U STUDENT PARENTS’ BALANCING ACT :: EXPLORING VIRTUE AND VICE THROUGH MEMOIR :: JACK NEWELL’S EXAMINED LIFE summer 15 VOL. 25 NO. 1 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF U TAH
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2 Feedback 34 Spotlight Your comments U professor emeritus Jack Newell still pushes students to think, and to seek experiences beyond academe. By Elaine Jarvik
4 Campus Notebook Greg Marsden’s retirement, the U’s legislative successes, a new solar dashboard, and more
8 Discovery 40 Association News Soundness Spring award checks for winners, skiing arches, a smart for scholarships, insulin, and and more links between altitude and U student Nick depression Elliott hands his daughter Polina 10 Bookshelf to ASUU child U alum Teresa care worker Jordan’s new Christina Wright. book explores Photo by Austen Diamond meaning through FEATURES memories. 44 Through the Years By Ann Floor U alum and DJ Balancing Act 16 Kaskade, and e University of Utah o ers an array of child care options to help student parents juggle an alumna’s their many responsibilities. Academy Award By Kim M. Horiuchi 48 And Finally… A Legacy of The Mental Game 26 Works For many University of Utah athletes, sports psychology coaching provides an edge for top performance. Visit continuum.utah. By Stephen Speckman edu for additional photos, videos, Cover photo: University of Utah student and wide receiver Tyler Cooperwood (Photo by Andy Brimhall) and more.
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Publisher William Warren
Your Comments Executive Editor M. John Ashton BS’66 JD’69
Editor PRAISE FOR A POET COMPARING AIR QUALITY Julianne Basinger BA’87 MA’91 Ah, I seldom fall in love at rst read, but you Most of our close family celebrated Managing Editor Marcia C. Dibble are an exception [“Chapter and Verse,” Spring Christmas at our antebellum home in relatively 2015]. ’Tis shame I once thought of myself as a Associate Editors clean air South Carolina [“Clearing the Air,” Ann Floor BFA’85 poet. Now I know I was just a stuttering kinder- Winter 2014-15]. My brother, who lives in Orange Kim M. Horiuchi gartner struggling for the word lost. County, California, will be giving all of us a hard Advertising Manager P.S. I nd this article one of the best to come drive with about 4,000 digitized pictures of our David Viveiros out of Continuum. growing up years in the Utah of the 1960s and Art Director P.P.S. I am interested in your mapping book. 1970s. We did a preview of the pictures, and one David E. Titensor BFA’91 I have a very old book describing the development thing that stands out is the crystal clean air Corporate Sponsors and areas of S.L.C. quality of the incredible vistas in southern Utah. Arches Health Plan ARUP Laboratories Conversely, we toured the Southwest a couple of Joyce Archibald Erickson BS’53 Mountain America Credit Union years ago and were struck by the pathetic vistas University Credit Union Washington, Utah of murky horizons everywhere. University of Utah Health Care THANKS TO A TENNIS COACH Good luck with the University’s air e orts. Editorial Advisory Committee Sonya Alemán PhD’09 I had the opportunity to play for the Utes from J. Ben Schreiner BA’69 Julie Barrett BA’70 1995 to 1999 [“Match Points,” Spring 2015]. I have Marc E. Day BS’76 to say, F.D. Robbins was one of the best teaching Camden, South Carolina Tal Harry BS’87 coaches I have ever worked with, and I had a great Rosemarie Hunter PhD’04 REMEMBERING A FRIEND Mike Lageschulte time under his mentorship. Je Metcalf BS’74 MEd’77 ank you, F.D., for all your help, and best I grew up with Kathy [Kathryn Stockton] Holly Mullen BS’81 wishes for your retirement! in Connecticut, right through high school. Mary Lee Peters Our families were friends. So cool to see this Randall Smith BFA’72 BS’72
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reg Marsden, who led University of Utah gymnastics to unprecedented national success on the competitive oor and in the stands, has retired after 40 seasons as the U’s head coach. GHe made the announcement in April, the week after Utah placed second at the 2015 NCAA Championships, just ve one hundredths of a point out of rst place. His wife, Megan Marsden BS’84, Utah’s six-year co-head coach and an assistant for the previous 25 years, will continue in her current role. Tom Farden, Utah’s assistant coach for the past ve years and the former head coach at Southeast Missouri State, has been elevated to co-head coach. “We’ve actually been preparing for this transition for the past few years, and I feel really secure in leaving this program, which has been my life for 40 years, in the hands of Megan and Tom,” Greg Marsden says. “ ere is no one reason I chose to leave now. It just felt right. I still love coming to the gym every day and working with these elite student-athletes, coaches, and sta , but I feel the other elements of the job are best suited Isabella for someone younger. I have been incredibly fortunate to Russ
spend my entire career here at Utah and to receive support by unprecedented anywhere in the country from our administra- Photo tion and our amazing fans.” Marsden retires as the coach with the most wins in Greg Marsden was the U’s head gymnastics coach for 40 seasons. college gymnastics history, leaving a 1,048-208-8 record. His 10 national championships tie for the most by any Greg Marsden drew national attention for creating an women’s gymnastics team. Hired in the 1975-76 season as unrivaled atmosphere at home meets, where the Utes own a graduate assistant, Marsden took his very rst team to every gymnastics attendance record and have led all women’s the AIAW National Championship, where Utah nished sports in attendance ve times, including the last three years. 10th. He has never missed a national championship, with ey broke their own NCAA single-meet (16,019) and season Utah qualifying for an unprecedented 40-straight years, (14,950) attendance records in 2015. Since 2010, the Utes have including all 34 NCAA Championships (the only program averaged more than 14,000 fans a meet in the Huntsman to do so). e Utes have advanced into the Super Six 19 Center, and they have averaged 11,000-plus since 1990. times in the 23 years under the format, including this “ e only way to place a positive spin on Greg Marsden’s season’s runner-up nish. retirement is that he is leaving the program in the very Marsden’s teams have placed in the top ve in the capable hands of Megan [Marsden] and Tom Farden,” says U country 29 times, in the top three 23 times, and in the Athletics Director Chris Hill MEd’74 PhD’82. “Greg Marsden top two 19 times. Utah gymnasts have won 25 individual is not only a legendary coach, he has been an incredible national championships, including the 2015 NCAA uneven advocate for the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, the sport bar title by Georgia Dabritz, and 367 All-America awards. of gymnastics, and most of all, his student-athletes over the A seven-time National Coach of the Year recipient, Greg past 40 years.” (along with Megan Marsden) has been voted the Pac-12 Coach of the Year for the past two seasons. e Utes won back-to-back Pac-12 Championships in 2014 and 2015. e Visit continuum.utah.edu to view a gallery with 2015 NCAA North Central Region Coach of the Year was also more photos. awarded to the duo.
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LEGISLATURE AWARDS FUNDS FOR U’S CROCKER SCIENCE CENTER
ciplinary teaching laboratories million in ongoing funding for dinated by the U for Higher with state-of-the-art equip- graduate research programs Ed Committee through a ment for undergraduate at the University of Utah and program sponsored by the science classes. Construction Utah State University; the U Alumni Association and began this spring. will receive $2.6 million of the O ce of Government The Legislature allotted that. The U also secured a 2 Relations. “This was another $9.5 million to the Huntsman percent performance-based great legislative session for Cancer Institute at the U, pay increase for faculty and the University of Utah,” says to allow completion of its sta members, as well as an Jason Perry JD’99, the U’s The Utah State expansion. The University appropriation to cover the vice president for govern- Legislature and Governor also received permission to increased cost of bene ts. ment relations. “Thanks to Gary Herbert showed strong renovate Orson Spencer Hall More than 400 volun- the hard work of President support for the University and the William Browning teers—alumni, present and David Pershing, our legisla- of Utah this year, including Building on campus. former faculty and sta , and tive advocates, and our providing $34 million for the Lawmakers provided $65 students—have signed up to friends in the Legislature, the U’s Gary and Ann Crocker million in capital improve- be political advocates for the major priorities of the U were Science Center. The new ment funding to the Utah University of Utah, and they funded this session. We are center will be an expansion of System of Higher Education, helped by writing and calling grateful for the dedicated the George Thomas Building 25 percent of which will go lawmakers at key junctures service of our state leaders on the U’s Presidents Circle the U: $16.25 million. And to voice their support for the and for their investment in and will provide new interdis- the Legislature earmarked $4 U. Their e orts were coor- higher education.”
SOLAR DASHBOARD SHOWS REALTIME ENERGY SAVINGS
An electronic dashboard through the Associated installed this spring in the Students of the University of University of Utah’s Marriott Utah, Rocky Mountain Power, Library details the energy and the U’s Sustainability savings generated by the Resource Center. library’s solar panels, in real Under the direction of time and using examples of the U’s Facilities Management everyday use. and the Sustainability The project was initiated Resource Center, Melburn and by U alum Tom Melburn BS’12 a group of students selected MBA’14, who in 2012 had the library as the site for this spearheaded a plan to put project because of its central “solar ivy” (small, decorative location on campus, its large photovoltaic panels) on the number of visitors, and its Marriott Library Dean Alberta Comer, amid the library’s solar panels south wall of Orson Spencer commitment to sustainability. The library’s system is with four arrays on the west Hall, until the idea fell through The dashboard will allow 37.8 kilowatts, grouped into mechanical penthouse when the manufacturer greater exposure to the other- six arrays, with an antici- and two arrays on the east couldn’t deliver the order. wise unseen roof-mounted pated annual production mechanical penthouse. The Melburn then decided to solar panels and enable of 50,500 kilowatt-hours. new solar system produces pursue his digital dashboard library patrons to learn about The panels are located on enough energy to power six plan and secured nancing the bene ts of solar power. the Marriott Library roof, houses for one year.
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keynote speaker was Robert Música and the Ponti cia A. McDonald MBA’78, U.S. Universidad Católica de Chile. secretary of Veterans A airs In 1984, he transferred to the and a former president and University of California at chief executive o cer of Berkeley, where he majored Procter & Gamble. Honorary in mathematics and music degrees were presented and completed a doctorate to three U alumni: Anne in composition. Cullimore Decker, Henry His music includes U NAMES NEW DEAN FOR The EAE program was B. Eyring, and Mark Fuller. orchestral, chamber, vocal, HUMANITIES COLLEGE formally established in 2007 Decker BS’57 MFA’82 is a and electroacoustic works. Dianne Harris, director and currently has 400 under- professional actress and has of the Illinois Program for graduates and 110 graduate been a longtime theater Research in the Humanities students. The interdisciplinary instructor at the U. Eyring and professor of land- program between the BS’55 is a rst counselor in the scape architecture at the College of Engineering and First Presidency of the Church University of Illinois at the College of Fine Arts allows of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Urbana-Champaign, has been students from both disciplines Saints and a former president selected as the next dean of to work closely in video game of Ricks College. And Fuller the College of Humanities at design and development. HBS’76 is CEO of WET, which the University of Utah. Students are highly sought has designed more than Under her leadership, after by local and interna- 250 innovative fountains KIRK JOWERS LEAVES the Illinois Program secured tional game companies. throughout the world. U’S HINCKLEY INSTITUTE signi cant external funding Kirk Jowers, a University to enable scholarship and of Utah professor of political creative partnerships in science who has been the humanities and arts dubbed the “most quoted at Urbana-Champaign, man in Utah” during his says Ruth Watkins, the U’s decade-long tenure as senior vice president for director of the Hinckley academic a airs. Harris holds Institute of Politics, is leaving a doctorate in architectural his post to pursue a career in history from the University of private industry. California at Berkeley and is UNIVERSITY WELCOMES U SCHOOL OF MUSIC As the Hinckley Institute’s best known for her scholarly 8,363 NEW GRADUATES NAMES NEW DIRECTOR director, Jowers BA’92 helped contributions to the study The University of Utah’s The University of Utah’s found many new programs of the relationship between 2015 graduating class in May College of Fine Arts has and scholarships, including the built environment and was the largest in U history, selected U professor and an international internship construction of racial and with 8,363 students—approx- composer Miguel Chuaqui to program that operates in 58 TRADITION IS VITAL class identities. imately 400 more than last . serve as director of the School countries. He also has served year—representing 24 Utah of Music. EAE PROGRAM RECEIVES counties, all 50 U.S. states, and as director of federal relations, Chuaqui has been TOP NATIONAL RANKING 77 countries. and chief strategist for the with the University since The University of The Commencement O ce of Global Engagement. 1996, when he began as an Utah’s Entertainment Arts program was designed with Jason Perry JD’99, vice SO IS FUNDING. assistant professor in the & Engineering program has the graduates in mind and president for government It is a myth that American Indian and Alaska Native students earned the title of the top included the use of videos, School of Music. He became relations at the University, will attend the University on free, full-ride scholarships. They don’t. video game school in the multimedia, and a collage a full professor and head of serve as interim director of the In reality, financial hardships often prevent students from nation with a number one of Instagram photos docu- the composition area and Hinckley Institute following graduating. Please give to the American Indian Scholarship ranking for its graduate menting the U experience most recently served as the Jowers’ departure June 30, Program which provides mentorship, resources, and academic program and number two for of the class of 2015, as well school’s interim director. while also maintaining his advising from their freshman year all the way to graduation. THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH its undergraduate program as elements of traditional He studied piano at current role in government OFFICE FOR EQUITY AND DIVERSITY from The Princeton Review. pomp and circumstance. The the Escuela Moderna de relations. DONATE TODAY AT DIVERSITY.UTAH.EDU AMERICAN INDIAN RESOURCE CENTER
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GOOD VIBRATIONS Moore and his team have placed clusters of small sensors— SOUND seismometers, tilt-meters, and temperature probes—on the surface of some of Utah’s most spectacular arches (including the Landscape, Mesa, and Double-O arches) in Arches and CHECK Canyonlands national parks. University of Utah geologists are using sensors to measure the DAILY MOVEMENT soundness of the Southwest’s famed One broadband seismometer is placed on or near the arch, and the other is placed about 100 meters away for reference. The seismometers red-rock arches—with sound. are placed in cases along with a data logger and GPS clock. An Jeff Moore, a U assistant professor of geology electrolytic tilt-meter helps measure daily movement of the arch, and geophysics, and his geohazards research while data loggers measure temperature and relative humidity. group have developed “ambient resonance monitoring,” a noninvasive diagnostic process QUICK TEMPO to monitor the status of arches’ structural TESTING integrity. Tracking the changes could help alert The sensors remain on the surface for a few hours so that the the U.S. National Park Service about vibrations and other parameters when or if arches might collapse. can be recorded, and then all the instruments are removed.
EARTH, WIND, AND HUMANS The sensors measure the arches’ natural vibration frequencies, which are influenced by the structures’ mass and stiffness. Those vibrations shift with rain and snow loads, thermal cycles, and internal structural damage. Moore and his team have found that each rock structure has its own characteristic resonance patterns.
CHANGING FREQUENCIES The scientists repeat their measurements with the sensors to note changes in the rock structures’ frequencies over time, to help determine whether the structural integrity has changed. If an arch develops a crack, it changes the vibrational WALL CAME TUMBLIN’ DOWN characteristics of the structure. Wall Arch, in Arches National Park, collapsed in 2008 due to stress fractures that occurred over time. Moore and his team believe Landscape Arch, in the same park, is close to falling down. The 88-meter-long arch—the longest in North America—has a fundamental resonant frequency of about 1.8 Hz. If it sustains further damage, the arch’s resonant frequency would drop, and Moore and his team could measure that. Landscape Arch Arches National Park Visit continuum.utah.edu to listen to the vibrations of several arches and to view a gallery with more photos.
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Smart Insulin
FOR PATIENTS WITH TYPE 1 when blood sugar soars. Tests on mouse (or “juvenile”) diabetes, the burden of models for type 1 diabetes showed that one constantly monitoring blood sugar and injection works for a minimum of 14 hours, judging when and how much insulin to during which time it was found to repeat- self-inject is di cult. Mistakes can have edly and automatically lower blood sugar serious consequences. A miscalculation or lapse levels after mice were given amounts of sugar in regimen can cause hyperglycemia (when comparable to what they would consume at blood sugar levels rise too high)—potentially mealtime. leading to heart disease, blindness, and other e U study was published in February in long-term complications. Or a mistake can the Proceedings of the National Academies of result in hypoglycemia (when blood sugar Sciences. e researchers found that Ins-PBA-F levels plummet too low), which in the worst acts more quickly and is better at lowering blood cases can result in coma or even death. A new sugar than the currently available long-acting “smart” insulin, developed by University of Utah insulin drug detimir, marketed as Levimir. In researchers, could help mitigate these dangers. fact, the speed of touching down to safe blood Danny Hung-Chieh Chou, a U assistant glucose levels was identical in the diabetic professor of biochemistry and a USTAR inves- mouse models treated with Ins-PBA-F and in tigator, led the research to create Ins-PBA-F, a healthy mice whose blood sugar is regulated by long-lasting “smart” insulin that self-activates their own insulin.
High-Altitude Depression UNIVERSITY OF UTAH or with other chronic hypoxic condi- tions are considerably higher than researchers have found that the tions such as COPD, asthma, or in the rest of the country and there reduced oxygen experienced at high smoking, independent of other risk is a corresponding higher rate of altitude can lead to depression. factors,” says Shami S. Kanekar, U self-in icted death. Several studies, In a new study, U researchers research assistant professor of psychi- including work by Perry F. Renshaw, and a colleague from Tufts University atry and lead author on the study, USTAR professor of psychiatry at learned that female rats exposed published in March in High Altitude the U and senior author on this to high-altitude conditions exhibit Medicine and Biology online. latest study, suggest altitude is an increased depression-like behavior. e correlation between alti- independent risk factor for suicide. (Male rats, interestingly, showed no tude and high rates of depression According to Renshaw, a potential signs of depression in the same and suicide is strikingly obvious cause for depression at high altitude conditions.) “ e signi cance in the Intermountain West might be low levels of serotonin, of this animal study is that it region of the a neurotransmitter believed to can isolate hypoxia as United States, contribute to feelings of well-being a distinct risk factor where and happiness. Hypoxia impairs for depression eleva- an enzyme involved in synthesis of in those living serotonin, likely resulting in lower at altitude levels of serotonin that could (hypobaric lead to depression. In addition, hypoxia) Renshaw’s group has shown that brain cellular metab- olism can be damaged by hypoxia.
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VirtueAND
ViceStory by Ann Floor Photos by Hal Cannon U alum Teresa Jordan’s new book explores meaning through memories.
hen Teresa Jordan was 6 or 7 years old, friends of her family took her swimming, and she remembers watching the father playW with his three kids in the water, helping them climb up onto the side of the pool and then opening his arms so they could jump to him. ey were splashing and laughing and having a great time, and she felt a longing so intense, it still takes her breath away. Her own father didn’t swim and didn’t play. He was a big, stern man, and on the ranch where they lived, he taught Jordan how to shift her weight when training a horse to rein, how to double clutch the stock truck, and how to hog-tie a calf. From as far back as she can remember, he told her she could do anything she put her mind to. But he was not an a ectionate father, and in that moment at the pool, she realized how much she wanted one.
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U alum Teresa Jordan lives in Virgin, Utah, where she and her husband, Hal Cannon, keep an old pioneer pecan orchard.
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Jordan BA’02 uses this memory to introduce an essay occasional disparity between the ideals and values she on envy in her new book e Year of Living Virtuously aspired to in youth and some much less appealing habits (Weekends O ). Author of four other books, she had been of thought and being that have encroached upon her over away from writing for several years involved in what she the years.” calls “a midlife expansion”—studying visual art at the University of Utah. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in o begin her project, Jordan made a commit- ne arts, with an emphasis in painting and drawing, she ment to write one essay on a di erent virtue was looking for a project to get her back to the written or vice each week and post to her blog every word. When she came across Benjamin Franklin’s auto- Sunday night. Weaving in her own experience biography and his experiment to write about 13 di erent withT the views of theologians, philosophers, ethicists, virtues as a way to work toward moral perfection, some- evolutionary biologists, and a range of scholars and thing clicked and she knew she had found the writing scientists within the emerging eld of consciousness project she was looking for. Her book follows a similar studies, the project involved her skills as a writer, story- thread, but with a twist: taking weekends o to attend to teller, researcher—things she already knew how to do the Seven Deadly Sins. and enjoyed. Jordan wondered if Franklin’s centuries-old ideas In doing research for the book, she stayed for a few of virtue could in uence a nation today that is strug- days at the Trappist monastery in Huntsville, Utah. “I gling with increasingly polarized positions around who’s am not Catholic,” she says. “As a child, I did not attend right. “I wanted to write about extremes—about the church of any kind, and my adult observance can best be angry righteousness that is dividing the country,” Jordan described as Cafeterian, drawing nourishment from many says. “Just look at terrorism. It’s a righteousness taken to spiritual traditions.” But the abbey provided seclusion for the extreme. Anything taken to excess becomes a vice.” anyone seeking renewal, and during her three days there, Unlike Franklin, she was not using the project to aspire as she told KUER’s RadioWest in a recent interview, she to moral perfection, but rather, “to examine the ordinary realized that “it is a generosity to allow silence.” strengths and weaknesses that shape the quality of our In her essay on cleanliness, she writes about her mother, relationships, to see how virtue and vice play out in ordi- who did not want to be known for her housekeeping. “She nary life,” she says. “What interests me is what we talk was not a slob, but neither was she overly fastidious, a poise about over the dinner table.” that left her time for reading, play, and genuine connection.” e 45 essays in the book go beyond Franklin’s 13 Her mother was 5 feet 11 inches tall and often wore four-inch virtues and range from examining courage, listening, heels, and she taught Jordan to enjoy her height. “My mom and punctuality to pondering grumpiness, procrastina- wasn’t invested in being a perfect mom, or wife, or friend. She tion, and stubbornness. She says she realized, only after liked her own solitude, and her lack of the need completing the project, that e Year of Living to be perfect gave her space, which Virtuously for her was all about the made her more fun to be around. She questions: “What was I brought balance into what would have raised to believe? What been a two-dimensional view of the do I believe now? To what world,” Jordan writes. degree are the decisions Growing up in the 1950s and ’60s on I make on a daily basis her great-grandfather’s ranch property congruent with my core in the Iron Mountain country in south- beliefs? at was the gift of eastern Wyoming, Jordan says she “was this book.” raised to be Western, which is to say, e Year of Living stoic.” Her parents were devotees of Ayn Virtuously has drawn praise Rand’s philosophy of objectivism, and she from national reviewers since and her brother Blade were surrounded its publication in December by by brandings, roundups, and trail drives. Counterpoint Press. In e Wall Not surprisingly, many of the book’s essays Street Journal, author Tom Nolan re ect Jordan’s life on the ranch. called the book “an engaging and Writing about habit, she recounts how moving collection” and noted, each day “started with the last gesture “Teresa Jordan is a writer who aims at night, the thermos of co ee my mother to stick to resolutions. But like many made and took up to her bedside table in prepa- of us, she has noted more than an ration for the morning to come. When the alarm rang
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at 5 a.m. she woke to light a cigarette and drink a cup of “I wanted to write about co ee in the dark before she dressed quietly and headed downstairs to put the kettle on and let out the dog. When extremes—about the angry the dog came back in, he bounded upstairs to wake my father, who gave him a biscuit before rising to pull on his righteousness that is dividing jeans, his boots, his snap-fastened shirt… the rst motions in the daily habit of my family.” And, Jordan says, the barn the country... Anything taken to was “the heart of it all, the cathedral, the place where the day truly began, a hall you entered with a sacred tone— excess becomes a vice.” ‘whoa’—to avoid startling the horses.” the sun had fallen out of the sky.” She returned home n her 1994 memoir, Riding the White Horse Home, and withdrew from school for the rest of the semester. “I Jordan writes that it was perhaps her great-grand- couldn’t bear the thought of my father all alone on the mother, Matilda Tait Lannen—Nana—who had ranch 50 miles from town, and the truth is that I was the most in uence on her as a child. On their long, devastated, too,” she says now. She received permission magicalI walks together on the land around the ranch, from Yale to do an independent study program from Jordan could count on the two of them discovering fossil- the ranch, and switched from Latin American studies ized crinoids, snails, clams, and Indian relics—things she to American history with an emphasis on the American didn’t easily nd when Nana wasn’t with her. “It is a matter West. Working on her senior thesis—how Wyoming of looking, of learning to see,” writes Jordan, recalling ranchers had responded to the Great Depression—Jordan Nana’s words to her. e idea still guides Jordan today. would drive the pickup every day from the ranch to the During Jordan’s junior year at Yale University, her mother archives in Cheyenne, fascinated with the information unexpectedly died of an aneurism and Jordan “felt like she found there.
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continue to partner on many projects. For venues ranging from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering to the Conference on World A airs, Jordan has turned many of her Open Road features into stories that she tells live on stage without notes. “Both Teresa and I have a strong inclination to live artistic lives,” says Cannon. “We like to make things happen. Our canvas is the American West: its people, land- Teresa Jordan is an artist as well as a writer, and one of her hand-colored monotypes is on her new book’s cover. scape, animals, and Smart businesses become music. Wherever we go, In 1977, Jordan received a bachelor’s degree in we like to bring people together around stories, songs, wattsmart businesses. history from Yale, graduating summa cum laude, and and imagery.” was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her thesis, Wyoming In all, Jordan has written or edited seven books about Many Utah businesses have already become wattsmart® Businesses. When your Ranchers During the Great Depression, won the Western rural life and the environment, and she has received McClintock Prize for History of the American West. numerous literary awards. She has served as writer in business joins the ranks, you’ll find energy-efficient upgrades to save energy at same year, due to a declining economy, her father residence at the University of Nebraska and the U, and has and help your bottom line. And with incentives, most upgrades pay for themselves sold the ranch property that had been in their family taught writing throughout the West. Her artwork ranges from in less than three years. Plus, being wattsmart benefits Utah’s environment and for 90 years—four generations—leaving Jordan feeling notebook sketches, black and white paper cuts, and ink-on- “untethered.” (It changed hands a few more times and paper portraits to hand-colored monotypes of landscapes economy with decreased emissions and lower power bills. ultimately was bought by an oil company.) and animals, including a surprising number of chickens, one Learn how to make your business a During the 1980s, Jordan continued researching of which graces the cover of the new book. Her work has been and writing. She wrote the script for the documentary exhibited in galleries in Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. wattsmart Business at wattsmart.com. Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women; conducted In e Year of Living Virtuously, the theme that several oral history projects; and recorded nearly 100 emerges most consistently is “the need to create space in interviews as background for her rst book, Cowgirls: which that still, small voice can make itself heard,” she Office. Women of the American West, published in 1992. at writes. “As I searched for stories with which to under-
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“Teresa and I met when we were both presenting at a encountered the importance of stillness in creating a and conference in Sun Valley, Idaho,” says Cannon, a musi- meaningful life.” She says when she rst conceived of the cian, folklorist, and public radio producer. “I was married book’s title, she added (Weekends O ) as something of Patent U.S.
at the time, she was involved with someone, but we recog- a joke, “to suggest a vacation from the arduous pursuit in nized each other and kept track.” Years later, when they of decency. Now I realize that weekends o are a more were both free, they met again at the National Cowboy serious concern, for without periodic time for renewal, registered
Poetry Gathering, where Cannon was the founding we forget what we care about.” She notes that the project is director. “She gave a keynote address about women and started as a way to practice writing. “It continues to families in the West,” says Cannon. “She convinced me. engage me, long after my self-assignment of weekly re ec-
We fell in love and got married a few months later. at tions has expired, as a way to practice life.” wattsmart was nearly 25 years ago.” ey live near Zion National Park in Virgin, Utah, where they raise a few Navajo- —Ann Floor is an associate editor of Continuum. Power Churro sheep and keep an old pioneer pecan orchard.
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U students Nick Elliott and his wife, Alla, study at home while their baby daughter Polina watches them work.
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Continuum_Summer15_Uparents.v4.indd 16 5/13/15 11:01 AM HE MORNING IS A STRUGGLE for electrical engineering student Nick Elliott, who is operating on no sleep after pulling an all-nighter to study and Tfinish homework that is now due. He rushes to head toward his two classes
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Continuum_Summer15_Uparents.v4.indd 17 5/13/15 11:01 AM From left, Hanna Kordy, Haylee Puga, and Kate Rasmussen study a plant’s growth, in the U Child and Family Development Center.
in di erential equations and circuits, but a high priority as a means to help prevent on the way, he makes a stop at the Alfred them from dropping out, alleviate possible Emery Building. ere, in the “purple room” debt, and enable them to graduate sooner. of the ASUU Student Child Care Center, he “Our goals are to help, support, and enable pauses for a moment with his 7-month-old our students to focus on their learning, and daughter. “I try to set her down and get her % one of the ways we do that is assuring them used to sitting by herself so she doesn’t freak 25 that they have great, safe, high-quality out when I leave,” he says. In about three OF THE U’S 31,515 spaces for their kids,” says Ruth Watkins, hours, after his classes wrap up, Elliott STUDENTS ARE the U’s senior vice president for academic picks her up from the center and tends her PARENTS a airs. e University also is providing for the day while his wife, Alla, who is also quality and convenient child care for faculty a student at the University of Utah, attends members as a way to attract and keep them. her classes and works as an accounting About a quarter of the U’s 31,515 students clerk. He says there’s an art to balancing are parents, and an estimated 4,000 chil- his schooling with responsibilities as a dad dren of both students and faculty require and work at Costco, where he spends three some sort of child care, from full-time day nights a week and a full shift on Saturday. care to part-time, hourly services. e Elliott counts himself lucky to nd University has eight child care programs child care on campus. “ ere aren’t many Providing with a total capacity for 480 children, places that provide day care services for affordable, meaning that only about 10 percent of the infants that are a ordable,” he says. “When on-campus child care needs are being met on campus. you total up how much it’s going to cost Yet the U is doing much more than most to have day care, it almost makes it insur- child care helps colleges and universities across the country. mountable to nish school. It’s like, ‘Oh, student parents In January, the University of Utah was how am I going to do this?’ ” graduate ranked No. 2 in the nation by BestColleges. e University of Utah is trying to make com as a top school for nontraditional the answer to that question a little easier sooner. students, and the University is expanding for student parents and nontraditional child care and other family-friendly services students with families. Providing a ord- even as institutions nationwide are cutting able, on-campus child care for students is back because of funding constraints.
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Continuum_Summer15_Uparents.v4.indd 18 5/15/15 11:25 AM e ASUU Student Child And renovation of the Child and Care Center groups children Family Development Center, by ages in ve rooms painted located next to the ASUU care di erent colors. e center center, is planned for next year. opened a purple room this past Lindsey Reichlin, research January, to provide part-time and program coordinator for hourly care for infants at the U, the Institute for Women’s Policy a rst on the campus. Within Research in Washington, D.C., the past year, the University also says the U’s e orts to provide added lactation rooms across comprehensive child care options campus, and starting in May, all are “fantastic.” “For students new buildings and renovations with children, child care can totaling more than $10 million be one of the biggest, if not the must include designs for a lacta- biggest, factors in a student’s tion space. In all, the University ability to complete college and now has 21 private rooms for be successful,” she notes. “It’s Debra Daniels, right, nursing mothers, and three more will be the most obvious solution that schools can director of the U Women’s located in the new S.J. Quinney College of seek to provide in order to help student Resource Center, Law building when it opens this fall. parents graduate.” with student Victoria Even so, fewer colleges nationwide Farrimond and her family reading room where are providing such services. e research daughter Tori Anne parents can study while their institute, which follows women’s policy children play also opened last fall issues in the United States, released two at the J. Willard Marriott Library, studies last November that found child alongA with three adjacent lactation rooms. care services on campuses across the
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Continuum_Summer15_Uparents.v4.indd 19 5/13/15 11:01 AM country are declining, that we do have a fair even as the number number of working- of student parents is age adults who have increasing. According started college but to one of the studies, haven’t been able 26 percent of U.S. to complete their college students, or degrees,” Watkins says. 4.8 million under- At the same time, more graduates, have than half of students children, and 71 at the U are taking percent of those six years or longer to students are women. graduate, and for the From 1995 to 2011, past decade, nearly the number of student a third of students parents increased by enrolled at the U have more than 1.6 million. been over age 25. Meanwhile, the “ at then leads us number of four-year to question, ‘What’s institutions providing di erent about our child care decreased population and our from 54 percent to students?’ ” Watkins 51 percent from 2002 says. Two important to 2013, and federal factors are that half of funding for child care undergraduates at the through CCAMPIS U marry before they Shauna Lower directs (Child Care Access Means Parents in complete their degrees, and about a quarter the University’s Center for School) grants dropped from $25 million of students have one or more children before Child Care and Family in 2001 to $14.8 million in 2013. ( e graduating. Many students also delay their Resources. University of Utah received one of the education to serve religious missions for the coveted grants, totaling $1.3 million, last Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, year.) Students with children also have and because those students are older when much higher debt after graduation, the they return to school, they are often also study found. starting families. Reichlin says the numbers are “As an institution, possibly the single concerning. “When you’re having to most important thing we’re working on is balance so many competing responsi- increasing the retention and graduation bilities, child care plays an even greater rate of our students,” says Watkins. “So role,” she says. “Child care is the crux in a that leads us to look at the most important lot of ways.” 21 things to be doing to promote student PRIVATE ROOMS success, and clearly one of them is to he U has made child care a priority, help our students with access to quality FOR NURSING in part, because the unique demo- child development and child learning graphics of both the University MOTHERS ARE opportunities.” and the state of Utah dictate that LOCATED ACROSS Mary Parker, associate vice president Tfocus, Watkins says. “I do think that our THE U CAMPUS of student a airs at the U, agrees that the undergraduate student population is very picture is di erent in Utah than in other di erent than most agship universities, states, especially when it comes to women and I think that puts some special respon- in higher education and the number who sibility on us to think about this creatively graduate. “We know we have to do a better and assertively.” job of helping young women understand A higher proportion of Utahns—28 the importance of an education and how percent, compared to 22 percent of people that helps their families.” According to nationwide—has taken some college course- the U’s Oce of Budget and Institutional work without nishing. “ at does tell us Analysis, 45 percent of undergraduate
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Continuum_Summer15_Uparents.v4.indd 20 5/18/15 12:05 PM students enrolled at the U this year are e University has an array of campus women, compared to 55 percent who are Student child care options. e U’s Center for Child men. Nationally, more women than men Care and Family Resources manages the are enrolled in public universities, at a ratio parents’ ASUU Student Child Care Center, which of 56.4 percent to 43.6 percent. financial stress o ers a variety of services such as drop-in When students begin families, their sometimes evening care, free nals week care, and a nances also can become stressed. e “Parent Night Out” one Saturday per month U surveys students who are enrolled one leads them to for students. e center, which is open semester but not the next, and the number drop out. from 7:15 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through one reason they indicate for not coming ursday and until 6 p.m. on Fridays, serves back is “ nancial constraints.” “Student 160 children ages six weeks to ve years. parents take longer to graduate, and many Student parents sign up each semester for times it’s because they go to school, work the hours they need to cover for study or a semester, go to school, work a semester,” classes, and a sliding scale based on income says Parker. Once they do leave, she notes, is used to calculate cost. there’s a strong risk they won’t come back. To help students defray some of their costs, 4,000 hauna Lower, director of the the University is utilizing the CCAMPIS CHILDREN OF BOTH Center for Child Care and Family funds it received from the U.S. Department Resources, says the e orts are of Education to subsidize child care for low- STUDENTS AND making a di erence. “ ere are income students during the next four years, FACULTY REQUIRE parentsS with infants, in particular, who through the duration of the grant. About SOME SORT OF have said, ‘I am so thankful. I wouldn’t be in 150 families at the U now receive such CHILD CARE school right now.’ Some have dissolved into subsidies each year. tears when they’ve heard there is a space.”
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Continuum_Summer15_Uparents.v4.indd 21 5/18/15 4:26 PM Other child care programs at the U run by U Continuing Education. “If you’re include the BioKids center, started by looking at Pac-12 schools, most of them do faculty in the biology department in 2000. not have child care at this level,” Lower says. It provides full-time care to children ages 480 “Even in the state, having eight programs six weeks to ve years, and generally CHILDREN CAN BE that serve children in di erent capacities has about a nine-month waiting list. e is pretty unique.” Lower knows rsthand ACCOMMODATED Child and Family Development Center, the challenges of juggling school and child which opened back in 1930, is the oldest IN THE U’S EIGHT care. “I’ve experienced all of this. I’ve taken program on campus. It primarily serves as CHILD CARE children to class before, which is an awful a child care development lab for University PROGRAMS experience.” She says she wants to make it students studying early childhood and easier for students at the U: “I don’t think human development, and enrolls children wanting to be a parent should stop you ages 18 months to ve years in a three-hour from going to school.” morning or afternoon session. Debra Daniels MSW’84, director of the ere’s also the Early Childhood Women’s Resource Center at the U, notes Education Center, a full-time center that that by far, women shoulder the responsi- mainly serves employees’ children ages two Most Pac-12 bility for nding and providing child care. to eight years, and the Fine Arts Preschool universities “do To help, her o ce provides emergency for children ages three to six. e full-day grants to students each year. e grants, University Kids, a private national program not have child funded by a number of foundations, range run by Children’s Creative Learning Center, care at this from $10 for a needed stroller, formula, or enrolls children ages six weeks to eight level.” diapers, to thousands of dollars for a child years, and University Head Start provides care voucher or help with tuition. morning and afternoon classes for three- e goal is to keep student parents, and four-year-olds. And then there’s Club especially mothers, in school. “We know that U and Youth Academy, summer programs if they step out, the chance is slim to none
Erin Beeghly, a U assistant professor of philosophy, with her daughter Esme Rivkin in the Marriott Library’s Family Reading Room
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Continuum_Summer15_Uparents.v4.indd 22 5/18/15 4:27 PM that they will come that other students back,” she says. don’t. “It’s intimi- U student Cassie dating, too, because Smith has three sometimes you may young children who not get the academic are enrolled at the performance that ASUU child care you would like center for a few hours maybe because of all here and there while the other things that she goes to class and are going on.” But studies. “I wouldn’t there’s no question be able to go to that having a child school if I didn’t have as a student also has this,” she says. Her its pluses, he says. husband just gradu- “It’s surprising how ated from the U with Mary Parker, center, U much motivation a master’s degree, and while she has had associate vice president of there comes from that. No matter how to take some semesters o due to parent- student affairs stressed you are, you always nd little hood, she plans to graduate this summer times of thinking, ‘Oh, I get to go see my in elementary education after enrolling six baby.’ And that cheers you up. It’s weird years ago. Visit continuum.utah. how that works.” Elliott, whose daughter is in the edu to view a gallery infant room at the ASUU center, says with more photos. —Kim M. Horiuchi is an associate student parents face many challenges editor of Continuum.
A landmark exhibition from the collections of the OUR AMERICA Smithsonian American Art Museum THE LATINO PRESENCE IN AMERICAN ART EXTENDED! On view through June 28
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Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Generous support for the exhibition has been provided by Altria Group, the Honorable Aida M. Alvarez; Judah Best, The James F. Dicke Family Endowment, Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, Tania and Tom Evans, Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, The Michael A. and the Honorable Marilyn Logsdon Mennello Endowment, Henry R. Muñoz III, Wells Fargo and Zions Bank. Additional signi cant support was provided by The Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. Support for Treasures to Go, the museum’s traveling exhibition program, comes from The C. F. Foundation, Atlanta.
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U gymnast Georgia Dabritz
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FOR MANY U ATHLETES, SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY COACHING PROVIDES AN EDGE FOR TOP PERFORMANCE.
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HE RECORD CROWD OF 16,019 GREW QUIET AS ALLAMERICAN GYMNAST GEORGIA DABRITZ APPROACHED THE UNEVEN PARALLEL BARS. e No. 4 University of Utah gymnastics team was squaring o against No. 5 Michigan in the Utes’ last home meet for 2015. In Section L, Row 7 on the aisle in the Huntsman Center was U sports psychology consultant Nicole Detling, who just days earlierT had met with the team to help them mentally prepare for the Michigan meet and beyond. Dabritz had just nished eighth in vault, but when it was her turn at the bars, she smiled and acknowledged the standing-room-only crowd cheering her in her last year competing on the team. She took a deep breath and then went to work. In less than a minute, her routine was complete. A few minutes later, the crowd roared as the judges posted a perfect 10, her third on the bars for the 2015 season.
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Continuum_Summer15_Mental Game.v4.indd 27 5/13/15 11:14 AM Detling PhD’07, despite having letes across all sports now use sports a pass that allows her quick access psychology services provided by to the floor at any moment the private consulting practices during a meet, watched from of Detling, who is a full-time the stands as the Utah team U assistant professor of exer- went on to beat Michigan. cise and sport science, and by But what Detling did for Keith Henschen, who led the Dabritz—and others on the U’s sports psychology e orts team—prior to the meet for decades and still contracts with Michigan had an impact U infielder with the men’s basketball on that evening’s results, by Kody Davis team. e U also o ers degree dealing with the psychological programs to educate people to aspects of their athletic perfor- take on the role that, for the ath- mance. “She really helped me with letes they serve, falls somewhere my mental toughness,” Dabritz says. between Zen master and someone to “We’ve noticed a huge di erence in our just talk to about life. team over the last few years she’s been here.” College athletics programs and pro sports teams BOUT 60 TO 75 PERCENT of major colleges across the country have increasingly turned to applied nationwide now use mental skills coaches sports psychology consultants to give their athletes a mental for their athletes, and more than 100 institu- edge through tools that help them have the extra focus they tions, including the University of Utah, o er need when the pressure is on, or the coping skills in the coursesA in sports psychology, Henschen says. e number heat of battle when even the smallest setbacks threaten to of consultants across the country who have been certi ed derail months of preparation. About 80 percent of U ath- through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology has
From left, U track and field team members Beck Sarmiento, Jessica Sams, and Lauren Mills Photos these pages by Stephen Speckman
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Continuum_Summer15_Mental Game.v4.indd 28 5/15/15 11:28 AM grown from about 50 in 1992 to more than 500 today. ey apply their mental skills coaching not only to athletes but to people working in elds such as medicine, music, the military, law, and business, helping them with their mental focus, con dence, concentration, and attitude. Among NCAA Division I universities, about half provide their athletes with sports psychology resources, according to an NCAA study by Ian Connole, director of sports psy- chology at Kansas State University. e o erings include clinical services provided by a psychologist as well as the mental skills coaching that certi ed consultants such as Detling use to sharpen an athlete’s performance. Detling began her role with the U Athletics Depart- ment in 2013, after Henschen, who had initiated sports psychology work with U teams, retired. Henschen says clinical psychologists were the rst to apply the knowledge they had developed for coaching people in the workplace to helping athletes with their performance. Applied sports psychology began to take U sports psychology hold in the late 1960s and For the athletes consultant Nicole early ’70s with bigger uni- Detling, left, with U versities that were able they serve, their golfer Brent Pollock to a ord hiring mental skills coaches. “It just role falls somewhere grew since then,” says Henschen, who taught and while shooting free for 39 years at the U, between Zen master throws,” Connor says. with an expertise in the “In our practices, we try psychological aspects of and someone to just to create drills and situa- sports performance. tions that improve mental Henschen, who has also talk to about life. toughness.” been the sport psychology con- sultant for the NBA's Utah Jazz OR ABOUT 35 YEARS, Hen- for the past 32 years, still helps the schen also helped gym- U men’s basketball team, which under nasts at Utah improve Head Coach Larry Krystkowiak this year their mental skills. reached the NCAA Sweet Sixteen for the rst time Co-head gymnasticsF coach Megan Marsden BS’84 since 2005. For both teams, Henschen says he administers says Henschen was a big part of her success back in 1981 when tests to athletes that he uses to develop competitive and she rst competed as a gymnast at the U, and he advised learning style pro les that help coaches gain insight into the team to use a sort of mental “choreography,” a blend of why an athlete prefers to avoid failure, how not to overload mental imagery and focus to keep gymnasts from overthink- a team member, or what type of anxiety issues a player ing their routines. might be facing. Her husband, outgoing co-head coach Greg Marsden, “He has been very helpful to our program and players (who in April announced his retirement), at one point over the years,” says Tommy Connor BS’90, the U’s assistant worked on a doctorate in sports psychology, studying head coach for men’s basketball. “He has unbelievable cre- under Henschen, and also has an acute understanding of dentials, and our coaching sta and team have great respect where it ts in with gymnastics performance. “Without for him.” Connor says the team plans to work more this the mental training part, a big piece of the puzzle would year with Henschen on mental imagery, and individuals be missing,” he says. “At the very top level for almost all will continue working with him on con dence issues and sports, it becomes a mental game—who can handle the implementing positive self-communication practices. “We anxiety and stress and still compete at their top level when talk a lot about breathing and relaxation prior to games everyone else around you is kind of panicked and losing it.”
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Continuum_Summer15_Mental Game.v4.indd 29 5/15/15 11:29 AM His point is one Detling pushed in a team meeting a week She received her doctorate in 2007, and in 2008 she went to prior to the Michigan meet this past March. “You should be work as an assistant professor (lecturer) at the U in Exercise at a point now where you know what you need and Sports Science, with an emphasis in sports before you compete,” she told the gym- psychology. In her private practice, she nasts. “You know what mindset you helped the U.S. Ski and Speedskating need. You know what feeling in teams during the Winter Olympics your body you need in order to in Sochi and Vancouver, and she compete at your best.” also has worked with pro ath- As part of the coach- “At the very top letes in nearly every sport. ing leading up to the Since she started her sports meet, Detling taught level for almost all psychology consulting Dabritz to clear her for the U Athletics De- mind for the bars, sports, it becomes a partment in 2013, the which Dabritz says is number of U athletes an “easier” event for mental game—who can taking advantage of her, and to use mental mental skills coaching imagery to help with handle the anxiety and has grown by about 30 focus when perform- percent. The athletes ing on the more di cult who have worked with beam routines. “I tried stress and still compete her o ce say that when a few things in previous it’s game time, most of what years like singing and count- at their top level.” determines success and failure ing,” Dabritz says about being in their sport comes down to on the beam. “ is year, it’s mental mettle. deep breaths. I tell myself to Several members of be strong and calm. I’ll take a the U’s golf team noted in a deep breath and say the word spring team meeting that the ‘calm’ on the exhale.” game is 90 percent or more U Athletics Director Percentage of University of Utah a matter of mental skills, Chris Hill MEd’74 PhD’82 athletes who now use sports once competition starts. ey recognizes that the scope 80 psychology coaching credit Detling with being key of sports psychology goes when Utah tied for second beyond wins and losses. “ is place this past February at was and continues to be a the Loyal Golf Invitational in critical part of our program,” Arizona. “A few weeks before, he says. e sports psychol- Percentage of major we did team sessions, and ogy model led by Henschen 60 TO colleges nationwide that in Arizona, we were talking introduced the need to look use mental skills coaches with her almost every night,” at other support systems, he for their athletes says golfer Brandon Kida, notes, and his department in 75 who shot a four under par the mid-1990s formed a Well- and tied for fth individu- ness Team to help student ally in that tournament. athletes with psychological Percentage of NCAA Division I “After rounds, we would talk and nutritional issues, as well about what we were doing as returning to play after in- universities that provide on the course and what we juries. “ is is a very compre- 50 their athletes with sports were thinking,” he says. “It’s hensive program,” Hill says. psychology resources something our team de - nitely needs to keep doing. ENSCHEN was the It’s helping everyone as indi- reason Detling, a Institutions nationwide, viduals and as a team.” native of tiny Barnes- including the U, that offer e use of a mental skills ville, Ohio, chose to 100 courses in sports psychology coach is a relatively new de- Hstudy sports psychology at the velopment for the golf team. University of Utah back in 2000. “It took us a while to get to
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Continuum_Summer15_Mental Game.v4.indd 30 5/13/15 11:14 AM the realization that with golf, being as Like Henschen before her, mental of a game as it is, it’s crazy Detling has taught students not to use the resources we have who have gone on to accom- up here,” says Andrew Mecham plished careers in sports BFA’94, the golf team’s assis- psychology. Justin Su’a tant coach. “Most of these MS’11 was a pitcher on kids can hit the shots—they Brigham Young Uni- have the physical tools, or versity’s baseball team they wouldn’t be here in the and received an un- rst place. I feel like if they dergraduate degree in can have some help think- broadcast journalism. ing around the golf course, “I realized I wanted to
U tennis player n it helps them a lot.” a help athletes, not report m k Detling educates athletes Tereza Bekerova c on them,” Su’a says. So e p S about their body’s physiological n he enrolled in in the U’s e h responses to frustration, anger, ep sports psychology program, St y b and negative thoughts—includ- to studying under Detling. After ho ing chemicals released and muscles P getting his master’s degree, he tightening—versus what happens when established a private practice. Last athletes use techniques such as repeating December, he was hired to be a mental positive sayings to themselves. “Finding those posi- skills coach with Major League Baseball’s tive moments actually releases serotonin, which is the happy Boston Red Sox. “ e players are responding really well,” hormone, and serotonin and cortical hormones ght each he says. “It comes down to language. ere might be some other,” she told the golf team in that spring meeting. “So, if bosses or coaches who say you messed up and to go see a you’re having that cortical stress reaction, that causes tension, mental skills coach. Now they say, ‘We want to take you and if you talk positively to yourself, that releases serotonin.” to the next level.’ ”
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HE U BASEBALL AND FOOTBALL PROGRAMS also recently coping tools that range from simply being with their breath have warmed up to using sports psychology to help their to choosing a focal point—Davis uses a foul pole—on which athletes. “It’s huge in baseball right now,” says U baseball to concentrate and regroup during a stressful moment in head coach Bill Kinneberg. “It really helps players get competition. U women’s track coach Kyle Kepler last year Tready to play.” In baseball, he notes, it’s about helping players watched Detling work with an injury-plagued senior on pole be ready for the next pitch, and Detling’s o ce is helping his vault and help her toward an “amazing” season. “Her ability players be at their ready best for that. to catch a student athlete in the moment is unbelievable,” In football, it’s about getting to the next down. “We’re Kepler says. just now starting to explore the bene ts of sports psychol- Every athlete who works with Detling hears the acronym ogy,” says U Head Coach Kyle Whittingham. “We’re starting WIN, or “what’s important now,” and she coaches them to to integrate Detling slowly into what we’re doing. We’re quietly repeat it to themselves. “It just brings you back to looking for that edge. Anything that can give us a bit of an the moment,” Davis says. “It’s another phrase, reminding advantage, we’re going to explore.” e mental part of football you to be where you need to be, when you need to be there. is “huge,” he says, and he believes Detling might be able to It gets you away from thinking about the past or worrying help his players deal better with adversity. “A defensive back, about the future.” for example, is going to get beat a certain amount of the time, Dabritz, who plans to graduate next year with two and the way they react to that is crucial,” Whittingham says. bachelor’s degrees, believes the lessons she has learned from “I have a lot of con dence that she can help us.” Detling will help her in pursuing a career in health promotion Senior wide receiver Tyler Cooperwood says Detling is and education. “As I move on from competitive gymnastics, a “great listener” who has helped him with life on and o I think there are many techniques that I have learned from the gridiron. “She gives me tools on how to stay positive,” Nicole that I can use in job interviews and, from there, as I he says. “In football, she’s helped me with focusing for that continue into the workforce,” she says. “One thing we as a moment. A play is usually no longer than six seconds. So for team have worked on a lot this year is self-con dence, and that six seconds, the focus has to be in that moment that not only applies to gymnastics and competition, and doing the best I can in that moment.” but will help us excel in whatever we choose to For baseball players Hunter Simmons and Visit do after our gymnastics careers are over.” Kody Davis, distance runners Jessica Sams continuum.utah.edu and Nicole Rietz, and tennis players Luisa —Stephen Speckman is a Salt Lake City-based to view a gallery with writer and photographer and a frequent Gerstner Da Rosa and Tereza Bekerova, more photos. Detling has introduced a multitude of mental contributor to Continuum.
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AN Examined Life U professor emeritus Jack Newell still pushes students to think, and to seek experiences beyond academe. Story by Elaine Jarvik Photos by August Miller
HE STUDENT ARRIVES LATE, frazzled and out of breath, and takes a seat around the table. e topic today in Jack Newell’s grad- uate class in educational leadership is Norman Maclean’s A River Runs rough It, a book that, on the surface, is about y- shing. When it’s her turn to speak about her favorite passages, the woman turns to anT earmarked page, and then another, starts to speak, then stops. A minute goes by. She says nothing. Newell waits. Some of us dget in our seats. Finally the woman says, “We’re going through a process in our school district, a pretty major district improvement.” She’s a school administrator in the Salt Lake Valley, and she says she has just come from a meeting with a likeable employee who isn’t performing well. Newell leans slightly towards her. “How would you describe the feelings you’re experiencing?” he asks. She pauses and then realizes why a book about y- shing has brought her to tears—because, like the char- acters in the book, she nds herself face-to-face with the responsibilities and limitations of trying to help another person. “Teaching with your mouth shut” is the way former students have described Newell’s classroom style. It always has been more about listening than lecturing, as students sort through moral quandaries and di cult ideas. e buzz in America these days is all about STEM courses (those in science, technology, engineering, math), and Newell doesn’t underesti- mate the need for skilled workers. But he still holds out for an education that is broader and deeper than that. Too often now, education focuses on amassing credits, bee ng up résumés, and getting through college as quickly as possible. But the ultimate goal should be this, he says: to become ethical, eective, and caring citizens, “so we can live in a society where blindly following our chosen ideologies and pursuing our self-interest isn’t good enough.”
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U professor emeritus Jack Newell teaches students in an Honors College course held at the Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community.
EWELL is a professor was an environment in which these Education Program morphed into the emeritus of education at the passionate teachers would create U’s O ce of Undergraduate Studies. University of Utah. When captivating classes and feel they had Today, students can choose from more he arrived at the U in 1974, a common purpose: “that we’re doing than 900 “gen ed” courses. Whether N something really, really important, something has been lost depends on he was 35. He was hired to be dean of students but soon was appointed together, and it’s bigger than depart- whom you ask. to a new post, dean of liberal educa- mental assignments.” He invited them Newell’s passion for “liberal tion, charged with revamping the all over to his house once a month, education” began in his childhood University’s graduation requirements. because he wanted to create a commu- home in rural Englewood, Ohio, For years, undergraduates had nity. “It felt like an oasis among the where his father was a physician been required to take a somewhat silos” of the U’s disparate departments, and his parents would talk around random set of “general ed” courses in says David Chapman, a distinguished the dinner table with reverence addition to courses in their majors. professor emeritus of geology and about their former college profes- e new “liberal ed” program required geophysics who taught in the Liberal sors. Still, Newell admits, as a child a more focused selection of classes Education Program. and teen he was more adventurous designed speci cally to challenge In 1980, the program was named than studious. (“ e Newells have students to become thinkers. at’s by the U.S. Department of Education as very slow-maturing genes,” he says by the premise behind the term “liberal one of the 10 undergraduate programs way of explanation.) He preferred to education,” which of course is not how nationwide that were worthy models daydream, or make a raft and oat it to become more like Nancy Pelosi but for reforming liberal arts study. But the down the river behind his house; at about teaching students, as current University and its levels of bureaucracy school, his grades were mediocre. U Honors College Dean Sylvia Torti were growing, and some of the U deans In junior high, he became PhD’98 says, to “thrive in ambiguity wanted to channel funding and control enchanted by the idea of Deep Springs and complexity.” of liberal education classes back to College in the remote Sierra Nevadas of So Newell began searching the their own departments. After Newell California, after a neighbor who was a campus for professors “who had that left his deanship in 1990 to return student there came home with stories of glint in their eyes.” What he envisioned to full-time teaching, the Liberal the school’s improbable mix of scholars
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“Good teachers journey as a Mormon convert who, OMETIMES Newell asks as he says, eventually “moved beyond his students to imagine the must ask students the religion over issues such as the kind of newspaper story that squelching of dissent.” might be written about them Transparency and trust are keys to S to examine their in the future, perhaps on the occa- good leadership, he says. He notes that sion of their retirement after a long deepest beliefs.” the best lesson he ever received about career. e assignment is to write a how to be a good leader came when story that captures not only what they he was 21 and working as foreman were like but also what they stood for. Newell himself has written more of a forest re crew at Crater Lake in Moral courage, moral authority, moral than 120 published articles and Oregon. It had been a rainy spring, and issues— these are themes that come up six books, served as editor of e the re danger was low, so the chief again and again in Newell’s classes. Review of Higher Education, and with ranger assigned him to supervise the So what would the news story his wife was co-editor in the 1980s building of a boathouse—and then about him say? Maybe it would note of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon announced that he would not be back that he hardly ever wears a necktie, ought, an independent quarterly to check on their work until the end of that he loves hiking and photog- published by generally more liberal the summer. Being trusted like that, raphy and canoeing, that some of members of the Church of Jesus Newell says, meant “we were not going his happiest moments are spent Christ of Latter-day Saints. e to let him down.” paddling his old red canoe on a quiet articles about church history that Katherine Chaddock PhD’94, lake at dawn. But rst and foremost, the Newells published sometimes got chair of the Department of Educational he says, he would like to be remem- them in hot water with LDS Church Leadership at the University of South bered as a teacher, someone who authorities, but he stands by them. Carolina, says she felt the same way “has always been passionate about “Our tests for publishing became about Newell when she was taking his pushing people to think.” 1) Is the evidence unimpeachable? 2) graduate courses at the U nearly 30 For the nine years since his Is the interpretation responsible? And years ago. “You could tell he wanted to return to Utah from his presidency 3) Is the issue important to a rounded learn from you,” she says. And that led at Deep Springs, he has taught both understanding of the Mormon experi- her to this realization: “You just didn’t at the U and in the Venture Course in ence,” Newell wrote in a 2006 Dialogue want to bring someone like Jack a half- the Humanities, a Utah Humanities essay that followed his spiritual assed essay.” Council program that provides college courses in philosophy, history, art history, and literature to low-income students. ese days, he teaches two courses at the U: a graduate-level seminar on leadership in the School of Education, and a year-long under- graduate honors class whose subtitle is “Rediscovering Liberal Education.” After a half century of teaching, this is what he still wants: to sit down with students, to throw out a question, to not shy away from what happens next. “Good teachers must ask students to examine their deepest beliefs and values,” he says. “None of us can ultimately live a full and good life, a committed life, without ques- tioning what we believe and rea rming as full-blown adults the commitments we wish to live by.”
—Elaine Jarvik is a Salt Lake City-based journalist and playwright and a frequent Jack Newell enjoys hiking, photography, and canoeing and in his youth worked as a forest fire crewman. contributor to Continuum.
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e Young Alumni Board gives its Par Excellence Award annually to Spring Awards Honor a former student who attended the U within the last 15 years, in recognition Cellist, Professor, of his or her outstanding professional achievements and service to the community as well as the University and Scholars of Utah. Nelson, this year’s honoree, is the cellist for e Piano Guys, whose videos of their classical and pop music have become a YouTube bout 200 people attended International music star Steven Sharp viral sensation. Nelson received his the Spring Awards Nelson BA’02 MPA’07 received the Par bachelor’s degree in 2002 in music Banquet in April, when Excellence Award from the Alumni and then went on to get a master’s the University of Utah Association’s Young Alumni Board, degree in public administration, with a AlumniA Association presented and U professor David Derezotes was graduate certi cate in urban planning, $550,000 in scholarships for students honored with this year’s Philip and all from the U. After graduate school, and honored e Piano Guys’ cellist Miriam Perlman Award for Excellence he worked as a real estate agent and and a U social work professor. in Student Counseling. owner of ornton Walker Real Estate
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Teaching and mentoring of students and practitioners is especially impor-
Stidham tant to him. He strives to incorporate experiential learning in the classroom
Morgan and community, and he recently by began a Bridge Training Clinic site on
page Salt Lake City’s west side, in coopera- tion with University Neighborhood Partners, to help empower minority Photos this communities, including refugees. U President David W. Pershing spoke at the April awards banquet and acknowledged the many deserving students receiving schol- arships that evening. e record total of $550,000 that the Alumni Association is awarding this year will support the academic dreams of a variety of students, including those David Derezotes who have overcome tremendous adversity, as well as nontraditional students, those who are the rst in as his cello career took o . His rst his students as “Dr. Dave,” is chair of their families to attend college, and solo album, Sacred Cello, in 2006 was Practice and Mental Health in the those who come from diverse back- atop the Billboard charts. He released U’s College of Social Work, as well grounds or are in nancial need. two more solo albums, Tender Mercies as director of the college’s Bridge Revenue from the sales of in 2008 and Christmas Cello in 2010. Training Clinic. He also serves as University of Utah license plates He joined e Piano Guys in 2011, and director of Peace and Con ict Studies continues to be the primary source of together they have created one of the in the U’s College of Humanities. scholarship funds for the U Alumni fastest-growing channels on YouTube. Derezotes received his doctorate Association. Association membership His videos are watched by more than from the University of California at fees, proceeds from the Homecoming half a million viewers daily, and Berkeley in 1989 and joined 5K, and other private contributions since 2011, many have been the University of Utah also support the scholarship fund. among the top 10 music faculty that same year. videos in the world. Visit continuum.utah.edu to watch a Derezotes, known to video of Nelson performing at the Spring Awards Banquet.
From left, banquet guest Cristina Luangaphay with scholarship recipients Jerry Bounsanga and Samuel Ham
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YOUNG ALUMNI NET $7,000 FOR SCHOLARSHIPS IN SKI CHALLENGE
The University of Utah Alumni Association’s Young Alumni Board received $7,000 for scholarships from Vail Resorts as a result of partici- pating in the Vail Resorts Epic Ski Challenge. Young Alumni Board members Peter Black, McKenzie Newton-Schreck, Jennifer Billington, Ryan Kump, and Adam Reeder traveled to seven resorts in California, Utah, and Colorado during three months of competition From left, board members Jamie Sorenson, McKenzie Newton-Schreck, Jennifer Billington, and Peter Black with nine other teams in Utah and 10 teams in Colorado. This time for Utah companies and CBRE, selected the U’s Young receive the $7,000. CBRE also was the fourth year of the Epic charities to be included. Black Alumni Scholarship Fund will be giving an additional Ski Challenge, and the first and his company sponsor, as their charity of choice to $2,000 to the scholarship fund.
STUDENT ALUMNI BOARD WINS WESTERN REGIONAL AWARD
The University of Utah Alumni Association’s Student Alumni Board has won the Outstanding Internal Program Award from the Western regional division of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s Affiliated Student Advancement Programs. The award was presented at the programs’ conference in San Diego, California, in early March. The Student Alumni Board was honored for its “U Book Nights,” when most of the board’s 35 members race around the U’s campus to complete six to eight of the 50 Members of the Student Alumni Board flash the U sign on a California beach after winning a CASE regional award. University of Utah traditions that are listed in the U Book, a “We split the board Deitsch, a vice president tion. We then end the handbook of U facts, figures, members into teams and of the board. “They have night with a visit to one and traditions that the board send them off with a time to take a photo to show of the fast food places publishes annually. deadline,” says Derek they completed the tradi- around the U.”
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KASKADE BY THE NUMBERS KASKADE (aka Ryan Raddon BA’95) is one of the world’s most popular DJs/electronic>>> original albums (plus compilations, Grammy nominations dance music (EDM) producers. He has scored 2001 Releases his first single, remixes, and stand- 4 12 Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot Dance “What I Say,” on Om Records. alone singles) 9 3 Daughters with wife Airplay Chart, created chart-topping remixes Naomi BA’00, a fellow snow- for everyone from Lady Gaga to Beyoncé, NO.1 The Billboard 2013 Release of his boarder whom he met at the U Dance/Electronic Albums chart album Atmosphere, his first with headlined at major music festivals such as debut of his 2011 double album notably Mormon-centric lyrics. Coachella and Lollapalooza, and performed Fire & Ice A member of the Church of Jesus 2015 Establishes a Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he multi-year exclusive residency nearly 200 other headlining shows a year for a DJ to perform served a mission in Japan before with Wynn Las Vegas. decade. He started DJ-ing as a student at the st at Los Angeles’ coming to the U. iconic Staples Visit continuum.utah.edu University of Utah, where he majored in mass 1 Center, which he to view a gallery of more communication, minored in Japanese, and sold out. Billboard declared that 2014 Forbes names photos of Kaskade and to 2012 tour “the only successful Kaskade the eighth-highest-paid had a radio show on the U’s student-run radio view a video of a national stadium tour under- DJ/EDM artist in the world, with live performance. station K-UTE, often featuring his own music. taken by a solo EDM artist.” earnings of $17 million.
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his career at Washington ocular lens complications, bachelor’s degree, magna cum University that same year. teleophthalmology (delivery laude, in economics from the His continuing research has of eye care through digital University of Utah and a juris ’70s resulted in major contribu- medical equipment and tele- doctorate from the University tions to the understanding of communications technology), of Chicago Law School. From how brillin and other elastic and corneal transplantation 1989 to 2004, Himonas was ber proteins work to main- techniques. He was selected an attorney and shareholder tain normal tissue function as one of the 15 best cataract at Jones Waldo Holbrook & and how mutations in these surgeons in the United States McDonough, where he was proteins lead to diabetes, bone in a peer survey conducted involved in an array of civil disorders, and cardiovascular by Ophthalmology Times, and litigation, and he served as an disease. Cataract and Refractive Surgery adjunct associate professor Today named Olson one of 50 at the University of Utah’s S.J. international opinion leaders. Quinney College of Law from He has appeared in the last 2009 to 2013. As a member of three editions of Best Doctors the Greek Orthodox Church, in America. he is the only member of Utah’s Robert Mecham BS’73, highest court who is not a a professor of medi- member of the Church of Jesus cine, pediatrics, and Christ of Latter-day Saints. biomedical engineering at Washington University in ’80s St. Louis, has received the Marfan Foundation’s rst Distinguished Research Award. e award recognizes Randall J. Olson BA’70 MD’73, Mecham’s lifetime of work chair of University of Utah dedicated to understanding Health Care’s Department elastic tissue function and of Ophthalmology and chief basic mechanisms involving executive o cer of the John connective tissue, paramount A. Moran Eye Center, has to understanding disorders been awarded the Philip M. such as Marfan syndrome Corboy MD Memorial Award and related diseases. Marfan for Distinguished Service in Danny Vranes ex’81, who syndrome is a life-threatening Ophthalmology. e award played for the University of genetic disorder of the body’s is given to an ophthalmolo- Constandinos G. Himonas Utah’s Runnin’ Utes men’s connective tissue that a ects gist who “typi es a career of BA’86 was appointed to the basketball team from 1978 to the heart and blood vessels, excellence in the service of Utah Supreme Court by Utah 1981 and later the U.S. Olympic the bones, and the eyes. his or her patients and peers.” Governor Gary Herbert and Team and the National Mecham is a national leader Olson was recognized for his con rmed unanimously by the Basketball Association, was in the research of elastic tissue “legendary dedication and Utah State Senate. He began in inducted into the Pac-12 Men’s function, and his work has service to ophthalmology” and his new position in February. Basketball Hall of Honor contributed to understanding for the many contributions Himonas previously had been in March. One of just seven the structure and function of he has made to the eld. He is a trial judge for Utah’s ird players to have his number brillin, the abnormal protein the rst and only chairman of District Court since 2004. retired by the Utes, Vranes in Marfan syndrome. After the John A. Moran Eye Center, He presided over complex was named an All-American receiving a bachelor’s degree having started the depart- civil, criminal, and domestic in 1981. He was a four- in biology from the University ment in 1982 with only two proceedings, as well as a time All-Western Athletic of Utah, Mecham obtained a faculty members. It has now felony drug court program, Conference honoree and a doctorate in biochemistry in grown to include 57 faculty and served as the associate member of Utah’s All-Century 1977 from Boston University members. Olson specializes in presiding judge for the ird Team. He led the Utes to three School of Medicine. He began research dealing with intra- District. He received a NCAA Tournament appear-
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ances, including two Sweet 40” award. e honor recog- extreme environments. He 16s. e Utes won a Western nizes the accomplishments also wants to collect data Athletic Conference title of association members who on climate change. When he during Vranes’s senior year have distinguished them- started researching diving and ended the season ranked selves in the legal profession at high altitudes, he found 14th in the nation. Vranes through professional excel- startlingly little information. also played in the 1979 Pan lence, integrity, leadership, He discovered the phenom- American Games in San Juan, commitment to the Hispanic enon known as glacial lake where he helped the United community, and dedica- outburst ooding, which States win the gold medal. tion to improving the legal occurs when water dammed Vranes was selected as the profession. Romero’s practice by a glacier is suddenly No. 5 overall pick in the 1981 focuses on employment litiga- released. As warming trends NBA draft by the Seattle tion and consulting, including continue, melting glaciers Supersonics. He played seven cases involving the Fair Labor form increasingly more series Shameless in a recur- seasons and was named to the Standards Act, class actions, high-altitude lakes that can ring role. Huxley has two All-Defensive Team in 1985. wrongful terminations, potentially burst and wash out degrees in business from the During his NBA career, Vranes harassment, and discrimina- entire communities 40 to 50 University of Utah. She says played in 510 games and scored tion claims. Romero in 2013 miles downstream. Bowland, she decided to put her busi- a total of 2,613 points. His best received the Utah State Bar’s along with Vanguard Diving ness career on hold to pursue year as a professional came Raymond S. Uno Award for the & Exploration and the Steep her love of acting. She began during the 1983-1984 season as Advancement of Minorities N’ Deep Project, intends to by performing on stage, and a member of the SuperSonics. in the Legal Profession. Prior study the causes and eects in 2009 she was cast in a short Vranes also played basketball to joining Holland & Hart in of these glacial lake outburst adventure lm, Kelton, shot for four years for teams in 2004, Romero practiced law in Farmington, Utah. She Greece and Italy. He now lives with the Salt Lake law rm says the experience gave her in Salt Lake City. of Ray, Quinney & Nebeker. a taste for the silver screen, She also was a law clerk for and she began to consider Judge Ted Stewart with the pursuing a lm and televi- U.S. District Court in Utah. sion career and soon moved Romero received a bachelor’s to Los Angeles. In Shameless, degree from the U in English Huxley plays Nika, a Russian ’90s and her juris doctorate from prostitute who adds some the University’s S.J. Quinney interesting family dynamics College of Law, where she to the award-winning show. also served as president of Her other credits include the the Native American Law upcoming movies e Feeding Students Association. Rituals of the Desmodus Sapien oods to determine neigh- in the Urban City (2015) and boring regions’ risk levels. e Code of Honor (2015), as well as team will spend four years the short lm e Wonder Drug in eight countries, studying (2014). At the U, she received four seas, three mountain an honors bachelor’s degree ’00s ranges, two oceans, and one in nance, with a minor in active volcano. Bowland also international studies, and went Zac Bowland BS’09, a former hopes his work will educate on to get a master’s degree in Cecilia Romero BA’98 JD’02, naval aviator and military the public on science and the business administration. a partner with Holland & Hart o cer who is now a business importance of taking action. LLP in Salt Lake City, has owner, deep-sea diver, and been chosen by the Hispanic climate change educator, Ileana Huxley (also known We want to hear from National Bar Association is embarking on a journey as Ileana Kovalskaya) HBS’08 you! Please submit as one of 10 lawyers across across eight countries in MBA’12 has joined the cable entries to Ann Floor, the country to receive its hopes of developing a new and satellite television network ann.fl[email protected]. 2015 “Top Lawyers Under technique for diving in Showtime’s hit comedy
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Playing with Computer Magic By Ann Floor Mullenhoff Colette
olette Mullenhoff has been interested in computer graphics for as long as she can remember. “I have an courtesy Cearly memory of being impressed by the stained glass Photo knight whose image in a church window comes to life in the Colette Mullenhoff movie Young Sherlock Holmes,” says Mullenhoff. “But seeing the T-1000 liquid metal cyborg in Terminator 2 confirmed my goal to enter the entertainment industry.” Following her instincts has After graduating with her master’s degree, she worked as a paid off in her career, and this year she received an Academy software engineer for Singletrac Studio, a video-game developer Award for her work with a team of four that developed a digital in Salt Lake City, and created 3-D modeling and animation tools shape-sculpting system. The digital-animation software system for use with video games. Evans & Sutherland in Salt Lake City was enables artists to edit the shape of characters undergoing her next stop, where she designed, implemented, and maintained complex animations and transformations. 3-D graphics tools used for generating realistic outdoor computer- Of the 59 people who received the Academy of Motion generated environments for flight-training simulations. Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards In early 2003, she moved to northern California to work that night in early February, Mullenhoff was the only woman, with ESC Entertainment, where she created tools for processing according to the Hollywood trade paper Variety. She received 3-D models used in post-production on the films The Matrix: an extended standing ovation. Reloaded and The Matrix: Revolutions. Later that year, she made “It was very emotional and encouraging, and a little the move to Industrial Light & Magic, in San Francisco. She and surreal,” she says. The awards honor technical achievements in her husband, Patrick Tullmann MS’99, also a U graduate in soft- filmmaking and were presented a couple of weeks before the ware engineering, now live in the Bay Area. main 87th Annual Academy Awards event. At Industrial Light & Magic, Mullenhoff works as a research Mullenhoff MS’98 works in northern California for and development engineer supporting software for the compa- Industrial Light & Magic. The special effects company, started ny’s Digital Model Shop artists. She currently is focusing on tools 40 years ago by filmmaker George Lucas, has created the to optimize the turnaround time for digital artists. Those tools visual effects for films including his Star Wars trilogy as well as are being used in the production of Tomorrowland (Disney); the Star Trek movies. Avengers: Age of Ultron (Marvel-Disney); The Force Awakens She was born in Livermore, California, home to the (Lucasfilm/Disney); and Warcraft (Legendary/Universal). “I enjoy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where her father was working with artists to provide them with the tools they need,” employed as an electrical engineer. She received her bachelor’s Mullenhoff says. “It’s extremely rewarding to help them and see degree in computer science from the University of California the results on the big screen.” at Santa Barbara. As a computer science graduate student at the University of Utah, she worked as a research assistant with —Ann Floor is an associate editor of Continuum. the U’s Geometric Design and Computation Research Group, helping create software for geometric modeling, high-quality Visit continuum.utah.edu to view a video of graphics, curve and surface representations and algorithms, and Mullenhoff accepting her Academy Award. computer-integrated manufacturing.
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Continuum_Summer15_TTY_v6.indd 47 5/18/15 12:13 PM and finally A Legacy of Works The stone wall on University Street was one of many Depression-era WPA projects. By Roy Webb Photo by Dave Titensor Most of the rock wall that borders the east side University Street from 100 South to near 400 South was built by WPA workers during the Great Depression.
f the thousands of students who have walked along For the majority of the projects, the U would provide University Street next to the rock wall that outlines the materials and the WPA would pay for the labor. From the western edge of the University of Utah campus, 1935, when the WPA was established, through 1941, O few realize that it and many other structures they the expenditure at the University on such projects was see and use all the time are the result of federally funded projects $726,988, with the WPA providing $450,320 and the U during the Great Depression of the 1930s. e U.S. government contributing the remainder. created programs in those years to try to put people back to work e projects included leveling and landscaping 89 acres by allocating federal funds to nance jobs, buildings, and other of the campus, with numerous trees and shrubs planted and projects. e University of Utah received its share of these proj- a sprinkling system installed. Campus streets were extended, ects through the Works Progress Administration, which provided graded, and surfaced with the aid of borrowed state equip- funding for unemployed workers. ment. Several tennis courts were constructed, and larger Utah in 1933 had an unemployment rate of 36 percent, the sewers were laid, along with new water mains, gas pipelines, fourth-highest in the country, and between 1932 and 1940, the state’s steam lines, and power lines. Several miles of curbing and unemployment rate averaged 25 percent. e percentage of Utah guttering were constructed, along with extensive concrete workers on federal work projects was far above the national average. and masonry retaining walls, including the stone wall along At the U, the WPA arranged for employment for more than 700 University Street. students, with projects proposed by University department heads. e look of the lower, historic campus of the University of e jobs ranged from working as laborers on buildings and grounds Utah owes much to those long-forgotten WPA programs. to being readers, library and museum assistants, cafeteria workers, and lab and research technicians. Students could thus work o a —Roy Webb BA’84 MS’91 is a multimedia archivist with the J. Willard Marriott portion of their tuition, but the campus bene ted, as well. Library and a regular contributor to Continuum.
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