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SUMMER 2018 The Climate for Science WGN-TV weathercaster Paul Konrad (THE '87) and others talk about science and discovery TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMER 2018 24 READ THE MAGAZINE AND EXCLUSIVE ONLINE CONTENT AT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DEPAULMAGAZINE.COM. Marilyn Ferdinand Look for the EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS Online Extras Andrea Bainbridge symbol throughout Kris Gallagher this issue to learn Jacob Sabolo (LAS ’12) FEATURES about extended, Bob Sakamoto online-only content. Kelsey Schagemann 7 Unearthing the Truth About Communication student and environmental DESIGN Dirt Soil advocate, has had a passion for conservation Francis Paola Lea Soil has a profound e ect on human health, from a young age. Claire Keating climate change, economic development and even whether your garden produces more 20 A Wave From Einstein DePaul Magazine is leaves than vegetables. Do you know what’s On Sept. 14, 2015, astrophysicists detected The Scoop on My Soil published for DePaul under your feet? gravitational waves produced by the merger Find out what a DePaul alumni and friends by the of two black holes, 100 years after Einstein sta member discovered O ce of Advancement. 14 Baylee Ritter: rst predicted that such waves should exist. when she had her soil Inquiries, comments and Oceans to Cross The collaboration of scientists the world tested. Learn how to get letters are welcome and Last year, DePaul sophomore Baylee Ritter over to observe and study this phenomenon yours tested. should be addressed spoke at the United Nations about ocean con- shows how science not only advances, but also 24 Sunshine State of Mind 29 Creativity in Action to Marilyn Ferdinand, servation and advocacy. Ritter, a College of provides us with a way of knowing our world. Paul Konrad (THE ’87) never expected The Idea Realization Lab on the Loop Editor-in-Chief, DePaul to spend 22 years as WGN-TV’s weather Campus is a makerspace that has quickly University, O ce of forecaster. But he enjoys providing a valuable become a favorite hangout for members of Advancement, 1 E. service, interacting with his fans on social the DePaul community who want to use its Jackson Blvd., Chicago, 7 media and spending as much time as he can state-of-the-art equipment to make everything IL 60604-5112 or with his family. from logos to shelving. Going for Gold [email protected]. Ziggy Kozlowski (CMN ’79) helps fi lms win big during ADDRESS CHANGES: awards campaigns. Learn Log in to the DePaul more about his role on the Alumni Community DEPARTMENTS award-winning fi lm “Call at alumni.depaul. edu. Me by Your Name.” Having trouble? Send an email to 2 Around Campus JOIN THE DISCUSSION [email protected], Reburying the Dead ON SOCIAL MEDIA: or call (800) 437-1898 Communicating Climate Change for assistance. e Great Mind of Michael Shannon facebook. com/ depaulalumni You can also visit 4 Athletics alumni. depaul. edu to @depaulalumni register for upcoming 6 From the President events, fi nd volunteer linkd. in/1uXj3a5 opportunities, make a gift, 33 Class Notes and learn about alumni @depaulalumni benefi ts and services. 40 DePaul Pride/Event Recaps/ Upcoming Events fl ickr. com/depaulspirit 41 Donor Profi le: Murray and youtube. com/user/ ON THE COVER informs viewers with his weather forecasts on Michele Allen depaulalumnifriends Paul Konrad (THE ’87) combines his theatre WGN-TV. 3 background and training as he entertains and Cover photo: Tom Evans SUMMER 2018 DEPAUL MAGAZINE 1 AROUND CAMPUS AROUND CAMPUS Reburying The Great the Dead Mind of Returning control of ancient remains to Native Michael American tribes ver the past three decades, more than Shannon O1.5 million burial artifacts, 50,000 sets of human remains and 265,000 sacred objects have been returned by museums to Native n Je Nichols’ 2011 lm “Take Shelter,” a American groups under the Native American Dowell and Colette of John Mitchell Image courtesy Iblue-collar worker and family man is haunted Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Calusa Indian Mound by a series of terrifying visions—ominous (NAGPRA). e act speci es that remains and rain clouds, violent lightning storms, swarms objects must be returned to the descendants Curators resolved the Calusa conundrum addition, some curators argue that returning of black birds—that he believes are signs of of the group to which they belonged. So, by considering the issue from the perspective unidenti able remains and objects eliminates impending doom. As he takes increasingly what should a museum do when a people has of informed consent, Colwell said. e Calusa the opportunity for scienti c study, putting desperate actions to protect his family, the other become extinct, as in the case of the Calusa revered their dead, even posting guards to the Native Americans’ history at risk. characters in the lm and the audience are left Nation of southern Florida? protect the shell mounds where they were “It’s often overlooked that NAGPRA requires wondering whether the man is losing his mind Chip Colwell, senior curator of anthro- buried. e DMNS decided the right thing return of control to the Native American groups, or if he really is foreseeing the apocalypse. H. Peter Steeves, director of the DePaul Humanities Center, with actor Michael Shannon, this year’s guest of the “In Conversation with Great Minds” series pology at the Denver Museum of Nature & to do was to return the Calusa remains and not the actual return of objects. In many cases, “Take Shelter” and its star, Michael Science (DMNS), discussed how his team objects to the Miccosukee tribe, which carries native peoples have chosen to have scientists Shannon, took center stage on Jan. 29 as resolved such dilemmas at “Let Us Rebury on the Calusa cultural heritage. continue to study artifacts,” Colwell says. part of the DePaul Humanities Center’s public agent Nelson Van Alden in “Boardwalk Em- people just didn’t seem to care at all or didn’t Our Dead: Native America’s Imperfect e process is thornier when it’s impos- Despite the controversies and imperfec- series “In Conversation with Great Minds.” pire,” Bobby Andes in “Nocturnal Animals” believe [in climate change],” said Shannon. and Necessary Law,” a winter colloquium sible to link remains and artifacts with a tions in NAGPRA, Colwell believes that H. Peter Steeves, the director of the center, and, most recently, Richard Strickland in “ e Shannon mentioned carrying forward this sponsored by the College of Law’s Center for modern-day group. It is wrong to place an the act is vital to rebuilding trust between who conducted a Q&A with Shannon fol- Shape of Water.” environmental theme in a play he directed this Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law and extinct tribe’s remains and objects with a anthropologists and native peoples: “It’s hard lowing a screening of the lm, introduced Shannon and Steeves discussed the environ- past winter at Chicago’s A Red Orchid eatre, the Center for Intellectual Property Law & group whose ancestors might have been their to have a good future relationship when you the actor: “His measured performances are mental implications conveyed in “Take Shelter” a company he co-founded in 1993. “Traitor,” Information Technology. enemies, such as the Hopi and Navajo. In literally have skeletons in your closets.” cerebral and emotive, intellectual and moving, and how those issues are often ignored by the which is based on Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy alive in such a deep way that they don’t ever public. Shannon shared a story from his youth in of the People,” tells the story of a community amount to pretending to be alive.” As proof, which he canvassed door to door for the Illinois dealing with lead contamination at a local school. Steeves pointed to some of Shannon’s most Public Interest Relations Group to talk about Steeves also asked about Shannon’s complex memorable lm and television roles, including environmental policy and how most people portrayal of notorious contract killer Richard Communicating Climate ciplinary minor in climate The neighborhood has John Givings in “Revolutionary Road,” federal slammed their doors in his face. “So many Kuklinski in Ariel Vromen’s “The Iceman.” change science and policy some of the highest levels According to Shannon, he did not see the Change o ered through the College of fl ooding in Chicago. lm as a biopic—“I don’t think we need more of Science and Health and Such stories are not what biopics,” he said with a smirk—but rather as an DePaul professor discusses e ective ways to connect the College of Liberal Arts the public generally hears examination of a complicated individual. “I was with skeptical and disengaged audiences and Social Sciences. about climate change, but fascinated by the notion that somebody can want Hopke asserted that according to Hopke, climate to love and have a family, but also be [the cause] In 2016, National Geograph- dia, it is di cult to know if individuals are more likely change a ects everyone. of all of this destruction,” Shannon explained. ic circulated a distressing it motivated people to take to be engaged with climate Hopke expressed After the discussion, Shannon answered image of an extremely thin climate change seriously. change when they see it how important it is for questions from the audience and took a number polar bear dying of starva- “Polar bears give us the happening in their own communicators to correct of sel es with students, most of whom probably tion. For years, it has been idea that climate change communities. Hopke shared misinformation about were unaware of Shannon’s connection to increasingly di cult for the is distant, both in distance an audio segment from climate change by relaying DePaul: his father, Don Shannon, was a pro- bears to fi nd food, due to and time.

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