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June 17 2015 VOLUME 34 / NUMBER 33 For the community of the University of Illinois at Chicago uicnews.uic.edu 2 SYBIL DERRIBLE WANTS TO BUILD BETTER CITIES PRESIDENTIAL 3 PEREGRINE OUR $4 BILLION Bob, meet Bob! IMPACT ON ILLINOIS more on page 6 5 THEATRE STUDENTS ACT UP A STORM 7 FLAMES GO PRO: ONE TO WHITE SOX, ONE TO ANGELS NEXT PRINT ISSUE JULY 15! INSIDE: CAMPUS NEWS 4 STUDENT VOICE 7 CALENDAR 8 PEOPLE 9 POLICE / DEATHS 10 SPORTS 12 Facebook / uicnews Twitter / uicnews YouTube / uicmedia Flickr / uicnews Instagram / thisisuic Instagram / uicamiridis — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin 2 uicnews.uic.edu I UIC NEWS I JUNE 17, 2015 send profile ideas to Gary Wisby, [email protected] PROFILE SYBIL DERRIBLE Re-thinking sustainable cities By Gary Wisby — [email protected] Sybil Derrible does research aimed at making cities both sustainable — with an emphasis on efficiency — and resilient — where efficiency may take a back seat to redundancy for a fail-safe effect. His purpose is to better integrate in- frastructure systems. “The whole goal is to design cities in a different way,” said Derrible, assistant pro- fessor of civil and materials engineering and research assistant professor at UIC’s Institute for Environment Science and Policy. “We are now under serious pressure to reduce our carbon footprint,” he said, “and “We are now under serious pressure to reduce our carbon footprint and this can only happen if we change the way we collect, this can only happen if we change the way distribute and dispose of energy and resources we consume,” says engineer Sybil Derrible. — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin we collect, distribute and dispose of the energy and resources that we consume every day.” patterns to the year 2100. down, we want to see why. Eventually Marie-Agathe Simonetti. He quotes Einstein: “We can’t solve “We want to design the infrastructure this will enable us to make some predic- He earned a Ph.D. in civil engineering problems by using the same kind of so it can withstand a 100-year rain,” he tions about trends in resource consump- at the University of Toronto. He joined thinking we used when we created them.” said. tion.” UIC in 2012 and lives in Lakeview. One way of doing this is to better un- By definition, there is a 1 percent Graduate student John Mulrow is re- Because his wife’s field is art history derstand how cities function in the first chance of experiencing one of these rains defining urban food systems. (she is a graduate student at UIC), they place. each year. “But we’ve had three 100-year “One thing that urban agriculture lacks often travel to art museums. In 2011-2012, He argues for better integration be- rains in the last 10 years,” he noted. “It is industrial symbiosis, so that the waste while he was a visiting research fellow with tween the various authorities. “Streets, for happens because of climate change.” of one industry becomes a source of an- SMART (Singapore-MIT Alliance for instance, should not only be designed by The idea is to think about the future other,” Derrible said. Research and Technology), they saw Ma- transportation engineers, but also by impact on cities — their road networks, One example is at The Plant, a busi- laysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cam- water engineers,” he said. “This is especial- for example. ness incubator at 1400 W. 46th St., where bodia and Hong Kong. ly relevant in Chicago, where many streets “There’s no way we can predict extreme one process uses fish poop to grow plants. Last year they were in Korea and the flood each time it rains.” events,” Derrible said. “But we know we Mulrow is a former interim executive Philippines, and this year they plan a trip Derrible talked about the three Ph.D. will have them, so we might as well be director of The Plant who left to come to to Japan. They’ve been all over Europe, the students he’s supervising and what he’s prepared for when they happen.” UIC. United States and Canada. working on with them. Grad student Sk Nasir Ahmid is using Derrible grew up in the archipelago of Now, about his name. In the U.S., many Amirhassan Kermanshah is studying World Bank data to track resource con- St. Pierre and Miquelon, a French-owned assume he’s female because of his first the resilience of transportation in the face sumption patterns around the world. territory off the coast of Newfoundland. name, Sybil, and his middle name, of extreme weather events. “What we are trying to do is to group He studied mechanical engineering at Jean-Marie. However, in French, the fe- “What happens in a flood, hurricane or countries together and identify best prac- the Imperial College London, earning male versions of the name are Sybille and ice storm, and how do you simulate them?” tices,” Derrible said. “If two countries’ first-class honors. He received the equiv- Jeanne. Derrible said. GDP [gross domestic product] are up and alent of a master’s degree in industrial “When I added my wife to my medical They’re using 13 sophisticated climate their energy use is up, but for CO2 emis- engineering at Ecole Centrale de Lyon, plan, they put us down as a civil union,” — not weather — models to figure out sions, one went up and the other went France, where he met his future wife, Derrible said. “In the state of Illinois, there are enough play- “Many of my students will say that their goal “Look for shows that focus on altruistic ers to get where we want to get. It’s proven is to have a nice car and house and job. That’s behaviors like sharing and cooperation.” every year, because I’m watching them play fine for a start, though a terrible finish.” in the NCAA tournament. Now they have to Claire Christensen, research assistant in put on a Flames jersey and play in the NCAA Deirdre McCloskey, professor of economics, psychology, on her study that found watching tournament.” history, English and communication, giving TV together can promote family bonding, the commencement speech at Denison June 12 Wall Street Journal New men’s basketball coach Steve McClain University, June 8 Detroit News on his plans for the Flames, May 27 Sports Illustrated JUNE 17, 2015 I UIC NEWS I uicnews.uic.edu 3 ECONOMIC IMPACT UIC’s benefit to Illinois is $4 billion per year, report finds By Anne Brooks Ranallo — [email protected] UIC — Chicago’s largest university with nearly 28,000 students — added $4 billion to the Illinois economy in fiscal 2013, says a report prepared by the UIC Center for Urban Economic Development. The report measured the broad impact UIC makes by educating Illinois residents, direct contributions through employment and to the tax base, and other campus activi- ties that advance economic development or equity. “Economic impact” refers to the added economic value made possible by UIC’s existence — the number of jobs it created, the value of the goods and services it generated, the amount by which its employees were compensated and Overall, about 70 percent of UIC graduates remain in The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences the amount of state and local taxes those employees paid in Illinois after graduating, enhancing the state’s economy. System provided $28 million in charity care. fiscal 2013. The university also attracts international and out-of-state UIC’s Office of Technology Management led 24 pat- residents, many of whom remain in Illinois. ents to completion and generated more than $20 million in royalties and fees in fiscal 2013. Economic contribution through employees’ “UIC is one of only four universities in Illinois classi- compensation and taxes fied as Carnegie 1 universities, along with UI at Urba- In 2013, UIC employed 13,361 people in full-time jobs, na-Champaign, Northwestern University and the from support staff to brain surgeons and nuclear physicists. University of Chicago. As such, it’s a critical engine of The university paid $1.2 billion in wages and benefits. economic growth in Chicago, and its impact extends The 12,492 UIC employees living in Illinois earned throughout Illinois and beyond,” said Michael Pagano, $1.1 billion. UIC employees and students paid $99 mil- dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. lion in income, sales and property taxes to state and local The Center for Urban Economic Development in the governments. College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs conducts UIC paid $803 million to contractors, most of them research, policy analysis and evaluation on urban and re- Economic impact through education Illinois-based businesses, for services and supplies, includ- gional economic and workforce development issues. Nearly $3 billion of UIC’s annual economic impact ing capital expenditures. consists of higher earnings by UIC graduates who work in Illinois and earn higher incomes than they would without Other economic benefit a degree. In fiscal 2013, UIC granted degrees to more than UIC provided $139 million in grants and scholarships 3,800 undergraduates, 2,500 graduates and 600 profession- to students. Much of this aid is need-based — half of UIC al students. students are eligible for Pell grants and 43 percent are eli- Among health care professionals practicing in Illinois, gible for Monetary Award Program (MAP) grants. an estimated 17 percent of physicians, 44 percent of den- UIC conducted $267 million in sponsored research tists, 33 percent of pharmacists and 5 percent of nurses are during fiscal 2013, including $228 million funded by the UIC alumni.