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November 30 2016 Volume 36 / Number 14 uicnews.uic.edu For the community of the University of Illinois at Chicago Teaching excellence Honoring outstanding faculty / pgs. 6-7 Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin Former state Man receives Flames excel senate leader vision-restoring in NCAA grad 2 - student voice donates papers retinal implant success report 4 - campus news to UIC 10 - deaths 3 9 12 12 - sports Facebook / uicnews Twitter / uicnews YouTube / uicmedia Flickr / uicnews Instagram / thisisuic & uicamiridis 2 UIC News | Wednesday, November 30, 2016 By Jim Wydra — [email protected] Dezmond Mayfield wanted quality surveillance and control to explore the world through in aviation fuel systems. He the military after high school. also supervised the operation “Glad to say I was not disap- and servicing of fuel farms and pointed — the Navy gave me a equipment and trained and chance to get out and explore directed fire-fighting crews, fire the world and myself before I rescue teams, and damage attended college,” Mayfield control parties in fuel and lu- said. bricating oil spaces. Mayfield served in the U.S. Mayfield received the Navy Navy from 2008 to 2013 as an and Marine Corps Achieve- Aviation Boatswain’s Mate 2nd ment Medal twice during his Class. service. His duties included operat- Mayfield is a senior in histo- ing, maintaining and perform- ry with a minor in economics. ing organizational maintenance “I like the resources accessi- on aviation fueling and lubricat- ble for researching through “The Navy gave me a chance to get out and explore the world and myself before I attended college,” says Dezmond Mayfield. He served in the U.S. Navy from 2008 to 2013. ing oil systems on aircraft carri- UIC,” he said. “History course- ers and amphibious assault work has really pushed me to ships, and observing and en- reconsider how I use sources After graduation, Mayfield working within a labor union,” as a researcher, an organizer, a forcing handling safety precau- within the university, as well as plans to attend graduate school. he said. field representative, or in some tions and maintaining fuel in my day to day.” “Ideally, I’d like to see myself “I’m interested in positions legislative capacity.” Journal explores role of museums By Sarah J. Wotaszak While graduate students in enfranchise or cel- “FWD: MUSEUMS the museum and exhibition ebrate minority studies program are busy com- communities, and IS A SPACE FOR pleting their theses and cap- the journal aims to CHALLENGING, stone projects, several are also illustrate these as- working with the Chica- sessments. The CRITIQUING AND go-based StepSister Press to first issue of the publish a new journal, Fwd: Mu- journal was re- REIMAGINING seums. leased in Septem- “This journal is definitely in- ber and can be MUSEUMS AND spired by our program, which is purchased on Am- OUR WORK WITHIN an interdisciplinary, critical mu- azon. seum exhibition studies pro- “The theme for THEM.” gram that has a focus on social Fwd: Museum’s justice,” said Sarita Hernandez, a next issue is ‘small’ — small staff variety of works, such as essays, second-year graduate student sizes, downsizing, small muse- artwork, reviews, creative writ- who edits and coordinates the ums, small spaces, feeling ing, designs, poetry, love letters journal. “Fwd: Museums is a small in a big space,” Hernan- and more. space for challenging, critiquing dez explained. The deadline for submis- and reimagining museums and In using art to explore how sions for the second issue is our work within them.” communities are excluded from January 5. The program puts an empha- or harmed by museum exhibi- For more information, visit Graduate students in museum and exhibition studies have launched tions, the journal acts as a plat- fwdmuseumsjournal.wordpress. sis on exploring the ways in a new journal, Fwd: Museums. which art in museums can dis- form to share stories through a com Want to contribute a story? E-mail Christy Levy at [email protected] uicnews.uic.edu UIC News | November 30, 2016 3 Former Illinois Senate president donates papers to UIC By Carlos Sadovi — [email protected] In the mid-1980s, Emil Jones Jr. was As a testament already a veteran member of the Illinois to Jones’s role as a General Assembly when he met a group mentor, his papers of community organizers on the Far include a photo- South Side that included a young man graph of him named Barack Obama. standing next to Jones, who would serve three de- Obama in the Oval cades in Springfield and rise to become Office. Underneath Senate president, recalls inviting Obama the photo is a note and the others to his district office to signed by Obama, help educate them on the world of poli- which reads: “To tics. Emil – I wouldn’t “I wanted to show them how things be in the Oval with- actually worked,” Jones said. “Obama was out you, my friend!” just a pushy young man. I took a liking to While some him but he was very naïve as related to might consider that elected officials.” role a pinnacle of Jones, who retired from politics in their career, Jones’s 2009, is donating his papers from his proudest moment long political career to UIC, where they was when he will be housed in the Special Collections helped impover- and University Archives at UIC’s Richard ished schools get Former Illinois Senate president Emil Jones Jr. is donating his papers from his long political career to UIC. They J. Daley Library. their proper share are housed in the Daley Library. (Photo: Vibhu S. Rangavasan) UIC officials announced Jones’s gift of funding. Federal Monday during a reception. funds that should have gone to schools more interest in UIC by the research such as the visit of South African an- The papers contain more than 50 lin- with high poverty rates were instead community and by potential students. ti-apartheid revolutionary and politician ear feet of documents, photographs and being diverted to general state aid cof- “I felt the papers would be a way for Nelson Mandela, meetings with Fidel memorabilia. Among the items are pho- fers. He sponsored a bill that eventually more folks to get involved with the uni- Castro during a trade trip to Cuba with tos and correspondence from his time returned the money to the schools that versity,” Jones said. “I come from Chicago, Illinois Gov. George Ryan, and meetings serving as a mentor to the future presi- needed them the most. I did a lot of things to aid and assist it in with other presidents such as Bill Clin- dent. “Teachers used to tell me that they my legislative career…the University of ton. They also include more private me- “One day he came by to see me and had to spend money out of their own Illinois at Chicago is a perfect place for mentos of Jones’s life and family. he said, ‘I enjoy this work, but I always pocket to aid and assist students. I said, them.” “The papers of Senator Emil Jones Jr., wanted to be a lawyer, and I’m thinking ‘That’s ridiculous,’ because we are send- Along with the Daley papers, the Spe- are a rich contribution to UIC’s political of going to law school.’ He asked me ing all the extra money but it was being cial Collections and University Archives papers collections,” said Mary M. Case, what should he do?,” Jones recalled re- used as general state aid,” Jones said. house rare books, printed materials, university librarian and dean of libraries. cently as he leafed through his papers at “My whole political career was on the manuscript collections and papers from “They document the workings of state the Daley Library. “I said, ‘I enjoy working line, they fought me tooth and nail but I other mayors, state and local office hold- government during Jones’s long career with you, but if I were you, I would leave accomplished it.” ers, judges and political organizations. in the Illinois state legislature and reveal here and go on to law school.’” Jones said he decided to entrust his Researchers from around the world use the political processes that put forward After Obama finished law school at papers to UIC because of its role as the the collections to write about Chicago and enacted legislation on issues of so- Harvard University, he returned and was only public research university in the city. history. cial justice, public education, health care, voted to the state Senate, where Jones He said he is honored that his papers The collection focuses on Jones’s revenue expansion and civil rights. We was serving as minority leader at the will be alongside the papers of Mayor legislative career, with the bulk of the are pleased to add Sen. Jones’s papers time. Jones continued helping his Richard J. Daley, who he remembered collection dating between 1980 and to our collection.” protégé by throwing him difficult assign- fought for the university to be built in 2000. For more information, visit the library’s ments to help him cut his teeth and the city. The collection also includes photos Special Collections website at library.uic. build up his political muscles. He hopes his papers help to spur and documentation chronicling events edu Bachelor’s degree in public health No. 12 in nation By Sharon Parmet — [email protected] UIC’s bachelor’s degree in public ally made up either of people with mas- public health and related fields are rela- tutes of Health. Twenty-seven percent of health was ranked 12th in the U.S.