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FALL 2007 VO FALL L . 2 NO. 4 2 NO. THE MAGAZINE OF UC RIVERSIDE The Importance of Bedside Manner Autism: Crickets Go Silent to Survive Searching for the Light Words and Birds PUBLISHERS Susan Harlow THE magaZinE OF UC RivERsiDE FALL 2007 VOlumE 2 NumbER 4 Marcia McQuern DEpaRTMENTS EDITOR Kim Lane 04 WRITERS R Space Kim Lane A quick look at Kris Lovekin what’s happening Margene Mastin-Schepps Litty Mathew at UCR this fall. Bettye Miller Lisa O’Neill Hill Iqbal Pittalwala 20 Todd Ransom Page Turners Frank Vahid SENIOR DESIGNER Brad Rowe 24 FEatuRES DESIGNER As I See It Wendy Atil 16 UCR Professor Frank PRODUCTION MANAGER Vahid tells how home- Patient Doctors Daniel Chavez schooling has enriched Your doctor’s body lan- CONTRIBUTORS his family. guage may be affecting David Chang Olivia Rivera your health. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT 25 Kat Sanchez 26 Gifted ILLUSTRATIONS Silent Song David Cutler When male crickets are Daniel Mather 32 attacked by a lethal Zach Trenholm Alumni Events parasite, they quickly PHOTOGRAPHERS and Class Acts evolve to evade their Gabriel Acosta Michael Elderman predators. Peter Phun 40 Kat Sanchez C Scape Walter Urie 28 Lawyer Jack Clarke Words and Birds WEBMASTER Jr. is an advocate for Dawn Saenz Rebecca O’Connor has education. DISTRIBUTION combined her passions for writing and birds. Bonnie Mediano Inside back: UCR magazine is published by the Office of Strategic Communications, University Uncommon of California, Riverside, and it is distributed free to the University community. Editorial offices: 1201 University Ave., University Village 204B, University of UCR’s new Commons California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, telephone (951) 827-6397. Unless is open and anything otherwise indicated, text may be reprinted without permission. Please credit UCR, University of California, Riverside. but common. UCR ISSN (1056-4276) is published four times a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall by the University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0155. 08 Periodicals postage rates paid at Riverside, CA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to UCR, Subscription Services (0063), A-252 Highlander Hall, Riverside, CA 92521-0149. Autism: In accordance with applicable federal laws and University policy, the University Parents who are trying to find services that will help their au- of California does not discriminate in any of its policies, procedures or practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, or tistic children be successful often find it difficult, if not impos- handicap. Inquiries regarding the University’s equal opportunity policies may be directed to the Affirmative Action Office, (951) 827-5604. sible, to go it alone. UCR Fall 2007 | 3 R R W VI E NTS E VI E Moving Forward W R R V Immerse Yourself E in Culture and Arts For more on UCR events, visit www.events.ucr.edu. Dear Friends: been actively involved in this process, which I do not intend For those of you whom I have not yet had centers on issues related to communications, “ the opportunity to meet, I want to say what an recognition and professional development. to be a caretaker, honor it is to be serving as acting chancellor of Finally, of utmost importance to UCR in 1.13.08 UCR. My wife and I have quickly come to feel the coming year is the development of a sound but rather … Bobby McFerrin 2.6.08 at home on the campus and in the community. plan that addresses future enrollment at the 11.15.07 Chancellor’s Distinguished Grammy Award winner Bobby McFerrin, We want to thank everyone who has helped to undergraduate, graduate and professional Whirling Dervishes of Turkey Lecture Series I want to help creator of the song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” make us feel so welcome. school levels. For that plan to succeed, we will The Mevlevi Order of Whirling Dervishes Featuring Gioconda Belli, author and poet, 8 performs with a style that is uniquely his own. From my first day on campus I have said need to further invest in scholarships for performs sacred music and ritualized dance p.m. in the University Theatre. Information: move the campus that I do not intend to be a caretaker, but rather undergraduates, fellowships for graduate of the mystical Sufi sect of Islam, including a www.culturalevents.ucr.edu (951) 827-3144 that I want to help move the campus forward students, and endowed professorships and message delivered in person by the 22nd forward during my during my tenure here. With the help of a chairs for faculty. generation granddaughter of Mevlana (Rumi). first-class senior leadership team, I have identified So, as you can see, my intent is for UCR to tenure here. www.culturalevents.ucr.edu the top priorities on which to focus during the make significant strides in the year ahead. I look ” year ahead. Let me say a little about each. forward to working with our faculty, students, 2.22.08 First, we are actively engaged in planning staff and community to help achieve these goals. 1.24-26.08 Daniel Bernard Roumain: of the medical school. We have developed the The Bacciarelli Issue Sonata for Violin and Turntables curriculum for the third and fourth years (we In “The Bacciarelli Issue,” a performance Composer and violinist Daniel Bernard already teach the first two) and are in the created by M.F.A. graduate students in 12.1-29.07 Roumain pairs with DJ Scientific to combine process of developing a “bullet proof” business creative writing and writing for the performing a classical instrument with innovative beats Katherine McPeak: plan. Our goal is to have the proposal before arts, the characters write themselves while and rhyme for an evening of original music. Project Gallery Three the Academic Senate early in the new year. exploring the mysterious Bacciarelli protocol. The new School of Public Policy is cur- Robert D. Grey McPeak shows her work as a part of www.culturalevents.ucr.edu Sweeney Art Gallery’s Project Gallery Three, theatre.ucr.edu rently under review by the Academic Senate. We Acting Chancellor will continue to facilitate this process, with the a series of exhibitions by second-year goal of enrolling our first students as early as Master of Fine Arts graduate students in fall 2009. the art program at UCR. The downtown ARTSblock – consisting of sweeney.ucr.edu the Sweeney Art Gallery, the UCR/California 1.26-3.29.08 3.6-8.08 Museum of Photography and the Culver Center of the Arts – continues to be a priority for both The Signs Pile Up: Paintings UCR is Dancing 2008 the campus and the community. This year we by Pedro Alvarez The annual production of UCR is will launch an exploration for an expanded This Sweeney Art Gallery exhibition of Dancing showcases original choreography program of arts and culture, befitting the size of Through 1.5.08 Cuban painter Pedro Alvarez showcases his by UCR students. our campus. We can’t, of course, create a larger Jay Wolke: Architecture of Resignation work rooted in Cuban history. His paintings www.dance.ucr.edu program in just a year, but we can lay a The UCR/CMP presents an exhibit of focus on the economic crisis in 1991 after foundation upon which the campus, in collabo- photography, exploring the relationship the fall of the Soviet Union, and addresses ration with the city of Riverside, can build. between the historical and contemporary global concerns of colonialism and its Under the leadership of Vice Chancellor Al Italian landscape. presence in society. Diaz, UCR will implement recommendations www.cmp.ucr.edu sweeney.ucr.edu emerging from a staff climate survey and a subsequent series of focus groups. Staff have 4 | UCR Fall 2007 UCR Fall 2007 | 5 E spac R Guests enter a lobby area that serves as the hub of the More New Faces, Changing Roles UC Riverside Welcomes New Alumni and 13,865-square-foot, split-level building. The center also Acting Chancellor includes the Goldware Library (with a fireplace seating area Acting Chancellor Robert Grey is not the only new face on Visitors Center Opens and publications by UCR authors), the Erickson Conference campus this year. UCR has hired 55 new faculty members and Robert D. Grey, a former provost and executive Each year, thousands of UCR alumni, parents and friends Room, the Johnson Board Room, the large Redmond Dining made several administrative appointments. vice chancellor at UC Davis, has been appointed rely on the UCR Alumni Association to provide them with the Room and the Arroyo Vista Cafe, which will provide daily Dr. Phyllis A. Guze has been named to serve as acting chancellor at UC Riverside. information that keeps their connection to the university alive. luncheon service. The cafe and the meeting spaces are available executive director, medical school planning. Grey succeeds Chancellor France A. Córdova, Now, alumni, parents and friends have a place they can call to both the campus and the community. She is chair emeriti of the Department of who ended her term July 1 to become president home. The recently completed Alumni and Visitors Center has The center will offer catering menus, audiovisual equipment and Medicine at the Veterans Administration Greater of Purdue University. been designed to serve as the front door to the campus and to a professional staff to assist in planning meetings or special events. Los Angeles Healthcare System and a longtime Grey served eight years as the chief academic and financial be a distinctive arrival point to welcome visitors and showcase The UCR Alumni and Visitors Center will also serve as the professor of medicine at UCLA.