Sept. 5, 2013 Vol. 33, No. 5 InsideFor Faculty and Staff, University of IIllinoisllinois at Urbana-Champaign • http://news.illinois.edu/ii Blind mole-rats are resistant to chemically induced cancers By Diana Yates Band led a previous analysis of gene expres- Life Sciences Editor sion in blind mole-rats living in low-oxygen ike naked mole-rats (Heterocepha- (hypoxic) environments. He found that genes lus gaber), blind mole-rats (of the that respond to hypoxia are known to also play genus Spalax) live underground a role in aging and in suppressing or promot- in low-oxygen environments, ing cancer. Lare long-lived and resistant to cancer. A “We think that these three phenomena are new study demonstrates just how cancer- tied in together: the hypoxia tolerance, the lon- resistant Spalax are, and suggests that the ad- gevity and cancer resistance,” Band said. “We aptations that help these rodents survive in think all result from evolutionary adaptations low-oxygen environments also play a role in to a stressful environment.” their longevity and cancer resistance. Unlike the naked mole-rat, which lives in The findings are reported in the journal colonies in Eastern Africa, the blind mole-rat Biomed Central: Biology. is a solitary rodent found in the Eastern Medi- “We’ve shown that, compared to mice and terranean. Thousands of blind mole-rats have rats, blind mole-rats are highly resistant to been captured and studied for more than 50 carcinogens,” said Mark Band, the director of years at Israel’s University of Haifa, where the functional genomics at the U. of I. Biotech- animal work was conducted. The Haifa scien- nology Center and a co-author on the study. tists observed that none of their blind mole- rats had ever developed cancer, even though Spalax can live more than 20 years. Lab mice and rats have a maximum lifespan of about 3.5 years and yet regularly develop spontaneous cancers. To test the blind mole-rats’ cancer resis- tance, the Haifa team, led by Irena Manov, Aaron Avivi and Imad Shams, exposed the animals to two cancer-causing agents. Only one of the 20 Spalax tested (an animal that was more than 10 years old) developed malignant tumors after exposure to one of the carcino- photo by L. Brian Stauffer Quad’s-eye view Nearly 660 registered student organizations photo courtesy of Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel gens. In contrast, all of the 12 mice and six rats participated in Quad Day on Aug. 25. The annual event gives students the exposed to either agent developed cancerous Evolutionary adaptations Blind mole- opportunity to sign up for extracurricular and social activities. This year’s tumors. rats (genus Spalax) can live more than 20 participants included student and community organizations and academic The team next turned its attention to years, are resistant to cancer and tolerate units. The day also featured more than 20 performances. It’s the 42nd time extremely low-oxygen environments. SEE BLIND MOLE-RAT, PAGE 12 the event has been held. Chancellor Wise says new academic year is one of action By Mike Helenthal meet the recruiting goals in the Assistant Editor NEW LEADERSHIP Strategic Plan. hancellor Phyllis M. See new leaders, page 3. Wise said this fall’s enrollment Wise is delighted that numbers may break records for the the new academic year the hiring plan unveiled at last number of international students. is underway. spring’s town hall meeting, where And average GPA scores also are CPart of the reason is that she Wise and Illesanmi Adesida, the up this year. has spent a lot of time spurring a provost and vice chancellor for “Coming to Illinois is a great campus self-assessment process academic affairs, outlined the plan opportunity to know and be a part leading to the recently unveiled to recruit 500 faculty members in of the global environment,” she Strategic Plan, a three-year plan the next five to seven years. said. “I’m encouraging students requested by university President Hiring that many new faculty to go outside of themselves and Bob Easter. Initiating that plan is members will serve many purpos- reach out to someone who is dif- the next step. es, Wise said. Among them, bring- ferent from them.” “This year you’re going to start ing faculty numbers more in line Wise said she is confident that seeing that this plan is being put with student demand and utilizing this year is a year of action be- into action,” Wise said. “Too many “cluster” hiring to bring teams cause the campus has gotten firm- people (faculty, staff, students and of specialists from emerging and ly behind the principles outlined in photo by L. Brian Stauffer external stakeholders) have spent cross-disciplinary fields. the Strategic Plan. Momentum maker The chancellor’s Listening and Learning too much precious time and effort Wise said the effort also would “It’s everybody’s strategic tour and the Visioning Future Excellence initiative have been for this to be one of those plans bolster parallel efforts to promote plan,” she said. “So many people completed, the Strategic Plan has been submitted to the president that is not executed.” innovative learning and research helped create it and we hope ev- and Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise is looking forward to the 2013-14 Wise said initiatives for several opportunities for all students, par- eryone embraces it as their own.” academic year as a year of action. Wise said many of the initiatives of the plan’s themes – environ- ticularly undergraduates. She said she and her leadership outlined in the Strategic Plan have already begun. ment and energy, health and well- The chancellor and provost team have gelled in their short ness, social equality and cultural have appointed a faculty com- time working together and she is swer. They’ve been tremendous, they’re able to accomplish. These understanding and economic de- mittee that has conducted its own optimistic about the future. and there are repercussions ev- are very unique times in higher velopment – are being developed “listening and learning” tour in “I am so pleased with the team erywhere across the campus: education and we have to antici- or are already underway. recent months to discuss with around me,” she said. “I’ve been It affects all aspects of the in- pate the need to manage change For example, the recruitment deans and departments efforts to here long enough now where I stitution because of the knowl- as opposed to being managed by process has already begun for improve the search process and know who to turn to for an an- edge they possess and the things changes.” u

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ON THE WEB Assistant Editor very short and it would be nice to make a lot He said an ad hoc senate committee had http://senate.illinois.edu he Senate Executive Committee’s of progress.” been working over the summer to address first meeting of the academic year Outside of affecting administrative and salary, benefit and pension issues, the bud- its own role within the shared governance was light on business – but don’t academic direction, Campbell said the dis- get and campus renovation priorities, and structure is important as well, considering expect that to become a trend, said cussion and implementation of the strategic how the senate can affect them. the convergence of so many future-focused Tnew chair Roy Campbell after the Aug. 26 plan represents an opportunity for the sen- Kim Graber, the SEC’s new vice chair, academic issues. And it’s especially pre- meeting. ate to directly affect funding decisions. said the difficulties in deciding some issues scient considering the university admin- Campbell said he expects the 2013- “Good budgeting comes from careful will be compounded by a need to act “nim- istration is simultaneously conducting its 14 year to bring a heavy workload for the planning, and being at the table for these bly” as Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise has put own internal review. Urbana Academic Senate, SEC and its 18 larger discussions is important,” he said. it, when they come up for consideration. He said he sees one of his main roles as committees, as several important campus “You’d like to give everyone the same Graber said SEC members are encour- improving and increasing communication issues likely will come before them for con- amount, but funding will continue to be a aged by recommendations made in the between all of the interested parties, “be- sideration. difficult issue. It will be about identifying Strategic Plan, as well as by the importance cause we’re all dedicated to making this He said the recent submission of the campus priorities.” Wise and Ilesanmi Adesida, the vice chan- university better.” He said he would empha- campus Strategic Plan to university ad- Other issues of import include the ongo- cellor for academic affairs and provost, size the need to make senate meetings and ministrators and the speed at which those ing discussion of how massive open online have indicated they place on the concept of correspondence transparent and meet the strategies are implemented will likely lead courses fit into the land-grant university shared governance. criteria of the Illinois Open Meetings Act. to an increase in senate business, as will the structure; how open-access initiatives can “I think everyone understands the need “We’d like to make our (senate) deci- current internal review of senate operations be balanced against the call for increased to focus our energies for the future, and the sion-making more effective and timely, but and procedures. economic return in the face of funding pres- work of the ad hoc task force this summer at the same time we want to encourage de- “I think all of that activity will lead to sures; and how far proposed changes in was informed by both faculty members and bate,” he said. “I think the senate structure, quite an agenda because in some form or federal standards will go to address student the administration,” she said. “It was shared as it is, is strong, but are there ways we can fashion, all of those things will come back access and cost, to rank university perfor- governance at its best, and it’s a good sign.” improve? The answer is always ‘yes.’ ” X to us,” he said. “I think we’ll have many mance, and the distribution of funding in Campbell said that the senate’s review of Nine faculty members named to Center for Advanced Study By Dusty Rhodes organization of ecosystems. He also is the pendent Lens” and on the Independent Film His group recently discovered the molecular Arts and Humanities Editor author of a popular graduate textbook on Channel. His films have been screened at structure of the HIV capsid, offering far- he Center for Advanced Study has statistical mechanics. festivals worldwide including the Sundance reaching implications for HIV pharmaceuti- announced nine new appointments Long, a Gutgsell Professor in plant bi- Film Festival. His 1997 documentary, “In cal interventions, and his group’s software to its permanent faculty – one of the ology and crop sciences, studies photosyn- Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots for molecular graphics and modeling is used highest honors the U. of I. campus thetic efficiency, through both mathemati- in Sports,” helped influence the NCAA’s by thousands of researchers worldwide. Tbestows for outstanding scholarship. cal modeling of the molecular processes policy against the use of American Indian Sweedler, the Eiszner Family Professor The new CAS professors are James D. and practical investigation at the field-crop mascots. His 2010 documentary, “The Lord of Chemistry, is the director of the School Anderson, education policy, organization level, focusing on global change. He has is Not on Trial Here Today,” about the First of Chemical Sciences and associated with and leadership; Nigel Goldenfeld, phys- identified the most productive plants and in- Amendment case that established the sepa- four other scientific programs on campus. ics; Stephen Long, plant biology; Tere vestigated the basis of their success. He has ration of church and state in public schools, His research emphasis is on analytical neu- O’Connor, dance; John Rogers, materi- led the development of SoyFACE, a facil- was named best TV program for fostering rochemistry, focusing on investigating the als science and engineering; Jay Rosen- ity that analyzes the effects of atmospheric the public’s understanding of law by the roles that peptide hormones, neurotransmit- stein, journalism; Klaus Schulten, physics; change on crops, and the Urbana-campus American Bar Association. ters and neuromodulatory agents play in be- Jonathan Sweedler, chemistry; and Maria component of the biofuels research initia- Schulten, a Swanlund Professor, heads havior, learning and memory. Todorova, history. They join 18 other CAS tive, Energy Biosciences Institute. He now the theoretical and computational biophys- Todorova, the Gutgsell Professor of professors, drawn from academic depart- directs projects funded by the Gates Foun- ics group at the Beckman Institute for Ad- history, specializes in the Balkans in the ments across the campus, and will continue dation and the U.S. Department of Energy vanced Science and Technology, and co- modern period. Her research focuses on the to serve as full members of their home de- to improve photosynthetic efficiency in a directs the Center for the Physics of Living symbolism of nationalism, national memo- partments while shaping the future of CAS variety of crops. Cells in the physics department. He was the ry and national heroes in Bulgaria and the by selecting associates and fellows for the O’Connor has been choreographing con- first to demonstrate that parallel computers Balkans, as well as problems of socialism center. They each receive a research fund temporary dance since 1982, creating more can be employed to solve the many-body and post-communism. She is the author of of $5,000 per year. Their appointments are than 35 works for his own company, Tere problem in biomolecular modeling and the more than 30 books, and has received nu- permanent, and were approved by the U. of O’Connor Dance, as well as commissioned first to accomplish a simulation of an entire merous awards, including a Guggenheim I. Board of Trustees during its July meeting. works for companies around the world in- life form (the satellite tobacco mosaic virus). Fellowship. X Anderson heads the education policy, or- cluding the Lyon Opera Ballet and solo ganization and leadership department where pieces for Jean Butler and Mikhail Barysh-  he is a Gutgsell Professor. His teaching and nikov. He’s known for his dance advocacy research focus on the history of American through writing, teaching, mentoring and education with a special interest in the his- speaking engagements, and has won nu- tory of African-American education, the merous awards, most recently the Doris InsideIllinois history of desegregation and diversity in all Duke Performing Artist Award. levels of education, and the history of mi- Rogers is a Swanlund Professor and is 2013-14 Publication Schedule nority school achievement. the director of the Seitz Materials Research FALL 2013 SPRING 2014 SUMMER 2014 Goldenfeld is a Swanlund Professor in Laboratory. He is well-known for his pio- Sept. 5 Jan. 16 May 15 the physics department and leads the bio- neering work on merging hard and soft complexity theme at the Institute for Ge- materials into unusual electronic systems, Sept. 19 Feb. 6 June 5 nomic Biology. He is the director of the with an emphasis on bio-integrated devices Oct. 3 Feb. 20 June 19 Institute for Universal Biology, part of the and bio-inspired design. Recent examples Oct. 17 March 6 July 3 NASA Astrobiology Institute network. His include injectable, cellular-scale optoelec- research encompasses physics, microbial tronics, “insect eye” digital imagers and Nov. 7 March 20 July 17 ecology, evolutionary biology, fluid me- biodegradable circuits. Nov. 21 April 3 Aug. 7 chanics, materials science and quantita- Rosenstein is a documentary filmmaker Dec. 5 April 17 Aug. 21 tive finance, with a unifying focus on the specializing in social issue stories. He has evolution of patterns over time, such as the won a Peabody Award and two regional Dec. 19 May 1 growth of snowflakes, the microstructures Emmy awards. 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Diana Yates agriculture, applied health NewsAtIllinois sciences, life sciences Sept. 5, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 3 On the Job Marie Childress By Mike Helenthal through the building wondering where to Assistant Editor go,” she said. “I always take the time to ork hard, play hard and help them. I don’t like it when someone follow your passion. says, ‘It’s not my job.’ To be a good em- That’s the credo Ma- ployee you need to go that extra step. Over rie Childress follows, and the years you just learn where and how to Wit has worked well during her 26 years help people.” at the U. of I.’s College of Veterinary The diagnostic lab is responsible for Medicine. She has spent nearly the last the blood work, biopsies and other tests 10 years in the Veterinary Diagnostic requested by veterinarians from inside the Laboratory and the last three as a busi- college at the teaching hospital and out. ness manager I. The lab receives inquires and referrals from She was hired as an accountant tech- around the world. nician in the business office in 1987 and “We don’t always see the (animal) own- in 1990 moved to the college’s Compar- ers, but we know the data we give out are ative Biosciences Division for 14 years important,” she said. “Around here, it’s before starting at the diagnostics lab in ultimately about the patient. There’s an at- 2004. titude of, ‘If something’s not right, let’s fix photo by L. Brian Stauffer “I’ve moved around a little but it’s all it and get it right.’ It’s fascinating to see the Bringing the ‘A’ game Marie Childress, who has worked at the U. of I.’s been in this college,” she said. “This is care and consideration that goes on here.” College of Veterinary Medicine for 26 years, says that going the extra mile is my home; I never wanted to be anyplace Growing up on a farm near Monticel- what makes the employees there stand out. “Around here, it’s ultimately about the else.” lo, Childress, one of eight children, spent patient,” she said. “There’s an attitude of, ‘If something’s not right, let’s fix it and Childress said she enjoys the chal- much of her time around cows, sheep and get it right.’ ” At home, Childress likes to play video games with her children – lenge of her job, which has her doing plenty of chickens. which she sees as bonding time and a way to promote their interest in technology. a variety of things – including business “I was allergic to most of them (ani- and finance, human resources, customer mals), but I could still field dress a chicken her house. ing a career in game design. “That’s our service, and preparing and disseminating (today) if I needed to,” she said. “Working It’s a family-raising approach that defi- bonding time and it’s a way to escape.” laboratory information and results. here has been my way of helping animals.” nitely has carried over with Childress. Mar- She proudly declares she has She said her staff is well trained and Childress’ interests were pulled in oppo- ried for 20 years, she said all of her family reached level 50 on one of her favorite professional, asking relevant questions site directions when she was younger and members are taught to follow their pas- adventure games. when issues come up. they still compete. As a young student she sions. “It took a (virtual) arrow to the knee “I have a good group that knows excelled at both art and math and had to de- For her husband, Tim, it was his recent to stop me.” when to call me in,” she said. “I like cide one over the other when it came time foray into beekeeping – something Chil- She also likes working crossword people who can work on their own but to pick a career. dress supported wholeheartedly. puzzles, gardening and crochet – a skill who aren’t afraid to ask when they don’t While she still dabbles with art, she re- For her two sons, 17-year-old Daniel she learned in the seventh grade. understand something.” alized an accounting career – and a certifi- and 11-year-old Dylan, it’s about learning “I’ve got to either be doing some- She said she leads by example. cate from Parkland College – was a more about computers and playing video games. thing ‘puzzly,’ ” she said, “or some- “I care about the people I work with dependable way to pay the bills. And for Childress herself – well, it’s thing with my hands.” u and the people I do things for and I love “Somebody without a degree can go about playing video games, too. It’s a digging into problems and trying to far here (at the university), but I’ve never hobby that her sons have enthusiastically On the Job features U. of I. solve them,” she said. stopped learning,” she said. shared with their business-minded mom staff members. To nominate a That even goes for problems that Childress’ parents espoused creativity as and now she’s hooked. civil service employee, email seemingly aren’t hers. a virtue and Childress said her mother still “I love to go home and play with them,” [email protected]. “Somebody’s always wandering has Childress’ childhood artwork around she said, noting the eldest son is consider-

New leadership appointments announced deaths any new administrators or Studies. Endres has been a professor of David James Brademas, 83, died Aug. Centreville, MD 21617, gunston.org. changes in appointments have agricultural and consumer economics 19. He was a professor of recreation, sport Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster, 79, died Mbeen announced within the last and of food and agricultural law at Illi- and tourism for 36 years, retiring in 2000. Aug. 25 at his Urbana home. He was a pro- few months: nois since 2003. Memorials: Brightbill/Sapora Professor- fessor in the U. of I. Graduate School of Li- n Bob Easter, the president of the n Christopher Z. Mooney, the direc- ship in Recreation (Fund #770188), U. of brary and Information Science for 22 years, university. His contract has been extend- tor of the Institute of Government and I. Foundation, 1305 W. Green St., MC- retiring in 1992. Memorials: Save the Chil- ed through June 2015. Public Affairs. Mooney joined the faculty 386, Urbana, IL 610801, uif.uillinois. dren, 54 Wilton Road, Westport, CT 06880, n Michel Bellini, the interim direc- at UIS in 1999 and has been a member edu; St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, savethechildren.org; or the World Wildlife tor of the Center for Innovation in Teach- of the IGPA faculty since 2004. His ap- 1431 W. Magee Road, Tucson, AZ 85704, Fund, 1250 24th St. N.W., Washington, ing and Learning. The center is merging pointment is subject to approval by the umcstmarks.org; Casa de la Luz Founda- D.C. 20037, worldwildlife.org. duties and staff members from the Cen- U. of I. Board of Trustees at its Septem- tion, 7740 North Oracle Road, Tucson, Steven Jay Mast, 57, died Aug. 16. He ter for Teaching Excellence, the Office ber meeting. AZ 85704, casafoundation.org; Stephen J. was a project engineer at the U. of I. for of Online and Continuing Education, n Brian Ross, the interim dean of and Beatrice Brademas Memorial Scholar- 29 years. Memorials: Salt & Light, 1512 and Campus Programs on Teaching and the College of Liberal Arts and Scienc- ship, Department of History (Fund #3852), W. Anthony Drive, Champaign, IL 61821, Learning, as well as select staff mem- es. Ross, a professor of psychology, has Ball State University Foundation, P.O. Box saltandlightministry.org; or Carle Hospice, bers from CITES Academic Technology been on the faculty since 1982. 672, Muncie, IN 47308, cms.bsu.edu/giv- 206A W. Anthony Drive, Champaign, IL Services. Bellini was the associate direc- n Alma R. Sealine, the director of ing/bsufoundation; or Pulmonary Fibrosis 61822, carle.org. tor for undergraduate education in the University Housing. Sealine was the di- Foundation, 230 E. Ohio St., Suite 304, Sonja J. McManaway, 74, died Aug. 22 School of Molecular and Cellular Biol- rector of Housing at Case Western Re- Chicago, IL 60611, pulmonaryfibrosis.org/ at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. She ogy and is a professor of cell and devel- serve University. donate. worked in the U. of I. accounting office. opmental biology. n H. Edward Seidel (Jan. 15, 2014), Donald Edward Crummey, 72, died Aug. Memorials: the Good Shepherd Lutheran n Andreas C. Cangellaris, the dean the director of the National Center for 16. He taught at the U. of I. from 1973- Church, 2101 S. Prospect Ave., Champaign, of the College of Engineering. Cangel- Supercomputing Applications. Seidel 2003. He was a professor of history and Ill. 61820, gslc-cu.org. laris was the head of the department of was the senior vice president of research later a professor in the Center for African James Bruno Risatti Jr., 71, died recently. electrical and computer engineering at and innovation at the Skolkovo Institute Studies. Memorials: Chapel of St. John the Risatti was a geochemist in the Organic Illinois. He joined the U. of I. faculty in of Science and Technology in Moscow. Divine, 1011 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL Geochemistry Section of the Illinois State 1997. n Jan Slater, the dean of the College 61820, chapelsjd.org; College of Wooster, Geological Survey for 29 years, retiring n Peter D. Constable, the dean of of Media. Slater had been serving as in- 1189 Beall Ave., Wooster, Ohio 44691, as head of the section in 2006. Memorials: the College of Veterinary Medicine (ef- terim dean since 2010. She came to Il- wooster.edu; or Save the Males, University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Foundation, fective January 2014). Constable is a linois in 2007 to become the head of the of Colorado Hospital Foundation, Leprino alzheimers-research.org; The Nature Con- Purdue University professor of veteri- Charles H. Sandage Department of Ad- Building, 12401 E. 17th Ave., Mail Stop servancy, 8 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL nary clinical sciences and the head of that vertising. F485, Aurora, CO 80045, uch.edu. 60603, nature.org; or St. Patrick’s Catholic department. He was a professor of veteri- n Allan M. Stratman, the execu- Elizabeth Lohmann Faucett, 93, died Church Building Fund, 708 W. Main St., nary clinical medicine at Illinois for more tive director of Facilities and Services. Aug. 10 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL 61801, stpaturbana.org. than 10 years, serving as the interim head Stratman recently retired from the Navy. Urbana. She was an illustrator at the U. of Jacob Stern, 89, died Aug. 27 at his home of that department from 2004-2005. He had been the executive officer of the I. Memorials: Urbana Park District Lohm- in Oriental, N.C. He taught at the U. of I. n Fritz Drasgow, the interim dean Navy Facilities Engineering Command, ann Park, 505 W. Stoughton St., Urbana, for 22 years, retiring in 1984 as associate of the School of Labor and Employment Southwest. IL 61801, urbanaparks.org; the Organ Fund professor emeritus of vocational and tech- Relations. A professor in the school, he n John P. Wilkin, the university li- at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 309 nical education. Memorials: Temple B’nai has been on the faculty since 1978. brarian and dean of libraries. Wilkin was W. Green St., Urbana, IL. 61801, uucuc. Sholem, 505 Middle St., New Bern, NC n Bryan Endres, the interim associ- an associate university librarian at the org; Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation, 8740 28560, bnai-sholem.org; Hospice of Pam- ate provost for international affairs and University of Michigan. u Founders Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268, lico County, P.O. Box 959, Bayboro, NC director of International Programs and kappaalphathetafoundation.org; or Gunston 28515, hospicepamlico.webs.com; or the School, 911 Gunston Road, P.O. Box 200, SEE DEATHS, PAGE 4 PAGE 4 InsideIllinois Sept. 5, 2013 Campus shifting to emphasize undergraduate research By Mike Helenthal Assistant Editor ON THE WEB t’s been just a year since the Office of Current annual report of the Office of the Provost created the Office of Un- Undergraduate Research: dergraduate Research and it already has provost.illinois.edu/our produced tangible results. L. Brian Stauffer by photo IThe new office, led by Paul Diehl, the Henning Larsen Professor of political sci- search opportunities that transform their U. ence, is creating a broad-based undergradu- of I. experience, Diehl said. ate research program to provide more op- “There are a number of initiatives that portunities across disciplines, and to in- we’ve identified as important and some of crease financial and project support, and them already are being incorporated in the multiple ways for students to showcase classroom.” their work. The annual faculty retreat, in February, Students are clamoring for the opportu- was attended by more than 200 people, nity to conduct research and the university who discussed ways to incorporate under- owes it to them to be able to do so, said graduate research opportunities in existing Diehl, who for 10 years has been the leader classes and developing new programs that of the Teaching Academy in the College of support such research. Liberal Arts and Sciences. “These are things that have to be initi- Paul Diehl, the Henning Larsen Professor of A significant increase in participation ated and put in place at the unit level to be Undergraduate overtures political science, said the new Office of Undergraduate Research has already at the 2013 Undergraduate Research Sym- successful,” Diehl said. “We’ve already seen success, just a year after he was picked to lead it through a 50-percent posium is a sign of students’ desire for re- been working individually with several col- appointment. Several initiatives to increase undergraduate research search – the number of posters and presen- leges and departments to get some of these opportunities and campus support for them are progressing, and last spring’s tations increased from 203 in 2012 to 342 things going.” Undergraduate Research Symposium saw a significant increase in participants. this year. Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise said the fo- The undergraduate research office has cus on undergraduate research was impor- identified a number of new approaches to tant enough to include in the university’s As for the support network, work is pro- ing a faculty workshop series led by Diehl connect undergraduate students with re- recently completed Strategic Plan. ceeding to create undergraduate research that focuses on integrating research oppor- “We want every single student to have journals, offer certificates to undergradu- tunities into the curriculum, identifying re- F aCULTy Workshops on the opportunity to have the best education ates successfully completing a sanctioned search opportunities in the humanities and Undergraduate Research they can imagine,” Wise said. “Undergrad- research project, make available summer fine arts, and providing research opportuni- Sept. 24: “Integrating Research uate research opportunities are a big part fellowships, and provide a conference ties for large introductory classes. Opportunities Into Your of that, and that includes those who don’t and travel assistance program for students Charles Tucker, named vice provost for Undergraduate Courses” choose a research career.” wanting to present their work off campus. undergraduate education and innovation in Providing undergraduates with more Diehl said the new initiatives don’t just February, said the transition to a research- Oct. 16: “Designing Undergraduate research opportunities is the equivalent of focus on providing opportunity. based undergraduate education is a good Research in Humanities and Fine giving them hands-on experience, she said. A great deal of work also is going into thing. Arts” “When you ask those graduates what changing the nature of undergraduate “I really like undergraduate research,” he Nov. 12: “Integrating Undergraduate their favorite college experience was,” she courses. said, “because it gives students a place to Research in Large Introductory said, “many times they’ll tell you that get- “We’re asking everyone to look at what take initiative.” Classes” ting to conduct research with a world-class they’re teaching and consider ways to build He said the initial success of the Office Presented by the Center for Innovation faculty member is what they enjoyed most.” research components into their courses,” he of Undergraduate Research has been en- in Teaching and Learning in collabora- Diehl said his office has focused on two said, which means reconsidering courses couraging. tion with the Office of Undergraduate broad areas. One is providing a more sup- that in the past may not even have been “The people who will address these Research. All workshops meet noon- portive environment for young researchers, thought of as research-adaptable. problems are the students we’re teaching 1:15 p.m. in Room 428 of the Armory. and the other is to better incorporate re- To that end, this fall the Center for In- now,” he said. “It’s our duty to prepare them search concepts into teacher training. novation in Teaching and Learning is offer- well.” u

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By Phil Ciciora the accident,” he said. “On the other side of Business and Law Editor the spectrum, the courts that said a causal disagreement among state courts nexus is required, they didn’t really seem on the subject of drunk-driving to be demanding what the law appears to homicide can be resolved by re- require, which is proof beyond a reasonable quiring the prosecution to prove doubt that the accident would not have oc- inA these cases not that the driver’s intoxi- curred but for intoxication.” cation caused the fatal accident, but merely Johnson’s own intuitions about the prob- that it contributed to the causal mechanism lem also were divided. On one hand, the behind the accident, says a forthcoming pa- position that the intoxication’s causal role per by a U. of I. expert on criminal law. shouldn’t matter at all in these cases struck Although philosophers and legal schol- him as “intuitively wrong.” But he also rec- ars have long recognized that conduct can ognized that in many cases the government contribute to a result without strictly caus- would find it next to impossible to prove ing it, this phenomenon of “causal overde- that the accident would not have occurred termination” has been almost entirely over- “but for” the driver’s intoxication. looked by criminal law scholars, says Eric “In some states, the prosecution needs to A. Johnson, a professor of law at Illinois. satisfy the ‘but-for’ standard – that is, it has Even scholars in areas other than crimi- to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the nal law have failed to spot the connection accident would not have occurred ‘but for’ between causal overdetermination and the driver’s intoxication,” he said. “Well, the kind of “wrongful aspect” causation if somebody runs over a pedestrian who’s photo by L. Brian Stauffer at work in drunk-driving homicide cases, walking on the side of a dark road with Johnson said. hairpin curves, it’s very hard to say beyond Cause and effect A disagreement among state courts on drunk-driving homicide “Nobody has put the two ideas togeth- a reasonable doubt, ‘A sober driver would cases can be resolved by requiring the prosecution to prove that the driver’s er,” he said. “With this paper, I want to not have run over this person.’ And in fact it intoxication contributed to the causal mechanism behind the accident, says a make judges, prosecutors and defense law- seems as though the courts in practice aren’t forthcoming paper from Eric A. Johnson, a professor of law at Illinois. yers notice the connection between the two really willing to hold the government to that ideas.” tough burden of proof. It seems as though defendant’s actions. What the government the driver’s intoxication made matters According to Johnson, in cases involv- the courts in those jurisdictions that require can prove is that the defendant contributed worse, where it’s even possible that a sober ing drunk-driving homicide, courts around a causal nexus are hedging.” incrementally to the causal mechanism be- driver would have been able to avoid the ac- the country are divided about equally on According to Johnson, the solution to hind their death. And that’s enough in a case cident, then the crime’s causation element is the question of whether the law requires a this problem lies in the idea of “causal over- like this.” satisfied.” “causal nexus” between the defendant’s in- determination.” In cases of causal overde- Drunk-driving homicide cases also in- According to Johnson, this is the kind of toxication – the wrongful aspect of the con- termination, a person’s actions contribute to volve causal overdetermination, Johnson issue that lawyers deal with all the time. duct – and the fatal accident. the causal mechanism underlying the harm says. “It’s probably one of the most frequently “There’s this division in the courts, and without necessarily playing a decisive role. “In drunk-driving homicide cases the litigated questions in drunk-driving homi- they don’t even really appear to know that If causal overdetermination were at causal mechanism behind the accident usu- cides,” Johnson said. they’re divided,” he said. work in the drunk-driving homicide cases, ally is the interaction of a roadway hazard Although it sounds purely academic on It’s a question that gets litigated fre- it would explain why the courts seemed – a pedestrian on a blind curve, for example the surface, “it’s easy to see how it could be quently in state courts, each of which ap- uncomfortable with the idea of requiring a – with inherent limitations on the abilities reduced to a jury instruction in a criminal plies its own distinctive state criminal law “but for” causal connection, Johnson said. of human drivers to perceive and react to case,” he said. on the subject, Johnson said. “Causal overdetermination basically hazards,” he said. “That combination is “You could do that very easily – you’d “The courts have come to different con- occurs when someone contributes to an al- what causes the accident. But the driver’s tell the jury that the only question is whether clusions about whether or not the govern- ready dangerous situation,” he said. “Let’s intoxication contributes to the danger posed the accident occurred under circumstances ment is required to prove that the intoxica- say that someone’s gravely ill and you want by that combination in exactly the same where the driver’s intoxication ‘might’ have tion actually caused the accident,” he said. to kill them. You steal their medication and way that taking away a sick person’s medi- made a difference. The government doesn’t “So there’s this stark division between the a few hours later they die. In this case, we cation contributes to the danger posed by have to prove that his intoxication ‘would’ two positions, and I was interested in ex- can’t say for sure that the person wouldn’t their underlying illness.” have made a difference.” ploring the question, ‘Who’s right?’ It have died anyway. After all, they were If drunk-driving homicide cases are As a former prosecutor who worked in seemed as though one side or the other had gravely ill. But we can say that taking away causal overdetermination cases, then courts the offices of the attorneys general of New to be right.” their medication increased the likelihood that require a “but for” causal connection York and of Alaska before becoming a crim- When Johnson investigated this divide that the underlying illness would kill them.” between the intoxication and the accident inal law scholar, Johnson says he would like among the courts, though, he noticed that The theft of the medication in this case is are requiring too much. By the same token, to see the law go in that direction. the courts on both sides seemed uncomfort- an “overdetermining cause,” Johnson says. though, courts that require no causal con- “The government shouldn’t have to able with the positions they had staked out. So the court wouldn’t require the govern- nection at all are requiring too little. prove that the accident definitely wouldn’t “It seemed as though the courts that had ment to prove that the victim would not have “The answer really lies in the middle,” have occurred; it’s enough that the driver decided not to require a causal nexus, well, died “but for” the theft of the medication. he said. “What’s required is only that the was drunk, which increased the risk, and they were nevertheless uncomfortable im- “The person might have died anyway,” driver’s intoxication contribute to the the accident occurred,” he said. posing liability in cases where the defen- he said. “So the government can’t prove mechanism behind the crash. So if the ac- The paper will appear in the Connecticut dant’s intoxication had nothing to do with that they would not have died ‘but for’ the cident occurred under circumstances where Law Review. u

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MHe was looking to the future. “When you work in archives you absorb Brichford had become the university’s the philosophy that eventually, the sensi- first professional archivist in 1963 after tivity (of documents) will diminish over campus leaders decided creating a central the years,” he said. “That means that even “place” dedicated to collecting and preserv- things which might initially put someone ing the university’s historical record was in a less than optimal light should eventu- long overdue. ally become available for research, even if “Up to that point there were many col- it takes a few decades. The integrity of the lections of records and papers on campus, record and value of history mean that we but they were scattered all over the place, have a responsibility to support this trans- stored in boxes and closets and not acces- parency.” sible for users,” said William Maher, who A trip to the archives can take you to just took over as university archivist in 1995 about any place and any moment in time. after working alongside Brichford for 18 Some collections, like personal papers years. “There wasn’t anything connecting and sensitive records, have been collected them.” internally or given to the university outright Brichford set out to change that, devel- for safekeeping. For example, the notes oping an organizational scheme and a pres- kept in the mid-1800s by Gregor Mendel, ervation approach that focused on account- considered the father of the study of genet- ing for and protecting campus records and ics, can be found there, and the archives is faculty papers before they were lost. acquiring the paper and electronic files of “He made many important and long- the late Carl Woese, a renowned U. of I. ge- lasting contributions,” Maher said. “He neticist who has been called “the modern knew that bridging the past to the present Darwin.” can shape the future.” “Faculty papers can take you well be- This year the archives celebrates 50 yond the borders of our campus,” Maher years of being that bridge. Beginning with said. this issue, Inside Illinois will begin a new Others, such as the archives Advertis- series, “From the Archives,” which will ing Council historical collection, known for feature an image and accompanying text such public advertising icons as Smokey that the archivists have selected from the Bear and the “Crash Dummies,” are spon- archives’ vast holdings. sored by an outside organization and man- “For us, it was like selecting which of aged by University Archives’ staff mem- our thousands of children we would feed bers. and clothe and which we would just leave “They get here by various routes,” Ma- in their boxes,” Maher said. her said of the items in their collections. At 50, the University Archives has ex- Regardless of the origins, the archives panded well past its offices and collections is a veritable treasure trove for researchers photo by L. Brian Stauffer in the main Library and includes the Stu- looking to connect the dots for some lost or A golden anniversary William Maher, the university archivist since 1995, dent Life and Culture Archives, the Sousa yet-undiscovered story. shows off image enlargements from the collection of John L. Strohm, a 1935 Archives and Center for American Music, “Our treasures aren’t the kind you put Illinois graduate who traveled to the People’s Republic of China in 1958 to study and a host of outside valuable research col- on a shelf and admire,” he said. “They’re agriculture and industry at the outset of the “Great Leap Forward.” The archives, lections managed on contract by archives here for people to use. We have things you which began under the leadership of Maynard Brichford in 1963, has more than staff members. Many records are stored in wouldn’t expect to find here – but you find 1,500 collections of personal papers such as Strohm’s – a number that grows each an off-site location on the south campus. it. Seeing what researchers do with this in- year. “There are too many unfortunate stereo- formation is just amazing. We’re about the types that come up when you talk about ar- university, but about so much more.” oldest of the items from crumbling away. have given way to electronic ones, and Ma- chives,” Maher said, “such as they’re dark Maher said he would like to see the Uni- “We need to continue to grow and we her said archives staff members have fought and dank and dusty and shut off from the versity Archives’ anniversary as a spring- need to be constantly adding new material mightily to keep ahead of the technological rest of the world. But we don’t want any board to begin the conversation about ex- in all formats,” he said. “If not, the archives curve. of that – we’re about shining a light on panding its facilities. become sort of a shrine to just one version In addition, the archives is constructing things.” While neither dark nor dank, the main of the past.” an initiative to capture electronic records of He said the archives’ twofold mission, archives quarters in the University Library He said part of growing is not just add- university administrators and is working to first championed by Brichford, is to pre- are cramped, and the off-site storage site at ing collections, “which have a habit of just digitize other materials in an effort to make serve information for its role in administra- the Horticulture Field Laboratory is in need showing up from time to time,” but expand- them more accessible to the public. tive support and accountability, and for its of an updated ventilation system to keep the ing the “user community” as well. “These are things that used to be put in The Sousa Archives, for example, has file cabinets, then boxes and then sent to the offered programs in its space and at area basement to wait for the archivist,” he said. schools for students from elementary “That’s why we are working to manage through high school, and it has broadened electronic records as they are created and its focus to include the history of Ameri- used, so that the university will not enter a can music. Maher said it draws researchers digital dark age.” from all over the world. He noted that the Library has just re- “We can’t compete with the Rock and ceived word of approval from the National The University Archives is a repository for U. of I. records and for items Roll Hall of Fame,” Maher said, “but we Endowment for the Humanities grant in created by several outside organizations. The Advertising Council archives can focus on engaging the local community support of a new, state-of-the-art environ- contain correspondence, publications and advertising copy related to the and the international community that the mental system for the south campus Ar- many public service campaigns overseen by the council. This is a 1949 university brings to our door.” chives Research Center. Other archives staff members are work- There also are plans in the next year to bus/subway ad promoting forest fire prevention featuring the well-known ing to bring items of relevance from certain move some of the archives functions to a Smokey Bear character just five years after his creation. collections into the classroom to add depth more-visible and accessible first-floor loca- and a campus connection. tion in the main Library. “The Student Life and Culture Archives However the future unfolds, a university has brought hundreds of students to the archivist is sure to be there documenting it. archives who wouldn’t necessarily have “Our plan for the future is to be here come here,” he said. so the heritage and the records of the peo- Intent alone will not keep the archives ple of the present will be there in the fu- up with the times. ture for others to examine them,” he said.

image courtesy University Archives courtesy University image The archives already is the sole reposi- “We spend a lot of time thinking about the tory of university records, but paper records future.” X

!9  RATES  DATES ONLINE Advertising rates and a full schedule with deadlines is available online. go.illinois.edu/iiads Sept. 5, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 11 book corner What is key to black children’s psychosocial development? By Sharita Forrest News Editor ON THE WEB he formal and informal learning op- infoagepub.com portunities provided by multigen- erational black communities in the Murray Nettles and Stanton’s principal, South – and how similar grassroots who has since retired, also collaborated on Tefforts can turn around racial disparities in a research report that was published in a academic achievement in the U.S. today – guidebook for educators on promoting re- are the focus of a new book by educational silience. researcher Saundra Murray Nettles. Murray Nettles said that her belief in the In the book, titled “Necessary Spaces: value of community partners helping chil- Exploring the Richness of African Ameri- dren adjust to school was sparked early in can Childhood in the South,” Murray Net- her career, when she worked with political tles identifies seven experiences believed to scientist and author Charles Murray at the be critical to black children’s psychosocial American Institutes for Research evaluat- development – connection, exploration, ing the educational access and equity pro- design, empowerment, resistance, renewal gram PUSH for Excellence as well as the and practice. public-school reform initiative Communi- These experiences, which the author col- ties in Schools, formerly known as “Cities lectively calls “necessary spaces,” recur in and Schools.” the published autobiographical accounts of “ ‘Necessary Spaces’ is a culmination prominent African-American scholars, ac- of some of the things that I learned along tivists and artists in the context of discuss- photo by L. Brian Stauffer the way about children’s development, es- ing learning opportunities that profoundly Psycho-social development Educational psychology professor Saundra Murray pecially among black children and poor affected them during childhood and that oc- Nettles is the author of a new book, “Necessary Spaces: Exploring the Richness of children, in schools and neighborhoods,” curred in their homes, schools, churches, in African American Childhood in the South” (Information Age Publishing Inc., 2013). Murray Nettles said. “There’s a wealth of nature and other community settings. information out there on child and youth Murray Nettles also examines each of paternal great-great-grandfather Alex Weems toxins on children’s academic performance. development, but I think there’s a dearth of these necessary spaces in the context of her was a freed slave turned farmer who learned Resilience has been a particular focus narrative accounts that parents can use on own childhood spent in Atlanta’s Washing- to read and write but never attended high of Murray Nettles’ research. And interwo- a daily basis. That’s what my book repre- ton Park neighborhood and later in rural school. His grandson and great-grandson, ven with the personal stories and insights sents: I wanted to write in a personal way Clayton County, Ga., during the 1950s and Murray Nettles’ grandfather and father re- in the book are social science theory and that speaks to parents and other community 1960s. spectively, each attended Morehouse College. research, including examinations of sev- members, and at the same time provides so- These tightly knit intergenerational and Murray Nettles’ father and mother were eral successful community-based initia- cial science data.” occupationally diverse neighborhoods pro- schoolteachers; each earned master’s de- tives that promote academic achievement Relevant to educators, policymakers, vided the necessary spaces that promoted grees in education. and resilience among at-risk children and parents and community members who work achievement, including everyday interac- Murray Nettles earned a bachelor’s de- youth. with youth, “Necessary Spaces” (published tions with adults who formally or informal- gree in philosophy and a master’s degree Among these is Stanton Elementary by Information Age Publishing in Char- ly acted as “coaches” for children, encour- and a doctorate, both in psychology, from School in Washington, D.C., a high-pov- lotte, N.C.) provides practical examples aging and modeling academic and practical Howard University. She also earned a mas- erty district that was plagued with dete- that they can use to improve children’s lives learning. ter’s degree in library and information sci- riorating facilities and marginal academic and revitalize neighborhoods. “Neighborhood networks of lifelong ence from the U. of I. performance when Murray Nettles began a Besides being the author of numerous learning matter for child development,” Murray Nettles is a clinical professor in longitudinal research project there in 1996. scholarly publications, Murray Nettles is a Murray Nettles said. “Sometimes educa- the department of educational psychology, Four years later, the turnaround in black published poet and the author of the book tional reform is remembrance and recovery a unit within the College of Education at Il- male students’ academic achievement at “Crazy Visitation: A Chronicle of Illness of historical legacies.” linois. Stanton – brought about by the collabora- and Recovery” (University of Georgia In a chapter that explores educational In her research, Murray Nettles has ex- tive efforts of Stanton’s principal, faculty Press, 2001), a memoir about her battle initiatives by and for blacks in the late 19th amined issues of gender, race and ethnicity, members, parents and community partners with a massive brain tumor that went undi- century, Murray Nettles reflects on her fam- and the influence of community and envi- – was the focus of an ABC “Nightline” agnosed for many years. u ily’s legacy of education and attainment. Her ronmental factors such as environmental documentary. Report: African American studies in the U.S. ‘alive and well’ By Craig Chamberlain Social Sciences Editor ON THE WEB he field of African Ameri- www.afro.illinois.edu/documents/BlackStudiesSurvey.pdf can studies in U.S. higher education “is alive and “and what the field needs is this lection on a shoestring,” accord- well, and, in fact, grow- kind of broad survey with data ing to the report, by drawing on Ting and maturing,” despite some that can be generalized. We need websites to gather the colleges’ reports to the contrary, says a new to understand the forest, and not and universities’ own self-report- study published online last week just a few trees, no matter how tall ed data. by the department of African and prestigious they might be.” Among other findings, the re- American studies at the U. of I. Abdul Alkalimat, a professor in searchers found that more than a Through a national Web-based the department of African Ameri- third, or 35 percent, of all formal survey of 1,777 U.S. colleges and can studies and in the Graduate African American studies units are universities, U. of I. researchers School of Library and Informa- classified as departments, which found that 76 percent of those in- tion Studies at the U. of I., was are considered more permanent in stitutions had some form of black the lead author of the report, titled the institution and its budget. Of studies. “African American Studies 2013: the rest, 57 percent are classified Twenty percent, or 361 institu- A National Web-Based Survey.” as programs and eight percent as tions, had formal academic units, The report, Alkalimat said, some other kind of unit. most classified as departments or “grows out of a long-term interest Looking at regions of the coun- programs, according to the study. in producing scholarship focused try, the researchers found that in- But another 56 percent, or 999 in- on understanding how black stud- stitutions in the South were the stitutions, had a course or courses ies is actually being practiced most likely to have black studies dedicated to the black experience. across the U.S.” It should be of in- in some form, at 87 percent, even

This positive assessment con- terest to a broad array of scholars though only 16 percent had units. photo provided by authors flicts with many studies in recent and administrators in higher edu- On the other hand, institutions in Program review More than three-quarters of U.S. colleges and years – and news reports based cation, he said. the West were the least likely to universities surveyed offer black studies in some form, says a new on those studies – which have Co-authors of the report were have black studies in some form, report from the African American studies department at the U. of I. suggested that black studies pro- Bailey; Sam Byndom, Desiree at 56 percent, even though 23 per- grams are disappearing, accord- McMillion and LaTasha Nesbitt, cent had units. in their unit names such as “Af- at 65 percent, which the research- ing to Ronald Bailey, the head of all doctoral students in the de- The same figures for the Mid- ricana,” “African and African ers suggested might be due to re- the department of African Ameri- partment of education policy, or- west were 79 percent and 22 per- American,” or “Pan-African” cent immigration into those states. can studies at Illinois. But many ganization and leadership; Kate cent, and for the Northeast 74 per- that reflect the larger African di- “National” names – including Af- of those studies were based on a Williams, a professor in GSLIS; cent and 23 percent. aspora or the different waves of rican American, Afro-American or small, selective sampling, he said. and Brian Zelip, a master’s degree The researchers found that Africa-descended peoples who Black – are used by 32 percent of Those studies “are more like student in GSLIS. nearly half of all black studies have come to the U.S. The highest all programs. biopsies,” according to the report, The researchers did “data col- units, or 49 percent, use terms percentage was in the Northeast, SEE SURVEY, PAGE 17 PAGE 12 InsideIllinois Sept. 5, 2013 Study offers insight into the origin of the genetic code By Diana Yates are the gears, springs and motors that work Life Sciences Editor together to keep the protein machinery run- n analysis of enzymes that load ning. amino acids onto transfer RNAs Caetano-Anollés and his colleagues – an operation at the heart of have spent years elucidating the evolution protein translation – offers new of protein and RNA domains, determining insightsA into the evolutionary origins of the their relative ages by analyzing their uti- modern genetic code, researchers report. lization in organisms from every branch Their findings appear in the journal of the tree of life. The researchers make a PLOS ONE. simple assumption: Domains that appear in The researchers focused on aminoacyl only a few organisms or groups of organ- tRNA synthetases, enzymes that “read” the isms are likely younger than domains that genetic information embedded in transfer are more widely employed. The most uni- RNA molecules and attach the appropriate versally utilized domains – those that ap- amino acids to those tRNAs. Once a tRNA pear in organisms from every branch of the is charged with its amino acid, it carries it tree of life – are likely the most ancient. to the ribosome, a cellular “workbench” on The researchers used their census of pro- which proteins are assembled, one amino tein domains to establish the relative ages acid at a time. of the domains that make up the synthetas- Synthetases charge the amino acids with es. They found that those domains that load high-energy chemical bonds that speed the amino acids onto the tRNAs (and edit them later formation of new peptide (protein) when mistakes are made) are more ancient

bonds. Synthetases also have powerful edit- than the domains that recognize the region photo by L. Brian Stauffer ing capabilities; if the wrong amino acid is on the tRNA, called an anticodon, that tells Evolutionary insights From left, graduate student Derek Caetano-Anollés, crop added to a tRNA, the enzyme quickly dis- the synthetase which amino acid that tRNA sciences and Institute for Genomic Biology professor Gustavo Caetano-Anollés and solves the bond. should carry. senior bioinformatician Minglei Wang report that the emergence of the genetic code “Synthetases are key interpreters and “Remarkably, we also found that the corresponds to the advent of protein flexibility. arbitrators of how nucleic-acid informa- most ancient domains of the synthetases tion translates into amino-acid informa- were structurally analogous to modern en- these reactions for evidence of the evolu- dipeptides were present in rigid regions of tion,” said Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, a U. zymes that are involved in non-ribosomal tionary origins of protein synthesis. the proteins.” of I. professor of crop sciences and of bio- protein synthesis, and to other enzymes that Alerted to the potential importance of di- The domains that appeared after the informatics. Caetano-Anollés, who led the are capable of making dipeptides,” Caeta- peptide formation in early protein synthesis, emergence of the genetic code (which research, also is a professor in the Institute no-Anollés said. the researchers next looked for patterns of Caetano-Anollés ties to the emergence of for Genomic Biology. “Their editing capa- The researchers hypothesize that ancient frequently used dipeptides in the sequences the tRNA anticodon) “were enriched in di- bilities are about 100-fold more rigorous protein synthesis involved enzymes that of modern proteins. They focused only on peptides that were present in highly flexible than the proofreading and recognition that looked a lot like today’s synthetases, per- proteins for which scientists have collected regions,” he said. occurs in the ribosome. Consequently, syn- haps working in conjunction with ancient the most complete and accurate structural Thus, genetics is associated with protein thetases are responsible for establishing the tRNAs. information. flexibility, he said. rules of the genetic code.” Researchers have known for decades “The analysis revealed an astonishing “Our study offers an explanation for why The researchers used an approach devel- that rudimentary protein synthesis can oc- fact,” Caetano-Anollés said. “The most an- there is a genetic code,” Caetano-Anollés oped in the Caetano-Anollés lab to deter- cur without the involvement of the ribo- cient protein domains were enriched in di- said. Genetics allowed proteins “to become mine the relative ages of different protein some, Caetano-Anollés said. But few if any peptides with amino acids encoded by the flexible, thereby gaining a world of new regions, called domains. Protein domains have looked to the enzymes that catalyze most ancient synthetases. And these ancient molecular functions.” u

BLIND MOLE-RAT, FROM PAGE 1 fibroblasts, cells that generate ex- programmed cell death are differ- DNA repair mechanisms,” he said. tracellular factors that support and entially regulated in Spalax when Hypoxia can damage DNA and buffer other cells. Previous stud- exposed to normal, above-ground contribute to aging and cancer, so ies of naked mole-rat cells have oxygen levels (21 percent oxy- mechanisms that protect against found that fibroblasts and their se- gen) and conditions of hypoxia (3, hypoxia – by repairing DNA, for cretions have anti-cancer activity. 6 and 10 percent oxygen). These example – likely also help explain Similarly, the researchers at Haifa changes in gene regulation dif- the blind mole-rat’s resistance to found that Spalax fibroblasts were fered from those of mice or rats cancer and aging, Band said. efficient killers of two types of under the same conditions, the re- “So now we know there’s over- breast cancer cells and two types searchers found. lap among the genes that affect of lung cancer cells. Diluted and Spalax naturally have a variant DNA repair, hypoxia tolerance and filtered liquid medium drawn in the p53 gene (a transcription cancer suppression,” he said. “We from the fibroblast cell culture factor and known tumor suppres- haven’t been able to show the exact also killed breast and lung cancer sor), which is identical to a cancer- mechanisms yet, but we’re able to cells. Mouse fibroblasts, however, related mutation in humans, Band show that in Spalax they’re all re- had no effect on the cancer cells. said. Transcription-factor genes lated. One of the lessons of this re- To help explain these results, code for proteins that regulate the search is that we have a new model Band and his colleagues looked activity of other genes and so af- animal to study mechanisms of photo by L. Brian Stauffer to the gene expression profiles fect an animal’s ability to respond disease, and possibly discover new Cancer resistance Mark Band, the director of functional obtained from their previous stud- to its environment. The research therapeutic agents.” genomics at the U. of I. Biotechnology Center, and his colleagues ies of blind mole-rats in hypoxic group in Israel showed “that the The United States-Israel Bina- have studied the blind mole-rat’s extraordinary cancer-resistance. environments. The researchers Spalax p53 suppresses apoptosis tional Science Foundation and the had found that genes that regulate (programmed cell death), how- Israel Cancer Association support- DNA repair, the cell cycle and ever enhances cell cycle arrest and ed this research. u

Ads removed for online version Sept. 5, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 13 A Minute With … TM Archives Law professor Sara R. Benson Recent interviews with U. of I. experts on Illinois’ same-sex marriage ban n Sundiata Cha-Jua, African American history expert, on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther Editor’s note: Cook County Circuit Judge Sophia King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Hall is expected to rule on a challenge to the state of Law courtesy College photo Aug. 21, 2013 of Illinois’ 17-year-old same-sex marriage ban when court resumes later this month. U. of I. law professor n Nancy Benson, expert on Sara R. Benson, an expert on sexual orientation and international journalism, on the the law, spoke with News Bureau business and law arrival of Al Jazeera in America. editor Phil Ciciora about the ongoing fight to legalize Aug. 17, 2013 same-sex marriage in Illinois. n Deepak Somaya, expert on high-tech intellectual property strategies, on the patent battle How similar is the fight to allow other spousal benefits. Before the DOMA really set the tone for future public of- between technology titans. same-sex couples in Illinois to marry decision, same-sex partners weren’t al- ficials such as the clerk in Illinois. That’s Aug. 16, 2013 to California’s headline-grabbing lowed to file joint tax returns because been the playbook that other public offi- Proposition 8 battle of a few years ago? federal law prohibited it. But now, with cials have followed ever since. A Minute With ...™ is provided by the In some ways it is very similar – espe- DOMA overturned but only civil unions It also helps that Obama was re-elected, U. of I. News Bureau. For archived cially with regard to the legal issues in- legal in Illinois, there are greater things which created political cover. interviews, visit go.illinois.edu/amw. volved. The main similarity is that people at stake, especially after the government How long until this case is resolved? are being treated unequally on the basis of issued a statement announcing that civil Right now the case is only at the trial of Illinois sit on the spectrum of gay sex or sexual orientation. We heard similar unions will not be treated similarly to mar- court level, and it’s in the early stages. rights? arguments in the Prop. 8 litigation, and this riage under the U.S. v. Windsor decision. By no means will it be an overnight case. The state of Illinois is the next fight- is also the basis for just about every same- In other words, only individuals who This will likely be drawn out for some ing ground for gay rights. This lawsuit is sex marriage legal battle. Whether the qualify as married to their same-sex part- time through the appellate process. But happening at this time because Illinois has litigation takes place in California or Iowa ner can benefit from the Windsor decision. that doesn’t mean this process goes on in made some progress. That is, we have civil or Illinois, the point of contention is that Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan a vacuum. My feeling is that there will be unions, and the state Legislature has been people are being treated unequally under and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita more movement in the Legislature as well. proposing same-sex marriage and gotten it the law. Alvarez both declined to defend the law It could be that the Legislature beats the passed through one legislative body. On the other hand, the Illinois lawsuit that bans same-sex marriage. What can courts to legalizing same sex marriage in But are we on the cutting edge? No. is a challenge to a state law providing that we infer from that? Illinois because of the machinations of the DOMA has already been struck down; marriage is only permissible between a This is another parallel to the Prop. 8 appeals process. the Prop. 8 litigation has been settled; and man and a woman. This is different from case. In both instances, the individuals Also, if the suit is dismissed, that could states like Iowa and Massachusetts have the California litigation because Prop. 8 charged with defending the law declined to be the end of the lawsuit, barring an ap- already legalized same-sex marriage. was not a state law – it was a resolution do so. In Illinois, one of the clerks named peal – but that doesn’t mean it’s the end So Illinois is certainly not at the van- passed by a vote of the people. In Califor- in the lawsuit has publicly stated that he for same-sex marriage in Illinois. The Leg- guard. But is it important? Yes. The Su- nia, the voting public essentially tried to does not support the law and will not de- islature could still go forward with another preme Court made it very clear in Windsor amend their constitution to forbid same sex fend against the lawsuit. bill to legalize it. that they consider gay marriage to be a marriage, which is different than challeng- Public officials are thinking about their Whatever happens, it will be an ongo- state law issue. Part of the decision in ing a long-standing state law. roles at a higher level. This public stance ing process, one where there’s not likely to Windsor is an idealized federalism, saying, In light of last June’s Supreme Court de- also is similar to (President) Obama’s be a quick resolution. in effect, that this is an issue for the states cision in U.S. v. Windsor, which overturned stance on DOMA – saying, in effect, the The bill that would have made Illinois to figure out, and we’re not going to unilat- the Defense of Marriage Act, people’s lives federal government will follow DOMA, the 13th state to allow same-sex erally say we need same-sex marriage for and livelihoods are at stake in the current but will refuse to defend it in court because couples to marry fell a few votes everyone. That means you’re going to see litigation because the outcome could affect it is unconstitutional. By being so bold as short in the Illinois House earlier the fights rev up at the state level, and Il- their taxes, Social Security benefits and to publicly endorse that position, Obama this summer. Where does the state linois is a prime example. u

Ads removed for online version PAGE 14 InsideIllinois Sept. 5, 2013 Dance performances, new art exhibitions featured at KAM By Dusty Rhodes “Return to Sender: Ray John- Arts and Humanities Editor ON THE WEB son, Robert Warner and the New ance performances both kam.illinois.edu York Correspondence School” live and in video installa- uses the ephemera from a “mail

tions are being featured York City. art” event that Johnson – a collag- Natalie Fiol by photo this month at Krannert On Sept. 19, Illinois dance pro- ist who founded the “New York DArt Museum – not to be confused fessor Jennifer Monson will pres- School of Correspondence” in the with Krannert Center for the Per- ent an hourlong solo performance late 1950s – staged in Illinois in forming Arts. The dance exhibi- as a component of “Live Danc- 1974. Johnson, a contemporary of tions represent the second install- ing Archive.” The piece includes Andy Warhol, came up with the ment in the art museum’s Open- a video installation using footage concept of mail art when he began studio series, which presents live from Monson’s 2002 trip track- sending letters or objects to artists, musical or dance performances in ing the migration of osprey from writers and celebrities around the conjunction with artist residencies, Maine to Venezuela, during which world with a request to modify the intended to forge interdisciplinary she and three colleagues danced item and mail it to a second artist, learning and cultural exchange. on beaches and in parks along the who would modify it and return the Four new art exhibitions also way. A digital archive of photos, item to Johnson. In 1988, he gave Openstudio 2 Cynthia Oliver and David Thomson will perform are on display at KAM. scores and journal entries from Warner – a New York artist, opti- at Krannert Art Museum at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11-12 in the premiere of U. of I. dance professor and that journey is another component cian and printer – 13 boxes of mail Tere O’Connor’s “Sister,” the latest work in his “Bleed” project. This choreographer Tere O’Connor of the piece. art and other items. For this exhi- dance exhibition and others are part of the museum’s Openstudio premieres “Sister,” the latest The dance performances will bition, Warner will reinstall Box series. work in his “Bleed” project, on occupy KAM’s east gallery, which 13, along with 25 collages Johnson Sept. 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. Ear- is the largest gallery on the main made for gallery exhibitions. ert Indiana, James Rosenquist, Ed The world’s largest hydroelectric lier this year, O’Connor received floor. But even when it’s not be- On Oct. 10, KAM will screen Ruscha and Karl Wirsum. plant, this dam was conceived as a a Doris Duke Artist Award worth ing used for a rehearsal or per- a pair of films related to this ex- “Hello World! or: How I means of achieving green energy $275,000. He has previously been formance, the space will still be hibition: “Ray Johnson Corre- Learned to Stop Listening and production, but it has displaced named a Guggenheim Fellow, and filled with dance, thanks to pro- spondence School,” a campy, un- Love the Noise” is an installation more than a million people, sub- has received multiple grants from fessor Renée Wadleigh’s “Dance released short by John Orlandello comprising 5,000 unique video merged industrial sites, and wiped the National Endowment for the on Video” installation. A former documenting a performance and diaries gathered and arranged in out acres of forests and agricul- Arts. With his New York-based dancer and teacher with the Paul exhibition that Johnson made as an a grid with a multi-channel, im- tural land. Ji’s images capture the company, Tere O’Connor Dance, Taylor Company, Wadleigh has artist-in-residence at Western Illi- mersive soundscape by the artist struggle and despair of people he has won three New York Dance been collecting videos of dance nois University in the early 1970s; Christopher Baker, a scientist- forced into poverty and degrada- and Performance (Bessie) Awards. performances for more than three and “How to Draw a Bunny,” a turned-artist whose work has been tion as a result of the project, and Commissioned by KAM, decades. The pieces in the instal- 90-minute documentary by John presented in exhibitions across raise questions about industrial O’Connor’s “Sister” will feature lation illustrate correspondences Walter and Andrew Moore that ex- North America, Europe and the development in the affected com- two members of his company, between developments in con- plores Johnson’s life and mysteri- United Kingdom. He is a profes- munities. “Manufactured Land- Cynthia Oliver and David Thom- temporary art and dance that took ous death. sor in art and technology studies scapes,” a 90-minute film follow- son, who have each won numerous shape in the 1960s and intensified A companion exhibition, “Cor- at the School of the Art Institute of ing photographer and artist Ed- honors in the areas of dance, cho- through the 1990s. Wadleigh will respondents of Ray Johnson,” Chicago. ward Burtynsky across the globe reography, higher education and give a gallery talk, “The Intersec- shows works from KAM’s perma- Artist Yun-Fei Ji uses tradi- as he documents industrialization arts advocacy. Oliver is a dance tion of Dance and the Visual Arts,” nent collection by artists who par- tional Chinese materials such as and its effects, will be shown con- professor and University Scholar at 5 p.m. on Sept. 9 and her in- ticipated in Johnson’s mail-art net- ink and watercolor on handmade tinuously throughout this exhibi- at the U. of I. Thomson is an artist- stallation will be on view through work. This exhibition highlights mulberry or xuan paper to address tion. in-residence at Gibney Dance and Sept. 22. artists who shared similarities to the destruction wrought by Chi- The three visual art exhibitions Baryshnikov Arts Center in New Also currently at KAM: Johnson’s aesthetic, such as Rob- na’s Three Gorges Dam project. continue through Jan. 5, 2014. u

Ads removed for online version Sept. 5, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 15 Fall speakers announced for 2013 MillerComm series By Dusty Rhodes dean of the School of Engineering at the Arts and Humanities Editor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He he fall 2013 Center for Advanced has co-written more than 250 journal arti- Study/MillerComm lectures begin cles, registered 21 patents and written three Sept. 18 with Gunther Schuller – books. His talk will provide specific exam- musician, composer, conductor, ed- ples of cross-disciplinary developments in photo by MaryE by Yeomans photo Tucator, historian and publisher. He has won understanding human diseases. courtesy Jim Gladden photo a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Susan Goldin-Meadow has found that “genius” award and three Grammy Awards. deaf children invent their own language- Schuller, a George A. Miller Visiting Artist, like system using manual gestures, and has composed more than 180 works cov- that gestures used by people with normal ering genres from symphonic to operatic hearing can convey secrets of the mind. to jazz, founded publishing and recording Goldin-Meadow is the Bearsdley Ruml companies, and served as the president of Distinguished Service Professor in the psy- American music Musician and the New England Conservatory for a de- chology department at the University of author Stephen Wade (above right), a cade. Instead of giving a lecture, Schuller Chicago. Her Oct. 7 lecture, “Talking With George A. Miller Visiting Scholar, will will be interviewed at 7:30 p.m. by U. of Our Hands: Gesture’s Role in Creating and use live music and images to explain I. French horn professor Bernhard Scully, Learning Language,” begins at 8 p.m. how American music reinvents itself

who is performing Schuller’s Quintet for Deborah Bräutigam, a China scholar, when people reshape the songs of a Morris courtesy Vera photo Horn and Strings the next night (Sept. 19) went to Africa to research Chinese engage- shared repertoire. His talk is at 4 p.m. at the Allerton Music Barn Festival in Mon- ment, and has been specializing in the topic Oct. 30. Also pictured: above, the Smith/ ticello, Ill. ever since. She is the author of three books, Gladden family in Henrytown, Va., Martha Crenshaw, a senior fellow at including “The Dragon’s Gift: The Real 1926; at right Jess Morris fiddling with Stanford University’s Center for Interna- Story of China in Africa,” and will discuss other musicians in Dalhart, Texas, tional Security and Cooperation and the the impact of Chinese aid and investment late 1940s. The photos are from Wade’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International in Africa, and assess whether China’s pres- book, “The Beautiful Music All Around Studies, is one of the few scholars who ence in Africa is a threat to U.S. interests. Us: Field Recordings and the American was investigating terrorism long before Her lecture, “China in Africa: Stripping Experience” (U. of I. Press). the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Her latest Away the Myths,” begins at 4 p.m. Oct. 24. book, “Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Pro- Bräutigam is a professor of international cordings and the American Experience,” Kevin Featherstone, a professor of con- cesses and Consequences,” documents the development and comparative politics at published by the U. of I. Press, in which temporary Greek studies and European pol- development of her research on this topic Johns Hopkins University, where she is the he tracked down and interviewed the de- itics at the European Institute, will discuss through essays she wrote during the past director of the International Development scendants of a dozen folk musicians whose the endemic problems in Greek government three decades. Her lecture, at 4 p.m. on Program. unique talents were captured between 1934 and the challenges they present not only for Sept. 26, will focus on her current research Musician and author Stephen Wade, and 1942 on field recordings made by Alan Greece but also for the European Union. into the varied responses of governments to a George A. Miller Visiting Scholar, will Lomax for the Library of Congress. The His talk, “A System Fit for Purpose? The terrorist attacks and an evaluation of their use live music and images to explain how Wall Street Journal described the resulting Challenge of Governance in Greece,” be- effectiveness. American music reinvents itself when peo- book as “a masterpiece of humane schol- gins at 4 p.m. on Nov. 14. On Oct. 1 at 4 p.m., Subra Suresh will ple reshape the songs of a shared repertoire. arship – but one that reads like a detective All MillerComm lectures are free and address “Crossing Boundaries and Trans- His talk, titled “Getting Their Hands on the story.” Wade also is the creator of numerous open to the public. Goldin-Meadow will forming Lives: Engineering, Cell Biology Tune: From the Front Porch to the Library theatrical productions, including “Banjo speak in the Ballroom at the Alice Camp- and Medicine.” Suresh is the president of of Congress and Back Again,” highlights Dancing,” which ran for 13 months in Chi- bell Alumni Center. All other MillerComm Carnegie Mellon University. In 2010, he the intersection of the personal and the his- cago and six years at Arena Stage in Wash- lectures take place in Knight Auditorium at was appointed director of the National Sci- torical in music. He is the author of “The ington, D.C., in the 1980s. His Oct. 30 talk the Spurlock Museum. u ence Foundation; previously, he was the Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Re- begins at 4 p.m.

Ads removed for online version PAGE 16 InsideIllinois Sept. 5, 2013 Sinfonia kicks off 30th season with gala, performances By Dusty Rhodes Arts and Humanities Editor SINFONIA DA CAMERA infonia da Camera, the profes- sional chamber orchestra led by 30th Season Gala Ian Hobson, a professor emeritus Sept. 15 of music at the U. of I., celebrates “Opening Night Romance” itsS 30th anniversary season with a gala at 6 Nov. 2 p.m. Sept. 15 in the lobby of Krannert Cen- Verdi’s “Requiem” ter for the Performing Arts. Cocktails, a for- Nov. 21 mal dinner and dessert will be served while Hobson, guest soloists and Sinfonia musi- “The Nutcracker” cians perform classical chamber music fa- Dec. 5-8 vorites and jazz standards. The evening will “From Russia With Love” end with a live auction and dancing. Tickets Dec. 5-8 are $150 per person (half of that amount “The Mikado” is a tax-deductible gift) and are available through the Sinfonia da Camera office. March 14 The first concert of the season, on Nov. 2, “Three’s A Charm” “Opening Night Romance,” will feature May 3 Brahms’ Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16, v v v which he dedicated to Clara Schumann, fol- photo courtesy Sinfonia da Camera sinfonia.illinois.edu lowed by Poulenc’s melancholy “Aubade,” Celebratory season Sinfonia da Camera, the professional chamber orchestra depicting two lovers separating at dawn. led by Ian Hobson, a professor emeritus of music at the U. of I., celebrates its 30th krannertcenter.com The evening will end with Strauss’ “Le anniversary season with a gala in the lobby of Krannert Center for the Performing Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” a lighthearted Arts on Sept. 15, five regular season performances and its annual presentation of “The career as a main stage soprano at the Metro- orchestral suite that captures the humor of Nutcracker” with the Champaign Urbana Ballet. politan Opera, including the roles of Zerlina Molière’s famous play. in “Don Giovanni,” Giannetta in “L’Elisir On Nov. 21, Illinois voice professors Staatstheater in Germany. Sinfonia audi- Orchestra, Cárdenes has appeared as a solo- d’Amore” opposite Luciano Pavarotti, and Barrington Coleman (tenor) and Ricardo ences will remember him as Tiresias and Le ist on four continents with more than 100 in “Parsifal” with Placido Domingo. Herrera (bass-baritone) and the U. of I. Veilleur in the 2005 production of Enesco’s orchestras, including the Dallas Symphony, Sinfonia will end its 30th season on men’s and women’s glee clubs will join “Oedipe” and as Figaro in Sinfonia’s pro- Helsinki Philharmonic, Los Angeles Phil- May 3 with “Three’s a Charm,” a trio of Sinfonia to present Verdi’s Messa da Re- duction of “Nozze di Figaro.” harmonic, Moscow Philharmonic and the Beethoven number 3s – the “Leonore” quiem, a Mass so dramatic that the German During the holiday season, Sinfonia da Shanghai Symphony. He has made more Overture No. 3, Op. 72a; the Piano Con- conductor Hans von Bülow famously de- Camera will collaborate with the Cham- than two dozen recordings on Arabesque, certo No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, featuring scribed it as “Oper in Kirchengewande,” or paign Urbana Ballet to present six perfor- RCA, Sony, Telarc and other labels, and has Hobson at the keyboard; and the “Eroica” “opera in ecclesiastical dress.” Coleman has mances of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcrack- been nominated for a Grammy Award. Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55. performed and recorded as a tenor soloist er,” Dec. 5-8. On March 14, soloists, including voice All Sinfonia concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and On Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, Sinfonia professors Herrera, Dawn Harris, Yvonne in the Foellinger Great Hall at Krannert Chorus, the London Philharmonic and Lon- offers “From Russia With Love,” with Pro- Redman and others, will join Sinfonia to Center for the Performing Arts. “The Nut- don Symphony orchestras, and on the EMI kofiev’s “Classical” Symphony No. 1 in D present one of the most popular operettas of cracker” is in the center’s Tryon Festival recording and film of “Porgy and Bess.” major, Op. 25; Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite” all time, Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mika- Theatre, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Herrera made his debut at Carnegie Hall (the 1919 version); and Tchaikovsky’s Vio- do.” Harris’ diverse performing background Dec. 5-6 and performances at 2 and 7:30 in 2000 as the bass soloist in Beethoven’s lin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, featur- includes more than 50 “Mikado” perfor- p.m. on Dec. 7 and at 2 and 6 p.m. on Dec. 8. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, and his Euro- ing violinist Andrés Cárdenes. The former mances as Yum-Yum. Before becoming a Tickets are available through the Krannert pean operatic debut at the Oldenburgisches concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony voice professor, Redman enjoyed a 15-year Center ticket office. u

Ads removed for online version Sept. 5, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 17 Novelists, poets to take part in Carr Reading Series By Dusty Rhodes received numer- Arts and Humanities Editor ous fellowships ward-winning novelist Micheline and awards, in- Aharonian Marcom will read from cluding the PEN/ her latest book, “A Brief History USA Award for of Yes,” to open the fall 2013 Carr Fiction and a ReadingA Series at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 18 in the Fulbright Fel- Illini Union Bookstore. Marcom is the au- lowship. thor of five novels. Her first, “Three Apples On Nov. 4, Fell From poets Ladan Os- ON THE WEB Heaven,” man and Roger creativewriting.english. was a Reeves will illinois.edu/carr New York read from their Times No- works. Osman table Book and a Los Angeles Times and has received Micheline Aharonian Ladan Osman (Nov. 4) Roger Reeves (Nov. 4) Sara Levine (Nov. 13) Washington Post Book of the Year in 2001. several fellow- Marcom (Sept. 18) It served as the first installment of her tril- ships, including ogy on the 1915-17 Armenian genocide one from the Michener Center for Writers, Sara Levine will read on Nov. 13. She is not a little frightening,” and The New York and its aftermath. The Times Book Review and her chapbook, “Ordinary Heaven,” will the author of a short-story collection, “Short Times described it as “a rollicking tale, credited the “fierce beauty of her prose” appear in “African Poetry: A New Genera- Dark Oracles,” and “Treasure Island!!!” – a shameless, funny and intelligent.” She is for confronting readers with “breathtaking tion Anthology” next year. Reeves’ poems comedic novel in which the female protago- a professor in the writing program at The cruelties” and carrying readers past them. have appeared in “Ploughshares,” “Ameri- nist uses Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has written just as fiercely about love can Poetry Review,” “Boston Review” and as a self-help book, adopting boldness, res- The readings take place in the Author’s triangles, female sexuality and mourning others. He has received several awards and olution, independence and horn-blowing as Corner on the second floor of the Illini in her other two novels, “The Mirror in the fellowships, including a 2013 National En- her core values. The San Francisco Chroni- Union Bookstore. All Carr events are free Well” and “A Brief History of Yes.” She has dowment for the Arts fellowship. cle called the book “unstoppably funny and and open to the public. X

SURVEY, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 They also found that 46 percent of ten gone beyond its size. black studies unit heads were women, “Many people assume that black Yes, we’re cheap! showing that these units “have been as studies was simply a political response successful as any in higher education in to the turmoil of the 1960s,” Bailey said. Did you know that campus units can recognizing and promoting gender eq- “What is not fully appreciated is that place a 1/8th-page ad in Inside Illinois for uity in their leadership,” Bailey said. black studies also spurred and inspired only $105? In addition, the researchers found that many significant transformations in 53 percent of units were located on cam- higher education. For instance, it pro- Advertising in Inside Illinois is an puses that also had Latino studies units. duced one of the first big discussions inexpensive way to make sure faculty and Bailey described this finding as “es- of interdisciplinary scholarship, and of staff members know about your unit’s sential,” given changing demographics what is now known as service learning. next event, deadline or service. and the need to build coalitions between It is a discipline and field connected by blacks and Latinos in the larger society. countless threads to communities and to Gauging the state of black studies in other disciplines and arenas of scholar- To reach campus … its broad, historical context is important, ship in higher education, both in the U.S. choose Bailey said, because its influence has of- and around the world.” X InsideIllinois

Ads removed for online version PAGE 18 InsideIllinois Sept. 5, 2013 brief WILL-TV’s ‘Illinois Pioneers’ features interview with Lou Henson notes etired WILL-AM (580) host David Inge Center for Advanced Study returns to conduct interviews with for- Initiative to look at cultures of law Rmer Illini basketball coach Lou Henson Legal reforms adopted by East Asian countries over when “Illinois Pioneers” returns to WILL-TV the past two decades reflect a shift toward “participatory (Sept. 5). Also scheduled for September: U. legitimacy,” but may prove unstable, according to Tom of I. early childhood education pioneer Lilian Ginsburg, the Leo Fitz Professor of international law at the Katz (Sept. 12); Wolfram Research co-found- University of Chicago Law School. er Theo Gray (Sept. 19); and former Cham- Ginsburg will speak on “From Modernism to Participa- paign Mayor Dannel McCollum (Sept. 26), tion in East Asian Law” at 4 p.m. Sept. 10 in the Spurlock interviewed by former WILL general manager

Museum’s Knight Auditorium. Ginsburg is the director of Mark Leonard. Michael O. Thomas, Illinois Public Media by photo the Comparative Constitutions Project and has served as In the season premiere, to be broadcast at an adviser to the Judicial Commission of Afghanistan and 7:30 p.m., Henson, the all-time Illinois leader worked in several Asian countries on legal and constitu- in men’s basketball victories, talks about how tional reform. he got the best out of his teams and the danger The talk marks the beginning of the Center for Ad- of expecting too much from a player. “You try vanced Study’s 2013-14 Initiative on the Cultures of Law to be positive. You’re trying to make them bet- in Global Contexts. ter. If you jump on a player all the time about One-on-one with Lou Retired WILL-AM (580) host David his weaknesses, he may get worse,” he said. Inge returns to conduct interviews for this season of “Illinois Illinois Club He also talks about his early life on a farm, Pioneers.” Former Illini basketball coach Lou Henson is Group hosts fall expo Sept. 9 his relationship with former Indiana Univer- featured Sept. 5. The Illinois Club will host a fall expo 4-6 p.m. Sept. 9 in sity basketball coach Bobby Knight, overcoming health host of WILL-AM’s talk show “Focus” for more than the Illini Ballroom of the Hilton Garden Inn, 1501 S. Neil problems, why he started wearing his trademark orange 30 years and of a number of WILL-TV series and spe- St., Champaign. blazer and whether it irritated him that TV sportscaster cials before retiring in June 2012. The free event is meant to help prospective members Dick Vitale made fun of his hair, dubbed the “Lou ’do.” Inge said it has been a relief for him to give up the learn about the organization and meet current members. The third season of “Illinois Pioneers” features inter- pressure of doing a daily live radio show. “It was like Refreshments will be served. views with people who have made significant contribu- cramming for exams every night,” he said, and he’s en- The club is a registered university organization that of- tions to life in Central Illinois. Inge said he didn’t have joying the more relaxed recording schedule for “Illinois fers more than 20 interest groups, including hiking, wine, to think for long before deciding to host the series in Pioneers.” He’ll be back for more new episodes in Oc- book clubs, bridge, mahjong and five foreign languages. retirement. “I thought, ‘It could be fun, it could be chal- tober and November. u In addition, the group hosts local and statewide tours, lun- lenging, and I think I know how to do it.’ ” Inge was the cheons with speakers and other events. There also are events just for new members. Philanthropy is an important component of the Illinois Adult breakfast tickets are $15; student breakfast tickets Technologies and Information Services. Provost Ilesanmi Club. Through its endowments, the club awards more than are $10. A cash bar will be available and individual game Adesida will open the conference. $20,000 in scholarships to U. of I. students each year. tickets may be purchased for $20. An auction of State Fair For the complete schedule, go to afrst.illinois.edu. For Its members are mainly U. of I. employees and their prize-winning meat packages will be held prior to kickoff. more information, contact Terri Gitler at tgitler@illinois. spouses and partners, but some also are community mem- The event will allow attendees to meet U. of I. President edu. bers. Bob Easter, broadcaster Orion Samuelson and other agri- Talmudic perspectives on poverty For more information, go to TheIllinoisClub.org or cultural leaders. email Peri Ceperley at [email protected]. Register for tickets at ecommerce.aces.illinois.edu/ Thulin Lecture in Religion is Sept. 12 salutetoagriculture/. Football tickets are available on a Moshe Halbertal, a professor at New York University MS4 Technical Committee first-come, first-served basis. Tickets may be purchased or Law School and a professor of Jewish thought and philoso- Green conference is Sept. 17 picked up if reserved online prior to the tailgate through phy at Hebrew University, will deliver the annual Marjorie The Green Infrastructure Conference will feature a pre- Sept. 6 at the ACES Library or at the tailgate on Sept. 7. Hall Thulin Lecture in Religion at 8 p.m. Sept. 12 in the sentation from noted landscape architect Marcus de la fleur For information, contact [email protected] or call 217- Knight Auditorium of Spurlock Museum. and a tour of local green infrastructure. The conference will 244-8227. The lecture, “On the Needs of the Poor – A Talmudic be Sept. 17 at the I Hotel and Conference Center. Perspective on Charity and Dignity,” is sponsored by the U. Center for African Studies The event will include discussions about stormwater of I. department of religion and is free and open to the pub- management, mosquito abatement, an Environmental Pro- Africa is technology conference topic lic. It was originally scheduled for April but was cancelled tection Agency regulatory update and homeowner projects. The Center for African Studies will host a conference, because of inclement weather. The conference and lunch, hosted by the Municipal Sep- “Information Technology and Africa: Practices, Potentials Halbertal also is a member of Israel’s National Acad- arate Storm Sewer Systems Technical Committee, is free to and Challenges,” from Sept. 11-13 at the Illini Union. emy for Sciences and the Humanities. He earned a Ph.D. attend, but registration is required. The conference will focus on the educational uses of in- at Hebrew University in 1989, and from 1988-1992 he was For more information and to register, visit go.illinois. formation technology in Africa and for the first time will a fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. edu/greenconference. bring to the U. of I. a set of leading online higher education He is the author of several books, including “Conceal- The MS4 Technical Committee is a collaboration be- experts from various parts of Africa. ment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and tween the U. of I., the cities of Champaign and Urbana, the The keynote speaker is Atieno Adala, of the African Its Philosophical Implications,” and in 2012, “On Sacri- Village of Savoy, Champaign County, Champaign County Virtual University in Nairobi, Kenya. AVU is the largest fice,” both published by Princeton University Press. Soil and Water Conservation District, and the Prairie Rivers online provider of mathematics and engineering courses in Born in Uruguay in 1958, Halbertal was raised in Israel Network. Africa. in a modern Orthodox family. His father was a Holocaust Other presenters will include open learning and access survivor from Łancut, Galicia (Central-Eastern Europe) College of ACES expert professor Laura Czerniewicz, of the University of and his mother was an Israeli who had come to Uruguay to Salute to Agriculture Day is Sept. 7 Cape Town, and professor Yetunde Folajimi, an interna- teach Hebrew. The College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environ- tionally renowned computer science and game designer at Halbertal is profoundly committed to the democratic mental Sciences will host its annual Salute to Agriculture the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. process. “Democracy is a nonviolent form of adjudicating Day from 9-11 a.m. Sept. 7, just prior to the Fighting Illini The speakers will be joined by online education experts different ideologies,” he says. “It’s very easy to be non- football game. and practitioners from the U. of I., including Rob Rutenbar, violent when stakes are low; in Israel, we are in a condition The public tailgate at the ACES tent is located west of the head and a professor of computer science, and Deanna where the stakes are very high.” the main entrance of State Farm Center. Raineri, a professor and the associate dean of Instructional SEE BRIEFS, PAGE 19

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BRIEFS, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 The annual lecture brings an internationally known Hall. Esposito will talk about his involvement in the movie Concert commemorates 9/11 scholar of religion and contemporary culture to campus for “School Daze,” which was made 25 years ago and consid- several days. ered one of Spike Lee’s most innovative and progressive he 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks will A reception in the Spurlock auditorium will follow the films. be observed Sept. 11 with a brief concert by lecture. For more information, contact David H. Price, the Both presentations are co-sponsored by the Illini Union Tthe Illinois Early Music Group – an a cappella head of the department of religion, at [email protected], Board, the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural ensemble of eight student and faculty vocalists – at or go to www.religion.illinois.edu. Center, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Access, and the Smith Hall on the U. of I. campus. The 15-minute Multiracial/Multiethnic Student Initiative. performance will begin at 7:46 a.m., coinciding with the time the first hijacked airplane struck the International Programs and Studies Asian Educational Media Service World Trade Center in New York City. This memo- Nominations sought for awards AsiaLENS film series begins Sept. 10 rial will follow the tradition set by previous 9/11 International Programs and Studies is seeking nomina- Asian Educational Media Service and Spurlock Museum concerts at the U. of I., with music, rather than tions for its 2013 International Achievement Awards by will host the first film in the AsiaLENS documentary film speeches, being the sole focus. Audience members Sept. 30. The awards seek to honor Illinois alumni, faculty series Sept. 10 with a screening of “Beijing Besieged by are asked to enter and leave in silence. members, or current graduate and undergraduate students Waste” at 7 p.m. in Spurlock Museum’s Knight Auditorium. The concert, which is free and open to the pub- of an exceptional international achievement. Awards are With a focus this fall on environmental concerns in con- lic, will include works by Tomàs Luis de Victoria presented annually in five categories: international alumni, temporary Asia, this 2011 documentary by award-winning and Juan del Encina, and Bobby McFerrin’s ar- distinguished faculty members, young humanitarian, grad- photographer Wang Jiu-liang reveals through his observa- rangement of Psalm 23. u uate and undergraduate achievement. Recipients will be tions of more than 500 landfills the huge problem of waste honored during a banquet in April 2014. created by an ever-growing population and the industrial Criteria and nomination forms are online at ilint.illinois. and urban expansion that follows. Karin Chien, the presi- Studies at the U. of I. edu/grants/awards.html. Previous recipients also are listed dent and founder of dGenerate Films, which distributes For more information on the AsiaLENS series, go to online. this film in partnership with Icarus Films, will be available aems.illinois.edu. through Skype for a post-screening discussion. Friday Forum University YMCA Also featured this semester: ‘Incarceration’ is theme for fall lectures n “Tokyo Waka: A City Poem” (7 p.m. Oct. 8). Directed Exhibition features Chinese art The University YMCA’s fall 2013 Friday Forum lecture and produced by John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson, the The University YMCA is sponsoring a fall exhibition, series will focus on “Rethinking Security: Beyond Mass In- documentary explores the interwoven lives found within “Speak Out: Works From the Yunnan School of Painting,” carceration.” The series, Fridays at noon at the University the city by focusing on its population of more than 20,000 featuring a series of paintings produced by a group of Yun- YMCA’s Latzer Hall, will delve into current issues inolv- crows. The introduction and discussion will be led by Eliza- nan artists that represent a variety of styles from the school. ing incarceration and will feature expert views on current beth Oyler, the director of the Center for East Asian and The exhibition will be on view through Nov. 8. Curated issues at the local, state and national levels. Pacific Studies at the U. of I. by Ian Wang, a curator at the Spurlock Museum, the exhibi- September speakers: Darrel Cannon and Jon Burge, n “A Perfect Soldier” (7 p.m. Nov. 12). Director John tion explores the artistic revolutionaries of post-Mao China. “Chicago Police Torture and Justice for Survivors” (Sept. Severson follows the adult life of Aki Ra, a former soldier The opening reception will be 6-8 p.m. Sept. 5 at the 6); Rebecca Ginsberg, “Teaching on the Inside: Reflections under the Khmer Rouge regime, who devotes himself to University YMCA’s Murphy Gallery. Comments by Wang From the Education Justice Project” (Sept. 13); Mariame undoing some of the violence he took part in by remov- will begin at 5:30 p.m. Kaba, ”Neighborhood Portraits of Juvenile Justice in Chi- ing landmines that still litter the Cambodian countryside. Among the artists represented in this exhibition is Zhao cago” (Sept. 20); and Angela Davis, ”Abolishing the Pris- His actions have led to the establishment of the Cambodian Zhong Xiu, who was a student of master painter Liao Xin on-Industrial Complex” (Sept. 27). Landmine Museum and School. He was recognized as one Xue, the first artist from Yunnan to study art in France. For more information and the full schedule, go to of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes in 2010. Zhao’s painting album, “Remaining Scars From the Past,” universityymca.org/fridayforum. Asian Educational Media Service organizes the film will be featured. series in collaboration with the Spurlock Museum to give Wang plans to show the exhibition at different loca- Illini Union access to films that address issues of contemporary life in tions across the United States. Organized by the University Giancarlo Esposito to speak Sept. 18 Asia. The educational screenings are free and open to the YMCA, the exhibition is co-sponsored by the Asian Ameri- Giancarlo Esposito, the Emmy-nominated and Critics general public, who are invited to further explore these can Cultural Center, Dean’s Graphics and the Spurlock Mu- Choice Award-winning actor of AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” issues in post-screening discussions with local experts. seum. will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 in Room 112 of Gregory AEMS is a program of the Center for East Asian and Pacific For information call 217-337-1500. u

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