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mosaics is published annually for alumni and friends of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri–Columbia. winter 2007 Editor Nancy Moen, 317 Lowry Hall MOSAICS A BIG Milestone university of missouri–columbia | college of arts and science | WINTER 2007 Columbia, MO 65211, 573-882-2209 By Dean Michael O’Brien E-mail [email protected] As you opened this issue of Mosaics and looked for the Photographers Karen Johnson, Colin familiar face smiling back at you from Page 2, you might Suchland, Justin Kelley, Rob Hill, Nicholas Benner Blake Dinsdale features have been startled to see that Dean Richard Schwartz Art Director had morphed into somebody unrecognizable. Not to 14 Ghosts of Language Haunt Good Writing | Sacred sites The arts and sciences have worry. Dick did not undergo a nightmarish round of On the cover: inspire award-winning work. existed since Mizzou began, but the official College plastic surgery. Rather, there’s been a change in deans in of Arts and Science is 100 years old this year. 16 Surviving Cancer through Comedy | Playwright puts a Photo illustration by Blake Dinsdale the College of Arts and Science, as Dick returned to his 42 humorous spin on her own dramatic story. passions of writing fiction and teaching English. 18 American Abroad: Following a Dream | Culture clashes are I am excited to be taking over as dean of the College, even more so because 2007 Antique sports learning experiences for MU student in Dubai. equipment decorates marks the centennial of the College of Arts and Science. The arts and sciences, 20 Departments Are Like Family | Who nurtures our students Michael Mulvihill’s of course, have always been central to the University, but the establishment of a work environment. and faculty? named unit that emphasizes the core disciplines was a signal moment in the proud See Page 42. 22 Speaking Frankly of Discrimination | Student writes and history of MU. performs a one-man play about Otto Frank. We are taking full advantage of this milestone anniversary. For example, note features spotlight the center spread in this issue that chronicles just a few of the high-water marks in 24 Ancient Discoveries | Anthropology professor and students the history of the College. Also note the 1901 “valentine” on Page 36 that Deborah uncover a 4,000-year-old temple. Huelsbergen of the MU Department of Art used to fashion our Arts and Science 30 Cover Story: The Art &Soul of Mizzou for 100 Years Muse, the centennial logo of the College. We also have a new tagline — one that Unusual milestones mark the history of A&S. matches our valentine-inspired muse: “The Art and Soul of Mizzou for 100 Years.” 38 New York Media Masters | No wonder these communication Our Mosaics editor, Nancy Moen, came up with that line, and I love it. After all, the alumni love their jobs. College of Arts and Science is the heart and soul of the campus. That’s the way it’s 44 Hot Talent | Students score awards in competitions been for a hundred years, and that’s the way it will be for another hundred. for new music. I want each of you to help us celebrate this milestone, but I want you to keep something in mind. MU’s College of Arts and Science is an outstanding research- 50 Global Factor in Math | MU’s math-testing Web site is an and-teaching unit, one of the best in the nation. But anymore, that’s not enough. international hit. We want to be at the very top of the list of peer units, and the competitive climate 52 Violence in the Virtual World | Discover what a psychologist of higher education makes that goal more and more difficult to achieve. To get learns about playing violent video games. there, we have to reinforce our commitment. Together I know we can do it, but it’s going to take a lot of hard work. More about that in the future. Right now, settle back and sample some

Image credits: above, Karen Johnson, below, from left, Keith Chan, University Archives, Colin E. Suchland of our finest moments from the past year. As our title suggests, the College is indeed a mosaic, made up of the humanities, the fine and performing arts, the social and behavioral sciences, and the life, mathematical and physical sciences. departments This incredible diversity is our strength, and we’re proud to celebrate it. cover 4 montage story 30 24 54 13 miniatures 54 momentum

The College gratefully thanks the A&S Alumni Organization for financial assistance with the production of Mosaics magazine.

 | 2007 mosaics mosaics 2007 |  montage New hand at the helm The largest academic unit at MU has a new leader with a familiar face. Former Associate Dean Michael O’Brien became the 11th dean of the College of Arts and Science on July 1. O’Brien came to campus in 1980 as an assistant professor of anthropology and director of the American Archaeology How do we look? Division. Now with 20 years of experience editor’s note: By now you’ve noticed the redesign of Mosaics magazine. Although as associate dean, he views the responsi- the new splash of color photos most likely will catch your attention first, the more bilities of his new role as a public trust. contemporary layout should make your reading more enjoyable. “My job as dean will be to see that Talented designer Blake Dinsdale, BA ’99, completed the redesign and, as an that trust is never broken,” he says. “I am important related element, found a way to print the 46,000-piece, four-color press humbled by the enormity of the job facing run at a lower price than previous black-and-white issues. me.” See Page 3 for a message written by Blending the past with the present through design is an interesting process. Twenty O’Brien. past issues of the magazine sit on my desk as historical reminders of where we’ve been The College of Arts and Science and insight into how to proceed in the future. You know, of course, that we use this comprises 26 departments and seven magazine to promote our students, past and present, and the faculty who teach them. programs with about 500 tenured or Please be sure to note our students’ contributions to this 2007 issue: reporter Priya tenure-track faculty members, 300 staff Ratneshwar, a graduate student in journalism; writer Rachel Mahan, a senior majoring members, 10,000 undergraduate majors in English and biological sciences; and photographer Colin Suchland, a graduate student and several thousand graduate students. in sociology. O’Brien credits his two immediate In the early years of the magazine, there were fewer pages (16 to 28) and a different predecessors, deans Richard Schwartz title. The first issue appeared in 1982 as Arts & Science. After a name change to Mosaics in and Larry Clark, for teaching him what it 1994, a framed mosaic border soon decorated the cover, but that gave way to a cleaner means to be the “dean of a great college.” cover in 2000. In 1995, the first four-color cover made its debut. Schwartz, who had been dean since 1998, I would be remiss if I didn’t thank the Arts and Science Alumni Organization, which so From amphibians to anecdotes stepped down to devote time to writing generously provides financial assistance to help pay printing and mailing costs. We are Right brain or left brain? Senior which are common in Missouri. Under the guidance of and the teaching of writing. fortunate that ASAO leaders understand the value of communicating with fellow alumni Rachel Mahan had a dilemma about Raymond Semlitsch, MU Curators Professor of Biological A distinguished author who values about this remarkable college, and we are grateful. whether to study science or creative Sciences, Mahan had marked, weighed and flushed the the art of writing, O’Brien has published Thank you, too, A&S readers, for your many comments, compliments and suggestions writing. stomachs of frogs to study their diet and habitat use. several hundred articles and written throughout the years. One of my recent favorites came from James G. Hall, BA ’57, MD Both of Mahan’s parents work in “No frogs were harmed in this research,” she says of the or edited 24 books. Three of his ’61, of Laguna Beach, Calif.: “I think you are producing an exceptional magazine, and I conservation — her mom for the Missouri stomach-flushing procedure that involved sticking a tube down books published since 1994 read it from cover to cover. I have no advice, have no change to suggest and look forward Department of Conservation and her dad a frog’s throat and inserting water to eject the stomach contents. received Choice Book of the to future issues. Keep up the totally good work.” for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Mahan’s study helps determine how much forest habitat the Year awards. He earned a And as usual, with or without suggestions for change, your comments are totally Science has been a major part of their lives, yet Mahan’s tree frogs need and its importance — information that can guide bachelor’s degree from welcome at [email protected]. parents also have supported her major in English. conservation managers as they make informed decisions on Rice University and a doc- — Nancy Moen, editor “I came here because of the great creative writing program preserving biodiversity and the environment. She found some torate from the University and MU’s investments in the life sciences,” she says. frogs as far as 200 meters from their breeding pond, an indication of Texas at Austin. Mahan’s science savvy paid off in April 2006 when she they were using a lot more habitat than is generally protected. O’Brien joins a distin- A&S Deans earned a spot on the Posters on the Hill program for the Mahan is equally as comfortable with anecdotes as she guished group of deans 1907–21 J.C. Jones 1969–82 Armon Yanders national Council on Undergraduate Research. Her project was is with amphibians. She spent summer 2006 working as a who served as head of A&S 1921 Frederick H. Tisdel (acting) 1982–83 Richard Wallace (interim) one of only 60 selected for display at a poster session on Capitol publishing intern with The Missouri Review. since the College received 1922–39 Frederick H. Tisdel 1983–88 Milton Glick Hill for members of Congress — a way to demonstrate the value With two degrees, in English and biological sciences, completed its official name in 1907. 1939–40 Winterton C. Curtis (acting) 1988 Larry Clark (interim) of supporting undergraduate research. in December 2006, this right-brain, left-brain student is planning a University Archives 1940–46 Winterton C. Curtis 1989–98 Larry Clark She presented her research on the habitat of tree frogs, career that combines both of her interests — science writing. Photo ©iStock provided the following 1946–55 Elmer Ellis 1998–2006 Richard Schwartz list of A&S deans: 1955–69 W.F. English 2006–present Michael O’Brien

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Earthquake project largest single research effort in the ship, whose name means “Earth” in will be felt globally history of earth science,” says Kevin Japanese, is the largest drilling vessel ever Halfway across the world from Shelton, chair of the geology department. constructed and can drill deeper than any the Department of Geological Sciences, “It’s huge science, and it’s a big deal that other. In 2.5 kilometers of water, Chikyu Professor Michael Underwood has been MU is involved.” can drill 7 kilometers below the sea floor. working with a team of international col- The scientists are not trying to predict Once the team extracts the valuable leagues who plan to drill far beneath the earthquakes. “That’s science fiction, basi- samples and brings them to the ship for sea floor. The scientists from 21 countries cally,” Underwood says. The team seeks analysis, the 10-meter-long core columns are studying earthquake zones. information to help identify areas most will pass through a CT scanner — similar Equipped with two ships and innu- at risk and to monitor those areas for a to the process for a human body — to merable personnel, the researchers are better understanding of the process. The undergo testing. Researchers hope to find attempting to understand the characteris- 10-year Integrated Ocean Drilling Program information about climate change and tics and behavior of plate-boundary faults is internationally funded. early life on this planet, as well as seismo- beneath the sea floor. Underwood’s spe- The targeted study area off Japan sits genic activity. cialty is lithostratigraphy, or the layering near the boundaries of three tectonic In early 2008, Underwood will serve as of rock and sediment. plates where two plates form the deep co-chief scientist for an expedition to drill The project will allow sea Nankai Trough. In the Nankai seaward of the plate-boundary fault in the scientists to drill deeper Trough Seismogenic Zone, Nankai Trough. There, the scientists will than ever before, pos- one plate is being pushed characterize materials in the area before sibly to the Earth’s under the other and occa- moving deeper to where earthquakes mantle — a feat sionally releases energy occur. With the help of a smaller sister Judges of the 2006 Open impossible in the form of earth- ship, the scientists aboard Chikyu will Studio Competitions selected until now. quakes. compare cores and measurements taken three paintings by former The sig- Nearby, in the from the Nankai Trough with those taken art student Nick Pena for a nificance of Japan Trench in fall from another plate-boundary fault near catalog of New American retrieving a 2006, Underwood Costa Rica. Paintings. Displayed here is Pena’s “Jacknife.” sample from and a handful of U.S. In addition to obtaining core samples, the mantle can scientists helped test the scientists will insert instruments be compared to the $540-million vessel into the boreholes for “observatories” space explorers Chikyu and its drilling- to monitor fault behavior during earth- bringing back rocks system technology, quake cycles. Road to recognition from the moon. which will be a major part Underwood is one of two U.S. profes- Alfred winners of the Open Studio Competitions. journey in a collision with a lamppost. “This is the of this adventure. The sors serving as core members of the team Hitchcock Pena is one of only 30 artists whose work A third is immobilized with a tire boot. 57,500-ton for the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone would have was selected from more than 1,000 entries. Pena painted the pieces for inclusion Experiment. The success of the project will understood Nick Life isn’t perfect on Pena’s canvases. in his MFA thesis exhibition before signal a major advance in understanding Pena’s unusual He accents the imperfections of a perfect he graduated in December 2005. He natural disasters and how human society paintings with world by juxtaposing wrecked and aban- now teaches Introduction to Art as fits into the geologic scheme of Earth. their skewed doned station wagons in picturesque well as Beginning Painting at MU, —Rachel Mahan perspectives of landscapes that are more suited to 19th- and Introduction to Figure Drawing at family road trips. century Romanticism. Columbia College. Pena’s haunting images of vintage The paintings provide sad but hope- His most recent paintings continue 1970s station wagons serve as metaphors ful commentary on a culture that Pena to explore society through its connection for a past society and its nuclear family believes has abandoned traditional family to cars. This time, however, the atmosphere of mom, dad, kids and a dog. His oil structure. “Take a road trip and participate is more playful, and the cars are Hummers. paintings create a convincing world that in the American dream,” Pena says in “I see a lot of comedy in them,” he says. Geological sciences Professor is memorable yet strange. translating the message of the series. Pena spent his childhood in Jonesboro, Michael Underwood works on an Three of the former art student’s With a camper in tow, one station Ill., in the 1980s, where he shuttled — in international project to monitor earthquake-prone areas. images appear in the 2006 issue of New wagon parks distressingly close to the a sedan rather than a station wagon — American Paintings No. 65, a catalog of edge of a precipice. Another has ended its between the homes of his divorced parents. Photo by James Yates

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Shelter in a storm It wasn’t only New Orleans students who needed temporary collegiate homes after Hurricane Katrina devastated that area. Some faculty members needed help, too. MU’s Department of German and Russian Studies gave shelter to a A plaque finds its place displaced teaching assistant from Tulane The sociology department’s graduate students generated their own social movement University for winter semester 2006. As when they turned a little-noticed sign into a symbol of support for their stock-in-trade. an adjunct instructor, Olaf Schmidt taught Word spread in September 2005 that the handsome bronze plaque that graced the two sections of first-year German courses entrance to the old Sociology Building on Francis Quadrangle was to be removed during at Mizzou. renovations of the building for a new journalism institute. Schmidt, who spent his childhood in “Our students would have none of that,” says department Chair Jay Gubrium. the former East Germany, is from Berlin. “Characteristically, a small social movement emerged that protested the action and While teaching at Tulane, he was working called for repossession of the plaque by the department.” on his doctoral dissertation through a Graduate students Matt Lammers, Veronica Medina and David Overfelt took the lead German university. But after Katrina hit, when they feared the sign would be put into storage. Small pushes turned into gentle all non-regular Tulane faculty were not shoves, and the plaque was removed intact and remounted in the department’s new rehired, so Schmidt was stuck high and home on the third floor of Middlebush Hall. dry, so to speak. The students were grateful for the work of an MU Facilities crew because the One of Schmidt’s colleagues at Tulane embossed-lettered plaque, measuring six feet by three feet, weighs 200 pounds. noted his plight and contacted Mizzou’s Subsequent department sleuthing, motivated by the protest action, found that the department, says Chair Roger Cook, who handsome bronze plaque has been following and standing guard over the department for invited Schmidt to join the department. most of the 20th century. “It’s important because of the tradition,” Lammers says. “We liked him, and he liked it here The old Sociology Building was once the MU College of Business. When that college very much.” moved to its new quarters in Middlebush Hall in 1959, the Department of Sociology At his new academic home in became the new tenant, and the plaque took its proud place over the building’s entrance. land-locked Missouri, Schmidt In 2002, the business college moved again, this time into new quarters in Cornell Hall. One of the nation’s most coveted awards for was able to continue his Notwithstanding the irony of sociology tailing business, the department replaced the inventors honors alumnus James Fergason, who research and work on his business college in Middlebush Hall. invented the first practical uses for LCD technology. Photo by Chris Conroy dissertation. He returned Thanks to the rallying actions of sociology students, the venerable bronze plaque to Tulane in May again watches over the department. for his final year but hasn’t cut bound him to Mizzou. of Noam Chomsky’s talks about his work Inventor, innovator the National Inventors Hall of Fame. the ties that “Olaf fit in so well and took to in linguistics and political activism. To Over the years, James Fergason has amassed an impressive Although Fergason didn’t discover liquid crystals, he Columbia and the department,” Cook accommodate those who were unable to collection of mood rings as gag gifts from friends. He gets the joke. was the first to understand what they could do. Likewise, he says. “This could lead to a longer working acquire a ticket for the free event, the speech Fergason, BS ’56 physics, DS ’01, is known as the pioneer of the invented their first practical uses, starting with digital watches, arrangement.” was simulcast in three MU auditoriums and modern liquid crystal display, which is the technology behind the calculators and forehead thermometers that paved the way broadcast on a local radio station. color-changing properties of those mood rings. toward innovative industrial devices and consumer electronics Appearances by former U.S. Ambass- In summer 2006, the honors became serious when Fergason such as LCD televisions. Popular peace ador Jonathan Dean anchored the second received the nation’s largest and arguably most prestigious prize Fergason continues to work as an independent inventor. His perspectives half of the year. In three lectures to campus for inventors, the Lemelson-MIT Award. current projects in LCDs investigate improvements for flat-panel Just eight days after tickets were offered audiences, Dean spoke on peace keeping Fergason accepted the award – considered the “Nobel Prize for televisions, computer monitors, rear-projection televisions and for the winter 2006 Peace Perspectives and universal disarmament, based on inventors and innovators” – and $500,000 in a May ceremony at presentation projectors. Lecture, the public claimed tickets for all knowledge gathered during his 35 years in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. As he accepted the Lemelson-MIT Award in Chicago, Fergason 1,177 seats at the Missouri Theatre. the U.S. Foreign Service. Fergason’s extensive list of inventions, including more than already had decided to use the monetary prize for philanthropy at But administrators of the Peace Studies Friends of Peace Studies provides 150 with U.S. patents and 500 with foreign patents, has generated Mizzou. He earmarked $200,000 as an addition to the James L. and Program, which sponsors the lecture financial resources to help attract such other impressive recognition as well. In 1998, he was inducted into Dora D. Fergason Fund for Excellence in Physics. series, were prepared for the popularity distinguished guests.

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Little museum that could His first adventure led him to Romania, He has spent the past several months A&S awards 2006 For 50 years this spring, MU’s Museum where he spent the summer directing a becoming acquainted with MU’s 14,000 Some academic magic happens every of Art and Archaeology has been the little major excavation, a Bronze Age tell near individually catalogued objects as well as Arts and Science Week in February when museum that could offer an international the Serbian and Hungarian borders. A key talking with faculty members, donors and scholarship winners meet their benefac- view of the world in a small-town academic part of the museum’s heritage is active community representatives to learn how tors, and students enjoy casual interac- setting. field research to add to knowledge about the museum can better serve its many tions with guest lecturers. As a concluding The museum possesses significant art the world’s artistic and cultural traditions, audiences. celebration, the College of Arts and Science from seven millennia and six continents, and Barker is strengthening that role. honors the achievements and service of Shiva Nataraja, a South Indian bronze sculpture and will showcase some of its rarely seen Before coming to Mizzou, he served as is part of an ongoing South Asian Sculpture its alumni and friends. A committee that treasures in a 50th-anniversary exhibit. vice president for collections and research exhibit at the Museum of Art and Archaeology. includes officers of the Arts and Science In this milestone year, new Director and chair of the anthropology sec- Alumni Organization selects the honorees. Alex Barker has a plan to fill the place with tion of the Milwaukee The 2006 recipients are listed below. people. The goal is to be scholarly without Public Museum. being stuffy. “Museums have been doing Distinguished Alumni things the same way for years,” he says. “A • Allen Day Grimshaw, BA ’50 anthropol- museum our size can be a little more agile. ogy, sociology, MA ’52 sociology, is a We can try things.” scholar-teacher who works on issues Barker, who is an archaeologist, hopes of language used in social contexts, to attract visitors by refreshing all the such as arguments and negotiation, and gallery spaces and offering new exhibits. of language used in matters of social He wants to change the routine of put- conflict and social violence. He spent his ting a painting in a room and explain- professional career at Indiana University, ing it with a small label, a method that where he enjoyed teaching multidisci- Photo by Dan Glover Recipients of A&S alumni awards, with former Dean Richard Schwartz, are, front row, Allen limits the amount of art visitors can plinary courses. Grimshaw, Dandi Daley Mackall and Darwin Hindman; back row, Schwartz, Cecil Phillips, Eddie see and what they learn about it. • Darwin Hindman, BA ’55 political Williamson, Michael Williams and Ron Mann. Technology, he says, can help science, has served four terms as mayor engage visitors. Barker envisions the of Columbia and is nationally recognized use of small LCD panels to present for his support of designing communities Ron Mann Design, and from his exploration of new reserves of natural explanations that match viewers’ to promote active living and healthful California home in Sonoma. His gas. He served as chief geologist for the interests. “We can easily change the environments. For nearly all of his life, he imaginative creations have earned him New Orleans region, division exploration show to suit the audience, from junior has been associated with the city and the an international reputation in design. manager for offshore Louisiana and man- high students to professionals,” he University. He attended the University For years, Architectural Digest magazine ager of exploration operations for Amoco says. “The museum needs to speak to all Laboratory School and earned two MU has included Mann in its list of 100 top U.S. He later became a vice president and those levels.” degrees, including a law degree in 1961. international designers and architects. He leader of exploration and production Already the museum is experimenting His practice is with Hindman and is known as a designer of furniture and business units. with podcasting, which allows visitors to Goldstein LLC. accessories for the stars. download gallery tours presented by one • Dandi Daley Mackall, BA ’71 French, • Cecil M. Phillips, BA ’68 history, is Recent Alumni of MU’s curators. Next on the tech agenda wrote her first published articles as an president and CEO of Place Properties, • Michael A. Williams, BA ’95 political is keeping the museum’s virtual doors MU senior. Since then, she has written one of the nation’s largest developers and science, is an attorney who specializes in open 24 hours a day through Web tours. more than 400 books for children and managers of student housing communities. labor and employment law at Lathrop & “We have catalogs and guides for the adults that have sold 3 million copies in He also heads WebRoomz Inc., a Web-based Gage, one of Kansas City’s premier law collection, which are good for scholars, 22 countries. One of her best-known works room management software system for firms, and is an MU adjunct professor of but the ability to browse the collections is Winnie the Horse Gentler, a best-seller in multifamily housing. The Missouri native labor law. He is experienced in the litigation at home at 3 a.m. is very important,” teen fiction. Mackall writes for magazines has lived in Atlanta since 1971. In addition of age, sex, race, disability and retaliation Barker says. as well and is a frequent guest on radio and to an MU degree, he received a law degree claims. The first African-American to serve Barker knows that authentic objects television talk shows. She writes at home from the University of Michigan. on the Kansas Bar Association board of are the touchstones of a museum. He in rural Ohio. • Eddie A. Williamson, MA ’73 geological governors, Williams is committed to was barely in place in Columbia before he • Ron Mann, BA ’58 art, works with sciences, is a certified petroleum geologist ensuring that attorneys become involved South India, 16th-17th century, Bronze, 2004.4, Gilbreath-McLorn Museum Fund embarked on a search for new objects. clients worldwide through his company, whose work resulted in the location and in pro-bono and mentoring activities. Shiva Nataraja,

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To tackle tough issues Education is coordinating MU’s efforts. Christianity; and Welch, multiculturalism How do professors engage students in Fifteen Ford Fellows who were trained in and religion and politics. MU law student constructive dialogue about tough issues fall semester 2006 are using deliberative dia- and former Rhodes Scholar Antwaun Good point What border showdown? Huge influence such as contentious political, religious, logue techniques in their winter 2007 classes. Smith, BA ’98 religious studies, provided Senior Nicholas Dudley disliked speaking in A state line doesn’t constitute a border in An English department faculty member racial and cultural differences? Deliberative dialogue and dispute training in first amendment issues and on public as a child, but he definitely overcame the academic world, where MU-KU border has played a key role in publishing an The Department of Religious Studies, resolution techniques investigate the religious and civil discourse. his fear. In spring 2006, the relationships are cordial. Students of art encyclopedia of African- senior political science history and archaeology from the Missouri American folklore and its with other MU units, is part of a national range of perspectives in complex issues In related training, theatre Professor major became the second and Kansas flagship universities cooperate influence on American project to promote the open discussion of and help groups reach consensus. “These Susanne Burgoyne taught interactive- debater in the history of to host an annual symposium that attracts art, music, film, literature sensitive subjects. are the basic skills of civil participation,” theater techniques; a series of open forums the National Forensics graduate students nationwide. The 15th and religion. Professor Mizzou is one of only 27 institutions says Sharon Welch, chair of the religious modeled public discourse for undergraduate Association to win two annual MU-KU symposium will be held in Anand Prahlad edited The of higher education selected to receive a studies department. “We teach faculty and students; and the Center for Religion, the consecutive national Lawrence, Kan., in March. The host school Greenwood Encyclopedia of $100,000 Ford Foundation grant to promote students not to run from differences but to Professions and the Public offered forums championships. alternates yearly across the state line. African American Folklore. pluralism and academic freedom on engage them.” for the professional schools. campus. More than 675 colleges and Welch speculates that MU was chosen Throughout the two-year initiative, universities submitted proposals. to participate because of its diversity of MU’s education faculty is evaluating Watching for danger Communicate this! A Mizzou original One of the world’s foremost researchers of The Department of Communication has Corps of Discovery: A Musical Journey will open The Ford Foundation created the strengths in conflict resolution, and she the project and sharing results with the chemical pollutants is an MU professor of earned national recognition for the scholarly in May 2007 with a full-stage production by Difficult Dialogues program in response to welcomes the opportunity to teach students participating universities. biological sciences. Fred vom Saal’s work productivity of its faculty. The department Fargo-Moorhead Opera in North Dakota. reports of growing intolerance and efforts that their differences can enhance each other. Difficult Dialogues is part of an effort makes headlines internationally as he alerts ranks fourth in the number of faculty pub- Professional opera companies and university to curb academic freedom at colleges and “Many MU students come without expe- by the Ford Foundation to understand and the public to the dangers of bisphenol A, a lications. Professor Bill Benoit is ranked as music programs in more than 10 states have universities. rience in diversity and don’t know how to combat anti-Semitism, fear of Islam and prevalent chemical in plastic products. A the nation’s second most- produced versions of the work, which MU 2006 inaugural award from the Upstream prolific author in the field, commissioned for the national Lewis and At MU, religious studies faculty are interact with people of different political other forms of bigotry in the United States Fund honors the distinguished researcher for according to a study Clark bicentennial. working with the theatre department, the and religious backgrounds,” she says. and Europe. his commitment to scientific integrity and published in the Journal law school’s Center for the Study of Dispute Religious studies faculty members the pursuit of science in the public interest. of Communication. A&S Student Council members Jena Swingle, Resolution and education’s Counseling conducted a religious literacy workshop president, at right, and Erin Gourley demonstrate Psychology Program to train professors in that used their expertise in these areas: why students need help understanding the com- methods of facilitating tough conversa- Robert Baum, African indigenous religions plex differences in religious and political views. Poet discovered Mix math with psychology Global reach tions. Roger Worthington of the College of and Islam; Patricia Beckman, history of Once again, one of the nation’s What is David Geary, a Curators Professor Within days of launching a most sought-after prizes for of Psychological Sciences, doing on a free online site, Oral Tradition, poets who have not published a national mathematics advisory panel? the academic journal of book went to a Mizzou doctoral student Geary may need practice on logarithms, but MU’s Center for Studies in Oral in creative writing. Nicole Beer won one of he can help clarify how students learn math Tradition, attracted hits from more than 40 four 2006 Discovery/The Nation Awards in and why they have problems with various countries on six continents. Center Director competition against 1,500 poets. With a cash concepts and procedures. The 23 experts John Foley says the journal went online to award in pocket, she flew to New York for a report to President Bush and Secretary of encourage scholars worldwide, especially in reading of her poetry collection at the famed Education Margaret Spellings. the Third World, where access is difficult. Poetry Center.

Announced in The New Yorker Party time Two good fellows in statistics Curators Professor of English Rod Santos English Professor Lynne McMahon’s Statistics Professors Paul Speckman and received the 2006 Umhoefer Prize for 10-minute play “The Party” was produced Tony Sun are among the handful of research- achievement in the humanities for his by the Manhattan Theatre Source at ers elected 2006 fellows of the American book, Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation. Washington Square in New York as part of Statistical Association. Founded in 1839, The prize is sponsored by the Arts and the Estrogenius Festival. The production ran ASA is the leading professional association Humanities Foundation and includes a in early October. for statisticians. Speckman’s research runs monetary award, a commissioned bronze the gamut from environmental studies to sculpture and the purchase of 300 copies psychology. Sun is working on statistical of his book for distribution to humanities models of survival in AIDS research. students and teachers. Photo by Rob Hill Photos by ©iStock

12 | 2007 mosaics mosaics 2007 | 13 features MOSAICS 2007 ghosts of language haunt good writing By Priya Ratneshwar

Scott Cairns’ first trip to Mount appointed on the basis of illustrious past Athos, a peninsula in Greece inhabited achievement and exceptional promise solely by Eastern Orthodox monastic com- for future accomplishments. Cairns, who munities, began rather profanely. Cairns, came to MU in 1999, is a distinguished Setting Out who is a poet and a professor of English poet whose works have appeared in The at MU, had to ride a ferry to the port of New Republic, The Paris Review and The In time, even the slowest pilgrim might Daphne on the peninsula and then board Atlantic Monthly. He also has published a bus that would take him to the monas- six volumes of poetry. articulate a turn. Given time enough, teries he wanted to visit. He had planned Although Cairns converted to Eastern to be especially conscious of the moment Orthodoxy just eight years ago, he says his the slowest pilgrim — even he — might he first set foot on the hallowed ground poetry has always been “god-obsessive.” of the site. Instead, he found himself bat- He was raised in a Fundamental Baptist register some small measure of belated tling a disorderly and aggressive crowd of family, and although he eventually grew pilgrims trying to clamber onto the buses. dissatisfied with mainstream Western progress. The road was, more or less, less “In that weird, frustrating circum- expressions of Christianity, his religious stance, I happened to look over to the side, upbringing instilled in him a deep respect compelling than the hut, but as the benefit and there was this white-haired old monk for and fascination with spiritual texts. sitting absolutely still with his prayer rope He finds poetry and religious texts to be of time allowed the hut’s distractions to attain in the midst of all this turmoil,” Cairns closely related because both are capable of a vaguely musty scent, and all the novel says. “He had a huge peace that was generating infinite levels of meaning. palpable, and it made me feel peaceful.” “What I love about poetry is also what knickknacks to acquire a fine veneer of bone- Powerful demonstrations of spiritual I find most satisfying about sacred texts,” strength such as this inspired Cairns Cairns says. “The more you know about white dust, the road became then somewhat more to write a memoir titled Short Trip to language and languages, the more ghosts the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven — A haunt even the simplest prayers.” attractive; and as the weather made a timely Pilgrimage, which will be published by Cairns plans to create more opportuni- HarperSanFrancisco in February 2007. In ties to bring the multifaceted richness if quite brief concession, the pilgrim took this all the book, Cairns uses his travels to Mount of language to MU in his position as the Athos as a framework to explore his own new director of the MU Creative Writing to be an open invitation to set out. lifelong spiritual journey. Program and MU’s Center for the Literary The culture of Mount Athos still Arts (CLA). He wants to help develop a —Scott Cairns fuels Cairns’ writing. He recently won a stronger creative nonfiction component prestigious 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship for the Creative Writing Program. Cairns Award and is using it to fund additional also wants to work with the CLA to bring trips to the sacred site, so he can write a more international visiting writers to the book of poems that will develop out of his campus and to send more MU students to experiences there. writing programs abroad. Cairns is one of just 187 artists, “The more aware we can be of how big Professor Scott Cairns’ writing describes his scholars and scientists selected as a the world is, the better position we’ll be in fascination with spiritual journeys. Cairns is a fellowship winner from almost 3,000 to be writers who attend to what’s impor- Guggenheim Fellow. applicants. Guggenheim Fellows are tant and necessary in our writing.” Photo by Elisa Petersen

mosaics 2007 | 15 surviving cancer through comedy Heather Carver won the prize nobody wants — a booby prize.

If anyone can write a comedy about breast cancer, it’s theater curly clumps on both sides. Assistant Professor Heather Carver, who is fighting the disease. Looking in the mirror, Carver saw Bozo the Clown, a Her one-woman play, Booby Prize: A Comedy about Breast Cancer, will figure familiar to her since she began “clowning” during her make its public debut in late January at MU’s Corner Playhouse. teenage years. Carver felt as though she had won the booby prize when she “I realized I was going to get through this by bringing in my became part of the statistics — one woman out of every seven 15-year-old clown self,” she says. That very day, she still had a is diagnosed with breast cancer. Writing her own story through clown nose in her purse. Booby Prize helped lift her spirits through a dreary year. Carver started writing Booby Prize as a way of healing, “Sometimes cancer and comedy have to coexist as a thinking about the caregivers, listening to the stories of other survival tool,” she says. cancer patients and using it as an outlet to deal with the grief As co-director of MU’s Writing for Performance Program, she felt for herself. Carver teaches writing for solo performance, and she performs to She tells the story of visiting the White House with her communicate about health issues that aren’t discussed. “I’m in husband, Bill Horner, resident instruction assistant professor a position to talk about breast cancer to get people talking about of political science. He had scheduled a breakfast meeting with what women are going through,” she says. Karl Rove, and the Mizzou couple accepted Rove’s invitation to Carver wrote as she endured surgery, weeks of chemotherapy watch the president leave by helicopter. and radiation, and loss of her hair and energy. Still bald and weak from chemotherapy, Carver needed to A bilateral mastectomy in October 2005 removed a large sit during the lengthy wait for Bush. She walked to a bench, but tumor. She began chemotherapy that December, followed in feared the Secret Service would restrict her from the area. April by six weeks of daily radiation treatments. More recent “Then I thought, ‘Who’s going to stop a bald lady?’ so I treatments have targeted the breastbone after tests found sat down.” As she sat on the bench, hatless and exhausted, cancer cells there. President Bush walked by. “Are you doing OK?” he asked the “There’s really nothing funny about breast cancer, but the surprised Carver. “Why, yes I am,” she replied. women affected by it are some of the funniest I’ve “It was never dull, all year long,” Carver says. met,” she says. “With a strong sense of Carver craved the motivation of working with students and humor and conviction, they are over- kept teaching. The department provided her a teaching assistant, coming the odds. Just the idea of but still she became fatigued, so concerned faculty, staff and ‘We’re still living,’ has humorous students took turns delivering meals. moments.” Such caring has been therapeutic and greatly appreciated, The moment Carver found especially because this is the second time Carver has dealt with humor in her own cancer came cancer. Her husband is a survivor of testicular cancer. on the disturbing day she lost Several lifestyle changes have occurred in the Carver- her hair to chemotherapy. Her Horner household. The family diet now centers on organic, less- curly brown hair was falling processed foods, and Carver takes time to exercise, practice yoga out in clumps anyway, and enjoy weekly massages. so Carver asked a The couple’s two small daughters, Tricia, 6, and Ellie, 3, friend to shave it adjusted to having a bald mommy but were happy when her off. Razor in hand, hair started to grow again. the friend shaved one strip down the middle When breast cancer threatened her life, theater Assistant Professor of Carver’s head that left Heather Carver wrote a comedy about the experience. Photo by David Owens

16 | 2007 mosaics american abroad: following a dream Living in Dubai, junior Paige Hendrix thrived on experiences that would daunt a seasoned traveler.

Except for a few toddler years, Paige students through the United Negro “I studied Hendrix had never lived anywhere College Fund Special Programs just about every except the state of Missouri. Then, last Corporation. The program’s objective is international September, the 21-year-old MU junior said to expand interest in international service topic, leader goodbye to her parents in Neosho and her to a diverse cross-section of Americans. and country friends in Columbia to spend four months Hendrix is one of two MU students possible, and on the other side of the world. to receive this multi-year fellowship. I saw a world Even before she landed in Dubai, The other is journalism student Carolina that was huge, United Arab Emirates, she had to negoti- Escalera. fascinating and ate the complexities that come with the The IIPP fellowship offers Hendrix needed help,” she says. When she arrived role of an international traveler. On the such assistance as summer policy at Mizzou, she began looking for a way to flight east from London’s Heathrow air- institutes, intensive language training, go abroad. port, Hendrix was gazing out a window at internships, graduate study funding and In Dubai, Hendrix took classes in the lights of cities she’d previously only career development services. Arabic, Islamic art and architecture, public seen on maps when she heard the words In addition to her semester in Dubai, speaking, Islamic religion and macroeco- “stupid American” hurled at her by a fel- Hendrix participated in the fellowship’s nomics. But her observations of classroom low passenger. preparatory summer program at Atlanta’s culture were often as enlightening as the Wonderful experiences would soon Spelman College, where she attended professors’ lectures. In one class, Hendrix balance out the difficult ones, and courses on terrorism, foreign policy, tech- heard a student argue with the teacher Hendrix absorbed the good as well as the nology, international health, development that there was no such thing as secular bad of her semester abroad at American and globalization. She eventually wants Islamic art; in another, she saw students University in Dubai. In the same day, she’d to pursue graduate degrees in both law angered by the instructor’s condescension enjoy the city’s beautiful beaches and and international relations. But before toward the Shia sect of Islam. extravagant nightlife, yet have to fend off that, she will spend two years working for Some lessons were less intense; the advances of men far more aggressive a non-governmental organization, an IIPP Hendrix noticed that students tried to get than the ones she was used to at home; requirement. Hendrix’s ideal NGO would the teacher to end class 20 minutes early; she’d admire Dubai’s wealth, yet note be one that fights human trafficking, an that no one waited in line; and that, in bigotry toward the city’s working-class issue she has studied. complete opposition to American coeds, Asians; she’d listen to the multicultural According to her mother, Pamela, students dressed up for class. perspectives of classmates from around Hendrix has always pursued her passions Hendrix also temporarily observed the world, yet battle the stereotyping of with determination. Hendrix began devel- Ramadan to show respect to her Muslim Americans. oping her interest in political science and friends and to gain a deeper understand- Hendrix was determined to learn international studies well before college — ing of the religious holiday. Those close from it all. The international studies and Pamela says her daughter enjoyed to Hendrix say they know few others who geography double major is on a mission to talking about Ronald Reagan as a three- dedicate themselves so steadfastly to prepare herself to work on humanitarian year-old. In ninth grade, Hendrix joined their endeavors. issues in the Middle East. her school’s debate team. During her five Through an international program for minority Her study abroad was funded by the years as a debater, Hendrix prepared for students, Paige Hendrix traded her comfortable Institute for International Public Policy her speeches by reading extensively about Missouri surroundings for a landscape dotted Fellowship (IIPP), which selects minority the world’s social and political problems.

with mosques and souks. Photo courtesy of Paige Hendrix

18 | 2007 mosaics departments are like family Faculty are fascinating people. Nobody knows that better than the staff who work with them.

For years, Administrative Associate Judy pology helm from 1978 to 1984, was one that she worked in veterinary medicine, Dooley has been nurturing faculty and busy public servant for a couple of years. where she met her future husband. students in the statistics department. This He was mayor from 1979 to 1981. Stogsdill’s duties have evolved dur- time it was her turn. “He kept the two jobs separate the ing the years and have provided enough Each year, the University honors staff majority of the time,” she says, “but that variety for learning and growth. “I have members for significant anniversaries of didn’t keep the news media and the public benefited from many long-standing friend- their Mizzou careers, beginning with the from calling him at the department.” ships during my association with faculty, five-year mark. Dooley passed that water- Porter began working at Mizzou in 1971 staff and graduate students,” she says. mark many years ago and in May 2006 was when Bob Benfer (See Ancient Discoveries About a year ago, Administrative honored for 25 years of services, all but two on Page 24) was chair of anthropology. Assistant Jennifer Arnold received her 10- of those in statistics. Seven chairs and 35 years later, she still year acknowledgment for service to the “I have stayed in the same department likes what she does. She stayed at first German and Russian studies department. all this time because of my faculty,” she because she was shy and the job was in her She, too, loves where she is and enjoys the says. “They are professional, personable comfort zone. Now she stays because she foreign sounds of her faculty family even and treat all the staff as equals. We are like has a great working relationship with all if she doesn’t understand what people are a family. I can’t ask for anything better the faculty, and she loves the students. saying. than that.” Porter was touched by the sensitivity “I’m living in the middle of a sym- Dooley began her Mizzou career in the some of the graduate students showed phony. Language is like music,” she says. mathematics department in 1981 and has during a difficult time in her life as she “All around me are sounds that fit together served five department chairs in statistics dealt with office duties while making to make a symphony: German and Russian, and one in mathematics. She has fond arrangements to care for her terminally Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Korean and, memories of each, some serious, some ill mother. The students organized an next year, Arabic.” humorous. impromptu social gathering to cheer her Arnold speaks and understands She remembers rejoicing when statis- up with coffee, donuts, hugs and warm Spanish and has acquired a broad taste for tics Chair Asit Basu, who was very sick, was words. “It really did help me to know they international sounds. In her work on visas able to get a new heart. She still smiles cared so much,” she recalls. and other arrangements for international when she thinks about statistics Chair A highlight for Administrative graduate students, she feels as though Farroll (Tim) Wright eating animal crackers Associate Marsha Huckabey was the 100th she’s able to travel all around the world. in his office “because they were fat-free.” birthday party the geological sciences “I stay because what I do is seen as Staff members often become the oral department threw for Professor Emeritus important and I’m treated as a valued historians of their departments because Walter Keller. She contacted alumni behind and integral piece of the whole,” she says. they participate in the milestones. Dooley, the scenes and enjoyed the reunion when “Nobody works harder than these people. It’s for example, remembers replacing her so many former students returned for the encouraging to me because I work hard, too.” typewriter with a computer in 1985. two-day celebration. To mark Dooley’s 2006 anniversary, she Administrative Associate Mary Porter Huckabey has served the department received a watch, a plaque and a picture in the anthropology department recalls for 20 years, through the tenures of four of Jesse Hall, inscribed with her name As a staff member, Jennifer Arnold epitomizes what it was like to work with someone department chairs. and service dates. But what mattered the loyalty of personnel who work with locally famous after department Chair In psychological sciences, Business even more was that statistics Chair Nancy students and faculty. Arnold has served the Clyde Wilson was elected mayor of Manager Gayle Stogsdill has held the key Flournoy took Dooley and a department Department of German and Russian Studies Columbia. Wilson, who was at the anthro- to the office door for 22 years, and before group to lunch in celebration. for more than 10 years. Photo by Rob Hill

mosaics 2007 | 21 speaking frankly of discrimination Kevin Babbitt presented his one-man play at the Anne Frank Center USA in New York.

Kevin Babbitt has resurrected Anne to reality, and Carver thought of Babbitt, Frank’s father, Otto Frank, twice in his who was then taking her advanced adap- Being Frank is life. Twenty years ago, in his hometown tation class and who she knew had an based on an MU of Joplin, Mo., Babbitt played the inspira- interest in biographical performance. tional Holocaust survivor in a high school Carver, who directs Being Frank, says journalist’s interview production of The Diary of Anne Frank. Then Babbitt is one of the actors she has most with Otto Frank. in May 2006, Babbitt, a third-year doctoral trusted in her creative collaborations. student in theater, embodied Frank again At first, Babbitt was overwhelmed by at the Anne Frank Center USA in New York the massive collection stored in nine big “It’s really since I came to Mizzou City. He reprised the role as part of Being boxes, but then he spied a familiar name. that I’ve started to be very open about Frank, a one-man play he both wrote and “They handed me a list of all the who I am and trying to reclaim my voice performed. interviews he had conducted, and when as a gay man.” “This time I was a lot closer in age,” I saw the name Otto Frank on there, I These experiences fueled his scholarly Babbitt, 39, says with a laugh. knew that’s where I wanted to start,” interest in the field of performance studies, He will bring Frank’s harrowing story Babbitt says. which explores how societal roles are to Missouri audiences once again when Babbitt chose the Frank interview constructed, and his work in social he performs the play at MU’s Corner because it was the only one in the activism in theater. Babbitt is also assis- Playhouse this winter. collection with a complete recording in tant director of MU’s interactive theater To write Being Frank, Babbitt adapted addition to a transcript. More important, troupe, which uses interactive role-playing an unpublished interview of Frank by the discussion between Unger and Frank to help students and faculty deal with New York journalist and Mizzou alumnus in the interview examines questions of difficult social situations. Arthur Unger, BJ ’48. Unger, who died in discrimination, censorship and oppres- In the troupe’s performances, as in 2004, donated to the Western Historical sion — subjects close to Babbitt’s heart. Being Frank, Babbitt’s work puts a human Manuscript Collection at the University Babbitt used his experiences as a gay face on intangible concepts. “He creates of Missouri his interviews with headliners man battling with bigotry in the Midwest characters whom audiences can both such as Frank, the Beatles, Katherine to connect with Frank’s battles. admire and relate to,” Carver says. “Kevin’s Hepburn, Mae West and Barbara Walters. “When you have to deal with oppres- dynamism hooks them in immediately.” Unger’s lifelong friend, retired architect sion in your own life, you see injustice Babbitt’s skills proved invaluable to Raul Nuñez, contributed a $15,000 endow- around you more so than the typical white the friends and family of Unger at the ment to fund the collection’s curation. heterosexual male does,” Babbitt says. Anne Frank Center last May. Michael Kateman, former executive In Being Frank, Babbitt portrays Unger “I remember when Kevin began to director for arts advancement, says Unger and Frank in a series of four- to five-minute speak in character as Arthur Unger, I could hoped students would turn the interviews monologues that depict Frank’s persecu- almost hear a couple of gasps of, ‘It really into performances and, in the process, tion in Nazi Germany and explore other is Arthur!’ from several of his friends,” both learn to adapt the written works for forms of oppression. Kateman says. “I think there could probably the stage and convey ideas that contribute The play is a milestone in Babbitt’s be no higher compliment to an actor.” to the betterment of society. personal and professional journeys. Kateman approached MU theater Babbitt, who hid his sexuality for 30 years, Assistant Professor Heather Carver says he felt voiceless in society when he Doctoral student Kevin Babbitt rehearses with the task of turning Unger’s dream had to hide who he was. Being Frank for its campus opening. Photo by Colin Suchland

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Students share the work and euphoria

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anthropological find. By Nancy Moen Photo by Keith Chan ANCIENT DISCOVIERIES

SIX SUMMER WEEKS which can be viewed from many angles, are known as a project. For anthropology students, espe- sculptures in the round. cially the undergraduates, the experience south peru america of sifting sand and lifting rocks on the side of a sandy slope in Benfer believes the sculptures represent some of the of uncovering important artifacts during a Peru was heaven on earth for about a dozen Mizzou students. earliest astronomical alignments and have ties to an agricultural field school is in itself a lifelong treasure. buena vista Crawling up and down the side of a hill. Dealing with fatigue calendar and Andean myth. Researchers are particularly inter- “The archaeological significance of site and aching muscles. Fighting the cold of the morning and heat ested in the possibility that the astronomical alignments mark what we found is more than I could have of the day. It doesn’t get much better than that, especially when important farming dates. Such a discovery would suggest that imagined,” says field director Neil Duncan, the payoff is being part of a team credited with uncovering people organized their lives around Andean constellations. an anthropology graduate student who important ancient treasures. The story was featured in most major national newspapers has been involved for five years, from the The excavation team led by Bob Benfer, professor emeritus as well as magazines such as National Geographic and Smithsonian. beginning. of anthropology, unearthed a 4,000-year-old Andean temple and Then it went around the world — to the United Kingdom, It was Duncan who selected the sculptures of unprecedented artistic style at the Buena Vista site Australia, India and elsewhere. Benfer has presented his excavation sites, based on his knowledge in 2004. findings in a series of lectures sponsored by the Archaeological and some intuition. “It’s enormously The 33-foot stepped-pyramid Temple of the Fox is 1,000 years Institute of America. satisfying to have found what we did, a older than anything of its kind previously found. The sculptures, Imagine being one of the Mizzou students working on such temple and two statues, in locations I chose to excavate,” he says.

Students dig the excavating chores Duncan’s conservative, cautious approach was the perfect foil to Benfer’s eagerness Photo courtesy of Bob Benfer The mud-plaster sculpture of a huge frowning face is part of the Temple of the Fox discovery. to proceed. Benfer considers Duncan, who The disc and temple are made of clay mixed with dust, water and grass. Discover magazine ranked the has been on the Buena Vista site seven Temple of the Fox find as one of the top 100 science stories of 2006. Archaeology, a publication times, one of the best field directors he has of the Archaeological Institute of America, ranked it fifth of 10 top stories. ever known. A field director functions rather like a camp counselor, travel mapping, recording of information, measuring and drawing to guide and teacher. Duncan recruited the students for the field scale, drafting, screening for artifacts, organizing samples, lab school and led their preparation for the trip with the usual regimen work and photography. of shots, passports and airline tickets before the real work began. Duncan wanted the students to be proud of the calluses Benfer, who is 67, retired in 2003 after 34 years of teaching. they acquired. He had to remind himself that the students were Despite the challenging red tape involved in working on interna- volunteers, not paid workers, and that they needed enough tional projects, he wanted to devote more time to the fieldwork energy left at the end of the day to experience the customs and he loves. Duncan handled the details for him. culture of Peru. Even playing a game of soccer with the Peruvian “Field schools are a lot of fun, but they’re exhausting,” Benfer students and crew who worked with the Mizzou team was a says. “We moved rock and dirt from an area that was 14 feet by valuable part of the experience. 20 feet long by 12 feet. That’s a lot to move, and the site is on the “For anthropology students, especially undergraduates, side of a very steep hill that’s 1,200 feet from bottom to top. We the cultural experience of doing archaeology in an environment were going up and down four times a day.” unlike any they had previously known is something they’ll At the excavation, Duncan organized the students and their remember for the rest of their lives,” Duncan says. activities. He assigned tasks to cram as many learning opportu- He, too, was affected by the significance of the Peruvian find. nities as possible into the experience — five weeks of excavating When he stood at the base of the newly uncovered 4,000-year-old and one week of lab work. temple at Buena Vista, he was overwhelmed with awe. “After mil- “There’s so much work involved in moving all the rock. lennia, the power of the site remains striking,” he says. You have to move your labor around before they get too tired,” Even with the excitement of discovery, archaeologists Duncan says. “I’d give everybody a chance to work in the temple. have to learn to be patient. It takes days to excavate artifacts, Then there’s a lot of fine cleaning, brushing and photographing and by the time they’re finally uncovered, some of the thrill to do.” has died down. Photo by Keith Chan He made sure the students took turns doing excavation, After the temple was uncovered at Buena Vista, the excite- Previous page: MU graduate student Neil Duncan, left, confers with Peruvian student Andres Ocas at the Temple of the Fox excavation site in Peru. Above: Robert Benfer directs work on the site of his recent discovery, a 4,000-year-old Peruvian temple and sculptures used to track movement of the sun and stars. which is always the most popular chore. They also shared the ment spiked again when the largest sculpture became visible.

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Discovery Timeline Found a series of niched walls and a room with a staircase into the site; excavated several houses, hearths and cooking pits, 2002 plus mummified remains of two people. 2004 Discovered the sculptural figures.

Found intact vessels, pottery sherds, 2003 Uncovered the temple. 2005 fossilized llama droppings and shaped stones that early inhabitants had used for grinding.

and restaurant at the base of the mountain. Living there Hoog with a decorated birthday cake and candles. Duncan was more comfortable and safer than camping, although the describes Hoog as a “big, strong guy” but says even he was amenities were sparse. The running water was unheated, and wiping away tears at the thoughtful gesture on his birthday. electricity was available only when the owners ran the generator. “It’s such a wonderful place and people with a rich history,” When the students craved a hot shower, they would go Smart says. “What I took back was the experience.” to a hostel in Lima. One of the greatest benefits of the experience was being immersed in Peruvian culture. While living and working together, the students from Mizzou and Peru were learning about each other’s lives. “Field schools always have some romance,” Duncan says. Photo by Keith Chan “It’s fun to watch, rather like a soap opera drama. It’s good to “We really had no idea what the rest of it was going to look like,” Neil Duncan leads the team of students who helped excavate the Temple have an equal male-female distribution.” Duncan says. “Nothing like it has ever been excavated for that of the Fox. Eleven MU students participated. After work, the American and Peruvian teams played foosball time period.” and extremely large spiders. (No one was bitten.) games and ate together. They would dance to salsa music and Other discoveries were significant, too. The team found For some students, the physical work of a six-week field play zappo, a game with coins that competitors throw into the many plants in the temple area, which provided material for school was a new experience. They weren’t prepared to get as open mouth of a metal frog. On the Fourth of July, the Peruvian carbon dating to determine the age of the artifacts. One student dirty as they did or to lift as many rocks. Still, the hardships did students surprised their American counterparts by bringing a found an entire crushed pot and reassembled it in the lab. not deter their enthusiasm. cake and several small American flags to the site. Students in 2002 found intact vessels and pottery sherds, Smart loved the physical exertion and the excitement of The Mizzou students learned a lot of Spanish, and when fossilized llama droppings — an important source of information discovery. The large temple complex had already been discovered language failed, they resorted to gestures. “The experience on animals the inhabitants kept — and large, round river stones when she joined the field school in 2003, but she was part of the teaches you to be adaptable,” Smart says. “To be open-minded that early people used for grinding or shaped for use as knives. crew that removed a lot of refuse to reveal the temple walls. is a skill that’s transferable to any job.” In 2003, the team discovered the mummified remains of The mornings were chilly (it was winter in that hemisphere). A typical field meal consisted of soup, rice, beans and two people and could see the series of walls and a room with Temperatures usually rose to 70 or 75 degrees during the day, but meat, and the students learned to enjoy the traditional, filling a staircase into the temple. There was too much fill for them the sun became intense, so wearing sunblock was essential. The Peruvian fare. For Smart, who’s a vegetarian, eating was more to go deeper that year, but they excavated several houses and workers had to deal with a powdery dust so fine that it seeped of a challenge than for most of the students. As most of the found hearths and cooking pits. The team unearthed the through their clothes and filled their shoes while sticking to students did, she declined to order the stir-fried beef tripe, but sculptures in 2005. their skin and thickening their hair with grime. occasionally she would sample some meat because she knows “You get absolutely filthy,” Smart says. A laundry woman it’s an important part of the culture. Kristin Smart: It was like working on Venus in town showed the students how to use a bar of lye soap and “It’s a very meat-centric culture, but the people were kind to The conditions at a site such as Buena Vista can be tough a brush to scrub their jeans. As a treat for themselves, they’d me and creative, making up things for me to eat,” she says. even for a mountain goat. The excavation area is virtually a sometimes leave their laundry for her to do by hand. But if the On weekends, the team would go into Lima in search of a desert with rocks. sun didn’t shine, they knew they’d be wearing dirty clothes for change of scene and different restaurants. The students learned “It was like working on Venus,” says former student a few days. to judge the quality of the restaurants by the number of people Kristin Smart. On one occasion, the students were assaulted by hoards of waiting for tables. They looked for souvenirs typical of the The team removed huge rocks and moved fill in bucket black flies and the smell of manure after area farmers fertilized region and bought handicrafts — silver jewelry and textiles. Photo by Neil Duncan brigades. The students were on site from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with their valley fields. But mostly, they collected memories. A favorite was the Bernardino Ojeda traces the outline of a fox that gave the temple its a break for lunch. As they worked, they watched for scorpions The students lived in several rooms at Sophia, a small hotel evening a waitress at Sophia surprised Mizzou student Chris name. Ojeda is a Peruvian archaeologist who worked with MU’s team.

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April 1967 April Missouri Alumnus, Missouri

Ambassador Rosemary Ginn, Alumnus, Sept.-Oct. 1976 Missouri

Dean J.C. Jones, University Archives, c:6/1/5

Chancellor Richard Wallace University Archives, c: 6/1/5

SeniorSavitar Helen M. Johnson, 1907 Marching Mizzou 1936, MU Publications file ust a century ago, MU’s largest unit changed its Other early courses, such as Hebrew, Sanskrit, comparative name from the Academic Department to the College philology and metaphysics, are no longer offered. By 1908, several Jof Arts and Science. new subjects expanded the A&S curriculum: philosophy, history, But to say the College has been around since April 1907 is economics, political science, sociology, graphics (art) and music. only part of the story. The history of A&S reaches back to the Three decades later, the College included 18 departments and very establishment of the University of Missouri. Since 1839, the 2,010 students who took courses taught by a faculty of 129 teachers. arts and sciences have carved themselves into the foundation of Today the College of Arts and Science is the largest college on Mizzou with a core curriculum to serve all students. campus and in the state of Missouri. More than 450 tenured and Even the first two graduates of MU — honored at the premiere tenure-track faculty members teach and mentor nearly 10,000 commencement in 1843 — earned bachelor of arts degrees. That undergraduate and graduate students. The students choose year, just 78 students were enrolled at the entire University. courses from 34 departments, programs, schools and divisions Students of the 1800s selected courses from 13 units in subjects that offer a vast array of studies leading to bachelor’s, master’s that still shape the undergraduate curriculum. In classrooms and doctoral degrees. Visit the Web site at coas.missouri.edu. appointed with chalkboards, the formally attired students studied A&S graduating classes have grown from that class of two English, Latin, Greek, modern languages, mathematics, physics, in 1843 to 1,785 in 2005 and have produced 52,000 living alumni chemistry, geology and mineralogy and biology. worldwide.

Dean Elmer 30 | 2007 mosaics Ellis, University Archives, c:6/1/5 Mort Walker, Missouri Alumnus, Jan.-Feb. 1977 The Early Years Big Smallpox Problem

Without their parents and unburdened The students who entered Mizzou just chose MU’s award-winning University Glee acts, university yells and violin and by computers, refrigerators or even hair after the turn of the century struggled with Club for a national performance tour to mandolin solos while vigilant police dryers, many University of Missouri problems that are unimaginable to today’s Los Angeles. The singers’ return trip was officers made sure no one crossed the students from the class of 1907 arrived for generation of students. On limited budgets interrupted in Albuquerque, N.M., when roped-off areas. the year at the train station in Columbia. and isolated from contact with their fami- three students came down with smallpox. The students were released and headed There were no Michaels, Madisons, lies, members of the class of 1907 faced the Health officials ordered the sick men from home in good spirits, but when they Taylors or Jennifers in the group. Students serious threat of contracting typhus. the train and detained them in a “pest- arrived on campus, they were escorted to registered with the trendy names of their Their fears abated somewhat after house” for four weeks. They did recover. a large tent for confinement until officials generation: Mable, Adeline, Bertha, Nettie, a doctor told a student assembly that Officials fumigated the rail cars and determined they were not contagious. Clara, Ina, Cecil, Elwood, Walter, Herbert, Columbia’s water had been tested and was quarantined the rest of the group in their As a final note to the story, the song- Homer and Vernon. found to be safe. Still, “Boil the snow,” a car for two days. The bored singers — sters again began to perform whenever 300 They stepped from safe high school student entry in The Savitar cautioned. living in what may be called close harmony or more students gathered near their tent. lives and family environs onto a narrow There was good reason for caution. In May — received care from city residents who They later gave a final concert in Jesse Hall. depot platform teeming with the excite- 1907, the bubonic plague broke out in San visited the site out of curiosity and concern. Thereafter, the singers referred to them- ment of new and returning students. Francisco, and a few years later, an influ- As the gathering crowds grew larger, selves as the Smallpox Club. Porters helped the students with their enza epidemic spread nationwide during the undaunted Mizzou singers took the Fifty years later, in 1964, the Smallpox grips and bundles as they headed toward World War I. opportunity to amuse the public as well Club held a reunion at Mizzou. There’s no campus and a new intellectual life. Serious health problems occurred as themselves. The glee club presented record to indicate any official confinement Among the incoming crowd were 42 again in 1914 when the Santa Fe Railroad impromptu performances of songs, variety for that gathering. seniors — 24 men and 18 women pictured Members of the nationally recognized 1914 men’s in The Savitar — who returned to campus glee club named their group the Smallpox Glee for their final year as members of the class Club after a harrowing concert tour. of 1907. Timorous and unsophisticated, many of the students had lived most of their Columbia was probably the lives on farms and scarcely ventured first journey of any length that most Student writers produced this 1904 campus outside their counties. Their travel to of them had ever taken. periodical, The Independent, also known as the M.S.U. Independent. Richard W. Gentry, on the faculty A&S Fast Fact at that time, recognized the students’ included men from Kentucky and Kansas, Nine of the top 10 undergraduate potential for uninhibited activities. He a woman, Anna Wolfrum of Duluth, Minn., courses by enrollment are in A&S: submitted a front-page opinion piece in traveled the farthest. As the train pulled • General Psychology • English the April 13, 1907, issue of The Independent away, the students found their way to Exposition and Argumentation • that urged students to keep their “youth- the University. Interdisciplinary Proseminar • General ful spirits” in check. An unidentified Savitar writer described Principles and Concepts of Biology “The trouble with the average univer- arriving for the freshman year: “We • Principles of Microeconomics • sity student is that he has seen so little of went up the shady walk in front of the Introduction to Sociology • American the world,” Gentry wrote. “He left his front Quadrangle and saw for the first time the Government (political science) • Survey yard and plumped (stet) into his college buildings of the University of Missouri. It of American History Since 1865 • Survey town with the wandering naïve expression all seemed very strange and unfamiliar and of American History to 1865 • Career of a playful pup.” imposing that first time we saw it. It will Exploration in Journalism. The majority of those seniors hailed seem different to us when we, for the last

from Missouri. Although the class time as students, look back upon it.” University Archives, c:22/11/1

University MU enrollment reaches 74 BA degrees awarded to MU admits first woman Women allowed Fire destroys Academic Hall Postal carriers of Missouri first two graduates admission to all units Academic Schools become begin mail through founded delivery history Academic Departments 1839 1842 1843 1867 1872 1892 1900

32 | 2007 mosaics mosaics 2007 | 33 Smart Entertainment Campus Names You Know Diversity in History The College of Arts and Science took For social fun in the early years, Mizzou became a national radio, Art and Archaeology. a major step toward diversity when students participated in extracurricular stage and television Other 1907 faculty members whose Professor Arvarh Strickland joined the groups that centered on the arts and sci- personality. presence is honored architecturally on history department in 1969 as MU’s first ences. They competed against each other Later, the students campus today are zoology Professor black faculty member. in literary, elocution and debate societies formed organizations George LeFevre, physics Professor O.M. Black students began attending and sang in glee clubs. based on their scholarly Stewart and chemistry professors Paul Mizzou in the 1950s, at a time when there By 1901, 17 literary societies offered pursuits, such as the Schweitzer and Herman Schlundt. were no black professors to help soften such academic entertainment, and their Chemical Society, History LeFevre, who was considered a brilliant the educational and cultural transition popularity spanned the first 50 years of Club and German Club. teacher, planned the elegant biology build- to university life. Strickland’s impact the University. Another source of ing on the white campus that later received was far-reaching. He became a leading Students drew praise for their oratory entertainment grew out his name. Modern students of physics and historian of African-American culture and literary skills, and, most likely, those of the required instruc- astronomy enjoy the benefits of a lecture and earned a national reputation for talented individuals were the unnamed tion in military science, series and scholarships in Stewart’s name, research, writing and his efforts toward writers who produced such campus pub- which had been part of but Stewart Hall, which was named for diversity in education. John Pickard lications as The Savitar, The M.S.U. (Missouri the University since its establishment. University Archives, c:6/1/5 him, houses the departments of biology During a 26-year career at MU, he University Archives, c:0/47/1 State University) Independent, The Index, The Even drills became occasions for students As students went about the business of and geography. was a powerful, positive influence who An elocution class circa 1900 prepares students for Tiger, The Argus, Intelligentsia and The Asterisk. to gather for amusement. being scholars, faculty and administrators Schweitzer Hall honors MU’s first full- helped transform the University into a literary, debate and elocution competition, a popu- For as little as 10 cents, readers could Established by Brig. Gen. Enoch lar campus entertainment. determined which courses were best suited time professor of chemistry, and Schlundt place of opportunity for all students. purchase campus-produced news and Crowder, LLB 1886, the military band of for their academic enlightenment. Hall memorializes the internationally Through Strickland’s efforts, MU literary magazines, which offered the Cadet Corps marched into history By the turn of the century, the College known expert in radioactivity, whose work increased its enrollment of black poems, plays, essays and as the forerunner of Marching Mizzou. included departments of archaeology, brought him in contact with Madame students from 642 in 1993 to 1,018 in narratives, as well as infor- Crowder, who developed a national Department of Communication and the astronomy, biology, chemistry, economics, Marie Curie. 1996. He held numerous administra- mation on campus activi- military registration and draft, is Department of Theatre. elocution, English, geology, Germanic There weren’t nearly enough architec- tive positions: associate vice ties. For 25 cents, students memorialized on campus through By the 1930s, a drama group had languages, Greek, history, Latin, math- tural treasures on campus to honor the president for academic affairs, could buy a third-floor Crowder Hall, home to MU’s formed the Missouri Workshop Theatre. ematics, philosophy, physics and Romance scholarly successes of the large arts and two-time interim director of the balcony seat in Jesse aerospace studies and mili- The group staged productions that fea- languages. science faculty. Other early professors Black Studies Program and chair of Hall to hear a visiting tary science programs. tured set designs by Professor/Director The faculty roster in the 1906 Savitar are remembered through references in the Department of History. speaker. Eventually, as stu- Donovan Rhynsburger and gave promis- lists 68 professors and instructors of the history books. Among Strickland’s many In the music dents shifted their ing students, such as Oscar-winning actor arts and sciences, which included eight Former University President James honors, the St. Louis realm, the 1906 entertainment George C. Scott, a stage. women. It was quite a growth from the 15 Olson’s 1988 history of the University of American named Savitar mentioned a activities from aca- arts and science faculty listed in the first Missouri mentions the national reputations him Educator of great rush for seats demic to athletics Savitar of 1894. of English professors Henry M. Belden for the Year in 1995. at glee club perfor- skills, the University Among the 1907 faculty was John his scholarly writings on the literature of At his retirement in 1996, mances. The social-sing- began to offer classes Pickard, a distinguished professor who the frontier and Arthur H.R. Fairchild for a group of alumni and ing trend as a pastime in oratory, elocution functioned as a one-man department his expertise on Shakespeare. friends established the reached a zenith in the and argumentation. A&S Fast Fact of archaeology and art history. It was But it is English Professor George A. Arvarh Strickland 1920s when the University Those 19th-century Lowry Hall, the former Bible Pickard’s motion at a faculty meeting — in Wauchope who may have found the most Distinguished Glee Club captured regional courses led to the estab- College building on Ninth Street, is the his powerful voice with its New England unusual way to keep his name connected Professorship in history, and national honors. The lishment of a Department administrative and advising center for accent — that championed the building to the University. Wauchope wrote the which is held by Professor most recognized voice of the of Speech and Dramatic the College of Arts and Science. of a memorial tower to honor the 118 MU lyrics to MU’s alma mater, “Old Missouri, Wilma King. group was Jane Froman, who Art, forerunner of the students who died in World War I. MU later Fair Missouri.” So credit him for those bestowed the professor’s name on Pickard music-laden breezes wafting through the Student pictured in the Donovan Rhynsburger Hall, the modern home of the Museum of second stanza. 1977 Black Book. Photos courtesy of University Archives

University Archives, c:22/19/1 First phone installed in MU First automobile appears University enrollment Academic Department World War I begins president’s office in Columbia reaches 2,000 becomes College of Arts Average cost of a meal at University Commons is 13 ½ cents A&S enrollment is 1,836 through and Science history City paves Broadway Biology building opens; MU enrollment at 3,400 1901 1905 1906 1907 1914 1926

34 | 2007 mosaics Engendering a items seem quaint today, No Spittoons, some articles expressed Coed Campus quite liberal views of Please Women were welcome to study at MU as women in academia. It early as 1869 but only in education, which wasn’t until 1938 that a Even before the turn of the century, then was called the Normal Department. woman — A&S student Anne the town-gown connection enhanced According to University of Missouri Fuqua of Columbia — was Columbia’s economy. From the railway historian William Switzler, the University elected editor of The Savitar. porters, to the landladies who operated Curators “boldly” opened the doors to Female students had an boarding houses, from the butchers to the female students in all departments (except advocate in Latin Professor purveyors of laundry services, Columbia military science and tactics) by 1872 after Eva Johnston, MA 1895, served Mizzou’s students. observing that the women “did no man- one of the most respected Student living spaces typically ner of harm” in the Normal Department. women to study at Mizzou. included a bed, table, chair and lamp as Women gradually acquired many of the Johnston received the modern conveniences but no towels, privileges given to men, including the appointment of adviser of soap or spittoon. Men could buy a hat in same library hours. women (forerunner of the town for $3, a suit for $15 to $30 or a gold Each year on Valentine’s Day in the dean title) in 1912 and culti- watch for $25. early years, the coeds — also known as the vated a 43-year relationship Students may not have had a grand varsity girls — took over publication of The with the University. selection of clothes, but they did dress Independent, a student newspaper, to pres- Under the direction of a well for class in the early years. Men wore ent the feminine side of campus life. professor at the University formal suits and ties. Women selected Although many of those published of Koenigsberg, Germany, high-neck, white blouses over long Johnston earned a doctorate skirts and arranged their hair in Gibson Missouri Alumnus, March 1957 in 1905. In the European Eva Johnston, MA 1895, a Latin professor and mentor to female Girl styles. tradition of the time, she students, became the first dean of women. Left: Female students The former frontier town of the 1800s rode in a carriage about town edited the 1901 valentine issue of the M.S.U. Independent, which was evolving into a modern university to allow Latin professors to was usually written from a male perspective. town. Fast-arriving new advances amazed approach her with questions on community residents and students her thesis. Johnston would be delighted to know that alike. The president’s office received the Johnston — Miss Eva to students — in fall 2007 the Department of Women and University’s first phone in 1901, and mail knew French, Italian and German and Gender Studies will become the newest service soon brought convenience in drove a Model T Ford. She crossed the department of the College. communication. Atlantic 22 times and loved to tell humor- An especially memorable date occurred ous stories of her adventures, such as on Oct. 1, 1907, when the city paved its first

riding a camel in Egypt. A&S Fast Fact street. Broadway, the main drag through She is remembered for her kindnesses town, received its dust-free topping just Switzler Hall, completed in 1872 and to students who endured life away from one year after the first car was spotted in named after University historian home. Her academic achievements and Columbia. Col. William Switzler, was built as the feisty spirit served as inspiration to Mizzou Agriculture Building and used as the women of the time. School of Journalism before becoming A&S Fast Fact In June 1951, MU named Eva Johnston home first to the Department of MU’s first full-time art professor Hall in her honor and most recently put Anthropology and then to the An advertisement in the 1907 M.S.U. Independent was George Caleb Bingham, a noted her name on Eva J’s, a popular campus Department of Communication. offered suits for $15 to $30 and hats for $3. American Regionalist Painter. dining spot. There’s reason to believe

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First observance of A&S contains 18 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor MU enrollment First African-American Arvarh Strickland is MU enrollment College of Arts Arts and Science Week departments with MU enrollment is 1,938 student admitted to MU first African-American is 28,253 and Science is through 2,010 students professor history is 5,725 100 years old 2007 1929 1938 1941 1943 1950 1969 2006

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ance, which they now describe as “over the top.” Brent communicating cool recalls that Porter used to say in class, “I don’t know Brothers Aaron and Brent Stoller are twin talents at MTV. what you’re talking about, but I appreciate the effort.” They laugh at the recollection. Aaron credits Dave Dunkin for grounding him in The Stoller twins, BA ’98 communication, admit they were them as students. “He just gave us three C’s,” Aaron says. And the technical part of his job. Dunkin, who directs MU’s cut-ups in class when they were undergraduate students at they laugh again. Academic Support Center, taught a field production Mizzou. They’re still cut-ups, but now they get paid for it. There’s been a lot of sibling togetherness since the two, as class that Aaron absorbed, along with Dunkin’s dry The fun-loving brothers found careers with a company where they put it, shared a womb. Aaron claims to be the oldest twin. sense of humor. “I loved him,” Aaron says. clowning around may be in the job description: MTV. Aaron works “It was a C-section,” Brent says in objection. “We both saw light “I love Mizzou!” Brent adds. as director and senior producer, and Brent is director and executive at the same time.” producer of the on-air promotions department at the cable network. The St. Louis natives both decided on Mizzou as the Who’s on first? The Stollers steal an hour from their hectic routines to best value for the quality of the education. They selected the The Stoller brothers have the cool job of crafting double up on an interview in their New York offices. Aaron throws same classes, challenged the same professors and earned the the image of MTV, the way the channel looks and its a few videos off the sofa in his office to make room for a reporter same degrees. attitude. “It beats working,” Brent says. and photographer, and then he calls Brent into the office. Now they work in offices just a few steps from each other, As producers, they take concepts and make them It isn’t destined to be a serious encounter. This is, after all, MTV. yet none of that sibling closeness seems to bother them. In fact, happen with the assistance of talent that includes “Aaron and Brent were both majors in communication, they still socialize together. The night after the interview, they such A-list celebrities as Tom Cruise, Ashton Kutcher,

both cards, great cut-ups in class and very, very creative,” says attend a bowling birthday party for another MTV colleague, The Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé, Coldplay, Kanye West, Video image courtesy of Aaron Stoller Associate Professor Michael Porter, who remembers them from producer Matt Giulvezan, BA ’00 interdisciplinary studies. Ashanti, Jessica Simpson, P. Diddy and others. The Stoller brothers craft promotional pieces for MTV. Aaron produced this spot his mass media course. Both Stollers reflect on the Mizzou experience and are Aaron creates the commercials that promote all with images of Tom Cruise. The twins laugh when they hear Porter’s description of amazed at their professors’ tolerance of their youthful exuber- things MTV. His spots develop through detailed ideas a Foosball Player” campaign. that start as documents, often as long as 15 pages, and he Other trophies and awards honoring Aaron’s spots are collaborates with such clients as Disney, PepsiCo and scattered around his work space. There’s recognition from Paramount Pictures. the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, One Using his technical skills and wild imagination, Aaron crafts Show, the Art Directors Club and Communication Arts, which engaging concepts and characters while having fun working with showcases outstanding work worldwide. Some of Aaron’s work the celebrities. In addition to his position with MTV, he works is part of the permanent film collection at New York’s Museum as a director with the Los Angeles-based company Backyard of Modern Art. Productions, where he creates commercials for some highly Brent, too, has a slew of honors: an Emmy nomination for visible accounts: Bud Light, Nintendo, Burger King and others. a public service announcement, a 2005 Telly Award and 2003 Backyard’s East Coast representative, Chris Zander, says Peabody and Beacon awards. In his collection, there’s also an Aaron is “new, brilliant and hot — a fresh, hyper-contemporary, award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. future A+ comedic superstar with an award-winning personality.” He knows it’s there. It’s just lost somewhere on the shelving amid Brent directs MTV’s on-air promotions department and statues of St. Louis Cardinals baseball players. Oh well. manages 80 people who do the writing, editing, design, Beyond their appreciation of having fun jobs, the brothers strategizing and marketing. He shoots his long-format shows are most proud of their commitment to creating public service in Los Angeles with celebrity talent. announcements. Early in 2006, they learned that an MTV Brent’s previous work has included larger-scale MTV produc- campaign for sexual health, which they produce annually in tions such as the Video Music Awards, the Super Bowl halftime partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation, had elicited show (not “nipplegate,” he stresses) and Movie Awards. Before some major behavior changes. Research indicated that 49 percent his promotion to executive producer, he also produced all of of young people exposed to the PSAs had talked with a boyfriend Aaron’s gigs, which Giulvezan has taken over. or girlfriend about safer sex. “Brent has risen quickly in the ranks here at MTV because he “Quite a mind-blowing statistic,” Brent says. has that careful balance of straight-ahead business acumen cou- The twins are clearly touched by the significance of the pled with intuitive creative chops,” says Kevin Mackall, senior power of their productions, but any serious discussion on the vice president of MTV. quality of their work is brief. A 2005 Clio award sits on the top shelf of a metal Aaron: “I’ll take credit for anything good.” Photo by Karen Johnson In a rare serious moment, twins Aaron, left, and Brent Stoller reflect on awards they received for MTV productions. display unit in Aaron’s office. He won it for the “If MTV were Brent: “If it’s bad, I didn’t do it.”

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communicating big time When you turn on your TV on Sunday afternoon and say to yourself, “What idiot chose to put this game in this market?” Michael Mulvihill says he’s that guy.

Every Sunday during football season, Michael Mulvihill watches The NFL season brings another round of stress with five to the professional games on eight large-screen plasma TVs in the nine games that need to fit their viewing areas on a single day. National Football League suite at Fox Sports in New York. At times Mulvihill agonizes over the decisions. Groupings of comfortable lounge chairs afford great views of “There are many, many judgment calls, and people care the wall-mounted televisions, and a refreshment bar offers an passionately about the NFL,” he says. “We have to be as thorough inviting assortment of treats. For a die-hard sports fan, this is as possible in making the right choices for every market.” the perfect job. Mulvihill, BA ’94 communication, is vice president of research I want your job! and programming strategy for Fox Sports. He schedules the Growing up in Pittsburgh and cheering for the Steelers, Mulvihill professional NFL and Major League Baseball games, NASCAR knew at an early age that he wanted to go into the media business. races and, starting in January 2007, college football’s Bowl Although he played basketball in high school, he preferred Championship Series. broadcasting a sports radio show. Through research that includes watching as many events as At MU, Mulvihill learned how to manage relationships possible, Mulvihill determines which programs Fox affiliates run through his communication classes and extracurricular jobs at in their market areas. The Maneater and KCOU, the campus radio station, where he was “We come in here and have every set on a different game. I try student manager for a year. to see as much of every game as possible to get a better feel for He enjoyed what he called the raucous environment at KCOU what’s going on in the league,” he says. with people who were bright, committed and talented. He When making programming decisions, Mulvihill factors remembers the KCOU atmosphere as chaotic anarchy that was in team rankings and news around the league. He also notes thoroughly applicable to the professional world. which teams are just plain fun to watch. Some of the scheduling “A lot of it was managing relationships, being a conduit choices are obvious, such as showing the Rams in the St. Louis between the students and the University,” he says. “That’s a lot area and the Green Bay Packers in Brett Favre’s hometown near of what I do now, being a conduit between the network and the Biloxi or capitalizing on the many Chicago retirees living in leagues while trying to line up advertisers.” Arizona by running the Bears’ games in that market. As a student, Mulvihill completed two internships in Los “When you get to the Super Bowl or baseball postseason, Angeles with Fox through the Academy of Television Arts and you feel like you’re working on things that a lot of people care Sciences — the people who do the Emmys — and one in New about,” he says. Judging the success of his decisions is another York through the International Radio and Television Society. The matter. Mulvihill says he’s often not sure how he’s doing until he internships helped him secure an entry-level market-research job makes a mistake. with Fox 10 years ago, and he just kept rising through the ranks. One of his most memorable miscues generated an avalanche Recently, Mulvihill received an unusual nod of appreciation of disgruntled fans calling from markets in Iowa, northern for his work when Sporting News magazine named him to its 2006 Missouri and southern Illinois. Mulvihill had pulled a bunch list of the “Young and Powerful” in sports. of Midwest markets from a “blowout” Vikings game before it ended. The network generally will pull away before a game ends if it becomes one-sided, and, he says, most of the time fans appreciate that. But not that time. Stress is a part of the game plan for Mulvihill. It spikes Left: Michael Mulvihill uses during the baseball postseason with games every night and the Fox Sports NFL suite for heightened fan interest. He worries then about whether the marathon game sessions during games start too late and how to gain the most favorable football season. Right: Even the publicity for Fox’s coverage. artwork is on a grand scale at

Photos by Karen Johnson Fox Sports in New York.

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Mizzou music students composed pieces that won honors in two of the nation’s talentmost distinguished competitions for student composers. By Nancy Moen

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how inspiration strikes Student composer pursues his dream to write music.

ohn Ernst grew up in a rural town of 4,000 When he composes — usually on a computer — Ernst people but took inspiration from the sounds imagines the form of the piece by dividing it into sections of a big city to write the music that earned him and determining how it will make sense logically. He develops a national student composer’s award. an idea and lets it evolve through different methods such as Ernst is the 2006 winner of the National moving into a new key. Young Artist Composition Competition of the Ernst started piano lessons in elementary school and Music Teachers National Association. continued the study through his senior year at North County As a high school graduate from Bonne Terre, High School, where he graduated as salutatorian. At MU, he Mo., Ernst ignored his musical inclination to studied violin, oboe, percussion and voice, and he sang with study computer science at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. the University Singers. It didn’t work. He would wander around the campus Ernst’s mentor, Professor Thomas McKenney, says the music looking for a piano to play, even an out-of-tune instrument. school’s comprehensive program produces talented students “The pull was too strong. I found myself drawn back to who, like Ernst, can compete at a national level. music,” he says. “You go to school with the expectation of Ernst received an MU bachelor’s degree in May 2006 and is getting on a path to job security and throw your dreams in the working toward a master’s degree in music composition at the trash. I decided to do what I really wanted to do.” University of Oklahoma. His goal is to write music that he loves That was to write music. The young man who grew up listen- and that other people will love to hear. ing to classical music transferred to Mizzou to major in music composition. Still, that experience with big-city life in Atlanta Music of the Future stayed with him as inspiration for his winning MTNA composi- The School of Music has developed a reputation as a nurturing tion, “The City Awakens.” environment for the creation of new music. Ernst was a guest of honor when the piece made its national John Ernst is MU’s fourth student to win the National debut March 28, 2006 at MTNA’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas. Young Artist Composition Competition. Previous winners are He watched three faculty members from MU’s School of Music Marc-Andre Bougie, MM ’01, who won in 2001; Keith Kolander, play the piece: Paul Garritson, clarinet; Stefan Freund, cello; and BM ’79, in 1978; and Jay Jacobs, MA ’73, in 1971. Karen Larvick, piano. David MacDonald is the third MU student to win a BMI “I’m really being spoiled to have my teachers play this,” Student Composer Award. Previous winners are Ricardo de Ernst says. “I feel very privileged. I attribute my success to Souza, BM ’97, MM ’99, who won in 1999, and Gene Marshall, their nurturing influence.” Ernst attended the conference and BM ’90, in 1989. accepted a prize of $3,000. Professor Thomas McKenney has guided all four Mizzou “The City Awakens” is the first movement in a set of three students to the Young Artist title as a mentor, and he himself character pieces inspired by an urban landscape. The music was the 1970 Distinguished Composer of the Year, an award for evokes images of a city gathering momentum at the beginning established composers. of a day. People and traffic at first trickle and then pour onto the “The students’ successes are due to the accumulative streets and sidewalks as the day progresses. efforts of the entire music faculty,” says McKenney, who One of the strong points of the piece is how it builds energy. teaches composition and theory. “Classes in music history, for The instruments talk back and forth in a sort of dialogue. “You example, add to the students’ knowledge and consequently hear the exchange as we would converse,” Ernst says. make an impact on their writing. Ensembles and applied Growing up, Ernst was fascinated by composers who could lessons enhance their musicianship and interpretive abilities.” write a symphony with so many instruments playing together. Among the faculty members who were instrumental in He says he constantly hears music in his head and that the teaching the 2006 student-composition winners is Assistant A national music association named John Ernst the composing process is almost intuitive. He may write something Professor Stefan Freund. Freund’s own honors include the student composer of 2006. His winning composition, underneath and hear a melody that goes on top of it, and his ear 2005 Distinguished Composer of the Year award and two BMI “The City Awakens,” will be featured at Mizzou on Photo by Justin Kelley suggests what comes next. Student Composer Awards, to name a few. Tour March 23 in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

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sounds like a winner MacDonald’s edgy music reflects his humor.

ou ought to send that to BMI,” ensemble, and she sings music Assistant Professor Stefan commentary to represent Freund said to senior David Santos’ sister. “It was about as MacDonald when he first heard Although MacDonald good a music MacDonald’s composition “Elegy.” and Santos had exchanged Broadcast Music Inc. is a e-mails, they had never met education as I performing rights organization face-to-face before the for songwriters, composers and public performance of “Elegy.” could get. The music publishers. Judges of the national BMI Student Composer MacDonald didn’t know for faculty are Awards look for pieces that push the limits, and they have a good sure, but he suspected Santos ‘Yrecord. Eleven former winners have won Pulitzer Prizes. would be in the audience at fantastic!” The judges traditionally reward experimental, edgy works. MacDonald’s senior compo- MacDonald’s piece fits both bills. He composed “Elegy” in an sition recital when “Elegy” — David MacDonald atonal, contemporary concert style. “You won’t like it,” he’s likely made its debut in Whitmore to warn people with untrained ears who ask to hear the music. Recital Hall. But the judges did like it and honored the Mizzou student At the end of the piece, MacDonald gestured into the darkened from St. Louis with one of the most coveted awards for young hall in hopes that the poet would stand and take a bow. No one composers in the Western Hemisphere. The judges, who them- stood. But as the performers and composer went offstage, Santos While a senior, David MacDonald won an selves are historically important American composers, select found them and gave MacDonald a huge hug. international award for eight to 10 winners each year from a field of 400 to 500 entries. “He was moved by the performance, and I was moved by the music composition. MU A relative newcomer to composition, MacDonald had been reaction,” MacDonald says. “He had tears in his eyes.” faculty members will composing for only three years when he learned he would be Santos was impressed by MacDonald’s insight into the poem present the world premiere traveling to New York in May 2006 to accept a BMI award. and precocious understanding of the nature of elegies. “How of MacDonald’s newest piece, “Emulsion Quintet,” March 23 His start hadn’t been easy. MacDonald enrolled at Mizzou to could someone so young have understood loss, grief and in Weill Recital Hall at study trumpet performance after failing the theory test for entry mourning so deeply? It’s really a brilliant piece,” Santos says. Carnegie Hall. to Indiana University. At Mizzou, he soon discovered he had an MacDonald received a bachelor’s degree in music performance aptitude for and love of composing. and composition in May 2006. He is working on a master’s degree “David has one of the most creative minds of any student who in composition at Michigan State University. has studied with me,” Tom McKenney, professor of composition and theory, says. “He has a great sense of humor and is liable to do something totally bizarre. His sense of humor is reflected in a How MU Celebrates Student Success lot of what he does.” Mizzou on Tour will feature works by Ernst and MacDonald in a MacDonald’s winning effort was anything but humorous. He performance of new music at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall composed the piece as a musical version of Professor Rod Santos’ on March 23. The School of Music rewards exceptional student poem “Elegy for My Sister,” which Santos wrote as a memorial achievements with appearances at prestigious venues such as after the death of his sister. Carnegie Hall. Gifts from alumni and friends make this magic “This piece is a bit more experimental than other student happen. pieces, and it has an occasional improvisatory feel to it. It’s ethereal,” McKenney says. Creating “Elegy” stretched MacDonald as a composer. It took Hear for Yourself

him a year to write the 20-minute piece for horn, string quartet Listen to the winning compositions, John Ernst’s, “The City and two voices. For contrast, he used both singing and speaking Awakens,” and David MacDonald’s, “Elegy,” at voices. The baritone performs as the primary singing voice; the coas.missouri.edu/AdvanceAS/events/news-music.htm. soprano sings syllables as though she were part of the instrument Photo by Harley J. Seeley, Michigan State University IMC I&DG

48 | 2007 mosaics mosaics 2007 | 49 global factor in math An MU Mathematics Web Site is among the top sites worldwide for online math testing.

More than 20 million Web sites offer Imaging provided the financial support “High school students and their assistance for improving mathematics to develop the Web pages as well as to teachers have figured out how useful this skills through online practice tests, and maintain and expand the site. site is for students preparing for college MU’s site is one of the most important. At mathonline.missouri.edu, students exams,” says mathematics department Google and Yahoo rank can practice the types of math problems Chair Mark Ashbaugh. “A huge number of mathonline.missouri.edu, developed by they will encounter in university place- hits will come from junior high and even mathematics Professor Elias Saab, among ment exams. Site visitors can begin with younger students who are being exposed the top listings that offer online tests in easy problems and move to more challeng- to advanced mathematics.” algebra, calculus and mathematics. ing examples. Google, by the way, uses a math Saab developed the site as a placement You, too, can do the math. You may formula to objectively measure the aid for prospective students seeking entry take the tests in two different formats, importance of Web pages. That equation to first-year calculus, algebra or remedial either multiple-choice or single answers, involves more than 500 million variables math courses at Mizzou, and he began test- so select your preference. Then choose the and 2 billion terms. It’s not available for ing the site online in 2004. Interest in the number of problems you want to work and practice tests online. Web math tests quickly spiraled into huge click on your answer to each problem. Mathematics Professor numbers of “hits” that demonstrate a When you finish the problems, you Elias Saab developed the reach far beyond Mizzou. will receive immediate feedback on your online math tests site Students and teachers use MU’s online work, including the correct answers and that Google ranks near algebra and calculus tests as learning and detailed solutions. If you don’t do well on the top of millions of assessment tools for students considering a test, you can repeat the same test or prac- similar sites worldwide. enrollment in such courses at any univer- tice new problems on the same concept. sity. Also popular are the practice tests Because the site has a large database of for high school algebra, geometry and problems, you can try again and again. trigonometry. Such practice, Saab says, is an invalu- To access the site and check its page able method of learning mathematics. ranking, do a Google search of “online “Teaching experience has shown that the math tests,” “online algebra tests” or majority of students learn mathematics “online calculus tests.” The number of Web by doing practice problems, not simply by sites will appear at the upper right. reading lecture notes,” he says. Saab especially likes the site’s ability to Saab believes the site can be especially serve as a self-evaluating tool. “Students helpful to students in rural areas who may enroll at a university with many different not have specialized teachers for all math backgrounds in math,” he says. “These courses, and, of course, he hopes the test- tests help students achieve a common core ing experience will help MU attract some of mathematical skills and provide a tool of the most-promising students. for schools and teachers to assess their The tests also benefit high school students’ readiness in math to come to math teachers who need material for their Mizzou or go to any college.” computer labs. At MU’s mathonline, teach- Unlike many sites that offer tutoring ers can give all their students the same services, MU’s math testing site is free, problems with identical parameters, or thanks to the generosity of some alumni. they can offer problems at the same level of The Miller family of Miller’s Professional difficulty but with different parameters. Photo by Rob Hill

mosaics 2007 | 51 violence in the virtual world Bruce Bartholow’s research on how violent video games affect players has sparked international interest. By Priya Ratneshwar

In the corner of an airy office in MU’s Thirty-nine male undergraduates who their response combines traditional social-psychological on their behavior or on the behavior of McAlester Hall, 10-year-old Jackson regularly played video games participated to negative techniques with neuroscience. their kids,” he says. Bartholow furiously punches the buttons in the study. They answered questionnai- things.” “One of the things that he does that’s He also doesn’t want to be mistaken of his PlayStation Portable. Engrossed res in which they listed their five favorite The second very unusual and very important in for an anti-video game crusader; in fact, he in his video game, he is oblivious to the video games, assessed how violent each part of the today’s world is he’s well trained both as and Jackson regularly engage in games of fact that just a few feet away, his father is game was and estimated how often they study tested an experimental social psychologist and virtual baseball. But Bartholow does keep discussing his own rather different fasci- played them. Bartholow and his team how this as a cognitive neuroscientist,” says Ken his own research in mind when choosing nation with the medium. assigned each participant a “video game change in the Sher, an MU psychology professor who games for Jackson. Bruce Bartholow, 36, an assistant violence exposure score” based on the brain’s res- has worked extensively with Bartholow. “We don’t buy or play any professor of psychological sciences at questionnaire responses. Participants ponse might “He’s able to characterize brain processes violent games,” he says. “We MU, came of age just as video games were who played many violent video games affect behavior. and relate them to social phenomena.” try to choose games beginning to seize the imagination of frequently had higher scores than those The researchers When news of the desensitization that are still exciting Bruce Bartholow oversees American youths. who played infrequently or who played concocted a study emerged in November 2005, and have an element son Jackson’s video games. “I had friends who had Atari and old- primarily non-violent games. ruse in which domestic news outlets covered it during of strategy.” school games,” Bartholow says. “I would Bartholow fitted participants with they asked the Christmas shopping season. In early play at other kids’ houses.” By the time electrodes and showed them a series of subjects to compete with an unseen oppo- 2006, the study went international. A mur- he was in junior high school, he added images of three types: neutral pictures, nent to see who could click their computer der in England involving video games was Pac-Man and Donkey Kong to his reperto- such as a coffee cup; negative but non- mouse button fastest in response to a making headlines; two teenage boys killed ire. “I played a lot of Donkey Kong as a kid.” violent images, such as a visibly ill baby; series of audio cues. The participants were another, and their violent gaming may But the ultra-realistic and often violent and violent images, such as a man holding told that the winner could blast the loser have motivated their crime. In a House of games available today are a far cry from a gun to another man’s head. The violent with a noise and that he could decide the Commons discussion, a representative in those Bartholow played as a teenager. images were unstaged, documentary volume and length of the noise. Britain’s Parliament asked Prime Minister Because violent video games are one of photos. Researchers monitored the “The level of noise they set is a Tony Blair if he was aware of the University the fastest-growing segments of this subjects’ neurological responses to common measure of aggressiveness,” of Missouri study showing a link between multibillion-dollar industry, Bartholow viewing these pictures. The electrodes Bartholow says. “It’s a way for us to violent gaming and aggressive behavior. and other researchers have been studying measured a part of the brain wave called measure an aggressive behavior in an While he works on other projects, whether the damage inflicted in these P300, which increases as people respond to ethical way that doesn’t actually involve Bartholow plans to continue his video virtual worlds extends into reality. arousing or emotionally evocative stimuli. people having a fistfight or something.” game research. In the future, he hopes to Bartholow began studying the effects The study found that participants with Subjects who had smaller brain res- recruit female subjects – a difficult task of violent video games 10 years ago, when higher exposure scores showed smaller ponses to violent images in the first part because far fewer women than men play he was a doctoral student at MU. His most P300 levels while viewing the violent ima- of the study set longer and louder noise violent video games. He is also interested recent research with colleagues at the ges than participants with lower exposure blasts for their opponents. in examining how a person’s gaming University of Michigan and the University scores. But P300 levels were the same for “That was a really exciting finding history affects his or her response to a of North Carolina was published in participants with high and low exposure because, prior to this, no one had really single exposure to a violent video game. summer 2006 by the Journal of Experimental scores when they viewed the negative, demonstrated any relationship between Bartholow is honored that his study Social Psychology. The two-part study deals non-violent images. how the brain responds to violent stimuli has garnered official attention, but he with whether frequent exposure to violent “There was a very specific deficit in the and subsequent aggressive behavior,” doesn’t aim to influence legislation. “I video games desensitizes players to real- brain’s response to violence that high- Bartholow says. simply hope people will stop and think life violence and if this desensitization score people showed,” Bartholow says. This novel finding may be a result of about the potential effects that video affects behavior. “It wasn’t just an overall dampening of Bartholow’s creative methodology that games or other forms of media can have Photo by Colin Suchland

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stardust inspector

A little dust on her office shelves called radiative transfer modeling, doesn’t bother Angela Speck. The assis- comes in. “Think of dust as a fog that tant professor of astrophysics focuses her may not completely obscure the central research telescopes on dust that exists star,” she says. Scientists can observe the around stars — circumstellar stardust. properties of the light emitted from the Speck was part of an international central star, even though it is dimmed by team of scientists who discovered that the dust cloud. massive-star supernovae — the explosive Speck’s work centers on the creation of death of stars — are major sources of models used to estimate the size and type space dust. With her collaborators, Speck of dust around stars. For the supernovae co-wrote an article that appeared in the project, she helped to create hundreds of June 8, 2006 “Science Express” edition of models, each one a hypothesis containing the journal Science. educated guesses on subjects such as the As light as the subject may seem to amount of dust involved and the materi- non-scientists, the investigation of space als forming it. dust is important because those tiny Astronomers previously suspected particles are considered the building supernovae of being major space-dust blocks of planets and life. factories but were unable to prove such A supernova occurs when a massive speculation until now because of limited star dies after thermonuclear reactions technology. Scientists need extremely cease. The resulting explosion expels sensitive telescopes to study supernovae, stellar material with great force. Because which dim and expand into space quickly. such events are rare, Speck says it’s To observe a supernova that took difficult for scientists to study whether place 30 million light years away in 2003, space dust is formed in the aftermath. Speck and the team used NASA’s Spitzer “The implication is that supernovae Space Telescope. The team also used the may have contributed significant Hubble telescope and the Gemini North amounts of dust to the early universe, Telescope in Hawaii. which is important for successive genera- Although she studies outer space, tions of stars and for planetary and life Speck is a down-to-earth favorite of formation in the early universe,” she says. students. She has a talent for making Like a tracking device, circumstellar even non-astrophysicists feel at ease talk- dust helps researchers understand the ing about exploding stars and speculating evolution of the universe, Speck says. In on the eventual death of the sun. its cyclical life, dust is liberated when stars Visitors to her non-dusty office are die and contributes to the formation of likely to be visually attracted by colorful new stars. That’s a pretty impressive role posters of expanding nebulae, or possibly for something as small as a wavelength of by the bright orange streak in her black light and located much farther from Earth hair. Speck enjoys being as unpredictable Astrophysicist Angela Speck searches than the former planet known as Pluto. as the particles she studies. outer space for research on stardust as Dense dust clouds can also obscure part of an international effort. stars, and that’s where Speck’s work, Senior Rachel Mahan contributed to this story. Photo by Colin E. Suchland

54 | 2007 mosaics Ambassador Herbert I. Sauer Dr. Murray S. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Rex Sinquefield alumni enjoy English, of Leawood, Kan.; Debbie Snellen, how A&S says Robin Robinson Degnan Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Warden MA ’80 communication, of Wildwood, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Eddie A. Williamson this work Yarger of Versailles, Mo.; and staff mem- “thank you” Mr. and Mrs. Albert Winemiller, Jr. Satisfaction. That’s what alumni like bers Lindsay Young Lopez, A&S, and Carrie The College of Arts and Science about working for their alma mater. And Lanham, MUAA. recognizes its philanthropists through Diplomat Mrs. Betty Brittain Fellow that’s why the Arts and Science Alumni ASAO earns its budget from the membership in the Mosaic Society. William R. Gann Dr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Atwood Organization is a vibrant service and Mizzou Alumni Association by working Founded Dr. Charles E. Grayson Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Barr philanthropy group. with the A&S Student Council and by co- in 2000, the An Invitation for Membership Gregory L. Hutchison and Dr. Leon E. Boothe ASAO grew out of A&S Leaders, a hosting A&S projects such as membership society’s honor from the Arts & Science Alumni Dr. Mary Folse Hutchison Ms. Eva M. Bowser collection of alumni and friends of the arts campaigns, alumni events and the alumni roll now lists Dr. and Mrs. Norman W. Jeffries Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Boyd and sciences who united in the mid-1990s awards program. The group receives fund- Organization 276 alumni and John Marshall Mr. Edgar L. Brown and Dr. Judith A. Brown to serve the College and its individual ing from the Dean’s Office and through Individual, Annual $40 friends. Dr. Thomas F. Soapes Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Carroll units as volunteers and donors. membership fees. Individual, 65 or older $30 Donors Mr. and Mrs. Steve R. Ellebracht Margrace Buckler, BA ’78 English, As alumni join ASAO, the organization Dual, Annual $60 become mem- Dr. and Mrs. George E. Fay Very Distinguished Fellow was the founding president, followed by earns financial assistance from MAA for Dual, 65 or older $45 bers through Donald L. Flora and Janet M. Stallmeyer Col. Arthur C. Allen (Ret) Beverly Hughes Yarger, MA ’66 English, two major projects: The Heart of Mizzou $1,000 Life Member $1,500 Dual gifts or pledges to any A&S department or Stuart and Elise Fraser Mr. and Mrs. John F. Blount Mr. Myles S. Friedman, Jr. and current president Chris Stevens, BA Endowment, which supports scholarships program. At the inaugural Mosaic Society Mr. and Mrs. James H. Brazeal Dr. and Mrs. T. Robert Hopkins ’91 communication. and faculty development, and Faculty Name ______dinner in 2000, then-Chancellor Richard Jan C. Weaver and James E. Carrel Neal A. Matticks An ASAO Executive Committee assists Incentive Grants. Wallace and then-Dean Richard Schwartz Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Drake Mrs. Marguerite M. Mitchel the president. Members of that committee Faculty Incentive Grants, awarded Address ______inducted a group representing 82 charter Dr. and Mrs. James L. Fergason Redford A. and Catherine M. Perrine are Buckler; Marie Hunter, BA ’92, MA ’96 annually by ASAO since 2005, have members of the giving society. Jim and Elizabeth Gamble Dr. and Mrs. William H. Pittman art history and archaeology; Don Laird, supported the teaching and research of City/State/ZIP ______Members attend annual dinners to Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Harbert Herman Ponder and Barbara Ponder MA ’97 geography; Marc Long, BA ’91 21 faculty members. Ranging from $500 to E-mail address ______celebrate the induction of new members Mr. B. Ray Holifield Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Rayl history and political science; Wally Pfeffer, $1,500 each, the awards are open to all and enjoy entertainment provided by stu- Mr. Lloyd Lubensky Mr. Scott H. Raymond BGS ’89; R.D. Ross, MA ’75 history; and A&S faculty. Members of the ASAO select Phone ______dents, faculty and alumni of the College. Jack N. Thornton and Patricia H. Thornton, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Kip Reuter Lucille Salerno, PhD ’92 psychology, all recipients based on written descriptions The Mosaic Society recognizes donors Jack and Mildred Schindler

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58 | 2007 mosaics Kansas City Realtor Jim Gamble and his wife, Elizabeth, know the value of a firm foundation. Jim graduated with one from MU’s College of Arts and Science.

A veteran agent of 20 years with Reece & Nichols Realtors, Jim Through an estate plan, the Gambles have designated more Gamble, BA ’84 economics, received the valuable education he than half of their $1 million bequest to support the nationally needed to represent his clients’ real estate needs. respected faculty of the Department of Economics. Now this award-winning salesman and wife Elizabeth are You, too, can create a bequest that benefits the College of Arts strengthening the foundation of Mizzou by helping to retain its and Science, its faculty and students. Visit formizzou.missouri.edu/ finest A&S professors, whom other institutions try to steal away. giftplanning, or call 1-800-970-9977.

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