March 6, 2008 Vol. 27, No. 15 InsideFor Faculty and Staff, UniversityIllinois of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus ceremony will celebrate Gov. Blagojevich: new stamp for UI physicist By James E. Kloeppel chemist Linus Pauling Universities to News Bureau Staff Writer and astronomer Edwin stamp com- Hubble.) receive no increase memorating the “John Bardeen was By Sharita Forrest achievements of one of the greatest scien- Assistant Editor former UI fac- tists of the 20th century,” he UI and other state universities would receive no increase in funding from the state next fiscal year ultyA member and two-time said Nick Holonyak Jr., a Nobel Prize-winner John ©2007 USPS All Rights Reserved John Bardeen Professor Tif the budget proposed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich in Bardeen will be unveiled of Electrical and Com- his annual address on Feb. 20 is approved by legislators. at a ceremony on campus puter Engineering and However, Blagojevich did propose funding several capital March 6. Physics. Holonyak, who projects at the UI campuses, including renovations at Lin- The UI physics depart- invented the first practical coln Hall and the petascale computing facility at Urbana, ment will host Urbana light-emitting diode and and supported transferring operation of the four state sci- Postmaster Kathleen J. currently is developing entific surveys to the UI. (See story page 2.) Burr, regional U.S. Postal Service officials, university transistor lasers, was Bardeen’s first graduate student. Blagojevich recommended that appropriations for state administrators, and family and friends of Bardeen (1908- “Bardeen was arguably the greatest master ever of the universities and financial aid programs – the Illinois Stu- 1991) at the ceremony. The event is free and open to the quantum theory of the conductivity of solids, which is at dent Assistance Commission, the ISAC Monetary Award public. It will begin at 12:15 p.m. in Room 144 of Loomis the core, the very heart of all of electronics,” Holonyak Program and Illinois Veteran Grant – remain at their FY08 Laboratory. said. “Legendary names in physics failed for almost 50 levels for Fiscal Year 2009, which begins July 1. “We are absolutely delighted to see John Bardeen re- years in explaining the mystery of superconductivity un- The UI’s general fund appropriation for FY08 was membered in this way,” said Dale J. Van Harlingen, the til the successful Bardeen attack on the problem, which $720.5 million. The state is the university’s single largest head of the physics department. “It is particularly time- also introduced revolutionary particle-pairing notions funding source, providing more than $1.16 billion of the ly that he is being honored this year: May 23 will mark into all of physics. UI’s $3.9 billion annual operating budget. the centennial of his birth. We are very pleased that the “Perhaps more vital to everyone on the planet is the All legislative add-ons for the UI also were eliminated Urbana postmaster chose to have the ceremony here in transistor, and all it has spawned,” Holonyak said. “No in the proposed operating budget, including $350,000 for Loomis, where professor Bardeen studied and taught for one sought so little for himself, gave so much, and was so Dixon Springs Agricultural Center. 30 years.” generous and considerate of his fellow man.” “A lack of additional operating revenue creates a chal- One of four American scientists being honored this To mark the event, the Champaign-Urbana Stamp lenging situation given inflationary operational costs that year, Bardeen was recognized for his co-invention of the Club has created a first-day cover, incorporating a cachet the university faces, but we are realistic about the circum- transistor and his contribution to the first fundamental ex- featuring drawings of Bardeen and Loomis Laboratory, stances given the state’s budget situation and a soft econ- planation of superconductivity. For each of these achieve- created by local artist Jason Pankoke, and bearing the omy,” UI President B. Joseph White said in a statement ments, Bardeen was awarded a Nobel Prize. (The other stamp and a special first-day Urbana cancel. These will responding to the budget proposal. “This puts added pres- scientists being recognized are biochemist Gerty Cori, be available after the ceremony for $3 each. u SEE BUDGET, PAGE 3 Hold on executions could continue after Supreme Court rules By Jan Dennis “What is cruel and unusual ing to do is execute someone?” News Bureau Staff Writer punishment given we have the “Maybe it’s an oxymoron. Maybe you historic capital punishment case can’t kill someone without suffering,” she pending before the U.S. Supreme death penalty and how do you know said. “Then the question would be how ACourt could extend a de facto mora- when something is too evil even much suffering does the Eighth Amend- torium that has already halted executions when what you’re trying to do is ment allow?” for more than five months, a UI death pen- execute someone?” The court also is considering another alty expert says. Eighth Amendment challenge that alleges A hold on executions that started soon –Catherine Grosso a Louisiana law allowing the death penalty after the court agreed to hear the case last for the rape of a child amounts to cruel and fall will likely continue at least until jus- Clyde Bowling Jr., has far-reaching impli- unusual punishment. tices rule, which could come before an Au- cations, because 36 of 37 states with death Four other states have similar laws that gust recess, said Catherine Grosso, a law penalty laws use a method of lethal injec- would be rendered unconstitutional if the professor who teaches and studies death tion similar to Kentucky’s. court sides with Patrick Kennedy, who was penalty issues. Baze and Bowling contend the three- convicted of raping his 8-year-old step- But she says death sentences could re- drug injection used in Kentucky lacks safe- daughter and sentenced to death in 2004. main in limbo longer if the court backs a guards to prevent torturous pain. A drug that While the court has ruled that rape in- challenge that alleges drugs administered for suppresses muscle reaction to avoid making volving an adult does not qualify for a lethal injection subject inmates to excruciat- those watching the execution uncomfort- death sentence, Kennedy’s challenge is the ing pain, violating Eighth Amendment rights able masks the suffering, the convicted first test of whether child rape rises to that against cruel and unusual punishment. murderers allege. standard, Grosso said. photo by L. Brian Stauffer “The case has the potential to prolong The case is the first Eighth Amendment “It’s an important case to watch. If you Historic decision Law professor the de facto moratorium,” Grosso said. “If challenge of lethal injection to reach the look at Supreme Court cases over the last Catherine Grosso says a historic capital it establishes a new standard for Eighth high court, and the first time the court has several years, the court has consistently punishment case pending before the U.S. Amendment challenges, that will lead to accepted a case alleging execution amounts narrowed eligibility standards. Here, a state Supreme Court could extend a de facto new cases applying the new standard. If it to cruel and unusual punishment since a has challenged that trend by expanding the moratorium that has already halted requires new protocols for lethal injection, challenge to electrocution more than a cen- reach of the death penalty,” she said. executions for more than five months. states will need to develop and approve tury ago, Grosso said. Grosso says death sentences and execu- them. And it’s hard to think there wouldn’t “It’s a hard question to tackle and hard to tions are on the decline as public support penalty, the death penalty might just become be new challenges to whatever protocol even analyze,” Grosso said. “What is cruel grows for life in prison without parole as a more rare,” Grosso said. “But we also know comes next.” and unusual punishment given we have the more humane alternative, but doesn’t think that these things are cyclical and that support Grosso says the case, filed by Kentucky death penalty and how do you know when the trend suggests abolition is on the horizon. for the death penalty and the appetite for ex- death row inmates Ralph Baze and Thomas something is too evil when what you’re try- “Instead of any abolition of the death ecution waxes and wanes over time.” u

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In www.news.uiuc.edu/ii PAGE 2 InsideIllinois March 6, 2008 U-C Senate creates parking advisory committee By Sharita Forrest and increasing the cost of permits for high- this university, but I am also a citizen of ing procedures in place by the fall semes- Assistant Editor demand parking areas. this town, a parent and a grandparent and ter. The first program reviews are expected committee is being assembled During his opening remarks, Herman for this to go on without the city’s taking to be initiated as early as the spring 2009 to advise Chancellor Richard told the senate of his intention to attend the anything related to a strong stance to me is semester. Herman thanked the department Herman about parking-related Feb. 26 study session of the Champaign totally unacceptable.” of computer science for volunteering to be issues such as implementing City Council “to convince the council and To help constrain the celebration, Sch- the inaugural unit to undergo review, a pro- salary-basedA rates, enhancing safety, and the liquor commissioner, Mayor Jerry Sch- weighart issued an emergency order prohib- cess that will comprise internal and external reducing vehicular traffic on campus and weighart, to act in the best interests of the iting licensed liquor establishments from feedback and be managed by the provost’s promoting “green” transportation modes. community” by assessing penalties to bar serving alcohol before 11 a.m. on Feb. 29 office. The Urbana-Champaign Senate approved a owners during the annual bar-sponsored and March 1, prohibiting sales of pitchers “It is, in the end, about academic quality; resolution from the Committee on Campus drinking promotion called Unofficial St. and shots, and making it illegal for private it is not about resources,” Herman said. Operations to form an advisory committee Patrick’s Day. Bar owners, he said, do not residences to possess more than one keg. n The senate approved a proposal spon- when the senate met Feb. 25. The advisory face any penalties while students cited for In addition to increased presence by UI, sored by the Educational Policy Committee committee, which will be charged with de- underage drinking face $300 fines. Champaign and Urbana police, the Cham- to rename the College of Communications. veloping short-term and long-term parking In the past, the event has incurred thou- paign Fire Department planned to monitor The College of Media more accurately re- policies by January 2009, will include fac- sands of dollars in expenses for the UI and facilities for overcrowding and life safety flects the college’s teaching, research and ulty and staff members, graduate and un- the cities of Champaign and Urbana for po- code compliance as well as load limits on service missions as well as shifts occurring dergraduate students as well as experts in lice and medical personnel services as well balconies at private residences. in the world of media. According to the business/economics and sustainability and as property damage, disruption of classes Other business proposal from Ronald Yates, dean of the a member of the Illinois Center for Trans- and the towing of hundreds of illegally n A working group comprising staff college, College of Media was one of the portation. parked cars. members from the provost’s office and vari- top three choices of both faculty and staff The UI currently is engaged in collective Herman said the celebration’s founder, ous colleges and the Center for Teaching members and more than 900 alumni who bargaining with some of its labor unions and bar owner Scott Cochrane, planned to ex- Excellence is exploring the possibility of responded to a survey. plans to implement a salary-based parking- tend the event from one to two days this implementing a program review process. n In response to a question from James fee system for certain union members. The year – Feb. 29 and March 1 – and to bus The group, which has reviewed similar pro- Barrett, history, Herman said the committee comprehensive policy to be developed by participants in from nearby colleges and cesses at peer institutions, is developing a that is examining the agreement between the the committee also will address issues such universities, promulgating negative images concept statement to present to the Council UI Foundation and the group endowing the as increasing the frequency of shuttles from of the UI and the surrounding community as of Deans later this semester. If the council Academy on Capitalism and Limited Gov- remote lots to central campus, providing destinations for unconstrained drinking. is supportive, the group will consult exten- ernment is making progress and expects to occasional access to employees who do not “We are allowing Mr. Cochrane to de- sively with appropriate senate committees share a redrafted agreement with him and regularly drive to campus, allowing drivers fine who we are, and that’s unacceptable,” and with faculty and staff members about the senate soon. u to access multiple parking areas per permit Herman said. “I may be the chancellor of the review process with the goal of hav- State scientific surveys slated to become part of UI By Sharita Forrest the state-focused research and outreach full-time-equivalent positions and many the Illinois Legislature and the endorse- Assistant Editor programs of the surveys. While creating part-time student employees are funded by ment of the Illinois Board of Higher Edu- he four state scientific surveys – the operational efficiencies, the surveys’ inte- grants and contracts. cation, the UI Board of Trustees and the Illinois State Geological Survey, the gration with the university also will expand The proposed transfer, which would Urbana-Champaign Senate. u TIllinois Natural History Survey, the opportunities for collaborative research and take effect July 1, must be approved by Illinois Waste Management and Research access to funding, technology commercial- Center, and the Illinois State Water Sur- ization, experiential learning for Illinois vey – will become part of the UI if a plan students and programmatic enhancements. More about the Illinois state surveys proposed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich is ap- “The state surveys, long a part of our re- proved. The surveys, on the UI’s Urbana search activities, are truly significant con- Illinois State Geological Survey campus, would be organized as a new unit, tributors alone and through our joint work Founded in its modern form in 1905. The ISGS is the largest of the 50 U.S. the Institute for Natural Sciences and Sus- with them on issues of energy and sustain- states’ geological surveys with research focused on environmentally responsible tainability, under the university’s auspices ability,” said Richard Herman, the chancel- development of Illinois’ energy resources and on three-dimensional geological beginning in Fiscal Year 2009. lor of the Urbana campus. “Notably, the mapping. A major research contributor to the national and international drive to The institute would serve as a focal point work of the surveys has helped to address control carbon dioxide emissions. for applied energy, environmental science real-world problems for the people of the www.isgs.uiuc.edu and sustainability programs throughout state of Illinois. This is fully in keeping with the state, taking advantage of the surveys’ our land-grant mission, and it makes the Illinois Natural History Survey complementary goals and missions of pro- University of Illinois the right intellectual Founded in 1858. The INHS investigates the diversity, life histories and ecology of viding the scientific underpinnings for en- home for the surveys. The governor’s pro- the state’s plants and animals and beyond; studies diseases of crops and wildlife, ergy, sustainability, environmental policy posed action is most welcome and timely.” invasive species, habitat restoration and other topics; publishes research results and natural resource management, ensuring “This institute will combine the world- so these resources can be managed wisely; and provides information to the public that the natural environment is developed class expertise of survey and Illinois sci- to foster a better understanding of natural resources. to enhance the well being of the citizens of entists to provide the collaborative, inter- www.inhs.uiuc.edu Illinois and the state’s economic viability. disciplinary research necessary to address The surveys and the campus each have our modern, complex environmental prob- Illinois State Water Survey strong programs in natural resources, en- lems,” said David Thomas, chief of the Il- Founded in 1895, the ISWS is the primary agency in Illinois for research and ergy and the environment, and their inte- linois Natural History Survey. information related to the quantity, quality and use of groundwater, surface water, gration provides opportunities to build on The surveys are supported by $33 million and atmospheric resources enabling government agencies, the private sector, not- the synergies between the academic and in state funding, comprising $18.5 million for-profit organizations and the public to make informed decisions. educational programs of the campus with in General Revenue Funds and $14 million www.sws.uiuc.edu in contracts with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the Illinois Department Waste Management AND Research Center job of Transportation, the Illinois Department of Founded in 1985, with the mission of pollution prevention and natural resource market Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and conservation. The center provides expert and technical assistance in areas Academic Human Resources other state agencies. More than $12 million such as sustainability, waste minimization, energy efficiency, water purification, Suite 420, 807 S. Wright St. • MC-310 of grants and contracts come to the surveys 333-6747 developing and testing alternative technologies. The center develops beneficial Listings of academic professional from various federal agencies, foundations uses for river sediment while restoring habitat where sediment is removed. WMRC and other groups. Approximately 250 staff and faculty member positions can be also has a program for converting waste oils into biodiesel. reviewed during business hours or positions in the surveys are paid through online. general revenue funds; an additional 320 www.wmrc.uiuc.edu For faculty, academic professional and other academic positions: https://hrnet.uihr.uillinois.edu/panda-cf/ Illinois application/SearchForm.cfm Inside Editor Doris K. 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Diana Yates, life sciences March 6, 2008 InsideIllinois PAGE 3 On the Job UI signs commitment to Mya Clements combat climate degradation By Sharita Forrest very lifeblood of our human spirit. Assistant Editor If we view our planet as possessing those he UI has promised to achieve cli- kinds of precious resources – and I believe mate neutrality by joining a nation- we must – it will ultimately sustain us, sus- Twide consortium of concerned col- tain our dreams, our hopes and our chil- leges and universities that are signing the dren’s futures.” American College and University Presi- The Urbana campus has numerous short- dents Climate Commitment. By signing and long-term eco-friendly research, schol- the commitment, Chancellor Richard arship and conservation efforts under way Herman pledged that the UI is develop- that fulfill parts of the commitment. ing a long-range plan for reducing and The Earth and Society Initiative, part neutralizing greenhouse gas emissions on of Herman’s Strategic Plan for the Urbana campus and is accelerating its research campus, fosters interdisciplinary scholar- and educational efforts to equip society to SEE CONSORTIUM, PAGE 13 re-stabilize Earth’s climate and help the U.S. achieve energy in- dependence. New systems translate The climate commitment mar-

photo by L. Brian Stauffer shals the extraordinary influence to energy savings of the nation’s higher education Mya Clements, a program secretary in the College of Medicine, began her building systems retrofitting project at community – which comprises career with the UI as a learner secretary in the department of nuclear, plasma Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is more than 4,000 institutions, A and radiological engineering in September 2001. Clements, who has been in generating big savings in energy usage, according more than 17 million students her current position since September 2006, works with the college’s Internal to Terry Ruprecht, director of energy conserva- and millions of workers – to lead Medicine Residency Program. Carle Foundation Hospital is the primary teaching tion in Facilities and Services. A retro-commis- and model sustainability and hospital for the program. Clements’ department is on the lower level of the sion team in F&S analyzes heating, ventilating good stewardship of the envi- Carle Forum. Along with the other members of her department, Clements and air-conditioning systems to ensure they oper- ronment. College and university provides support for medical residents and their families during their three-year ate as efficiently as possible. Projects at Krannert leaders who endorse the commit- stay. Before coming to the university, Clements worked as a customer service Center and the National Soybean Research Center ment agree to develop compre- representative/receptionist for a local insurance agency. were completed in December, and another project hensive action plans within two is nearing completion at Newmark Laboratory. What do you do every day? years, to conduct an inventory I work with all the residents when they first come here. We go through the Preliminary consumption data from completed of greenhouse gas emissions on buildings is showing 15-33 percent reductions in process of obtaining visas as well as medical licenses, Net ID passwords on their campuses, and to initiate ac- campus, Social Security numbers. We do everything from reimbursements to energy use. In comparison to a year ago, steam tions to reduce emissions in the consumption for January was down 46 percent coordinating an annual graduation banquet for them in June. I also provide meantime. support to our program director. and electricity usage was down 23 percent at “Renewable energy and its KCPA. How many residents do you have each year? And what are the challenges of partner, sustainability, are key “We estimate the combined savings for De- working with them? initiatives in our strategic plan at cember and January to be $74,800, with steam We usually have 55. The main challenge is getting them here. When I started Illinois,” Herman said. “We are savings comprising about 70 percent of that,” Ru- working here, I had no experience with medical licenses or visas whatsoever. moving ahead toward our goal of precht said. “These savings were achieved by the Learning the immigration process, where rules change constantly, is a transforming the campus into a combined efforts of Krannert staff members and challenge. learning laboratory for the prac- the F&S retro-commissioning group.” There are cultural differences. The majority of our residents are from India or tical application of sustainable A new computer-based control upgrade was Pakistan, so they’re coming from environments we know nothing about. They technologies. We are fortunate put into operation in February for the majority of already have their medical degrees, but there’s so much more that they have that this critical moment in our Krannert Center’s heating and air-conditioning to do. A lot of the stuff they have already experienced, but because of their planet’s health comes when we systems, enabling full monitoring and control by experience here they become more well-rounded physicians. have incredible brainpower and Krannert staff members, even from off-site. technology at our fingertips. When they graduate, are they going into practice? “We believe this improved information and “We have to start looking at It depends. A lot of times, they’ll be hospitalists – treating hospitalized patients controllability will enable both additional sav- our natural world as a place from of other physicians – or will go to fellowships. ings and enhanced ability for Krannert to accom- which comes not only energy and What do you like most about your job? modate special event requirements,” Ruprecht food, but also poetry, music, in- said. u I really enjoy the people that I work with. I’m one of the rare people who likes to spiration, creativity, hope – the get up and come to work in the morning. My boss, Kathie Buttitta, stresses the team concept, and we honestly do work together as a team and it’s nice. We try to maintain that balance of work and fun. We have retreats where we have lots of fun and work gets done as well. Including the program director, we have four BUDGET, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 people in our department and two student workers. sure on tuition, fees and efficient univer- said. I like developing relationships with the residents. We get to see their families sity management to adequately fund the Statewide grant programs would stay during the banquets. In addition to meeting spouses and children, we also may excellence and access that the U. of I.’s at their FY08 levels or be reduced or get to meet their parents, aunts and uncles. And it gives you a sense of their three campuses provide Illinois families. eliminated in FY09 under Blagojevich’s values and culture. We will work with the governor and the proposed budget. Existing grant pro- We have a holiday banquet every year, and for the 2006 banquet, Dr. Robert Legislature for the best outcome we can grams at the Illinois Board of Higher Healy (director of the residency program) had an idea that we use the banquet achieve.” Education would remain at their FY08 to celebrate holidays from around the world besides Christmas. There were Blagojevich proposed funding sever- levels; funding for Cook County Ex- six or seven tables and each table celebrated different religious and cultural al capital projects at Urbana, including tension ($5.05 million in FY08) would holidays. We were able to sample different foods. People wore traditional $60 million from the Build Illinois Bond be eliminated; IllinoisVENTURES, clothing they would wear in their home country. It was a lot of fun and we Fund for costs associated with design the UI’s technology commercialization learned so much. The residents really enjoyed it; we got a lot of positive and construction of the $208 million company, would receive no funding; feedback and suggestions. petascale computing facility, $55.1 mil- and grant funding for the Center for lion for renovating Lincoln Hall, $18.9 Applied Research would be reduced by For many of the residents, it’s their first time living in another country. It’s million for constructing a Post Harvest $135,000 to $4.2 million. stressful for them, so we try to be that family support base to them. We suggest Crop Processing and Research Labora- Blagojevich proposed restructuring restaurants to them, places to shop, how to get around town, community events tory, and about half – $42 million – of the state’s pension systems by refinanc- and activities. the $90 million needed for constructing ing high-interest debt with low-interest What do you like to do when you’re not working? an Electrical and Computer Engineering pension obligation bonds, a plan he said One of my co-workers and I formed a book club called “ChocLits” because Building. would pump $16 billion in assets into we love chocolate and literature. I enjoy reading and baking, especially cakes Additionally, the UI also would re- the five state pension funds immedi- and cookies. I won a first place in a chocolate chip cookie contest at Carle. I ceive $10.7 million for repairs and ren- ately, save the state $55 billion over the made two three-dimensional cookies in the shapes of giant pills with the Carle ovations at its three campuses, the top next 36 years and increase the funded logo and “250 milligrams” on them. I put a piece of paper, like a prescription, priority project in its capital budget. ratio of the pension plans from 63 per- next to it that said “Take two and don’t call us in the morning.” I had an empty “A state capital program is an urgent cent to 75 percent. u prescription bottle off to the side. That was the first time I competed in anything, priority for the University of Illinois and it was a lot of fun. as we plan for the future and strive to For Bosses Day, I decorated a cake with the Starbucks logo for Kathie; I made maintain a 140-year investment by the ON THE WEB a white cake from scratch, soaked the layers with espresso, put an espresso state in facilities and equipment that are n Gov. Blagojevich’s butter cream between the layers and a chocolate espresso butter cream around essential to fulfilling the university’s budget address the outside. missions of teaching, research, public www.uiuc.edu/goto/ I also decorated a cake with the Diet Pepsi logo for Dr. Healy. engagement, and economic develop- illinoisbudget09 ment across our three campuses,” White – Interview by Sharita Forrest, Assistant Editor PAGE 4 InsideIllinois March 6, 2008 Report addresses issues faced by academic professionals By Sharita Forrest ON THE WEB dations, some of which Assistant Editor n Full report of the AP task force were made by previous new online community with re- www.provost.uiuc.edu/committees/ groups that studied APs. sources and information specifi- APtaskforce.htm The recommendations cally for academic professionals provide a framework at Urbana is being considered as APs also were asked for their opinions of actions, policies and about various aspects of their positions, oneA component of a comprehensive plan for programs to be imple- fostering personal and professional devel- such as promotional pathways and satisfac- mented across the uni- opment of APs. The Web site was one of tion with campus services through an online versity that would foster the recommendations in a recently released survey that was sent to 4,183 APs in Octo- professional growth for report about issues affecting APs at the ber; 43 percent of the recipients responded. APs, and involve them Urbana campus. APs, the survey revealed, care about directly with the stra- The academic professional employee their careers and 88 percent of respondents tegic plan, with cross- group has more than 4,300 full-time equiva- said they want opportunities for profes- campus interest groups, lent employees and is the second largest per- sional development and to contribute to the with volunteerism and manent employee group on campus. (Civil university, Winckler said. with each other. service is the largest.) Less than half, 41.8 percent, of the re- “Integration of APs Provost Linda Katehi appointed a 16- spondents reported having been promoted into the university com- member Academic Professional Task Force during their careers at Illinois, and more munity is an important last June, and she and Elyne Cole, associ- than 65 percent reported they perceived lim- concept that may become ate provost for human resources, charged ited promotional opportunities in their units. even more important in it with examining issues of salary levels, Three-quarters of respondents also indicated the future: a culture that title usage, promotional opportunities, poli- that they perceived no clearly defined career encourages and expects cies for part-time workers and performance pathway for someone of their education and APs to contribute to the evaluations. In the charge letter, Katehi skills in their unit or at Illinois. university community, wrote: “It is clear that academic profes- Respondents’ perception of a lack of not just their position sional employees are extremely important advancement opportunities may reflect a or department, to cross- to the overall health and success of this in- general lack of understanding of applicable pollinate ideas from stitution, and they will play a key role in programs, processes and policies and of the diverse groups and par- helping the institution achieve its strategic wide diversity of positions and responsi- ticipate in campus com- goals during the next five years. It is of the bility levels that exists within the AP em- mittees in their areas of utmost importance to me that this campus ployee group, Winckler said. Of the APs expertise,” Winckler has equitable, clear and consistent policies who responded to the survey, 60 percent said. “As the university photo by L. Brian Stauffer Planning for the future Virginia Winckler, assistant and practices for academic professional had less than eight years’ tenure at Illinois, strives to meet its stra- dean in the College of Veterinary Medicine, chaired the employees.” a factor that also could correlate with a lack tegic plan, the challenge Academic Professional Task Force, which examined issues Over the past 30 years, several commit- of awareness. is to develop a cohesive affecting APs on campus and recently released a report. tees have examined various issues and con- However, the task force also found that framework of guiding APs serve in administrative, professional and technical cerns relevant to APs, but all were faculty- position titles are used inconsistently across principles and programs positions. About one-third of those workers are 50 years led, said Ginger Winckler, assistant dean campus and may not be representative of that are consistent, em- or older and probably will retire within the next decade, in the College of Veterinary Medicine and responsibility levels. Accordingly, similar powering, and strength- making succession planning an important concern for chair of the task force. “This was the first position titles in different units also may en excellence in aca- campus units. all-AP committee that reviewed its own have wide variations in responsibility and demic professionals.” group, attesting to the provost’s commit- salary. The Academic Professional Task Force sity’s and the campus units’ strategic objec- ment to the AP community. Much of the In studying employment practices and recommended the development of an online tives, addressing issues pertinent to part- work to improve our employee group rests policies at the five selected peer institutions community for APs, a mock-up of which time APs such as notices of nonreappoint- within ourselves.” – Cornell, Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin is available at www.cvm.uiuc.edu/work/ ment, and creating an AP-led campuswide The task force, composed of APs from and the University of California at Berkeley ap_web/, to provide a centralized location mentoring program, a rotation program and across campus, reviewed current policies – the task force found that those institutions for information about career resources and internship programs for internal candidates. and practices pertaining to APs as well as have more extensive development programs self improvement tools; policies, practices “The recommendations are reasonable eight previous committee/task force reports, for employee groups similar to APs, but and job opportunities; and volunteerism and things for employees to want and expect,” studied comparable employee groups at also may have “restrictive frameworks that social networking opportunities. Cole said. “A steering committee has been five peer institutions and consulted with key limit career movement and require salaries In addition to the Web site, the task force appointed to review the recommendations staff members and units on campus, includ- to remain in prescribed ranges, regardless recommended designing and communicat- in the report and identify priorities and es- ing Academic Human Resources, Training of the talent and market demand of the indi- ing compensation philosophies, gathering tablish timelines for implementing them.” A for Business Professionals and the Institute viduals,” the report said. input from APs about the strategic plan and chair for the steering committee has yet to of Labor and Industrial Relations. The task force offered 20 recommen- tying performance reviews to the univer- be named. u Heavy market volume doesn’t always mean quick, easy trading By Jan Dennis markets can just as easily put liquid- and liquidity written by Johnson, who News Bureau Staff Writer ity at risk, netting wide price fluctua- is working with the Chicago Mercan- laying a hunch is as ingrained tions as sometimes small blocks of tile Exchange on a real-time index that in financial markets as short traders motivated by greed or fear traders could use to gauge liquidity. Pselling, margin buying and the fuel buy offs and sell offs, according He hopes his latest study helps opening bell. to the study, “Volume, Liquidity and focus efforts to accurately measure But a new study by a UI professor Liquidity Risk,” published in the Feb- liquidity. Many past academic stud- shows that gut feelings don’t neces- ruary issue of the Journal of Financial ies have promoted a link between li- sarily pay off when it comes to decid- Economics. quidity and volume, which he says is ing the best time to trade. “High volume is people piling in “probably a dangerous thing to do.” Finance professor Timothy C. or out, while liquidity is provided by “I would say the main message Johnson tested a widely embraced people who are staying in the mar- from an investor’s point of view is notion that volume equals liquidity ket with no reason to leave,” Johnson that high-volume markets can signal a in stock and bond markets – in short, said. “Those core investors ultimately great deal of liquidity risk and they’re that heavy trading makes it easier determine how easy it is to get in or not necessarily markets where it’s for people to get in or out of markets out. How willing are they to accom- easy to transact. They’re somewhat quickly with minimal costs or losses. modate other people’s trades? There treacherous markets,” he said. His findings, based on a review of can either be great willingness or not Johnson says his research also government bond market transactions very great willingness.” could help shed light on market con- from the mid-1990s and stock market While heavy volume can bring ditions, in general. reports dating back to 1927, counter steep price swings that threaten li- “High-volume markets are usually what Johnson calls an “intuitive feel” quidity, light trading doesn’t necessar- thought of as healthy markets, that that high volume and liquidity should ily signal the best time to buy or sell things are functioning well if volume go hand in hand. quickly and easily, he said. is high and that something must be “We certainly feel that way in the “You can’t say that low-volume wrong if volumes are low,” he said. real estate market,” he said. “People markets are better,” said Johnson, a “That’s not necessarily true and I’m photo by L. Brian Stauffer feel that if there’s a lot of people buy- former hedge fund trader. “What is pointing out that high-volume markets Predicting the market Finance professor Timothy ing and selling houses, then it’s prob- true in low-volume markets is that li- can sometimes be masking changes C. Johnson tested a widely embraced notion that volume ably easier for them to buy or sell quidity is more predictable and price in market conditions that would seem equals liquidity in stock and bond markets – in short, quicker in an active market.” swings are less dramatic.” quite dangerous, when liquidity is ac- that heavy trading makes it easier for people to get in or But, heavy volume in financial The paper is the third on volume tually drying up.” u out of markets quickly with minimal costs or losses. March 6, 2008 InsideIllinois PAGE 5 Group homes appear to double delinquency risk for foster kids By Craig Chamberlain nile-justice system,” he said. findings might lead one to errone- News Bureau Staff Writer Another concern grows from ously believe that all child-wel- roup homes are gener- the fact that African-Americans fare placements are problematic, ally the placement of are overrepresented in the child- and perhaps equally problematic,” last resort for children welfare system, and in group he said. in foster care, and also homes specifically, Ryan said. The The study of Los Angeles oneG of the most expensive options group-home effect therefore might County, he said, shows that differ- for state child-welfare agencies. be contributing to the even greater ent kinds of placements can have It appears that group homes overrepresentation of African- dramatically different effects. also play a significant role in Americans in the juvenile-justice As a starting point for the pushing the children they serve system, as well as in prisons, he study, researchers had access to toward the juvenile-justice sys- said. administrative records for all chil- tem, according to a new study in The study, “Juvenile Delin- dren and families involved with Los Angeles County, led by a UI quency in Child Welfare: Investi- the Department of Children and professor. gating Group Home Effects,” has Family Services and the Depart- “Our results found that kids been accepted for publication and ment of Probation in Los Angeles (mostly adolescents) who enter posted online (access restricted) County, in both cases for the peri- group home placements are about by Children and Youth Services od between 2001 and 2005. From two-and-a-half times more likely Review, a prominent journal for those records, they compiled a to enter the juvenile-justice sys- research on child-welfare issues. sample of all the children between tem relative to similar kids, with Co-authors of the study are Jane the ages of 7 and 16 who had been similar backgrounds, who are Marie Marshall, a doctoral stu- placed outside their own home by served in foster-home settings,” dent in social work; Denise Herz, child welfare at least once. says Joseph Ryan, a professor in a professor of criminal justice at Children and adolescents the Children and Family Research California State University, Los placed in group homes, compared Center (CFRC) part of the univer- Angeles; and Pedro Hernandez, a with those placed only in foster sity’s School of Social Work. research analyst at the UI. care family settings, have general- What is more, Ryan said, the The study and its conclusions ly been through more placements, group-home effect on delinquen- were made possible by a unique are slightly older, and have more cy appears to be fairly immediate. data-sharing agreement that gave characteristics often associated “The vast majority of (first-time) researchers access to both child- with delinquency, Ryan said. The arrests occur while the adolescent welfare and juvenile-justice re- authors used econometric meth- is actually under the supervision cords in Los Angeles County, ods, known as propensity score of the group home,” rather than Ryan said. They were able to track matching, to help disentangle the months or years after they leave, individuals in their movements effect of those individual charac- photo by L. Brian Stauffer he said. through both systems, and see con- teristics from the effect associated Negative impact Social work professor Joe Ryan, right; and Jane Keeping foster youth out of nections between the two, he said. with group-home placement, he Marie Marshall, a doctoral student; and Pedro Hernandez, research the juvenile-justice system is es- Previous research has shown said. analyst, collaborated on a study investigating the effects of group pecially important because they a connection between foster care By way of this method, they homes on delinquency rates. It appears that group homes have an have fewer options once there, and delinquency and other nega- matched 4,113 youth who had immediate and negative impact. Ryan said. “We know once child- tive outcomes – some of that re- been in group homes with 4,113 welfare youth are in the juvenile- search even suggesting that chil- with similar characteristics who experienced at least one arrest, as the size of the group-home effect, justice system, they’re less likely dren might be better off staying in had only been served in foster compared with 8 percent of the even after controlling for indi- to get probation and more likely troubled homes rather than going family home placements. Twenty matched foster-care sample. vidual differences. He also was to get pushed deeper into the juve- into foster care, Ryan said. “Those percent of the group-home sample Ryan said he was surprised by SEE GROUP HOMES, PAGE 8

Ad removed for online version PAGE 6 InsideIllinois March 6, 2008 Mechanism of blood clot elasticity revealed in high definition By Diana Yates a graduate research assistant and fibrinogen/multiFIBI.mpg) News Bureau Staff Writer student in the M.D./Ph.D. program generated a force extension lood clots can save at Illinois. “How do we make them curve that matched the one lives, staunching blood easier to break up or make them Lim had produced. loss after injury, but less likely to rupture?” “This was an incredibly they can also kill. Let Bernard Lim, a cardiologist at strong piece of evidence Bloose in the bloodstream, a clot Mayo and an expert on the sci- that what (Lim) saw wasn’t can cause a heart attack, stroke or ence of blood clots, contacted just in the eye of the be- pulmonary embolism. Schulten’s group in 2006 for help holder, but he saw really A new study reveals in atomic with a puzzling finding. Lim had a property of the protein,” detail how a blood protein that is conducted a series of experiments Schulten said. a fundamental building block of using atomic force microscopy The simulation also blood clots gives them their life- to measure the amount of force showed in molecular detail enhancing, or life-endangering, required to stretch individual fi- how the fibrinogen molecule properties. brinogen molecules. responded to stretching. The study, conducted by re- After dozens of trials, Lim had Each phase in the force ex- searchers at the UI and the Mayo come up with a “force extension tension curve corresponded College of Medicine, appears in curve” that showed how the fi- directly with a distinct set the journal Structure. brinogen molecule behaved when of events in the elongation Fibrinogen molecules form it was stretched. His data indicated of the molecule. elastic fibers, the main material that the fibrinogen molecule elon- “The simulations re- of blood clots. When a blood ves- gates in a sequential fashion, with vealed that … the extension sel is ruptured, signaling proteins three distinct phases. But he could occurs in a specific and or- in the blood convert fibrinogen not tell which parts of the fibrino- derly pattern, with distinct into its active form, called fibrin. gen molecule were involved. regions within the coiled- Fibrin molecules link together in Fibrinogen is a symmetrical coil unraveling before oth- a scaffold of fibers that seals the molecule, containing a central re- ers,” the authors wrote. vesicle. Cells in the blood, such as gion connected to two end regions Lim had also demonstrat- platelets, fill the gaps. by long, interweaving coiled ed that changes in calcium Fibrinogen is highly elastic, chains, called alpha helices. These levels or in the pH (acidity) able to reversibly stretch to two or “coiled coils” were believed to of a blood clot could alter three times its original length. give the molecule its elasticity. fibrinogen elasticity, a find- “Once they’re formed, blood But how? ing that could influence the photo by L. Brian Stauffer clots have to be elastic because The Illinois team used a com- design of pharmaceutical Dynamic research Illinois graduate research assistant Eric Lee (left) they have a mechanical function putational approach to tackle the agents. and physics professor Klaus Schulten used steered molecular dynamics to withstand blood pressure,” mystery. Using steered molecu- “By understanding what to model the behavior of every atom of the fibrinogen molecule as it was said Klaus Schulten, holder of the lar dynamics (SMD), they mod- happens at the molecular stretched. The computation involved over a million atoms, and required six Swanlund Chair in Physics at Il- eled the behavior of every atom level, you can understand months to complete. linois. of the fibrinogen molecule as it where to target drugs,” Lee fective way to get to the heart of atomic detail. We see the full chem- Understanding what gives fi- was stretched. The computation said. molecular behavior, he said. istry of this mechanical process.” brinogen its flexibility could help involved more than a million at- This study points to the efficacy Simulations can test important, Schulten directs the theoreti- in the design of drugs to enhance oms, and required six months to of combining molecular dynam- but potentially ambiguous, ex- cal and computational biophysics their function, he said. complete. ics simulations with experimental perimental findings, Schulten said. group at the Beckman Institute “We investigated what makes The resulting simulation (see data on actual molecules, Schulten “And we can see (the behavior of for Advanced Science and Tech- blood clots elastic,” said Eric Lee, http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/ said. This is proving to be an ef- the molecule) in chemical detail, in nology. u

Ad removed Ad removed for online for online version version March 6, 2008 InsideIllinois PAGE 7 Scientists propose novel test of string theory

By James E. Kloeppel tral hydrogen in the universe.” to have been produced News Bureau Staff Writer Wandelt and graduate student in the early universe, but ncient light absorbed by Rishi Khatri describe their pro- has not been detected so neutral hydrogen atoms posed test in a paper accepted for far. Cosmic strings pro- Acould be used to test cer- publication in the journal Physical duce characteristic fluc- tain predictions of string theory, Review Letters. tuations in the gas den- say cosmologists at the UI. Mak- About 400,000 years after the sity through which they ing the measurements, however, Big Bang, the universe consisted move, a signature of would require a gigantic array of a thick shell of neutral hydro- which will be imprinted of radio telescopes to be built on gen atoms (each composed of a on the 21-centimeter ra- Earth, in space or on the moon. single proton orbited by a single diation. String theory – a theory whose electron) illuminated by what be- The cosmic string fundamental building blocks are came known as the cosmic micro- network predicted to oc- tiny one-dimensional filaments wave background. cur with brane inflation called strings – is the leading Because neutral hydrogen at- could be tested by look- contender for a “theory of every- oms readily absorb electromag- ing for the correspond- thing.” Such a theory would unify netic radiation with a wavelength ing fluctuations in the all four fundamental forces of na- of 21 centimeters, the cosmic mi- 21-centimeter radiation. ture (the strong and weak nuclear crowave background carries a sig- Like the cosmic mi- forces, electromagnetism, and nature of density perturbations in crowave background, the gravity). But finding ways to test the hydrogen shell, which should cosmological 21-centi- string theory has been difficult. be observable today, Wandelt meter radiation has been Now, cosmologists at the UI said. stretched as the universe say absorption features in the 21- Cosmic strings are filaments of has expanded. Today, centimeter spectrum of neutral infinite length. Their composition this relic radiation has a hydrogen atoms could be used for can be loosely compared to the wavelength closer to 21 such a test. boundaries of ice crystals in fro- meters, putting it in the “High-redshift, 21-centimeter zen water. long-wavelength radio observations provide a rare obser- When water in a bowl begins portion of the electro- vational window in which to test to freeze, ice crystals will grow at magnetic spectrum. string theory, constrain its param- different points in the bowl, with To precisely mea- eters and show whether or not it random orientations. When the ice sure perturbations in the makes sense to embed a type of crystals meet, they usually will spectra would require an inflation – called brane inflation – not be aligned to one another. The array of radio telescopes Photo by Jerry Thompson, Thompson/McClellan Photography Inc. into string theory,” said Benjamin boundary between two such mis- with a collective area of String quartet Benjamin Wandelt, a professor of physics and of astronomy, Wandelt, a professor of physics aligned crystals is called a discon- more than 1,000 square says string theory is the leading contender for a "theory of everything," which and of astronomy at the UI. tinuity or a defect. kilometers. Such an ar- would unify all four fundamental forces of nature. He and colleagues now “If we embed brane inflation Cosmic strings are defects in ray could be built us- propose a test of that theory. into string theory, a network of space. A network of strings is pre- ing current technology, cosmic strings is predicted to dicted by string theory (and also Wandelt said, but would ty of neutral hydrogen atoms could scale at which quantum gravity be- form,” Wandelt said. “We can test by other supersymmetric theories be prohibitively expensive. also reveal the value of string ten- gins to become important.” this prediction by looking for the known as Grand Unified Theories, If such an enormous array were sion, a fundamental parameter in Funding was provided by the impact this cosmic string network which aspire to unify all known eventually constructed, measure- string theory, Wandelt said. “And Alexander von Humboldt Foun- would have on the density of neu- forces of nature except gravity) ments of perturbations in the densi- that would tell us about the energy dation. u

Ad removed Ad removed for online for online version version PAGE 8 InsideIllinois March 6, 2008 Music student leads choral group of singers with disabilities By Melissa Mitchell over to the statehouse, where they News Bureau Staff Writer performed in the rotunda on Feb. ocalists were in abun- 15. Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell dance in Connecticut’s proclaimed Feb. 16 to be Joyful capital city last month Noise Day throughout the state. as the Eastern Division Following the convention ses- Vof the American Choral Directors sion, which also included discus- Association met in Hartford for its sions about music and cognition annual convention. and exercises led by the group’s But among the choruses mak- unofficial “godmother,” noted ing melodious music at the con- conductor-composer-educator vention, few could claim a more Alice Parker, Joyful Noise also expressive, more genuine sound performed a concert for Hartford- than Joyful Noise, a group of sing- area residents with disabilities, ers with developmental disabili- their caregivers, families and the ties led by UI music student Alli- public. son Fromm. The group is based in Fromm said her singers – who Cherry Hill, N.J. range in age from 20 to 65 – are Fromm, who has undergraduate extremely communicative through and graduate degrees from Yale their music. Their repertoire in- and Boston universities, respec- cludes traditional, simple folk tively, is working on a doctorate in standards such as “This Land Is choral conducting at Illinois. She Your Land” and “You Are My founded Joyful Noise in 2000 be- Sunshine,” along with rounds, cause she hoped it would not only partner songs and tunes composed be a welcome diversion for her specifically for them. Some songs own developmentally challenged even include verses they’ve con- younger sister, Elizabeth, but also tributed. photo by Ira Shanfeld something fun the siblings could “What’s unique about these Joyful Noise, a group of singers with developmental disabilities led by UI music student do together. singers is they have no fear,” she High praise Allison Fromm, right, is based in Cherry Hill, N.J. Fromm's sister is second from the left. “I have always loved singing said. “They’re very expressive and in a chorus, and my sister also eager to connect with audiences. has loved singing since she was a “They’ve been very excited Jacques’ perfectly. Another, a re- indicators, by far, she said, are the the East Coast to attend school at year old,” Fromm said. “I thought about their trip and have been talk- search chemist injured in a car ac- members’ own personal growth Illinois, she originally envisioned it would be a wonderful thing for ing about it since August,” Fromm cident at the age of 49, has a ter- and refined sense of self-worth. stepping back from her duties as her to share her love of singing said, adding that group members rible time with aphasia; he doesn’t “Their pride in themselves is conductor and turning them over communally with her friends. So also take what they do very seri- always remember my name, yet something that’s really developed. to someone else after the group I asked her.” ously. Most even understand – and he remembers the words to all the Also, their openness with oth- was firmly established. For now, When Elizabeth responded en- are quite passionate about – their songs.” ers and self-confidence have in- when her schedule back in Illinois thusiastically to the idea, the sis- roles in an effort the conductor has Fromm attributes part of her creased.” prevents her from trekking to New ters approached the staff at Ban- dubbed their “Mission to Inspire.” success with the group to the fact For example, Christine Dwyer, Jersey for rehearsals, she relies on croft NeuroHealth, which oper- “I’ve told them they will sing that she doesn’t modify her con- the sister of chorus member James support from assistant conductor ducting style substantially. Gilligan, told Fromm she often Cathy Sonnenberg and UI alum- “I apply the same skills and hosts social gatherings, and when nus and assistant conductor Mark approach as a choral conductor her brother visited, he typically Gary. would in any situation,” she said. retreated to his room when guests But so far, Fromm’s been un- “The repertoire is less complex arrived. able to let go. and maybe things take longer, but “Now he takes out his kara- In part, she says, it’s because ... my essential approach is the oke machine and entertains the she feels she receives as much same.” guests,” Fromm said. “He’s more from the chorus as she gives. That methodology is what confident around family and “The experience has been valu- sparked Parker’s interest in Fromm friends in social situations.” able for me, in a doctoral program, and the group. Other changes Fromm has no- where I tend to be very immersed “I first met Allison at a Chorus ticed among the chorus members in what I’m doing,” Fromm said. America conference and was just include improved diction and lan- “While it’s important for me to try knocked off my feet because she guage skills, and a much better to polish the singing of (more pro- was acting so professional with ability to focus. fessional) choruses I work with, them,” Parker said. “Their ability Elene Kurtzman, whose daughter it’s easy to lose sight of the power is limited, but she was not treating Jodi sings with Joyful Noise, said of music and the beauty of con- them like a bunch of kindergarten- her daughter has benefited from the necting with other human beings, ers ... she was asking so much of experience in yet another way. and to lose touch with the expres- them.” “Jodi’s always had more self- sive side of it. Because Parker believes “mu- confidence than 10 people,” “So when I perform, I remind photo by Ira Shanfeld sic is for the people, not for art,” Kurtzman said. “She’s used to be- myself of Joyful Noise and carry Fearless “What’s unique about these singers is they have no fear,” she said that “seeing it succeed at ing the one that takes all the atten- their spirit into the performance. It said Allison Fromm, who has undergraduate and graduate degrees this level was just so wonderful.” tion, so singing with Joyful Noise makes me a better musician.” u from Yale and Boston universities, respectively, and is working on a Parker has visited and worked has helped her participate better in doctorate in choral conducting at Illinois. “They’re very expressive with Joyful Noise in the past, and a group situation.” ON THE WEB and eager to connect with audiences." composed the song “Memories Since Fromm started Joyful n Joyful Noise Chorus ates the residential facility where for choral musicians who have Flow” for the chorus. She and Noise after she had already left www.joyfulnoisechorus.org Elizabeth lives. After Bancroft dedicated their lives to music and six other composers accepted agreed to host the chorus, she an- are just as passionate about it as Fromm’s invitation to complete nounced the first rehearsal, and we are,” she said. Members of commissioned works that were GROUP HOMES, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 said she would be encouraged if the ensemble also are enthusiastic funded in part by a $3,500 grant surprised by the differences delinquent youth in congregate at least eight people showed up. about the possibility that they may from the Philadelphia Eagles. that emerged with regard to the or group-home settings. “We had 15 at that first meet- serve as an inspiration for devel- Parker and the other composers type of offending. Group-home The other area involves ing,” she said, noting that in the opmentally challenged individuals – UI music professor Chester Al- youth were significantly more looking at whether group-home eight years since she’s directed everywhere. wes, James Bassi, Gerald Cohen, likely to be arrested for violent policies or procedures cause the group – traveling about twice a Chorus members’ physical and Elliot Levine, Steven Sametz and and threat-related offenses. staff to more readily contact month from Illinois to New Jersey neurological disabilities range Jon Washburn – also contributed As to why children in group- law enforcement in given situ- for rehearsals – its membership from cerebral palsy and epilepsy much of their own time in kind to home settings are more likely ations and whether those might has ebbed and flowed slightly, but to Down Syndrome, autism and the project. to experience arrests and enter contribute to the likelihood of typically averages about 30. brain injuries suffered later in life. Another composer and cho- the juvenile-justice system, arrest for a given behavior. “We still have a little room to Musically, their abilities run the ral director, Nick Page, was so Ryan said he sees two promis- “It does raise the question grow,” she said. full spectrum. Some have sung in inspired by the chorus that he ing areas for research. of whether there is a lower Nearly half of the chorus’s cur- choirs before; for others, commu- composed a song for the group One involves the possibility threshold in group settings rent 32 members – plus an entou- nal singing is a new experience. immediately after the Feb. 16 con- of “peer contagion,” in which versus other foster-home set- rage of caregivers and staff mem- “We have a couple with real vention presentation – in the hotel deviant adolescents influence tings,” Ryan said. “Are staff bers from Bancroft – made the trip musical ability,” Fromm said. lobby. one another to become more more likely to engage law to Hartford with Fromm on Feb. “One picks out melodies on the The generous response and in- delinquent than they otherwise enforcement to resolve physi- 16 to participate in an “interest ses- piano after hearing CDs, but can’t terest from such highly regarded would have been. Related, he cal and threat-related conflict, sion” titled “Melodies That Sing: read or write. We also have a choral composers is just one way said, is the common practice which then sets off a chain of We Love to Sing This Song.” But member who stutters severely, yet in which Fromm measures the suc- of mixing delinquent and non- negative events?” u first, the vocalists made a detour can sing his solo verse in ‘Frére cess of Joyful Noise. The biggest March 6, 2008 InsideIllinois PAGE 9 Researchers probe a DNA repair enzyme By Kaushik Ragunathan DNA is a fragile molecule that News Bureau Intern undergoes dramatic changes when I researchers have taken exposed to radiation, ultraviolet the first steps toward un- light, toxic chemicals or byprod- Uderstanding how an en- ucts of normal cellular processes. zyme repairs DNA. DNA damage, if not repaired in Enzymes called helicases play time, may lead to mutations, can- a key role in human health, ac- cer or cell death. Many helicases cording to Maria Spies, a profes- in the Rad3 family are key players sor of biochemistry at Illinois. in the cell’s elaborate machinery “DNA helicases act as critical to prevent and repair such damage. components in many molecular Mutations in the human members machineries orchestrating DNA of this helicase family impede repair in the cell,” she said. “Mul- DNA repair and may contribute tiple diseases to breast cancer, including can- Fanconi Anemia cer and aging and Xeroderma are associated pigmentosum. with malfunc- research The research- tions in these ers studied the enzymes.” news archaeal ver- Spies’ labo- sion of Rad3. ratory under- Archaea are mi- took a recent study of an enzyme, crobes whose DNA repair systems called Rad3, which defines a group are closely related to those of hu- of DNA helicases characterized man cells. photo by L. Brian Stauffer by a unique structural domain “(The archaeal Rad3) is a very DNA repair Biochemist Maria Spies and graduate student Robert Pugh have taken the first steps containing iron. The findings ap- good representative of a unique toward understanding how an enzyme repairs DNA. pear in the Journal of Biological family of structurally related DNA Chemistry. repair helicases, all of which have sulfur cluster, an assembly of four mutating the cysteine ligands to ological targets for this helicase. Helicases are a special catego- the same motor core and share iron and four sulfur atoms incor- the cluster, the researchers probed “On making these mutations, the ry of molecular motors that mod- an unprecedented (for helicases) porated into the protein structure its role in the molecular mecha- helicase no longer behaves like ify DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid, structural feature – an accessory through interaction with four nism of Rad3 enzymes. Some of it’s supposed to,” said graduate the fundamental building block of domain stabilized by an iron-sul- cysteine residues of the amino these mutations uncoupled DNA student Robert Pugh, lead author genes and chromosomes). They fur cluster,” Spies said. acid chain. translocation and ATP hydrolysis, on the study. “The cluster is still do so by moving along strands Working with archaea has the “DNA helicases, which belong meaning that the engine of the there but the environment around of DNA, much the same way advantage of allowing the re- to the Rad3 family, have an aux- protein could still use the ATP fuel it is somehow changing.” cars move on roads, using an searchers to increase the amount iliary domain inserted within a but was no longer capable of mov- This research was performed energy-packed molecule, adenos- available protein and also permits conserved motor core. The struc- ing along the DNA. in collaboration with Isaac ine triphosphate (ATP) as a fuel easy genetic manipulation. ture of this domain is stabilized This analysis also revealed that Caan’s group from animal sci- source. Their primary function is Like other helicases, Rad3 is by an iron-sulfur cluster, whose the integrity of the cluster and the ences whose lab is engaged in the to unzip double-stranded DNA, composed of a chain of amino integrity seems to be essential for iron-containing domain is crucial study of nucleotide metabolism in allowing replication and repair of acids. It also contains an ancient proper function of these enzymes for recognition of specific DNA archaea. u the strands. prosthetic group called an iron- in DNA repair,” Spies said. By structures believed to be physi-

Ad removed Ad removed for online for online version version PAGE 10 InsideIllinois March 6, 2008 Six faculty members recognized as University Scholars By Roxana Ryan News Bureau Intern ix Urbana campus faculty members have been recognized as University Scholars. The program recognizesS excellence while helping to identify and retain the university’s most talented teachers, scholars and researchers. Now in its 22nd year, the program provides $10,000 to each scholar for each of three years to use to enhance his or her academic career. Catherine Prendergast, English The money may be used for travel, Charles Gammie, astronomy equipment, research assistants, books or other purposes. “The University Scholars Program, inaugurated in 1985, recognizes faculty who are nominated by their colleagues as among the very best in their fields,” said Mrinalini “Meena” Chatta Rao, university vice president for academic affairs. “The University Scholar designation is not awarded for a specific project or proposal, but rather, it symbolizes the recipient’s excellence and the university’s commitment to foster outstanding faculty and their work.”

The recipients: Edward Feser, a professor of urban and regional planning, joined the faculty three Richard Sproat, linguistics Huimin Zhao, chemical and Romana Nowak, animal sciences years ago. “His analyses of regional eco- biomolecular engineering nomic structure are affecting policy deci- sions of many governments,” wrote Lewis Photography by L. Brian Stauffer Hopkins, emeritus professor of urban and regional planning. “His methodological in astrophysics.” Gammie’s teaching also Catherine Prendergast, research has enabled other scholars and has been widely recognized. “He should be professor of English, joined practitioners in several countries to use his commended for raising the competitiveness the faculty in 1997. “In her methods in their research. His own expe- of the next-generation psychical scientists,” teaching at Illinois, Pren- rience with government agencies has po- Chu said. dergast has translated the sitioned him for innovative work on how v commitments of her schol- government organizations can influence re- arship to social action by gional economic development.” Romana Nowak, professor of animal sci- preparing future teachers Feser also is a superb teacher to indi- ences, joined the faculty in 2000. Since then for challenges they will face vidual students, in framing courses, and in she has established an internationally rec- in teaching, writing and lit- articulating curriculum, according to Hop- ognized research program that focuses on eracy in our high schools,” kins. understanding the mechanisms that regulate said Martin Camargo, head v remodeling in the uterus and how dysregu- of the department of Eng- Edward Feser, urban and regional planning lation of these pathways leads to the repro- lish. Prendergast won four Charles Gammie, professor of astrono- ductive diseases of uterine leiomyomas and national awards including my, joined the faculty in 1999. Gammie is endometriosis, said Neal Merchen, head of the Modern Language Association’s Mina v one of the leading young theorists working the department of animal sciences. Nowak’s P. Shaughnessy Prize for her first book, in astrophysics, according to You-Hua Chu, work is an outstanding example of basic re- “Literacy and Racial Justice After Brown v. Huimin Zhao, professor of chemical and chair of astronomy. “Professor Gammie has search that is clinically relevant and goes Board of Education,” an examination of the biomolecular engineering, is a premier re- made pioneering contributions to under- from the bench to the bedside, Merchen tangled history of literacy and racial justice searcher who continues to make profound standing the structure and dynamics of ac- said. She was awarded more than $5.3 mil- in the United States. For her forthcoming contributions to the field of directed evo- cretion disks around black holes and newly lion in research funding and has provided book, “Buying into English: Language and lution and protein engineering, according formed stars,” Chu said. “His focus has been a broad range of services to the academic Investment in the New Capitalist World,” to Deborah Leckband, the Reid T. Milner on problems that require large-scale com- community and to governmental and pro- she moved her research offshore to reveal Professor of Chemistry in the School of putations for solution, and he has helped fessional organizations. the economic and psychic toll of the world- Chemical Sciences. “Zhao’s advances have formulate new approaches and algorithms v wide chase to learn English. numerous important applications in many to tackle long-standing, unsolved problems v domains, including, for example, biocata- lyst engineering, biofuel production, thera- Richard Sproat, professor of linguistics, peutic treatments for human diseases and joined the faculty in 2003 after 20 years in bioremediation,” Leckband said. As an in- the private sector. “Richard is a world re- dependent scientist, Zhao rapidly developed nowned first-class scholar; a serious, com- and now maintains an enormously produc- mitted and demanding mentor of students; tive research program at Illinois that is cen- and a forward-looking member of the de- tered on the directed evolution of proteins partment and the university,” wrote Elab- and organisms. “Students at Illinois also are bas Benmamoun, head of the department of the beneficiaries of Zhao’s creativity and en- linguistics. “He has worked tirelessly to de- thusiasm,” Leckband wrote. “He has been a velop the curricular and research programs major force in the modernization of the de- Ad removed in language and speech studies, which in partment’s curriculum through his develop- turn has made the UI competitive for ex- ment of biomolecular engineering courses ternal funds and the best students in this and his key involvement in establishing a for online area.” Sproat has done research in many new biomolecular engineering minor.” u areas related to language, speech and com- putational linguistics. “He has been able ON THE WEB to engage colleagues from the humanities, n University Scholars version social sciences and engineering with a full (past Urbana recipents) understanding of what each discipline can www.research.uiuc.edu/usp/ contribute to the project or plan at hand,” past.asp Benmamoun said. “Sproat embodies the best of the interdisciplinary spirit and first class scholarship UI is committed to en- courage.” March 6, 2008 InsideIllinois PAGE 11 Archaeologist: Royals weren’t only builders of Maya temples By Andrea Lynn ison alone would suggest otherwise.” News Bureau Staff Writer To be sure, the historic record is largely n intrepid archaeologist is well on silent on why the Maya, a complex culture her way to dislodging the prevail- with many mysteries still to unravel, had ing assumptions of scholars about several temples in any given center, which the people who built and used is why Lucero, among others, believes that MayaA temples. archaeologists must seek answers from the From the grueling work of analyzing the buildings themselves and “construct more “attributes,” the nitty-gritty physical details creative ways to assess what temple attri- of six temples in Yalbac, a Maya center in butes can reveal about their non-material the jungle of central Belize – and a popular qualities.” target for antiquities looters – primary inves- Lucero’s latest findings are detailed in the tigator Lisa Lucero is building her own theo- most recent issue of Latin American Antiq- ries about the politics of temple construction uity in an article titled “Classic Maya Tem- that began nearly two millennia ago. ples, Politics, and the Voice of the People.” Her findings from the fill, the mortar and Lucero is the leading expert on Yalbac other remnants of jungle-wrapped struc- and the sole authorized archaeologist on the tures lead her to believe that kings weren’t site, authorized by the Belize Institute of the only people building or sponsoring Late Archaeology. She has conducted research in Classic period temples (from about 550 to the area since 1997, and on the Yalbac site 850), the stepped pyramids that rose like since 2002. The work will provide the basis beacons out of the southern lowlands as for her next book project, an exploration of early as 300 B.C. temples as text. “Preliminary results from Yalbac suggest While largely unknown – except to loot- photo by L. Brian Stauffer that royals and nonroyals built temples,” said ers and loggers – Yalbac is a rich site. In New theory Lisa Lucero, professor of anthropology at Illinois, believes that kings Lucero, a UI professor of anthropology. addition to the six temples, it also includes weren’t the only Mayan people building or sponsoring Late Classic period temples In fact, judging by the varieties of con- two plazas, a large royal residence or acrop- (from about 550 to 850), the stepped pyramids that rose like beacons out of the south- struction and materials, any number of dif- olis, and a ball court. Several of the temples ern lowlands as early as 300 B.C. ferent groups – nobles, priests and even are likely royal, three likely residential or commoners – may have built temples, Lu- memorial. None so far has been cleared of Lucero – either on her own or leading this May for a six-week hands-on course in cero said, and their temples undoubtedly surface debris. Only one of the temples has groups of archaeology field school students – archaeological survey and excavation. Luc- served their different purposes and gods. escaped looting. has been able to map the Yalbac site, includ- ero joined Illinois’ department of anthropol- That different groups had the will, resourc- Looters, ironically, paved the way for ing its structures, trenches and stelae – up- ogy last August, after a decade at NMSU. es and freedom to build temples suggests to Lucero’s work to map, excavate and analyze right marker stones, sometimes inscribed, The focus this summer will be on pro- Lucero that “the Maya could choose which Yalbac’s Late Classic period temples. Over erected by the Maya over the millennia. filing the temple looters’ trenches and test temples to worship in and support; they had the years, thieves have carved nine trench- Over the years, she has dated ceram- excavations. Lucero and 10 undergraduates a voice in who succeeded politically.” es into the site in their pursuit of priceless ics found at Yalbac from about 300 B.C. and two graduate assistants will collect data Yalbac’s location on the eastern periph- booty. These same trenches have become through A.D. 900; her plaza test pit exca- from the six temples in order to compare ery of the southern Maya lowlands and its Lucero’s access routes to the temples. Still, vations have exposed floors that date to the temple frequency, size differences, loca- distance from regional centers may explain in order to reduce additional invasion and same period. tion, layout, accessibility, history of use, its particular dynamics and its “relative po- damage to the historic site, Belizean au- “We also have placed test units through- construction patterns, surface decoration litical independence,” Lucero said. thorities restrict her excavation beyond the out the site to get an idea as to monumental and ritual deposits. Her new propositions challenge academ- trenches. architecture construction histories and func- “We also will expand the trenches to see ic thinking on Maya temples. “Maya schol- Some of the evidence she is accumulating tions.” if the looters missed caches – artifacts con- ars have basically assumed that rulers built is in the tons of fill – cobbles, boulders and She has taken four New Mexico State sisting of shell, jade, ceramics, lithics, etc. all the temples,” she said. “No one has ques- stone pebbles, some in the tons of mortar – University field school classes to Yalbac. – that may provide clues as to temple func- tioned this, although cross-cultural compar- marl, plaster, and various kinds of loam. She will take her first UI field school class tion and purpose.” u

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By Melissa Mitchell the journal Multiple Scle- News Bureau Staff Writer rosis, Motl and another f all the debilitating graduate, Jessica Gos- diseases, multiple scle- ney, reviewed published rosis may be among research conducted over the most cruel, UI re- the past four decades. Osearcher Robert Motl believes. They looked at studies That’s because it can literally stop that considered the ef- people in their tracks in the prime fects of exercise training of their lives. interventions on quality “At the end of the day, MS is of life among people with a disease that stops people from MS, and found a positive moving, that robs people of their connection. ability to ambulate,” said Motl, a “We used effects professor of kinesiology and com- from each study to come munity health. “It is chronic, pro- up with an average effect gressive and unpredictable, and across studies and found it occurs at the most devastating that exercise is associat- time of life for people – between ed with a small improve- the ages of 20 and 40. It strikes ment,” Motl said. “But, women most often.” that small improvement And it’s relatively common. is clinically significant.” “Most people know someone Putting the finding in with MS,” said Motl, who added perspective, “disease- that while certain drugs can be ef- modifying drugs also fective in treating various symp- reap what is considered toms, there’s no cure for the dis- to be a similarly sized ease. And as it progresses, so does and meaningful effect,”

the afflicted person’s overarching he said. photo by L. Brian Stauffer concern: “the fear of not walking.” How and why physi- Quality of life Rob Motl, right, and Edward McAuley, both professors of kinesiology and community health, “People use walking as a pri- cal exercise can trans- and graduate student Erin Snook are studying the role of exercise in mitigating the effects of multiple sclerosis. mary way of understanding dis- late to improved quality ease progression with MS,” he of life for an individual said. Progression goes from being with MS is something Motl and mize self-efficacy in order to and other cognitive functions. “For instance, with fatigue, fully ambulatory at the time of McAuley are trying to pinpoint manage quality of life.” “We initially examined the in- there are certain things you can diagnosis to losing one’s balance, with support from a grant from the Designing such programs can tensity of overall symptoms as a do,” he said. “If people may get tripping easily or walking with National Institutes of Health. be challenging he said, “since correlate of physical activity, and more tired by afternoon, they an awkward gait to being unable “What we’ve found are quite most exercise involves upright then examined the possibility that could make sure they get exer- to walk 500 yards, using a cane, a few variables,” Motl said. Most ambulatory movement,” which specific symptoms of fatigue, de- cise in the morning.” Similarly holding onto walls or other people notable among them is a relation- becomes more difficult as the dis- pression and pain would account effective, he said, is the concept for balance, and using a walker or ship between exercise and self- ease progresses. for the association between over- of energy conservation: “Do only scooter for mobility. efficacy, or the confidence that But given that Motl’s research all symptoms and physical activity what you have to do, and do it ef- While others work to find a individuals will succeed at what also has indicated that exercise by way of difficulty walking,” the ficiently.” Also key, he added, is cure – which Motl said is unlikely they’re doing. interventions can have “an over- authors wrote. “planning well.” to materialize any time soon – he “Those who are more physi- riding (positive) effect on walk- Initial results indicated a sta- And if this approach to man- and colleagues at the UI are focus- cally active have more confidence ing ability,” including an outcome tistically significant link between aging symptoms to increase par- ing their research on “understand- in their exercise performance, are comparable to drug interventions low exercise participation and ticipation and adherence in exer- ing the role of exercise as reha- more self-confident in general, – but over a much shorter period – higher levels of overall symp- cise programs can work for those bilitation for MS, with the goal and have more confidence in their he remains interested in exploring toms, fatigue and difficulty walk- with MS, he suspects it also can of slowing, mitigating or end- ability to manage the disease,” determinants for inactivity among ing. Similar connections were not be effective for people suffering ing the devastating effects of the Motl said. this population. found, however, with respect to with depression, fibromyalgia and disease.” Feeling in control of the disease In a paper just published on- depression or pain. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. That work, some of which has means they’re more confident they line in the journal Research in Ultimately, the researchers “This is about focusing on re- included collaboration with gradu- can maintain their ability to walk, Nursing & Health, Motl, Snook determined that walking diffi- habilitation as opposed to medica- ate student Erin Snook and kinesi- and that, he added, “translates to a and co-author Randall T. Scha- culty may explain the relation- tion,” he said. And that represents ology and community health pro- better overall quality of life.” piro examined overall and specif- ship between intensity of overall a significant paradigm shift since fessor Edward McAuley, includes Working from that knowledge, ic symptoms to see if there were symptoms and decreased levels of most past research has been “all examining the impact physical Motl said, rehabilitation efforts – correlations between activity lev- physical activity. about finding drugs that stop or activity may have on symptoms, especially for individuals who’ve els and physical symptoms. The These results reinforce Motl’s slow the disease.” behavior, disability progression recently been diagnosed with MS 10 most common overall symp- belief that in order to get people A new, complementary ap- and overall quality of life of indi- and have not yet developed severe toms associated with MS range with MS to exercise, “we have proach is needed, he said, because viduals diagnosed with MS. disabilities – should focus on “try- from fatigue, difficulty walking, to start by trying to manage their “we’re not even close to curing In a meta-analysis, the results of ing to generate exercise programs stiffness and spasms to dizziness, symptoms.” it.” u which appeared in a recent issue of that are designed in ways to maxi- problems with vision, memory Steering group formed to take next steps in resource summit By Mike Lillich Urbana; Eric A. Gislason (interim), Chica- ately committed to strengthening the qual- reducing administrative duplication and bu- University Relations go; and Richard D. Ringeisen, Springfield. ity, academic environment and reputation of reaucratic waste. s part of President B. Joseph White’s They will propose five-year operating and the University of Illinois and … the funda- White enumerated the substantive ques- resources summit initiative, he has capital budgets as well as short-term actions mental change to achieve these goals.” tions the resource initiative seeks to answer Aappointed a systemwide steering to improve effectiveness and efficiency at In addition to five-year budgets, long- going forward: group and charged it to construct a long- the campus and system levels. term plans include streamlining administra- n Are we trying to support “too much term revenue and expenditure plan that The first meeting of White’s Dec. 6 re- tive functions at both the system and cam- university” with the dollars we have? “delivers the most resources possible to the source summit brought together 125 lead- pus levels through careful planning and at- n How can we examine the scope of aca- academic front lines.” ers – the chancellors, provosts, faculty trition; achieving cost containment through demic offerings at our three campuses to Making up the group are Walter K. Knorr, senate representatives, deans, department energy production efficiency and conser- improve quality and free up resources to vice president and chief financial officer; heads and students – representing the three vation; regularly and rigorously reviewing better support faculty members, academic Meena C. Rao, vice president for academic campuses; university administration; the academic programs to avoid overlap and programs and students? affairs; and Avijit Ghosh, vice president for foundation; and alumni association at the Il- sprawl; and seeking change in externally n How can we reduce the growth of cen- technology and economic development; lini Union in Urbana. imposed regulations that impose unneces- tral costs at all levels – university adminis- Douglas H. Vinzant, senior associate vice White described the group’s task as “a sary financial burdens. tration, colleges/schools and departments? president for planning and administration; dialogue on how we can deliver maximum In his message, White also announced a n How can the university leadership col- and provosts Linda P.B. Katehi in Urbana, resources to the front lines: faculty positions number of short-term actions suggested by laborate to undertake this initiative in a way R. Michael Tanner in Chicago and Harry and salaries and financial support of our core the summit attendees to be implemented im- that will yield meaningful and constructive Berman in Springfield, who will appoint academic missions of teaching, research, mediately. They included ensuring sufficient results? campus working groups to address resource service and economic development.” financial support of all faculty members in White said that while the UI’s resources issues such as salary competitiveness, The daylong dialogue then migrated to support of their teaching, research and pro- from the state, tuition payers and private do- administrative and academic program re- a dedicated Web site where the participants fessional development, taking immediate nors have grown at a reasonable rate in the dundancy and waste reduction. continued their discussions. steps to promote energy efficiency, develop- past few years, the softening economy and The steering group will meet with In a February e-mail to faculty and staff ing service centers to support aggregations state budget woes suggest a period of tight White and chancellors Richard H. Herman, members, White declared himself “passion- of small departments where appropriate and budgets on the horizon. u March 6, 2008 InsideIllinois PAGE 13 Honey bee invaders exploit their genetic resources By Diana Yates cessors in the New World, which nome, he said. News Bureau Staff Writer were primarily of western Euro- “But actually what we ike any species that as- pean stock. When the European found was there was a prefer- pires to rule the world, old-timers mixed with the African ence for picking up functional the honey bee, Apis mel- newcomers, their offspring looked, parts of the western European lifera, invades new terri- and in most respects behaved, like genome over the nonfunc- Ltories in repeated assaults. A new the African honey bees. tional parts.” study demonstrates that when These more aggressive, “Af- It appeared that the Afri- these honey bees arrive in a place ricanized” bees (so-called “killer canized bees that kept some that has already been invaded, the bees”) received a lot of media at- of the functional western Eu- newcomers benefit from the ge- tention in the U.S. as they moved ropean genes were gaining an netic endowment of their prede- north from South America. Ac- advantage, Whitfield said. cessors. cording to the U.S. Department of “Those African bees are The findings appear last week Agriculture, the first Africanized doing better because there in Proceedings of the National honey bees appeared in Texas in were western European hon- Academy of Sciences. 1990. In less than a decade they ey bees there for them to mix The researchers, UI entomol- also had spread to southern Cali- with,” he said. “Now we can ogy professor Charles Whitfield fornia, Arizona, Nevada and New say we have a signature for and postdoctoral researcher Amro Mexico. evolution in the genome.” Zayed, analyzed specific markers Whitfield and Zayed wanted to While the researchers do of change in the genes of honey understand the evolutionary mech- not yet know how these Euro- bees in Africa, Europe, Asia and anism that allowed the African pean honey bee genes are en- the Americas. They also focused honey bees to move into these new hancing the survival and fit- on geographic regions – such territories and dominate the bees ness of the Africanized bees in as Brazil in South America – that had arrived in the New World the Americas, Whitfield said, where multiple honey bee inva- centuries earlier from eastern and it may be that specific traits sions had occurred. western Europe. from western Europe are ben- The researchers were looking Their analysis of about 440 eficial, or it may be that being for tiny variations in the sequenc- SNPs selected randomly from a hybrid is, in and of itself, a es of nucleotides that make up all throughout the Africanized honey good thing for these bees. genes. Certain versions of these bee genome showed that most of In a separate finding, the single nucleotide polymorphisms the alleles were common to Afri- researchers also discovered (SNPs, or “snips”) are more com- can honey bees. But of the alleles a genomewide signature of mon to African honey bees, while common to European bees, those evolution associated with the others occur more frequently in found in functional parts of the ancient expansion of honey honey bees in western Europe, genome (in genes) were showing bees from Africa into tem- photo by L. Brian Stauffer eastern Europe, or Asia. up more frequently than those in perate regions of western Genomic evolution Entomology professor Charles Whitfield, right, By comparing these SNPs in nonfunctional regions (between and northern Europe. In this and postdoctoral researcher Amro Zayed analyzed specific markers bees from different geographic genes). expansion, functional parts of change in the genes of honey bees in Africa, Europe, Asia and the territories, and by looking at the “We asked the question: Is hy- of the genome have changed Americas. They also focused on geographic regions – such as Brazil in frequency at which particular al- bridization an essentially random more than nonfunctional South America – where multiple honey bee invasions had occurred. leles, or variants, occur in func- process?” Zayed said. When the parts. Whitfield thinks that tional and nonfunctional parts of African honey bees mated with these changes may involve store resources.” thrive in very harsh winter con- the honey bee genome, the re- the western European honey bees social adaptations to survive the Not needing to survive in such ditions in this temperate region?” searchers were able to determine that had been in South America for hard winters. cold weather, African bees store Whitfield asked. “Humans did it, that the invading bees were not centuries, one might expect that “The way the honey bees sur- less food and reproduce more. and Apis mellifera did it in some just randomly acquiring genetic the hybrid offspring would ran- vive in temperate regions is sort “So how does an animal that’s interestingly parallel ways.” material from their predecessors domly pick up both the functional of the way humans do,” Whitfield basically tropical make it? How Whitfield is an affiliate of the by interbreeding with them, but and nonfunctional parts of the ge- said. “They have a shelter. They does it expand its territory and Institute for Genomic Biology. u that certain genes from the previ- ously introduced bees were giving the newcomers an advantage. CONSORTIUM, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 An earlier study led by Whit- ship on environmental issues and has pro- conservation, and requiring larger renova- air conditioning systems in many other build- field and published in Science in vided seed funding to five working groups tion projects and new construction projects to ings to maximize efficiency. 2006 showed that A. mellifera that are developing curricula and conducting qualify for silver-level certification under the Students are involved in many green proj- originated in Africa and not Asia, research into global warming, renewable en- U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in ects on campus, including a program in which as some had previously hypoth- ergy, and other issues. Through the Energy Energy and Environmental Design program. waste vegetable oil from university dining esized. Biosciences Institute, a collaboration with the The Business Instructional Facility, opening halls is being collected and converted into That study revealed that the University of California-Berkeley, the Law- this fall, is being constructed to LEED gold biodiesel for fueling university vehicles. Cur- honey bee had expanded its ter- rence Berkeley National Laboratory and BP, standards with a green roof, photovoltaic pan- ricular initiatives include student teams per- ritory into Eurasia at least twice, the UI established the world’s first research els and special lighting controls. Accordingly, forming energy audits of campus buildings resulting in populations in east- institution dedicated to the emerging field of the preliminary design for the National Center and developing a sustainable design for the ern and western Europe that were energy bioscience and the development of for Supercomputing Applications’ Blue Wa- South Farms. Interdisciplinary student teams quite different from one another. next-generation biofuels. ters petascale computing facility, expected to also participate in the U.S. Department of En- The earlier analysis also con- Herman also recently endorsed the Urbana go online in 2011, includes a 98 percent effi- ergy’s biennial Solar Decathlon, in which they firmed and extended results of campus Energy Use Policy, establishing sea- cient power distribution system and a cooling design, build and operate energy-efficient, previous studies showing that Af- sonal building temperature guidelines, em- tower for water-cooled hardware. The campus fully solar-powered homes. u rican honey bees had mixed with phasizing personal responsibility in energy also is retro-fitting the heating, ventilating and but largely displaced their prede-

Ad removed Ad removed for online for online version version PAGE 14 InsideIllinois March 6, 2008 Institute launches inaugural projects hree diverse efforts will be the inaugu- of petascale parallel programming tools arrays (FPGAs) – in science and engineer- deaths ral projects of the new Institute for Ad- and petascale applications. This project will ing applications. The mission is to empow- Tvanced Computing Applications and combine potentially petascale applications ­ er science and engineering researchers by Dale E. Coad, 80, died Feb. 22. He Technologies at the UI. The institute trans- including codes for astrophysical (FLASH) enabling their applications to run 100 times was an electronics technician for the fers advances from the computer science and biomolecular (NAMD) simulation and faster and at much lower cost than tradition- School of Chemical Sciences from and engineering research at the National for determining the electronic-structure of al parallel processing techniques. Research- 1954 until his retirement in 1988. Center for Supercomputing Applications to materials (QMCpack and MECCA)­ with ers will work on new algorithms and pro- Memorials: Our Lady of the Lake the larger scientific, engineering, and arts, needed computer science research. Efforts gramming styles for taking full advantage Catholic Church, 501 W. State St., humanities and social science communities will focus on adaptive runtime systems that of acceleration technologies in molecular Mahomet, IL 51853. in order to speed progress across all of these automate dynamic load balancing and fault dynamics and quantum chemistry (collabo- Ethel Mae Davis, 61, died Feb. frontiers. tolerance, enhancement of parallel program- rating with Klaus Schulten, Todd Martinez, 25 at Carle Foundation Hospital in “These projects will bring the devel- ming abstractions, best-practice software Jim Phillips, Laxmikant Kale, and John Urbana. She retired in 1999 after 28 opment and deployment competencies engineering to petascale applications via Stone), cosmology (Robert Brunner), and years as a secretary in aerospace en- of NCSA to bear on challenges in diverse refactoring tools, productive programming biomedical imaging (Brad Sutton). gineering. disciplines and will forge unique collabo- environments that integrate performance “Acceleration technology is a truly ex- Darrell “Deak” Hulmes, 72, died rations between Illinois faculty and NCSA analysis and debugging tools, and automati- citing area, and with the combined exper- Feb. 27 at Carle Foundation Hospi- staff,” said institute and NCSA director cally tuned libraries. tise of the university’s academic units and tal in Urbana. He was employed in Thom Dunning. “It’s very exciting to be “Our major goal,” Johnson said, “is to fo- NCSA we can accelerate advancement in steam distribution at the UI from able to foster such innovative work.” cus on applications having impact on chal- computational science and engineering by 1967 to 1997. Memorials: Salvation The institute is organized around five lenging physical problems of broad com- a full decade,” said Hwu. Army, Mahomet Area Youth Club or broad themes: Advanced Information Sys- munity interest and that could really show n Cultural Informatics, led by Michael American Cancer Society. tems, Computing and Creativity, Data- sustained petascale performance given the Ross (Krannert Center for the Performing Merle M. Ohlsen, 93, died Feb. 26 intensive Applications and Technologies, right computer science tools and libraries Arts). The project will apply information in Savoy. Ohlsen was a professor Simulation of Natural and Engineered Sys- on the planned hardware. Concerted effort science and technology to the creation and of education for 19 years, retiring tems, and the Center for Petascale Comput- between the physical and computer scien- comprehension of human experience, to the in 1969. Memorials: Merle Ohlsen ing. Two of the initial projects are under the tists is critical for this to happen – not all understanding and expression of the human Scholarship Fund at Indiana State Simulation of Natural and Engineered Sys- square blocks fit into the same round hole. condition, and to the revelation and com- University or the UI Foundation. tems, while the third falls under Computing The outcome is solutions to problems that, munication of human values and meaning. Ina Rae Patterson, 77, died Feb. and Creativity. up until now, were impossible.” This may include the creation of new aes- 18. She was an administrative clerk The three projects launched in January: n Next-Generation Acceleration Sys- thetic works, public engagement, formal in the Office of the Chancellor for 25 n Synergistic Research on Parallel tems for Advanced Science and Engineer- and informal education, the performing years before retiring in 1995. Programming for Petascale Applications, ing Applications, led by Wen-mei Hwu, arts, museum and other exhibition venues, Mima J. Spencer, 79, died Feb. 12 led by Duane Johnson, materials science electrical and computer engineering/Coor- and design strategies that affect society. u in Eugene, Ore. She worked for the and engineering, and Laxmikant Kale, com- dinated Science Laboratory. This project Early Childhood Resources Center ON THE WEB puter science. Effectively harnessing the will develop application algorithms, pro- for more than 20 years and retired as power of supercomputers – like the sus- gramming tools, and software artifacts for n Institute for Advanced associate director in 1991. u tained-petascale Blue Waters system sched- seamless deployment of next-generation ac- Computing Applications and uled to come online at the UI in 2011 – celerators – including graphics processing Technologies will require the coordinated development units (GPUs) and field-programmable gate www.iacat.uiuc.edu achievements A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members agricultural, consumer and environmental tion and outreach,” said W. Lyle Roberts Jr., Campus 2008: Profiles of Success at Col- histories of the built environment and visual sciences chief executive officer of the Illinois Soy- leges and Universities.” Others recipients culture. The Illinois Council on Food and Agri- bean Association. are Goucher College, Nebraska Wesleyan cultural Research presented the 2008 Donald University, Pittsburgh State University and university library A. Holt Achievement Award to the Illinois campus award Valparaiso University. Jane Block, head of the Ricker Library of Center for Soy Foods at the organization’s The UI’s Urbana-Champaign campus William Brustein, the UI’s associate pro- Architecture and Art at the UI, will be hon- annual meeting Feb. 12 in Springfield. Each has been selected to receive the 2008 Sen. vost for international affairs and director of ored by the Belgian government for her schol- year, the council recognizes a research team Paul Simon Award for Campus Internation- International Programs and Studies, said Il- arship on the art and culture of Belgium. that has demonstrated outstanding and in- alization. linois’ status as the only institution in the Block will be granted the honorary title novative team research and outreach. The The award, presented by NAFSA: Associ- United States to rank in the top five in three of “Officer in the Order of Leopold” and award is named in honor of Holt, a long- ation of International Educators, recognizes key metrics of campus internationalization will be presented with a civic decoration time advocate for practical and sound food the university for “outstanding and innova- was a key reason for the recognition. Il- and certificate signed by King Albert II dur- and agricultural research. tive efforts in campus internationalization.” linois ranks second in the number of Title ing a private ceremony at 12:30 p.m. March Led by UI researchers Keith Cadwallad- NAFSA is the world’s largest non-profit VI U.S. Department of Education National 7 at the Sofitel Chicago Water Tower hotel. er, Barbara Klein, Pradeep Khanna and Karl association dedicated to international edu- Resource Centers (with eight), fourth in the Renilde Loeckx-Drozdiak, the con- Weingartner, the center’s team of 15 faculty cation. The award honors the memory of number of international students on cam- sul general of Belgium in New York, will members and academic professionals have Simon, a lifelong advocate of internation- pus, and fifth in the number of undergradu- present the honors. Paul Van Halteren, the used their expertise in food chemistry, nu- al education who, until his death in 2003, ates who study abroad. honorary consul of Chicago, also has been trition, management and food technology supported efforts to expand U.S. students’ invited. to undertake a variety of successful projects participation in study-abroad and exchange fine and applied arts Block, the Andrew Turyn Professor in and activities to promote soy foods. programs. Dianne Harris, professor of landscape the University Library, has focused her “Over the past seven years, this research The UI is one of five universities re- architecture, was named editor for a new scholarship on various aspects of European team has provided the necessary expertise ceiving this year’s Simon Award, and will series to be published by the University of progressive art in the decades before and and leadership to position the center as the be featured with the other institutions in Pittsburgh Press. Books in the series will after 1900, with a particular emphasis on world leader in soy foods research, educa- the NAFSA report “Internationalizing the focus on social justice, human rights and developments in Belgium. u

Ad removed for online version March 6, 2008 InsideIllinois PAGE 15 brief Project takes contemporary look at Shakespeare classics notes ll the community’s a stage this spring as the UI the community,” Mitchell Illinois State Geological Survey theater department and other local thespians ex- said. “We’re lucky to have Open House is March 7-8 Aplore Shakespeare’s classic works in a contem- so much going on. We’ve The Illinois State Geological Survey will host its 2008 porary context. got high school, college and Open House from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. March 7 and 10 a.m.-2 The drama – and comedy – began last month and community actors all per- p.m. March 8. The event will showcase the earth science continue through April with performers and speakers forming in great plays. research conducted by the survey scientists. There will be from the UI and throughout Champaign-Urbana intro- “I’m looking forward to demonstrations and activities for all ages. The open house ducing audiences to the best of the Bard at various ven- the fresh and irreverent ap- is at the Natural Resources Building. More information is ues. Those venues include the Krannert Center for the proaches in some of the pro- at www.isgs.uiuc.edu. Performing Arts, McKinley Foundation, Parkland Col- ductions,” he said. lege Theater, Channing-Murray Foundation and Station Krannert Center creative American Association of University Professors Theater. University Laboratory High School students specialist Bridget Lee-Cal- Promotion and tenure workshop also are in on the act. fas said the center’s Prom- The Urbana chapter of the American Association of Taking the lead on the communitywide project is enade gift shop is even playing a small part in the fes- University Professors will sponsor a workshop March 11: Tom Mitchell, interim head of the UI theater depart- tivities. “Achieving Tenure and Promotion – Policies and Proce- ment. Mitchell has been working collaboratively with “Visitors will be able to indulge in all things Shake- dures on the UIUC Campus.” The program will begin at academic colleagues and community counterparts on speare by visiting the shop, where, among other Eliza- 2:30 p.m. in 314B Illini Union. a full-spectrum of Shakespearean experiences that he bethan novelties, they can find After Shakespeare Mints Five panel members will make short presentations, lead hopes will provide both seasoned Shakespeare enthu- and William Shakespeare action figures,” she said. And the discussion and answer questions from the audience. siasts and relative newcomers to the playwright with at the almost weekly Krannert Uncorked, beginning at 5 This program is of particular interest to new and continu- forums for exploring the many facets of producing, per- p.m. x Thursdays, guests will be able to sample Shake- ing tenure-track assistant professors and associate profes- forming and enjoying the classic works. speare-inspired wine selections. sors seeking promotion. “This focus on Shakespeare presents an opportunity A full schedule of events and activities is online at The panelists (and the topics they will address): Provost to see the variety of theatrical experiences available in www2.KrannertCenter.com/Shakespeare. u Linda Katehi and Vice Provost Ruth Watkins (campus poli- cies, three-year review procedures); Gary G. Porton, the Intersection of biology and politics Charles and Sarah Drobny Professor of Talmudic Studies Hall. More programs for other dimensions of wellness will and Judaism, and past chair of the Campus Promotion and Conference is first of its kind be featured next semester. Tenure Committee (procedures followed by the Promotion Biology and politics may seem like strange bedfellows, Events: and Tenure Committee); Billie Jean Theide, professor of especially in higher education, but for a growing number of March 11 (social): “The Benefits of Volunteerism,” Beth art and design, chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee social and natural scientists on college campuses across the Welbus, senior coordinator of research, UI Center for Pre- (appeal procedures); and Cary Nelson, Jubilee Professor country, the intersection of these disciplines offers intrigu- vention Research and Development, and Lynn Peisker, Vol- of Liberal Arts and Sciences and president of the National ing potential for scholarly inquiry. unteer Connections coordinator, United Way of Champaign AAUP (position of and support provided by the AAUP). That intersection is the basis for an upcoming confer- County. Registration is not required; all faculty members are wel- ence to be held March 7-8 at the UI’s Institute for Genomic April 1 (environmental): “A Dose of Nature: Everyday come. Refreshments will be served. For more information, Biology. Contact With Nature and the Impact on Wellness,” William contact Harry H. Hilton, 333-2653, [email protected]. The conference is the first of its kind, said conference Sullivan, professor of landscape architecture and director co-organizer Ira H. Carmen, a professor of political science of the UI Environmental Council, and Judy Miller, envi- CITES security office who has devoted much of his research to the intersection ronmental program manager, Anita Purves Nature Center, SSN removal deadline is March 14 of genetics and politics. “We will be exploring a new para- Urbana Park District. March 14 is the deadline for unit heads to submit the digm linking political science with genomic and neurosci- April 29 (physical): “Successful Aging and the Brain,” data-collection forms and certificates to the security office entific research.” Art Kramer, professor of psychology, Campus Neurosci- in the Office of Chief Information Officer indicating that The conference Web site is at www-app.igb.uiuc.edu/ ence Program, Institute of Aviation, and the Beckman Insti- they have completed the Social Security Number elimina- biopolitics. Registration is open and limited to 70 people. tute, and Laura Payne, Extension Specialist, UI department tion program for all computer systems for which they are Organizers may be contacted at [email protected]. of recreation, sport and tourism. responsible. Gene E. Robinson, a professor of entomology, is the oth- For more information, contact Brenda Koester at 244- The SSN removal program and scanning tools identify er conference organizer. Both he and Carmen are affiliated 6486 or [email protected]. sensitive personal data such as SSNs and credit-card num- with the institute. Robinson’s area of expertise is the mech- Child Development Laboratory bers in computer files so the files can be eliminated to pre- anisms of behavior in social insects. He directs the neuro- vent accidental disclosure. science program at Illinois and is the chair of the institute’s Apply now for academic year 2008-09 As part of the project, the Urbana campus has adopted genomics of neural and behavioral plasticity theme. The Child Development Laboratory is accepting appli- standards that require all faculty and staff members with Scholars from around the U.S. will discuss the biologi- cations for the 2008-2009 school year. Half-day preschool access to SSNs deploy the SSN scanning software annu- cal antecedents of human social behavior, particularly po- programs for 2-, 3- and 4-year-old children will be Tuesday ally, and that any laptop computers they use be registered in litical attitudes and behaviors, Carmen said. through Friday for three hours a day during the regular aca- use of the software annually. Laptops containing sensitive The conference will offer panels on: “Genetics and Poli- demic year. Full-day child-care programs for children from data must be identified as such. Unit heads must sign off tics,” “Neuroscience and Politics,” “Cranial Responses to 6 weeks to 4 years are in session from 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. every year certifying that their unit has fulfilled the data- Out-Groups,” “Personality and Ideology: Evolutionary Im- Monday through Friday year-round. security requirements. plications” and “Biology and Sociality.” Orientation tours of both facilities are offered weekly. The security office is providing consultation and support The conference sponsors are the National Science Foun- Hour-long tours depart from the lobby of the Early Child during and after the SSN elimination project to assist units dation, the IGB, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Development Lab facility at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and in securing systems that warrant retaining SSNs and in de- and the department of political science. 9:30 a.m. on Thursdays. Use the Lincoln Avenue entrance veloping plans for the elimination of SSNs from other sys- off of the Jimmy John’s parking lot. Tours are suspended Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities tems. The security office also will provide the chancellor’s during the enrollment months of April and May. and provost’s offices, as well as the university’s auditors, Photos reflect Cuban hip-hop scene To complete an online enrollment application, visit with a summary report on the status of each unit. The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities is www.cdl.uiuc.edu. For more information or to schedule a See www.cites.uiuc.edu/ssnprogram/ for more informa- hosting the exhibition, “Que Bola: Cuban Hip Hop in Mo- tour, call 244-8622. For full consideration, submit applica- tion, including deadlines and required forms. tion,” by UI professor Marc D. Perry, through May 9. tions for half-day programs by April 1 and full-day pro- The exhibition offers a series of photographic images grams by May 1. Staff Human Resources that Perry shot in Havana in the summer of 2006, celebrat- Civil Service Employees Town hall meetings, training announced ing the vibrant energy and creative design of Cuba’s hip- The Staff Human Resources is starting a contemporary hop movement. This is the first exhibition of photographs Apply by April 4 for scholarships performance-management system, the Performance Part- by Perry, a professor of African-American studies and of Applications for civil service employee and dependent nership Program, for employees represented by AFSCME anthropology and a 2007-08 IPRH Faculty Fellow. scholarships are available online through the Staff Human Local 3700 and Open Range Civil Service employees. The The images provide a compelling view of the intensity Resources home page at www.pso.uiuc.edu. Printed copies start-up date for the program is April 1. of the performer and audience in the making of hip hop in may be obtained from civil service representatives Barney Several town hall meetings will be conducted for these Cuba and are part of his current book project, “Revolution- Bryson, Gary Fry or Jeff Goldberg. The application dead- employees to review features of the program and answer izing Blackness: Hip Hop in Late Socialist Cuba.” line is April 4. questions. These meetings are considered approved events. “The project centers on the ways young Afro-Cuban Typically, recipients are selected the second week in Employees may be released from work to attend without men and women are using hip-hop culture to fashion new May and honored at an award ceremony in mid-June. Last loss of pay, departmental operations permitting, and with expressions of black Cuban identity and accompanying year scholarships were awarded to two employees and four appropriate supervisory approval. anti-racist critique,” Perry said. dependents of employees. The committee tries to award In addition, for staff members who supervise these em- The exhibition is free and open to the public. For more about eight scholarships each year to qualified people pur- ployees, mandatory training will demonstrate how the Per- information, call 224-3344 or visit www.iprh.uiuc.edu. suing degrees of higher education at an accredited college formance Partnership Program will be administered and the or university. Family Resiliency Center tools that will be used. College of Engineering Town hall meetings in the auditorium of the Beckman Family wellness series announced Institute: March 10, 10:30 a.m.-noon or 1-2:30 p.m.; March The Family Resiliency Center is offering a Family Well- Starting a business through research 18, 10:30 a.m.-noon. ness Series this semester. The series focuses on the six di- The College of Engineering will host a presentation that Supervisor training in the Beckman Institute (room var- mensions of wellness (physical, intellectual, spiritual, emo- will explore questions to consider when deciding whether ies) will be from 9 a.m.-noon or 1:30-4:30 p.m. on March tional, social and environmental) and will offer a research to start a company. John Rogers, UI professor of electri- 11, 13, 14 and 20 and at 9 a.m. -noon on March 24. and an applied perspective on a particular topic within one cal and computer engineering, will discuss “Spinning Out The town hall meetings and supervisor training sessions of the dimensions. a Company From Your Research” at 4 p.m. March 12 in require advance registration. For more information and to The series is free and open to the public. Each session Room 190 of the Engineering Sciences Building. register, visit www.pso.uiuc.edu/Labor/PPP.html is from 4-5 p.m. in the studio of Doris Kelley Christopher SEE BRIEFS, PAGE 16 PAGE 16 InsideIllinois March 6, 2008

BRIEFS, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 The talk will explore Rogers’ experiences as a faculty member starting a company, Semprius Inc. After the talk, UI Extension hosts Moon Walk April 4-June 27 Rogers will be joined by patent lawyer Stephen Barone, esponding to a challenge to “race to the moon” Illinois-VENTURES’ senior director John Regan, UI Re- by the city of Peoria, UI Extension Champaign search Park manager Scott Pickard, and senior technology RCounty has announced its sponsorship of Moon manager Mark Kaczor for a discussion to answer audience Walk 2008, a 12-week race aimed to encourage people questions. To register, e-mail [email protected] by March 7. to walk more and reap the related health benefits. To accomplish the mission to the moon, Extension School of Social Work is recruiting teams throughout Champaign County who Continuing education event is March 28 will record their miles walked. Participants’ miles will The UI School of Social Work and the School of So- be combined with all local moon-walkers. The race be- cial Work Alumni Association will present the Spring 2008 gins April 4 and ends June 27. Continuing Education Event on March 28 at the Hawthorn “We are always looking for fun ways to encourage Suites Hotel and Conference Center, 101 Trade Centre people to be active. Moon Walk is just the right program Drive, Champaign. because it involves a friendly competition between the This year’s workshop schedule offers four sessions. city of Peoria and Champaign to see who can get to the Each session has been approved for three hours of continu- moon first,” said Jamie Kleiss, UI Extension Health and ing-education credit. Seating is limited, so register early. Wellness Programs. For a brochure, call 244-5241 or e-mail ambeck@uiuc. Moon Walk is based on research that shows in 30 edu. The cost for the full day is $135 ($120 if registered by minutes a day, five or more days a week you can help 100 miles walked and an invitation to the Moon Walk March 18)/$15 for students. The cost for a half-day is: $80 prevent, arrest and reverse major health issues such as Launch Party on April 3 at Parkland College Planetar- ($65 if registered by March 18)/$10 for students. obesity, heart disease, hypertension, Type II diabetes ium. The first 100 people to register also will receive a The sessions: and depression. pedometer. n “Bridging the Chasm: How Social Workers Can Help Families, businesses, organizations and individuals To register or to learn more, call the UI Extension Immigrant Families,” 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m. are encouraged to participate. Registration is required. Champaign County office at 333-7672 or visit http:// n “Response to Intervention: Implementing Effective Cost is $5 per participant, which includes a T-shirt after moonwalk.extension.uiuc.edu. u Tier II Interventions,” 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m. n “From Subpoena to Trial: Courtroom Preparation for Social Workers,” 1:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. science methodology and on the evolution of the social sci- The workshop is organized by the Collaborative for Cul- n “Parenting and Severe Mental Illness,” 1:30 p.m.- ences and the academic system. tural Heritage and Museum Practices. 4:45 p.m. A reception will follow the lecture. Handel’s ‘Solomon’ Asian American Awareness Month University YMCA BACH to perform March 15 Cultural center hosts activities International dinner is March 9 The Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana will pres- Activities during Asian American Awareness Month The University YMCA, Cosmopolitan Club and Inter- ent Handel’s oratorio “Solomon” at 7:30 p.m. March 15 at center on the theme, “We are Here … This is Our Voice.” national Student and Scholar Services will host the 25th Smith Memorial Hall. The celebration begins with an exhibition: “Asian Amer- Annual International Dinner and Performance Night at 6 UI professor Chester Alwes Jr. will conduct the orches- ican Art Show: ‘Reflections of Who I Am…’ ” at the Asian p.m. March 9 at the University YMCA. Tickets are $8 for a tra, chorus and soloists, including countertenor Jay Carter American Cultural Center, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 sampling of food and music from all over the world. (as Solomon) and sopranos Sherezade Panthaki, Meagan p.m. On display through April, the exhibit also will be fea- Tickets can be purchased at the University YMCA. Seats Smith and Leann Schuering. tured at an art reception from 2-4 p.m. April 20 during the are limited. Tickets prices are $18 for general admission, $15 for se- Boneyard Arts Festival. Families, international students and faculty members nior citizens, and $10 for students (for students only: Buy Events continue with the Asian American Studies Pro- come together for an evening of food from more than 30 one, get one free). Tickets are available at the door, from gram’s Asian American conferences: countries and a variety of live entertainment. the BACH office (378-6802), at Techline (24 E. Green St., March 7-8: “Philippine Palimpsests” will examine the Champaign) or at www.baroqueartists.org. Historic urban environment Filipino Diaspora with respect to past and present. Lincoln Bicentennial Lecture March 28-29: “Korean Education Exodus” will focus on Heritage Cities Workshop is March 7--8 the changing Korean America with the arrival of new im- Scholars will talk about cities in Bolivia, China, Cuba, Civil War historian will speak March 12 migrants. Eastern Europe, Egypt, North Africa, Peru and the U.S. James M. McPherson, widely regarded as the greatest April 15-16: “Southeast Asians in the Diaspora” will ex- during the Heritage Cities workshop March 7-8. living historian of the U.S. Civil War, will deliver the Lin- plore the identity of Southeast Asian Americans as a result Heritage Cities considers the historic urban environment coln Bicentennial Lecture at the UI on March 12. of their specific histories. both with respect to problems – such as authenticity and the His lecture, “Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Com- For information about activities, go to the Asian Ameri- preservation of something that is inherently unstable and mander-in-Chief,” will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium can Cultural Center Web site, www.odos.uiuc.edu/aacc/, or dynamic – and possibilities – such as revival and revitaliza- of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. contact May Xiong, 333-9300 or [email protected]. tion. The preservation of cultural heritage is typically re- The talk is sponsored by the history department and garded as a common good, but heritage also is intertwined is free and open to the public. The event inaugurates the Windsor Lecture with identity and territory, where individuals and commu- history department’s yearlong celebration of the Lincoln Abbot speaks on library research nities may compete. This aspect of heritage is particularly bicentennial, which will include a series of distinguished Andrew Abbott, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Dis- problematic in cities across the globe that are marketed as speakers, specialized undergraduate courses and outreach tinguished Service Professor in the department of sociol- heritage cities. Multiple claims from diverse inhabitants are workshops for area teachers. ogy at the University of Chicago, will give the Spring 2008 inevitable and more than one of these may claim the right McPherson is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor Windsor Lecture at the Graduate School of Library and to interpret or possess an individual site or building. Does Emeritus of American History at Princeton University. Information Science at 4 p.m. March 12. During his talk, the historic urban fabric belong to the current or past resi- University Library “Library Research and Its Infrastructure in the 20th Cen- dents? tury,” Abbott will discuss the co-evolution over the 20th The workshop is 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. March 7 in Doris Kel- Spring book sale March 10-14 century of the library research community and the libraries ley Christopher Hall and 9 a.m.-noon March 8 at Illinois The University Library’s Book Nook is planning a half- in which that community worked. Project for Research in the Humanities. The workshop is price book sale from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. March 10-14. Paper- Known for his ecological theories of occupations, Ab- free and open to the public and lunch is provided on March backs will cost $1 to $1.50 and most hard-cover books will bott also has pioneered algorithmic analysis of social se- 7 with reservation. Visit www.champ.uiuc.edu for program cost $2. The Book Nook is located at the welcome desk on quence data. He has written on the foundations of social details. Contact [email protected] to register. the first floor of the library in the bronze tablet hallway. u

Ad removed for online version March 6, 2008 InsideIllinois PAGE 17 Much of this information is drawn from the online Campus Calendars on the UI Web site at www.uiuc.edu/uicalendar. Other calendar entries should be sent 15 days before the desired publication date to [email protected]. calendar More information is available from Marty Yeakel at 333-1085. of events Note: $ indicates Admission Charge March 6 to 23 lectures 6 Thursday “The Republic of Ecuador, its Social and Economic Reform Architect shares expertise with students Agenda, and the Relations Architecture professors Botond Bognar, Paul With the United States.” Luis Armstrong, Kevin Erickson and Kathryn Anthony Benigno Gallegos Chiriboga, ambassador of Ecuador. 3:15 (counterclockwise from lower left) met with Japanese p.m. 101 International Studies architect Kengo Kuma (lower right) on Feb. 25 to critique Building. Latin American and student designs for a hypothetical new Krannert Art Caribbean Studies. Museum. Kuma, one of Japan’s leading architects whose “Nations of Immigrants.” Donna Gabaccia, University of designs have been built throughout the world, is the UI Minnesota. 4 p.m. Knight Au- School of Architecture’s Plym Distinguished Professor ditorium, Spurlock Museum. for 2007-08. As such, he has visited Illinois several times Center for Advanced Study. throughout the year to lecture and meet with students. 7 Friday During spring break, he will lead a group of UI students on “Official English: From White House to the Schoolhouse.” a one-week study-abroad trip to Tokyo and Osaka, where Dennis Baron, UI. Noon. Latzer they will visit design projects by Kuma and other noted Hall, University YMCA. Fri- contemporary architects. day Forum. Kuma, who established the firm Kengo Kuma & 10 Monday Associates in Tokyo in 1990, has designed art museums “Good Ideas for Books and Articles That You Wouldn’t in Japan and Germany. While on campus last month, he Have Time to Write Even If reviewed plans and models for the “fantasy” art museum You Lived to Be 100.” Daniel designed in just a week by students in studio courses F. Littlefield Jr., Sequoyah Re- search Center, Little Rock, Ark. taught by Anthony, Armstrong and Bognar. 3:30 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, According to Kuma, designing an art museum – 1080 Foreign Languages Build- whether real or imagined – is not an easy assignment. ing. American Indian Studies. “It is challenging because it’s not just a building,” he 11 Tuesday said. “A museum can change anything for a campus.” Krannert Center Presents And, he noted, “the role of the 21st-century museum has “Diavolo.” Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Know Your changed” compared with the way it functioned in the past. University. Visiting professor Erickson is writing a monograph “The Freedman Issue and that will examine Kuma and his body of work at length. Selective History.” Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., Sequoyah Re- He also is assisting with the organization of a fall 2008 search Center, Little Rock, Ark. exhibition highlighting Kuma’s designs at the UI’s 1 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Chicago gallery, I space. In addition to past projects, the Foreign Languages Building. n American Indian Studies. exhibition will feature an on-site tea house. Family Wellness Series: “The Benefits of Volunteerism.” Beth Welbus, UI, and Lynn Peisker, United Way of Cham- paign County. 4 p.m. Studio, Doris Kelley Christopher Hall. photo by L. Brian Stauffer Family Resiliency Center. 12 Wednesday York, Stony Brook. 4 p.m. 141 10 Monday versity of Hong Kong. 4 p.m. Drive, Champaign. Waste Man- tallics at the Equator.” Chris- Lincoln Bicentennial Lecture: Loomis Lab. Physics. “Understanding Host Avail- 112 Chem Annex. Inorganic agement and Research Center. topher J. Ziegler, University of “Tried by War: Abraham Lin- “CaCO3 Biomineralization: ability in Distributed Sys- Chemistry. “Shaping a Curriculum in Akron. 4 p.m. 112 Chem An- coln as Commander in Chief.” Biotic Survival in Hot Springs tems.” James Mickens, Uni- “How to Handle Extremely Community Informatics: Con- nex. Materials Chemistry. 3:30 p.m. Alice Campbell and Coral Reefs.” Bruce versity of Michigan. 10 a.m. Lacunose Texts.” Nick Wy- tributions in Archive Preserva- Alumni Center. Lincoln Bicen- Fouke, UI. 4 p.m. B102 Chem- 2405 Siebel Center. Computer att, University of Edinburgh. 14 Friday tion and Youth Media.” Anke “How Cells Count.” Chris- tennial Committee/History. ical and Life Sciences Lab. Mi- Science. 5-6:30 p.m. 3092C Foreign Voss and Carol Tilley, UI. 2 crobiology. Languages Building. Religion topher Rao, UI. 2 p.m. 464 “The New Argonauts: Remak- “Viral Mechanisms for Con- p.m. 109 Library and Informa- Loomis Lab. Physics. ing Global Geographies.” “Catalytic Cleavage of Car- trolling Inflammatory Pro- and Classics. tion Science Building. Commu- AnnaLee Saxenian, University bon-Carbon Sigma Bonds by cesses: Potential Uses as nity Informatics Initiative. “Social Structure and Person- 12 Wednesday ality During the Transforma- of California, Berkeley. 4 p.m. Transition Metals.” Carolyn Therapeutics?” Joanna Shisler, “Development of a Nutrition- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Wei, UI. 4 p.m. 116 Roger Ad- UI. Noon. 80 Small Animal “Diasporic Geographic: Dia- tion of Urban China.” Melvin logues of a Trans-State Ivoir- ally and Organoleptically Op- Kohn, Johns Hopkins Univer- Museum. Center for Advanced ams Lab. Organic Chemistry. Clinic. Veterinary Medicine. timized Papaya Pulp Nectar Study Initiative. ian Nation in Crisis.” Karen sity. 3 p.m. 336 Lincoln Hall. “Bifurcations, Equivocations “Next Generation of Bioen- Morris, Art Institute of Chi- Using a Combination of Mild Sociology. “Library Research and Its and Invocations: Redefining ergy Crops: Implications for cago. Noon. 101 International Heat and Irradiation.” Tory L. Infrastructure in the 20th Indigenous Citizenship in the Land Use, Greenhouse Gases Studies Building. African Stud- Parker, UI. 4 p.m. 103 Mum- theater Century.” Andrew Abbott, Uni- Dying Days of Empire.” Mak- and Policy.” Madhu Khanna, ies. ford Hall. Nutritional Sciences. versity of Chicago. 4 p.m. 126 ere Stewart-Harawira, Univer- UI. 4 p.m. Monsanto Room, “Physical Activity, Aging “Majorana Experiment.” John 6 Thursday Graduate School of Library and sity of Alberta. 4:30 p.m. Al- ACES Library. Center for Ad- Wilkerson, University of Wash- “Henry IV, Part I.” Norma Sal- Information Science. Windsor ice Campbell Alumni Center. vanced Bioenergy Research. and Quality of Life.” Edward McAuley, UI. Noon. 210A Ed- ington. 4 p.m. 464 Loomis Lab. divar, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Lecture/Graduate School of Li- American Indian Studies. “A Wireless Sensor Network Physics. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert brary and Information Science. ucation Building. Counseling/ “That All Children Should Be for Traffic Surveillance.” Child Development. Center. Shakespeare’s history “Circumcision and Circum- Free: Beauvoir, Rousseau and Pravin Varaiya, University of 13 Thursday of King Henry Bolingbroke, stance.” Nick Wyatt, Univer- Childhood.” Sally Scholz, Vil- California, Berkeley. 4 p.m. “It’s Not My Blackness That Is “Stabilizing Internet Routing: his son Hal, rival Hotspur and sity of Edinburgh. 4 p.m. G-17 lanova University. 6-7:30 p.m. 1404 Siebel Center. Computer Important: Gender, Race and Or, a Story of Heterogeneity.” the amoral John Falstaff is ex- Foreign Languages Building. 213 Gregory Hall. Philosophy. Science. Image In Nursing.” Karen C. Brighten Godfrey, University plored from a female perspec- Flynn, UI. Noon. 911 S. Sixth Religion and Classics. “Transition Metal Mediated of California, Berkeley. 10 a.m. tive by a cast of young female 7 Friday Street. Gender and Women’s 2405 Siebel Center. Computer warriors. $ Nitrene C-H Insertion.” Grant Studies. colloquia “Optical Pulse Shaping for Rice, UI. 4 p.m. 116 Roger Ad- Science. Nonlinear Imaging Tech- ams Lab. Organic Chemistry. “The Health-care Reforms “Many Eyes: Democratizing 7 Friday niques.” Joe Geddes, UI, and of the 1990s: Failure or “Henry IV, Part I.” Norma Sal- 6 Thursday “The Political Legacies of An- Visualization.” Fernanda Vie- “Tools for Design Thinking: “Studying Attention Outside Triumph?” Robert F. Rich, gas and Martin Wattenberg, divar, guest director. 7:30 p.m. tigone.” Tina Changer, DePaul UI. Noon. IGPA Conference Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Enlightened Trial and Error.” the Confines of the Labora- University. 8 p.m. Third floor, IBM. 11 a.m. 3401 Siebel Cen- Scott Klemmer, Stanford Uni- tory.” Mark Neider, UI. Noon. Room, 1007 W. Nevada St., ter. Computer Science. Center. $ versity. 11 a.m. 3401 Siebel 1005 Beckman Institute. Beck- Levis Faculty Center. Philoso- Urbana. Government and Pub- phy and Criticism and Inter- “Tradition and Innovation 8 Saturday Center. Computer Science. man Institute Director’s Semi- lic Affairs. in Contemporary Capoeira nar. pretive Theory. “Henry IV, Part I.” Norma Sal- “Profiles of the Professoriate: “FAK and FIP200-Mediated Songs.” Luciano Tosta, UI. divar, guest director. 7:30 p.m. Characteristics, Values and “Graphical Models for Vid- 11 Tuesday Signal Transduction in Cancer Noon. 101 International Stud- Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Beliefs of Faculty Members in eo Analysis.” Aleksandar “MOSAIC: Unified Platform and Development.” Jun-lin ies Building. Latin American Center. $ Educational Leadership Pro- Ivanovic, UI. 1:30 p.m. 1215 for Dynamic Overlay Selec- Guan, University of Michigan. and Caribbean Studies. grams.” Donald Hackmann, Beckman Institute. Beckman tion and Composition.” Yun Noon. B102 Chemical and Life “School-based Reflection: 9 Sunday UI. Noon. 242 Education. Bu- Institute. Mao, University of Pennsylva- Sciences Lab. Cell and Devel- Building Teachers’ Capacity “Henry IV, Part I.” Norma Sal- reau of Educational Research. “Single-Molecule Biophysics nia. 10 a.m. 2405 Siebel Cen- opmental Biology. to Think Evaluatively.” Mau- divar, guest director. 3 p.m. “Gestion Cultural en Los An- With a Protein Nanopore.” ter. Computer Science. “Transcription Kinetics in E. rice Samuels, UI. Noon. 42A Colwell Playhouse, Krannert des. Literatura Quechua Hoy.” Liviu Movileanu, Syracuse “Cultural Contestation in the coli: What Does It Mean for Education Building. Educa- Center. $ Dessert and Con- Ulises Zevallos Aguilar, Ohio University. 2 p.m. 464 Loomis Caucasus.” Natasha Kipp, UI. a Gene to be ‘On’?” Ido Gold- tional Psychology. versation: 2 p.m. Krannert State University. Noon. 101 Lab. Biological Physics. Noon. 101 International Stud- ing, UI. Noon. 2506 VMBSB. “An Ad Omnia Approach to De- Room. $ International Studies Building. “On the Emotive Discourse ies Building. Russian, East Eu- Pathobiology Seminar Series/ fining and Achieving Private Latin American and Caribbean of Secret Service.” Andreas ropean and Eurasian Center. Veterinary Medicine. Data Analysis.” Cynthia Dwork, music Studies. Glaesser, University of Chi- “Cross-language Transfer of Sustainability Seminar Se- Microsoft Research. 4 p.m. B02 “What Do HIV, Silk and Hydro- cago. 3 p.m. 336 Lincoln Hall. ries. “Assessing Opportuni- 6 Thursday Insight Into the Structure of Coordinated Science Lab. Infor- Thursdays at 12:20. Darden gels Have in Common?” Lui- Sociology. Compound Words.” Jie Zhang ties for Municipal Waste- mation Trust Institute. sel Rodriguez, UI. Noon. 217 Purcell Quartet. Ryan Leather- “Deceit in War and Trade.” and Richard Anderson, UI. water Reuse in the Metro- “Sensing and Responding to man, coordinator. 12:20 p.m. Noyes Laboratory. Chemical William I. Miller, University of Noon. 210A Education Build- politan Chicago Area.” Paul Cell Death.” Kenneth Rock, Biology. Anderson, Illinois Institute of Beckman Atrium. School of Michigan. 3-5 p.m. 223 Grego- ing. Educational Psychology. University of Massachusetts. 4 Music and Beckman. “Exploring Nature’s First Liq- ry Hall. Philosophy. “Luminescent Metal-Based Technology. Noon. Stephen p.m. B102 Chemical and Life uid: How the Quark Gluon J. Warner Conference Room, Doctor of Musical Arts Proj- Molecular Materials – From Sciences Lab. Microbiology. ect Recital. Rochelle Sennet, Plasma Works.” Barbara Ja- Fundamentals to Functions.” Waste Management and Re- search Center, 1 E. Hazelwood “The Metal Chemistry of the cak, State University of New Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Uni- Carbaporphyrins: Organome- SEE CALENDAR, PAGE 18 PAGE 18 InsideIllinois March 6, 2008 more calendar of events CALENDAR, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 piano. 3:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Barron Trio and the Russell sports Illinois State Geological Sur- and hands-on exploration. Al- “Children of Arcadia” Smith Hall. Malone Quartet. 6 p.m. Lobby, vey 2008 Open House. 10 lerton Park and Retreat Cen- Through March 30. Krannert Center. $ To confirm times, go to a.m.-2 p.m. Natural Resourc- ter. “Jay Ryan: Animals and Ob- Orion String Quartet. David www .fightingillini.com Krakauer, clarinet. 7:30 p.m. Faculty Recital. Jean Geoffroy, es Building, 615 E. Peabody Workshop. “Survey Data jects In and Out of Water” Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert marimba. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Drive, Champaign. More info: Analysis.” Linda Owens, UI. Through May 11. Center. Featuring Beethoven’s Room, Smith Hall. 8 Saturday www.isgs.uiuc.edu/about-isgs/ Noon-1:30 p.m. 196 Lincoln “The Archaeological Heritage String Quartet No. 9. $ Pre- Men’s Basketball. UI vs. Uni- openhouse/openhouse-2008. Hall. Survey Research Labora- of Illinois” lude: Orion String Quartet. 13 Thursday versity of Minnesota. Noon. shtml. Geological Survey. tory. Through June 1, 2008. 6:30 p.m. Foyer, Tryon Festival Thursdays @ 12:20. Bardeen Assembly Hall. $ Nature ABCs and 123s. “S is Travel Adventure Series. Krannert Art Museum and Theater. String Quartet. 12:20 pm Beck- Women’s Gymnastics. UI vs. for Salamander.” 10-11 a.m. “Hollywood’s Magical Island Kinkead Pavilion. 9 a.m.-5 man Institute Atrium. School of University of Missouri. Allerton Education Center, 515 – Catalina.” 6:30 p.m. Illini p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, until 9 Guest Artist Recital. Dennis Music and Beckman Institute. p.m. Thursday; 2-5 p.m. Sun- Miller, composer; Scott Miller, 2 p.m. Huff Hall. $ Old Timber Road, Monticello. Rooms, Illini Union. Tickets: UI Symphony Orchestra. Don- Children (ages 2 to 5) and their 333-5000. Illini Union Faculty day. Free admission; $3 dona- coordinator. 7:30 p.m. Music Men’s Gymnastics. UI vs. tion suggested. Building auditorium. ald Schleicher, conductor. 7:30 University of Michigan. parents are invited to come and Staff Social Committee. p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, 2 p.m. Huff Hall. $ play while learning about na- n 7 Friday Krannert Center. With the Ora- ture at Allerton. Each program 13 Thursday “We Construct the Chorus” Guest Artist Master Class. Da- torio Society and UI Chamber 22 Saturday will include stories, songs, and “Locate Your Compass: Through March 22. vid Krakauer, clarinet. 11 a.m. Singers. $ School of Music. Women’s Gymnastics. State hands-on exploration. Allerton Making Choices for Health, I space, 230 W. Superior St., Memorial Room, Smith Hall. Master of Music Recital. In- of Illinois Classic. 2 p.m. Huff Park and Retreat Center. Wealth and Wisdom.” Charles Chicago. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues- grid Kammin, soprano. 7:30 Hall. $ Spanish Storytime. 2 p.m. V. Evans, James E. Painter, day-Saturday. 8 Saturday p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall. Children’s Department, The Kathy Sweedler and Mary El- n Junior Recital. Phil Pierick, len O’Shaughnessy, UI. 8:30 et cetera Urbana Free Library. Latin @art gallery. Online exhibit of saxophone. 2 p.m. Music 16 Sunday American and Caribbean Stud- a.m.-4:30 p.m. Illini Rooms, Il- Building auditorium. lini Union. Faculty/Staff Semi- the UI School of Art and De- Senior Recital. Kirby Dennis, 6 Thursday ies and The Urbana Free Li- sign. www.art.uiuc.edu/@art. Junior Recital. Christina violin. 5 p.m. Memorial Room, Graduate Symposium on brary. nar Series. Lohrberg, oboe. 5 p.m. Memo- Smith Hall. Women’s and Gender His- n rial Room, Smith Hall. tory. Keynote speaker: Saidiya 9 Sunday 15 Saturday 22 Saturday Hartman, Columbia Universi- 25th Annual International Third Biennial Conference: ongoing Sinfonia da Camera. Ian Hob- “Late Antiquity in Illinois.” son, music director and conduc- Junior Recital. Emily Nash, ty. 8 a.m. Levis Faculty Center. Dinner and Performance violin. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Continues through Saturday. Night. 6 p.m. University 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Levis Fac- Altgeld Chime-Tower Tours tor, and Fred Stoltzfus, guest ulty Center. Medieval Studies. 12:30-1 p.m. Monday-Friday. conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Room, Smith Hall. African American Studies, YMCA. A sampling of food Asian American Studies, Afri- and music from all over the Enter through 323 Altgeld Hall. Great Hall, Krannert Center. 17 Monday To arrange a concert or Bell The “To Everything a Season” dance can Studies, Latin American world. Tickets available at the and Caribbean Studies, South University YMCA. $ Uni- “Schools Out! Nighttime Tower visit, e-mail chimes@ concert celebrates the work of 6 Thursday Creatures.” 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Al- uiuc.edu or call 333-6068. Antonio Vivaldi. $ Asian and Middle Eastern versity YMCA, Cosmopolitan Studiodance I. 7:30 p.m. Stu- Studies, Democracy in a Mul- Club and International Student lerton Education Center, 515 Arboretum Tours Faculty Recital. Jerold Siena, dio Theater, Krannert Center. tiracial Society, History, and and Scholar Services. Old Timber Road, Monticel- To arrange a tour, 333-7579. tenor, and Julie Gunn, piano. Master of Fine Arts candidates Gender and Women’s Studies. lo. For kindergarten through Beckman Institute Café 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Kimber Andrews, Esteban 11 Tuesday fourth grade. Learn about ani- Open to the public. 8 a.m.-3 Hall. The program will consist Donoso and Chun Chen Chang Language Labs Open House. mals that go bump in the night. Noon. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 “Achieving Tenure and Pro- p.m. Monday-Friday. Lunch of songs of Reynaldo Hahn show off their work. $ motion – Policies and Proce- $ Allerton Park and Retreat served 11 a.m.-2 p.m. For and a group of folk songs from Foreign Languages Building. Center. Linguistics. dures on the UIUC Campus.” menu, www.beckman.uiuc. around the world. School of 7 Friday Linda Katehi, Gary Porton, edu//services/café.php/. Music. Studiodance I. 7 and 9 p.m. Open Lab Hours. 1-4 p.m. Billie Jean Theide and Cary 19 Wednesday Studio Theater, Krannert Cen- G-90 and G-73 Foreign Lan- Around the World Wednes- Bevier Café Nelson, UI. 2:30 p.m. 314B Il- 8-11 a.m. coffee, juice and 9 Sunday ter. Master of Fine Arts can- guages Building. Linguistics. lini Union. UIUC Chapter of days. 9:30 a.m.-noon. Spurlock Undergraduate Recital. Leslie didates Kimber Andrews, Es- Museum. Crafts and activities baked goods; and 11:30 a.m. to the American Association of 1 p.m. lunch. Goldberg, flute and soprano, teban Donoso and Chun Chen 7 Friday University Professors. from around the world. $2 do- and Jill Paruszkiewisz, flute Chang show off their work. $ Illinois State Geological Sur- nation. Spurlock Museum. Bevier Café Too and saxophone. 2 p.m. Memo- vey 2008 Open House. 9 DesignMatters. Henry Petros- 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays in rial Room, Smith Hall. 8 Saturday a.m.-4 p.m. Natural Resources ki, Duke University. 5 p.m. 62 the IGB building. Offers gour- Studiodance I. 7 and 9 p.m. Building, 615 E. Peabody Krannert Art Museum. Art and exhibits met coffee drinks, snacks, light Sunday Salon. Zsolt Bognar, Design. piano. 3 p.m. Foellinger Great Studio Theater, Krannert Cen- Drive, Champaign. More info: “Indigenous Population of lunch items and more. Hall, Krannert Center. Bognar ter. Master of Fine Arts can- www.isgs.uiuc.edu/about-isgs/ Travel Adventure Series. Mexico” Campus Recreation has performed at News York’s didates Kimber Andrews, Es- openhouse/openhouse-2008. “Hollywood’s Magical Island Latin American and Caribbean IMPE, 201 E. Peabody Drive, 92nd Street Y, Kennedy Center teban Donoso and Chun Chen shtml. Geological Survey. – Catalina.” 6:30 p.m. Illini Library. Champaign. and Lincoln Center. $ Chang show off their work. $ Engineering Open House Rooms, Illini Union. Tickets: CRCE, 1102 W. Gregory Drive, 333-5000. Illini Union Faculty n Undergraduate Recital. Em- Diavolo. 7:30 p.m. Jacques 2008. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Engineer- Urbana. Heim, artistic director. Tryon ing Campus. More info: http:// Staff Social Committee. Asian American Women Art ily Sprague, piano, and Ryan Show: “Reflections of See www.campusrec.uiuc.edu Ash, cello. 4:30 p.m. Memorial Festival Theater, Krannert eoh.ec.uiuc.edu/. College of Panel Discussion. “Bolivarian for complete schedule. Engineering. Who I Am” Room, Smith Hall. Center. This company’s mem- Revolution: The Unification of Through April 30. Kenney Gym and pool will be bers are athletes who are danc- Latin America.” Werner Baer, Senior Recital. Keturah Bixby, ExplorACES. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Ma- Asian American Cultural open to all faculty/staff at no ers, gymnasts, actors and team- digan Labs. More info: www. Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Center, 1210 W. Nevada St., charge during scheduled hours harp. 5 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith mates. Recommended for ages Valencia, UI. 7 p.m. 223 Greg- Hall. aces.uiuc.edu/ExplorACES/. Urbana. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon- with valid ID card. 6 and up. $ Agricultural, Consumer and ory Hall. Central and South day-Friday. Cheap Skates. UI Ice Are- Brass Chamber Music. Elliot Environmental Sciences. American Student Association na. First Wednesday of each Chasanov, coordinator. 7:30 films and La Casa Cultural Latina. n month. p.m. Music Building audito- Workshop. “Classroom Five galleries featuring the cul- Assessment Techniques “Now What? Transitioning Center for Teaching rium. School of Music. 6 Thursday From College to Work.” 7 p.m. tures of the world. “Sullivan’s Travels.” 5:30 p.m. (CATs) About Learner Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Excellence 10 Monday Attitudes.” Sandy Finley. 1:30-3 406 Illini Union. Counseling The Joy of Teaching: A Read- 62 Krannert Art Museum, Center. Gregory St., Urbana. Noon-5 Doctor of Musical Arts Recit- Room. Illinois Program for p.m. 428 Armory Building. p.m. Tuesday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ing Group. Noon-1 p.m. 428 al. Christine Bock, viola. 7:30 Research in the Humanities. Registration: www.uiuc.edu/ Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m.-4 Armory. Weekly on Thursdays goto/cte_030708. Center for 12 Wednesday from Feb. 14-March 13. Reg- p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Around the World Wednes- p.m. Saturday; Noon-4 p.m. Hall. 10 Monday Teaching Excellence. Sunday. istration: http://www.uiuc.edu/ days. 9:30 a.m.-noon. Spurlock goto/joyofteaching. European Movie Night: “After Museum. Crafts and activities n 11 Tuesday the Wedding.” Susanne Bier, 8 Saturday Undergraduates Engaging in New Music Ensemble. 7:30 Engineering Open House from around the world. $2 do- “Que Bola?: Cuban Hip Hop in director. 6 p.m. G36 Foreign nation. Spurlock Museum. Inquiry. 3-5 p.m. 428 Armory. p.m. Colwell Playhouse, Languages Building. European 2008. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Engineer- Movement” Weekly on Thursdays from Krannert Center. New works Union Center. ing Campus. More info: eoh. Nature ABCs and 123s. “S is Marc D. Perry, UI. through April 10. by UI composers Juri Seo and ec.uiuc.edu/. College of Engi- for Salamander.” 10-11 a.m. Through May 9. Zach Browning. $ School of 13 Thursday neering. Allerton Education Center, 515 Humanities Lecture Hall, English as a Second Lan- “The Big Animal.” 7 p.m. Lucy Old Timber Road, Monticello. IPRH, 805 W. Pennsylvania guage Course Music. ExplorACES. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 7-8:30 p.m. LDS Institute Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Madigan Labs. More info: Children (ages 2 to 5) and their Ave., Urbana. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 12 Wednesday Languages Building. Polish parents are invited to come and Monday-Friday. Building, 402 S. Lincoln Ave., www.aces.uiuc.edu/ExplorA- Urbana. Weekly on Thursdays. “Blue Smoke: Two Great Studies Program/Slavic Lan- CES/. Agricultural, Consumer play while learning about na- n American Art Forms, Jazz guages and Literatures. and Environmental Sciences. ture at Allerton. Stories, songs, “Blown Away” Faculty/Staff Assistance Pro- and Barbecue.” The Kenny SEE CALENDAR, PAGE 19

Ad removed Ad removed for online for online version version March 6, 2008 InsideIllinois PAGE 19 more calendar CALENDAR, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 gram Tours: 3 p.m. daily; meet in 6 p.m. Thursdays, Espresso 8 a.m.-5 p.m. 1011 W. Uni- main lobby. Royale, 1117 W. Oregon St., versity Ave., Urbana. Phone Library Tours Urbana. 244-5312. 24-hour crisis line: Self-guided of main and un- Illini Folk Dance Society 244-7739. dergraduate libraries: go to In- 8-10 p.m. Tuesday and some Illini Union Ballroom formation Desk (second floor, Saturdays, Illini Union. Begin- 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Fri- main library) or Information ners welcome, 398-6686. day. Second floor, NE corner. Services Desk (undergrad li- Italian Table Reservations: 333-0690; walk- brary). Italian conversation Mondays ins welcome. Meat Salesroom at noon, Intermezzo Café, Japan House 102 Meat Sciences Lab. 1-5:30 KCPA. For a group tour, 244-9934. p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 8 Lifetime Fitness Program Tea Ceremony: second and a.m.-1 p.m. Friday. For price 6-8:50 a.m. Monday-Friday. fourth Thursday of the month. list and specials, 333-3404. Kinesiology, 244-3983. $5/person. Hina Doll Display: Robert Allerton Park Normal Person’s Book 1-4 p.m. Thursdays. Open 8 a.m. to dusk daily. Discussion Group Krannert Art Museum and “Allerton Legacy” exhibit at 7 p.m. 317 Illini Union. Read Kinkead Pavilion Visitors Center, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. “Little, Big,” by John Crow- Ad removed Tours: By appointment, call daily; 244-1035. Garden tours, ley for March 13. More info: 333-8218. 333-2127. 355-3167 or www.uiuc. Gallery hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Yoga at Krannert Art edu/~beuoy. Tuesday-Saturday, open until Museum PC User Group 9 p.m. Thursday; 2-5 p.m. Sun- Fridays at noon. For schedule, www.uiuc. for online day. edu/~pcug. The Fred and Donna Giertz Ed- organizations ucation Center: 10 a.m.-noon Scandinavian Conversation and 1-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; Association of Academic Group open until 7 p.m. Thursday; 10 Professionals 3-5 p.m. Wednesday. The version a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. For events: www.ieanea.org/ Bread Company, 706 S. Good- Palette Café: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. local/aap/ win Ave., Urbana. More info: [email protected]. Monday-Friday. Book Collectors’ Club – The Office hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. No. 44 Society Secretariat Monday-Friday. 3 p.m. First Wednesday of 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. third each month. Rare Book and Wednesday monthly. Illini Krannert Center for the Union. More info: www.uiuc. Performing Arts Manuscript Library, 346 Main Interlude: Open at 4 p.m. most Library. More info: 333-3777 edu/ro/secretariat. Thursday and Friday evenings. or www.library.uiuc.edu/rbx/ The Deutsche Close at 7 p.m. on non-perfor- no44.htm. Konversationsgruppe mance nights and until after the Council of Academic 1-3 p.m. Wednesday. The performance on show nights. Professionals Meeting Bread Company, 706 S. Good- Krannert Uncorked: Wine tast- 1:30 p.m. First Thursday win Ave., Urbana. ings at 5 p.m. most Thursdays. monthly, location varies. More The Illinois Club Intermezzo Café: Open 7:30 info: www.cap.uiuc.edu or Open to male and female fac- a.m.-3:30 p.m. on non-perfor- [email protected]. ulty and staff members and mance weekdays; 7:30 a.m. Classified Employees spouses. More info: www. through weekday performanc- Association TheIllinoisClub.org. es; weekends from 90 minutes 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. first Thurs- VOICE before until after performanc- day monthly. More info: 244- Poetry and fiction reading, es. 2466 or [email protected]. 7:45 p.m. Third Thursday of Promenade gift shop: 10 a.m.-6 each month. The Bread Com- p.m. Monday-Saturday; one UIUC Falun Dafa Practice group pany, 706 S. Goodwin Ave., hour before until 30 minutes 4:10-6:10 p.m. each Sunday. Urbana. u after performances. Ticket Office: 405 Illini Union. More info: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. 244-2571. daily, and 10 a.m. through first intermission on performance French Department: Pause days. Café

Ad removed for online version PAGE 20 InsideIllinois March 6, 2008 Co-workers most powerful influence in organizational change By Jan Dennis others are apt to follow that lead, too, even if who co-wrote the study with University of News Bureau Staff Writer it runs counter to their own training, accord- Georgia professor Maryann Feldman. he seeds of workplace change may ing to the study, “Academic Entrepreneurs: The study tracked nearly 1,800 faculty come from the top, but take root Organizational Change at the Individual members at two university medical schools from the bottom up, according to a Level,” which appears in the February issue to gauge participation in new programs that new study co-written by a UI busi- of Organization Science. let colleges pursue ownership and commer- nessT professor. While management directives can also cialization of inventions developed with The findings show co-workers create a sway employees, some may conform only federal research funding. local culture that wields powerful influence to please higher-ups, Bercovitz said. In Universities across the country are over their colleagues when organizations contrast, she says workers are more likely pushing the new initiative to help boost try to break from tradition and launch ini- to actively embrace change modeled after revenues, but have encountered resistance tiatives, said Janet Bercovitz, a professor of cohorts. from some faculty members who contend business administration in the UI College of “What is key is that people are influenced their work should be open and available to Business. by their social unit more than generally ac- all rather than licensed to private parties, If most close co-workers embrace new knowledged and that needs to be the start- Bercovitz said. ways of doing business, others will likely get ing point when looking at how you make Despite support from top administra- on board. But if most of those cohorts resist, organizational changes,” said Bercovitz, tors, the study found that faculty members were influenced most by peers when decid- ing whether to follow rules requiring them to disclose research findings. Local exhibition “What we see is there’s a reversion to the local norm,” Bercovitz said. photo by L. Brian Stauffer Drawings by UI art Peer pressure The seeds of workplace The study found that individual at- and design professor change may come from the top, but take tributes also play a part, and that faculty Ron Kovatch will be root from the bottom up, according to a members who trained at institutions with on view through new study co-written by Janet Bercovitz, successful, well-established disclosure pro- April 5 in the two- an Illinois business professor. person exhibition grams are more likely to participate at their “Flesh and Blood” at new schools. That training, the study says, the Cinema Gallery, set an expectation for their future career. lock faculty members into routinely dis- 120 W. Main St., But the study says the influence of co- closing their research, which can bring in Urbana. Ceramic workers is so strong that when faculty much-needed revenue and also attract more sculpture by Jacob members join a workplace where practices research funding. Foran also will differ from their own training “they will “It’s important to build a critical mass of be featured in the conform to the group, rather than sticking people who are behind a practice. If you do exhibition. with what they knew from their prior expe- that, then it spreads,” she said. rience,” Bercovitz said. Bercovitz says the findings also could “Individuals who were trained to be en- help other businesses with change by high- trepreneurial will revert if co-workers are lighting the intra-organizational social dy- not engaged,” Feldman said. “Likewise, namics that are involved. if individuals did not train under entrepre- “A university is actually much more neurial expectations, their local group can institutionalized, so it’s a harder place to catalyze a change in behavior.” change,” she said. “Faculty have a lot of Bercovitz says the study’s findings of independence, so it’s not like companies a “bottom-up approach” to organizational where they can just say ‘Do this or I’m go- image courtesy Cinema Gallery change could help universities seeking to ing to fire you.’ ” u

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