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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 I UIC NEWS I uicnews.uic.edu September 17 2014 VOLUME 34 / NUMBER 4 For the community of the University of Illinois at Chicago uicnews.uic.edu 2 ANDREW MODDRELL REINVENTS THE L.A. RIVERBED OPEN 3 ‘PORTRAITS OF A SOLDIER’ HONORS HOUSE FALLEN MILITARY Future Flames, families check out UIC campus 5 more on page 9 UIC MAKES FINAL PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY LIST 7 MULTIMEDIA MAKEOVER FOR LECTURE CENTER A INSIDE: CAMPUS NEWS 4 CALENDAR 8 POLICE / DEATHS 10 SPORTS 12 facebook.com/uicnews twitter.com/uicnews youtube.com/uicmedia — Photo: Julie Jaidinger 2 uicnews.uic.edu I UIC NEWS I SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 send profile ideas to Gary Wisby, [email protected] PROFILE ANDREW MODDRELL Reimagining play, reinventing riverbed By Gary Wisby — [email protected] After more than a year’s work on a new $5 million design for Denver’s City Park, Andrew Moddrell is back to the drawing board. Nine months in, the project ran into opposition from a neighborhood group of about 100 people. “They don’t want their park to change,” said Moddrell, assistant professor of ar- chitecture and partner in PORT Archi- tecture and Urbanism. PORT partnered on the project with Denver-based Indie Architecture, run by UIC School of Architecture faculty mem- Andrew Moddrell is collaborating on the design of a Denver park and 51 miles of greenway along the Los Angeles River, now ber Paul Andersen. a concrete channel. “A lot of people in L.A. don’t know they have a river,” says Moddrell, assistant professor of architecture. Moddrell compares the park, Denver’s largest, to Chicago’s Grant Park. “There was the opportunity to essen- So PORT’s client, Denver Parks and River Revitalization Corp. started going to University of Kansas Jay- tially ‘Reimagine Play’ — the name of the Recreation, canceled the project on that Its completion will provide “a non- hawks basketball games at age 4 or 5. Next competition — and create a multigenera- site. The agency chose a new location — automotive mobility spine” for Los Ange- to architecture, he said he spends the most tional civic space that would allow people Paco Sanchez Park — and Moddrell and les and 12 other municipalities, Moddrell time being a college basketball fan. to engage in a healthy and active lifestyle,” his partners began focusing there Sept. 1. said. Cyclists will take it to such destina- And like many other Lawrence natives, Moddrell said. “You could play chess, run, “It may not end up looking anything like tions as Griffith Park, Dodgers Stadium, “I’m completely irrational about it,” he said. see a movie in the park in addition to play the previous design,” he said. “We’ll sit downtown and Long Beach Harbor, with Moddrell spent four years with the firm for all ages.” down with the community for about six riverfront parks, cafes and equipment headed by the late Doug Garofolo, a UIC First order of business, he said, was “to months and then go into fundraising — rentals along the way. professor, and two-and-a-half years with replace a crumbling, inaccessible play- we’ll have the same goals, a public space in Some 28 of the 51 miles are connected UrbanLab, where associate professor Sarah ground.” Planning included engaging the the city to promote healthy lifestyles.” so far. There are about 60 intersections, Dunn is a partner. He taught at the Illinois community — 42,000 people live within The other big plan he’s working on will overpasses and train crossings to pass Institute of Technology for three years be- walking distance — in many focus groups. lead to a 51-mile greenway, including a under, over or through. fore joining UIC in 2008. The project was called City Loop — bike path, along the Los Angeles River by Why is his firm named PORT? Moddrell recently moved to Lincoln for a half-mile-long mobility loop 2020. “A port is a place of exchanges and col- Park after living in Marina City for seven surrounding an eight-acre central lawn — “A lot of people in L.A. don’t know they laboration,” the architect said. Also, when years. His wife, Melissa, is a physician’s and the opponents put up a website have a river,” the architect said. he and his partner in the firm, Christo- assistant in cardiac surgery at Northwest- called stopcityloop.org Since 1960 the riverbed has been a pher Marcinkoski, co-authored their ern Memorial Hospital. Their son, Max, “They pushed out a lot of misinforma- broad concrete channel familiar to anyone master’s thesis at Yale University, “a lot of was born April 27. tion,” Moddrell said of the opposition. who’s seen “Grease” and a number of other our research was on port terminals.” Another big change in April: his firm “We backed up a little bit and engaged Hollywood movies. Moddrell was awarded the H.I. Feld- moved into the historic Monadnock in meetings to tailor the project to better The channel is dry except when it rains, man Prize for Design Excellence at Yale. Building, the brown brick structure at 53 meet their needs,” he said. “It was unsuc- at which point “it’s a raging channel for 24 At the University of Kansas, where he W. Jackson Blvd. designed by Daniel cessful. Beyond repairing or replacing the hours,” Moddrell said. The concrete will be earned a bachelor’s degree with distinc- Burnham in 1893. playground, they were not willing to work removed and the river will flow again. tion, he won the Thayer Medal for Archi- “As an architect, it’s especially nice to with us to change their experience of the PORT’s employer on the $100 million tectural Design. go to work every day in a beautiful and park.” Greenway 2020 project is the Los Angeles Growing up in Lawrence, Kansas, he iconic building,” Moddrell said. “The real takeaway from history is that a “I’m not sure people want selfies to be very “I knew, over the course of a lifetime, it would healthy school lunch depends a lot less on sophisticated to start with. There’s something be a net gain.” what individual choices kids make or the par- to be said about having selfies be kind of the ticular foods in front of them, and is really modern-day version of the Polaroid — MBA grad Joseph Sheahan, co-founder and about the social and political decisions we instant, but it has its own look and had its CEO of Savvo Digital Sommelier Solutions, make about how we want to feed our kids own style.” on the value of an MBA, Sept. 9 Chicago and how we want to pay for it.” Tribune Blue Sky Steve Jones, professor of communication, on Susan Levine, professor of history and direc- new smartphones and apps designed to take tor of the Institute for the Humanities, on the better self-portraits, Sept. 5 San Francisco history of American school lunches, Aug. 18 Chronicle Bon Appetit SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 I UIC NEWS I uicnews.uic.edu 3 Exhibit preserves memory of fallen service members By Gary Wisby — [email protected] Faces of bravery, service and sacrifice with another 21 listed in the exhibit — in sketches of the more than 300 Illi- as “pending.” nois service people who’ve been killed The sketches appear on 17 panels, since 9/11 — are on display through Fri- about 6 feet high and 3 feet wide, with 17 day at Student Center East. or 18 portraits — each about 9 inches Last Thursday on Patriot Day, the high — per panel. Behind them are flow- anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Gov. Pat ing red and white stripes suggesting an Quinn opened the exhibit with these American flag. words: The subjects served in the Army, Navy, “We see with ‘Portraits of a Soldier’ Air Force and Marines. Thirteen are the faces and souls of those service mem- women. Listed for each is his or her bers who answered the call of duty after branch of service, age, home town and 9/11, went forward in the face of danger, date of death. and lost their lives defending our democ- “Keeping the memory of those we lost The exhibit includes sketches of more than 300 Illinois service people. racy.” and the cost of the freedoms we enjoy is — Photo: S.K. Vemmer Origins of the traveling exhibit date an important part of Patriot Day,” said to 2004, when Mattoon artist Cameron Rodrigo Garcia, acting director of the Schilling drew a pencil portrait of Army Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs ‘Portraits of a Soldier’ Spc. Charles Neeley, a fellow Mattoon and a 2009 MBA grad. resident who died in Iraq. “We owe a debt, not only to these fall- Through Friday, Sept. 19 The following year, Schilling decided en, but their brother and sister veterans, to sketch all Illinois service members almost 800,000 across Illinois.” who have been killed since 9/11. The exhibit is displayed on the second East Terrace, Student Center East So far he’s completed 294 drawings, floor East Terrace of Student Center East. Off-duty UIC police officer rescues Moral experiences in everyday life woman after attack on Northwest Side not tied to religious beliefs, study finds By Gary Wisby — [email protected] By Brian Flood — [email protected] UIC Police Officer Nicole Martin was Religious and nonreligious people nonreligious people differed in only one in the right place at the right time Sunday, have more in common than generally way: how moral and immoral deeds made rescuing a 19-year-old woman who’d just thought when it comes to moral experi- them feel.