May 2, 2013 Vol. 32, No. 20 For Faculty and Staff, University of IIllinoisllinois at Urbana-Champaign • http://news.illinois.edu/ii InsideAssembly Hall renamed State Farm Center epresentatives from the U. of I. and State Farm announced April 29 that Assembly Hall would Rbe renamed State Farm Center, in accordance with a 30-year Farm, one of the most respected $60 million agreement. The iconic corporate brands in the world,” campus building is set to undergo said Mike Thomas, the Illinois di- major renovations with comple- rector of athletics. “State Farm has tion of the project scheduled for been an outstanding partner for the fall 2016. University of Illinois for more than “We are extremely proud to an- two decades, and this agreement nounce this relationship with State will carry that partnership forward for at least three more. The Assembly Hall is one of the Campus icon kept most recognizable structures working name for in the nation and, at 50 years of age, has served the U. of I. 50 years campus, community and image courtesy U. of I. Division of Intercollegiate Athletics By Mike Helenthal Central Illinois very well. This agreement will ensure Braggin’ rights An artist’s rendering of planned renovations of the newly named State Farm Center Assistant Editor shows expanded student seating and premium suites. The $157 million modernization project also he road to stardom is littered State Farm Center will serve those same constituents, and includes new locker rooms, training facilities, and meeting areas for athletes and fans, air conditioning, with less-than-stellar ideas. club spaces and exhibit areas. And while Assembly Hall even more, for many years T to come.” is a world-class institution and it executive vice president and the is arguably the most famous archi- ON THE WEB tectural icon on campus, naming it The longtime relation- deserves world-class facilities. chief agency, sales and marketing go.illinois.edu/ before it was constructed in 1963 ship between State Farm The renovated and renamed State officer for State Farm Insurance wasn’t an easy task. and U. of I. – which includes Farm Center will provide a gather- Companies. IL_Renaissance A campus committee in 1959 the State Farm Research and ing, performance and competition The name State Farm Center is suggested a total of nine names, Development Center – along space to serve our students, fac- effective immediately and will be for the 2016-17 basketball season. the final one on the list, “Assem- with the fact that the corpo- ulty, staff and neighbors.” incorporated into the building as “From the very early stages bly Hall,” representing the work- rate headquarters are just 50 “We are proud to be a part soon as possible as the renovation of this project, it was clearly ap- ing title on the construction plans. miles from campus, made of the renovation of this classic project moves forward. Some util- parent that naming rights for the According to the committee’s for a natural partnership on Illinois venue and further expand ity work on the building and sur- building would play a major part report, names were being sought the project. our longstanding relationship with rounding grounds could begin this in the funding model,” Thomas to represent the building’s expect- “We are thrilled with this the University of Illinois and the summer, with the first major phase said. “This agreement comple- ed versatility of use and its unique announcement,” said Urbana state where our company has been of the project expected to begin in ments support from campus and Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise. headquartered for more than 90 March 2014. State Farm Center is our students while supplementing SEE HISTORY, PAGE 2 “The University of Illinois years,” said Randall Harbert, the scheduled to be completed in time support from the community.” u Commencement ceremonies Health insurance premiums, to take place May 12 copays to increase he 142nd commencement of the U. and Fine and Applied Arts will receive de- of I. will be held in two ceremonies grees at the afternoon ceremony. Doors will Employees urged to review benefit options carefully; May 12 at State open at 9:30 a.m. for the make changes online by May 31 Farm Center (for- ON THE WEB morning ceremony and at Tmerly Assembly Hall). 1 p.m. for the afternoon ased on current information commencement.illinois.edu ON THE WEB U. of I. alumnus Shahid ceremony. After all stu- from the state department of n go.illinois.edu/BenefitChoice14 Khan, an entrepreneur who dents and their guests are Central Management Services, n benefitschoice.il.gov got his start at Urbana’s Flex-N-Gate auto- seated, the remaining seats will be available U. of I. employees will pay motive supply company, will speak at both to the public. Bmore in employee and dependent health nificant increases. ceremonies. Shuttle buses also will stop at various insurance premiums, out-of-pocket Changes to health care and other ben- Fred Robert Volkmar, M.D., and James campus locations, including State Farm maximums, copayments, deductibles, efits – including medical care and de- A. Thomson will receive honorary degrees Center, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. co-insurance and other health care costs, pendent care assistance (flexible spend- at the morning ceremony. Volkmar is being All students who have earned bach- beginning July. The deductible for the ing) plans – can only be made during honored for his role as a world leader in un- elor’s, master’s, doctoral and professional dental plan and copays for the vision the Benefit Choice period, which runs derstanding and treating autistic spectrum degrees and advanced certificates during plan also have increased. through May 31. All changes will be ef- disorders. Thomson is being honored for the preceding year are honored at the an- A flier with more fective July 1. his international leadership in biomedical nual commencement. detailed information on Benefit Choice infor- research. All graduating students and their changes and deadlines BENEFIT mation is available on- At the morning ceremony, candidates in guests are invited to a reception from was mailed to the home line, including detailed the colleges of Applied Health Sciences; 8 to 9:30 a.m. May 12 in the gardens of the address of all benefits- CHOICE ’14 information about the Law; Liberal Arts and Sciences; Media; president’s house. Academic attire is en- eligible employees. It benefit changes; online Veterinary Medicine; the Institute of Avia- couraged. includes a list of changes in copays and enrollment information (do not use the tion; the School of Labor and Employment The first floor of the main library will be other expenses for the managed-care forms on the CMS website); flexible Relations; the School of Social Work; and open from 1 to 4 p.m. May 11 and 12 for health plans and the Quality Care Health spending forms, instructions and refer- the Graduate School of Library and Infor- visitors and students to view the University Plan. Employees are being encouraged ence guide; and the Benefit Choice Op- mation Science will receive degrees. Honors Bronze Tablets. Many individual to carefully review this information be- tions booklet. Candidates in the colleges of Agricul- U. of I. units have scheduled additional fore making any decisions regarding Note that claims processing for FSA tural, Consumer and Environmental Sci- commencement ceremonies. More infor- health care choices since there are sig- SEE BENEFIT CHOICE, PAGE 2 ences; Business; Education; Engineering; mation is available online. u

The future is bright Excellence honored INDEX At the April 22 town hall The campuswide awards ACHIEVEMENTS 19 meeting, U. of I. leaders for excellence in teaching A MINUTE WITH … ™ 7, 15 discussed their vision for the and advising were BOOK CORNER 20 campus’s future. presented April 23.

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DEATHS 16 In ON THE JOB 3 Inside Illinois Online: news.illinois.edu/ii/ • To subscribe: go.illinois.edu/iiSubscribe PAGE 2 InsideIllinois May 2, 2013 Chancellor reports on campus efforts to retain faculty By Mike Helenthal Other business Q Approved revisions to the “academic “We haven’t changed our views on those Assistant Editor The senate: integrity” portions of the student code to ad- differences, but today we stand together, ately a lot of attention has been paid Q Accepted the establishment of the In- dress technology-aided cheating. and we ask our colleagues to stand with us to campus efforts to revolutionize stitute for Universal Biology, a five-year Charles L. Tucker, the vice provost for un- in addressing some of the basic challenges undergraduate education and recruit program funded by the NASA Astrobiology dergraduate education and innovation, said facing our campus,” the statement said. and attract faculty members from Institute. the text outlines “explicit standards of proof” The two said they wanted the issued to Loutside the university. The institute was reviewed by two senate for making allegations of cheating or plagia- move beyond “divisive debate to a prob- At the April 22 town hall meeting, cam- committees and includes $1.6 million in an- rism, or for students to appeal a decision. lem-solving orientation” and called for pus leaders announced a new initiative to nual funding, as well as a five-year renewal “The overall strength of our process … senate leadership to define a process for hire 500 faculty members in the next five option. The institute will be located within has been retained,” he said. doing so. The statement offered 10 discus- to seven years to bring numbers up to the the Institute for Genomic Biology. Q Accepted a statement written jointly sion topics. historical norm of 2,000. Q Agreed to use a finals schedule that in- by Sen. Nick Burbules, a professor of edu- “We expect that by fall this process will But in addition to those efforts, Chan- cludes Saturday for the 2017-18 academic cation policy, organization and leadership, result in a public report that lays out spe- cellor Phyllis M. Wise told members of the year. and Randy McCarthy, a professor of math- cific plans for moving forward,” the state- Urbana Academic Senate at its April 29 The change, which was utilized for the ematics, concerning future discussions over ment said. meeting that leaders are working to “protect first time this academic year, addresses a campus faculty unionization efforts. Some senators said the statement was in- and retain the outstanding faculty (mem- nonannual calendar conflict, but leaves less The two debated the effects of union- appropriate because it called for a specific bers) here, right now, today.” time for grading and compiling results. ization before the senate in February, with action and circumvented the committee She said several initiatives are being put Officials said the addition of Saturday fi- Burbules speaking against and McCarthy structure.X into motion that will benefit faculty mem- nals this year was met with few complaints. for faculty representation. bers through the addition of academic re- sources and greater collaborative opportu- nities. “Our faculty members are the competi- Roy Campbell to serve as SEC chairman tive advantage of the university,” she said. By Mike Helenthal on Committees. Michel Bellini, a professor of cell and “We can’t grow bigger or better if you are Assistant Editor Faculty members selected are Sara R. developmental biology and the chair of not at the heart of our future plans. It means oy H. Campbell, a professor of Benson, a lecturer in the College of Law; the Public Engagement and Institutional investing in you directly.” computer science, will serve William D. Gropp, a professor of computer Advancement Committee; Patricia A. Wise said officials are working on of- a one-year term as the Senate science; and Prasanta Kalita, a professor of Gill, a professor of communication and fering more contractural incentives as well, Executive Committee chair- agricultural and biological engineering. the chair of the Student Discipline Com- including an attempt this year to secure Rman following an online election held Students picked to serve on the com- mittee; and Harry H. Hilton, a senior re- enough state funding to ensure a merit raise April 16-19. mittee: Anthony Fiorentino, law; Shao-Hai search scientist for the National Center program. Campbell will replace current chair Guo, agricultural and consumer economics; for Supercomputing Applications and “We are committed to pursuing an ag- Matthew B. Wheeler, a professor of ani- and Rachel Heller, general studies. the chair of the Equal Opportunity and gressive merit program this year within the mal sciences, for the 2013-14 academic At the April 22 SEC meeting, Wheeler Inclusion Committee. constraints our final budget may place upon year. was picked to serve as the USC representa- Three student SEC members have us,” she said. Kim C. Graber, a professor of kinesi- tive to the SEC. Three new USC members been announced since the meeting: Da- Additionally, U. of I. President Bob Eas- ology and community health, was elect- elected: Kalita; William J. Maher, a profes- mani Bolden, agricultural and consumer ter recently announced that furlough lan- ed to the SEC’s vice chair position. sor of library administration and the univer- economics; Guo; and Calvin Lear, mate- guage was being removed from employee Senators also voted online for faculty sity archivist; and Gay Miller, a professor of rials science and engineering. X contracts. member and student membership on the pathobiology. “(Furloughs) are off the table, perma- Urbana Academic Senate’s Committee The new SEC committee members: nently,” Wise said. “We cannot balance the university budget on the backs of our fac- ulty and staff.” BENEFIT CHOICE, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 HISTORY, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 plans will be done through the WageWorks To learn more about this year’s Benefit design. system, not FBMC, which processed claims Choice options, employees are encouraged FOR MORE INFORMATION “The project has received nationwide last year. All MCAP participants will re- to attend the Benefit Fair on May 14 and publicity because of its design,” the report ceive a new WageWorks health care debit to sign up for one of four Benefit Choice Benefit Fair says. “The committee believes that there is card. The current myFBMC card will con- Information Sessions. X 10 a.m.-2 p.m. May 14 considerable value in this publicity.” tinue to work through June 30. Illini Union Rooms A, B and C The committee noted, since the new Meet with health, dental, vision and venue was being built using student fees, EMPLOYEE PREMIUM COMPARISONS life insurance vendors. Registration is that it not be named to memorialize anyone Employee Managed Care Quality Care not required. specifically. It also sought to advance an Annual Salary FY13 FY14 FY13 FY14 Benefit Choice Information unwritten policy promoting “the desirabil- Sessions ity of university buildings being assigned $30,200 & below $47.00 $68.00 $72.00 $93.00 Q 10 a.m.-noon May 7, Beckman functional names instead of naming them $30,201-$45,600 52.00 86.00 77.00 111.00 Institute auditorium (Room after individuals.” $45,601-60,700 54.50 103.00 79.50 127.00 1025) The other eight names: “pavilion; ex- Q 2-4 p.m. May 15, University position palace (center); coliseum, Illidisc; $60,701-$75,900 57.00 119.00 82.00 144.00 Library (Room 66) Ken Baily Arena (bowl); Illiniceum; Illini $75,901-$100,000 59.50 137.00 84.50 162.00 Q 1-3 p.m. May 24, Student Dining Colosseum; Zuppke Amphitheater (arena, and Residential Programs, bowl or center).” $100,001 & above 59.50 186.00 84.50 211.00 Ikenberry Commons (Room Thankfully, after much debate, city of- 2025 BA) ficials recommended, and the U. of I. Board DEPENDENT PREMIUM COMPARISONS Q 1-3 p.m. May 28, Loomis Lab of Trustees concurred, that Assembly Hall (Room 151) was the best fit. One Dependent Two Dependents Registration required: The committee also fully expected the Health Plan FY13 FY14 FY13 FY14 go.illinois.edu/BenefitChoiceSessions meeting hall’s name to change in subse- Coventry HMO $92 $111 $130 $156 quent years. Questions? “The committee is … aware of the pos- Coventry OAP 92 111 130 156 Q go.illinois.edu/BenefitChoice14 sibility that as the functional uses of the Health Alliance 94 113 133 159 Q benefitschoice.il.gov building may develop in the future, the Healthlink OAP 105 126 149 179 benefi[email protected] name selected first may need to be changed 217-333-3111 at some future date.” X Quality Care 196 249 226 287 InsideIllinois Editor Doris K. 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Diana Yates agriculture, applied health NewsAtIllinois sciences, life sciences May 2, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 3 On the Job Dean Carlson By Mike Helenthal Carlson has worked at Krannert Center Assistant Editor for 12 years, starting as the assistant cater- ean Carlson, the food and ing manager and moving up to the manag- beverage director at Krannert er’s position in three years. Center for the Performing Arts “This job goes from creating the daily for nearly a decade, found his specials to event planning for catering,” he D“inner foodie” almost by accident. said. “We also have a lot of private recep- Or maybe it was on-the-vine inter- tions and the bulk of our catering is taking vention. care of our artists’ needs.” Either way, Carlson looks at the culi- He said he once spent several days look- nary arts differently than he did when he ing for a specific brand of honey that had took a fast-food restaurant job after high been requested by an artist. school many years ago. “We looked everywhere,” finally finding “It’s been a natural progression the brand in a Charleston, Ill., store. and my interest has grown the longer “Usually the artists are understanding, I’ve been in it,” he said. “My thirst for but some of them can be diva-esque,” he knowledge has grown over the years.” said, “I’m not naming names, but we work What he has discovered is that just hard to try and keep everybody happy.” about any food can taste good – as long Carlson regularly receives gastronomi- photo by L. Brian Stauffer as it is prepared with fresh ingredients. cal inspiration from the Food Network on Thought for food Dean Carlson, the food and beverage director at Krannert “Almost everything we serve is fresh television. Center for the Performing Arts for nearly 12 years, goes to great lengths to and made with non-processed prod- “I’ll see something and say, ‘I’m going ensure food served at the Intermezzo Café is fresh, local and, of course, delicious. ucts,” he said of his dishes at Krannert to try that,’ ” he said. Carlson also heads up Krannert Center’s catering service – which also has to Center’s Intermezzo café. “You can re- His favorite celebrity chef is Andrew keep artists happy prior to show time – and manages the Stage 5 Bar. ally taste the difference.” Zimmern, mostly because of his propensity In addition to the café, he manages for eating “bizarre foods” prepared from The café uses corn-based, recyclable tuce and tomato sandwich. the Stage 5 Bar in the lobby and the cen- around the world. packaging and utensils, and has earned cer- When he’s not cooking or thinking ter’s catering service. For Intermezzo, Carlson prepares some tification for its sustainable efforts from the about food, which is seldom, Carl- Carlson’s early fast-food experience of the food, including cured and smoked Illinois Green Business Association. son said he likes riding his Harley- led to a restaurant job for a national ho- meats, at his home. He said he dreams of He said the food is made with fresh in- Davidson motorcycle. He is a 30-year tel chain, where he eventually would be- having a complete kitchen at Krannert Cen- gredients, meaning it isn’t processed and member of the Stone Cold Motorcycle come a food buyer and then purchasing ter with more equipment, but his budget doesn’t have added preservatives. Club, which raises money for local director. won’t cover it. “We’re very conscious that everything charitable activities. His tastes have progressed along “I keep hoping there’s a foodie out there we do here is not only high quality, but sus- Carlson said he’s tried to pass on with his knowledge of food, and he rel- who might donate enough for an upgrade tainable,” he said. his love for cooking to his 14-year-old ishes trying new and unusual things. His someday,” he said. “We need kitchen equip- Carlson says the café is capable of serv- daughter and his wife’s two older chil- dedication to fresh food extends to his ment and I’d love to have a smoke shack on ing 300 people over the lunch break, with- dren, but hasn’t had much success. home table as well. the premises. Can you imagine how good out making any of them late in returning to “I’ve attempted to teach them to “There used to be a lot of things I that would smell?” work. Overall, Carlson oversees three full- cook but they’ve got other interests,” didn’t like or didn’t care to try,” he said. The menu at Intermezzo offers a wide time civil service employees and about 30 he said. u “Now I’ll try anything and will try to variety of choices. The café has a full se- students who help at various times of the cook just about anything. Sometimes lection for breakfast, lunch (and dinner on day. my wife (Cyndi) looks at me (over din- show nights), and includes everything from “Most of our food is out that window in On the Job features U. of I. staff ner at home) and says, ‘There’s no way all-beef burgers to vegetarian fare. Carlson 90 seconds or less,” he said. members. To nominate a civil I’m eating that.’ But she’s still amazed said he makes an extra effort to use locally The most popular lunchtime fare in- service employee, email insideil@ at what I can put together from almost grown food and tries to please the full array cludes homemade tomato soup and grilled illinois.edu. nothing.” of customer tastes. cheese, and the freshly prepared bacon, let- U. of I. scholars, alumnus elected to AAAS rbana Chancllor Phyl- at a ceremony on Oct. 12 at the scientific publications with more lis M. Wise and Fred- academy’s headquarters in Cam- than 30 continuous years of grant erick E. Hoxie, the bridge, Mass. funding from the National Insti- Swanlund Professor “This is a very significant and tutes of Health. Uof history at Illinois, have been well-deserved recognition for She was a recipient of the Ex- photo by L. Brian Stauffer by photo elected fellows of the American Chancellor Wise, professor Hoxie cellence in Science Award from L. Brian Stauffer by photo Academy of Arts and Sciences. and Tom Siebel,” said Bob Eas- the Federation of American So- U. of I. alumnus Thomas Sieb- ter, the president of the university. cieties for Experimental Biology el also has been elected to the “Their honors reflect the dedica- and of the Women in Endocrinol- academy. tion to excellence and positive ogy Mentor Award. One of the nation’s most pres- impact on society that are among Hoxie is a Center for Advanced tigious honorary societies, the the core values of the University Study professor of history and academy is also a leading center of Illinois.” holds appointments in the Col- for independent policy research. Wise, who also is a vice presi- lege of Law and in the university’s Members contribute to academy dent of the U. of I., has served in American Indian Studies Program. Frederick E. Hoxie Phyllis M. Wise publications and to studies of sci- senior leadership roles at three He earned his undergraduate de- ence and technology policy, en- major public research universi- gree from Amherst College and tution’s National Museum of the and the prevention of teen drug ergy and global security, social ties. Prior to coming to Illinois his doctorate from Brandeis Uni- American Indian and of Amherst use. He continues to generously policy and American institutions, in October 2011, she had been at versity. He has taught at Antioch College, and has been a member support the university, where he and the humanities, arts and edu- the University of Washington and College and Northwestern Uni- of the executive council of the Or- established the Siebel Center for cation. served as interim president during versity and held fellowships from ganization of American Historians Computer Science and endowed “Election to the academy hon- the 2010-11 academic year. From the National Endowment for the and the president of the American two professorships. He earned a ors individual accomplishment 2002-2005, she was the dean of Humanities, the Rockefeller Foun- Society of Ethnohistory. Prior to bachelor of arts degree in history and calls upon members to serve the College of Biological Scienc- dation and the Mellon Foundation. his appointment at Illinois, Hoxie in 1975, a master of business ad- the public good,” said academy es at the University of California He has published more than a was vice president for research ministration in 1983, a master of President Leslie C. Berlowitz. at Davis. She holds a bachelor’s dozen books on U.S. Indian poli- and education at the Newberry science in computer science in “We look forward to drawing degree from Swarthmore College cy, the history of Native American Library in Chicago. Hoxie has 1985 and an honorary doctorate of on the knowledge and expertise and a doctorate from the Univer- communities and the meaning of worked as a consultant and expert engineering in 2006, all at Illinois. of these distinguished men and sity of Michigan. indigenous history in modern so- witness for several Native Ameri- Since its founding in 1780, women to advance solutions to the She is a member of the Nation- ciety. He is also the editor of the can tribes, the U.S. Department of the academy has elected leading pressing policy challenges of the al Academy of Sciences’ Institute Encyclopedia of North Ameri- Justice and the U.S. Senate Com- “thinkers and doers” from each day.” of Medicine and a fellow of the can Indians and a co-author of mittee on Indian Affairs. generation, including George Members of the 2013 class in- American Association for the Ad- “The People: A History of Native Siebel, the chairman and chief Washington and Benjamin Frank- clude winners of the Nobel Prize; vancement of Science, among her America.” His most recent book executive officer of C3 Energy, lin in the 18th century, Daniel the National Medal of Science; many honors and awards. is “This Indian Country: Ameri- a software company that helps Webster and Ralph Waldo Emer- the Lasker Award; the Pulitzer and Wise holds a tenured faculty can Indian Activists and the Place reduce an organization’s carbon son in the 19th, and Albert Ein- the Shaw prizes; the Fields Medal; position in the School of Molecu- They Made” (Penguin, 2012). footprint, is recognized as one of stein and Winston Churchill in the MacArthur and Guggenheim fel- lar and Cellular Biology, as well A winner of the Western Histo- the world’s top philanthropists, 20th. The current membership in- lowships; the Kennedy Center as in molecular and integrative ry Association’s lifetime achieve- having created The Siebel Foun- cludes more than 250 Nobel lau- Honors; and Grammy, Emmy, physiology, in obstetrics and gy- ment award in American Indian dation and The Meth Project reates and more than 60 Pulitzer Academy and Tony awards. necology, and in animal sciences. history, Hoxie has served as a Foundation to improve educa- Prize winners. u The new class will be inducted She is the author of more than 200 trustee of the Smithsonian Insti- tion, scholarship, community life PAGE 4 InsideIllinois May 2, 2013 Event planning: Attention to detail, teamwork are essential By Mike Helenthal when she got a very early-morn- they’d be better coordinated. It Assistant Editor ing call from campus Public Af- reinforced my appreciation for be- abette Hiles, who has led fairs saying a faculty member had ing a team player and communi- the planning of U. of I. received a Nobel Prize. cating.” commencement ceremo- “Robin Kaler (the associ- Despite those difficulties, Hiles nies for 19 years, doesn’t ate chancellor for public affairs) knows her job is to keep calm, Blose sleep worrying about sput- called me at home to tell me we take things in stride and, ultimate- tering microphones or collapsing had to get something together that ly, ensure an event runs smoothly. stages. day,” she said. “You can imagine, “I don’t like problems that are She has learned to accept the I got in to work a little earlier than the result of poor planning from likelihood that something some- usual that day.” people who should know better, where within an elaborate event The day after the event, with a but in the end I’m an ambassador won’t go as planned, and she is dizzied Hiles and staff ready for for the chancellor’s office,” she confident that, if that happens, she down time, the call came again – said. and her team will be able to cor- with instructions to set up a sec- Event planning 101 rect it. ond Nobel Prize ceremony. Most campus events don’t “You do your best planning and “At that point I told the cater- involve nationally or globally assume that there’s going to be an ers, ‘Serve whatever you have, known celebrities. emergency to take care of once even if it’s leftovers. We have to Many are held for alumni, do- the event starts,” she said. “The have something.’ It was an exhila- nors, community members and chances are good you’re going to rating time. It felt good to be a part state legislators, including all of have a fire to put out.” of it – everyone around here was the events hosted by the Office Sound like the approach of a walking tall and feeling proud to of the Chancellor that range from pessimist? Hardly. be a part of this place.” groundbreakings to homey get- It’s actually an illustration of VIP treatment togethers to hall-size gatherings. confidence, something developed Speakers at commencement or “Every chancellor has been through the countless events Hiles other events range from presidents completely different,” she said. has orchestrated on campus, start- to poets, and each visitor’s stay “When you get a new chancellor ing nearly 30 years ago at the Illini has been distinctive, Hiles said. it’s almost like you have a new Union. “I should have been keeping a job.” And it’s not just a confidence diary,” she said. Event protocol can affect im- of self, but a faith in the institution For campus staff members, age and a positive image can aid and the people who keep it running. some of the more demanding VIP university outreach, Hiles said. “The people I work with – scenarios – physically and men- That means every gathering sometimes we think we’re like tally – have involved politicians. calls for a unique event-planning MacGyver,” she said. “There’s A visit from former presi- template and the type of ceremony always more than one way to do dential chief of staff William M. dictates everything, including who photo by L. Brian Stauffer something and we’re good at fig- Daley, who was commencement is invited. Woman with a plan Babette Hiles has plenty of behind-the-scenes uring things out on the fly. That speaker in 2011, involved a lot of “You’ve got to know the pur- stories about her 19 years as the Urbana campus’s director of special makes me sleep pretty well.” outside security and extra hassles pose of the event before you even events – some of which she is able to share in public. The job has led In the end, she still believes – for everyone involved. take the first step,” Hiles said. “It to her meeting a host of celebrities and politicians along the way. with good planning and good peo- “It was an amazing experi- affects everything from food to This year’s commencement ceremony will mark Hiles’ last, as she ple and a little luck – it’s possible ence,” she said, “but it was ex- seating to room décor.” retires at the end of the academic year. to pull off the perfect event. hausting for everyone.” And then there are the gray ar- “Stuff will happen, but you A 1998 visit from President eas, which again, most often have Hiles adheres to the com- other congratulatory ceremonies. have to keep it in perspective,” Bill Clinton and Vice President Al roots in politics. mencement day custom that has While Hiles doesn’t run the small- she said. “You have to be calm Gore brought similar challenges For example, legislators are presenters carrying a black folder er graduation-related celebrations, and be able to brainstorm, and you as campus officials worked with coming and the university would as opposed to a white one. She she does oversee the process. have to be able to switch gears. If a seemingly uncommunicative tri- like to impress and/or woo them. said the white folder looks less “We meet formally twice a year you’ve planned well, you can put umvirate of the Secret Service, the What do you serve for dinner? weighty in its presentation and with all of those in charge of the all of your focus on solving any presidential advance team and the According to Hiles, not filet that lighter colored ones can pres- unit events to address any prob- problems that come up.” president’s publicists. mignon. That could be construed ent a distracting reflection to the lems or needs they have,” she said. For the rare crises of concen- One of the difficulties of that as a meal served by a university audience. Usually, responsibility for the tration, she keeps a pad and pen visit included the last-minute re- swimming in money. It’s not. “It’s those weird little details smaller events falls to unit em- on the bedside table to jot down placement of university lecterns But serving peanut butter and that people may roll their eyes at, ployees with little planning expe- a solution to any nighttime “oh- with the honored speakers’ custom jelly sandwiches might send an al- but gives an event just the right rience. my-God” moment and goes for a lectern. together different signal. feel,” she said. “There’s a method “A lot of it is helping them be- run in the morning to ensure she’s “Those were three teams that Who knew state funding could to our madness.” come event planners,” she said. plenty tired by bedtime. didn’t play well together,” she in part subconsciously hinge on The big one “They have to do the lion’s share Special for whom? said. “It was maddening because plating? Hiles said the two annual com- of work and we’re here to help The “special event” is the big- they kept changing things. One Then there’s the almost unrec- mencement ceremonies are hands them. I want to help them make gest threat to Hiles’ regular sleep- group would tell us one thing and ognizable presentation touches down the best campus events. informed decisions to make them ing pattern. the other would say, ‘Ignore what that lend themselves to pageantry Commencement even has its look good and, in turn, make the She recalls such a time in 2003, they said, do this.’ You’d think and the feeling of “specialness.” own language. Caps and gowns, university look good.” for example, are called “custom Hiles said every part of the regalia”; banners with university team is important to pulling off an emblems, gonfalon. event and that communication is a “The biggest change since I’ve key component to success. been here are the visuals,” she “You just hope people com- said. municate with you and treat you Robes have gone from black like a member of the team,” she to blue and orange, and projec- said. “I’ve had a great group of tion screens give the audience live colleagues and mentors from all views of the ceremony. At one across campus. I really believe in time, the event was recorded on networking. We share information audiotape, but now the ceremony and help each other avoid alliga- is streamed live on the Web. The tors in the water – it’s the Golden Web also has made the process for Rule. I value those people.” ordering the regalia much easier. She said the time will inevita- Hiles said for years students bly come, no matter who you are, had to wait in long lines at the Il- when you’ll need someone’s help. lini Union just to be measured. “You have to please the princi- “The line from the second floor pals and the boss, but the building would go down the hall, down the service worker is the one who can stairs and through the front lob- make things run smoothly,” she by,” she said. “It was quite a sight. said. Now it’s just a matter of getting Best laid plans the word out to students (when to Most commencements go well order online).” considering the number of partici- photo by L. Brian Stauffer In addition to the two com- pants and detail work involved. Commencement kudos U. of I. President Bob Easter congratulates graduates at last year’s mencement ceremonies (because But things do go wrong. commencement ceremony, held at the Assembly Hall. Commencement ceremonies, while the two biggest Assembly Hall can’t hold every- One year, the Symphonic Band graduation events on campus, aren’t the only ones. The university also hosts 34 convocations and one for one ceremony), the uni- arrived to perform and realized several other ceremonies. versity holds 34 convocations and SEE EVENT PLANNING, PAGE 5 May 2, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 5 Volunteers come together to feed hungry on Day of Service early 1,100 volunteers helped make and deliver more than ON THE WEB 81,000 meals for the Eastern go.illinois.edu/dayofservice2013 Illinois Foodbank during the meals’ ingredients. Narea’s April 20 Day of Service event. Statistics show that one in four of The meal, a stovetop Italian cas- people within the food bank’s multi- serole that required only adding water county coverage area cannot afford ad- and heating, was developed by the U. equate food and that many are children. of I.’s National Soybean Research Lab- Lesley Lee, a U. of I. library spe- oratory for maximum nutrition. cialist, said she brought her children to U. of I. volunteers included faculty help package food and teach them the and staff members and students, as importance of giving to the community. well as Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise and “I brought my children to volunteer Ilesanmi Adesida, the provost and vice with me because I wanted them to re- chancellor for academic affairs, who alize they make a significant contribu- helped pack meals along with food tion to local needs just by showing up bank director Jim Hires. and doing their small part,” she said. “I was so impressed with the dedi- “I loved working side-by-side with my cation and determination of all the children because each bag of food we volunteers,” Wise said. “It was really packed reiterated that they were an es- amazing and inspiring to see everyone sential part of the team.” come together so efficiently, so effec- Volunteers will be utilized over the tively and so powerfully to make a dif- next few months to pack and distribute photo by L. Brian Stauffer ference in our local community.” meals with the remaining ingredients Feeding the hungry Volunteers packaged more than 81,000 meals for the Eastern Illinois In addition to campus employees, to reach the project’s goal of 146,000 Foodbank on April 20 as part of the Day of Service, which sought to encourage people to the student-led Illini Fighting Hunger meals – 1,000 meals for each year of volunteer as well as provide meals for the hungry in our community. Among those volunteering group chipped in, as did local compa- public engagement since the U. of I. for the food packaging project were (from left) Lesley Lee, a U. of I. library specialist; her nies who raised around $30,000 for the was chartered. u daughter, Jenna Purnell, age 7; and Parkland College student Pamela Roper.

EVENT PLANNING, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 about 15 minutes prior to the start of said. commencement that the sheet music Another time the color guard’s van was missing. broke down en route to Assembly Hall For about $100 “There was this mad scramble,” she and left the program participants with- Did you know that campus units can place a said. “We had people with flashlights out transportation 1/8th-page ad in Inside Illinois for only $105? searching everywhere.” “They literally had to run all the Reserve more than one ad and your rate It turned out the music had been de- way from the Armory,” she said. will be even lower. livered in boxes earlier along with the As Hiles said, nothing is perfect – band’s equipment, but the boxes had but almost everything is correctible. Advertising in Inside Illinois is an been moved under the stage for safe- She retires at the end of this aca- inexpensive way to make sure faculty- keeping. demic year. “I never dreamed I would staff members know about your unit’s next “There was a moment when we be here this long,” she said. “It’s been event, deadline or service. were talking about whether the band an incredible experience.” u would have to play from memory,” she InsideIllinois

Ads Ads removed removed for online for online version version PAGE 6 InsideIllinois May 2, 2013 Campus to focus on students, interdisciplinary opportunity By Mike Helenthal Assistant Editor ON THE WEB e ready to move!” Event transcript and video: Chancellor Phyllis M. go.illinois.edu/townhall13 Wise made the call at the April 22 town hall meet- demic fabric is the goal of the new plan. ing,“B laying out an ambitious and aggressive Adesida said the plan will reward ideas plan to set the campus on a firm academic that further scholarship, discovery and in- and financial course over the next half- novation; offer transformational learning century. experiences; and provide societal impact. Wise was joined by Ilesanmi Adesida, The university has already begun to the provost and vice chancellor for aca- transform undergraduate research education demic affairs, before an overflow crowd of through $70 million budgeted for classroom 350 at the Beckman Institute auditorium. renovations and the creation of the Office of The campus leaders unveiled a long range Undergraduate Research to develop under- plan demanding cooperation, innovation graduate research opportunities. and academic farsightedness. Adesida said the plan offers additional “The landscape of public higher educa- support for grant writing and proposal con- tion is changing rapidly,” Wise said. “We struction, and that a service being devel- have to be ready and able to move strategi- oped for faculty members seeking assis- cally even as we move rapidly.” tance will be running by fall. The most immediately tangible part of “We want faculty to concentrate on the plan calls for the hiring of 500 faculty scholarship, not paperwork and processes,” members in the next five to seven years, an photo by L. Brian Stauffer he said. effort the leaders said would bring faculty Out front Ilesanmi Adesida, the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, In addition, leaders are compiling an levels back to about 2,000 following a pe- joined Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise on April 22 in unveiling a plan designed to help the “expert’s list” public database to help fac- riod of heavy turnover caused by early re- university navigate the next several decades. The two leaders, whom Wise said had ulty members here – as well as those at peer tirement and other factors. worked closely together in developing the plan, promised to add 500 faculty members institutions – find collaborators, are offer- Adesida said the hiring plan would “re- in an effort to bring faculty totals back to around 2,000. ing streamlined campus-level teaching sup- build” campus faculty and that the strategy port resources and are planning to create would include “cluster” hiring to target al- bring in new energy, new perspectives, and sions with the chancellor during the Vision- “virtual centers” for collaboration. ready established researchers with an inter- this is how we ignite the scholarly creativity ing Future Excellence process. “We will be the pre-eminent public re- disciplinary track record and help “quickly that is the hallmark of the best institutions.” “We really do want this to be a two-way search university with a land-grant mission build critical mass in specific areas.” He said two working groups are already conversation,” she said, “Your advice, your and a global impact,” he said. “That is our He said special attention would be given being convened to propose new initiatives guidance and your engagement in our plan- goal. We want to be the best at what we to strengthening not only science-related supported by the Office of the Provost and ning process this year is being put into vis- choose to do. We have to continue to dif- disciplines, but the humanities and arts as the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Re- ible and strategic action.” ferentiate and distance ourselves from our well, because having strength at all points search. The result of the campus soul-searching peers.” along the education spectrum creates The campus plan was formulated follow- effort was captured in a word cloud that re- Wise said all of the initiatives will die “broadly educated students” and new aca- ing a year-and-a-half of exercises initiated vealed six major themes of focus: energy on the vine unless the campus participates demic opportunities. by Wise to assess strengths and goals, and and the environment; health and wellness; fully in the open process. “I have seen that more broadly educated to discover how they can be harnessed to social equality and cultural understanding; “We are going to move rapidly but stra- engineers are better ones,” he said. “And serve future societal needs. In all, more than education; information and technology; and tegically,” she said. “Everyone has to be at I have seen how science and technology 4,000 people, on and off campus, were sur- economic development. the table and everyone has to share this vi- open new artistic horizons. This is how we veyed or participated in brainstorming ses- Incorporating those themes into the aca- sion to be successful.” u Nanowires grown on graphene have surprising structure By Liz Ahlberg to crystallize, Physical Sciences Editor InAs settles hen a team of U. of I. engi- into place on neers set out to grow nanow- the graphene, ires of a compound semicon- a near-perfect

ductor on top of a sheet of fit, while the L. Brian Stauffer by photo Wgraphene, they did not expect to discover a gallium com- new paradigm of epitaxy. pound settles The self-assembled wires have a core on the outside of one composition and an outer layer of of the wires. another, a desired trait for many advanced This was un- electronics applications. Led by professor expected, Xiuling Li, in collaboration with professors because nor- Eric Pop and Joseph Lyding, all professors mally, with Xiuling Li of electrical and computer engineering, the van der Waals team published its findings in the journal epitaxy, the respective crystal structures of Nano Letters. the material and the substrate are not sup- Nanowires, tiny strings of semiconduc- posed to matter. tor material, have great potential for appli- Graphic by Parsian Mohseni “We didn’t expect it, but once we saw it, cations in transistors, solar cells, lasers, sen- Home grown This schematic representation shows phase segregated InGaAs/ it made sense,” Mohseni said. sors and more. InAs nanowires grown on graphene and single phase InGaAs nanowires grown on a In addition, by tuning the ratio of gal- “Nanowires are really the major building different substrate. lium to indium in the semiconductor cock- blocks of future nano-devices,” said post- tail, the researchers can tune the optical and doctoral researcher Parsian Mohseni, first Thanks to its thinness, graphene is flex- grown nanowires on graphene with com- conductive properties of the nanowires. author of the study. “Nanowires are compo- ible, while silicon is rigid and brittle. It also pound semiconductors that only have two Next, Li’s group plans to make solar nents that can be used, based on what mate- conducts like a metal, allowing for direct elements, but by using three elements, the cells and other optoelectronic devices with rial you grow them out of, for any functional electrical contact to the nanowires. Fur- Illinois group made a unique finding: The their graphene-grown nanowires. Thanks electronics application.” thermore, it is inexpensive, flaked off from InGaAs wires grown on graphene sponta- to both the wires’ ternary composition and Li’s group uses a method called van a block of graphite or grown from carbon neously segregate into an indium arsenide graphene’s flexibility and conductivity, Li der Waals epitaxy to grow nanowires from gases. (InAs) core with an InGaAs shell around hopes to integrate the wires in a broad spec- the bottom up on a flat substrate of semi- “One of the reasons we want to grow on the outside of the wire. trum of applications. conductor materials, such as silicon. The graphene is to stay away from thick and ex- “This is unexpected,” Li said. “A lot of “We basically discovered a new phe- nanowires are made of a class of materials pensive substrates,” Mohseni said. “About devices require a core-shell architecture. nomenon that confirms that registry does called III-V (three-five), compound semi- 80 percent of the manufacturing cost of a Normally you grow the core in one growth count in van der Waals epitaxy,” Li said. conductors that hold particular promise for conventional solar cell comes from the sub- condition and change conditions to grow This work was supported in part by the applications involving light, such as solar strate itself. We’ve done away with that by the shell on the outside. This is spontane- Department of Energy and the National Sci- cells or lasers. just using graphene. Not only are there in- ous, done in one step. The other good thing ence Foundation. Postdoctoral researcher The group previously reported growing herent cost benefits, we’re also introducing is that since it’s a spontaneous segregation, Ashkan Behnam and graduate students III-V nanowires on silicon. While silicon is functionality that a typical substrate doesn’t it produces a perfect interface.” Joshua Wood and Christopher English also the most widely used material in devices, have.” So what causes this spontaneous core- were co-authors of the paper. Li also is af- it has a number of shortcomings. Now, the The researchers pump gases containing shell structure? By coincidence, the dis- filiated with the Beckman Institute for Ad- group has grown nanowires of the mate- gallium, indium and arsenic into a cham- tance between atoms in a crystal of InAs vanced Science and Technology, the Micro rial indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) on a ber with a graphene sheet. The nanowires is nearly the same as the distance between and Nanotechnology Lab, and the Freder- sheet of graphene, a 1-atom-thick sheet of self-assemble, growing by themselves into whole numbers of carbon atoms in a sheet ick Seitz Materials Research Lab, all at the carbon with exceptional physical and con- a dense carpet of vertical wires across the of graphene. So, when the gases are piped U. of I. u ductive properties. surface of the graphene. Other groups have into the chamber and the material begins May 2, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 7 Three professors elected to National Academy of Sciences By Liz Ahlberg fermions, superconductors, Physical Sciences Editor topological phases, quantum hree faculty members at the U. of I. entanglement and electronic have been elected 2013 fellows of liquid crystal states. the National Academy of Sciences. Fradkin earned his doc- photo by L. Brian Stauffer by photo Eduardo Fradkin, Martin Gruebele torate in physics from Stan- L. Brian Stauffer by photo Tand Sharon Hammes-Schiffer are among ford University in 1979. He the 84 new members and 21 foreign associ- then came to the U. of I. as a courtesy departmentphoto of physics ates announced by the academy on April 30. postdoctoral research associ- Election to the NAS is one of the highest ate before joining the faculty professional honors a scientist can garner. in 1981. He is a fellow of the Chosen by their peers, the 2,179 members American Physical Society and 437 foreign associates are an elite group and of the American Acade- distinguished by their outstanding contribu- my of Arts and Sciences, and tions to the fields of science and technology. a member of the Asociación Eduardo Fradkin Martin Gruebele Sharon Hammes-Schiffer “Our entire campus community is ex- Física Argentina (Argentine cited to learn that three of our colleagues Physical Association). of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- Hammes-Schiffer earned her doctor- have been named fellows in the National Gruebele, the James R. Eiszner En- ences and a member of the Deutsche Akad- ate from Stanford University in 1993. Academy of Sciences,” said Chancellor dowed Chair in Chemistry and a professor emie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Ger- She joined the faculty at Illinois in 2012. Phyllis M. Wise. “It is wonderful to see the of physics and of biophysics and computa- man Academy of Sciences). Among many other honors, she has re- work of Eduardo Fradkin, Martin Gruebele tional biology, has distinguished himself in Hammes-Schiffer, a Swanlund Profes- ceived an NSF CAREER award, an Alfred and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer recognized chemical and biological physics. Using la- sor of Chemistry, is a world leader in theo- P. Sloan research fellowship and the Inter- by their peers. This is among the highest ser manipulation techniques and computa- retical and computational chemistry. Her national Academy of Quantum Molecular honors for a scientist in our country. It is a tional modeling, his work has increased the research focuses on chemical reactions in Science Medal and is a fellow of the Ameri- proud day for Illinois to see three more of understanding of protein folding in the test solution, in proteins and at electrochemi- can Physical Society, the American Chemi- our distinguished faculty taking their places tube and in living cells, how energy flows cal interfaces, particularly the transfer of cal Society and the American Academy of in this prestigious institution.” through molecules and how glass surfaces charged particles driving many chemical Arts and Sciences. Fradkin, a professor of physics, is highly morph and move. and biological processes. Her group has The National Academy of Sciences is a distinguished in the fields of theoretical Gruebele earned his doctorate at the Uni- developed theories that blend classical mo- private organization of scientists and engi- condensed matter physics and quantum versity of California at Berkeley in 1988. lecular dynamics and quantum mechanics, neers dedicated to the furtherance of sci- field theory, thanks to his pioneering work Since joining the U. of I. in 1992, he has as well as theories that describe proton-cou- ence and its use for the general welfare. bringing the two fields together. His unique earned a number of awards for both teach- pled electron transfer reactions. This work Founded in 1863, the academy acts as an perspective in applying concepts from ing and research, including a Packard Fel- has applications in catalyst design for solar official adviser to the federal government, one area to the other have led to trailblaz- lowship, a Cottrell Scholar Award and an cells, understanding how enzymes work, upon request, in any matter of science or ing developments in gauge theories, Dirac Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. He is a fellow protein engineering and drug design. technology. u

Baseball historian Adrian Burgos ing the Chicago White Sox in 1951. on Jackie Robinson and the movie ‘42’ In fact, Miñoso was the Latino Jackie Editor’s note: Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s Robinson, facing racial and ethnic color line 66 years ago when he played his first game for the hostilities as a black Latino who was Brooklyn Dodgers. His story gets a fresh look in the movie “42.” L. Brian Stauffer by photo an integration pioneer. Robinson’s On April 15, every player in the major leagues wore the same success made it possible for black La- 42, Robinson’s uniform number, as part of an annual day in his tinos like Miñoso to sign with major honor. U. of I. historian Adrian Burgos Jr. is a member of MLB’s league organizations, but it did not Baseball Origins Committee, was a consultant on Ken Burns’ eliminate the unique cultural obstacles documentary “The Tenth Inning,” and is the author of “Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Lati- that Latino stars such as Miñoso, Or- nos, and the Color Line” and “Cuban Star: How One Negro League Owner Changed the Face lando Cepeda, Roberto Clemente and of Baseball.” He spoke with News Bureau social sciences editor Craig Chamberlain. Juan Marichal would encounter. You got an advance look at the film “42.” What does it get right about So what makes Robinson so important? the American promise: that anyone given inson, Roy Campanella and Sam Jethroe the times and what Robinson was up The major leagues and their affiliated the opportunity in U.S. society could suc- – but had to forego that plan partly because against? And what should audiences minor leagues were racially segregated for ceed. It is quite a simplistic view, however, the Negro League owners for Campanella know that was not part of the movie? more than half a century, from 1889 until as it does not fully consider how integra- and Jethroe insisted on being compensated. For a Hollywood movie, “42” is as Jackie Robinson broke the color line, first tion was accomplished. Imagine how baseball’s integration story compelling an integration story as the in the minor leagues in 1946 and then in So how was it accomplished? What was would have changed if it were three black movie industry will offer the American the majors with his 1947 Dodgers debut. Rickey’s motivation and what was the men working together to overturn base- public. It is definitely not the epic that In pioneering the integration of baseball, story behind the scenes? ball’s racial segregation versus the narra- a filmmaker like Spike Lee would have Robinson became the target of its institu- Baseball integration is often presented tive that Rickey could only find one black made: Lee likely would have insisted on tionalized racism and of white individuals as a morality tale. The version that high- man with all of the requisite on-field talent covering the arc of both Robinson’s life who supported – and had benefited from lights the role of Rickey is very top-down and off-the-field character to bear the bur- story and of the toll of major league base- – its segregated culture. Robinson was the and a redemption story about white lead- den of baseball’s sins. ball integration on the Negro Leagues. first unambiguously black man to perform ership redressing the wrongs of racial The story of the breaking of baseball’s Instead, “42” focuses on 1945 to 1947, just in organized baseball since black players segregation. He is presented as a righteous color line is often told only in black and the start of integration, and what Robinson had been exiled, though there were quite a moral leader who finally tired of the harm white – African-Americans breaking encountered on and off the playing field as few Latinos like Cuban Roberto Estalella that baseball’s color line inflicted upon into an all-white league. But how did the pioneering black man. who were racially ambiguous and yet were black souls and who makes the courageous Robinson affect Latinos and the role “42” makes no nod to Doby’s integra- permitted to perform in the majors while decision to break with the expressed will of they have come to play in today’s tion of the American League in July of that the color line system operated. the other 15 major league executives. game? season or to the fact that Cleveland Indians In taking on this challenge, Robinson Rickey carved part of this narrative him- Robinson’s triumphant breakthrough executive Bill Veeck actually paid the agreed to Dodgers president and general self in sharing the story of Charles Thomas, opened the door of opportunity for all La- Negro Leagues’ Newark Eagles to acquire manager Branch Rickey’s requirement the sole black player on an Ohio Wesleyan tinos. Notice, I said “for all Latinos.” The Doby. On one level this is understandable, that he not fight back in response to rac- team Rickey had managed. Rickey said central purpose of organized baseball’s since the movie is “42: The True Story of ist taunting from opponents and fans, to he was haunted by the lingering image of color line was to exclude blacks, which it an American Legend” and not “47: the year literally being targeted by some opposing Thomas crying and rubbing at his black did very effectively from 1889 to 1946. Yet that changed baseball.” white pitchers – Robinson led the league in skin after he was denied a room at a South throughout this span major league officials To go beyond 1947 is to really delve being hit-by-pitch in 1947 – or to the hos- Bend, Ind., hotel. did increasingly permit talented non-white deep into the complex historical figure that tile treatment from members of the press, Rickey was very much personally players into the circuit, such as American was Jackie Robinson. He was the nation’s many of whom were discomforted by what invested in securing black talent, but he Indian Charles Albert “Chief” Bender, a most favored black man in the early 1950s, they referred to as the Dodgers’ “forced” also did not want to pay for the talent he future Hall of Famer, and lighter-skinned who allowed himself to be used by the integration of the national pastime. was taking from the Negro Leagues. Thus Latinos such as Adolfo “Dolf” Luque. In House Un-American Affairs Committee By season’s end Robinson had become he insisted that Jackie Robinson was a fact more than 50 Latinos performed in the of the McCarthy era to besmirch the black a hero to millions of Americans from all free agent and refused to compensate the majors while its color line stood in place, singer and activist Paul Robeson – some- racial and ethnic backgrounds due to how Kansas City Monarchs, the Negro League though more than 230 played in the Negro thing Robinson later regretted. A commit- he responded to this intense public trial team Robinson had played for in 1945. Leagues during that same period. ted civil rights advocate, Robinson none- by fire – though another black player, Rickey went on the offensive in the press The Negro Leagues were where fabu- theless remained a Rockefeller Republican Larry Doby, also debuted in the middle of conference announcing Robinson’s signing lous talents such as Martin Dihigo, Cris- who supported Nixon over Kennedy in the that season with the Cleveland Indians in with the Dodgers, implying that the Negro tobal Torriente and José Méndez were con- 1960 presidential election and stayed with the American League. Robinson had led Leagues were a racket operated by crimi- signed to exhibit their baseball skills in the the party even after most African-Ameri- the Dodgers to the National League pen- nals and not proper business executives. U.S. It was in the Negro Leagues where cans had fled to the Democratic Party. And nant and a World Series appearance in his Moreover, as other historians have un- Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso began his U.S. despite his historic role, his aspirations rookie campaign. For so many Americans, covered, Rickey initially aspired to debut professional career in 1945 with the New to manage in the majors were dashed by Robinson’s success was the fulfillment of integration with three black players – Rob- York Cubans, before eventually integrat- SEE AMW: BURGOS, PAGE 9 PAGE 8 InsideIllinois May 2, 2013 Research: Poor math skills affect legal decision-making By Phil Ciciora ell and Jessica Bregant, there is a “highly gests that this is a dangerous system. research about numeracy and legal deci- Business and Law Editor significant relationship” between law stu- “And I’d add that clients should start sion-making before we can tell for sure.” he stereotype of lawyers being bad dents’ math skills and the substance of their paying attention to their attorney’s math Prior research has found that people with numbers may persist, but new legal analysis, suggesting that legal analysis skills as well. Just by asking an attorney with poor math skills have a whole host research by two U. of I. legal schol- – and by extension, legal advice – may vary three simple math questions, we could pre- of decision-making issues – they are more ars suggests that law students are with a lawyer’s native math skills. dict how they would answer legal questions, subject to cognitive bias, and more likely to Tsurprisingly good at math, although those “What the research shows is that math which ought to create concerns about the be “fooled or tricked by the way things are with low levels of numeracy analyze some matters to lawyers more – and for different quality and consistency of legal decision- presented to them,” Rowell says. legal questions differently. reasons – than people have realized,” said making.” “If this is also happening with attorneys According to research from Arden Row- Rowell, a professor of law and the Richard According to Rowell, the paper repre- – well, you don’t want an attorney who is W. and Marie L. Corman Scholar at Illinois. sents the first empirical study of how nu- easily fooled by framing effects,” she said. “People are only now starting to pay atten- meracy affects legal decision-making. “You don’t want an attorney who’s easily tion to the fact that lawyers and judges who “Based on this study, it looks like there hoodwinked by cognitive bias. When you are bad at math can make mistakes that ruin is a difference in how law students analyze add to that the stereotype that attorneys are people’s lives. That implicates numeracy as legal questions based on their math skills,” bad at math, I start to get very anxious.” a neglected but potentially critical aspect of she said. “That said, we don’t know which But when the findings were compared legal education, because it’s not something group is doing a better job at legal analysis with legal analyses performed by general that law schools have traditionally focused – the ones who are good at math, or the ones members of the population, who had no le- on when selecting students.” who are bad at math. We just don’t know gal training, the researchers found that law- Rowell, who co-wrote the paper with yet whether people who are bad at math are yers were less susceptible to cognitive bias Bregant, a research associate with the Col- actually worse at law.” regardless of their numeracy level. Rowell lege of Law at Illinois, says the research There are many different types of deci- speculates that law students could be more suggests that the effect of math skills sions that lawyers make, and many of them resistant to framing effects and biases either doesn’t stop there. involve predicting other people’s decisions, because of the effects of legal education, or “Even when lawyers aren’t making ob- Rowell says. because people who become lawyers are vious math mistakes, their understanding “For example, if there are questions naturally skeptical. of the law may be fundamentally different about how likely a client is to be found neg- “People who decide to become lawyers based on how good they are at math,” she ligent if they failed to take a precaution, an are also people who like to read the fine said. “In other words, clients may not get attorney hearing the facts in that case has to print, people who naturally ask, ‘What’s the same outcome when they bring identi- think not only about the law but also about hidden? What’s the catch?’ ” she said. “And cal cases, simply because the attorney they how judges and juries make decisions about so that kind of thinking may be essentially a photo courtesy College of Law hire – or the judge they face – has high or the law,” she said. protection from cognitive bias.” Math skills There is a “highly low numeracy.” So it could actually be that people with But prediction skills alone don’t neces- significant relationship” between law Right now, most law schools pay very low levels of numeracy do a better job at sarily make or break a lawyer. students’ math skills and the substance of little attention to numeracy, Rowell says. predicting everyone else’s decision-making. “Attorneys also need social skills, the their legal analysis, according to research “In fact, at many law schools, students “If judges or juries also have low math ability to connect with people, to persuade from Arden Rowell, a professor of law with quantitative or science backgrounds skills, it could be that attorneys who are less and to advise – skills that so far seem to have and the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman actually face a disadvantage getting into good at math are the more accurate predic- little or nothing to do with numeracy.” u Scholar at Illinois. law school,” she said. “Our research sug- tors,” Rowell said. “But we need a lot more Study: Bullying more violent in school with gangs nearby By Sharita Forrest son in greater depth and produced News Editor the current study, with Espelage as he presence of gangs in the one of her co-authors. vicinity of schools creates “Fear permeates the school en- a pervasive climate of fear vironment, affecting both students and victimization among and teachers,” Forber-Pratt said. Tstudents, teachers and administra- “We believe as a research team tors that escalates the level of ag- that this permeation of fear pos- gression in bullying incidents and sibly paralyzes bullying preven- paralyzes prevention efforts, sug- tion efforts. At a very significant gests a new study in the journal and practical level, school staff Psychology of Violence. and administrators need to rec- Gang presence causes incidents ognize that gang presence does of victimization toward students have an influence on behaviors in photo by L. Brian Stauffer and teachers to become more vi- schools.” School violence Gangs’ presence olent. And, fearing for their own Physical or direct bullying is in the vicinity of schools both escalates safety, bystanders, teachers and much more prevalent and more levels of violence associated with administrators adopt a laissez violent in nature at Thompson bullying and creates a climate of fear faire attitude toward bullying that than at the other schools, esca- and victimization that discourages perpetuates a culture of victimiza- lating from the everyday occur- adults and youth from intervening, tion, the researchers say. rences of “regular obnoxious bul- suggests a study by alumnus Anjali Based upon interviews with lying” seen at most schools – such Forber-Pratt, right, and co-author students and the researchers’ ob- as name-calling, rumor-spreading Dorothy Espelage, above, in the College servations, the study examined and punching – to far more serious of Education. the influence that gang presence is incidents. having on bullying at one middle Interviews with 10 Thompson loyalty and the hierarchical pow- school in the Midwest, identi- students provide a glimpse into er structure of gangs “convolute” fied by the pseudonym Thomp- an environment besieged with bystander and peer influence on son Middle School in the study. violence and intimidation, where victimization, making it far less

Thompson is located in a rural children are in a perpetual “fight likely that gang members or other photo by L. Brian Stauffer community with more than 20 or flight state” and feel isolated bystanders will intervene on vic- gangs and 2,000 known members. and unsafe before, during and af- tims’ behalf. “In order to chip away at that “It’s not to ignore that gangs The current study was part of a ter school. Other students, called “gang reluctance of students and staff exist but to recognize the pressure larger project funded by the U.S. Many of the children inter- wannabes” by peers, feign hold- to actively participate in promot- kids are under to join the gangs, Centers for Disease Control and viewed struggle with a dispar- ing positions of influence in ing safe schools, we need open and to help students build courage Prevention that examined links ity between parental expectations gangs to protect themselves from communication and dialogue with and that desire to play an active between bullying and sexual vio- about how they should respond victimization while bullying staff, teachers and administrators role in their learning and resist lence. Bullying expert Dorothy L. to bullying and perceptions that younger students and behaving to understand what’s happening membership in gangs. As edu- Espelage, who is an educational reporting incidents to teachers aggressively with teachers. outside of the school among these cators and responsible citizens, psychologist at the U. of I., led would provoke retaliation and Students feel trapped, power- neighborhood gangs,” Forber- it’s our duty to try to address the that research. stigmatization as a snitch. less and fearful and view their Pratt said. “Whatever is happen- problem of bullying and the con- In analyzing the data for the “One of the comments that we teachers in a similar light – reluc- ing on the streets, it’s going to cerns raised by the stories that we sexual violence project, the re- hear in schools with gang pres- tant to intervene in bullying inci- affect the school environment, learned from this study so that searchers encountered several ence is ‘snitching leads to stitch- dents out of concern for their own and it’s going to affect the atti- students don’t feel isolated and themes at Thompson Middle es,’ ” Forber-Pratt said. safety and because they lack ef- tudes and behaviors, and that’s a threatened each day at school.” School that were strikingly differ- Facing “substantial pressure” fective disciplinary measures and reality. We really need to explain Forber-Pratt graduated from ent from the other four schools in to join gang life and possible harm support from administrators. to teachers, administrators and to the doctoral program in the Col- the case study. Anjali Forber-Pratt, or death if they resist, some stu- Bullies specifically targetfolks who care that having that lege of Education in May 2012. who was then a doctoral student dents capitulate because they per- teachers verbally and by damag- sort of clear expectation that gang Steven R. Aragon, of Texas and graduate researcher on the ceive gangs as providing safety, ing their cars, prompting them to influence stops at the school doors State University San Marcos, was sexual violence project, decided peer support and a sense of family. ignore issues out of fear, children could really create a level of trust also a co-author on the study. u to examine the themes at Thomp- These deep bonds, pressures about said. with students. May 2, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 9 Virtual lab encourages creativity, offers safe place to explore By Liz Ahlberg 14, for example. The software de- Physical Sciences Editor velopment team is working to add t’s a typical day in the lab: additional features after the beta- Walk to your assigned lab test in fall 2012. bench. Wait for the teaching “I feel that as the virtual lab assistant to set up equipment. continues to evolve and improve, ILoad a sample, set a few knobs the lab could provide students and begin taking measurements. with educational experiences that Click on the information icon they would otherwise not get to hovering over a particular knob experience until being trained in on the machine if you want to their future careers,” Weberski learn more about it. said. Welcome to the virtual lab, a The development team also digital re-creation of the nuclear, hopes to expand the virtual lab plasma and radiological engineer- technology to include other labs. ing (NPRE) undergraduate labo- They already have created a vir- ratory. The virtual lab is a detailed tual model of the undergraduate first-person video game developed chemistry lab in Noyes Annex. to guide freshmen through basic The “game” is programmed to be lab setup and procedure, though it a training exercise that shows stu- soon could provide a training en- dents where the safety equipment vironment for advanced classes in is located in the lab and tests them nuclear engineering and beyond. on safety procedures. Uddin also “As the discussion of online hopes to program activities for education continues to grow, the some of the more advanced NPRE photo by L. Brian Stauffer one topic I don’t hear being dis- courses. In particular, he hopes Rizwan Uddin, a professor of nuclear engineering, created a virtual lab after cussed is lab exercises and how Growing enrollment to re-create the campus reactor, enrollment in the entry-level course in his department swelled to four times the usual number. Shown in are we going to get them online,” which was dismantled in 2010, to the laboratory, above, its virtual “twin,” created for teaching purposes, is shown below. said Imran Haddish, a May 2012 once again offer students reactor- NPRE graduate who did much of course, the virtual experiments person. The students, particularly those based experiments. the programming and software can be conducted from anywhere While it was created to address well-versed in video games, re- “There’s a lot of processing development. “Online labs with there is a computer and an Inter- concerns of space and time, the sponded positively. However, power within modern computers realistic rendering, multiuser ca- net connection. virtual lab encourages student cre- there was one missing feature that allows us to make more real- pabilities and natural interaction “I felt as though the virtual lab ativity and gives instructors more that students clamored for: a fast- istic and interactive experiences,” are nonexistent in online educa- and physical lab in NPRE 100 flexibility in planning curriculum. forward button. Currently, all pro- Haddish said. “The availability tion. Using these types of labs, in- were very similar to each other,” “The students would tell me, cesses in the virtual lab occur in of all these features with realistic structors are only limited by their said Justin Weberski, a freshman ‘These labs are such cookbook- real time, to give students a feel rendering, in an educational lab, is imaginations as we can build any from St. Charles, Ill., who took style labs.’ They are not expected for how long the data collection not common – that’s what makes environment and scenario.” the class last fall. “Being intro- to make any mistakes; they are takes in the real lab. Adding a fast- this novel. At the same time, we Virtual lab was born as a duced to these experiences, even given very precise instructions as forward button would cut down on have not even begun to fully uti- way to address space and time if it’s only virtually, is a great to what to do,” Uddin said. “They the time required to complete a lab, lize game engines (or any other constraints. When labs were in- benefit to most students. I feel learn something, but the step-by- and would also enable instructors types of 3-D rendering engines) in troduced in the NPRE 100 cur- like the virtual lab can add a lot step instructions are not serving to include activities that otherwise online education.” riculum, enrollment was about 15 to the classroom, but at the same the purpose of a real lab, where would take too long – measuring And all Mario had were bricks students per year. But recent years time it cannot completely replace you can make mistakes, and you the 5,700-year half-life of carbon and sewer pipes. u have seen enrollment swell to the real-life lab because it is still can design new experiments. In about 60 students per year – more very important to gain hands-on a virtual lab, you can afford for than could fit in the lab. The in- experience with using the differ- them to make a mistake, to break structor, NPRE professor Rizwan ent equipment in the lab.” things, to do things wrong, to Uddin, was forced to cut one of To help students connect their blow things up.” the two lab activities so that the hands-on lab experience to their In addition to giving students space could accommodate mul- digital one, the virtual lab is a room to explore and make mis- tiple sections of the course. painstaking replica of the physi- takes, the virtual lab offers oppor- With the virtual lab software, cal lab space, right down to the tunities to conduct experiments the students can experience both table surfaces and electrical sock- that would be too time-consum- labs: one in the physical space et placement. Information is also ing, expensive or dangerous to and one in the virtual space. While available in the form of embed- conduct in the physical lab. For they are doing the first experiment ded videos. There are informa- example, with the virtual lab, the in the lab, the instructors demon- tion icons, in the form of a little instructors could give the students strate the second experiment so blue “I,” on or near some of the an unknown material and ask students can see what it looks like equipment in the lab. Clicking on them to identify it by measuring before performing the activity in the icon opens a short video of the half-life, melting point or oth- Lab partner The game developers put painstaking detail into the the virtual lab. Virtual lab is like a lab teaching assistant explain- er properties. Or they could work virtual lab so that the equipment looks and functions the way it does any other video game, with suffi- ing what the equipment or switch with strong radiation sources that in the physical lab. cient instructions for the students does – just as the TA would do if could not be handled in the under- to conduct the experiment. Of the student asked the question in graduate lab space.

Program will train translators, interpreters AMW: BURGOS, FROM PAGE 7 By Dusty Rhodes The Center for Translation league execs who thought it too early Arts and Humanities Editor Studies, one of five compre- for a black manager. he demand for translators and interpreters is projected to hensive programs in the U.S., Indeed, Robinson initially refused increase by at least 20 percent by the year 2020, and a new provides instruction in 37 lan- to participate in a 25th anniversary cel- program at the U. of I. will offer a master’s degree to equip guages, Lowe said. ebration of baseball’s integration, dur- graduates to fill those jobs. Elizabeth Lowe, the director of “We’re excited about this ing the 1972 World Series, because he photo by L. Brian Stauffer by photo Tthe U. of I.’s Center for Translation Studies, says the program of- new graduate degree,” she was so upset with the lack of progress fers both on-campus and online options, and is accepting applica- said. “What’s unique is its lo- toward integration beyond the play- tions now for courses that will cation at the U. of I., which ing field. It was only after he secured begin in the fall. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn’s promise ON THE WEB is a comprehensive research “We anticipate a national university with an incredible that baseball would work toward hiring translation.illinois.edu and international audience for depth of resources. Our library a black manager that Robinson agreed the online program,” Lowe is one of the best in the world, to appear. At the celebration on Oct. said. and we have a robust library 10, 1972, a feeble Robinson, his body The growing demand for translators (who convert text) and resource site where people ravaged by diabetes, spoke publicly interpreters (who convert oral communication) is due in part to in the online program can do for the last time, stating that he looked laws requiring all agencies that receive federal funding to make their research.” Elizabeth Lowe forward to the day that he would see a their services accessible to non-English speakers. But nongov- The online and on-campus black manager in a major league dug- ernmental agencies, security firms and the health care, software courses will have the same timelines and requirements, except on- out. Ten days later, Robinson died, still and publishing industries are also experiencing an increased need campus students will take two courses concurrently for 16 weeks, awaiting that day. u for translators and interpreters. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis- while online students will have the option of taking two consecu- A Minute With ...™ is provided by the tics predicts that career opportunities in this field would grow by tive eight-week courses, because, Lowe said, research has shown U. of I. News Bureau. To view archived about 20 percent between 2010 and 2020; the Illinois Department that online students are more satisfied if they can focus on one interviews, go to http://illinois.edu/goto/ of Employment Security projects an increase of 37 percent during course at a time while balancing other responsibilities. aminutewith. the same period. More information about the application process is online. u PAGE 10 InsideIllinois May 2, 2013 Faculty and staff members honored for excellence at Illinois leven faculty members, four aca- demic professionals and five gradu- EXCELLENCE IN Undergraduate teaching: Faculty members ate teaching assistants at the U. of I. were honored April 23 for excel- Elence in teaching and advising. The group was recognized during a reception at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Faculty members honored with the Cam- pus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching: Bruce Fouke, geology, has led more than 400 undergraduates in intensive field courses in the Arctic, Caribbean and Euro- pean Alps in his 15 years at Illinois. In that time, 25 undergraduates have changed their majors to geology after taking his introduc- tory courses. His enthusiasm for the mate- rial he teaches is noted as a great strength by his students and as an essential part of what motivates them to tackle difficult material in his courses. David Hays, landscape architecture, structures his courses around the notion Bruce Fouke David Hays Steven Petruzzello that everyone has creative potential. His in- geology landscape architecture kinesiology and community health troductory course has broad appeal and is taken by many nonmajors. Former students describe his influence on their careers as “profound,” and relate feeling challenged by his material and at the same time feeling empowered by the knowledge gained in his courses. Steven Petruzzello, kinesiology and community health, is so committed to ac- tive learning in his courses that he learns the names of every student, even in courses with more than 120 students. Over the last 20 years, he has pushed the department to offer more discussion sections of his classes and revised another course so that it could meet the intensive writing requirements of an advanced composition general education course. Brian Quick, communication, brings energy and creativity to courses large and small. It is widely remarked that he takes Brian Quick Kirk Sanders learning beyond the classroom, as exem- communication classics plified by the opportunities he provides for students to work on health campaigns in the community. Students say that they appreci- excellence in Undergraduate teaching: Instructional STAFF ated the “fun” he brought to classroom dis- cussions as well as the “real-world connec- tions” he made with course material. Kirk Sanders, classics, keeps his stu- dents engaged with challenging subjects by using examples familiar to them. Whether he is referring to popular or comic books,

his students appreciate his command of the ITCS Riecks/ACES David by photo material, especially as it is combined with his robust sense of humor. While his stu- dents are mindful that he has high expec- tations for their work, they appreciate that he makes complex concepts accessible to them. Instructional staff members who re- ceived the award: Amy Fischer-Brown, a teaching asso- ciate in animal sciences, is the primary in- structor in the companion animal biology and humane education program. Many of her students go on to veterinary careers, but Amy Fischer-Brown Grace Giorgio Julie Price she is committed to exposing her students animal sciences communication English to a broad set of experiences and opportuni- ties. Her goal is to produce capable scien- tists as well as “positive members of their Photography by L. Brian Stauffer community and society.” Her impact is felt beyond campus in places such as American Julie Price, a senior lecturer in English, The awards recognize professors, in- and a $3,000 recurring salary increase. Samoa, where she and some of her students has appeared on the List of Teachers Ranked structional staff members and graduate Kopels has taught Social Work and the volunteered on a large-volume animal ster- as Excellent each of the 25 semesters she teaching assistants who display consistent- Law 91 times since 1990, reaching more ilization campaign. has taught at Illinois. Her inspired and in- ly excellent performance in the classroom, than 2,450 students, and making the List of Grace Giorgio, the program coordina- spiring approach to writing workshops has take innovative approaches to teaching, Teachers Ranked as Excellent all 91 times. tor for basic speech communication, be- “enriched the classroom experience,” and positively affect the lives of their students, She brings complicated concepts to life lieves her role is to help “students to want her willingness to teach beyond the class- and make other contributions to improve through humor and a deep appreciation of to be heard, to be a part of our local, na- room is also valued. Described by students instruction, including influencing the cur- the law and its impact on social work prac- tional and global conversations.” Years af- as “knowledgeable, demanding, humorous riculum. tice. Her peers explain her teaching as a ter taking her course her students continue and compassionate,” Price says her favorite Faculty members and instructional staff process of rediscovery of the material with to report the tremendous influence she has challenge as a teacher is “steering students members selected for the awards each re- each class and each new student. had on their lives, noting that the courses away from their white-knuckled grip on cli- ceive $5,000 cash and a $3,000 recurring Loughran’s teaching style has been helped them hone their writing, speaking chés and toward other vivid possibilities.” salary increase; graduate teaching assistants characterized as “relentlessly rigorous,” and research skills. Her courses reinforce Graduate teaching assistants who won receive $3,500. and each seminar she teaches has been de- the basic canon of communication skills, the award are Molly Briggs, art and design; Other winners honored: scribed as an ‘immersive intellectual odys- while she simultaneously innovates in the Anna Kurhajec, history; Megan Remmel, Sandra Kopels, social work, and Trish sey.” She challenges her students as well as classroom by using techniques that include political science; Aimee Rickman, human Loughran, English, received the Campus provides them with the support they need to connecting her course materials to sustain- and community development; and Julius Award for Excellence in Graduate and Pro- tackle the 12 to 13 books – and many more ability issues. Riles, communication. fessional Teaching. Each receives $5,000 SEE CAMPUS AWARDS, PAGE 11 May 2, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 11

CAMPUS AWARDS, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 articles – she typically assigns in a semes- Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring, each recipient with $2,000. Cris Mayo, education policy, organiza- ter. She describes graduate education as a which provides each recipient with $2,000. Jassim, the director of undergradu- tion and leadership, received the Campus “long-term intellectual practicum, an every- Dymond’s mentoring style is extremely ate programs in mechanical science and Award for Excellence in Distance Learning day kind of commitment.” collaborative. While actively involving engineering, is a tireless advocate for un- Despite her students’ varied geographic Amy Wagoner Johnson, mechanical each graduate student in her research, she dergraduate education and is dedicated to locations, Mayo is committed to creating science and engineering, received the Cam- shares multiple opportunities for them to expanding opportunities for the more than a sense of “dynamic community” in her pus Award for Excellence in Guiding Un- publish, often pushing them to submit the 1,000 students in his department. Combin- courses, even encouraging her students to dergraduate Research. The $2,000 award is work as first author. She provides each with ing his academic background with industry find online spaces outside of class to meet. designed to foster and reward excellence in the additional support and guidance they experience, Jassim has created a depart- One student commented that she appreci- involving and guiding undergraduate stu- need to grow as professionals and contribu- ment advising manual and implemented ated Mayo’s “rigorous online presence and dents in scholarly research. Because her tors to the field of special education. group advising, among other innovations. insightful interjections from a distance,” work is interdisciplinary, she has influenced In his mentoring, Loui works to develop Miller, a professor of animal sciences, is which contributed to the student’s develop- undergraduates in a variety of academic dis- “the whole student.” Not only does he work often the first faculty member students and ment of analytical, interpretive and writing ciplines, including mechanical engineering, with them to develop their skills as engi- parents meet, and he sets them at ease by skills. bioengineering, animal sciences and veteri- neers, he also brings the same level of rigor providing pertinent information in a com- Also honored were University Distin- nary biosciences. Johnson encourages un- and thoroughness to their growth as com- pelling fashion. Not only does he advise guished Teacher-Scholar for 2012-2013 dergraduates to explore new research fron- municators, especially in their writing. One students as they progress through their de- Mark Micale, a professor of history, and tiers and motivates them to meet and even former student said that Loui “expects a lot grees, he also serves as a research adviser Amy Woods, a professor of kinesiology and surpass their own research goals, answering from his students” while being “active in and helps students explore their interests community health, who was named 2013- questions in creative and unique ways. their journey toward success.” through undergraduate research projects. 14 Distinguished Teacher-Scholar. The title Stacy Dymond, special education, and Emad Jassim and David Miller re- Miller also coaches the U. of I. Dairy Cattle is permanent throughout their careers at Il- Michael Loui, electrical and computer en- ceived the Campus Award for Excellence Judging Team and is an adviser to the Illini linois. u gineering, received the Campus Award for in Undergraduate Advising, which provides Dairy Club. undergraduate GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL TEACHING research graduate student MENTORING

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Ads removed for online version PAGE 12 InsideIllinois May 2, 2013 Common component strategy could improve profits By Phil Ciciora Chhajed said. “But it turns out that tant,” said Chhajed, who also is Business and Law Editor commonality can indeed relieve the associate head and executive hen designing cannibalization in product lines, director of the master’s programs product lines, one which means marketing managers in the department of business ad- important deci- should be encouraged to pursue ministration. “Our analysis of

sion marketing and it.” commonality for consumer seg- L. Brian Stauffer by photo Wmanufacturing managers must “It seems counterintuitive, but ments with nondominating con- consider is whether to use com- employing commonality can actu- sumer preference structure shows of Business courtesy College photo mon or product-specific compo- ally soften product line cannibal- that the commonality strategy ex- nents. While the use of common ization,” Liu said. “So managers hibits much more diverse effects.” components can reduce manufac- should consider it, even though it “Marketing managers think turing costs, firms have tradition- runs counter to the conventional a lot about product cannibaliza- ally shied away from that strat- marketing wisdom, both in prac- tion,” Liu said. “If consumers egy over concerns of intensifying tice and in academia.” have a choice about products, what scholars call “product canni- The research, co-written with they’ll switch, and those products Dilip Chhajed Yunchuan ‘Frank’ Liu balization.” Kilsun Kim, of Sogang Universi- will cannibalize each other. So But according to research from ty, in Seoul, South Korea, also de- marketing managers think, ‘Let’s capacity over the style.” But a careful examination of two U. of I. business professors, bunks a crucial assumption long- differentiate the products so that Or food. the consumer preference structure commonality can actually reduce held by scholars that one con- there is a clear choice for consum- “Some consumers like taste, in a particular market is necessary product line cannibalization, a sumer segment’s preference for ers, so they don’t cannibalize each while others prefer certain health before marketing managers adopt finding that could allow firms to a product’s attributes dominates other.’ That’s the traditional view. aspects,” Liu said. “It’s a non- the commonality strategy. So mar- redesign their product lines and another’s preference structure. But that overlooks the possibility dominating consumer structure keting managers should examine improve profits. When consumer preference that consumers can be nondomi- because consumers value differ- how their preference structure When consumer preference is is “nondominating” – that is, no nating, or that consumers can have ent attributes.” may have changed, and how dy- “nondominating,” commonality single attribute of a product domi- wildly different tastes.” Under a nondominating prefer- namic the change is, the research- and its associated cost savings can nates across the spectrum of con- For some goods, there is a ence structure, there is no simple ers say. help firms design better product sumer preferences – commonality dominating consumer preference. way to strictly rank-order the “I think marketing managers lines with common components and its associated cost savings can However, for other product cat- consumer preferences, because need to look at differing consum- and attributes, says research from help firms design better product egories, consumers can have very consumers will exhibit different er tastes,” Liu said. “Consumer Dilip Chhajed and Yunchuan lines with common components different tastes. But such “non- preference ordering for different tastes can change. Consumer taste “Frank” Liu, professors of busi- and attributes, and thus improve dominating” preference structures attributes, Chhajed said. is very dynamic.” ness administration at Illinois. profits. are found for many products, the “We claim that a nondominat- But if you don’t do it correctly, “People in marketing are afraid “This suggests that firms are researchers say. ing structure is quite common in the strategy could backfire, “be- of firms using common compo- more likely to choose a common Take the iPod, for example. practice since a dominating pref- cause every object then looks the nents for their products because attribute that exhibits a large po- “Some consumers like the style erence structure entails restric- same,” Chhajed said. that means that the products lose tential cost savings, and that the and don’t worry as much about the tive strict ordering of preference The research will appear in a their uniqueness, what differenti- characteristics of the consumer storage capacity,” Liu said. “An- among segments for all attri- forthcoming issue of the journal ates them from the competition,” market are relatively less impor- other segment worries about the butes,” he said. Marketing Science. u Nitrogen has key role in estimating CO2 emissions By Liz Ahlberg within the land.” tion by plants – is limited by nitrogen Physical Sciences Editor The carbon cycle is a balance of availability. new global-scale modeling carbon emissions into the atmosphere “Most models used to estimate glob- study that takes into account and absorption by oceans and terres- al land use change emissions to date do nitrogen – a key nutrient for trial ecosystems. Carbon is absorbed by not have the capability to model this ni- plants – estimates that car- plants during photosynthesis and by the trogen limitation on plant regrowth fol- Abon emissions from human activities oceans through sea-air gas exchange. lowing land use change,” said Prasanth on land were 40 percent higher in the On the other side of the cycle, carbon is Meiyappan, a graduate student who is a 1990s than in studies that did not ac- released by burning fossil fuels and by co-author of the study. “This means, for count for nitrogen. changes in land use – deforestation to example, they overestimate regrowth Researchers at the U. of I. and the expand croplands, for example. While and they underestimate net emissions University of Bristol Cabot Institute fossil fuel emissions are well-known, from the harvest-regrowth cycle in tem- published their findings in the journal there are large uncertainties in estimat- perate forest plantations.” Global Change Biology. The findings ed emissions from land use change. Jain’s team, in collaboration with will be a part of the upcoming Fifth As- “When humans disturb the land, the Joanna House, a researcher at the Uni- sessment Report from the Intergovern- carbon stored in the plants and the soil versity of Bristol’s Cabot Institute, mental Panel on Climate Change. goes back into the atmosphere,” Jain concluded that by not accounting for “One nutrient can make a huge im- said. “But when plants regrow, they nitrogen as a limiting nutrient for plant pact on the carbon cycle and net emis- absorb carbon through photosynthesis. growth, other models might have under- sions of the greenhouse gas carbon di- Absorption or release of carbon can be estimated the 1990s carbon emissions oxide,” said study leader Atul Jain, a enhanced or dampened depending on from land use change by 70 percent in professor of atmospheric sciences at the environmental conditions, such as cli- nontropical regions and by 40 percent U. of I. “We know that climate is chang- mate and nutrient availability.” globally. photo by L. Brian Stauffer ing, but the question is how much? To Nitrogen is an essential mineral “This gross underestimation has great Carbon cycle Atmospheric sciences professor understand that, we have to understand nutrient for plants, which means that implications for international policy,” Atul Jain led a group that studied the global effects interactive feedback processes – the plants need it to grow and thrive. In House said. “If emissions from land-use of nitrogen on carbon dioxide emissions from interactions of climate with the land, nontropical regions especially, plant re- change are higher than we thought, or land use change, such as deforestation to expand but also interactions between nutrients growth – and therefore carbon assimila- SEE NITROGEN, PAGE 13 cropland.

Ads removed for online version May 2, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 13 1986 law has helped ‘govern immigration through crime’ By Craig Chamberlain mented immigrants and other marginal pop- Social Sciences Editor ulations, he said. hree key issues were at the center of “For the most part in any given year, the the 1986 Immigration Reform and majority of people who end up in deporta- Control Act: money for border en- tion are people who have no criminal re- forcement, a pathway to citizenship cord, just people who happen to be undocu- Tand making it illegal to hire undocumented mented,” Inda said. workers. Of course, in the controversy over im- But another provision of the IRCA, of- migration, one person’s “undocumented” ten overlooked, has had far-reaching con- immigrant is another person’s “illegal” im- sequences, leading to the rash of immigrant migrant, who has broken the law just by en- deportations in recent years, more than tering the country. 400,000 last year alone, says Jonathan Inda, What Inda lays out in his paper, how- a professor of Latina/Latino studies at the ever, is how the “criminal alien” provision U. of I., in an article for the journal Migra- of the 1986 law has been built upon, under tion Studies. both Democratic and Republican adminis- That provision called for the quick de- trations. At first, federal programs worked portation of “criminal aliens,” understood with state and local law enforcement to to be immigrants (both undocumented and identify the more serious criminal offenders legal) convicted of serious crimes, Inda within their prisons. Now, however, those said. programs enlist local police as proxy immi- photo by L. Brian Stauffer It helped lay the foundation, however, gration officials. Status quo Jonathan Inda, a professor of Latina/Latino studies at Illinois, for subsequent programs, laws and policies Likewise, legislation since 1986 has in- says the reform legislation being proposed in Congress offers little change from that have criminalized immigration more creased the number and types of crimes that current policies heavy on enforcement – policies that can be traced to the last major generally and cast a “criminal dragnet” over can bring about deportation, extending even immigration reform act in 1986. the country, according to Inda, also a co-ed- to certain misdemeanors, Inda said. itor, with Latina/Latino studies faculty col- “Noncitizens currently being deported dren, who might otherwise qualify for the police to report domestic abuse, he said. league Julie Dowling, of “Governing Immi- as ‘criminal aliens’ are thus not necessar- proposed DREAM Act and for the “de- “It really has increased the vulnerability gration Through Crime: A Reader,” recently ily what one would call hardened criminals ferred action” implemented by President of undocumented immigrants hugely, and published by Stanford University Press. who represent a threat to the public’s safety, Obama in 2012, can be deported if convict- created a great distrust between the immi- Essentially the task of border security but more often than not are low-level, non- ed of significant or multiple misdemeanors, grant community in general and the police,” has been extended into the U.S. interior, violent offenders,” he said. Inda said. he said. making it all a “seamless security space,” “The logic is that they’re only going to The programs and changes in law “have The immigration reform legislation be- Inda said – or a “continuum of border secu- commit more crimes,” he said, and it disre- fundamentally changed the nature of im- ing proposed in Congress appears unlikely rity,” in the words of one federal official in gards research showing that the crime rate migrant policing,” Inda said. An undocu- to change this emphasis on enforcement, a 2006 report. is much lower among immigrants than the mented immigrant who gets caught for Inda said. “They’re continuing the same Law and order measures have become native-born population. jaywalking could end up in deportation pro- policies that they’ve undertaken since the preferred means for governing undocu- Even those brought to the U.S. as chil- ceedings, as could the woman who calls the 1986,” he said. “For me, it’s really hard to see how it’s actually reform.” u Family-friendly tenure policies result in salary penalty By Phil Ciciora faculty member’s underlying commitment Kramer says. “The salary penalty lasts for Business and Law Editor to academic work, suggesting that salary approximately three years, but it differs ell-intentioned policies to decisions are affected by subjective factors, by gender: While women seem to suffer a make achieving tenure more Kramer says. single penalty one year after stopping their family-friendly actually have “The norm in academia is that success clock, men are penalized twice, a year after negative consequences for requires the focused pursuit of academic they stop their clock and again, two years Wthe salaries of college faculty members, a work at the expense of other responsibili- after they stop the clock.” study co-written by a U. of I. labor and em- ties, including family,” he said. “That sug- For organizations, including major re- ployment relations professor shows. gests that the use of these policies may be search institutions, the implications are Whether it’s for the birth or adoption of detrimental to the career outcomes of ten- clear, Kramer says. a child, or a family situation that involves ure-track faculty members. In particular, “If you offer family and life-friendly extended caregiving, both male and fe- evaluators may perceive stopping the clock policies to your employees, make sure us- Photo courtesy School of Labor and Employment Relations courtesy School of Labor and Employment Photo male faculty members who “stop the ten- for family reasons as an indicator that the age of these policies does not result in ure clock” for family reasons earn a salary faculty member lacks the commitment to negative outcomes for employees,” he said. that’s 3.1 to 4.3 percent lower the follow- his or her academic role. And that, in turn, “Otherwise, your star employees, those you ing year – even when there is no significant may constrain their career prospects.” would like to keep, will not take advantage drop-off in their research output, according Tenure rollback policies allow tenure- of that benefit and might consider moving to new research co-written by Amit Kramer. track faculty members to delay their tenure to a more supportive organization.” “The findings of the paper indicate that review, typically in increments of one year, For tenure-track professors, Kramer use of a tenure rollback policy incurs a sal- if they experience events that are likely to suggests thinking carefully about the im- ary penalty that cannot be explained away negatively affect their research productiv- plications of using family- and life-related Tenure rollback Well-intentioned by a change in the quantity or quality of ity. policies in organizations that formally have policies to make achieving tenure more publications,” Kramer said. The goal of rollback policies is to level these policies but may informally discour- family-friendly actually have negative Kramer, who co-wrote the study with the playing field for faculty members who age their use. consequences for the salaries of college Colleen Flaherty Manchester and Lisa M. experience productivity shocks, thereby al- “For major research institutions, I would faculty member, says a study co-written Leslie, both of the University of Minnesota, lowing them to demonstrate their scholarly say that they need to encourage faculty by U. of I. labor and employment says although the paper’s general findings capabilities by the time of their tenure deci- members to roll back their clock when they relations professor Amit Kramer. are encouraging, any evidence that tenure sion, according to the paper. really need it. But at the same time, they rollback policies can be used to make in- Furthermore, the researchers found evi- also need to educate senior faculty on the pressed workweeks, to name just a few,” ferences about a faculty member’s commit- dence that tenure rollback policy use has benefits of tenure clock rollback as well as he said. “But many employees are not even ment should be a cause for concern. a persistent effect on salary decisions for the tendency to unjustly penalize the wages aware of the range of policies that are of- “Tenure clock rollback policies are male faculty members, but not for female of faculty who have used the benefit.” fered by organizations. And even if they are achieving their main goal in that tenure- faculty members. The finding is consistent Tenure clock rollback is just one exam- aware of the available policies, sometime track faculty who decide to hit the pause with the possibility that men are penalized ple of family- and life-supportive policies they are reluctant to use them, even in times button for family reasons have similar lev- for using rollback policies for family rea- that organizations offer their employees to of need, because they are worried about the els of research productivity as their col- sons to a greater extent than women are be- help them deal with stressful and time-con- negative impression it would send to their leagues,” he said. cause use violates traditional gender roles, suming non-work situations, Kramer says. employer, in addition to the impact it might But the salary penalty is consistent with Kramer says. “Many organizations can and do offer have on their career prospects.” a commitment hypothesis – evaluators “There is no overall gender effect – male other family- and life-supportive policies The study was published in the journal treat the use of rollback policies for fam- and female faculty are similarly penalized such as flexible work arrangements, tele- Industrial and Labor Relations Review. u ily reasons as a “negative signal” about a a year following the use of the rollback,” commuting options, job share and com-

NITROGEN, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 the land sink (regrowth) is more limited, then bon,” Jain said. “The question is, how much future emissions cuts would have to be deeper that’s being released is being sequestered in the jobs at Illinois to meet the same mitigation targets.” soil? We have to understand how human behav- To view job postings, apply for civil service or Next, the researchers are investigating the ior is changing our environment and interacting academic jobs at Illinois, or to update your impacts of other nutrients, such as phosphorus, with our ecosystems.” on the carbon cycle. They also are estimating The National Aeronautics and Space Ad- application information: the carbon stored in the soil, and how much is ministration, the U.S. Department of Energy released or absorbed when the soil is perturbed. and the UK Leverhulme Trust supported this jobs.illinois.edu “Soil has great potential to sequester car- work. u PAGE 14 InsideIllinois May 2, 2013 Markers found relating to ovarian cancer survival, recurrence By Chelsey B. Coombs sociation of 21 microRNAs with ovarian News Bureau Intern cancer. They also found 838 target genes esearchers at the U. of I. have and 12 transcription factors associated identified biomarkers that can be with ovarian cancer survival and 734 target used to determine ovarian cancer genes and eight transcription factors associ- survival and recurrence, and have ated with ovarian cancer recurrence. Rshown how these biomarkers interact with “We were able to find many biomarkers each other to affect these outcomes. that held the same relationship with surviv- Their findings appear in the journal al no matter the cancer treatment, as well as PLOS ONE. some that were unique in their relationship Researchers try to find molecules called with survival depending on the treatment biomarkers that help determine a person’s the patient had received,” Rodriguez-Zas likelihood of getting a disease or, if they have said. already been diagnosed, how far the disease Delfino said that a network-based ap- has advanced. Genes, transcription factors proach is more predictive of ovarian cancer and microRNAs are often used as biomark- survival and recurrence than a single-mole- ers because these molecules can be heralds cule-based perspective. of disease or portents of susceptibility. “We took a step back and looked at ev- Genes are segments of DNA that code for erything from a network point of view in- proteins or other molecules that perform the stead of just individually to see how the functions of the cell. Transcription factors components interacted with each other and regulate these genes by binding to specific how the biomarkers were associated with DNA sequences, preventing or inducing the photo by L. Brian Stauffer ovarian cancer survival and recurrence,” genes to be “expressed” at higher or lower Cancer detectors Illinois animal sciences professor Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, left, Delfino said. levels. MicroRNAs, as their name suggests, and graduate student Kristin Delfino identified biomarkers that are used to determine “This demonstrated that the consider- are small RNA molecules that regulate an ovarian cancer survival and recurrence and showed how the interactions between ation of networks of microRNAs, transcrip- intermediate stage of gene expression. Tran- these biomarkers affect these outcomes. tion factors, and target genes allows us to scription factors and microRNAs also can identify reliable indicators of cancer surviv- regulate each other. of cancer death in women. Genome Atlas, which contains information al and recurrence and serves as the basis for The relationships among transcription The high prevalence of ovarian can- about ovarian cancer patients’ age, survival, effective prognostic tools,” Rodriguez-Zas factors, microRNAs and target genes can cer and ovarian cancer deaths in the U.S. cancer recurrence, treatment, tumor stage, said. be visualized as interconnected networks. prompted U. of I. animal sciences profes- tumor grade and genomic expression. The Delfino believes this study opens the These intricate webs are often used to deter- sor Sandra Rodriguez-Zas and doctoral researchers then performed statistical tests door to the creation of less invasive diag- mine how diseases such as cancer proceed. researcher Kristin Delfino to search for to tie these factors to patients’ survival nostic tests and more specialized treatment Analyzing how these networks function biomarkers associated with ovarian cancer time, measured in months from diagnosis to options for women with ovarian cancer. in cancer can offer insight into how tumor survival and recurrence. death, and their recurrence time, measured “In the future we’d like to be able to cells proliferate and differentiate, undergo “We knew that there are specific bio- in months from diagnosis to recurrence. just take a little sample of your DNA and (or resist) programmed cell death, and how markers that have been associated with “The networks change for people who be able to tell you what’s going to happen, likely they are to become invasive. ovarian cancer, but we were looking at have different rates of survival, so we what we can do to prevent it, and how to According to the American Cancer So- whether we could more accurately predict looked at what’s being expressed in high- cut cancer off before it ever reaches that ciety, an estimated 22,240 women will be survival or age at cancer recurrence consid- survival patients compared to what’s being point,” Delfino said. “Everyone is different, diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2013, and ering hundreds of interacting biomarkers expressed in low-survival patients,” Delfino and hopefully, we will be able to specify the 14,230 will die of the disease; this makes simultaneously,” Rodriguez-Zas said. said. treatment that will best treat the individual ovarian cancer the fifth most common cause The team used data from the Cancer The team was able to confirm the as- patient.” u ‘Social capital’ key to workers’ success on the job, study says By Sharita Forrest responsibility shared by the work the work group who takes an in- News Editor group and the new hire. terest in new employees’ success he quality of the social “The work group has enormous is critical. New hires benefit from relationships that newly responsibility for helping that new having an informal mentor who hired people develop with person get on board,” Korte said. knows the job, has insight into the other employees in their “In many cases, the new hires in “unwritten rules” and knows the Twork groups is critical to newcom- the study had very little contact socially and politically appropri- ers’ job satisfaction, learning their with their managers, and the vast ate ways of getting things done. responsibilities and their ability to majority of their learning and in- Employees who feel accepted fit in to the workplace culture, a teraction was with their co-work- into the group early on are more new study suggests. ers.” engaged and feel a greater sense of Often taken for granted by Korte and Lin interviewed belonging and enthusiasm about people within organizations, over- 30 recently hired engineers at a their jobs than those who are un- looked when training new peo- manufacturing organization that sure or confused about their posi- ple and not addressed in college had been struggling with high at- tions within the social hierarchy. courses, the social/political/cultur- trition rates among new hires. The Even much of the technical al realm of the work environment researchers examined the impact work that people perform is em- photo by L. Brian Stauffer has a pervasive influence over em- that the social capital embedded in bedded within and governed by ployee learning and performance, work groups’ social relationships the relational structures and social Networks at work New hires’ success on the job is highly say researchers Russell Korte and had on the new employees. norms of their work groups and dependent on their knowledge of the formal and informal social Shumin Lin. For the engineers in the study, organizations, Korte said. systems in the workplace, suggests a new study led by Russell “There is a relational structure learning how to perform job tasks “Very similar jobs are done Korte, a professor of human resource development in the College of that is very powerful in the work was highly dependent on their quite differently in different Education. group, but it’s not given much rec- knowledge and understanding of groups, and the work is judged that newcomers be open to col- process,” Korte said. “I think ognition and it’s typically ignored the formal and informal social quite differently too,” Korte said. laborating with others and will- there’s a very strong message for or under-valued in how we help systems in the workplace. Higher “Relationships have a huge im- ing to go above and beyond their industry and education about how newcomers learn to do their jobs,” quality relationships with mem- pact on how employees interpret, job requirements. Accordingly, we’re preparing people to go out said Korte, a professor of human bers of the work group translated analyze and gather data and how co-workers need to ensure that into the working world. Social/ resource development in the Col- into greater access to information they model workplace problems. newcomers feel accepted into the cultural/political systems really lege of Education. “New hires and resources – or greater “social These kinds of things tell me that group and have productive men- have a huge effect on how people tend to learn the norms of their capital” – that enhanced newcom- the social system is really control- toring relationships, meaningful learn and work, and they’re often work mostly through trial and ers’ job performance and eased ling and governing what people do work to do and frequent interac- underestimated or underappreci- error, and then we wonder why their transition from “outsider” to and how they do it.” tion with their managers. ated in what higher education is some people are not performing or “insider” status. Experienced professionals may Organizations may need to re- teaching students to do.” integrating very well. Tradition- From the beginning, the new- have difficulty integrating into evaluate their new hire orientation Developing political skills, as ally, we blame the new person for comers’ primary job task was a work group if the work habits processes, particularly if theirs is well as professional skills such not learning how to fit in when, in building relationships with other that they developed at a previous a “sink or swim” approach that as communication, teamwork and fact, the culture or the relational members of their work groups, job aren’t a good fit with the new doesn’t give new hires much sup- negotiation, would help better pre- structure of the work group was and their success or level of dif- organization or group. Thus, sea- port and help navigating the social pare college students for the so- part of the problem.” ficulty at building those relation- soned workers may have to “un- subcultures of the workplace, the cial/political milieu of the work- Although human resource man- ships was the primary determinant learn” old habits and be flexible study suggests. place, Korte said. agers often consider new employ- of their learning, performance and and willing to adapt to new ways “Unless you’re building these Korte has a similar study un- ee socialization the responsibility job satisfaction, the researchers of doing things. relational factors into your meth- derway in Mexico and is finding of the new employee’s manager, found. To cultivate those crucial rela- od, you’re risking failure in many interesting cultural differences. the researchers suggest that it’s For the first several months to tionships with others in the work cases because you’ve overlooked While workers in Mexico highly actually a communal process, with two years, having a co-worker in group, the researchers suggest some very important parts of the SEE EMPLOYEES, PAGE 16 May 2, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 15 Personalized leadership key for keeping global teams on task By Phil Ciciora Since spatial distance can translate into Business and Law Editor psychological distance, high-quality leader- or companies with employees member exchange relationships are effec- around the globe, the challenges of tive in creating inclusivity and involvement distance, diversity and technology among team members, so long as they are may threaten team cohesiveness accompanied by frequent communication. Famong their long-distance workers. But ac- “The conundrum is, you’re bringing to- cording to a new study by a U. of I. business gether these talented people from around professor, out of sight doesn’t necessarily the globe because you hope that something have to mean out of mind for virtual teams. innovative is going to come from their Ravi S. Gajendran, a professor of busi- work,” Gajendran said. “You explicitly de- ness administration at Illinois, says leaders sign a team to get the best experts from dif- of globally distributed teams can mitigate ferent parts of the world. But at the same the isolation of virtual employees by taking time, you’ve structured the team in a dis- a relationship-based approach in the form tributed manner so that it’s easy for team of a “leader-member exchange” in tandem members to feel isolated and that they can’t with frequent communication on a predict- give their input. So there’s this tension that able schedule. has to be resolved, which is why leaders In contrast to the traditional top-down, have to work hard at re-creating the team in “one-to-many” leadership approach that people’s minds.”

treats all employees similarly (and often For leaders, ordinary workaday world photo courtesy College of Business interchangeably), leader-member exchange tasks such as figuring out if someone is en- Global teamwork Ravi S. Gajendran, a professor of business administration at involves cultivating a personalized relation- ergized on a given day is impossible simply Illinois, says companies with employees located around the globe can mitigate their ship characterized by trust, loyalty, devel- because they don’t see virtual workers at isolation by taking a relationship-based approach in the form of a “leader-member opmental feedback and support between the office, Gajendran says. exchange.” team leader and member, Gajendran says. “As a leader, then, you don’t know “Leadership of virtual teams is tough, for whether you need to motivate them or “Personalized leadership seems to mat- “In high-tech companies like Google and very obvious reasons,” he said. “You don’t give them their space,” he said. “And team ter much more in distributed working envi- Facebook, a lot of the work being done is have that type of face-to-face interaction as members also are missing out on the social ronments,” he said. “So instead of treating on a server. They’re often working at dif- you do with your real-life team members, aspects of work: team space, team dinners all of the team members the same, it’s better ferent times, so that creates this distance so you don’t know how things are going, and team drinks – things like that.” for leaders to target and personalize the re- that makes it difficult for people to appreci- nor can you monitor a team member’s per- To bridge that gap, a personal touch is lationship with each individual. That’s why ate their contribution – or to motivate each formance all that easily.” required, Gajendran says. leader-member exchange training should other or feel part of this one cohesive unit.” The study, co-written by Aparna Joshi, “Even though there is no physical team, also emphasize the importance of regular Which is why it’s incumbent on the lead- a professor of management and organiza- leaders need more one-on-one interac- and predictable leader–member communi- er to make sure that the team’s work gets its tion at Pennsylvania State University, says tion with their virtual team members,” he cation to maximize the impact of member due, Gajendran says. a top-down style of leadership approach said. “In other words, leadership needs to influence on team decisions.” “You don’t want team members to feel doesn’t work well in a virtual context. be uniquely tailored to the team members In addition to building relationships as though they’re just sending their work “The traditional model of leadership is, rather than dictated from on high. It’s about and a regular, predictable communication out into a vacuum,” he said. “That’s why ‘I’m the leader, you’re my team members, building a relationship with each member, schedule, a team leader also needs to be leaders matter – they have to make those in- and I’m going to articulate my vision for and that requires slightly more effort than it an advocate for the work of its members, visible workers visible, and you can do that how things should be,’ ” Gajendran said. would in a normal workplace setting.” which can easily go unnoticed. by creating that sense of involvement and “What we find is that a personalized lead- The other finding of the study is the need “That’s the big danger in these distrib- inclusion.” ership strategy characterized by the leader- for constant, predictable contact to ensure uted teams – the lack of visibility of the The paper will appear in the Journal of member exchange has even stronger effects that team members understand that their in- end product, as well as the lack of visibil- Applied Psychology. u when the workers are globally distributed.” put matters, Gajendran says. ity of the team member,” Gajendran said.

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Editor’s note: The mysterious syndrome that is killing off L. Brian Stauffer by photo tion. The effect of pesticides on bee health honey bees, called Colony Collapse Disorder, has re- is a controversial topic. Some studies show cently gotten worse. Commercial beekeepers reported strong damage to bees, and others do not. bigger losses of honey bee hives in 2012 than ever The situation right here in East Central before. U. of I. entomologist and Institute for Genomic Illinois illustrates this. Here, corn and Biology director Gene Robinson, an expert on honey soybean agriculture use one of the most bee behavior, genomics and biology, describes the advances scientists have made in controversial classes of insecticides, the understanding the causes of CCD. He spoke to News Bureau life sciences editor Di- neonicotinoids. But there are no problems ana Yates. in this area with Colony Collapse Disor- der. We’re ground zero for neonicotinoid Is there an effort to get a geographic because we have a general intuition that temperature gets above bee-flight weather use but we have no documented cases of sense of which bees are most many organisms in the environment are for just a few hours during the two-week Colony Collapse Disorder. affected? under increasing stress, that it’s harder to bloom period. Sometimes it’s gorgeous Is this for the migratory, commercial Surveys have been done that report on make a living in the environment these and sunny every single day, and then there bees? the severity of bee losses by location, by days than in the past because of anthro- are many more bees than needed. But No, this area is not a big commercial state. The U.S. Department of Agricul- pogenic changes. Whether one considers sometimes it’s touch-and-go for an entire beekeeping area; this is an area domi- ture generates maps of how big the losses introduced pests or pathogens, degraded bloom period, so farmers are willing to pay nated by hobbyists, so that’s a good point. have been in different parts of the country. habitats or more extreme climate, it’s just to ship in extra colonies as a kind of insur- There’s no question that insecticides kill There’s no strong geographic pattern. This harder to thrive out there. And so the no- ance, so that if there are a few windows bees, but as to the question of whether they is because CCD losses occur in places tion that we are putting species closer to of time of favorable weather, there will be are involved in CCD, the jury is still out. where the most commercial beekeeping a tipping point is easy to grasp. What this enough bees to take care of the pollination, Would it be possible to enhance the occurs and commercial beekeeping in gen- means is that when an already stressed even in a very short time period. overall health of the honey bees with eral is on wheels – beehives are trucked beehive is exposed to yet another factor, The high density of bees is good for the more home-grown, localized bee throughout the country for pollination the bottom falls out and we see CCD, a plants and good for the farmers, but not operations that stay in place and purposes. complete colony collapse. good for the bees. The bees are often nu- therefore stress the bees less? There are several migratory routes that What factors do scientists think tritionally stressed as a result of their pol- There is right now a renaissance in these hives follow. As many as two-thirds contribute to CCD? lination activities because their densities beekeeping; there are many new beekeep- of the commercial honey bee colonies in First of all, the varroa mite, a parasite are too high. In addition, foraging in one ers, and many have been stimulated to get America are moved to northern California of honey bees, has been the real game homogenous agro-ecosystem for weeks at involved primarily by the crisis of CCD, for a period of two to three weeks just for changer. It is not the cause of Colony Col- a time may not provide the optimal mix of coupled with increased interest in local almond pollination. CCD losses are greater lapse Disorder but it is a huge factor. It nutrients for good bee health. food production. These two separate trends in commercial beekeeping operation areas. has weakened bees by the pathogens that In addition to pathogens, parasites and have combined to lead to a strong surge We’ve been observing declines for it harbors that it passes along to the bees poor nutrition, pesticides are also impli- in interest in hobby beekeeping. We have many years now. Are we any closer to and perhaps also by damage that it does cated. The newer pesticides are much safer a number of new beekeepers here in this understanding what’s going on? directly to the bees. for humans. They also are being applied in area, even some rooftop beekeepers in our Yes, we are closer, but progress is slow- There are also nutritional stresses as- ways that make them safer to humans, but urban areas, and many urban beekeepers er than we’d like because multiple factors sociated with migratory beekeeping. When they also have negative effects on benefi- in Chicago, New York City, San Francisco are contributing to CCD. Moreover, there you use bees for pollination your objec- cial insects. and so forth. But these are largely hobby- is pretty good evidence that there are syn- tive is to benefit the plants, not the bees. One topic that’s just starting to be ists or sideline beekeepers, as opposed to ergies between these factors. This explana- Sometimes for a major crop like almonds, examined is the synergy between the sub- large commercial beekeepers. So while tion is reasonable, but it doesn’t mean that which blooms early in the spring, the fate lethal effects of pesticides and the effects their local impact can be huge, they cannot solutions will come quickly. It’s reasonable of the whole crop depends on whether the of a pathogen, or a parasite, or poor nutri- SEE AMW: ROBINSON, PAGE 16 PAGE 16 InsideIllinois May 2, 2013 New molecule heralds hope for muscular dystrophy treatment By Liz Ahlberg Physical Sciences Editor here’s hope for patients with myo- tonic dystrophy. A new small mole- cule developed by researchers at the U. of I. has been shown to break up Tthe protein-RNA clusters that cause the dis- ease in living human cells, an important first step toward developing a pharmaceutical treatment for the as-yet untreatable disease. Steven C. Zimmerman, the Roger Adams Professor of Chemistry at the U. of I., led the group in developing and demonstrating the compound. The National Institutes of Health supported the work published in the journal ACS Chemical Biology. Myotonic dystrophy type 1 is the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults, affecting one in 8,000 people in North America. It causes progressive weak- ness as the muscles deteriorate over time. There is no treatment available for the dis- ease; though a few measures can help ease some symptoms, nothing can halt their in- evitable progression. “This is a disease that currently doesn’t have any treatment, so we have a huge in- terest in finding therapeutic agents,” said graduate student Amin Haghighat Jahromi, the first author of the paper. photo by Ben Woloszyn Myotonic dystrophy type 1, called DM1 New hope Illinois chemists -- from left, undergraduate Kali A. Miller, graduate students Amin Haghighat Jahromi for short, is caused by a mutation to one and Lien Nguyen, graduate student in Chemistry and professor Steven C. Zimmerman – developed a small-molecule gene. In a healthy person, one small seg- compound that could lead to therapeutic treatment for myotonic dystrophy, an as-yet untreatable disease. ment of the gene – a DNA sequence of CTG – is repeated a few times. In someone with so all the levels are imbalanced. There are copy methods, they were able to watch the possible side effects before human trials DM1, the sequence is repeated more than more than 100 proteins that are affected.” cells over time to see how they responded can begin, finding a molecule that works in 50 times, even up to thousands of repeats. The Illinois group developed a small to the molecule. In only a few hours, they living cells is an important first step toward The sequence is transcribed into RNA over molecule that could infiltrate the nucleus saw the clusters within the nucleus break up making a drug that could treat myotonic and over, like a skipping record stuck in a and bind to the RNA, forcing it to let go and were able to measure that the MBNL1 dystrophy. loop. The repetitive RNA binds to the pro- of MBNL1 so the protein can do its job. protein had increased its regulatory activity. “We’re close to developing drug candi- tein MBNL1, which is essential for regulat- The molecule is small and water-soluble “This is the first study that gives di- dates that can be tested in animals. And if it ing protein balance in cells. The RNA traps so it can cross the membrane into the cell, rect evidence for the function of the com- works in animals, then we move hopefully the MBNL1 protein in aggregates within the which has been a challenge for researchers pound,” Jahromi said. “We track how the into clinical trials with humans,” Zimmer- cell’s nucleus. attempting to use methods with larger mol- cell is changing upon treatment with the man said. “It’s heartbreaking, at one level, “The RNA is functioning in an abnormal ecules. It specifically targets only the re- compound and see the effect directly.” to say we’re years away from something way, and unfortunately, it’s toxic,” Zimmer- peating RNA sequence so as not to interfere Next, the researchers plan to begin col- that’s going to be in the clinic. On the other man said. “MNBL regulates a process called with other cellular functions. laborating with other groups to test their hand, we now have targets. We now know alternative splicing that controls how much The researchers administered the mol- molecule in fruit flies and mice. Although how to go after this disease. It gives patients of different proteins are made. Affected cells ecule to live cells that have the disease the molecule will need many rounds of test- and their families a bit of hope.” u make the proteins, just not at the right levels, features of DM1. Using advanced micros- ing for toxicity, efficacy, metabolism and

EMPLOYEES, FROM PAGE 14 value their workplace relationships, Dance professor named a Doris Duke Artist Americans tend to be task-oriented, By Dusty Rhodes three New York Dance and Per- viewing the social aspects of their Arts and Humanities Editor formance (Bessie) Awards. He jobs as less important and pushing ere O’Connor, a professor of dance has received multiple grants from them to the sidelines. at the U. of I., has been granted a Do- the National Endowment for the “Nobody that I interviewed in ris Duke Artist Award. The awards Arts, the New York State Council Mexico had a problem feeling part of represent a deep investment in the on the Arts, the New York Foun- Tpotential of the 20 recipient artists, who each dation for the Arts, the Harkness the group, unlike in the U.S.,” Korte said. “Because Latin cultures are receive an unrestricted $225,000 grant, plus Foundation for Dance and other typically more relationally oriented, $25,000 to fund an audience-development organizations. they view their work groups as fam- project and another $25,000 to invest in a O’Connor has been making ily. Several people in the Mexican retirement account that will allow them to dances since 1982, and has cre- study said they would sooner miss a continue their creative work later in life. ated more than 35 pieces for his

deadline than disrupt the harmony of Artists in the fields of contemporary New York-based company, Tere photo by Natalie Fiol the relationships in their work groups. dance, jazz, theater and related interdisci- O’Connor Dance, which has Top honors Dance professor Tere O’Connor has Americans would rarely say that, if plinary work are selected as Doris Duke toured the world. He has cre- been named a Doris Duke Artist. ever.” Artists through a rigorous anonymous peer ated commissioned work for Lin is a professor at the National review. No one can apply for these awards; Lyon Opera Ballet, the White Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. instead, candidates are culled from a pool of Oak Dance Project and its artistic director, “Tere is a great example of an artist who The study was published in the artists who have won at least three designat- Mikhail Baryshnikov. maintains an active, cutting-edge practice journal Human Relations. u ed national accolades during the preceding O’Connor’s colleagues in the U. of I.’s while also being highly engaged on our decade. College of Fine and Applied Arts recently campus,” said Ed Feser the dean of the col- O’Connor has been named a United gave him one of two research awards (land- lege. “He very much helps put Illinois ‘on AMW: ROBINSON, FROM PAGE 15 States Artists Rockefeller Fellow (2009) and scape architecture professor William Sulli- the map’ in dance.” u affect large-scale agriculture. In modern a Guggenheim Fellow (1993), and has won van received the other one). agriculture, huge numbers of plants come into bloom at the same time and they need to be pollinated at the same time. Only deaths large-scale commercial beekeepers can Kenneth I. Appel, 80, died April 19 in Do- probability theory and analysis, spent his for 32 years, retiring in 1992 as a typing provide the millions of bees needed to get ver, N.H. Appel was said to have ushered 43-year career at Illinois. He was appointed clerk III for Admissions and Records. She the job done. the venerable mathematical proof into the to the Center for Advanced Study in 1978 then worked 11 more years as an extra help Is there any overlap between declines computer age, solving a longstanding prob- and retired in 1998 as professor emeritus of professional. in honey bees and declines in wild lem concerning colors on a map with the mathematics. Memorials: In honor of his Joseph Kelly, 88, died April 24. Kelly was bees? help of an I.B.M. computer making billions daughter, Kathleen L. Burkholder Gradu- a professor at the Police Training Institute Yes. Bumble bees, the next best studied of decisions. He was a professor of math- ate Student Award Fund, U. of I. Founda- for 18 years, retiring in 1987. bees after honey bees, have experienced ematics at the U. of I. for 32 years, retiring tion, uif.uillinois.edu; or the Friends of the Laurian M. Strater, 92, died April serious population declines. There is a in 1993. Urbana Free Library, urbanafreelibrary.org. 16 at Heartland Healthcare, Paxton. Strat- feeling that honey bees are like the canary Donald Lyman Burkholder, 86, died April Wanda Jamison, 84, died April 17 at er worked at the U. of I. for 23 years, in the coal mine – and we’re all watching 14 in Urbana. Burkholder, a renowned Champaign-Urbana Regional Rehab Cen- retiring in 1990 as a maid for University anxiously. u mathematician who helped to revolution- ter, Savoy. Jamison worked at the U. of I. Housing. u ize interdisciplinary studies in the areas of May 2, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 17 briefnotes Records, CDs, DVDs and more Japan House, cultural center to host Asiafest May 4 ON THE WEB japanhouse.art. Vintage Vinyl sale is May 4 apan House The Vintage Vinyl sale – with thousands of used records, has always cel- illinois.edu tapes, CDs, DVDs, cassettes and audio equipment offered ebrated Chil- resenting China, India, for sale – takes place May 4 at a new location, 40 E. Univer- dren’s Day (for- Myanmar and other sity Ave. in Champaign, just east of Seven Saints restaurant Jmerly known as Boys’ Asian cultures will and across the street from the Illinois Terminal. Day), but this year, it host booths offering The sale, Illinois Radio Reader’s largest fundraiser, has joined with the demonstrations in cul- opens with a $5 admission fee from 8 to 11 a.m. There’s Asian American Cul- tural traditions such no fee from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Doors close from 3-4 p.m. to tural Center to host as calligraphy, cook- prepare for the half-price sale from 4-6 p.m. AsiaFest, a celebra- ing, ikebana (Japanese “We have a great selection of not only outstanding LPs, tion of all Asian and flower arranging), but also CDs and music equipment this year,” said Deane Pacific Island cultures. mehndi (henna hand Geiken, the event organizer and the director of Illinois Pub- Activities will take decoration) and ori- lic Media’s Illinois Radio Reader program. place rain or shine in gami. Proceeds of the sale help reach more visually impaired Japan House and in a Toshie Kasada, a people with the services that enable users to remain self- large tent next to the teacher from the Haku- sufficient by providing recorded readings of local newspa- gardens from 1 to 3:30 bi Kimono School in pers and other print media, including sales fliers. p.m. May 4. The public is invited to this free event. Japan, will demonstrate kimono dressing with children IRR has more than 500 patrons who receive services Members of the Philippine Student Association will at 1 and 3 p.m. Ho Etsu Taiko, the Chicago-based Japa- for free, Geiken said. “However, there are more than 2,520 perform tinikling (a traditional dance somewhat like nese drum group, will perform with Tiffany Tamaribu- individuals in the Champaign-Urbana area alone who qual- double-Dutch jump-roping, using bamboo poles instead chi, an internationally known taiko teacher, and Akira ify for this service. Unfortunately, due to lack of funding, of rope), the a cappella group Illini Awaaz will pay and Raiya Katoga, from Japan. they don’t have access to the radios needed to receive the tribute to Bollywood and Hollywood, and the Cricket The festival marks the conclusion of the U. of I.’s IRR service,” Geiken said. Users include a range of people Club of Illinois will answer questions about the world’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month obser- who can’t comfortably read standard print or hold a book second most popular sport. Student organizations rep- vance. u or turn pages, including those who are blind, have macular degeneration or have muscular dystrophy. For more information about the Vintage Vinyl sale, visit from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Krannert Art Museum auditori- istry of materials caused by high pressure. These studies the sale’s Facebook page (Vintage Vinyl 2013). um. The meeting is open to the Urbana campus community have changed the understanding of the physical and chemi- free of charge; registration by May 13 is required. cal properties of elements and molecules. CHAMP The registration form can be downloaded at champ. Established by friends and family, this lecture series International conference is May 23-24 anthro.illinois.edu. The completed form should be emailed honors Willis H. Flygare, a chemistry faculty member from The Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management to Helaine Silverman, [email protected]. 1961 until his death in 1981. and Policy and its University of Birmingham, United King- ‘Molecules Under Pressure’ Illinois Public Media dom, partners – the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage and the Institute for Advanced Studies – Flygare lecture rescheduled for May 8 May Community Cinema is May 14 will host their first shared symposium on the U. of I. campus The Flygare Memorial Lecture, “Molecules Under Pres- Illinois Public Media’s May Community Cinema event May 23-24. sure,” has been rescheduled from its original date and will looks at the work of Amlan Ganguly to empower India’s The conference will be part of the new Trans-Atlantic take place at 4 p.m. May 8 in Room B102 of the Chemical poorest children to become activists and educators. Dialogues in Cultural Heritage conference series and fea- and Life Sciences Laboratory. Ganguly helps children living in Calcutta’s slums trans- ture 15 speakers on the topic of “Encounters With Popular In the lecture, Russell J. Hemley, of the Carnegie In- form their own neighborhoods and lives – cleaning up trash Pasts: Meanings and Myths at the Interface Between Popu- stitution of Washington in Washington, D.C., will describe dumps, going to school, reducing malaria infection. The lar Culture and Heritage.” The conference will take place some of the unexpected and surprising effects on the chem- SEE BRIEFS, PAGE 18

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BRIEFS, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 film “The Revolutionary Optimists” follows Ganguly and U. of I. designated one of first Veterinary Trauma Centers three of the children he works with as they fight for a better he small animal emergency service at the U. of I. Veteri- future. nary Teaching Hospital is one of nine U.S. veterinary hos- A free screening of the film, as well as a discussion of Tpitals and clinics to be provisionally designated as a Vet- the community issues it raises, will begin at 6 p.m. May 14, erinary Trauma Center by the American College of Veterinary at the Champaign Public Library, Robeson Rooms A & B. Emergency and Critical Care. On the discussion panel are U. of I. law professor Suja The new designation is part of an initiative to improve treat- Thomas, whose interest in raising awareness of personal ment outcomes of animal trauma cases by creating a network of responsibility and charitable giving is reflected in her blog, lead hospitals that will foster development of trauma systems na- The Give Blog, and Ratisha Carter, a youth engagement tionally. These hospitals will work collaboratively to define high specialist for the Champaign County Access Initiative’s standards of care and disseminate information that improves YouthMove program. YouthMove is a partner with Illinois trauma patient management efficiencies and outcomes. Public Media for the event. “To achieve this designation, a hospital must have board-cer- Proposing a workable solution to intractable problems tified specialists in emergency and critical care, surgery and ra- associated with poverty, Ganguly’s story suggests that edu- diology available for consultation on a 24/7 basis,” said Maureen cation and child empowerment are crucial keys to lifting McMichael, who directs the small animal emergency and critical entire societies out of hopelessness. care service at the U. of I. “At Illinois we have the expertise and facilities needed to eText manage every aspect of care for the small animal trauma pa- New teaching tool now available tient, from emergency stabilization through medical and surgical A new interactive browser-based platform is now avail- care and rehabilitation. Our team approach to care means our able for faculty and staff members, designed to deliver orig- emergency/critical care experts work closely with our surgeons, inal, instructor-developed course content and traditionally anesthesiologists, internists, radiologists and other specialists to published textbooks in a cost efficient manner. tailor care to individual patient needs.” photo by L. Brian Stauffer Called eText, the platform is available to anyone with Among the goals of the veterinary trauma center network is university credentials and an HTML5-compliant Web to create a database of information related to animals sustaining Critical care The small animal browser. trauma that can be used for research and to develop standards of emergency service at the U. of I. Veterinary Built to take advantage of class roster cohorts, eText care and training. Teaching Hospital, led by Maureen allows for two-way communication between students and Other veterinary emergency care providers designated as the McMichael, has been named one of nine instructors. inaugural veterinary trauma centers are private hospitals in Ir- Veterinary Trauma Centers by the The searchable system allows instructors to post class- vine, Calif.; Los Angeles; Tampa, Fla.; and Paramus, N.J.; and American College of Veterinary Emergency room materials, including textbooks and personalized in- veterinary colleges at North Carolina State University, Tufts and Critical Care. McMichael is a professor struction, on almost any format, and then track how they University, the University of Minnesota and the University of of veterinary clinical medicine and the are being utilized through an analytics feature. Pennsylvania. emergency room director For students, eText allows them to personalize study Guidelines and requirements for the new centers were gen- tools and interact with classmates and instructors in a Face- erated by a multinational group of veterinary critical care spe- ON THE WEB book-like format, cialists. A subcommittee of the American College of Veterinary vetmed.illinois.edu/vth/ Other features include teaching and organization aids, Emergency and Critical Care will work with the centers through- publishing capabilities and security features. The system out the first year to ensure all guidelines are being met. u also complies with current Americans with Disabilities Act 508 accessibility requirements. Costing up to 75 percent less than a printed textbook, May 6-8: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. been spent helping employees in need, and each year it is eText textbooks can be accessed from a variety of devices, May 9: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. important to replenish the fund,” said Debbie McCall, chair including tablets and mobile phones. The eText information May 10-11: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. of the volunteer fundraising committee. “This is our special can be accessed by students up to one year after graduation May 13-17: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. chance to help our Urbana campus colleagues who may ex- and the university is working on contracts to offer more Donations also will be accepted prior to the Aug. 24-25 perience a financial crisis at one time or another,” McCall selections through the system. sale at the UI Stock Pavilion. said. “It could happen to any of us.” Copyright and revenue sharing is available for faculty People who volunteer six or more hours may shop dur- Wolfson said the program thrives on small donations, members who publish and make available their own work ing the August pre-sale. mostly through payroll deductions, though donors may through the service. For more information on accepted donations or to volun- pledge online with a credit card or write a check to the fund. The university is working on contracts to offer more se- teer, go to universityymca.org/dumpandrun. A university employee does not have to contribute to ap- lections from traditional publishers on the eText platform. ply for assistance. Faculty members, academic profession- Faculty/Staff Emergency Fund Media specialists, instructional developers and other tech- als and civil service staff members with at least a 50 percent nical experts in CITES Academic Technology Services are Emergency fund seeking donations appointment and who have completed at least six months of available to consult with authors interested in developing Donations are being sought to enable the Faculty/Staff service at the university qualify to apply for the fund and course content for eText. Emergency Fund to continue to help U. of I. employees in may apply at any time. For information on the eText service, offered through need. Applicants are screened through the Faculty/Staff Assis- Campus Information Technologies and Educational Ser- “Donations have fallen off as the demand has increased,” tance Program and reviewed and approved by a confidential vices, go to etext.illinois.edu. said Karie Wolfson, the director of the Faculty and Staff As- committee. All contacts are confidential and assessments sistance Program, which administers the fund. “The reality are free. Dump and Run is, we’re giving out more grants than we’re taking in right The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program Office recent- Collections for annual garage sale begin now and at some point we’re going to run into difficulty.” ly moved to 1011 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana. Beginning May 9, the University YMCA will begin col- Since its inception in 1992, the fund has helped more The contribution form can be found online at fsap. lecting donations for its annual Dump and Run sale, a com- than 870 campus employees, assisting them during times of illinois.edu/emergency.html. Checks should be made munity garage sale that reduces litter and consumer waste financial crisis with small grants for rent or mortgage pay- payable to UIF/UIUC Faculty and Staff Emergency Fund and at the same time provides inexpensive items for pur- ment, utility bills, medical bills, and food or clothing. and mailed to the U. of I. Foundation, Harker Hall, MC- chase prior to the fall semester. The event raises funds for Volunteers on the fundraising committee are trying to 386. Payroll deduction or credit card donations can be made the University YMCA. get an annual contribution – no matter how much – from securely online through the foundation website, www. May collections will be accepted at the University every university employee. There are no administrative giving.illinois.edu. Donations are tax deductible. YMCA and at International Student and Scholar Services costs associated with the fund drive, so all donations go di- For more information about the fund, visit fsap.illinois. in the Student Services Building. rectly into the fund through the U. of I. Foundation. edu or call 217-244-5312. u Donations will be accepted: “Donations received during last year’s fund drive have Campus to participate in pilot program to enhance safety he U. of I. is one of nine Illinois pus designation, colleges must demonstrate Ready to Respond Campus pilot program,” universities and colleges chosen compliance with standards for hazard iden- said Lt. Todd Short, of the U. of I. Police Ready to Respond to participate in a pilot program to tification, operational and violence preven- Department. “We are strong advocates of campus participants enhance campus safety. The Illi- tion planning, incident management, train- this initiative and are encouraged by the n Augustana College, Rock Island Tnois Emergency Management Agency an- ing, exercises and crisis communications/ number of higher education institutions n Columbia College, Chicago nounced on April 22 the participants for the public education. Templates are available if in Illinois who are also participating. This n Heartland Community College, pilot program of Ready to Respond Cam- needed to help schools document compli- program will undoubtedly help campuses Normal pus, with a full rollout of the program ex- ance with the standards. throughout Illinois respond more effectively n Moraine Valley Community pected in January 2014. Colleges and universities designated during emergency situations.” College, Palos Hills “The Ready to Respond Campus pro- a Ready to Respond Campus can use the The Ready to Respond Campus program n Parkland College, Champaign gram will recognize those institutions Ready to Respond Campus logo on offi- is the latest component of Illinois’ Ready to n Richland Community College, that meet rigorous standards for ensuring cial correspondence, websites, brochures Respond effort. In 2012, lEMA announced Decatur the safety of their students, staff and visi- and other media for three years. They will the Ready to Respond Community initia- n Southeastern Illinois College, tors,” said Jonathon Monken, the director be able to renew their Ready to Respond tive. Harrisburg of IEMA. “The Ready to Respond Campus Campus designation by submitting updated The program is endorsed by the Illinois n Southern Illinois University at designation will let current and prospective documentation at that time. Campus Law Enforcement Administrators Carbondale students and their parents know that safety “The Division of Public Safety at the and supported by lEMA and the U. of I. n U. of I. at Urbana-Champaign is a top priority on the campus.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Center for Public Safety and Justice. u To attain the Ready to Respond Cam- is looking forward to participating in the May 2, 2013 InsideIllinois PAGE 19 achievements A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members connection between labor education and office support associate. for University Employee Relations and Hu- ACES activism. Robert Bruno, the director of the man Resources, is primarily responsible for Kelly Tappenden, a professor of nutri- program and a professor of labor and em- UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION all aspects of hiring for university admin- tion and gastrointestinal physiology in the ployment relations, accepted the award at Several university administration em- istration positions. In her recruitment role, College of Agricultural, Consumer and En- the association’s conference in Toronto last ployees who work on the Urbana campus she often juggles 10 to 15 searches at one vironmental Sciences, has won the 2013 month. have been awarded the Distinguished Em- time, catering to the needs of the unit and Distinguished Nutrition Support Dietitian, ployee Leadership and Team Award. The remaining compliant with internal policies Advanced Clinical Practice Award given SBRC AWARDS DELTA award is designed to recognize and external compliance responsibilities. by the American Society for Parenteral and The Social and Behavioral Research individual employees and teams for their Ron Miner, the director of the Account- Enteral Nutrition. The annual award rec- Council at the U. of I. honored the recipi- exceptional accomplishments, service and ing Consultants Group for University Ac- ognizes a dietitian member for outstanding ents of its inaugural awards at a ceremony dedication to the university. Recipients counting and Financial Reporting, exem- contributions in leadership, practice and April 23 in the Illini Union ballroom. The were honored April 4 at an awards ceremo- plifies excellence and provides outstanding advancement of dietitians in the field of nu- council was established to highlight the ac- ny and reception. service to the university. The group pro- trition support. Tappenden is a recognized complishments and activities of social and Individual award recipients from the vides guidance to units in the performance expert and leader in clinical nutrition who behavioral scientists at the U. of I. and to Urbana campus: of their accounting and related business specializes in enteral and parenteral thera- enhance research strengths in these areas, Kayci Bohlen, a certified public pur- functions. Miner and his team identify the pies that benefit patients who rely on intra- especially through interdisciplinary col- chasing buyer who is a senior contract ad- causes of a unit’s business-related challeng- venous feeding. laboration. ministrator in the Office of Business and es and develop a plan to set the unit on a Recipients: Financial Services, has led multidepart- path to successfully achieve its goals. AHS Two faculty members were honored mental implementation initiatives, as well Two team awards were presented. Kim C. Graber, a professor and associ- with the Best Junior Faculty Paper Award: as vendor cost recovery efforts and contract A team award was presented to the Of- ate head for undergraduate studies in the Aron Barbey, a professor of speech and negotiations. She was recognized as having fice of Technology Management, which department of kinesiology and community hearing science in the College of Applied earned the respect of her peers by focusing is responsible for protecting and licensing health in the College of Applied Health Health Sciences and of psychology in the on solutions that are models of efficiency U. of I. intellectual property, for its Share Sciences, received the Physical Education College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for and ethics and that adhere to short timelines. the Vision 2012 event that brought about Teacher Education Honor Award from the “Distributed Neural System for Emotional Vicki D. Clements, the administrative 70 venture capitalists and large company National Association for Sport and Physi- Intelligence Revealed by Lesion Mapping”; assistant to the university president, has technology scouts to the Urbana campus to cal Education during the 128th National and Joseph P. Robinson, a professor of handled several transitions in the office and listen to 38 U. of I. innovators. Team mem- Convention of the American Alliance for educational psychology in the College of has been responsible for maintaining the of- bers: Tracy A. Hunter, an office manager; Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Education, for “Bullying Explains Only fice during these transitions. Clements was Heather K. Jones, an office support spe- Dance last week in Charlotte, N.C. The na- Part of LGBTQ-Heterosexual Disparities: recognized as a hard-working, professional cialist; Nicole Nair, the senior marketing tional award recognizes exemplary, innova- Implications for Policy and Practice.” university employee who has tackled a de- coordinator; and Donna A. Wilm, an office tive work that affects physical education The Mid-career Research Award was manding and challenging position with in- manager. teacher education. presented to Edelyn Verona, a professor of telligence, goodwill and a positive attitude. A team award also was presented to the psychology in the College of Liberal Arts Kelvin M. Touchette, a senior software Illinois College Advising Corps, a grant- IPRH and Sciences. engineer for OBFS Business Information funded program within University Student Faculty members and graduate stu- The Outreach and Policy Impact Award Systems, primarily does programming, Financial Services and Cashier Operations. dents were presented the IPRH Prizes for was presented to Brian L. Quick, a profes- coding and database work. Touchette has The unit was honored for its Financial Lit- Research in the Humanities at a reception sor of communication in the College of played a key role in maintaining the inner eracy Bowl at UIC. The purpose of the May 1. The annual awards, presented by Liberal Arts and Sciences, for his work on workings of the main database for the uni- program is to increase college attendance the Illinois Program for Research in the Hu- organ donation. versity’s Student Health Insurance Office. and completion for populations of at-risk, manities, recognize outstanding humanities David H. Tewksbury, a professor of With only 50 percent of his time allotted to first generation and underserved students research at the U. of I., with awards given communication in LAS, received the Out- the student insurance unit, he created solu- in Illinois. The event hosted 22 teams from at the undergraduate, graduate and faculty standing Educator Award. tions for many of its problems. Illinois public high schools who competed levels. Edward McAuley, a professor of kinesi- Supervisory award recipients from the to demonstrate the financial awareness and Faculty members honored: ology and community health in the College Urbana campus: knowledge they acquired through the mod- Andrew Gaedtke, a professor of of Applied Health Sciences, received the Laura L. Curtis, a senior associate di- ules that each ICAC adviser taught in their English, “Cognitive Investigations: The Outstanding Career Achievement Award. rector for employee relations and human re- high schools. Nine team members were Problems of Qualia and Style in the Con- sources for University Employee Relations honored. The three team members from temporary Neuronovel,” published in the SECRETARIAT and Human Resources, is responsible for the Urbana campus: Cesar Diaz, an IT journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction, (Duke Beth McKown received the 2013 Of- overseeing, developing and implementing technical associate; Karen McFarlin, the University Press, 2012); and Robert Mor- fice Professional of the Year Award from all human resource processing initiatives associate director of projects and opera- rissey, a professor of history, “Kaskaskia the Secretariat at the U. of I. McKown, an and functions for all personnel in university tions; and Earleen V. Peters, an adminis- Social Network: Kinship and Assimilation office administrator in the director’s office administration units. trative aide. u in the French-Illinois Borderlands, 1695- of the National Center for Supercomputing Angela M. Foster, an assistant director 1735,” published in The William and Mary Applications, was honored at an April 17 Quarterly. Honorable mention recognition: awards luncheon. Michael Rothberg, a professor of Eng- Also nominated: Geraldine Goldberg, Summer 2013 Publication Schedule lish, “Progress, Progression, Procession: an office support specialist for the depart- Publication Date Briefs Due Adv. Deadline William Kentridge and the Narratology of ment of animal sciences in the College of Transitional Justice,” published in Narra- Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental May 16 May 8 May 9 tive. Sciences; Anne Jackson, an office manag- June 6 May 29 May 30 er in the dean’s office of the College of Fine llinois June 20 June 12 June 13 LER and Applied Arts; and Rebecca Nash, an I The Labor Education Program in the office administrator for urban and regional Fri. July 5 June 26 June 27 School of Labor and Employment Relations planning in the College of Fine and Applied July 18 July 10 July 11 was recognized by the United Association Arts. for Labor Education with its Outstand- The Secretariat is made up of U. of I. em- Aug. 1 July 24 July 25 ing Contribution Award. The program was ployees in civil service classifications with Aug. 15 Aug. 7 Aug. 8 http://news.illinois.edu/ii honored as an outstanding example of the qualifications that meet or exceed those of Inside

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Malta, U. of I. architecture Kheir Al-Kodmany by photo Fprofessor Mir Ali agreed to as- sist the Malta Environmental and Planning Authority and the Uni- versity of Malta in determining whether more skyscrapers should be built in the tiny island nation. As one of the most densely popu- lated countries in the world, Malta consists of a group of islands, the largest of which is the “rock” just off the toe of Italy. The Republic of Malta’s government had re- ceived close to 50 proposals from developers wanting to build high- rise office buildings, hotels and condominiums. While formulating that report, Shaping cities This panoramic view of the Shangai financial district skyline shows the distinctive ornament-shaped Oriental Pearl Ali was contacted by the govern- Tower in the center. The Shanghai International Convention Center, with a giant globe at each end, is in the foreground to the right. ment of Amman, Jordan, with a Behind the convention center is the Shanghai World Financial Center, nicknamed the “bottle-opener.” similar request for advice on the feasibility of erecting skyscrapers there. Absolute World 1 Tower (nicknamed “Mar- During his trip to Jordan, Ali realized that ON THE WEB ilyn Monroe”) in Mississauga, Ontario; the many cities were confronting the same journals.witpress.com aptly named Tornado Tower in Doha, Qatar; questions. “I realized that this is a world- and the Shanghai World Financial Center, wide topic,” he said. “There are no clear dubbed “the bottle-opener.” Another chap- guidelines for urban design with respect to ings more than 300 meters (984 feet) tall, ter focuses on futuristic skyscraper devel- sketch by Kheir Al-Kodmany by sketch tall buildings.” and “megatall” for buildings more than opments such as the SkyPark of the Marina Ali, a professor emeritus who had al- 600 meters (1,968 feet). Worldwide, there Bay Sands in Singapore and the Linked ready written, co-written or edited four are currently at least 30 supertall build- Hybrid housing development in Beijing, as books on skyscrapers, knew that he could ings (Chicago’s Aon Center, John Hancock well as some still in the planning stages, in- help answer those questions with another Center, Trump Tower and Willis Tower are cluding fantastic landscapes in Baku, Azer- book. For this one, “The Future of the City: in this category) but only two megatall – baijan; Istanbul; and Seoul, South Korea. Tall Buildings and Urban Design” pub- the 601-meter (1,972 feet) Makkah Royal What make these advances possible, lished by Wessex Institute of Technology Clock Tower Hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the authors write, are technological break- Press, he brought in Kheir Al-Kodmany, a and the 828-meter (2,717 feet) Burj Khalifa throughs in building materials, engineering U. of I. alumnus who is a professor of urban in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Tall- and computing. Urban planners can now planning and policy at UIC, as lead author. er buildings proposed in China, Kuwait and site, design and construct buildings using Complementing each other’s expertise, Al- Saudi Arabia may be completed before the geographic information systems, 3-D mod- Sustainable design The 460-foot Kodmany, whose doctorate is in urban and end of this decade. eling and virtual reality, testing everything tall Wuhan Energy Flower, currently regional planning, and Ali, whose doctor- But height isn’t the only frontier being from wind forces to traffic patterns to sea- under construction in Wuhan, ate is in structural engineering, addressed explored by tall buildings. As Al-Kodmany sonal shade before beginning any actual China, incorporates some of the new all aspects of tall buildings, from pragmatic and Ali explain in this lavishly illustrated construction. Al-Kodmany, whose research technologies that empower sustainable considerations such as land prices, popula- book, the trend toward more fluid lines focuses on reshaping planning and design design. The lower part of the building tion density, technology and infrastructure is transforming skylines, using dynamic using computerized visualization, is work- forms a solar bowl that soaks up sun demands to more subjective elements such shapes that can’t be duplicated with a tod- ing on another book about the role of these and collects rain water. The upper as cultural and architectural context, spa- dler’s building blocks. The authors devote new technologies in guiding decisions portion is a vertical axis wind turbine tial strategies, skyline aesthetics and even an entire chapter to the “rise of the iconic about the location and design of future tall and solar chimney that helps the the role that human ego plays in the urge to high-rise” – for example, the curvaceous buildings. u building expel hot air. build ever taller skyscrapers. They worked on the 420-page volume for four years, dur- ing which Al-Kodmany traveled to 25 cities around the world to photograph, research and examine the architectural and urban de- sign aspects of the newest, tallest and most photo by Kheir Al-Kodmany by photo photo by Kheir Al-Kodmany by photo iconic building developments. Kheir Al-Kodmany by photo How tall does a building have to be to be called a skyscraper? There is no universally accepted answer, Ali said. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an inter- national organization founded in the late 1960s, defines a tall building by a combina- tion of three criteria: Its height relative to its surroundings, its incorporation of height- related technology (vertical transport sys- tems, certain structural systems) and its height relative to girth. This last criterion Ali calls “the quality of tallness.” “It has to look tall,” he said. Ten or 12 stories is the minimum height for a building to be considered tall virtually anywhere in the world, Ali said. In 1884, Wind zone London’s Strata SE1, Chicago’s 10-story (138 feet) Home Insur- nicknamed “the razor,” is one of the ance Building was considered the world’s Form and function The Shanghai first buildings to include rooftop wind tallest building. It was soon dwarfed by World Financial Center, known as turbines in its design. The three 30- Aerodynamic Nicknamed “the Gherkin,” surrounding structures and demolished to “the bottle-opener,” has two sweeping foot turbines generate enough energy London’s 591-foot-tall 30 St Mary Axe make room for a taller building in 1931. arcs (from both sides) tapering into to power the common areas of the (previously named the Swiss Re Building) building. That same year, the 102-story (1,250 feet) is an example of an iconic, aerodynamic a single diagonal line at the top and Empire State Building was completed in form, but it has been criticized for its lack a trapezoidal opening that alleviates New York, and it resided at the top of the of connection to the historic context of its excessive wind pressure and provides list of world’s tallest buildings for almost surroundings. the tower its iconic look. 40 years. The Council on Tall Buildings coined other terms for buildings meeting specific heights: “supertall” or “ultratall” for build-