Music a performance at Lincoln Center and two glowing reviews in The New York Times, his year Freund says. Saguiguit and Dell per- Grooves,” he would ask Saguiguit to come Stefan Freund is principal cellist formed the piece April 3 in Seattle at the to his house to try the music. “Leo would resonates with achievement. Next up: Carnegie Hall on Feb. 16, 2006. By Nancy Moen of Alarm Will Sound, a 20-member association’s national meeting. say something was impossible,” Freund band that specializes in contem- Freund knew the judges would says, “but a few minutes later he’d have it porary music and is gathering rave evaluate the composition on expression, figured out.” PHOTO BY CHRIS DETRICK reviews. A New York Times review technique, clarity of notation, cohesive- Freund is the second MU professor to called Alarm Will Sound the “future ness and excitement. The music needed to win the MTNA Distinguished Composer of classical music.” Freund will per- create excitement and appeal to listeners. Award. Professor Tom McKenney won form with the group Feb. 16, 2006 in A lot happens in the 11 minutes it the award in 1970 with his composition Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in a con-

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B another Freund composition. with difficult notation and intricate ing and an alternating set of courses in AND “Unremixed” made its debut July 24 mixed meter. Freund integrates several band arranging, choral arranging and ETRICK in New York for the Jazz at Lincoln D Composer Stefan Freund, right, gave the ultimate orchestration. He came to Mizzou in fall HRIS Center Festival. C

BY 2003 from the Eastman School of Music,

compliment to faculty colleague Leo Saguiguit, center, and student Patrick Dell when he wrote a piece to where he taught for a year after receiving match their talents. ILLUSTRATION

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JusticeTwo superb poets. Two national awards. Life keeps coming up couplets for this MU couple.

By Nancy Moen

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teve Gehrke answered award to receive the National Poetry Series Sample the Poetry his cell phone while on prize. Earlier in the year, husband and The award-winning poetry of Steve Gehrke vacation in Minnesota and wife both received nominations for a pres- learned that he had won tigious Pushcart Prize, which Meyer won. and Nadine Meyer emerged from images the a 2005 National Poetry couple absorbed in the art museums of Paris. Series award. Then the Poets in motion Gehrke became fascinated by painters and competition representative asked to speak the dramatic events that changed their work. to Gehrke’s wife. Gehrke hated being away from his com- S His title poem paints images of Michelangelo At home in Columbia, Nadine Meyer fortable world of fellow MU poets, par- soon heard the same astonishing news. ticularly his wife, when he heard news suffering an epileptic seizure. She and her husband had won two of the of the awards. As a couple who write, five coveted prizes. Gehrke and Meyer play off each other From Michelangelo’s Seizure: In the world of poets, the National Po- and pick up energy, one from the other. When it happened, finally, etry Series is arguably the premier book Like rhyme and reason, they fit to- on the preparation bridge, contest in the nation. Distinguished na- gether in their goofiness at home and in where he had stood all morning tional poets cull the usual 1,400 submis- their seriousness as writers. They don’t grinding the pigments, grooming sions to just five annual winners whose necessarily finish each other’s sentences his brush-tips to a fine point literary destinies suddenly change. in normal conversation, but there’s a so that he could thread Eve’s hair The couple reacted to the news of their seamless transition of thoughts, a sort like a serpent down her back, honors in stunned seclusion. “We were of poetry in motion, that defines their his head rocked forward on the bell-chain in shock. For one person to win is like interactions. They enjoy using language to of his spine, the catwalks getting struck by lightning, but to be two challenge themselves. rattling as he fell, a paint- of the five people …” Gehrke says, still Where they differ is in their writ- bowl splattering the ceiling, unable to put the win into words. ing routines. Meyer gathers her notes, then spinning like a dying bird, Gehrke and Meyer are doctoral stu- computer, reference books and prints to the cathedral floor … dents in MU’s Creative Writing Program. and heads to the Cherry Street Artisan, a “I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the small restaurant near campus, where she Meyer found inspiration in Renaissance first time there have ever been two from may stay for six hours at a time, complete- wood-block prints of anatomy lessons. With the same program in the same year,” says ly absorbed in what she is doing. Gehrke descriptive imagery and metaphor, she raises Professor Rod Santos, director of the works in short intervals, often composing PHOTOS BY KAREN JOHNSON Center for the Literary Arts and a mentor as he wanders around the house. He jots researched and wrote academic papers each other as sounding boards, and it was Two similar phone calls changed the future questions about how the female body is stud- of Nadine Meyer and Steve Gehrke, ied and objectified in art. to the winning MU poets. Santos himself notes on six different note pads to compile on anatomy. Gehrke took an art history that group that Gehrke craved when he doctoral students of poetry who are won the prize in 1982 for his first book, later and thinks about his writing con- class to examine the theoretical issues of received the phone call in Minnesota. husband and wife. Accidental Weather. stantly, even while watching television. self-portraiture. The final part of the writing process From The Anatomy Theater: HarperCollins will publish Meyer’s Meyer’s poetry changed significantly Part of their poetry-writing routine is passing muster with the professors, Do they strain to see the glimmer of a soul rise, book, The Anatomy Theater, and the when she entered Mizzou’s program, is a process that could end a less-secure Santos and Lynne McMahon. That can duction to Poetry and occasionally two souls like a pair of dusty starlings? University of Illinois Press will publish which she calls a remarkable experience. marriage: Gehrke and Meyer review each be tough. “They’re critical because they Intermediate Poetry. Or is it the visceral they are interested in, this great Gehrke’s, Michelangelo’s Seizure. Both She began paying more attention to the other’s writing as first readers. “I would want you to write well,” Gehrke says. At home, there’s another new concourse of arms and legs and heads thronging poets received a $1,000 cash prize. complexity of language. “My poems are think I had finished a poem, and Nadine “It’s a traumatic process to present your mind for the couple to shape as well. toward the center of the amphitheater, where, The day before news more ambitious, more intel- would be so tough on me,” Gehrke says. poem to a whole room with Rod or Lynne Their household now includes a at its vortex, a woman, the only stillness, of the double win arrived, The doctoral lectual and less personal,” “I’d tell her she was wrong, then would and other students. They don’t let you get rocking chair for poetry readings has, like a peach dropped in boiling water, Gehrke received notifica- she says. “They speak in a change it to the way she wanted.” away with anything.” that feature children’s versions of split down her gravid center? The rabble jockeys tion that his same manu- students share more complex way.” Their poetry and egos survive that and As doctoral students do, Gehrke and Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson toward her womb; men press through the balcony script had won another their expertise Both poets worked other challenges such as critiques from Meyer teach undergraduates in the typi- poetry. Baby Chloe Meyer Gehrke bars, gesture largely, scrabble to touch the cloth significant national prize. diligently to understand students in the Creative Writing Pro- cal academic method of sharing talents is enjoying her first exposure to the she lies on … He had to “unaccept” that with beginners. their subject matter. Meyer gram. Doctoral writing students often use and shaping beginners. They teach Intro- world of poetry.

22 | ARTS & SCIENCE WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 23 It’s not wise to argue with senior Nicholas Dudley. He’s the 2005 national debate champion.

bit shy. Quiet. Reserved. ing work. Dudley pores over electronic Tried to avoid a speech class information and searches law reviews in eighth grade. Speaks only and other periodicals. He spends hours when he has something to say. clipping stories and collecting quotes in Those descriptions don’t sound like they search of opinions from great legal minds. fi t a debate champion. Then there are the meetings. In off- Apparently Nicholas Dudley had a lot weeks with no tournaments, Dudley to say last spring at the National Foren- meets formally with the team twice a sics Association Lincoln-Douglas Debate week as well as informally. As the tourna- Championship. The senior political sci- ments approach, his life becomes cluttered ence major talked his way to the national with fi le folders fi lled with information. debate title in Akron, Ohio. “The week of nationals, we spent 20 Dudley is part of MU’s team that hours cutting evidence,” he says. “We put became the fi rst group ever to advance it on pieces of paper with tag lines, cita- all fi ve of its debaters to the elimination tions and highlights to read it effi ciently.” rounds at the national tournament. Dudley estimates that team members Other members of that team were spent 200 hours preparing the case that Chance Harp, sophomore in econom- went to nationals — a resolution about ics; Tyler Landes and Kyle Dennis, reforming the criminal justice system. His sophomores in business; and Chris Shaw, winning argument was that police inter- senior in business. Dudley and Shaw also rogations should be abolished. fi nished tied for 11th in a two-person There were no moments of terror for gift of parliamentary team competition in St. Dudley, or for that matter even stomach Paul, Minn., and were ranked second for butterfl ies, during the national competi- most of the year. tion. While collecting facts, Dudley gains Dudley functions as a team player. He confi dence. “I know it (the case) like the prefers to talk about the team victory back of my hand,” he says. “You always rather than his individual championship. get excited, even it it’s something you’ve He credits the team’s two coaches, Miz- argued 10,000 times.” zou law students Jeremy Hollingshead Dudley is sitting out the competitions and Chris Banks, for leading the fi ve for 2006. He’s working on law school debaters through hundreds of hours of applications and taking 18 credit hours of preparation and then traveling with them classes. Being on the debate team is an ex- to tournaments, all without pay. pensive hobby timewise and moneywise, gab Preparing for debates is time-consum- he says: “I hope our victory will help the team out, get us some exposure and more fi nancial support.” File folders and volumes of information clutter the He’s also spending some time on his life of Nicholas Dudley, a national debate champion who used to dislike public speaking. other hobby — martial arts. There are

PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER pros and cons to that, as well.

24 | ARTS & SCIENCE WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 25 TOP DOG Interviewing a dog divo is difficult. During a publicity visit in Bell’s office in McAlester Hall, Willie manages to ig- nore everyone but her. Key words and phrases such as “treat,” “outside” and “ride in the car” elicit attention only if they are uttered by Bell. His nose points only in her direction. Furthermore, Willie is no news hound. He shows his disdain for paparazzi by squeezing behind a computer hard drive, only to emerge Willie is a smart, snooty, sophisticated national champion — after some coaxing — with dust bunnies on his freshly bathed coat. with more awards than he can count. By Nancy Moen That shyness is just part of Willie’s regal personality, Bell says. She under- s the curious 8-year-old strays to- endure relaxes him, and Willie’s world stands his reticence. As a researcher, ward the creek in Peace Park, As- gets even better if Bell sings to him. A Bell studies social anxiety in children sociate Professor Debora Bell, an bit larger than a big cat, Willie is blessed with a focus on shy children and their Aexpert in child psychology, demonstrates with a good body structure and nice head. thought processes. how to rein him in for safety. “No, That attractiveness, particularly the She admits to using some child psy- Willie. Come back.” When he starts to pretty face, is important for a breed that chology on Willie and employs meth- comply, she says, “Thank you.” has historically served royalty as lap dogs. ods that TV viewers may have observed Willie is not a child. He’s a dog. But Bell’s dog-showing hobby used to con- on Supernanny or Nanny 911. Bell’s the techniques that Bell uses on her Eng- sume two to three weekends every month. techniques stress positive reinforce- lish toy spaniel, Champion Eli-Fran’s Sir Because Willie is now semi-retired, the ment, consistency and clarity. She’s William, are similar to what psycholo- twosome hits the road only about once ev- firm but polite with Willie. She talks to gists recommend for raising well-adjusted ery month. But the ribbons and trophies him a lot, uses more words than nor- children. They obviously work. Willie has won are secondary to the fun mal for communicating with an animal This silky furball in Mizzou colors of the two have shared and the cup of ice and lets him know in a friendly tone of black and gold (on a white background) is cream he earns with each victory. voice when he’s a “good dog.” a national champion. With Bell’s help as Willie is all business in the show ring Willie has caught on to the psychol- handler, Willie won Best of Breed at the as he works to earn praise from Bell. “You ogy, too. The techniques he uses on 2005 Westminster Dog Show. It was their figure out how to bring out the sparkle,” Bell focus on positive reinforcement second Westminster victory in three years she says. Sometimes Willie will play to and repetition. He’s discovered that he and an impressive feat. Just to qualify for the judges by giving a warm response to can attract Bell’s attention by making the Super Bowl of dog shows, a canine someone who handles him “adoringly.” eye contact and touching her knee must be in the top five of its breed in the Sometimes not. with his paw. When he wants some- nation. When he’s not strutting in the show thing, he’s polite, too, but he becomes Willie has collected six Best in Show ring, Sir William does what Sir William more insistent if the response is slow. titles nationally, a record for his breed. wants to do. He’s smart, Bell says. He If needed, he’ll throw in the cuteness He, of course, knows he’s a champion. learned the “Sit! Lie down! Come!” set factor. “He’s snooty,” Bell says of her combina- of commands in one 15-minute session Psychology aside, someone has fig- tion pet and show dog. “He walks into the but follows those directions only when ured how to get the upper paw here. ring and owns it. He loves competitions.” he deems it necessary. Bell also confirms Associate Professor Debora Bell and her Westminster Judges have affirmed time and again that Willie thinks dog tricks and toys are Best of Breed winner, Champion Eli-Fran’s Sir William,

that Willie is one pretty pooch. The silly and strangers aren’t worth bothering celebrate his victory with a snack and a relaxing LOVER G obligatory grooming that show dogs must with. moment in Peace Park. AN D BY

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26 | ARTS & SCIENCE WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 27 FOR ALL WE CALL MIZZOU FOR ALL WE CALL MIZZOU

The acts of kindness that you will read about here are transforming the future for known for hosting spontaneous celebra- chair will enhance their research and ment is working to acquire the instru- students and their mentor-professors. The College of Arts and Science gratefully tions for students and alumni in her own support the establishment of a new Brain ment through a combination of federal hotel room. She’d order refreshments for Imaging Center. funds and campus loans. thanks the philanthropists whose legacies inspire and challenge us every day. the crowd and stay up until the last guest The benefactors are a family with The new equipment will allow left — sometimes at 4 a.m. three generations of MU alumni. researchers to investigate brain activity On one adventure in New York with The Miller Family Endowed Chair as it happens. Using a giant magnet, an 30 MU opera students, Porter bought in Cognitive Neuroscience will provide fMRI instrument shows changes in blood a ticket for any student who wanted to the resources to hire an internationally flow by following the distribution of iron attend the Metropolitan Opera. “The known specialist who also will manage in the brain. Typically these instruments A Million Thanks … Met,” she said, “was an opportunity not the department’s Brain Imaging Center, weigh 11 tons and are about the size of an to be missed.” As you might imagine, the scheduled to open in 2007. SUV. students were thrilled. The Miller gift will generate matching Mapping of brain activity is particu- … To the millionaire Eventually Porter convinced an funds from the state through the Univer- larly useful for researchers who conduct next door expanding group of Mizzou friends and sity of Missouri 2005 Endowed Chair ven her close friends and neigh- alumni to travel with her to applaud Matching Program. Kristin Buss and John Kerns are among the bors didn’t know that Mary Nell the students, and they became known The initial holder of the chair will researchers in cogni- Porter, BS BA ’69, was a million- as Groupies. Showing her wonderful direct the study of brain activity through tive neuroscience who Eaire. She was a child of the Depression sense of humor, Porter established a fund the use of a functional magnetic resonance will benefit from the who lived a quiet and frugal life. — Mary Nell’s Groupies Performing imaging (fMRI) instrument. The depart- $1.1 million matched Shortly before she died in spring 2005, Arts Showcase Endowment — to help gift in psychological sciences. Porter made a $1 million lead gift toward pay students’ expenses for those national PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER building an MU performing arts center. appearances. She worked on the details with Michael In Columbia, Porter infused her life Kateman, executive director for arts de- with arts projects through volunteer velopment and planning, in the last hours service and philanthropy. She served of her life. “Yeah, kid, you make some on too many boards and worked for too magic with this,” she told Kateman as she many causes to list them all here, but signed the documents. the volunteerism earned her a 2003 A&S There had been a lot of magic in Distinguished Service Award and recogni- Porter’s life, much of it revolving around tion from the city’s arts groups in music, her relationships with MU’s music and theater and visual arts. theater students. She loved attending Porter once said she couldn’t imagine their performances, and they, in turn, life without the arts. Now students and looked for her in the audience. Regularly faculty can’t imagine life without her. She Porter would stand in as “mom” for out- died April 15. of-town parents who couldn’t attend the recitals and stage productions. She especially loved going to New York … For adding this to applaud the students appearing in Miz- brainpower zou on Tour recitals at Carnegie Hall and Imagine being able to watch someone’s Mizzou on Broadway performances at the brain function before and after they take York Theatre. taurants “got her goat,” so she’d avoid the Associate Professor Lampo Leong painted this portrait medication for depression, while they make True to her frugal lifestyle, she’d opt outrageous prices by ordering pre-theater of Mary Nell Porter at Carnegie Hall, where on so a decision or solve a mathematical problem. many occasions she had applauded the appearances for economy airline tickets, share taxi specials. of Mizzou on Tour students. Many researchers in the Department rides and book government rates at hotels. But Porter’s frugality disappeared of Psychological Sciences work in cogni- High-priced meals at fancy New York res- when students were involved. She became tive neuroscience. Now a $1.1 million

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studies that compare gender differences, and laser-absorbing dyes. It’s all organic working for equal rights for women after observe brain patterns in autistic patients chemistry, he says, the sort that Rabjohn discovering that Hicks was earning $15 or watch decision-making. taught. a week more than Martha for doing the MU’s researchers seek to answer same work at the same Detroit insurance health-related questions such as how company. drug addiction influences the structure … As inspiration “I won’t be a token woman. I’m not and activity of various brain regions, to follow forever going to be sent for coffee,” Martha once how language processing differs in people Feisty. Combative. Committed. Charm- told a Detroit Free Press reporter during with learning disabilities, and how brain ing. Martha Wright Griffiths, BA an interview. processing changes with age or brain ’34 English, used all her political and The Griffiths established their own diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s personal savvy to champion the cause law firm in 1946. Hicks served as state and schizophrenia. of equal rights for women. She spent 20 chair of the Democratic party of Michi- A recent U.S. News & World Report years in the U.S. House of Representa- gan. In 1955, he was admitted to practice survey ranked MU’s psychology depart- tives and served two terms as lieutenant before the U.S. Supreme Court. ment in the top 50 doctoral programs of governor of Michigan and two terms in The Griffiths returned to MU in 1990 the nearly 800 psychology departments the Michigan state legislature. as the inaugural William Francis English in the nation. The new center, expert and Joining her in the fight against sex Scholars-in-Residence. During the visit, equipment will give the department the discrimination was her husband, Hicks they relished sharing their life experi- opportunity to lift itself above other great Griffiths, BA ’34 economics, a political ences with students. programs. campaign strategist who managed her The gregarious and gracious Griffiths “This has the potential to put us at a successful campaigns and those of many thanked then A&S Dean Larry Clark for whole new level,” department Chair Ann other politicians. The Griffiths, who are their Mizzou homecoming with an invita- Bettencourt says. “Our researchers are deceased, were partners in law, in their tion to visit them in the governor’s sum- among the nation’s leaders in the effort to public service careers and in life. mer mansion at Mackinac Island, Mich., PHOTO COURTESY OF MU DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY develop a working understanding of the Scholars Fund for undergraduate stu- Professor Norman Rabjohn was a taskmaster in Together, they delighted in fighting the in the early 1990s. brain, its function and its disorders.” dents. organic chemistry who loved molding students into good fight, and together they showed a Clark says it was his second visit with Psychological sciences will offer use The donor thinks it’s appropriate that professional chemists. He died in 2000. deep respect for Mizzou with a personal the Griffiths, and they talked about a po- of the fMRI to other MU units, including a fund honoring Rabjohn be used to assist gift. Their bequest has created the Mar- tential gift. Only later did MU learn that Martha and Hicks Griffiths left an estate gift for the several autism programs. future generations of chemistry students. my adviser and a mentor who set a strong tha and Hicks Griffiths Chair in Ameri- the Griffiths had finalized their plans for political science department that reflects their lifelong “I had a tremendous respect for him,” the standard that had an influence on me.” can Political Institutions. a $1 million estate gift. commitment to politics. donor says. Graduate students still have flashbacks “This is an honor for us and a fitting … In honor After coming to MU in 1948 from a of Rabjohn’s penetrating and insight- memory of them,” says John Petrocik, Be a Philanthropist of a mentor position with Goodyear, Rabjohn became ful questions during oral examinations. chair of the political science department. In the words of a former student, Profes- the chemistry department’s main indus- Female students recall the respect he “The political mark made by the Griffiths A&S Dean Richard Schwartz could here have done, you too can use a sor Norman Rabjohn was never quick trial chemist. He served the department showed for women scientists in an era will be appropriately memorialized by hardly believe his good fortune part of your wealth to build a better with compliments or easy to please. In twice as chair and played a large role on when few women were entering the the world-class scholarship of the holders when a donor asked where in the society. All gifts — regardless of size fact, Rabjohn could be demanding and campus in support of the arts as well as field. Rabjohn retired from Mizzou and of the chair.” Hicks died in 1996, and College a gift could make the great- — bestow opportunity. often prickly. the sciences through positions on Faculty the work he loved in 1994. He died in Martha died in 2003. est difference. We encourage you to call or e- That same former student is honoring Council and countless committees. September 2000. Martha and Hicks met as undergradu- Schwartz needed time to consider mail for information on where your Rabjohn for his ability to turn so many But in truth, Rabjohn preferred The donor, who grew up in a work- ate students at MU. Both received law which of the many deserving units gift can make the greatest difference. chemistry students into professional working with students and shaping their ing class family in Brooklyn, received degrees from the University of Michigan. should receive the support that is so Your call to the Arts and Science Ad- chemists. The alumnus, who wants to knowledge of organic chemistry. He was bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees Hicks had been accepted to Harvard Law important as state funding declines. vancement Office at (573) 882-2818 remain anonymous, recently established the sort of teacher whose influence on from MU on the GI Bill after serving in School, but he enrolled at Michigan with See Page 29 to learn about the proj- or e-mail at [email protected] a $1 million estate gift that will create a students lingers like an inner voice. the U.S. Air Force. He is a career chem- Martha because Harvard refused to ac- ect Schwartz chose. will be directed to a member of the scholarship fund in Rabjohn’s name, The “I came as a raw kid. He made me a ist who started his own company that cept women in their law school. As the philanthropists featured A&S advancement team. Norman Rabjohn Memorial Chemistry professional,” the donor says. “He was manufactures highly specialized infrared The Griffiths became committed to

30 | ARTS & SCIENCE WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 31 THAT WAS CREEPY! omplete silence erupted in play- Barile’s scripts, which incorporate music students. “If you listen to other people, writing class after the fi rst reading into the plays. In The Hollow, the audi- you can’t help but take in their stories Cof Mary Barile’s new short play, ence hears only the sound of laughter. and their language,” she says. The Hollow. Finally, another student Interjecting sound and music into Her appreciation for Alfred Hitch- spoke: “That was creepy!” writing comes naturally for Barile, who cock’s work adds color and perhaps Barile had crafted an atmosphere that trained as a classical musician on the eeriness to plays such as The Hollow, and “creeped out” her audience with a script double bass. She performed with New a fascination for American history drives that used neither blood nor violence. This York symphonies and, as her interest her research on future plays. doctoral student and playwright observes grew in traditional music, learned to play In a new project, Barile is gathering audience reactions for feedback and re- the hammered dulcimer. information about Daniel Boone’s wife, joices when her scripts make the hair rise Barile understands that sounds work Rebecca Boone, who couldn’t read or on the back of people’s necks. wonders in writing. “I listen to hear if write and left no notes for history. No “It’s just language,” she says of the something is wrong rhythmically,” she portraits of Rebecca exist either, just haunting result. “Imagination takes it to says. She analyzes text as a musician hints of her personality through com- the next step.” examines measures, rests and beats. “The ments of acquaintances or family lore. Barile’s well-crafted language helped connection between music and theater is Barile respects Boone’s invisibility The Hollow win an eight-state regional so close.” even though it makes the search for script competition of the Kennedy Center material diffi cult. Perhaps she empa- American College Theater Festival. Her thizes. play is one of only eight nationally in the Living history “I’d be perfectly happy to be like Re- 10-minute play category to earn a staged Barile lives in a 19th century cottage becca Boone and have no one know what reading at the Kennedy Center. Entry to near the bluffs of the Missouri River. Her I look like. I’m a playwright,” Barile says. the festival is the college theater equiva- cottage, although charming, resembles a “It’s OK if I’m eccentric. If the audience lent of the Tony Awards. servants’ quarters amid Victorian man- loves the play, I’ve done my job.” Then a few months later, judges of sions. Each day after classes, she aban- Mary Barile’s training in music gives her an unusual the Emerging Artists Theatre Festival dons Columbia to return to the Booneslick ability to shape the sounds of language in the scripts selected The Hollow from 775 entries as area, where she seeks comfort from land she writes. a fi nalist in that competition. The script touched by a river and historically inhab- won a staged reading at The Wing The- ited by people of the prairie. atre in New York. She admits to being more than twice Hitting Three New York Barile shaped The Hollow rather the age of most students, but rather than Theaters in One Month like a mini-novel, set it in the Catskill being intimidated by the age and cultural The Big Apple looks pretty delicious Mountains and developed a story around differences, she uses them to her advan- to Mizzou theater student Mary a divorcing couple and the result of their tage. Barile, who had two plays appear- split. She never shows the audience an Barile writes from years of life experi- ing at three New York theaters in important third character. ences as a New Yorker with a career as an September: Leaving Hannibal played “You’re left to fi gure out what goes Army offi cer. She writes about what she at the York Theatre for Mizzou on at the end,” Barile says. People have knows, what she reads and what she gath- on Broadway and at the Arclight offered her four to fi ve different interpre- ers through volunteer work at the Boone Theatre, sponsored by the Episcopal tations of the ending. “That’s good,” she County Historical Society, the Daniel Actors’ Guild; The Hollow, a fi nalist in

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32 | ARTS & SCIENCE WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 33 check out these

plantsFounded in 1856, MU’s herbarium is the oldest public library of plants west of the Mississippi River.

magine a library without a card collection against deterioration. Humid- is documented and available for further catalog or shelving system, and you’ll ity and bugs remain the greatest threats. study. If researchers need to examine have an idea of what Professor Robin The same beetle that infests tobacco specimens not available at MU, Kennedy IKennedy encountered when she took over storage houses also invades herbaria. can arrange loans from partner herbaria. as curator of MU’s Dunn-Palmer Her- Previous attempts to eradicate the pests In other uses, the herbarium of- barium. through microwave proved ineffective, fers tours and serves organizations that Rows of steel cabinets now organize and spraying the plants with arsenic or include garden clubs. It assists state and protect more than 270,000 dried mercury was too dangerous for the people agencies such as the Missouri Department plants mounted on acid-free paper in the using them. of Transportation, which researches the herbarium at the Museum Support Center In 1988, the herbarium became one effect of new roads on native plants. on Rock Quarry Road. of the first in the nation to freeze its “When you work in a museum, you It wasn’t always this organized. When plants to eliminate pests. Kennedy and an never think in the short term,” Kennedy Kennedy took charge of the modern ver- assistant froze the entire collection, one says. Because she sees the value in future sion of the herbarium in l988, only about cabinet at a time. Then they repeated the use of the plants, she linked Dunn- three-fourths of the holdings had been process. Palmer’s database to the Web site of the curated. Some of the unopened boxes had The great freeze took four years, but Missouri Botanical Garden. been stored for more than a decade. it destroyed bugs, eggs and larvae. Now Now with more than 100,000 speci- “I thought this would be fun,” she says. each specimen going out on loan returns mens digitally recorded, MU’s herbarium “I had no idea what I was getting into.” to the freezer before being reshelved in a is the largest outside contributor of data Kennedy accepted the project because secure steel cabinet. to the St. Louis site. she understood the value of the collec- Preserving the plants saved historical Kennedy’s work on the project earned tion. For two years she worked without specimens from the 1830s, plants from her the title of research associate with pay, sorting through hundreds of boxes of areas that are now under shopping malls, the Missouri Botanical Garden. plant material to recover and categorize samples of Missouri’s endangered spe- Robin Kennedy, curator of Mizzou’s Dunn-Palmer what she could. Kennedy organized the cies and plants from the site of the first Herbarium, has preserved and organized a research treasure for scientists. collection into a usable form and created a nuclear bomb detonation in 1945. Among database with information about the date the treasures are important specimens col- and location of plants and the collectors. lected by former curator David Dunn and Growing a Museum Like all major herbaria in the nation, noted botanist Ernest Palmer, for whom The MU campus is registered as a MU’s Dunn-Palmer Herbarium helps to the herbarium is named. botanical garden with the American collect, preserve and identify thousands In another aspect of her role as cura- Association of Botanical Gardens and of plants. Much of that is because of tor, Kennedy encourages researchers to Arboreta. Mizzou Botanic Garden Kennedy’s work, says John David, chair use the plants. The facility exists mainly comprises 269 acres of campus land. of biological sciences. “You can’t get a feel for scientists, particularly those who need A curator and 48 landscapers tend OHNSON for the magnitude of the holdings unless to deposit plant samples as voucher speci- more than 20 gardens and numer- J AREN you go there and look,” he says. mens for analysis. Researchers deposit the ous plots of labeled plants. Yes, K BY

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34 | ARTS & SCIENCE WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 35 Sharing Space at the Top of the Math World

rofessor Nigel Kalton is one year course load as a freshman. At the Peter Casazza says. “You go away feeling Nigel Kalton is a global of the premier mathemati- end of his third year, he had earned the that you have been in the presence of true leader in the area of cians in the world. A pre- equivalent of a master’s degree. Two years greatness.” eminent scholar in the area after completing his undergraduate stud- Banach Space Theory. of Banach Space Theory, ies, he finished his doctoral thesis. Future factors Kalton’s research with 82 Not every moment of those school It’s not until May, but Kalton already has Two former MU students collaborators from 20 different countries years was spent with his nose to the plans for his 60th birthday. He’ll be in Phas set the standard for the field. grindstone. Nigel enjoyed a few student Ohio with hundreds of mathematicians. are gathering a group of Banach spaces provide an abstract way high jinks. He recalls the time he and a Former students Beata Randrianantoani- of looking at concrete problems. They friend crashed the Cambridge May Ball na, PhD ’93, now a professor at Miami intellectuals for an inter- form a language useful to people such as by using an absent couple’s tickets. To this University of Ohio, and her husband, engineers, physicists and mathematicians day, Kalton wonders why he was the one Narcisse Randrianantoanina, PhD ’93, national conference to to describe infinite dimensional general- chosen to be “Mrs. Olive Smith.” have assembled an impressive array of izations of the three-dimensional space Kalton taught for six years at Swansea speakers from around the world to partic- honor his work and we live in. in the University of Wales system before ipate in a weeklong conference honoring celebrate a significant So highly regarded is Kalton’s work arriving in the United States in 1977 and Kalton. Kalton served as Beata’s doctoral in this area that he is only the fourth at MU in 1979. mentor. In addition to principal talks birthday. It’s a tradition international mathematician to receive “I jumped at the chance of a job here by some of the most distinguished names the Banach Medal of the Polish Academy because the conditions were so much bet- in functional analysis, more than 150 and high honor in the of Sciences. Yet Kalton remains an unas- ter and allowed me to pursue my research presentations will cover some of Kalton’s suming sort who colleagues say will stop without impediment,” he says. “I was areas of interest. world of math. what he’s doing to help on their research able to participate in the building of a In his typical low-key manner, Kalton projects and is ready to talk math with first-class mathematics department. The admits to being flattered when ap- By Cheri Ghan anyone, anytime. improvement of our department over the proached about the conference but wasn’t last 20 years has been quite dramatic; this sure he belonged in the category of math- Bright beginning is something I feel quite proud of.” ematicians so honored before retirement. When his biology teacher at a Brit- Although his work on Banach spaces “But it was a good day, as I had just been ish public boys school told students the has brought Kalton the most acclaim, told I had won the Banach medal, and so I following year’s practical assignments he enjoys mathematics as a whole rather agreed,” he says. How’s That? would include “preparation” of a sheep’s than one specific area. “When one proves Friends admire Kalton’s humor and To know Nigel Kalton is to know skull, 13-year-old Nigel — a Harry Potter a theorem, one is really saying that there ability to stay grounded in view of the that he speaks the queen’s English. look-alike (photo above) — decided he’d is some pattern out there beyond simple honorary conference. “I am, of course, When Kalton, a native Brit, taught do anything rather than biology. randomness, or that there is a reason looking forward to it, but it is a little bit advanced calculus at Michigan State History became his early focus. But why things are as they are. There is a scary because it’s almost too big,” he says. University, he followed procedure in math was by far his best subject, and at moment when one first sees the pattern Casazza has hit upon the formula asking students to evaluate his class- 15 he turned to mathematics. He hasn’t (and nobody else has) when one feels like, that most accurately describes Kalton’s room performance. Imagine Kalton’s looked back. perhaps, an explorer in the old days seeing star-quality talent and down-to-earth surprise when one student objected Kalton spent his undergraduate and land for the first time.” temperament: “He never advertises in the strongest of terms “to having graduate years at Trinity College in Colleagues characterize Kalton as an himself or acts like he is better or more to pay good money for an instructor Cambridge, England, where his dorm sat irreplaceable trailblazer. “A mathemati- important than anyone else. You feel good who can barely speak English!” opposite one occupied by Britain’s Prince cal discussion with Nigel Kalton is an after talking to him. He is to my mind the Charles. Kalton took the typical second- experience of another order,” Professor perfect colleague.”

PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 37 trolling across campus ture material with “The best thing Dr. P mal Art. He’s been with Michael Porter is lively discussions overheard saying like walking with Bruce and debates. (Porter) taught me is not he’s a musician Springsteen. Colleagues “I like to break at heart and his stop to chat and students it up. It’s a little class-related. He taught dream job would past and present call out, razzle-dazzle,” me to be a better man.” be to perform at a “Hey, Dr. P!” Porter says about posh resort near SAfter 25 years of teaching at Mizzou, his teaching style — Zach Ottenstein, BJ ’05 the ocean. Every- Porter’s face is one of the most familiar on and how lucky one just figures he’s campus. His infectious laugh, wry sense he’s been to get kidding. of humor and practical view of life are good discussions going. Actually, luck has Porter is a teacher’s teacher, dedicated legendary. nothing to do with it. Porter works hard to his craft and finding ways to make it In his favorite role as teacher, Porter to make it seem easy, and the students better. He loves the whole process, and reaches and intellectually challenges respond accordingly. it’s obvious from the multitude of distin- hundreds of students every year. “I like to “The most entertaining class I’ve ever guished teaching awards he has collected. think I have one of the best jobs around,” enrolled in” — that’s the thumbs-up For 15 years, Porter has been involved he says. He’s an associate professor of assessment of Porter’s class from journal- with Wakonse, a sort of summer camp communication as well as director of ism major Matthew Mitchell, a senior for teachers. He and his wife, Rose, the Special Degree Programs. from Rochester, N.Y. Mitchell says Porter dean of MU’s Sinclair School of Nursing, A room filled with students brings out is thoroughly approachable and works spent part of the past summer as Wakonse the best in Porter. Alumni may remember enthusiastically to get students involved team leaders. “We are all people who love the first class he taught at MU, Radio and while treating them with respect and teaching, who want to talk about it and Television in Modern Society. He’s still never putting them on the spot. find out how we can do it better,” he says. teaching it and, by raising issues they’ve Mitchell likes Porter’s outgoing, ener- As all teachers do, Porter takes on never thought of, still setting straight getic style and the communicative atmo- other responsibilities such as committee students who think they’re media savvy. sphere of the class. “It’s a shame everyone work that ranges from faculty council to He enjoys seeing them come to understand can’t have the chance to experience him planning the annual Martin Luther King how the messages that bombard the pub- as a professor before they graduate,” Jr. celebration. lic are created and ultimately received. Mitchell says. While mentoring students in the Spe- One of Porter’s favorite tactics is an Zach Ottenstein, BJ ’05, agrees. cial Degree Programs, he reminds them PHOTO BY ROB HILL assignment that asks students to inter- The Chicago-area native says the size of that MU is not a trade school and that view people other than students about Porter’s classes doesn’t matter because their job is to create a “new and improved how they watch and use television. The of his high-energy presentations. “Dr. P you.” Porter advises students to look at investing exercise is eye-opening as a comparison of understands what keeps a student’s inter- the world through another lens, a proven viewers who multitask versus those who est,” he says. strategy in his estimation. “When they focus on the broadcasts. Then there’s the music. Porter’s trade- graduate, they will have more skills than To watch Porter teach is to catch a mark lecture opener is an eclectic blend they know what to do with,” he says. glimpse of an expert who invests his heart of music, everything from classical to Talking about retirement is something heart and soul and soul into the profession. He’s equally new age to salsa. The music suits Porter’s Michael and Rose do from time to time. comfortable leading a small discussion personality and becomes yet another ex- “Teaching is so much a part of my iden- for 25 years group or teaching a lecture class of 300. perience for students. “It’s not necessarily tity,” he says. “When I retire I want to The job of teaching two 50-minute the music they like, but I want to create totally retire.” But then he adds: “I’m not Michael Porter labels his teaching style as a bit razzle-dazzle. lectures and a discussion group, combined an atmosphere that says, ‘This is Porter’s sure what I’d do with myself.” It plays out more like an investment of self. with his other duties, should be daunting, class,’ ” he says. It does. He jokes that he might play for sing- but Porter thrives on it. His classes blend In his free time, Porter plays bass fiddle alongs at retirement centers. “Heart and By Cheri Ghan Power Point media presentations and lec- with a popular local group called Mini- Soul” perhaps?

38 WINTER 2005 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 39 Will Work for Funds A hard-working group of physics students created an endowment to honor a student who died in Iraq.

hysics student Melvin Mora died bers make small sacrifices to honor Mora’s every donor and participant. She wrote before he had a chance to carry out great sacrifice, and a core group of leaders each a personal thank-you note. “I have his goal of using science to make formed: Daniel Hess, Lance Garrison, Mi- been awestruck about this university,” Pthe world a better place. A mortar blast chael Gramlich, Michael Mayo, Gregory she says. “The people are so hard-work- in Iraq cost Mora his life on June 6, 2004. Oelrichs, Matthew Richard, Josh Tartar, ing and considerate. I will hold the people He was MU’s first student casualty of the Grant Thompson, Brian Dempewolf and in this department close in my heart war. Karen Wilson. forever.” The week Mora died, Yve Solbrekken The students adopted the project The Melvin Y. Mora Undergraduate entered Mizzou as a graduate student and began seeking creative ways to raise Scholarship Fund exceeded the required in physics and was touched by stories of money for a scholarship in Mora’s name. $10,000 level and became an endowed Mora’s kind spirit and selflessness. They offered helpful services to faculty fund in spring 2005. Now at $13,359, it An outgoing student and native of members in exchange for donations. They will produce an annual scholarship. It is Puerto Rico, Mora was 27, a bit older raked leaves and did other yardwork, one of only four endowed funds estab- than the average senior. He was a sergeant painted a living room, stained the exterior lished by MU students in the history of in the U.S. Army Reserves and occasion- of a cottage and cut down a tree. the University. ally had to put his course work on hold Somehow, they even persuaded Mora’s Mora wanted to use physics to improve to take a job. His student life stopped for adviser, Assistant Professor Angela Speck, people’s lives, and some caring classmates the final time in mid-semester 2004 when to cut her shoulder-length hair and shave helped him achieve that goal. In summer the Army deployed the St. Louis 245th her head for donations. Speck did it with 2004, the College of Arts and Science Maintenance Company to Iraq. Mora died no regrets. She walked around with awarded Mora a posthumous bachelor’s in an attack near Camp Cook in Taji. what looked like a buzz cut for weeks degree in physics and astronomy. Although Solbrekken and Mora had and raised more than $1,200 by shearing never met, Mora’s death instilled in her a her brunette locks. Note: The students continue to accept do- strong sense of gratitude for his ultimate Many other examples of selflessness nations to the fund. Checks may be made sacrifice. “This young man gave up his emerged. Even before undertaking the to the University of Missouri-Columbia life, his career, his degree, his future for project, the students were pressed for with a note on the memo line directing all of us,” she says. “It devastated me that time. Most held jobs to support them- gifts to the Melvin Mora Fund, 223 Physics he had been killed. I was trying to think selves and had to carefully balance work Building, Columbia, MO 65211. of something a person could do to make and study hours with the volunteerism. his death mean something more.” Two international graduate students who

Solbrekken set on a course to memo- each donated $100 sacrificed money that Yve Solbrekken organized students to do chores for rialize Mora’s name while helping future otherwise could have improved their own donations to the Melvin Mora endowed scholarship students. At a meeting of the Society of frugal lifestyles. fund. The students trimmed trees, raked yards and Physics Students, she suggested the mem- Solbrekken felt immensely grateful to completed other tasks that raised more than $13,000. PHOTO BY JUSTIN KELLEY

40 | ARTS & SCIENCE WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 41 Rock Icon This Is the Leads a Future s futuristic as this sounds, it’s Master Class not science fiction. A team of scientists led by Gabor Forgacs, housands of cheering fans greet- Aprofessor of biological physics, is seeking ed singer-songwriter Sting when a way to “print” replacement organs or he performed under multicolored organ grafts for transplantation. Forgacs Tspotlights at Mizzou Arena on an April hopes to build 3-D replicas of organs us- evening. But the real action had already ing a machine that resembles a dot matrix occurred earlier that afternoon in a music printer. classroom in the Fine Arts Building. Forgacs and his colleagues have Thirty music majors and five faculty received nearly $5 million from the members experienced a one-hour master National Science Foundation for their re- class they’ll never forget. Sting — whose search. They were one of about 100 teams real name is Gordon Sumner — two competing for the grants. “They had to guitarists and a drummer strode down the beat competition from the best and most stairs of the stadium-seating classroom innovative scientists across the country to toward the front of the room. win this award,” says Jim Coleman, MU The rock icon sat on a black amplifier vice provost for research. between two chairs and greeted the class The researchers’ challenge is to dis- with a smile. cover how to control self-assembly and to Sting was conducting master classes in a performer. He calls himself a musician mimic what the biological system does. a few college towns as part of his Broken by instinct with no formal training in In some form, everyone experiences the Music Tour. “I’m challenging myself, try- theory and composition. “I’m an eternal process when a cut heals or a fingernail ing to articulate what I do and to under- student,” he said. regrows. stand it.” Sting wrote “Message in a Bottle” “Once we understand the fundamen- PHOTO COURTESY OF GABOR FORGACS The group opened the session with the 30 years ago and played it first “for the PHOTOS BY ROB HILL tal organizing principles that control eventually be applied to use a person’s Gabor Forgacs, professor of biological physics, leads a gentle “Message in a Bottle” and Sting dog.” It seems strange to him now when Accompanied by his band, Rock star Sting conducts a this self-assembly and the cues that are own cells to create replacement organs team of researchers doing innovative work on “print- followed the song with a casual lecture masses of people recognize it. “The master class for students of music composition and necessary to provide to the system, we that can be implanted without risk of im- ing” replacement organs. that explored some of his own work and spiritual nourishment music has given me theory. can use that knowledge in our bioprinting mune rejection. songwriting in general. would be the same if I were still just sing- from life), if he writes lyrics or notes first technology,” Forgacs says. To create the tubular structures, “Transplantation as we know it today With every breath they took, the 30 ing for the dog,” he said. (music, which has its own narrative form Forgacs’ team is the first to dem- Forgacs and his associates put tissue ag- is not the future. Artificial substitutes select students of music composition and Sting said he enjoys the challenge of and will tell a story) and if he uses poetry onstrate that spherical cell aggregates gregates in a gel in the form of a circle. are not the future. We hope this is the theory — considered the rocket science writing pop songs and experimenting for lyrics (only trite, awful poetry makes — thousands of cells combined to form a The small balls of tissue — placed so they future,” Forgacs says. of music — inhaled their private lesson with unusual meters. He played a classi- good music). ball — can be made and manipulated, and were not touching each other — fused Coleman says the NSF considers this from the master. Their teachers, Tom cal riff on his guitar and admitted that As the master class ended, the students that these aggregates will fuse to form into a ring in about 20 to 40 hours. When program as its premier interdisciplinary McKenney, Stefan Freund, Michael Bach fascinates him, but he also said, “No and faculty gathered in clusters to discuss structures of specific form. the researchers stacked the rings on top of program in the biological sciences. For- Budds, Julia Gaines, Neil Minturn and one will ever pay money to hear me play the chamber performance they had just The researchers already are build- each other, they also fused. gacs’ team brings together seven investiga- Rusty Jones enjoyed watching the pop this.” experienced. ing tubular structures. Such constructs In addition to the long-term goal of tors from the areas of biological physics, star do the duties for the afternoon. In the question-and-answer session, “Awesome,” said Brian Tate, a gradu- are important because a large part of producing vascular tissue for building computational physics, molecular biology, Sting, a former English teacher, students asked Sting if he writes at a ate student in music theory. “It gives you the body is made of tubes, such as blood human organs, the researchers hope to developmental biology, organic chemistry rose to the occasion with his technical certain time of day (just not when he’s a chance to see inside the mind of another vessels and intestinal tubes. Equally as produce tissue that will serve as grafts in and tissue engineering. He also includes knowledge of music and his versatility as on tour), what inspires him (experiences composer.” significant is the fact that the process may surgeries to repair arteries and veins. his own doctoral students in the work.

42 | ARTS & SCIENCE WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 ARTS & SCIENCE | 43 Brothers Bonded Army brats and brothers, Mark and Pat- rick Wilkins grew up all over the world and grew together through their Mizzou ROTC experience. In appreciation of the training the brothers received through MU’s Depart- ment of Military Science and Leader- ship, Mark, BA ’90 political science, has established an endowed fund to honor his brother. The gift celebrates the Wilkins brothers’ mutual appreciation for broth- erhood, the United States military and MU’s ROTC program. Mark is a vice president and private PHOTO BY DAN GLOVER wealth adviser with Merrill Lynch in and in the United States from coast to Mark Wilkins, left, honored his brother Patrick’s Army St. Louis. There’s unmistakable pride in coast. They eventually ended up at Fort career through a gift to the military science depart- his voice when he speaks of his younger Leonard Wood, Mo. ment. Patrick leads an airborne ranger military brother, Maj. Patrick Wilkins, BS Ed, BA “There’s nothing like being raised by company. ’95 history, whose decorations include a a drill sergeant,” Mark says. Their father tank officer before deciding on a career Bronze Star. completed two tours in Vietnam and won in finance. Still, his appreciation for mili- Patrick commands a U.S. Army air- a Purple Heart. tary training and Mizzou remains strong. borne ranger company. As a ranger, he’s Mark and Patrick followed his “MU’s Army ROTC program gave a one of the select soldiers called to serve in footsteps in their own ways. When they lot to me,” Mark says of the reason for his daring missions that may involve ambush- entered Mizzou, the brothers began their gift. “Alumni need to be invested forever. ing an enemy or recovering U.S. troops training through MU’s military science I couldn’t do what I do today without and equipment from hostile areas. department and the Army ROTC Tiger those experiences.” When they were kids, the Wilkins Battalion. The Mark and Patrick Wilkins Op- brothers went where their dad’s job dic- After graduation, each joined the Army. portunities for Excellence Endowment tated. For the most part, military life was Patrick opted for a military career and allows department Chair Lt. Col. Kirk great, Mark says. They grew up in places has deployed six times to Afghanistan and Wallace Jr. to use the gift where it is around the world with moves to Europe Iraq; Mark served four years as an Army most needed.

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