T H E M A G A Z I N E O F U C R I VERS I D E W I N T E R 2 0 0 7 V O L U M E 2 N UM B E R 1 D E P A R T M E N T S 02 Events and happenings at UCR. 03 R View A campus without borders. 04 R Space FEATURES A quick look at UCR accomplishments and 18 undertakings. Evolving Education Today’s students must be prepared to compete 20 in a technologically Page Turners driven global economy. Peruse the works of What are educators do- UCR authors. ing to help them? 29 Gifted Behrouz and Nora Moti remember their son, Arya. 30 How I See It 24 A story of love without It’s a Crime borders. Keeping bad bugs at bay is a job for UCR’s 31 CSI (Controlling Sinister Gathering Insects) team. 34 28 Alumni Events and Sound Equals Sight Class Acts Alumnus Dan Kish 08 teaches echolocation Borders and Boundaries 40 – the ability to “see” C Scape with the use of echoes. Borders: They can keep us safe and make us feel secure. But Bagpiper Mike Terry. the ability to look beyond borders and to blur the boundaries can provide an opportunity to find new ways to improve not Inside back Cristian Flores tells just our individual lives but all of humanity. Take a look as we about crossing figurative explore the possibilites. and literal boundaries. UCR Winter 2007 | 1 R V I Beyond Borders E Music, Mingling, Murder W EVENTS and More For more on UCR events, look on the Web at www.events.ucr.edu. If you wonder where the world will be tomorrow, the curriculum, from the new global studies The success of look at where universities are today. Throughout major to Latin American and Southeast Asian “ higher education, the trend is toward studies to film and visual culture to our a campus in internationalization, global learning and cultural Education Abroad Program. University fluency. The success of a campus in transcending Extension has opened highly successful transcending its 4.5-5.12 5.20 5.16 its borders may be measured two ways: programs international education programs in Beijing and Master of Fine Arts Exhibition 2007 Primavera in the Gardens 2007 Author Series and personnel existing on-site, and those that are Seoul – centers that I encourage you to visit borders may be sent abroad. UCR is doing both. should you find yourself in those cities. The UCR Sweeney Art Gallery features the This ninth annual fund-raiser for the UCR Susan Straight, professor of creative Nowhere is UCR’s “borderless” community Over the years, UCR has entered into work of UCR students Matt Bryant, Cheryl Botanic Gardens includes live music, wine writing, will read from her latest book, “A measured two ways: more evident than in our many international international cooperative agreements and Gilge, Jason Lutz and John Sisley, with a and food from local restaurants and caterers. Million Nightingales,” as part of the UCR research collaborations. Since 1995, Research educational exchanges with more than 60 programs and reception at 7-9 p.m. April 14. Libraries’ Author Series. www.gardens.ucr.edu Physicist Ann Heinson from the Department of universities, stretching from South America to sweeney.ucr.edu library.ucr.edu Physics and Astronomy has co-led a team of 50 Europe to Asia. Most recently, I signed personnel existing international physicists — dubbed the DZero agreements with Shanghai Jiao-Tong University Project — that first detected a subatomic particle, and China Agricultural University, where our on-site; and those the top quark, produced without the faculty have burgeoning research collaborations. simultaneous production of its antimatter partner. The campus also provides leadership to UC that are sent abroad. 5.11-12, 5.18-19 The team includes 18 universities and MEXUS, which fosters exchange between the laboratories spanning four continents. Ten of UC system and academic institutions in Mexico. UCR is doing both. 4.13 Sweeney Todd 6.8 the 50 team members are women — double the I personally have been honored to ” Soweto Gospel Choir Stephen Sondheim’s epic musical tale of Gamelan Ensemble proportion of women in high energy physics participate in two stimulating international Direct from South Africa, the Soweto Gospel murderous “barber-ism” and culinary UCR’s Gamelan Ensemble, which includes and another border expanded. programs in recent months. In Kyoto, Japan, I Choir performs in eight different languages revenge mixes intense drama with moments tuned bronze gongs, metal-keyed Associate Professor of Chemistry Ludwig took part in a rich exchange between foremost in a program of tribal, traditional and of dark humor. Directed and choreographed instruments, xylophones and drums, will Bartels designed a molecule that can move in a scientists and political leaders at the Science and popular African and Western gospel. by Jim Alexander. perform traditional and contemporary straight line on a flat surface, then developed a Technology in Society Forum, a conference on music of Java in the University Theatre. method to make the nanowalker a molecule social responsibility in scientific advancement www.culturalevents.ucr.edu theatre.ucr.edu carrier. All experiments in this study were and the impacts of new technology on society. www.music.ucr.edu conducted by a team of graduate students and In January, I was a guest of the U.S. State postdoctoral researchers who hale from Sweden, Department in Kuwait in an effort to bring Ireland, Germany, Russia, China, Korea, India together women of science across international and the United States. This international effort and cultural borders. took place right here at UCR, where fully 29 Not every border is geographic. As you will 4.28-7.07 5.11 percent of our graduate students are read in these pages, UCR faculty, students, Li Zhensheng, and Christy Johnson and Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture 6.15-18 international, the highest percentage in UC. alumni and staff are transcending borders 33 Confessors Series Commencement 2007 UCR also participates in the international of intellect, culture, technology and Li Zhensheng, a Chinese photojournalist, Robert Engle, 2003 Nobel Laureate in UC Riverside’s 53rd Commencement will exchange of ideas through the Fulbright discipline. In so doing, they — and captured turmoil amid revolution, and Economics, will speak. This year’s theme for be held on the Pierce Lawn, near the UCR Scholars program. This year we have two others around the world — are Christy Johnson explores how the female the series is “Changing our Ideas, Changing Bell Tower. Fulbright Scholars. One will lecture and conduct shaping our world of tomorrow. body is socially and sexually constructed our World.” research at the Bangladesh Rural Advancement www.commencement.ucr.edu Sincerely, through transformative religious ritual in Committee in Dhaka; the other at the Central www.emp.ucr.edu/cdl School of Lille in Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. At these two exhibits. the same time, the campus is hosting scholars www.cmp.ucr.edu from the University of Malaga in Spain and the University of Bialystok in Poland. An international focus appears throughout CHAN C ELLOR France A. Córdova 2 | UCR Winter 2007 E C S P A R EPA Funds Research to Detect Twenty-One UCR Faculty science and engineering; Dimitrios Morikis, professor of UCR Proceeds Drinking Water Contaminants bioengineering; Victor G.J. Rodgers, professor of bioengineering; Charles Wyman, professor of chemical and environmental UCR scientists have received a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Receive AAAS Fellowships engineering. with Plans for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop a fast and The American Association for the Advancement of Science College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: Christine effective means of detecting disease-causing viruses in drinking (AAAS) has named 21 UC Riverside faculty members, including Ward Gailey, professor of anthropology and women’s studies. Medical School water supplies. the chancellor and the dean of the College of Engineering, as UCR has begun a national search for a College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences: Guy Bertrand, The work holds global interest because it addresses the 2006 AAAS fellows. founding dean for its proposed School of Distinguished Professor of chemistry; Katherine A. Borkovich, issue of finding and treating viral This represents the largest single-year contingent from the Medicine and will also hire initial faculty professor of plant pathology; France A. Córdova, chancellor and contaminants and other disease-causing, campus and the largest from within the UC system. The selection and staff, develop curriculum that focuses professor of astrophysics; Shou-Wei Ding, professor of plant waterborne viruses in water systems. of this year’s fellows brings the number of UCR faculty who have on improved health care in both primary pathology; Jodie S. Holt, professor of plant physiology and chair The research project is being received this distinction to 150. and specialty care, and seek private in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences; Bai-Lian Li, spearheaded by Wilfred Chen, Ashok The AAAS has awarded the fellow distinction to 449 of its support. professor of ecology, botany and plant sciences; Umar Mohideen, Mulchandani and Nosang Myung from the members this year. They are being recognized for their efforts in These moves come after a November associate professor of physics; Joseph G. Morse, professor of Department of Chemical and Environmental advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or vote by the University of California entomology; P. Kirk Visscher, associate professor of entomology; Engineering; and Marylynn V. Yates of the socially distinguished. regents to allow UCR to proceed with Shizhong Xu, professor of plant genetics; Jory A.