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Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin New students head across campus on a tour for UIC Orientation, organized by Student Development Services. Up to 8,000 freshmen or transfer students and their parents will be introduced to UIC through orientation, which began at the end of May and continues through July. Students are also invited to stay overnight in residence halls. All new undergrads can participate in orientation; it’s not too late to sign up at 312-996-3271. Not-so-lazy days of summer

Christine Mary Dunford adds drama Look, Ma, no gravity! Team takes Custom map business leads Loyola women’s coach joins to teaching science into space urban planning grads to success Flames staff More on page 2 More on page 5 More on page 7 More on page 12 2 UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I JULY 17, 2013

profile Send profile ideas to Gary Wisby, [email protected] Christine Mary Dunford takes bestseller to the stage By Gary Wisby “Alice talks to herself,” Here’s how Christine Mary Dunford Dunford said. “She can say came to adapt the bestselling novel Still things she thinks that she Alice into a play that she directed recently wouldn’t say to her family.” for Lookingglass Theatre: Dunford has been She was working with the director of part of the Lookingglass a program for Alzheimer’s patients and asked if she’d ever ensemble since 1989 and considered stage performance as a way to reach them. has acted in, written, “Yes, but I didn’t know how,” the director said. adapted or directed nearly Said Dunford: “I know how.” three dozen of the theater’s Dunford, associate chair of UIC’s theatre and music productions. department, is a partner on Alzheimer’s-related projects For the Memory with Darby Morhardt and Mary O’Hara of Northwestern Ensemble, she gets University Feinberg School of Medicine. together with eight to 15 They co-founded the Memory Ensemble, which involves Alzheimer’s patients once a patients in improvisation. week for improv work. “People don’t have to remember,” Dunford said. “No one has to Because she needed background on Alzheimer’s, Dunford remember anything from asked Morhardt for some literature. The book Still Alice, by week to week,” she said. Lisa Genova, was part of the material she was handed. In one exercise, “One of the reasons I liked it was that it shifted the objects are grouped in the discourse about ‘dying from’ to ‘living with,’” she said. middle of the room and “It matched my own values and principles about living participants take turns and change, and my experience with people in the Memory pretending the objects are Ensemble. Living with Alzheimer’s — that felt truthful to me.” something else. Another thing she liked about Still Alice was its “dark Illustrating, Dunford picked up her sweater and humor that matched my experience with people with “One of the reasons I liked it was that it shifted the discourse about ‘dying from’ to ‘living with,’” says held it like a violin, cradled Alzheimer’s,” Dunford said. Christine Mary Dunford about “Still Alice,” her recent play directed for Lookingglass Theatre. “Sometimes people are afraid, sad or confused, but when it like a baby and tugged their feelings are acknowledged, they quickly move into the on it like a dog leash. chance to do something positive with humor and hope.” For each transformation, “everyone shouts ‘Yes it is!’” she She earned a bachelor’s degree in theater from She wanted the play to present some of the biggest said. Northwestern University. questions about living with Alzheimer’s and “provide a “Everyone is creative, everyone is supportive, everyone is “I thought about a double major including political science, vocabulary for more conversation.” successful in a safe environment.” but I kept coming back to theater,” she said. She seems to have succeeded. Twenty years ago, Dunford co-founded the Lookingglass “Through stories, we get to experience and explore what it “People who came to the play told me almost without Education and Community program for public and private means to be human.” exception that they drove home talking about it,” Dunford school students across the city. Dunford received a master’s degree in cultural anthropology said. In the Young Ensemble, kids ages 8 to 18 spend a school at UIC before returning to Northwestern for a doctorate in One of several works she’s adapted into plays, Still Alice, year creating a play — or adapting one from a short story or performance studies. which ran at Lookingglass from April 20 to May 19, “came novel — then stage and produce it. She rejoined UIC in 2012 as associate chair of theatre and rather easily,” she said. In 1994, Dunford became a founding teaching artist with music and will be director of the new School of Theatre and “The source material is so good, and I’d had a lot of the Chicago Arts Partners in Education, teaching in the Music. personal experience that gave me a sense of clarity about what program until 2003. Dunford lives in Evanston with her husband, Daniel I wanted to do.” As an anthropology research associate with the Field Cunningham, production coordinator at Oakton Community As with any piece of fiction, the challenge was in Museum, she conducted research commissioned by the city’s College, and their two young children. translating the narrative voice to the stage. Dunford did this Department of Environment on how residents understand “I like to hike and camp with my family,” she said. “I have an by splitting Alice into two characters. and deal with issues of conservation and climate change. interest in travel, but don’t get to do a lot of it. Both are onstage together, along with the play’s other Dunford’s family lived in Evanston and Chicago until “And I want to learn to draw and watercolor. It’s on my list characters — Alice’s husband, their two children, a grad she was 6, moving to Rockford for three years and then to of things to do when I retire.” student and two doctors. Phoenix, Ariz. [email protected]

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“History tells us with modes of transportation, at “Kids hear a lot of negative messages about healthy “It’s the notion of universities doing things and us some point with more and more use, the number of eating. When we say things like ‘you have to eat your doing things with universities, because they can’t do it crashes declines.” brussels sprouts before you get any dessert,’ we are alone, that helps us create the coalitions of place that sending a message that vegetables are something to we need to invest in Chicago.” Siim Soot, professor emeritus in the Urban Transportation be tolerated, not enjoyed.” Center, on the decline in the number of Chicago-area David Perry, professor of urban planning and policy, on bicycle crashes, July 12 ABC7 News Sheela Raja, assistant professor and clinical psychologist the impact of universities on Chicago’s economy, July 10 in pediatric dentistry, on getting children to eat their WBEZ-FM “Curious City” vegetables, July 14 Nashua, N.H. Telegraph UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I JULY 17, 2013 JULY 17, 2013 I UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu 3

UIC Chicago site for Latino health study Crisis training may improve police response to mentally ill By Sharon Parmet By Jeffron Boynés UIC will manage the Chicago por- tion of a six-year, multi-center National Can specialized training help Chicago police to divert Institutes of Health study of Hispanic people with mental illness into treatment services and and Latino health in the U.S. avoid incarceration? “The Hispanic/Latino population is A $3.1 million, five-year grant from the National growing faster than any other minority Institute of Mental Health to researchers in the Jane group in the U.S., and to better serve Addams College of Social Work will fund a study of the their health needs, we need to know effectiveness of a police-based diversion approach that uses where they stand as a whole — this crisis intervention teams. study lets us see that big picture,” said “There is emerging evidence that crisis intervention Martha Daviglus, director of the UIC teams improve police response to persons with mental Institute for Minority Health Research illnesses,” said Amy Watson, associate professor of social and principal investigator of the Chi- work. cago field center. “This study will allow us to more rigorously test crisis The nationwide Hispanic Com- intervention team effectiveness and examine factors that munity Health Study/Study of Latinos support improved longer-term mental health and criminal includes more than 16,400 Hispanic/ justice outcomes for persons with serious mental illnesses Latino adults between the ages of 18 in the community.” and 74. Participants are of diverse back- Results from a previous study in four Chicago police grounds‚ including Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, districts suggested that crisis intervention-trained officers Puerto Rican, Central American and South American. They disease, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, were more successful at directing individuals with mental were recruited from four U.S. communities. diabetes and smoking,” she said. illness to services than were their non-trained peers, and The NIH contract managed by UIC is funded for up to The study has an educational and preventive component; they were less likely to use force with resisting individuals. $15.3 million. findings will be shared with the participants and the public. The new study will include all 22 Chicago police The first phase of the study, from 2008 through 2012, “Everything we find through this study will help us districts. In addition to examining how trained and collected baseline health data on participants. identify risk factors and educate this population as to untrained officers handle calls involving persons with In the second phase, researchers will reexamine the measures they can take to avoid these risks and improve their mental illnesses, the researchers want to recruit the participants and collect data on chronic diseases that are health,” Daviglus said. call-subjects for a year-long follow-up after the initial prevalent in Hispanics/Latinos, including heart disease, The research will investigate the so-called “Hispanic encounter to see how many accessed local mental health diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and paradox” — despite overall low socioeconomic status and services, how many entered the criminal justice system, gestational diabetes. high rates of obesity and diabetes, Hispanic/Latino people in and how they fared. The study will include assessment of cardiovascular the U.S. tend to live longer than whites, Daviglus said. Watson said she hopes the study will guide allocation risk factors, echocardiography and blood and urine tests. “We want to further investigate whether the Hispanic of “scarce” mental health and criminal justice resources Participants will complete a questionnaire on demographic, paradox really exists, and if so, what are the factors driving and “improve safety and outcomes for police officers, sociocultural and lifestyle factors. Genetic information will it,” she said. “Does this population do something else that is persons with mental illnesses, and Chicago’s many diverse be analyzed to determine if health and disease findings can be protective, or helps offset these negative health issues?” communities.” linked to specific gene variants. The other field centers are located in the New York City Study co-investigators include Don Hedeker and Linda The original study revealed a startling burden of risk borough of the Bronx, San Diego and Miami. The Chicago Owens of UIC, Joel Caplan of Rutgers University, Michael among the Hispanic/Latino population, Daviglus said. field center is a collaboration between UIC and Northwestern Compton of George Washington University, and Jen Wood “We found that 80 percent of men and 71 percent of University. of Temple University. women have at least one adverse risk factor for cardiovascular [email protected] [email protected]

School policies, state laws reduce junk food availability

By Sherri McGinnis Gonzalez sugar-sweetened beverages by children and youth, the fact that unfunded district policies are actually helping to change District policies and state laws help reduce the availability the availability of sugar-sweetened beverages in elementary of sugar- and fat-laden foods and beverages in elementary schools is a really positive sign,” Chriqui said. schools, according to a study published online in JAMA However, the study also found that such policies are Pediatrics. not fully implemented. For example, the researchers found UIC researchers looked at the link between established that of the 121 surveyed schools located in states with laws policies and laws, and the availability of candy, baked goods, prohibiting sale of sugar-sweetened beverages in elementary ice cream, chips, sugar-sweetened beverages and soda sold schools, 22 schools — all in southern states — still sold such outside the school meal program. Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin drinks. More than 1,800 elementary schools in 45 states responded Jamie Chriqui: “There is a lot of room for continued progress.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to to surveys during the 2008-2009 and 2010-2011 school years. implement nationwide standards governing competitive foods The researchers found that in schools without district or Sugar-sweetened beverages were available in only one- and beverages in schools as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free state guidelines limiting sugar content in foods, 43.5 percent fourth as many schools with a district-wide ban as in those Kids Act of 2010. sold sweets. When both district and state guidelines restricted that had no policy. “There is a lot of room for continued progress,” said the sale of sweets, only 32.3 percent of schools — nearly a The availability of sugar-sweetened beverages was not Chriqui, who said the study provides promising data to guide quarter fewer — sold these foods. influenced by state policies. the USDA’s efforts to impose new federal standards. The study shows that “policies can improve the elementary Public elementary schools are required, through an Co-authors include Lindsey Turner, Daniel Taber and school food and beverage environment, and state and district unfunded federal mandate, to have a wellness policy with Frank Chaloupka, all of UIC. policies are often reinforcing one another,” says Jamie Chriqui, nutritional guidelines for “competitive” foods and beverages — The study was supported in part by the Robert Wood lead author of the study and senior research scientist at UIC’s those that vie with items in the school meal program. Johnson Foundation to the Bridging the Gap Program at UIC. Institute for Health Research and Policy. “Given the problems we have with overconsumption of [email protected] 4 UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I JULY 17, 2013

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Ravages of war A free performance of “Unraveling Bill” is set for 7 p.m. July 30 at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Artificial intelligence no match for 2-year-old Presented by Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, the play uses monologue, dance and original music to tell the story By Jeanne Galatzer-Levy of Theresa, whose brother committed suicide after returning from military service in Iraq. Artificial and natural It will be followed by a conversation with a member of knowledge researchers at UIC the ensemble, a mental health practitioner, a veteran and the gave IQ tests to one of the best audience. The evening will conclude with a light yoga session. available artificial intelligence systems to see how intelligent Liautaud grads talk careers it really is. A panel of five graduates of the UIC Liautaud Graduate Turns out, it’s about as School of Business will tell how their degrees changed their smart as the average 4-year- career direction July 25 at the UIC Innovation Center, 1240 old, they reported today at W. Harrison St. the U.S. Artificial Intelligence A “pre-event mingle” is at 5:30 p.m. followed by the panel Conference in Bellevue, presentation at 6. An open reception, with light refreshments Wash. and cocktails, follows at 7 p.m. at Jak’s Tap, 901 W. Jackson St. The UIC team put ConceptNet 4, an artificial Remembering Ida B. Wells intelligence system developed Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin A book signing and discussion with Michelle Duster, at Massachusetts Institute Robert Sloan: As far as computers, “we’re still very far from programs with common sense.” great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells and editor of Ida in Her of Technology, through the Own Words: The Timeless Writings of Ida B. Wells from 1893, verbal portions of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary One of the hardest problems in building an artificial will begin at 7 p.m. July 25 at the Jane Addams Hull-House Scale of Intelligence Test, a standard IQ assessment for intelligence, Sloan said, is devising a computer program Museum. young children. that can make sound and prudent judgments based Presented by the museum and the UIC African American They found that ConceptNet 4 has the average IQ of on a simple perception of the situation or facts — the Cultural Center, the program is in conjunction with the a young child. But, unlike most children, the machine’s dictionary definition of common sense. center’s exhibition “The Reason Why,” commemorating the scores were uneven across different portions of the test. Common sense has eluded artificial intelligence 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. “If a child had scores that varied this much, it might be engineers because it requires both a large collection a symptom that something was wrong,” said Robert Sloan, of facts and what Sloan calls implicit facts — things so Undergrad Research Award professor and head of computer science and lead author on obvious that we don’t know we know them. A computer Applications from faculty and students are being accepted the study. may know the temperature at which water freezes, but we for the 2013-2014 Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Sloan said ConceptNet 4 scored well on tests of know that ice is cold. Awards, which will fund more than 100 undergraduate vocabulary and ability to recognize similarities. “All of us know a huge number of things,” said Sloan. students to work as research assistants in faculty labs. “But ConceptNet 4 did dramatically worse than average “As babies, we crawled around and yanked on things and Students must be eligible for Federal Work Study to on comprehension — the ‘why’ questions,” he said. learned that things fall. We yanked on other things and participate. learned that dogs and cats don’t appreciate having their Faculty members who hire a student also registered for tails pulled. Life is a rich learning environment. research credit will receive a Faculty Research Mentor Award “We’re still very far from programs with common sense of $300 per student per semester to support any scholarly — AI that can answer comprehension questions with the expenses. skill of a child of 8.” Details and applications for faculty and students are Sloan and his colleagues hope the study will help to available at www.ure.uic.edu focus attention on the “hard spots” in artificial intelligence research. Where to buy tickets Study coauthors are UIC professors Stellan Ohlsson, As of July 1, all discount tickets, stamps and CTA passes psychology, and Gyorgy Turan, mathematics, statistics and are sold at the UIC bookstores instead of the student center computer science, and undergraduate Aaron Urasky. service desks. [email protected] The bookstores in Student Center East and Student Center West will sell discount movie tickets to AMC, Regal Cinemas and Cinemark theaters and Six Flags. The bookstores will also provide campus vending refunds and ID replacement payments for the Student Center West ID Center. The sponsoring faculty or staff member must submit guest analyzing survey data. The bookstores are open Monday through Friday, 8:30 names 24 hours in advance to the UIC Athletic Facilities Qualtrics can be used for market research, tests, employee a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 312-413-5500. Office. evaluations, website feedback and more. Potential UIC Lost-and-found and information services will be available uses include surveying new students, measuring program in building management offices: first floor lobby, Student Nominations due for Watkins Award satisfaction, helping with course projects, scoring quizzes and Center East, 312-413-5100; first floor lobby, Student Center Nominations are due July 19 for the Janice Watkins Award collecting secure data. West, 312-413-5200; and first floor southeast entrance, for Distinguished Civil Service, presented each year to one or The site is available through the Academic Computing and Student Services Building, 312-413-5000. more support staff employees. Communications Center at http://accc.uic.edu/service/surveys Nomination forms are available online at www.uic.edu/orgs/ New entry procedure for FAC, PEB sac/ Circle Interchange background A new entry procedure has been established at the Flames The award was established in memory of Janice Watkins, Print documents related to the proposed Circle Athletic Center and Physical Education Building. president of the Staff Advisory Council, who died in 1974. Interchange project are available for public viewing at the Faculty, students, staff and regular visitors must show their Daley Library reserve desk (library use only). i-cards or visitor cards. 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Team takes science into space Researchers go weightless to test cooling system in zero gravity By Jeanne Galatzer-Levy produces conditions of weightlessness and his fellow researchers. nearly double normal gravity. When the He accidentally kicked Three years of preparation supported plane traces a parabola, gravitational force a Japanese scientist by NASA paid off for UIC researchers who increases as it climbs or descends steeply. who floated too close. conducted experiments while floating As the plane reaches its peak and floats over The UIC weightless on a Novespace & European Space the top of the curve, the crew experiences researchers tested their Agency plane. weightlessness. cooling system for Under the direction of Alexander Yarin, Over three days, the group flew three potential use in near or professor of mechanical and industrial flights. On each three-and-a-half-hour flight, outer space. engineering, two brothers — Suman Sinha the plane flew 31 parabolas — five minutes Satellites, rockets Ray, a postdoctoral fellow and recent UIC through the curve, five minutes rest, then and drones have graduate, and Sumit Sinha Ray, a graduate another five-minute parabola, with a rest elaborate electro- student — went aloft and braved high- after every third parabola. optical and infrared and zero gravity to test a cooling system The flights were physically demanding but sensors, recording Yarin’s team developed for hot-running “exciting and fun,” Suman said. The scientists equipment and data microelectronics. were warned not to float around the cabin as processing systems. All When liquid on a hot surface evaporates, astronauts do in the space station. When you of these electronics are it carries away heat. Yarin and his colleagues move your head while weightless, he said, designed with smaller wanted to find out how well the evaporative “your senses don’t match,” and many people and smaller elements cooling system they developed would work become nauseated, even after a pre-flight that generate heat and under conditions of twice-normal or zero anti-nausea injection. can burn out. gravity. Suman was right at home, Sumit said, and “This is a problem Photo: Sumit Sinha Ray The UIC researchers, one of 12 “worked on the computer very naturally as that is very acute,” Researchers Alexander Yarin (right) and Suman Sinha Ray aboard the plane. international teams monitoring experiments we ran the experiment.” Yarin said. “We are covers high-heat surfaces with mats made onboard the Novespace Airbus plane, Sumit photographed the experiment very nearly at the limit of miniaturization from tangles of nanofibers. The extremely collaborated with Cameron Tropea of while keeping a close eye on the pressurized because of the problem of heat removal.” thin fibers of the mat trap coolant against Technische Universität Darmstadt in rig running the system. Holding the camera Yarin and his group developed nano- the surface so that evaporation is rapid and Germany, who sent three students onboard. steady as his feet floated off the floor was textured surfaces that dramatically increase complete. The Novespace Airbus’ parabolic flights challenging, he said, as was keeping an eye on cooling efficiency. Their cooling system [email protected]

Photo: Sumit Sinha Ray The group took three flights over three days. Each flight was physically demanding but “exciting and fun,” said Suman Sinha Ray (left). Right, engineering professor Alexander Yarin checks the set-up before take-off. 6 UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I JULY 17, 2013

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Sept 4 Aug 26 Photo: Liz Thomson Couples celebrate after same-sex civil unions are legalized in Illinois in 2011. Sept 11 Sept 3 Sept 18 Sept 9 States next for same-sex Sept 25 Sept 16 marriage, historian says Oct 2 Sept 23 By Matt O’Connor The differences in legal protection for same-sex couples have resulted in legal and Oct 9 Sept 30 Now that the Supreme Court has made its financial problems for Zanoni and Prieto. decision to recognize same-sex marriage at “The whole thing for us is the health Oct 16 Oct 7 the federal level, UIC scholar John D’Emilio insurance aspect,” said Zanoni, who priority- says the next set of hurdles are coming up mailed payments for Prieto’s health insurance Oct 23 Oct 14 quick — the states. to Springfield to make sure his partner stayed The case declared same-sex couples living on the policy. in the 12 freedom-to-marry states are eligible Since 2007 UIC employees have been Oct 30 Oct 21 for the same federal benefits and protections eligible to receive same-sex domestic partner as other married couples, such as Social benefits, including health insurance. Nov 6 Oct 28 Security. It also determined federal law must “If the check did not reach them, he would recognize same-sex marriages by states that be permanently cut off,” Zanoni said. Nov 13 Nov 4 have legalized them. The case was decided by Because they couldn’t file jointly as a 5-4 vote. married on their federal income tax, they paid In another case challenging California’s an extra $2,000, Zanoni said. Nov 20 Nov 11 Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex D’Emilio says he believes the court’s marriage, the court’s action means California decision will provide a path toward same-sex Nov 27 Nov 18 will again recognize same-sex unions. marriage in states now considering the issue, “We are living through a long era in which Illinois included. Dec 4 Nov 25 gay people have been challenging what has A same-sex marriage bill backed by been considered normal — what is okay,” said Gov. Pat Quinn passed the Illinois Senate in D’Emilio, professor of history and gender and February, but was pulled from the House of women’s studies whose book, Intimate Mat- Representatives May 31. ters: A History of Sexuality in America, was “I think there’s a very good chance that the Always online referenced in a 2003 Supreme Court case on legislature will approve same-sex marriage,” uicnews.uic.edu/uicnews gay rights. said D’Emilio. “As that happens, it encourages “That allows a re-thinking of marriage people in the next tier to go forth as well.” Advertising as the union of a man and a woman — it’s a One important question likely to arise violation of equal protection.” as a result of the Supreme Court decision uicnews/uic.edu/uicnews/advertising The landmark case was brought by a is the legal status of couples married in one woman who had married her partner in state when they move to a state that does not Canada. The couple lived in New York; after recognize same-sex marriage. her partner died, the widow faced heavy “I believe that will be the next round of federal estate taxes because they were not challenges,” said D’Emilio. “Deciding whether considered legally married. or not a couple married in Massachusetts is “I was just shocked because I didn’t think married in Indiana.” Find us on Facebook the court would go that way,” said Joseph Both Supreme Court rulings are “limited facebook.com/uicnews Zanoni, director of continuing education in their scope,” and many barriers to same-sex and outreach at Great Lakes Center for marriage still remain, said D’Emilio. Follow us on Twitter! Environmental and Occupational Health and “One of the morals of this story, in this Safety, who has been in a civil union with his moment of time, is it [change] doesn’t just fall twitter.com/uicnews partner, Albert Prieto, since June 2011. out of the sky,” said D’Emilio. “I’m hoping it will show the legitimacy of “People are campaigning to make change.” our partnership.” [email protected] UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I JULY 17, 2013 JULY 17, 2013 I UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu 7

postgraduate Custom map company, Cartografika, guides grads to success

By Anne Brooks Ranallo

“Maps are about more than navigation. They can tell stories,” says Jose Alarcon. Alarcon co-founded Cartografika, a company that produces custom-designed maps, with former UIC classmate Adam Jentleson. Since they started Cartografika two years ago, their maps have told many Chicago stories. But they’ve also discussed places as diverse as Budapest, Venice, Jackson Hole, the seven kingdoms of ancient China and Dayton, Ohio. And Siem Reap, Cambodia, highlighting the Temples of Angkor Wat. And the Molise region surrounding the town of Duronia, Italy (population 473). It all depends on the places and things that mean something special to their clients. According to their mission statement on www.cartografika.net, Alarcon and Jentleson “eagerly invite fresh design ideas and will gladly suffer constructive criticism.” The two started making maps while studying geographic information systems in the master of urban planning program. Alar- con, who majored in art history as an undergraduate, was drawn to the design aspect, and Jentleson “just fell into GIS and really Adam Jentleson (left) and Jose Alarcon, who met as graduate students in urban planning, founded Cartografika two years ago. “Every custom map is quite time- enjoyed the classes,” he says. intensive, but we enjoy working closely with our clients,” Alarcon says. “The level of customization is endless,” Jentleson adds. They graduated in 2011 and found full- time work as GIS analysts. Alarcon works for the South Suburban Mayors & Managers Park. Suddenly, their side business began significance to the couple who ordered it.” work, going beyond the artistic side,” Jentleson Association, where he manages an online to take off as people asked for maps of their Now they sell their maps through Etsy. said. He describes a suite of “foyer art” they’re mapping application that offers data on neighborhoods or other favorite places. com and the occasional craft fair, and they preparing for a real estate company that building footprints, parks, land parcels, “People wanted different colors, or they promote dozens of designs on their website. will depict Chicago parks, transit lines and brownfields, waterways, infrastructure and wanted to mark their apartment buildings,” Jentleson says about half the maps are buildings. more. Jentleson works at UIC’s Institute for Jentleson said. “The level of customization is customized and half are premade. They can Both artists stress that good maps have to Health Research and Policy, most recently endless.” be made to any scale, but printing costs are combine accurate data with compelling design. mapping parks, sidewalks, bike lanes and “Every custom map is quite time- added to the base fee of $175. Jentleson recalls sifting through a lot of food access for a national study linking child intensive, but we enjoy working closely One of their recent commissions was a “ancient, inaccurate data” for that map of the obesity to the built environment. with our clients,” Alarcon says. “One of my 14-by-20-foot wall mural for the Intelligentsia seven kingdoms of China. A few months after graduating, they favorites is a series of three custom maps of coffeehouse in Logan Square. It details “There are a lot of sources online for free gathered up the maps they’d been making for Mexico City, Houston and Chicago, all of the neighborhood’s buildings, roads and GIS data,” he says. “But it’s often of poor friends and family and showed them at the which have the same scale, map features, waterways. graphic quality.” summer 2011 Renegade Craft Fair in Wicker and certain buildings and sites of great “We want to move into more consulting [email protected]

Photos: Cartografika Recent creations include a 14-by-20-foot wall mural for a coffeehouse in Logan Square (right), but Cartografika has also produced maps of Budapest, Venice and Jackson Hole. 8 UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I JULY 17, 2013

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Newsman Walter Cronkite dies “Timeslip”

July 17, 2009: August 22 S M T W T F S Famed CBS news Film screening anchor Walter in conjunction Cronkite dies at with “Whisper 1 2 3 4 5 6 92. Labeled the Down the Lane” 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 “most trusted explodes hinges man in America,” of time travel. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Jesse Malmed, Cronkite was 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 anchor for CBS guest curator. Evening News for 7 p.m. Gallery 400. 28 29 30 31 19 years. 312-996-6114, “After the Rainbow” gallery400.uic.edu

EXHIBITS July 19 August 14 Role of Boards in Nonprofit Organizations Summer Wind Seminar presented by Marilyn Kirk details best practices for Through Oct. 11 Ensemble building strong boards. 1-4:30 p.m. 110 CUPPA Hall. Free concert per- Students free; UIC alumni, faculty $25; others $40. “The Reason Why the Colored American is Not in the formed by Summer http://bitly.com/190SGuc World’s Columbian Exposition” Wind Ensemble, student, faculty, staff Interactive exhibit presents historical accounts of black July 25 Americans’ thoughts, feelings and experiences related to the and alumni musicians directed by Nicholas Chicago World’s Fair. African American Cultural Center, 207 “Inspired and Transformed” Addams Hall. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Evening, weekend and Carlson. 7:30 p.m. Liautaud Graduate School of Business alumni discuss their group tours by appointment. 312-996-9549 UIC Theatre, experiences, career success. 5:30-8:30 p.m.,UIC Innovation 312-996-2977 Center, 1240 W. Harrison. 312-996-4573, [email protected] Through August 24 Photo: Jason Smith

“Whisper Down the Lane” SPECIAL EVENTS WORKSHOPS Exhibit brings together 29 artists, based on the children’s game telephone. Who picked July 25 July 18 whom and why, as well as connections between the “Ida: In Her Own Words” NIH Public Access Policy: Meeting Granting Agency work, will be revealed. Gallery Requirements 400. Tue.-Fri. 10 a.m.-6 Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, on NIH Public Access policy for new grant applications, including p.m., Sat. 12-6 p.m., tours by the book she edited, Ida In Her Own Words: The Timeless Writings NIH requirements, how to comply and what to do if a journal appointment. 312-996-6114 of Ida B. Wells From 1893. 7-9 p.m. Hull-House Museum. JAHH@ does not automatically submit an article for archiving in PubMed or [email protected] uic.edu or 312-413-5353 Central. Noon-1 p.m. [email protected] Karolina Gnatowski, Smelly rug July 30 July 19 Through August 31 “Unraveling Bill” How to Start a Business in Illinois “Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics” Fourth installment of the Building Peace and Justice series. Music, Basic steps for starting a business, including business model, Interactive exhibition demonstrates Jane Addams’ legacy for dance and monologue presented by Hull-House Museum and financing. 9-10:30 a.m., Incubator Laboratory Facility. domestic life and public health. Public workshops, performances, Chicago Danztheatre. 7-8:30 p.m. 312-413-5353, [email protected] or 312-996-2070 conversations and hands-on activities. Jane Addams Hull-House www.hullhousemuseum.org Museum. 312-413-5353 August 11 July 24 RefWorks LECTURES/SEMINARS Howard Moore Boys’ Basketball Online library workshop on citation management resources. Advanced Skill 1:30-2:30 p.m. Also Aug. 6, Aug. 15, Aug. 19. [email protected] Camp July 17 August 2 For high school Race. Justice. Power players. $60. 1-5 p.m. Conflict Resolution Skills and Techniques Physical Education Interactive teach-in with resources and information on underly- Principles and techniques for handling conflict effectively. 1-4:30 Building. http://bitly. ing issues surrounding Trayvon Martin case. Sponsored by Hull- p.m. 110 CUPPA Hall. Students free; alumni/faculty $25; others House Museum. 7-9:30 p.m. Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. com/Zj5L9s Photo: Steve Woltmann $40. [email protected] or 312-996-3109 60th St. 312-413-5353

For more UIC events, visit www.events.uic.edu UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I JULY 17, 2013 JULY 17, 2013 I UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu 9 CAREER AWARD National Science Foundation grants support young researchers Improving the reliability of nanotransistor technology

“If you switch to a different mechanism, there will be change,” Rao said. “Just as if I switched building materials from brick to glass and steel, you get a different character. While I may be able to build a taller building with lighter materials, new problems may occur.” Future nanotransistors, she said, are likely to be subject to faults and defects. Research may even prove it is not worthwhile to manufacture them for conventional use, such as desktop computers. But nanoelectronics-based systems may prove useful for entirely new applications, such as embedded systems and sensors. Rao will explore this as part of her NSF Career Award, along with the theoretical limits, capabilities and applications of nanotransistor chips. “If each transistor will be that small, you’re subject to a lot of defects and faults,” she said, “so, how do you deal with that? We have to be able to detect faults and find ways to tolerate them, perhaps by using a different component to do the same computation, or — long-term — by self-repair.” Rao is studying ways to test and diagnose problems with nanotransistors and determine if, and how, redundant systems can act as safeguards against faults. “You have to have a work-around,” she said. “A chip for Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin a sensor, for example, could be subject to environmental Researcher Wenjing Rao is looking for methods to test and diagnose problems with nanotransistors. variations such as background noise, cosmic radiation and environmental vibrations. You’d also expect to see a lot of By Paul Francuch circuits will perform reliably? faults during computations.” Wenjing Rao, assistant professor of electrical and Rao said computer engineers are asking many far-ranging Today’s best computer chips boast staggering transistor computer engineering, is exploring that question using a five- questions about electronic nanosystems, seeking to set up arrays exceeding 2.5 billion, but new nanometer-level year, $450,000 National Science Foundation Early Faculty design and manufacturing rules that will ensure the new technologies hold the promise of boosting that number even Career award. products using them will be reliable. more. Today’s chips are built based on the device called CMOS “We’re really trying to probe for where’s the boundary. Nanotransistors may be fabricated from materials ranging (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor), which can What can and cannot be done? We’re looking at what we from silicon to carbon nanotubes and even large molecules. be fabricated with very high reliability. But tomorrow’s can do from an engineering perspective into what’s possible, But how do you guarantee such ultra-small electronic nanotransistors may be made using entirely new processes. what’s not, and what’s too costly.”

Mathematician seeks new ways to analyze real-world problems

By Paul Francuch recognizes?” “Asymptotics,” she said, “is just a fancy Mathematician Irina Nenciu has taken on the challenge word for the long-time behavior of the solu- of analyzing connections among complicated mathemati- tions, and how you can make predictions cal equations and techniques — hoping to find better ways from what you’re given.” to analyze real-world problems, ranging from the econo- Random matrices are mathematical arrays my to the bunching-up of city buses during rush hour. of numbers or symbols representing random Nenciu received a five-year $500,000 National values. They are tools used widely in Nenciu’s Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Award to specialty, mathematical physics. study, specifically, “long-time asymptotics of completely “They’re a hot topic in math,” Nenciu said. integrable systems with connections to random matrices In economics, random matrices are used and partial differential equations.” to understand certain behavioral outcomes. She chuckled when asked to put that in terms that are Other examples include the optimal pacing understandable to a non-mathematician, then broke it of buses to prevent bunching, or the quickest down one mouthful at a time. airliner passenger-boarding procedures. Differential equations examine the relationship She said random matrices and integrable of variables and functions, she said. While useful in systems are mathematically similar tech- explaining certain phenomena in science, engineering and niques, but the direct connections are not economics, they are complicated, and understanding their clear. solutions is the subject of ongoing study. “It looks coincidental, but it’s proved to be “I look at questions of: what do solutions look like so useful that most of us believe there’s some- for very large times?” said Nenciu, assistant professor of thing deeper behind it,” Nenciu said. mathematics, statistics and computer science. “We’re trying to understand that connec- “Assume you let a long time go by — is there some tion through a problem that tries to evaluate structure in the solution that always emerges, regardless how efficient various numerical algorithms Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin of where you start from? Do you see something that one are .” Mathematician Irina Nenciu says random matrices are “a hot topic in math.” 10 UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I JULY 17, 2013

deaths Pharmacy scholar recognized Warren Webb, UIC Library were under- for biotechnology research Warren Webb, 62, who retired in 2012 as graduates on library technical services systems specialist campus. for the UIC Library, died June 30. Among li- By Sam Hostettler how drugs can affect this process, and how A 1975 UIC graduate in history, he was brary staff, War- microbes can become resistant. a student employee at the library and joined ren’s Biotechnology is the use of biological The Dawson Award, Mankin said, is for the permanent staff in 1978. encyclopedic processes to manufacture products to im- a team effort, recognizing the “excellent He worked in the back-of-the-house interests earned prove the quality of human life. work of the members of his laboratory, cataloging operations, where the links that him the nick- But Alexander “Shura” Mankin, profes- whose support, efforts and contributions connect bibliographic information and the name “Internal sor and director of the Center for Biophar- made this possible.” researcher are created. Reference maceutical Technology in the College of “I was humbled when I Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin During his career, library catalogs Desk.” Pharmacy, says it is learned I was nominated, Warren Webb changed from cards to online, and from de- “Warren was that and much more. and even more so when I scriptive cataloging to metadata. Through it as knowledgeable about the music of Sun Ra “Biotechnology learned that I received the all, his colleagues said, his dedication to ac- as about the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, is about developing award. I greatly appreciate curacy and helpful technology ensured that ready to discuss the latest science fiction new technologies to the assistance of those in library users could find the books and articles novel, most arcane movie, or the latest scien- understand the nature UIC’s College of Pharmacy needed for class assignments, teaching and tific discovery described in the pages of the of diseases and drug who made this possible,” research. recent issue of Nature,” Valauskas said. discovery, as well as he said. “Warren epitomized UIC as a student and Funeral services have been held, but fam- applying unorthodox “I view this award as an colleague — intelligent, city-wise, friendly ily and friends are planning a memorial on approaches to basic indication of the success and humorous,” said Ed Valauskas, editor of campus in August. research that will of UIC’s Center for Phar- First Monday, who met Webb when they eventually feed the maceutical Biotechnol- applied branches of ogy, founded by Michael pharmaceutical sci- Johnson 20 years ago. The Richard Carlin, chemistry many of whom went on to distinguished ca- ences,” Mankin says. center has been extremely Richard Lewis Carlin, 77, a chemistry reers all over the world. Mankin received Photo: UIC Photo Services successful in its research, professor from 1968 until his retirement in Chemistry professor Robert Gordon, who the Paul R. Dawson Alexander Mankin publications, attracting ex- 1998, died June 16 after a long illness. shared an office suite with Carlin for 24 years, Biotechnology Award tramural funding and train- He was internationally known for his remembers him as a “mentor who taught me from the American Association of Colleges ing students and postdoctoral students research on the magnetic properties of mole- much about scientific and university politics.” of Pharmacy Monday during the associa- with its outstanding faculty.” cules. Two of his “Dick has influenced my personality with tion’s annual meeting in Chicago. Mankin has published more than 100 books, Magnetic his entrepreneurial one, and this has also The award recognizes an active scientist papers in leading journals. His research Properties of helped me a lot in my career,” said Fernando within pharmacy education who is a leader has been supported by the National Sci- Transition Metal Palacio, professor of research at the Univer- in the teaching of biotechnology and its re- ence Foundation, the National Institutes of Compounds sity of Zaragoza, Spain, who did a post-doc- lated science. Health and other funding agencies. (Springer-Ver- toral fellowship with Carlin. Throughout his career, Mankin has per- Jerry Bauman, dean of the UIC College lag, 1977) and “But I also loved his joy for living and formed extensive research on the functions of Pharmacy, said Mankin was “extremely Magnetochem- his love for the good music and for the good of the ribosome and how it can be inhibited deserving” of the prestigious award. istry (Springer- food.” by drugs. His laboratory has established “Shura’s work in elucidating the mecha- Verlag, 1986), A classical music lover, Carlin and his modes of action of several important classes nism of antibiotic action will pave new were translated wife, Dottie, were among a group of UIC of antibiotics. ways to consider the effective treatment of into several faculty and spouses who have attended the Richard Carlin “We’re working to discover how antibiot- serious infections,” he said. “It is truly at languages and Thursday C series of concerts at the Chicago ics bind to the ribosome, which is respon- the cutting edge of science. are regarded as authoritative texts in the field. Symphony Orchestra since 1968. As a youth sible for churning out all the proteins a cell “Shura is a wonderful leader in our col- He was a visiting professor of physics at he played the trumpet and after retirement he needs for survival, and how they interfere lege, not only leading by example, but also universities in Brazil, Italy, Spain, France and joined an amateur orchestra. with its function,” Mankin said. “We investi- in mentoring young faculty for a career in Morocco and spent a sabbatical year at the A photographer who specialized in gate mechanisms of drug resistance and are pharmaceutical education and research. University of Leiden. local Chicago scenes and street people, he trying to develop new, superior antibiotics.” We are lucky to have him in our college.” A 1957 graduate of Brown University, exhibited in art shows around Chicago and Mankin is studying how the ribosome [email protected] he earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the his photographs still hang in faculty offices on deals with the newly formed polypeptide, Urbana-Champaign campus in 1960, then campus. joined the Brown faculty before coming to He also enjoyed rock-climbing and moun- UIC. taineering, including the ascent of Mount He was a mentor to students, post-doctor- Rainer in 1971 with Eric Gislason, professor police al researchers and young faculty members, emeritus of chemistry.

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people Send news to Sonya Booth, [email protected] Kerry Wood scholarship winner ‘unbelievably hard worker’ By Brian Flood

“Is this really happening?” “This is the best day ever.” Those were Gabriella Santoyo’s thoughts when she learned she is the first recipient of a UIC Honors College scholarship established by former Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood. When she enters UIC as a freshman this fall, Santoyo will have some peace of mind, moneywise — all tuition, fees, assessments, books and housing costs are covered for four years by the Kerry and Sarah Wood Family Foundation Scholarship. She’ll also start school with a new laptop computer. “To be the first one to attend college in my family is quite a privilege because I know I will be the role model for my younger siblings about what it takes to get to college,” she says. Santoyo is a graduate of Chicago Bulls College Preparatory Charter School, where she was student government president and a varsity three-sport athlete. She lives in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood with her mother, Livier Paleyo, a member services representative at a Chicago staffing agency, sister Sylvia, 16, a junior at Chicago Bulls Prep, and brother Michael, 2. In recommendation letters from faculty and staff at her Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin high school, Santoyo’s maturity, thoughtfulness, enthusiasm Gabriella Santoyo, who was awarded the first Honors College scholarship from the Kerry and Sarah Wood Family Foundation, lives in Lawndale and ability to motivate others were mentioned frequently. with her mother and two younger siblings. “To be the first one to attend college in my family is quite a privilege,” she says. Tyson Kane, principal of Chicago Bulls College Prep, calls Santoyo “smart” and an “unbelievably hard worker.” prepared me to practice communication and interaction with professionals, to assist me,” she explains. “She has a really strong foundation of character and others, the skills it takes to be a leader, and achieving goals “This is a challenge I know I’m prepared for. My hard integrity. She has a maturity beyond her years,” he says. “She with groups of people,” Santoyo says. work ethic and motivation are what will drive my progress.” is an extremely trustworthy kid.” “I hope to bring a different perspective and an outspoken Her academic interests include business, psychology and Santoyo was selected from a group of graduating high voice to the Honors College and the UIC community.” communication. She is enrolled in the College of Business school seniors who have been accepted to UIC’s Honors Wood Family Foundation scholars must meet Honors Administration, but hasn’t committed to a specific area of College and live in the Austin, College requirements, which include a study. Englewood, Humboldt Park “She has a really strong minimum 3.4 cumulative grade point Santoyo says UIC’s academic support programs were or Lawndale neighborhoods of average for all UIC courses; an Honors among the key factors that attracted her. Chicago. foundation of character Activity every fall and spring semester “The diversity of the student body and the city lifestyle She has been recognized for such as honors coursework, research, around the campus had a strong appeal,” she adds. academic achievement with and integrity.” tutoring or volunteer service; and an Kane believes Santoyo’s high school success will continue membership in the National independent capstone research project at UIC for many reasons, including her ability to deal with Honor Society and University of Chicago’s Collegiate before graduation. adversity and her unassuming leadership style. Scholars program. She participated in the Right Angle Santoyo expressed her excitement for the responsibility “She has that thing that is really hard to teach, and that is summer college enrichment program and an out-of-state and challenge that accompany being an Honors College grit,” he says. leadership conference. student. “She is very comfortable with herself and accepting of “The many organizations and activities in high school “I have many resources, from academic groups to other people. She is really interested in doing the right thing.” [email protected] Researcher studies women’s decisions on reproductive technologies

By Sam Hostettler women’s decisions around Hershberger said. reproductive technologies,” “Many women discuss their options regarding Patricia Hershberger, assistant professor of women, said Karen Peddicord, advanced technologies with nurses and physicians, children and family health science in the College chief executive officer of and I hope my work has improved those very personal of Nursing and assistant professor of obstetrics and the association. “With her discussions.” gynecology in the College of Medicine, received the 2013 research, nurses will be Hershberger is active in the Midwest Nursing Award of Excellence in Research from the Association able to better support and Research Society, where she is past chair of the Research of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses at its counsel their patients.” Section Advisory Committee and the Decision-Making national convention last month in Nashville. “My research goal Research Section. Her research explores the decision-making process has always been to help Her research has been funded by the National among women facing assisted reproductive and genomic women and families who Institutes of Health and her work has been recognized by treatments, and the effects these technologies have on the are contemplating the use the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the everyday lives of individuals, families and society. of advanced reproductive Midwest Nursing Research Society. “Dr. Hershberger’s research is vital to understanding Patricia Hershberger or genomic technologies,” [email protected] 12 UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I JULY 17, 2013

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Loyola coach joins UIC women’s basketball Volleyball senior leads

By Mike Laninga “I am extremely league advisory group excited and grateful By Mike Laninga Eric Simpson, who guided Loyola women’s basketball to to head coach its first Horizon League Championship game last season, was Regina Miller for Volleyball senior MaryKate Imrie was named president named assistant coach at UIC. the opportunity of the Horizon League’s Student-Athlete Advisory Simpson’s appointment is pending University of Illinois to be a part of her Committee for the upcoming academic year. Board of Trustees approval later this month. coaching staff at Imrie was vice president last year. She was also elected “Quality coaches like Eric Simpson do not become UIC,” Simpson said. president of UIC’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee available very often,” said head coach Regina Miller. “Coach Miller for the second straight year. “Having coached against him in the Horizon League, I has a strong history “I look forward to having great dialogue and leading know his abilities and I’m delighted to have a proven winner of success and I the agenda for the student-athletes in our conference,” on our bench rather than on the opposite side of the court. gained respect for Imrie said, adding that she plans to emphasize student ac- “His coaching knowledge and familiarity of our league her coaching and tivities and community service. make him an outstanding asset to UIC, as does his solid leadership abilities After the 2012 volleyball season, Imrie was voted the commitment to developing scholar-athletes. As we continue as an opposing team’s Most Valuable Player for her role in helping the to build a winning program, Eric’s deep roots in the Chicago head coach in the Flames reach the Horizon League title game for the first area will provide us with an important edge in recruiting our Horizon League. time since 2006. talent-rich region.” I look forward She paced the conference in assists per set with an A Chicago native and 1994 Northwestern graduate, to assisting her average of 11.20 and earned honorable mention accolades Simpson spent the last seven years at Loyola, including four in building a on the AVCA’s All-Midwest Region team. seasons as head coach, where he compiled a record of 57-66 championship Her performance on the court is matched by her (.463). caliber program at dedication in the classroom. She is a member of the He was assistant women’s basketball coach from 2007-09 UIC.” 2012 Horizon League Fall All-Academic team and the and coordinator of men’s basketball operations in 2006-07. Simpson, who conference’s Academic Honor Roll. She received this year’s Last season, Simpson led Loyola to 17-15 record, the pro- entered the Divi- Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership award, along gram’s best mark since 1988-89. The Ramblers were one of the sion I ranks with 10 with teammates Sara Sternard and Justine Garcia. hottest teams in the country down the final stretch of the sea- years of high school Photo: Steve Woltmann “MaryKate is an exceptional leader and exemplifies son, winning 11 of 12 games before falling to nationallyranked coaching experi- Eric Simpson led Loyola to the Horizon the meaning of student-athlete,” said Christine Halstead, Green Bay in the Horizon League title game. ence, was the head League title game with a 17-15 record. Horizon League director of student-athlete affairs. He helped sophomore forward Simone Law claim first- boys’ basketball “She will represent the very best of the Horizon team All-Conference accolades, while freshman Taylor coach and director of athletics at Marquette High School in League.” Johnson was voted the league’s Newcomer of the Year. Chicago from 2001 to 2005. During his first season as head coach (2009-10), Simpson During his collegiate playing days, Simpson was a four- mentored the Ramblers to 15 wins, the program’s best showing year letter-winner at Northwestern, where he majored in since the 2001-02 campaign and the best start by a first-year history. He appeared in 97 games for the Wildcats, totaling coach at Loyola since the 1970s. 475 career points and 100 assists.

Soccer adds newcomers By Brett McWethy

Newcomers to the men’s soccer team next year will include Notre Dame transfers Danny O’Leary and Bob Novak, and Alex Simon of St. Ignatius College Prep. All three are Chicago-area natives. O’Leary and Novak, who earned their bachelor’s degrees from Notre Dame in May, will be graduate students at UIC, immediately eligible to suit up for the Flames for the 2013 season. O’Leary attended Neuqua Valley High School in Naper- ville. He saw action in 50 games at Notre Dame over the last three years, collecting 12 career points, including five goals. Novak, who prepped at Lockport Township High School, played in 34 matches for the Fighting Irish over the past three seasons, including nine starting assignments in 2012. Simon, a four-year letter-winner at St. Ignatius College Prep, joins four other newcomers who starred for the na- tionally prominent club Raiders FC. O’Leary, Novak and Simon join a 2013 recruiting class that includes Kyle Hamann (Lemont/Lemont), Joel Leon (Cicero/Morton East), Gabriel Martinez Jr. (Chicago/ George Washington), Andrew Putna (Lemont/Lemont) and Photo:Ross Dettman Photo: Matt Cashore Gonzalo Romo (Hammond/Bishop Noll). MaryKate Imrie had an average 11.20 assists per set last season. Bob Novak brings a fresh face to the Flames soccer team.