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April 3, 2008
Vol. 27, No. 17
U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n
UI political expert:
Obama campaign
will change
election strategy
By Jan Dennis
News Bureau Staff Writer
T
he 2008 election will carve a spot in history, whether a yet-to-be-settled Democratic
primary yields the first female presidential
nominee or the first African-American.
But a UI professor predicts the tradition-busting
race also will leave another legacy, cementing the
social networking power of the Internet into the
pavement of future campaign trails.
Michael Cheney says Democratic frontrunner
Barack Obama elevated the Internet’s social reach
from novelty to necessity after using it to build online grass-roots support that helped fuel his rapid
rise in a race in which rival Hillary Clinton once
seemed nearly a lock.
“I think the social media have to be part of campaigns in the future,” said Cheney, a senior fellow
with the university’s Institute of Government and
Public Affairs who studies online campaigning.
“Candidates who don’t use this model aren’t going
to do very well. This is the way you get your base
mobilized; this is the way you raise money.”
He says Obama added a new high-tech wrinkle
to campaign strategy by encouraging supporters to
interact online, with other users as well as the campaign. Those personal endorsements have mustered
waves of new support and also help build a massive
database of backers that the campaign can call on
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photo by L. Brian Stauffer
Historical moment Vladimir Tolstoy, left, greets Rajmohan Gandhi at the kickoff event for a series of local
initiatives connected with the Big Read, a nationwide campaign sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts
aimed at promoting the reading of classic literature. “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” by Leo Tolstoy, is this year’s featured
novel. Vladimir Tolstoy, great-great-grandson of the famed novelist, traveled from Russia to speak at the March 30
event. Gandhi, a professor in International Programs and Studies, is the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, the
Indian political and spiritual leader whose policies were influenced by Tolstoy’s writings. Looking on is Galina
Alekseeva, head of the Research Division of Russia’s State Museum-Estate “Yasnaya Polyana.” Activities continue this
month. For a list of events, go to www.reec.uiuc.edu/Bigread.
Military action not effective to influence oil-producing nations
By Andrea Lynn
T
In This Issue
here is another inconvenient truth
about finite resources and human behavior on Planet Earth, an expert on
international security and energy says.
Trying to influence oil supply with military force in the Middle East is not only ineffective, it also is counterproductive.
So says Clifford Singer, a professor of
nuclear engineering and of political science
at the UI, who has done extensive work on
energy systems for the U.S. Department
of Energy. Singer also has been a visiting
scholar working with the Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy at the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science and at the International Atomic
Energy Agency. At Illinois, he recently
stepped down as director of the Program in
Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security.
Singer’s latest analyses show that despite the deep-seated perception that oilproducing regions retain a special strategic
importance, with strong effects on U.S. defense planning and strategy, “The time has
already passed when oil was strategically
important enough to require individual industrialized nations to be prepared to intervene militarily in oil-producing regions.”
Singer explains his findings in a policy
analysis brief he recently published for the
Stanley Foundation, titled “Oil and Securi-
ty.” The brief was based on research Singer
conducted for his forthcoming book, “Energy and International War: From Babylon
to Baghdad and Beyond.” His writings represent his personal views, not those of any
funding sources, he said.
The works in question address the widespread belief that the U.S. needs to maintain
military capability to intervene unilaterally
in the Middle East, “because the oil in that
region makes it strategically important.”
“This idea persists even though the invasion of Iraq resulted in reduced oil production and higher oil prices for many years.”
Oil prices also increased dramatically
when the United States intervened to tip
the balance in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
Oil prices remained even higher while the
United States helped Iraq prolong the IranIraq War.
“It is fortunate that oil has long since
stopped being strategically important to the
NATO alliance, since U.S. intervention in
Middle East conflicts has evidently had the
opposite of any desired effect on oil prices.”
According to Singer, higher prices do
not themselves cause overall problems in
the global economy.
“As increases in exporters’ petrodollar
earnings recycled through the global economy, the global sum of the local purchasing
power of gross domestic products continued to grow at an annual average rate of 3
CAPE awards
Six academic professionals
are honored with the
Chancellor’s Academic
Professional Excellence
award for personal and
professional contributions.
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Crude effort Clifford Singer, former director of the Program in Arms Control,
Disarmament and International Security, says trying to influence oil supply with
military force in the Middle East is not only ineffective, it also is counterproductive.
percent during the high oil prices years of
1973 to 1986.”
By 2003, the U.S. ratio of use of oil to
GDP was half of what it was in the 1970s,
and the GDPs of the United States and other
major oil importers “have continued to grow
despite a recurrence of high oil prices.”
Singer said that U.S. energy currently relies on a combination of subsidies and tax
breaks, regulatory mandates, and petroleum
end-product taxes aimed at reducing the
percentage of oil that comes from imports.
“This policy has three fundamental
SEE OIL PRICES, PAGE 7
Charter schools
Research fails to support
current rapid growth
of charter schools.
UI experts say the
schools’ success is often
overstated.
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PAGE 2 April 3, 2008
Trustees vote to increase tuition, support health initiative
By Sharita Forrest
Assistant Editor
F
aced with budgetary deficits for energy costs and concerns about retaining
faculty members, maintaining educational quality and a looming shortage of
health-care professionals, the UI Board of
Trustees voted to raise tuition and fees for
the 2008-09 academic year and to endorse
a resolution that called for establishing a
dedicated stream of funding for educating
doctors, nurses and other medical professionals.
Tuition for new students this fall will
increase by $401 at Urbana, to $4,621; by
$353 at the Chicago campus, to $4,065;
and by $428 at Springfield, to $3,608, per
semester. The 9.5 percent increase will apply to incoming students who are Illinois
residents and will be guaranteed for four
years in accordance with the Illinois Truthin-Tuition law. The trustees approved the
new tuition and fee rates at their March 26
meeting in Urbana.
Student fees will increase by $92 at
Urbana, to $1,494; by $32 at UIC, to $1,593;
and by $58 at UIS, to $932, per semester.
Fees cover student health and counseling,
facility repair and renovation, student programming and other services.
Student fees and room-and-board rates
are not guaranteed and may change from
year to year to cover inflation and higher
operating costs. The trustees approved increases in the room and board rates at all
three campuses during their Jan. 17 meeting
at Chicago.
Several trustees expressed concern about
the impact of the tuition and fee increases
on students and their families, but generally
agreed that the increases were necessary to
ensure academic quality because of rising
operating costs and stagnant state appropriations.
“Higher education provides the state
of Illinois with the human and intellectual
capital to compete successfully in the global economy,” President B. Joseph White
said in a news release. “In a challenging
economy, we must retain and attract top
faculty in a competitive academic marketplace. We must also maintain our physical
infrastructure that the citizens of Illinois
have invested in for well over a century.”
Trustee Robert Sperling suggested that
the UI consider admitting more out-of-state
students, who pay double the tuition that Illinois residents pay, and use the additional
revenue to supplement financial aid programs for in-state students.
The trustees also approved a resolution
seeking $150 million in new, dedicated operating funds to support education at UIC’s
six health-care related colleges – medicine,
dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, applied health
sciences and the School of Public Health –
over the next five years.
The resolution supported “Healthy Returns – the Illinois Bill of Health,” a statewide initiative launched by UIC in March
2005 to gain a dedicated stream of state
funding for medical education, separate
from the higher education budget. The resolution requested $22 million in new funds,
beginning in 2013, to help the UIC medical
school expand its enrollment by 20 percent,
or 65 additional students per class, over
four years.
Trustee Kenneth Schmidt, who spoke
to reporters during a break in the meeting,
said that the shortage of nurses and similar
health-care workers “is desperate now,” and
is projected to escalate in coming years. A
shortage of faculty members to teach nursing students resulted in about 43,000 qualified students being turned away from nursing schools last year, Schmidt said.
The Association of American Medical
Colleges has projected that by 2020 there
will be a shortage of 24,000 physicians
across the U.S., as a result of physicians retiring and a dramatic increase in the elderly
population as the baby boom generation
ages. The AAMC has recommended that
the U.S. boost medical school enrollments
nationwide by 30 percent.
While the UIC College of Medicine
graduates more physicians than any medical college in the U.S., “we are funded at
the bottom of the Big Ten for our state commitment per student. Southern Illinois University gets four times the funding we do,”
Schmidt said, referring to an annual report
published by AAMC.
“This is not a higher education problem;
it’s a state of Illinois problem. The cost of
educating (heath professionals) is much
higher than educating (liberal arts and sciences students),” Schmidt said. “It’s a lot of
money in tight budgetary times; we know
that.
“But we fall further behind each year in
both operating funds and facilities for educating health-care professionals because it
costs more to educate them than the tuition
the market will bear.”
The UIC College of Medicine enrolls
1,390 students, 796 of them at Chicago,
and administers regional medical schools
at Urbana-Champaign, Peoria and Rock-
ford. The UIC College of Medicine had
more than 7,000 applicants for its class of
325 students that will begin in September,
Schmidt said.
Statistics indicate that physicians educated in Illinois tend to remain in the state
after graduation, Schmidt added.
Other business
The board approved proposals redesignating the College of Communications the
College of Media, redesignating the department of speech communication the department of communication, and redesignating
the I-Building as the Forbes Natural History
Building in honor of Stephen A. Forbes, the
first director of the Illinois Natural History
Survey.
The board approved preliminary designs
for the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications’ petascale computing facility,
a 93,000-square-foot building to be constructed near the intersection of St. Mary’s
Road and Oak Street in Champaign. The
design team, composed of representatives
from EYP Mission Critical Facilities and
the architectural firm Ginsler and Associ-
ates, told the board that the building will
be capable of withstanding an F3 tornado.
The budget for construction of the building
was set at $47.6 million, and is being funded with a mixture of institutional and state
money and certificates of participation.
The Urbana campus is developing a Division of Biomedical Science, which will
coalesce the efforts of about 150 UI faculty
members who are doing biomedical translational research, in conjunction with the
UIC College of Medicine. The division will
strive to gain recognition for Illinois’ biomedical research capabilities and has been
deemed essential to the Urbana campus’s
long-term success as a research institution, said Linda Katehi, provost at Urbana.
Katehi and Chancellor Richard Herman
discussed Urbana’s plans and priorities and
progress toward its strategic objectives, including the new division.
The division probably will be led by a
yet-to-be-named director and an executive
board, which will comprise deans from various colleges on campus and a representative from the UIC College of Medicine. u
Senate discusses reorganization of units,
establishment of new center
By Sharita Forrest
Assistant Editor
T
wo academic programs may soon
become departments within the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Urbana-Champaign Senate
approved separate proposals from the
Senate Committee on Educational Policy to reorganize the African American
Studies and Research Program to the department of African American studies,
and to reorganize the Program for the
Study of Religion as the department of
religion.
The African American Studies and
Research Program, which began in 1969
as the Academic Committee of the Committee on Afro-American Concerns, has
grown ten-fold in the past six years in
terms of student enrollment and course
offerings. The unit offers 56 primary and
cross-listed courses and has 20 courses
in various states of development. From
296 students during the fall semester
2000, enrollment has grown to more
than 2,500 students, and 18 faculty
members, an assistant director/teaching
associate, an Afro-American bibliographer and nearly 40 affiliates distributed
across seven colleges and schools.
Likewise, the Program for the Study
of Religion has 13 tenured and tenuretrack faculty appointments, offers an
undergraduate major and a minor, and
teaches scores of students through its
general education courses. The program
was formed as an academic unit about
30 years ago.
The senate also approved a proposal
to establish the Center for Human Resource Management as a permanent unit.
The CHRM, which was created in 1991,
was granted temporary approval by the
Illinois Board of Higher Education, and
officials now are seeking permanent ap-
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Student Intern
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News Bureau contributors:
Craig Chamberlain, communications,
education, social work
Jan Dennis, business, law
James E. Kloeppel, physical sciences
Andrea Lynn, humanities, social sciences
Melissa Mitchell, applied health sciences, arts,
international programs
Diana Yates, life sciences
proval from the IBHE. The Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and the College
of Business at the Urbana campus and the
College of Business Administration at the
Chicago campus jointly sponsor the CHRM,
which plans to begin offering a certificate
program called Illinois HR Excellence in
collaboration with the Illinois Chamber of
Commerce. Officials plan to offer a series of
workshops – and possibly online workshops
– at various venues around the state, including the Urbana and Chicago campuses, the
UI Alumni Center in downtown Chicago
and at the Illinois Chamber of Commerce’s
facilities.
In other business, a program for offering
multiyear contracts for eligible academic
staff members – a concept that has been under discussion for many years – was brought
closer to implementation by the senate’s
endorsement of proposals from Chancellor
Richard Herman and the Senate General
University Policy Committee. In a Feb. 22
letter to Nicholas Burbules, chair of the Senate Executive Committee, and John Prussing, chair of the GUP, Herman proposed establishing a “binding ceiling” on the number of multiyear contracts at 15 percent of
full-time equivalent employees on campus,
and proposed granting the Senate Executive
Committee oversight responsibilities for the
program.
The senate approved the document contingent upon Herman and the senate renegotiating the provisions for administrative
hearings available to employees who are
dismissed for cause prior to the end of their
appointments. According to the document
that the senate reviewed, the hearing officers
for colleges organized as departments would
be the associate deans of the colleges, and
the college deans would hear any appeals of
their decisions. In colleges or units not organized by departments, an associate provost
would be the hearing officer and the provost
would hear any appeals.
However, senator Belden Fields, political science, was concerned that the
procedures did not offer adequate due
process for staff members not protected
by tenure. Fields and Ann Reisner, human and community development, suggested that hearing officers outside of
each academic unit adjudicate the cases
to lend fresh perspectives and reassure
staff members that they are receiving
fair treatment.
Herman agreed to further negotiation
of the policies with the senate, and the
proposal that results from those discussions will be brought to the senate for
approval.
Andreas Cangellaris, chair of the
Promotion and Tenure Reform Committee, discussed the committee’s final
report and its recommended clarifications and revisions to current policies,
which included greater recognition of
interdisciplinary scholarship and public
engagement activities and units developing specific definitions of translational research for individual disciplines.
The committee chaired by Thomas
Ulen, law, charged with renegotiating
the agreement with the Academy on
Capitalism and Limited Government
sent a final proposal to the donors sponsoring the academy and is awaiting their
response. A revised agreement will be
brought to the senate for approval, Herman said. Fields expressed concerns
about a lack of openness in the process
as well as conflicting information about
the committee’s activities and the status
of the agreement.
Herman told the senate that plans for
rehabilitating Assembly Hall are being
discussed, and added that he would be
bringing the matter of Assembly Hall’s
future before the senate soon. u
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April 3, 2008 InsideIllinois
On the Job Tim Prunkard
U.S. News graduate school
rankings released
T
The collapse of the eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge near Minneapolis last
August brought heightened awareness about the design and maintenance
of bridges and roadways across the nation. When researchers in the UI
department of civil and environmental engineering want to test new designs
for bridges, buildings and piers, and how those structures will weather
assaults such as earthquakes, they have the support of an enterprising
team of craftsmen led by Tim Prunkard, technical service supervisor.
Prunkard oversees a crew of seven full-time lab mechanics, one part-time
employee and several graduate and undergraduate students who help
researchers build and test models.
After graduating from Jamaica High School at the age of 17, Prunkard
began an apprenticeship as a machinist, and did electrical work with his
father and brother. Before joining the university’s staff in 1994 as a lab
mechanic in the Materials Research Lab, Prunkard worked in an array of
manufacturing industries – including heavy equipment, aerospace parts,
casket products and nuclear power – in the Danville and Clinton areas and
extended his apprenticeship to include tool and die making.
Tell me about the work your crew does.
We set up test equipment and destroy it, and some of it’s monstrous in size.
We do a lot of life-size scale testing – earthquake testing and destruction
testing. The National Science Foundation is involved with a grant here and
we have testing equipment that allows us to do better full-scale models of
bridges, piers and buildings. We move around these huge reaction boxes
that are close to 40 tons each, hang them on the wall and bolt them up
there. We have to have safety on our minds all the time.
With the aid of computers, five different universities, including the UI, can
test structures simultaneously in real time and gather all that data. We’re on
the cutting edge of making all this happen.
I’m now quoting jobs that are three years out. When I came to this job, it was
unusual to have a 30-day backlog.
In addition to that, we handle most of the shipping and receiving for this
building, and often will take care of any other little jobs, such as hanging a
picture or cleaning up a mess, that people in the building need done.
What have you enjoyed about the trades you’ve mastered?
I really liked being an instrument maker. I liked working with my hands,
creating things, taking ideas out of other people’s brains and making them
a reality. I had a knack for building things. I enjoyed the satisfaction of
knowing you’ve accomplished a task that is not only the best that you can
do, it’s the best that anyone can do.
It’s a little trying sometimes as a supervisor because you hear more often
about things that are wrong than things that are right. Because of that,
I’m big about giving the people who work with me credit for what they do.
When someone comes in and thanks me for a job, I’ll point him or her to
the person who did the job, and say, ‘Thank them.’ This is the No. 1 civil
engineering college in the world, and we have a group of people in this shop
who are outstanding and make the department of civil engineering what it
is.
I came to this shop as an instrument maker, and my goal when I took
the supervisor job was that everyone who came into the shop would be
comfortable working with the people here and with coming back. The
employees here care about what they do, about each other and about me.
That means that I’m willing to yell at someone, too, if they’ve put themselves
in danger.
What do you like to do when you’re not working?
My wife, Jackie, and I are very involved in the Catlin Church of Christ.
I sometimes walk across campus and wonder why I am here. I hated
school – that’s why I graduated early. But then I married a teacher; Jackie
recently retired after teaching 33 years in the Jamaica school system.
And my daughter, Lindsey, will graduate from Southern Illinois University this
spring and is now student-teaching. My son, Luke, is a building
service worker in Facilities and Services Division. I’m also serving
my eighth year on our local school board.
I also like to hunt and fish when I can.
– Interview by Sharita Forrest,
Assistant Editor
PAGE 3
he UI fares well in the latest U.S.
News & World Report rankings of
America’s best graduate schools. The
2009 edition of the magazine’s ratings of
graduate programs is scheduled for publication April 7-14.
Among the standing of UI units based on
the magazine’s rankings for 2008:
Business, 38; education, 25; engineering, 5; law, 27.
Within the UI business school, the accounting program was ranked No. 3 nationally. Within education, the UI curriculum/
instruction program was No. 5; educational
psychology, 4; elementary education, 10;
secondary education, 9; special education,
No. 4.
The aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering program at Illinois was
ranked 7; chemical engineering, 10; civil, 2;
computer, 5; electrical/electronic/commu-
nications, 4; environmental/environmental
health, 3; materials, 2; mechanical, 6.
Computer science was ranked No. 5.
Specialties within computer science: artificial intelligence, 7; programming language,
6; systems, 6.
The UI graduate program in mathematics was ranked No. 18; discrete mathematics and combinations, 9; logic, 4.
The UI graduate physics program was
ranked eighth. Nuclear physics was ranked
No. 8, and quantum physics, 7.
The doctoral program in clinical psychology at Illinois was ranked ninth;
speech-language pathology also was ranked
No. 9.
The UI master of fine arts program was
ranked No. 21.
A number of other UI units highly
ranked in previous years are cited in the
magazine. u
Intel, Microsoft to invest
$10 million in new center
I
ntel and Microsoft corporations will
invest $10 million over five years in
a new research center at the UI to develop ways to take maximum advantage of
today’s multi-core computer chips.
The UI will invest another $8 million –
generally services such as staff and computing time – in the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center, which will involve
22 UI researchers in computer science and
engineering.
The center, announced last month, is a
joint research endeavor of the department
of computer science, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and corporate partners
Microsoft and Intel, with faculty support
from the department of electrical and computer engineering.
The center aims to enable commodity
systems to make use of parallel computing
techniques previously relegated to the realm
of supercomputers. Researchers will aim to
discover easy and accessible methods for
enabling the multi-core computing systems
increasingly in use today to take better advantage of their processing capabilities.
“Multi- and many-core computing is
becoming pervasive; client-focused mass
market applications are now driving parallel programming,” said Marc Snir, professor of computer science and co-director of
the center. “We face a new challenge: one
that places emphasis on productivity over
high performance; and one that addresses
the needs of the broad community of application developers. In such an environment,
parallel programming must be accessible to
all programmers.”
A central research thrust will be the development of applications to improve the
quality of life for the end user, but are not
feasible with the computing power available on today’s clients. For example, future
systems should not only assist with computational tasks, but also enhance the ability to interact with each other and with the
job market
environment using natural communication
and visual interfaces. The center’s research
will be driven by and will eventually enable
such applications.
“We believe that most parallel programmers should be able to use simple, intuitive ways of expressing parallelism,” said
Wen-mei Hwu, professor of electrical and
computer engineering and co-director of the
center. “Future microprocessors will contain
hundreds, and perhaps thousands of cores.
While parallel languages must become simpler, hardware is becoming more complex.
We will be researching ways to bridge this
enlarging gap to enable client-focused applications of the future.”
The center’s research activities are
founded on the premise that advances in
multi-core computing will require a coordinated, multi-disciplinary effort that encompasses all components of the multi-core
system.
“We have new opportunities and challenges for parallel computing today,” said
Sarita Adve, professor of computer science
and director of research for the center. “The
market is larger. This makes it possible to
provide customized, and therefore simple,
programming solutions for different applications. The challenge is that the hardware
and system software must be sophisticated
enough to efficiently support these solutions. Our multi-disciplinary approach will
be critical to achieve this goal.”
The center at the UI is one of two funded
by Microsoft and Intel. The other center will
be at the University of California at Berkeley. This alliance is the first joint industry
and university research center of this magnitude in the U.S. focused on mainstream
parallel computing. u
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PAGE 4 InsideIllinois
April 3, 2008
Six academic professionals honored with CAPE award
By Roxana Ryan
News Bureau Intern
S
ix academic professionals will receive the 2008 Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence
award at an April 3 reception.
Now in its 20th year, the program aims to
honor contributions made by academic professionals on campus. Recipients are chosen
for excellence in their work, personal and
professional contributions to their fields,
and the positive impact they have on colleagues, students and the public. Each award
winner receives $2,000, a $1,000 increase
in base salary and a $1,000 one-time budget
increase for their department.
The CAPE recipients and a summary of
their expertise, according to the nominating
documentation:
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Carol A. Buss, director of the Office of
International Faculty and Staff Affairs, has a
strong history of assisting departments and
units at the university get the best and the
brightest international faculty and staff as
members of our community, according to
her nominators.
“Her involvement starts at the beginning with hiring and extends through visa
acquisition and advising once (a faculty or
staff member) has arrived,” said Michael
Schmelzle, assistant director of the office,
which is in the office of International Student and Scholar Services, which reports to
International Programs and Studies. “If permanent residence is requested by the department, she will work to that goal. To date,
not a single green-card application that she
has filed has been denied by (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), which is
a remarkable feat. She is creative and determined in finding solutions to visa problems.”
Buss also provides excellent customer
service and teamwork to campus units,
Schmelzle said. “She understands that the
immigration process, which deals with
huge bureaucracies, can be intimidating
for departments and she strives to comply
with regulations without losing the ‘human touch,’ ” he said. “In order to provide
transparency and to foster good working relationships, she has organized regular workshops and training sessions to demystify the
process and to provide concrete solutions to
problems departments are faced with when
hiring internationals.”
Buss joined the UI in 1981 as a staff
member in the Office of International Faculty and Staff Affairs. Her talents and dedication were quickly recognized and she was
promoted to assistant director. She became
acting director in 1986 and was named director in 1989.
Buss often goes the extra mile in helping international faculty members and students when problems arise, Schmelzle said.
She has driven to the office in the middle
of the night to fax required documents to a
unit director who was applying for an entry
visa at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, assisted
faculty members’ spouses in entering the
country, and even personally delivered visa
documents to O’Hare Airport to a scholar
returning from Poland who had forgotten to
bring the necessary documents to re-enter
the U.S.
“Carol stands out in terms of exemplary
customer service, honesty, integrity, professionalism and leadership,” said Debby
Reynolds, human resources administrator in
the department of computer science. “She
goes above and beyond for us and always
comes through when the odds are stacked
against her. She has the determination, the
expertise and the creativity to solve problems and get things done. Some of our most
outstanding teachers and researchers are
here with us today as a result of Carol’s efforts on their behalf.”
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Keith Erickson, manager of utility
distribution in the University Office for Facilities Planning and Programs, has worked
Keith Erickson, manager of utility distribution in the University Office
for Facilities Planning and Programs
Carol A. Buss, director of the Office of
International Faculty and Staff Affairs
Brian Jewett, research scientist in the department of
atmospheric sciences
Robin Neal Kaler, associate chancellor of public
affairs
Tracey Wszalek, associate director of the Biomedical Imaging Center
Karen Pruiett, research specialist in life sciences
and manager of the Bee Research Facility
tirelessly over the past 28 years to ensure
uninterrupted utility service is provided to
the campus, said Mike Larson, interim director of utilities.
“In the event of a power outage, Keith is
usually the first person contacted, the first
person to respond and the first person to get
started on the development of a solution,”
Larson said. “Keith has developed relationships with both university employees and
contractors that allow him to quickly identify who can best help in any given scenario
and employ their services immediately. In
the utility business, timing is critical, and
Keith’s development of this support network make him extremely valuable when
troubleshooting some of the very unique
problems that are presented.”
Photography by L. Brian Stauffer
Because the utility business is a 24-7
responsibility, Erickson is always on call.
“When issues arise, they must be dealt with
immediately no matter what the time or the
circumstances,” Larson said. “Keith has
been called out of bed, called away from
dinner, even called when on vacation and
has always responded. He does not do this
for the publicity or reward, because at 3 a.m.
on a Saturday there is usually no one around
to even notice. He does it because he takes
his job and responsibility to the university
very seriously.”
“The utility business on campus does not
directly advance the primary mission of the
university as it relates to teaching, research
and public service, but the support they
provide is critical for the departments that
do directly advance the primary mission,”
Larson said. “Keith understands his role in
support of this mission.”
Erickson has worked at the UI since
1979, starting as an electrical engineer for
Facilities and Services. He has worked in
his current position since 2003.
Erickson also provided the leadership
and technical insight to bring the University
Electric Distribution project to a successful
end, according to Lyle D. Wachtel, associate
vice president for the University Office for
Facilities Planning and Programs. “Keith
embraced the forward-looking concepts
and established the personal ownership required to guarantee a successful outcome.”
Erickson also is an ambassador for the
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campus. He lectures to groups of engineers
visiting the campus and is involved with
the mechanical science and engineering department’s program for undergraduate students. In addition, he regularly hosts tours
of campus utilities and utility infrastructure
for classes on campus to help provide realworld examples of what they are learning in
the classroom.
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Brian Jewett, research scientist in the
department of atmospheric sciences in the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is one
of a few research scientists nationwide who
is an expert in both numerical simulation of
hazardous weather systems and analysis of
complex meteorological data, wrote Robert
Rauber, professor and acting head of the department.
“Jewett has made substantial scientific
contributions to our understanding of hazardous weather systems, both summer and
winter, and successfully simulated a wide
range of phenomena, from tornadic thunderstorms to winter cyclones, fronts and atmospheric gravity waves,” Rauber said.
Jewett maintains and runs a suite of numerical forecast models in the department
and posts model forecasts on the university
Web site daily that are used by the National
Weather Service offices in Lincoln, Ill.,, St.
Louis; and other regions, according to Rauber. He also developed the local UI realtime production system to include the latest
weather-prediction models.
Jewett also is a respected instructor. He
has taught a 100-level course on severe and
hazardous weather and a 500-level course
on numerical fluid dynamics. As the department expert in numerical simulation
of storms, faculty members have come to
depend on Brian to advise students through
the process of learning the art and science
of numerical modeling. He has served on
Ph.D. committees and generously provided
considerable time to students not working
directly on grants related to his research, according to Rauber.
Jewett led a team of storm chasers who
documented the progress of the storm and
tornado that hit Urbana and Ogden in 1996.
Subsequently, he and a student began a scientific investigation of the storm using data
from the new Doppler radar in Lincoln and
numerical simulations. The first two papers
from this analysis were published in one
of the top atmospheric science journals,
Monthly Weather Review. He also will submit additional papers in the future on his
simulations of that devastating storm. As an
avid tornado chaser, he has worked hard to
inform the public about tornado safety. His
public outreach has included conducting
severe-storm awareness and tornado-preparedness presentations as well as stormspotter training sessions. His storm videos
also are used in WILL meteorologist Ed
Kieser’s tornado-safety seminars.
Greg McFarquhar, a professor of atmospheric sciences, said he could not imagine
himself trying to do his modeling research
and field work without Jewett.
“The department is truly fortunate to
have the talents of Jewett at its disposal,”
he said. “It is only through the presence of
dedicated professionals such as Dr. Jewett
that the teaching, research and service missions of the University of Illinois can be accomplished.”
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Robin Neal Kaler, associate chancellor
of public affairs, is dedicated to enhancing
the marketing, communications and public
relations resources services – and thus the
image—of the Urbana campus, according
to her nominators, Melissa Edwards, director of communications at the Institute
for Genomic Biology, and Ginny HudakDavid, associate director of the Office for
University Relations.
“In the more than four years since Robin was appointed associate chancellor, the
campus’s approach to communications
and marketing has changed dramatically,”
they wrote. “Although colleges continue to
determine their individual marketing and
communications strategies, unit communicators now have a wide array of resources –
tools, staff, information – available to assist
them in their work.”
Kaler also is valued and admired as being a creative thinker. “She has the ability
to transcend traditional concepts, rules, patterns and relationships to create meaningful new ideas, approaches, methods and
interpretations,” said Shelli Drummond
Stine, associate director for development
and external relations in the College of
Fine and Applied Arts. “Quite often it is her
fresh and youthful imagination that brings
the progressive success of her partners and
staff.”
“Robin is a force for good,” Edwards
said. “She is an associate chancellor, yet
I’ve seen her stop on her way to meetings
to pick up garbage that hasn’t yet made it
to the trash can. She works incredibly long
hours, yet she will always find time to return
phone calls. She is the voice for the campus,
but she is also a devoted cheerleader for individuals at all levels of the university.”
Kaler also is a role model for those in
the journalism world and is respectful to everyone, according to Jennifer Roscoe, news
anchor of WCIA-TV and a former journalism student of Kaler. “She has worked on
both sides of the aisle,” Roscoe said. “It
does not matter which reporter is sent out
to interview her, a veteran or a newcomer,
Robin gives everyone the time to get the
story straight. She has sat through lengthy
interviews, but never stopped anyone from
asking questions. She is always available to
us, and we are grateful for that.”
Kaler’s actions extend beyond the office, said Sharla Sola, associate director in
the Office of Institutional Advancement.
“Robin regularly meets with students to
shape their education and find experiences
for them to grow. She provides positive
feedback to colleague across campus and
nurtures their professional growth.”
“Robin leads by example and the UI is a
better place because she is here,” Edwards
said.
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Karen Pruiett is responsible for the
health and well-being of hundreds of thousands of lives in her role as research specialist in life sciences and manager of the
Bee Research Facility, according to May
Berenbaum, Swanlund Chair and head of
the department of entomology. Pruiett not
only cares for dozens of colonies of honey
bees located across at least two counties,
but also interacts with students and faculty
members and the public, Berenbaum said.
“Karen Pruiett is one of the jewels of the
campus workforce,” wrote Gene Robinson,
Swanlund Chair, professor of entomology
and a theme leader of the Neural and Behavioral Plasticity Theme at the Institute
for Genomic Biology. “Her work adds significantly to the research, teaching and outreach activities of the campus bee research
program, which is recognized as one of the
best in the country.”
One of Pruiett’s main activities is to
run an operation of about 100 colonies of
honey bees so that healthy specimens of the
correct age and genetic stock are available
for the many experiments performed by researchers, wrote Robinson. “This involves
a highly specialized form of expertise, one
that requires skill in both commercial and
scientific aspects of beekeeping and Pruiett
is among the best in the nation,” Robinson
said. “Thanks to her, researchers have available to them thousand of bees in just the
right condition for experiments that probe
their behavior, brain and genes.”
She also keeps up with the latest developments by reading trade journals extensively and consulting with other beekeepers, locally and throughout the country.
“She develops her own new management techniques to fit the situation,” Robinson said. “She is innovative and creative in
her practice of beekeeping.”
Pruiett also has made significant contributions to the facility’s outreach mission.
She handles most calls from citizens who
have problems with bees or other stinging
insects or from beekeepers who seek advice, wrote Robinson.
Pruiett also took it upon herself to reactivate the area’s local beekeeping organization.
“Working mostly on her own time, during evenings and weekends over the past
three years, she has successfully revitalized
this group,” Robinson said. “It now holds
regular meetings and new beekeepers are
especially grateful to her for her leadership.”
Pruiett also helps teach IB109, “Insects
and People,” Berenbaum said. Students
visit the bee research facility to observe the
insect’s behavior and to learn how they are
managed. This trip is often the highlight
of the semester, according to Berenbaum.
“Karen’s ability to ease the fears of these
students, none of whom are scientists and
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some of whom are so afraid of insects that
they won’t even touch dead specimens, is
absolutely astounding,” she said.
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Tracey Wszalek, associate director of
the Biomedical Imaging Center, is a wonderful leader with unique capabilities and
knowledge that make her instrumental in
cross-campus, interdisciplinary activities,
according to Pierre Wilzius, director of the
Beckman Institute.
“Her job requires a multitude of skills,
including a solid scientific background, a
through familiarity with the policies for the
treatment of human and non-human animal
subjects for experiments, a knowledge of
accounting and perhaps more importantly
the ability to successfully interact with and
manage people who range across the spectrum of education and training,” said Arthur
Kramer, director of the Biomedical Imaging
Center. “Wszalek accomplishes all of these
duties with a high degree of professionalism
and expertise. In my 28 years at the UI, she
is clearly the most remarkable professional
staff member that I have had the pleasure to
work with.”
Wszalek has supported bioimaging at
the UI in several different capacities since
1997. At that time, the university did not
have its own magnetic resonance imaging
capabilities for humans on campus and collaboration with another institution was necessary if faculty members and students were
to have access to this technology, Kramer
wrote.
“Tracey developed a strong relationship
between two institutions with very different
missions,” Kramer said. “I can honestly say
that without her tireless work to establish
and nurture connections between faculty
at the university and physicians and staff
members at Carle Clinic and Hospital, the
collaborative endeavor would have never
succeeded and grown into the world-class
research group that it is today.”
Wszalek also is a role model for balancing work and family responsibilities, Kramer said. “She also does a wonderful job of
providing professional development for the
staff by ensuring they are given the time to
attend workshops and classes that are needed to enhance their skills and expertise.”
Kramer said Wszalek is a wonderful
ambassador of the center to the news media and to the national and international
scientific and medical communities. “She
and her staff have developed and staffed
multimodal educational displays and presentations for a number of open houses and
host local and national media for a number
of news stories and documentaries that have
been produced about research at the institute and on campus.”
Wszalek “epitomizes the person who
works at the interface between the physical sciences and engineering on one hand,
and the life and social sciences on the
other,” said Wilzius. “She is a real gem for
Illinois.” u
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Femtogram-level chemical measurements now possible
“We demonstrated that imaging, extraction and chemical analysis of femtogram
inding a simple and convenient
samples can be achieved using a heated
technique that combines nanocantilever probe in an atomic force microscale structural measurements and
scope,” said William P. King, a Kritzer Facchemical identification has been an
ulty Scholar and professor of mechanical
elusive goal. With current analytical instruengineering.
ments, spatial resolution is too low, signalKing and colleagues describe the techto-noise ratio too poor, sample preparation
nique in a paper accepted for publication in
too complex or sample size too large to be
the journal Analytical Chemistry, and posted on its Web site.
The new technique hinges upon a
special silicon cantilever probe with
an integrated heate r- t h e r m o m e t e r.
The cantilever tip
temperature can be
precisely controlled
over a temperature
range of 25 to 1,000
degrees Celsius.
Using the cantilever probe, researchers can selectively image and
extract a very small
sample of the material to be analyzed.
The mass of the
sample can be determined by a cantilever resonance
technique.
To analyze the
sample, the heater temperature is
raised to slightly
above the melting
point of the sample
Measurement technique Rohit Bhargava, professor of bioengineering, left; William King, professor of
material. The matemechanical science and engineering; and Keunhan Park, postdoctoral research associate, have demonstrated
rial is then analyzed
a method for simultaneous structural and chemical characterization of samples at the femtogram level (a
by complementary
femtogram is one quadrillionth of a gram) and below.
Raman or Fourier
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of good service.
Now, researchers at the UI have demonstrated a method for simultaneous structural
and chemical characterization of samples
at the femtogram level (a femtogram is one
quadrillionth of a gram) and below.
The measurement technique combines
the extraordinary resolution of atomic force
microscopy and the excellent chemical
identification of infrared spectroscopy.
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transform infrared spectroscopic imaging,
which provides a molecular characterization of samples down to femtogram level
in minutes.
“Fourier transform infrared and Raman
spectroscopic imaging have become commonplace in the last five to ten years,” said
Rohit Bhargava, a professor of bioengineering. “Our method combines atomic force
microscopy with spectroscopic imaging to
provide data that can be rapidly used for
spectral analyses for exceptionally small
sample sizes.”
To clean the tip for reuse, the tip is heated to well above the decomposition temperature of the sample – a technique similar
to that used in self-cleaning ovens.
“Since the tip can be heated to 1,000 degrees Celsius, most organic materials can
be readily vaporized and removed in this
manner,” King said.
As a demonstration of the technique, the
researchers scanned a piece of paraffin with
their probe, and removed a sample for analysis. They then used Raman and Fourier
transform infrared spectroscopy to chemically analyze the sample. After analysis, the
paraffin was removed by thermal decomposition, allowing reuse of the probe.
“We anticipate this approach will help
bridge the gap between nanoscale structural analysis and conventional molecular
spectroscopy,” King said, “and in a manner
widely useful to most analytical laboratories.”
With King and Bhargava, co-authors of
the paper are lead author Keunhan Park and
Jung Chul Lee, both postdoctoral research
associates. All four researchers are affiliated with the university’s Beckman Institute.
The work was funded by the National
Science Foundation through the Center for
Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical
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By Craig Chamberlain
O
n March 26, the UI Board of Trustees approved renaming the
College of Communications.
The new name is College of Media.
As of the next day, the
new name already
was at the top of
the college home
page and in use
by WILL radio stations, which are part of the college.
It’s not the first time for a name change,
according to Ron Yates, the dean of the college. In the years since journalism courses
first were taught at the UI in 1902, the college housing journalism and other communication-related units had changed its name
four previous times, the last one in 1968,
he said.
The change this time was prompted by
a desire on the part of the department of
speech communication, in the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, to drop “speech”
from its name, following a trend among
counterparts at other universities, Yates
said. The college agreed to change its name
to avoid the confusion that would be caused
by having a department of communication
and a College of Communications on the
same campus.
Yates, however, said he also saw it as
an opportunity for the college to better define itself, especially in a period of rapid
changes in news and communications,
many brought on by the Internet and other
technologies.
As part of the process of finding a new
name, the college surveyed its alumni, faculty and staff members, students and others, and received hundreds of suggestions,
Yates said. After a process of elimination,
College of Media Arts and Sciences rose to
the top of the list, but concerns were raised
about confusion with the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences.
College of Media was the second
choice, Yates said, and so the college
went with that. It makes sense and embraces everything
the college does,
he said. “We’re
really about media now.”
Nothing has changed for now, with the
new name, in terms of the composition of
units in the college. It still comprises the
departments of journalism and advertising,
the Institute of Communications Research
and the Division of Broadcasting, which includes WILL radio and TV stations.
But the new name could be considered
symbolic of numerous other changes over
the past four years, and some still under
way, initiated in part by an ad hoc campus
committee report on the college in early fall
2003. The committee raised what it saw as
serious communication and budgetary concerns within the college, and even suggested the possibility of disbanding it.
Yates, then head of the department of
journalism and newly appointed as interim dean, said impressions of deep rifts
within the college were mistaken and that
dismantling the college “was never part
of the agenda.” In response to the report,
however, he formed a task force to address
the issues raised, as well as others within
the college. He saw it as an opportunity, he
said, for “some really intense self-study.”
The task force report, followed by the
provost’s response to it, came in the spring
semester of 2004. Among the changes in
the four years since:
n The college has moved from being a
two-year, to a three-year, and soon a fouryear college, starting with the admission
of its first freshman class this fall. Largely
as a result of that transition, Yates said, the
college’s student population has increased
from 550 in fall 2003, to 950 in fall 2007, to
an estimated 1,100 for this coming fall.
The college received about 950 applications for the fall freshman class, a number
Yates called “astounding.” Many of those
being admitted, he believes, are “kids we
were never getting” when the college could
not admit students until their junior year.
Without a guarantee that they would be
admitted after two years, he thinks many
chose to go somewhere other than Illinois.
Yates also thinks the college is benefiting
from an overall interest by many students
in all things media-related, even when they
don’t always know where that will lead
them. “They’re just trying to come in to
figure out where it is in this whole milieu
of media that they want to land,” he said,
and the college wants to encourage that exploration.
n A department of media and cinema
studies will be created this fall, assuming a
proposal to do so gets the required approvals. The department would result from the
combination of the existing media studies
curriculum and the Unit for Cinema Studies, the latter to be moved from the College
of LAS.
n The Institute of Communications Research, open to researchers throughout the
college, as well as elsewhere on campus
and even beyond, is refocusing its efforts.
According to Yates, the ICR had “drifted”
over the years into becoming “an institute
that behaved like a department.” The institute is “an enormous brand around the
world,” Yates said, and the college doesn’t
want to do anything that will change that.
College of Media is different in more than just name
Changes The College of Media is
the new name of the former College of
Communications. The new name and
the change to a four-year college by
admitting freshmen for the first time
this fall are piquing students’ interest,
said Ron Yates, dean of the college.
n The doctoral program was repositioned
so it is administered centrally in the college,
rather than through ICR, and involves all of
the college’s academic units.
n A department of advertising, “considered to be in receivership” four years ago,
has been revived and is growing, with a new
permanent head, Yates said.
The college as a whole, Yates said, is
firmly holding onto its identity as a professional school, geared toward the development of practical skills along with academic
preparation. “We’re holding onto the fundamentals,” he said, even while learning to
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Schroeder named vice chancellor for institutional advancement
ames C. Schroeder has been named vice
chancellor for institutional advancement at the Urbana campus of the UI.
He also becomes senior vice president of the
UI Foundation. The appointment, which the
UI Board of Trustees approved at its March
26 meeting, was effective March 27.
Schroeder (pronounced SHROW-duhr)
will report jointly to Chancellor Richard
Herman and to Sidney Micek, the president
of the foundation, serving as the campus’s
chief development officer and coordinator
of the development, alumni relations, and
public relations efforts.
“I am very pleased to welcome Jim
Schroeder back to the Illinois family,” Herman said. “Throughout his career, he has
established himself as a leader who can
design and complete significant campaigns.
He is the right person for this job, and I look
forward to working with him to achieve our
advancement goals.”
Schroeder will lead a staff of 36 people
charged with raising the public profile of
the university and the campus and engaging with the university’s 400,000 alumni.
Schroeder also will play a key role as the
UI strives toward its $2.25 billion capital
campaign goal.
“I am delighted that Dr. Jim Schroeder
will be joining the university-foundation
advancement team,” Micek said. “Jim has
had a distinguished career as a development
professional, and he brings a wealth of experience to this new position as well as an
excellent understanding of how the campus
and the foundation work together to secure
private gift support for the university.”
Schroeder previously held appointments
at the Urbana campus in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as associate dean for
development (1982-1998), associate dean
for planning and budget (1978-1982) and assistant dean for administration (1972-1978).
Schroeder planned and implemented the
college’s first capital campaign in 1987, and
implemented collegewide and departmentbased annual giving programs that grew to
more than $1.5 million annually. In cooperation with the foundation, Schroeder also
managed the public phase of the university’s Campaign for Illinois capital campaign
(1979-1984).
Most recently, Schroeder served as vice
president for development and president
of the Ohio State University Foundation
(2003-2008). His previous appointments
also include chair of the department of development at the Mayo Foundation (20012003) and executive director of external relations for Harvard Business School (19982001).
Schroeder earned a doctorate in higher
education administration (1972) and a master’s degree in political science at the University of Toledo (Ohio), and a bachelor’s
degree in political science/history at Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio.
The elevation of this position to the vice
chancellor level signifies the growing importance of securing private support for the
campus and the university, and additional
leadership responsibilities for strategic
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flaws,” Singer said. “One: It is piecemeal,
thus leaky. Two: Its most economically effective components are politically unpalatable. Three, and most importantly, it ducks
the need for effective international cooperation in dealing with OPEC (Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries).”
Meanwhile, he said, U.S. subsidies and
tax breaks for alternatives to oil imports increase energy use. “This applies to a variety
of measures, like exempting ethanol from
motor fuel taxes and domestic oil depletion
allowances,” he said.
“Regulatory mandates like corporate average fuel economy standards for automobiles and light trucks and minimum ethanol
content in gasoline reduce oil use only in
part of the economy.
“The net effect is to encourage the use of
more petroleum for economic sectors that
escape regulation, such as heavy trucking,
aviation, heating and petrochemical feedstock. Taxing the petroleum industry end
products like gasoline has a similar effect.”
Moreover, Singer said, subsidies for alternatives to imported oil have only proven
politically feasible when oil prices are high,
eventually becoming unsustainable when
oil prices temporarily decrease.
“Conversely, tax breaks for domestic
oil production have been popular when oil
prices are low, but come under political attack as contributing to producers’ ‘windfall
profits’ when oil prices increase.”
Singer argues that to reduce the overall oil consumption rate in the U.S., the
most effective of the piecemeal approaches
would be “the broadest possible taxes on
petroleum end products, not just gasoline.”
“But imposing such taxes is also the most
politically unpalatable approach, given that
they directly burden moderate income
Americans with higher fuel and electricity
bills in the short run.”
Another problem with piecemeal approaches, he said, is that they don’t promote
international cooperation among oil importing countries.
“Europe has widespread policies aimed
in part at reducing petroleum consumption,
but these have not provided the foundation
for an effective global cooperative mechanism for dealing with OPEC.”
Singer claims that while piecemeal at-
tempts to reduce oil imports have been promoted as a way of increasing national security, they have been “manifestly ineffective.”
“Universally taxing foreign oil producers through tariffs at the front end of the
trade and commodity process is a more effective approach to dealing with what really
has been just an inconvenience, not a serious national security problem.
“This approach would send the needed
market price signals universally, for manufacturers as well as individual consumers
across the globe. When properly framed, this
approach should also be more broadly politically palatable than directly taxing U.S.
consumers’ use of petroleum end products
at an individual level, because this approach
directly confronts the petroleum market manipulations of the OPEC cartel, something
that U.S. policy has so far failed to do.”
Singer suggests two major policy “opportunities” that have “profound implications for all developed and rapidly developing countries”:
n U.S. defense and national security
strategy should be reshaped so as to uniformly avoid unilateral military interven-
tions in international or internal conflicts
“solely or primarily for the purpose of influencing who has control over energy resources.”
n Major importers of petroleum and
petroleum products should impose import
tariffs that “continue to rise until a mutually
acceptable agreement on stabilizing petroleum prices is reached with OPEC.” This
agreement with OPEC should involve not
only the United States, but also “a broad
coalition of major energy users throughout
the globe, ensuring truly consistent, systemic change in global financial and trade
practices.”
Singer said Congress should immediately pass a punitive tariff on crude and
refined petroleum from members in good
standing in OPEC, and any other exporting
countries that “conspire to maintain prices
several times higher than the cost of exploration and production.” u
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Assistant Editor
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April 3, 2008
New leader named for American Indian Studies Program
By Andrea Lynn
R
obert Warrior, a scholar of Native
American writing and intellectual
history, will become the next director of the American Indian Studies Program
and the Native American House at the UI.
Warrior, currently the Edith Kinney
Gaylord Presidential Professor and professor of English at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, will begin his new duties in
the fall semester, upon approval of the UI
Board of Trustees.
Born in Kansas of an Osage Nation father, Warrior is the author or co-author
of four books, including the most recent,
“American Indian Literary Nationalism.”
He has written dozens of published articles,
essays and chapters.
Warrior also has given more than 75
invited talks in the U.S. and in Canada,
France, Germany, Guatemala, Malaysia,
Mexico and Switzerland.
Before joining the faculty at Oklahoma
in 2003, Warrior taught at Stanford and
Cornell universities and at the Univérsité de
Blaise Pascal in France.
He earned a doctorate and a master of
philosophy at the Union Theological Seminary in New York; a master’s in religion
at Yale University’s Divinity School; and
a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in
speech communication, from Pepperdine
University in California.
Warrior will have a joint appointment
with the English department. At AIS, he
succeeds LeAnne Howe, who has served
since August 2007, and who will continue
as a professor of English and of American
Indian studies at Illinois.
Warrior was chosen because “he is a
leader in our field,” Howe said.
“Robert’s scholarship and commitment
to the production of scholarship by American Indians and indigenous peoples are but
a few of the reasons our program wanted to
bring him to the University of Illinois. We
are delighted that he agreed to join us and
help build the finest American Indian Studies program in the country.”
American Indian Studies at Illinois is an
interdisciplinary program of teaching and
research involving the experiences and values of American Indian communities and
nations. A curriculum for American Indian
Studies that incorporates a range of theories, methodologies and teaching approaches was begun in 2006 and now includes 11
courses. The Native American House is a
student services center.
Warrior said that he has spent his career
in English departments, and that he hopes
to “continue developing the next generation
UI recognized as CFA program partner
By Jan Dennis
T
he UI Master of Science in Finance
Program has been named a CFA
Program Partner, joining 54 other
degree programs worldwide that meet
the prestigious financial institute’s professional and ethical standards.
The designation signals that the 50year-old degree program on the Urbana
campus is closely tied to professional
practice and well-suited to prepare
graduates for careers in the investment
industry, said Bob Johnson, deputy CEO
of CFA Institute.
“Students in this program are exposed to concepts and principles that
have been identified by investment experts as essential to the global practice,”
said Johnson, whose organization has more
than 94,000 members in 133 countries.
Degree programs recognized as program partners cover at least 70 percent of
the standards for investment professionals
set down by CFA Institute, which officials
say also prepares graduates for three levels
of testing required to earn the sought-after
Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Fewer than one in five students who
enroll in the testing program earn the CFA
charter. Officials predict higher success
rates for students who train at partner universities, with less time and effort.
“The CFA charter is highly valued not
only due to its relevancy to the investment
profession, but also due to the fact that the
program of study upholds candidates and
charter holders to the highest standards of
ethics and professional conduct,” said
George Pinteris, academic adviser for
the UI Master of Science in Finance
Program.
Established in 1958, the university’s
degree program is among the longest
running of its kind in the world, offering
a curriculum that can be completed after
12 months of full-time study.
“We are honored to be part of the CFA
Partner Program,” said David Ikenberry,
chair of the finance department in the UI
College of Business. “The CFA designation is widely regarded as the most rigorous of professional finance qualifications, and is recognized globally as the
pre-eminent professional program for
those working in the investment industry.” u
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of scholars of Native American literature
through the graduate program in English at
Illinois.”
He described Illinois’ English department
as “very strong” – already having “some of
the best writers and critics in the field of
Native literary studies, so I am pleased at
the prospect of contributing to what’s happening there.”
Warrior said he was convinced that coming to Illinois was the right thing for him
“primarily because American Indian Studies at Illinois is establishing a national reputation as a place where excellent scholarship in Native and indigenous studies is being done by a growing group of outstanding
faculty.”
“Assuming leadership of American Indian Studies provides an opportunity to help
focus the tremendous energy that Illinois
has generated in the field, and build a great,
nationally prominent program.”
He said he has a strong belief that began when he was in graduate school that
“American Indian studies deserves to have
a place at the table academically and ought
to be the focus of efforts like what is happening at Illinois.”
Warrior said his first priority as director
at Illinois will be in faculty development.
“Successful programs are built around
great faculty, and one of my responsibilities
will be creating an environment where faculty thrive and grow in their research and
teaching.”
Warrior said he also will be dedicated to
forging strong relationships between the UI
and off-campus stakeholders in American
Indian and indigenous studies locally, regionally and nationally.
“I hope to create opportunities, for instance, through a board of visitors, for the
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ban and other Native communities.”
Warrior’s wife, Margaret Kelley, will be
joining Illinois’ sociology department; her
appointment also is subject to the approval
of the board of trustees.
Prior to Howe’s tenure, Wanda Pillow, a
professor of education at Illinois, was director of NAH/AIS from May 2004 to August
of 2007. She coordinated the initial infrastructure, hiring and development of the
units.
Professors Brenda Farnell, anthropology,
and Fred Hoxie, history, served as interim
directors before Pillow, during the academic year 2003 and 2004. Among other things,
they oversaw and coordinated the initial
opening of the Native American House.
According to Pillow, the development
and leadership of NAH/AIS has been a
“community effort,” especially during the
initial development years.
“Before the official development committee, there had been years of work by Native students and staff to establish a space
for Native students here,” Pillow said.
“We had office space on Green Street and
held the first Native Student Congratulatory
Ceremony there,” Pillow said.
A Committee on Native American Programming (CONAP) was officially recognized by Nancy Cantor, the chancellor at the
time, in 2002, and it worked diligently, Pillow said, to establish NAH/AIS. Committee
members were Farnell, Hoxie and Pillow;
John McKinn, who now is associate director of NAH/AIS; Durango Mendoza, special assistant to the director; Robert Parker,
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Flash Index of Illinois economy dips slightly
A
key indicator of the Illinois economy has dropped to its lowest level in
more than three years. The UI Flash
Index for March fell to 103.4 after rising the
previous two months.
The Flash Index, which is the first barometer of the condition of Illinois’ economy each month, was at 104.1 in February
and 103.8 in January. The last time it was
as low as 103.4 was February 2005, said
economist J. Fred Giertz of the university’s
Institute of Government and Public Affairs.
The March reading suggests a slowing
economy but not necessarily a recession,
Giertz said.
“The determination of a recession, either nationally or at the state level, is not
based on any one month’s results, but on
the performance over several months,” he
said. “The next few months will determine
whether the current situation is just a slowdown or a recession.”
The Flash Index fell during the last half of 2007
from 106.8 in July to 103.6
in December before climbing back slightly in January
and February. The index is
constructed so that a reading
of 100 marks the division
between economic expansion and contraction.
In March, corporate and
sales tax receipts in Illinois
were up slightly in real
terms compared to the same
month a year ago, while
individual income tax receipts were down
somewhat. With the April 15 filing deadline
approaching, individual income tax receipts
may be influenced by 2007 capital gains
that have been largely dissipated by the recent stock
market downturn but have
not shown up yet in calculations.
The UI Flash Index is a
weighted average of Illinois
growth rates in corporate
earnings, consumer spending and personal income.
Tax receipts from corporate
income, personal income and
retail sales are adjusted for
inflation before growth rates
are calculated. The growth
rate for each component is
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deaths
Raymond Brewer, 79, died March 26 at his
Champaign home. He worked in the department of aeronautical and astronautical engineering as an instrument maker, retiring
in 1980 after more than 30 years of service.
Memorials: Shriners Hospitals for Children, 2001 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis,
MO 63131-3597
Fred Hancock, 65, died March 28 at Carle
Foundation Hospital in Urbana. He was a
graphic designer and worked in the Office
for Planning and Budgeting for 30 years,
retiring in 1998. Memorials: Fairmount and
Jamaica Historical Society in care of Robison Chapel.
Gene Christian, 77, died March 17 at his
home in Philo. He retired in 1997 after 16
years as a sheet metal worker in Facilities
and Services. Memorials: St. Thomas Catholic Church, Philo.
Dorothy Marie Holloway, 95, died March
19 in Champaign. She worked as a kitchen
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helper in the Housing Division for 20 years,
retiring in 1978. Memorials: Carle Hospice.
Keneth Kinnamon, 75, died March 18 at
Fayetteville Health and Rehabilitation Center in Fayetteville, Ark. He was head of the
UI English department from 1965-1982.
Charles R. McMullen, 75, died March 15
at Provena Covenant Medical Center in
Urbana. He worked as a lab assistant for
natural sciences from 1963-1972.
Ryszard S. Michalski, 70, died Sept. 20
at his home in Fairfax County in Virginia.
From 1970 to 1987, Michalski was a member of the faculty in the computer science
department, initially as a research professor
and then as full professor of computer science and medical information science and
director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Memorials: Kosciuszko Foundation,
15 East 65th St., New York, NY 10021. For
more information, see the foundation’s Web
site, www.kosciuszkofoundation.org.
Glen C. Sanderson, 85, died March 22 in
Champaign. He joined the Illinois Natural
History Survey in 1955 and was professor
of zoology. Prior to his 1991 retirement, he
served as director of the Center for Wildlife
Ecology. He returned to the university from
1992-1997 as a principal scientist. Memorials: UI/INHS Waterfowl Research Station.
Mail to Illinois Natural History Survey, P.O.
Box 590, Havana, IL 62644.
Myra Carlson Williams, 61, died Feb. 13
at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She worked in the newspaper library
at the UI in the 1970s and also supervised
operators of the university’s mainframe
computers. Memorials: Pancreatic Cancer
Research Fund in care of Dr. Carlos Fernandez, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Wang Ambulatory Care Center, Room 460,
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Research fails to support success claims of charter schools
side the normal system of academic peer
review, says Christopher Lubienski, an
he case for charter schools, by all education professor at UI.
appearances, has been made with
“Serious researchers do not cite most of
politicians and the public. Forty these studies,” Lubienski said. The wellstates now have them, their num- funded promotion of them, mostly by advobers are rapidly increasing, and they now cacy-based think tanks and centers, he said,
serve more than a million students.
represents a significant departure from the
The research on which that case has way research has been conducted, vetted
been made, however – on issues from stu- and communicated to the public.
dent achievement to equity and integration
Lubienski’s comments are based on a
– is limited, often overstated, often based paper, “The Political Economy of School
on suspect methodology, and largely out- Choice Research,” that he presented March
26 at the American Educational Research Association conference in
New York. His co-authors are graduate students Peter Weitzel and
Justin York. Lubienski
also is a fellow in the UI
College of Education’s
Forum on the Future of
Public Education.
“Privately
funded
think tanks are rapidly
eclipsing independent
university researchers
in shaping the thinking
around this issue, producing attractive Web
sites, conferences and
publications designed for
the media and the policymaker,” the authors
wrote. “Here, the quality
of research may matter
less than the strength of
an institution’s brand or
the efficacy of its promotional campaign.”
“I think that we’re
photo by L. Brian Stauffer kind of leaving the field
School work Education professor Christopher Lubienski, to a lot of advocates who
are basing their claims on
left, and graduate student Peter Weitzel have found in their
research on charter schools that the schools’ success is often pretty shoddy research,”
Lubienski said.
overstated.
T
“There’s not really an interest in finding
the truth. It’s a matter of promoting a particular agenda.”
Arguments for school choice, involving
both charter schools and voucher programs,
have been advanced along several lines, the
authors wrote. They have been sold as a
means for disadvantaged students to escape
bad schools and find better ones, as a way to
force changes in the organizational behavior of schools, and as a means for increasing
academic achievement.
In the era of No Child Left Behind, however, “academic achievement is now the
predominant consideration,” the authors
said. And on that score, based on their review of the research, the results have been
“mixed, at best.”
If holding to a standard of independent
peer review, “the research supporting school
choice in the U.S. based on academic outcomes is rather thin indeed,” they said.
“When examining research that has met the
highest standards of academic review, the
research basis for academic effectiveness
stemming from school choice is still tenuous, at best.”
“The only peer-reviewed studies on
achievement in charter schools suggests
that there’s little effect, and perhaps negative effect,” Lubienski said.
Lubienski and Weitzel said they can understand and appreciate the appeal of school
choice in addressing a range of issues in
education. “The popular appeal of school
choice is incredibly powerful,” Weitzel
said. And Lubienski believes the prominent
advocacy-based researchers “have their
hearts in the right place” in wanting to address those issues, such as unequal access to
quality education.
Addressing them through the mechanism
of school choice, however, especially in an
environment where student achievement
has become the overwhelming priority, can
put those issues in conflict, the researchers
said.
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“Such a heavy emphasis on achievement
kind of washes out some of these other
things,” such as attempts to use charters to
target disadvantaged students or to integrate
schools, Lubienski said.
To illustrate, he uses the example of college sports. Coaches know that it’s easier
to recruit better players than to try to bring
lesser players up to the same level. In the
same way, educators know it is often easier
to recruit better students than to produce
them, he said. With pressure to produce
achievement, charter schools feel pressure
to give up on marginal students or to market
themselves to more-advantaged groups.
“The initial optimism (in the promotion
of school choice) was that we could do just
this one application of a market mechanism
to education and then we’ll get this flowering of diversity, flowering of innovation
and greater achievement,” Lubienski said.
“But there are different types of markets,
and market mechanisms work in different ways in different conditions, and there
wasn’t much thought given to that.”
Instead of making the case that charter
schools are inherently better, researchers
should be looking at what works in the
good ones and figuring out how to replicate
that, Lubienski said.
Ultimately, the system of advocacybased research, combined with a heavy
emphasis on achievement gains as the standard for success, may be a disservice to the
school choice debate, he said. u
Editor’s note: The AERA paper expands on a
paper presented last October at the J. Reuben
Clark Law School at Brigham Young University,
as part of a conference on education choice
issues two weeks prior to a vote on a state
voucher referendum in Utah. The paper will
appear in an upcoming issue of the Brigham
Young University Law Review. Lubienski also
commented on the voucher issue at that time
as part of a Q&A (www.uiuc.edu/minutewith/
chrislubienski.html) on the UI Web site.
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Insects take bigger bite out of plants in higher CO2 atmosphere
By Diana Yates
A
tmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising
at an alarming rate, and
new research indicates
that soybean plant defenses go
down as CO2 goes up. Elevated
CO2 impairs a key component of
the plant’s defenses against leafeating insects, according to the
report.
The UI study appeared online
in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Deforestation and the burning
of fossil fuels have significantly
increased carbon dioxide levels
since the late 18th century, said
plant biology professor and department head Evan DeLucia, an
author of the study.
“Currently, CO2 in the atmosphere is about 380 parts per
million,” DeLucia said. “At the
beginning of the Industrial Revolution it was 280 parts per million,
photo courtesy Evan DeLucia
FACE field The Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment (Soy
FACE) facility at Illinois can expose the plants in a soybean field to
a variety of atmospheric CO2 and ozone levels – without isolating
the plants from other environmental influences, such as rainfall,
sunlight and insects.
and it had been there for at least
600,000 years – probably several
million years before that.”
Current predictions are that
atmospheric carbon dioxide will
reach 550 parts per million by the
year 2050, DeLucia said, and the
rapid industrialization of India and
China may even
accelerate
that
timetable.
The new study,
led by entomology professor and
department head
May Berenbaum,
used the Soybean
Free Air Concentration
Enrichment (Soy FACE)
photo courtesy Evan DeLucia
facility at Illinois.
Fatal attraction Plant defenses go down as
This open-air recarbon dioxide levels go up, the researchers
search lab can exfound. Soybeans grown at elevated CO2 levels
pose the plants in
attract many more adult Japanese beetles than
a soybean field to
plants grown at current atmospheric carbon
a variety of atmodioxide levels.
spheric CO2 and
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ozone levels – without isolating
the plants from other environmental influences, such as rainfall,
sunlight and insects.
High atmospheric carbon dioxide is known to accelerate the
rate of photosynthesis. It also increases the proportion of carbohydrates relative to nitrogen in plant
leaves.
The researchers wanted to know
how this altered carbon-to-nitrogen ratio affected the insects that
fed on the plants. They predicted
the insects would eat more leaves
to meet their nitrogen needs.
When they exposed the soybean
field to elevated carbon dioxide
levels, the researchers saw the expected effect: Soybeans in the test
plot exhibited more signs of insect
damage than those in nearby plots.
A closer inspection showed that
soybeans grown at elevated CO2
levels attracted many more adult
Japanese beetles, Western corn
rootworms and, during outbreaks
Weakened defenses Leaves grown under high CO2 lose a vital
defense pathway, said plant biology professor and department head
Evan DeLucia, an author on the new study.
of Asian soybean aphids, more of
these than soybeans in other plots.
Caterpillars and other insect
larvae need nitrogen to grow and
build new tissues, but adult insects can survive and reproduce
on a high carbohydrate diet. So it
made sense that more adults would
migrate to the high CO2 plants,
DeLucia said.
But did the higher sugar levels
in the leaves explain the whole effect? To find the answer, the team
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later for donations or to work in the trenches
ahead of primaries.
The Illinois senator expanded his online
reach by collecting names, e-mail addresses
and hometowns in lieu of cash for tickets to
events, buttons and other campaign souvenirs, said Cheney, a professor of communications and of economics.
“Every event generated a few thousand
new e-mails and addresses,” he said. “Other
candidates can do mass mailings, but they
have no idea where you live.”
“Obama does, so he can mobilize people
when he needs to,” Cheney said.
The rich database lets Obama’s camp
zero in on cities and even neighborhoods,
providing a personal touch on the ground
that mirrors the influence of online e-mail
exchanges, said Cheney, who plans a book
detailing Obama’s use of social media.
“It’s not cold-call knocking by outsiders.
They get local people who can say ‘I know
you, I live three doors down, and I want you
to consider Barack Obama.’ It’s all local,
which is social organizing at its best,” he
said.
But Cheney says candidates have to be
willing to pay a price to reap the political
benefits of social media. The online strategy only works, he said, if candidates are
willing to give up the traditional top-down
method of controlling their message, letting
supporters craft their own and giving them
a stake in the process.
“One of the things that has been percolating is that a lot of folks are disenchanted
with Washington and feel shut out, which
explains the rise of things like political
blogs. Obama has really energized a large
portion of the voting public who felt closed
out of the process – that there was nothing they could do to make a difference,”
Cheney said.
“Obama’s campaign is built from the
bottom up, not the top down,” he said. “The
issues percolate and his campaign is always
on the lookout for new issues that rise from
the online constituencies. That gets more
people involved and expands the Democrats’ usual core issues of health care, employment, education and Social Security.”
He says some candidates, including
Clinton and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, likely will
be uneasy about relinquishing control over
their message to rank-and-file supporters.
But he says the disenfranchised voters who
have embraced Obama’s campaign, particularly younger voters, should sway them.
“If they’re looking for a long career in
politics, they’ll take notice,” Cheney said.
“While Obama is bringing out this large
cohort of younger voters, what about your
voters, Mr. Senator?”
“In 10 years, how many of your voters
are still going to be alive? This is a guy who
is bringing out a whole new generation and
you need to tap into it.” u
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allowed beetles to live out their lives in one
of three conditions: on a high CO2 plant, on
a low CO2 plant outside the Soy FACE plot,
or on a low CO2 plant grown outside the test
plot but which had its sugar content artificially boosted.
“What we discovered was startling,” DeLucia said.
The beetles on the high CO2 soybean
plants lived longer, and as a result produced
more offspring, than those living outside the
Soy FACE plot. Even those fed a supplemental diet of sugars did not see their life
span extended.
“So here we were thinking that sugars
were the main thing causing the beetles to
feed more on these high CO2 leaves,” DeLucia said. “And that still may be true, but
sugars aren’t what’s causing them to live
longer and have more breeding events and
offspring.”
The team turned its attention to the hormonal signaling pathways of the plants,
focusing on a key defensive chemical the
plants produced to ward off an insect attack.
When insects eat their leaves, soybeans and
other plants produce a hormone – jasmonic
acid – that starts a chain of chemical reactions in the leaves that boost their defenses.
Normally, this cascade leads to the produc-
tion of high levels of a compound called a
protease inhibitor. When the insects ingest
this enzyme, it inhibits their ability to digest
the leaves.
“What we discovered is that leaves grown
under high CO2 lose their ability to produce
jasmonic acid, and that whole defense pathway is shut down,” Delucia said. “The leaves
are no longer adequately defended.”
The higher carbohydrate content of the
leaves and the lack of chemical defenses
allowed the adult insects to feast and live
longer and produce more offspring.
“This study demonstrates that global
environmental change is multifaceted,”
Berenbaum said. “The impact of elevated
carbon dioxide on crippling the capacity
of the plant to respond to insect damage is
exacerbated by the presence of invasive insect pests in soybean fields. The Japanese
beetle, as the name suggests, is a relatively
recent arrival in Illinois soybean fields. It is
causing considerable damage now, but this
study suggests that its ability to inflict damage will only increase over time.”
The researchers, both of whom also are
affiliated with the university’s Institute for
Genomic Biology, will now seek to determine whether the same process occurs in
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Embracing the Internet UI professor Michael Cheney predicts the 2008 tradition-
busting race will cement the social networking power of the Internet into the
pavement of future campaign trails.
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more dense
By James E. Kloeppel
T
he record for the most amount of information sent by a single photon
has been broken by researchers at the
UI. Using the direction of “wiggling” and
“twisting” of a pair of hyper-entangled photons, they have beaten a fundamental limit
on the channel capacity for dense coding
with linear optics.
“Dense coding is arguably the protocol
that launched the field of quantum communication,” said Paul Kwiat, a John Bardeen
Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. “Today, however, more
than a decade after its initial experimental
realization, channel capacity has remained
fundamentally limited as conceived for photons using conventional linear elements.”
In classical coding, a single photon will
convey only one of two messages, or one
bit of information. In dense coding, a single
photon can convey one of four messages, or
two bits of information.
“Dense coding is possible because the
properties of photons can be linked to one
another through a peculiar process called
quantum entanglement,” Kwiat said. “This
bizarre coupling can link two photons, even
if they are located on opposite sides of the
galaxy.”
Using linear elements, however, the
standard protocol is fundamentally limited
to convey only one of three messages, or
1.58 bits. The new experiment surpasses
that threshold by employing pairs of photons entangled in more ways than one (hyper-entangled). As a result, additional information can be sent and correctly decoded to
achieve the full power of dense coding.
Kwiat, graduate student Julio Barreiro
and postdoctoral researcher Tzu-Chieh Wei
Paul Kwiat
(now at the University of Waterloo) describe
their recent experiment in a paper accepted
for publication in the journal Nature Physics, and posted on its Web site.
Through the process of spontaneous
parametric down conversion in a pair of
nonlinear crystals, the researchers first
produce pairs of photons simultaneously
entangled in polarization, or “wiggling” direction, and in orbital angular momentum,
or “twisting” direction. They then encode a
message in the polarization state by applying birefringent phase shifts with a pair of
liquid crystals.
“While hyper-entanglement in spin
and orbital angular momentum enables
the transmission of two bits with a single
photon,” Barreiro said, “atmospheric turbulence can cause some of the quantum states
to easily decohere, thus limiting their likely
communication application to satellite-tosatellite transmissions.” u
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African American Studies and Research Program
Conference looks at racial violence
The African American Studies and Research Program
at the UI is sponsoring a conference, “Rupture, Repression
and Uprising,” April 3-5 at the Illini Union. Participants
and attendees are asked to register, but the conference is
free and open to the public.
By marking the anniversaries of the 1908 Springfield
race riot and the cataclysmic events of 1968, this conference investigates their legacies for a dawning new century.
This commemoration also provides a powerful point of entry into larger scholarly conversations about the history of
riots, other organized violence against radicalized bodies
(including sexual and state violence), rebellions and resistance, and their reverberations across time and space.
Award-winning poet Sonia Sanchez and prolific historian Gerald Horne will be keynote speakers. The event also
will feature plenary panels, including racial violence in the
U.S. during the period of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot
with a workshop by James Loewen on “sun-down towns”;
a multiethnic plenary panel on sexual violence; and a panel
on the Kerner Commission Report on race and violence in
America with black journalists Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune, Laura Washington of the Chicago Sun-Times,
and Jabari Asim, editor of the NAACP’s Crisis.
For more information, contact aasrp@uiuc.edu, call
333-7781 or visit www.aasrp.uiuc.edu.
Japan House
Open house features art of incense
A demonstration of Kodo, the traditional Japanese art of
incense, will be among the highlights at the annual spring
open house at Japan House on April 12.
The educational and cultural facility will welcome visitors from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Affiliated with the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Japan House this year is celebrating its 10th anniversary at its
current location.
The Kodo demonstrations, presented by Gyosetsu Maruyama and Nobue Irako, representatives of Nippon Kodo
Inc., Tokyo, will take place at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
“Breathing in and appreciating the different varieties of
incense is called ‘listening to the Koh,’ ” said Japan House
director Kimiko Gunji, who explained that the Koh represents the realm of spiritual pleasure. Not as well known to
Western audiences as some other Japanese arts forms, the
Kodo tradition – which can be practiced individually or
in groups – dates back to the 15th century. Several Kodo
schools have since evolved, and the art and culture of incense continues in practice today.
Other activities planned during the open house include
tours of Japan House’s gardens led by James Bier, garden
designer and builder, at 1 and 3 p.m.
Throughout the day, members of the Urbana-Champaign
Association of Chado Urasenke Tankokai will present tea
ceremonies. Examples of ikebana – or floral arranging – by
art and design students, also will be on display.
More information about the open house, and other upcoming Japan House events is available on the Web at www.
art.uiuc.edu/galleries/japanhouse, or by calling 244-9934.
College of Law
Conference looks at ‘A Debtor World’
Perhaps the most common American experience today
is debt. While debt can enable individuals and companies
to do useful things they would otherwise be unable to do,
excessive debt can cause serious financial problems for individuals, businesses and society at large.
The UI College of Law, in cooperation with the American Bankruptcy Institute, will host a conference May 2-3
focused on the deepening debt crisis in America. “A Debtor
World: Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium on Debt”
will explore debt as neither a problem nor solution but as
a phenomenon. Many different academic disciplines can
make important contributions to help us understand why
consumers and businesses decide to borrow money, what
happens to businesses and consumers under a heavy debt
load, and what norms and institutions societies need to encourage the efficient use of debt. Much of this knowledge
is compartmentalized into intellectual silos that are rarely
cross-fertilized. The goal of the conference is to promote
the sharing of this knowledge.
This conference will include renowned lecturers from a
variety of disciplines, including law, business, psychology,
economics, finance, strategic management and sociology.
James Scurlock, producer of the critically acclaimed
2007 documentary “Maxed Out,” is the keynote speaker.
His follow-up print work, “Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy
Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders,” was published
last year and further highlights the dilemma of pervasive
debt in our society.
The full conference schedule and information about other speakers is available at www.abiworld.org/Debt08/.
Oscar-winning alumnus Ang Lee, ‘Sopranos’ stars
to be guests at 10th Ebertfest
O
10th annual Roger Ebert’s
Film Festival
Film schedule, with the
current lineup of guests
Wednesday, April 23
scar-winning director and UI
7 p.m. – “Hamlet” (1996)
alumnus Ang Lee will be among the
Thursday, April 24
featured guests for the 10th annual
1 p.m. – “Delirious” (2006),
Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, otherwise
Guest: writer-director Tom
known as Ebertfest, coming April 23-27 to
Dicillo
Champaign and the UI campus.
4 p.m. – “Yes” (2004),
Other guests scheduled to attend include
Possible guests: writer-director
10 other directors of festival films, as well
Sally Potter and producer
as actor Joey Pantoliano and actress Aida
Christopher Sheppard
Turturro, both known for their roles on “The
Kenneth Branagh's “Hamlet”
8:30 p.m. – “Canvas” (2006),
Sopranos” television series, and actress
will be presented in 70mm to
Guests: writer-director Joseph
Christine Lahti, known for her role on the
open the 10th “Ebertfest.”
Greco, along with producers
series “Chicago Hope.”
Adam and Lucy Hammel,
Among the 13 features and one short scheduled for this year’s festival
and actor Joey Pantoliano.
are Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet,” in 70mm, which will open the festival; a
(The feature will be preceded
musical from John Turturro, set in working-class New York, which will close
by “Citizen Cohl: The Untold
the festival, and a documentary
ON THE WEB
Story,” with director Barry
on the life of an oddball Illinois
n Roger Ebert’s Film Festival
Avrich as a guest.)
farmer and his now-thriving
www.ebertfest.com
Friday, April 25
organic farm.
11:30 a.m. – “Shotgun Stories”
Other films on the schedule
(2007), Guest: writer-director
feature Steve Buscemi as a paparazzo; Joan Allen in a cross-cultural affair;
Jeff Nichols
Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn in a science fiction thriller that mixes
2:30 p.m. – “Underworld”
mind games with serial murder; and Marcia Gay Harden in a portrayal of
(1927), accompanied by the
schizophrenia.
Alloy Orchestra.
Continuing tradition, the festival will once again offer a silent film –
7 p.m. – “The Real Dirt on
accompanied, for the sixth time, by the three-man Alloy Orchestra of
Farmer John” (2005), Guests:
Cambridge, Mass. This year’s feature is “Underworld,” a gangster film from
Illinois farmer John Peterson,
1927 – at the end of the silent era.
along with director Taggart
Breaking with tradition, the festival will not include a free family matinee
Siegel
on Saturday. That spot is filled this year by Lee’s “Hulk,” a PG-13 sci-fi
10 p.m. – “Mishima: A Life in
action film that Ebert describes as a “comic-book movie for people who
Four Chapters” (1985), Guest:
wouldn’t be caught dead at a comic-book movie.”
director Paul Schrader
Rounding out the schedule are stories
Saturday, April 26
of a family feud in rural Arkansas,
11 a.m. – “Hulk” (2003),
an eccentric aunt caring for orphaned
Guest: director Ang Lee
nieces in the Pacific Northwest, an
3 p.m. – “The Band’s Visit”
unconventional biopic about a Japanese
(2007), Guest: writer-director
author, and an unplanned meeting of
Eran Kolirin
Arabs and Israelis in a lonely desert
7:30 p.m. – “Housekeeping”
town.
(1987), Guests: writer-director
The 13 screenings will take place at
William Forsyth, along with
the 1,500-seat Virginia Theatre, with
actress Christine Lahti
other events on the UI campus. The
11 p.m. – “The Cell” (2000),
festival is a special event of the College
Guest: director Tarsem Singh
of Media, the new name of the College
Sunday, April 27
of Communications.
Noon – “Romance and
Ebert is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic
Cigarettes” (2005), Guests:
for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-hosts
Joe Pantoliano, left, is expected to
choreographer Tricia Brouk and
“Ebert & Roeper,” a weekly televised
attend the screening of “Canvas.”
actress Aida Turturro u
movie-review program. He also is a 1964
Illinois journalism graduate and UI adjunct journalism professor.
Ebert selects films for the festival that he feels have been overlooked in some way, either by critics, distributors
or audiences, or because they come from overlooked genres or formats, such as documentaries. (In fact,
“overlooked” has been removed from the festival name since the festival itself is no longer overlooked.) Guests
connected with the selected films are invited to attend, and many appear on stage for informal discussions after the
screenings.
Prior to last year’s festival, those discussions were always with Ebert, who also introduced each film. As the
result of throat cancer surgery and related health issues, he had to pass those duties last year to his wife, Chaz, and
festival director Nate Kohn. Chaz Ebert and Kohn will again share those onstage roles this year, but Ebert will play
a larger role with the help of assistive technology, according to festival organizers.
At 4:30 p.m., after the close of the festival, the Champaign County Anti-Stigma Alliance will hold a free second
showing of “Canvas” in the Virginia Theatre, followed
Single ticket sales
by a panel of guest speakers. The alliance was formed to
Tickets for individual films will go on sale April 4
challenge disability discrimination and promote education
through the theater box office.
and awareness.
Other festival events, including panel discussions held
Phone 217-356-9063; Fax: 217-356-5729
on the UI campus, will be announced soon. Updates on the
$10 each /$8 each for students and senior citizens
festival will be posted on the festival Web site.u
UI faculty and staff members and UI students will receive a discount for the conference. Tickets regularly priced
at $395 are available for $50. This fee includes conference
registration, all sessions and meals. There is no cost to attend conference sessions without meals. To register, visit
www.law.uiuc.edu/debt08/registration.asp.
WILL-AM-FM-TV
Kieser presents free tornado safety show
WILL chief meteorologist Ed Kieser will present a free
tornado safety seminar at 7 p.m. April 10, with tips people
can use to protect themselves when tornadoes threaten.
Kieser, now in his 18th year of presenting the shows,
uses spectacular video and graphics to help arm Central Illinois residents with information that could save their lives.
The seminar takes place at the Beckman Institute audito-
rium.
“Tornadoes have already caused 69 deaths in the United
States in 2008,” Kieser said. “The number of fatalities this
year is already ahead of the 30-year average for the entire
year, and we’re just entering the prime tornado season.”
Rick Atterberry, public information officer for the
Champaign County Emergency Management Agency, will
provide information about what to expect from local government in a disaster. Atterberry also will talk about what
the Emergency Management Agency does in times of crisis
and how people can be prepared during an emergency.
Free parking for the event is available in the university
parking garage at the corner of University and Mathews
avenues. For more information, call 244-5072 or visit the
WILL Web site at www.will.uiuc.edu.
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Marketing pioneers honored
Marketing symposium is April 17-19
Five pioneers will be honored for their contributions to
the field of marketing during an international symposium
April 17-19 at the UI.
The Paul D. Converse Symposium is held every four
years, presenting achievement awards that constitute a
“Marketing Hall of Fame,” according to Fortune magazine.
The UI department of business administration and the Central Illinois chapter of the American Marketing Association
sponsor the event.
Winners who will be honored:
n Joe Alba, chairman of the marketing department at the
University of Florida, an authority in retail marketing;
n Len Barry, a marketing professor at Texas A&M who
studies how customer expertise influences shopping.
n Kent Monroe, a visiting professor of marketing at the
University of Richmond and a former UI marketing
professor, a leading researcher on pricing strategy.
n Rajan Varadarajan, a marketing professor at Texas
A&M who specializes in services marketing.
n Valerie Zeithaml, a marketing professor at the University of North Carolina and a pioneer in services marketing, is the first woman honored in the nearly 50-year
history of the awards.
Honorees will present programs and answer questions
from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 18 and from 10 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. April 19 at Wohlers Hall. Presentations are open
to the public, but seating is limited. The honorees will receive their awards during a dinner April 19 at the Levis
Center.
“The symposium is our chance to showcase the best and
the brightest in the field,” said Cele Otnes, co-chair of this
year’s symposium along with UI marketing professor Bill
Qualls. “We’ll have five of the world’s greatest marketing
minds on campus and that’s great exposure for our faculty
and students.”
For the first time, the symposium also will host students
seeking doctoral degrees in marketing from other Big Ten
universities, expanding exposure to the award winners, Otnes said.
The American Marketing Association established the
symposium in honor of Converse, a former UI business
professor who was a pioneer in developing the field of marketing. The UI College of Business is the permanent host
for the event.
Campus Recreation
Event teaches women how to live ‘well’
Want to learn to live “well,” but would like to learn more?
The LifeStudio is a place you can learn about wellness and
then find ways to implement the activities into your healthy
lifestyle either at Campus Rec or on your own.
The next event is “Stress Management & Women’s Hormones,” with Dr. Jeffery Melby from 1:30-2:30 p.m. April
19 in Multipurpose Room 1 at Campus Recreation Center
East.
Register at CRCE Member Services or call 244-3440.
The event is free for students and campus recreation members and $8 for non-members.
‘Exhibitionism at its Best’
Workshop shows how to design exhibits
Pat Miller, executive director of the Illinois Heritage Association and adjunct lecturer in the department of urban
and regional planning, and Christa Deacy-Quinn, collections manager of the Spurlock Museum, will host “Exhibitionism at its Best: How to Design A Great Exhibit.”
The session, designed to teach how to design attentiongetting exhibits, will include selecting a main theme and
sub-themes, design concepts and text for labels; copyright
issues; and environmental and security concerns. To illustrate these concepts, a “dummy exhibit” will be constructed. Examples of exhibit “furniture” and other equipment
available for use in the Main Library’s exhibit cases also
will be shared. The session is from 1-3 p.m. April 10 in the
Grainger Commons of the Grainger Engineering Library
This workshop, organized by the University Library’s
Exhibit Committee, is open to all university staff members.
Register in advance online at www.uiuc.edu/goto/exhibit08.
For more information, contact Annette Morris at 244-5276
or morrisa@uiuc.edu.
Campus Recreation
Taste of Campus Recreation is April 11
The first Taste of Campus Recreation will be April 11.
This all-day event offers an opportunity to try a little bit of
everything Campus Recreation has to offer.
To participate, pick up a punch card at Campus Recreation Center East (CRCE,) then attend six events of your
choice and redeem the card for a free Chipotle burrito and
the chance to win other great prizes. Events will include
a free yoga class, wellness check-ups, martial arts demonstrations, a pool party, and a demonstration of the Nike+
T
Faculty member’s music featured
on ‘Jazz from the Archives’
he music of UI music professor and baritone saxophonist
Glenn Wilson will be featured during a one-hour radio
show, “Wailin’ With Wilson,” on New York City radio
station WBGO-FM (88.3) at 10 p.m. (CDT) on April 13. The
program, part of the station’s weekly “Jazz from the Archives”
series hosted by Bill Kirchner, also will be broadcast on the
Internet at www.wbgo.org.
“The baritone saxophone has been played by relatively few major
jazz improvisers; one of the most underheralded of these is Glenn Wilson,”
notes Kirchner.
On the program will be samples of Wilson’s recorded work with his own
groups, with pianists Harold Danko and Steve Kessler, guitarist Rory Stuart,
bassists Dennis Irwin and Jim Masters, and drummers Adam Nussbaum.
Wilson also will be featured in performances with the Bob Belden
Ensemble and the Bill Kirchner Nonet. u
iPod. For a complete schedule of events, visit www.campusrec.uiuc.edu.
African-American history makers
‘Agents of Change’ opens April 7
“African-American HistoryMakers: Agents of Change,”
an exhibition produced by the UI and The HistoryMakers,
will be installed in the Illini Union South Lounge on April
7 and will run through the end of the semester. An opening
reception will be held at 2 p.m. April 17, also in the South
Lounge.
The HistoryMakers represents the single largest archival project of its kind in the world and is unique among
other collections of African-American heritage, because of
its massive scope. The organization is committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized, archival collection of thousands of
African American video oral histories.
HistoryMakers to be featured in this exhibition include
Nelvia Brady, Carol Moseley Braun, Frances Carroll,
George Carruthers, Emil Jones, James Montgomery, Linda
Rae Murray, Barack Obama, Monica Faith Stewart, Eddie
Williams, and Olly Wilson. This exhibition is one of three
that will be installed on all three UI campuses.
Program for the Study of Religion
Feminist theologist to lecture April 10
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, a pioneer in biblical interpretation and feminist theology, will deliver the 2008 Marjorie Hall Thulin Lecture in Religion at the UI.
Fiorenza, the Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at
the Harvard Divinity School, will speak at 8 p.m. April 10
in the Knight Auditorium of the Spurlock Museum. Her
talk is titled “Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire.”
The Program for the Study of Religion is sponsoring the
event, which is free and open to the public.
Fiorenza’s teaching and research focus on questions of
biblical and theological epistemology, hermeneutics, rhetoric and the politics of interpretation, as well as on issues of
theological education, radical equality and democracy.
In her presentation, Fiorenza will explore how the power of empire has shaped and affected Christian Scriptures
and “how it continues to shape our cultural and religious
M
ethos.”
“Because Christian Scriptures and interpretations were
formulated in the context of Roman imperial power, they
lend themselves to being used in the service of empire,
colonialist expansion and heterosexist discrimination,”
Fiorenza said. “Therefore, they are determined by this rhetorical political imperial context.”
Fiorenza said that through the process of reading Scripture, therefore, “we internalize the ethos of empire: violence, exclusion and submission to God, the almighty King
and Christ the Lord, if we do not critically become conscious of the language of empire inscribed in it.”
Fiorenza calls on readers to avoid such internalizations
by adopting “an understanding of Scripture that will allow
us to deal critically with the biblical ethos of empire, rather
than repeating and perpetuating it.”
Marjorie Hall Thulin, for whom the annual lecture is
named, graduated from the UI in 1931, and had a successful career in advertising.
For more information about the lecture, contact Robert
McKim, the director of the Program for the Study of Religion, at 244-5832 or rmckim@uiuc.edu.
European Union Center
EU Day activities are April 14-15
This year’s European Union Day activities at the UI will
take place April 14-15.
The schedule of events, sponsored by the UI’s European
Union Center and free and open to the public, begins with
a panel discussion titled “Slovenia and the Global Economy: Doing Business with the EU’s Eastern Members,” at
4:30 p.m. on April 14 in 210 Illini Union. Panelists will
be Charles Bukowski, professor of international relations
at Bradley University; Irena Lukac, trade and economic
counselor at the Embassy of Slovenia; and Wilmer Otto,
president of Equipment Direct-USA.
At 10 a.m. on April 15, the annual State of the European Union Keynote Address will be presented by Samuel
Zbogar, ambassador of Slovenia to the United States.
More information about the events and the UI’s EU
Center is available online at www.ips.uiuc.edu/eu. u
College of Veterinary Medicine hosts open house April 5
ore than 300 veterinary students at the UI tions for all ages. The focus is on the art and science of
College of Veterinary Medicine will host the veterinary medicine and animal-related areas, including
college’s annual
demonstrations of dogs on
open house from 9 a.m.-4
the rehab program’s underp.m. April 5.
water treadmill; obedience
The behind-the-scenes
and police dog demonstralook at the state’s only vettions; Wildlife Medical
erinary college is free and
Clinic birds of prey; and
open to the public. Regisexhibits from area breed
rescue clubs.
tration is not required. Free
Additionally, the colparking will be provided at
lege’s veterinary heritage
the college.
collection will make its
Open house provides
open house debut this year.
information about veteriThe UI, College of Vetnary careers and admission
erinary Medicine and the
to veterinary school. While
Illinois State Veterinary
many people associate veterinary medicine with routine health care for dogs and Medical Association opened the Dr. Walter E. Zuschlag/
ISVMA Veterinary Heritage Collection in October. The
cats, the profession offers a world of career options.
Activities of the veterinary medical profession ben- state of Illinois played a significant role of the national
efit every person in the state, either directly – by provid- development of the veterinary profession. The collecing care to companion animals and livestock – or indi- tion includes more than 30 cabinets featuring artifacts
rectly – through work in medical research, public health, from the beginning days of the veterinary profession.
food safety, disease surveillance,
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in Chicago at the start of the 20th
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of events
lectures
3 Thursday
“There Must Be Blood: Aspects of Linguistic Violence
in Modern Literature.” Ulf
Olsson, Stockholm University
and UI. 5:15 p.m. Lucy Ellis
Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. Germanic
Languages and Literatures.
“Defiant Trespass: Lessons
From the Black Arts Movement for ‘This Place Called
America.’” Sonia Sanchez,
poet and scholar. 7:30 p.m.
Third floor, Levis Faculty Center. MillerComm.
4 Friday
“The U.S. Within the World.”
Franklin Gamwell, University
of Chicago Divinity School.
Noon. Latzer Hall, University
YMCA. Friday Forum.
5 Saturday
Art + Design Visitors Series.
“Interior Motives.” Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, State University of
New York, New Paltz. 2 p.m.
Krannert Art Museum Auditorium. Art and Design and
Krannert Art Museum.
8 Tuesday
“Chapel of St. John the Divine
Episcopal.” Dana M. Robinson, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall,
University YMCA. Know Your
University.
9 Wednesday
“Globalization and Language
Endangerment: Africa vs. The
Americas.” Salikoko Mufwene, University of Chicago. 4
p.m. Third floor, Levis Faculty
Center. MillerComm.
“Arthur Evans, the Palace of
Minos at Knossos and the
Dawn of European Civilization.” John Papadopoulos,
University of California, Los
Angeles. 5:30 p.m. Krannert
Art Museum auditorium. Archaeological Institute of America, Classics and Krannert Art
Museum.
10 Thursday
“Scripture and the Rhetoric
of Empire.” Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School. 8 p.m. Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum.
Marjorie Hall Thulin Lecture/
Religion.
11 Friday
“The Threads of Learning
and Democracy in Classroom
Talk.” Peter H. Johnston, State
University of New York at Albany. Noon. 210A Education
Building. 2008 UIUC College
of Education Distinguished
Alumni Award Committee.
colloquia
3 Thursday
“Teaching of Evaluation – The
Relationship Between Evaluation Theory Course and the
April 3, 2008
Much of this information is drawn from the online Campus Calendars on the UI Web site at
www.uiuc.edu/uicalendar. Other calendar entries should be
sent 15 days before the desired publication date to insideil@uiuc.edu.
More information is available from Marty Yeakel at 333-1085.
Note: $ indicates Admission Charge
April 3 to 20
11 Friday
Sociopolitical Dimension of
Evaluation Practice.” Mijung
Yoon, UI. Noon. 42A Education Building. Educational
Psychology.
“Gender and Computing
in the Push-Button Library,
1965-1985.” Greg Downey,
University of Wisconsin. 12:30
p.m. 126 Graduate School of
Library and Information Science. Library and Information
Science.
“Tradeoffs Between Power
and Efficiency in Microbial
Growth. Structure and Function of Microbial Communities.” Thomas Schmidt, Michigan State University. 4 p.m.
B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.
Gallery Conversation: “Intersections Between Games and
Art in Virtual Worlds.” Noah
Wardrip-Fruin, digital media
creator. 5:30 p.m. Krannert Art
Museum. Krannert Art Museum.
“How a Monostable Gene Circuit Controls Switching Between Two Cell-Fates in HIV.”
Leor Weinberger, University of
California, San Diego. 11 a.m.
151 Loomis Lab. Physics.
Railroad Engineering Seminar. James McClellan, Woodside Consulting. 11:45 a.m.
233 Grainger Engineering
Library Commons Room. William W. Hay Railroad Engineering Seminar/Civil and Environmental Engineering.
“Novel Enzymes, Rapid Structure Determination, and an
Online Computer Game.” David Baker, University of Washington, Seattle. Noon. MSB
Auditorium. Biochemistry.
“The Threads of Learning
and Democracy in Classroom
Talk.” Peter H. Johnston, State
University of New York at Albany. Noon. 210A Education
Building. 2008 UIUC College
of Education Distinguished
Alumni Award Committee.
“What Is It For a Property to
be a Physical Property?” Daniel Stoljar, Australian National
University. 3 p.m. 223 Gregory
Hall. Philosophy.
4 Friday
“Filling Out the Blanks: Swedish Literature and the EU.”
Ulf Ollson, visiting Fulbright
Hildeman Professor, Stockholm University. Noon-1:30
p.m. The Bread Company,
706 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana.
European Union Center.
“Adaptations of Leucyl-tRNA
Synthetase for Protein Synthesis and RNA Splicing.” Jennifer Hsu, University of Texas.
Noon. B102 Chemical and Life
Sciences Lab. Biochemistry.
“Evolutionary Ecology of
Bacterial Viruses.” Joshua
Weitz, Georgia Institute of
Technology. 2 p.m. 464 Loomis
Lab. Physics.
“The Size of Health Selection Effects.” Alberto Palloni,
Northwestern University. 3
p.m. 336 Lincoln Hall. Sociology.
“Low Temperature Fuel Cells:
Ex Situ, In Situ and Operando
Studies.” Christina Roth, University of Darmstadt. 4 p.m.
116 Roger Adams Lab. Analytical Chemistry.
7 Monday
“High-Fidelity Image-Based
Modeling.” Yasutaka Furukawa, UI. 9 a.m. 2269 Beckman
Institute. Beckman Institute.
“Molecular Determinants in
the Interspecies Transmission of H9N2 Avian Influenza
Viruses.” Daniel Perez, Virginia-Maryland Regional College
of Veterinary Medicine. Noon.
80 Small Animal Clinic. Veterinary Medicine.
“Electron Cryo-microscopy of
ATP Synthase.” John Rubinstein, The Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto. 3 p.m. 3269
Beckman Institute. Theoretical
and Computational Biophysics.
“Charm Physics on the Lat-
14 Monday
Up close Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey presents BOOM A RING, its circus
spectacular at the UI Assembly Hall April 18-20. Circus-goers will enjoy an up-close
and personal experience as they watch white tigers, Asian elephants and acrobats
from around the world. Tickets are available at www.Ringling.com or at 351-2626 or
at the Assembly Hall box office. Among the featured performers is Vicenta Pages, one of
the world’s youngest performing tiger trainers.
tice With Highly Improved
Staggered Quarks.” Eduardo
Follana, University of Glasgow. 4 p.m. 144 Loomis Lab.
Physics.
“Systems Approach and Engineering Solutions to Bioenergy Systems.” K.C. Ting, UI.
4 p.m. Monsanto Room, ACES
Library. Center for Advanced
Bioenergy Research.
“Bayesian Models of Language Acquisition, Or, Where
Do the Rules Come From?”
Mark Johnson, Brown University. 4 p.m. 1404 Siebel Center.
Computer Science.
8 Tuesday
“Tolstoy and Herder: Nationalism and Brotherhood in Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace.’” Lina
Steiner, University of Chicago.
Noon. 101 International Studies Building. Russian, East European and Eurasian Center.
“Oxygen-18 and the Origins
of Hydrogen-Deficient Carbon
Stars.” Thomas R. Geballe,
Gemini Observatory. 4 p.m.
134 Astronomy. Astronomy.
9 Wednesday
“HESCs and Hematopoiesis:
What Can We Learn? What
Can We Apply?” Andrew
Leavitt, University of California, San Francisco. Noon.
B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Cell and Developmental Biology.
“Loud Silence: Learning to
Read, Learning to Speak, Life
Histories of Black Women
in the Academy.” Chamara
Kwakye, UI. Noon. 911 S.
Sixth St., Champaign. Gender
and Women’s Studies.
“Transport Processes in
Heavy Ion Collisions.” Derek
Teaney, State University of
New York, Stony Brook. 4 p.m.
464 Loomis Lab. Physics.
10 Thursday
“Life on the Edge: The Nature
and Origin of Protein Misfolding Diseases.” Christopher
Dobson, Cambridge Univer-
sity, England. 2 p.m. MSB Auditorium. Biochemistry.
“Translating the Past: Laurent
de Premierfait and the Visualization of Antiquity.” Anne
D. Hedmen, UI. 3:30 p.m. 307
Gregory Hall. History.
“When Obsessions Collide:
Golf and Physics.” Robert
Grober, Yale University. 4 p.m.
141 Loomis Laboratory of
Physics. Physics.
“Competition and Selection
in Language Evolution.” Salikoko Mufwene, University
of Chicago. 4 p.m. Lucy Ellis
Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. Linguistics.
“Stochasticity and Cell Fate.”
Richard Losick, Harvard University. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical
and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.
“The Art of Time.” Jesse Matz,
Kenyon College. 8 p.m. IPRH
Building, 805 W. Pennsylvania
Ave., Urbana. Criticism and
Interpretive Theory.
“Energy Conservation in
Buildings: A Communitywide
Alternative Approach.” William Rose, UI. Noon. 101 International Studies Building.
Women and Gender in Global
Perspectives.
“From the Bench to the Back
40: Practical Aspects of Production Business Unit Commercial Genotyping in Cattle.” Stewart Bauck, IGENITY
Livestock Production Business
Unit. Noon. 80 Small Animal
Clinic. Translational Biomedical Seminar/Veterinary Medicine.
“Profiling and Imaging the
Nervous System With Mass
Spectrometry.” Eric B. Monroe, UI. Noon. 171 Roger Adams Lab. Analytical Chemistry.
“Spatio-temporal
Regulation of Cellular Processes
by Lipids and Lipid-binding
Proteins.” Wonhwa Cho, UI. 3
p.m. 3269 Beckman Institute.
Biophysics.
“Results of a Global Search
for New Physics at the Tevatron.” Conor Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 4 p.m. Physics.
“Cellulosic Ethanol.” Bryan
White, UI. 4 p.m. Monsanto
Room, ACES Library. Center
for Advanced Bioenergy Research.
“Megacities: A Graduate Student Forum.” 8 p.m. Third
floor, Levis Faculty Center.
Criticism and Interpretive
Theory.
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15 Tuesday
“Ultrahigh Bandwidth Analog-to-Digital Conversion Via
Time Dilation.” Bahram Jalali,
UCLA. 11 a.m. B02 Coordinated Science Lab. Coordinated Science Lab.
“Using Mitochondria and Wolbachia Genes to Explore the
Phylogeography of Diabrotica virgifera.” Rosanna Giordano, UI. 3:30 p.m. I-Building,
Room 1005, 1816 S. Oak St.
Champaign. Illinois Natural
History Survey.
“The Self-Tuning Brain: Homeostatic Plasticity in Developing Cortical Networks.”
Gina Turrigiano, Brandeis
University. 4 p.m. 1005 Beckman Institute. Neuroscience
Program.
16 Wednesday
Sustainability Seminar Series. “Sustainable Development Issues.” William Blackburn, William Blackburn Consulting, Ltd. Noon. Stephen
J. Warner Conference Room,
Waste Management and Research Center, 1 E. Hazelwood
Drive, Champaign. Waste Management and Research Center.
“Human Ribonucleoprotein
Assembly: Implications for
Inherited Disease.” Thomas
Meier, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Noon. B102
Chemical and Life Sciences
Lab. Cell and Developmental
Biology.
“Quantitative Test Results:
Improving the Science of Test
Evaluation.” Ian Gardner, University of California, Davis.
Noon. 2506 Veterinary Medicine Basic Science Building.
Veterinary Medicine.
“Making Poor People Work
for Services: CBOs in Dar
es Salaam.” Brian Dill, UI.
Noon. 101 International Studies Building. African Studies.
“Effect of Dietary Genistein
on Breast Cancer Therapy
and Metastasis.” Mengyuan
Du, UI. 4 p.m. 103 Mumford
Hall. Nutritional Sciences.
“Understanding the Quark
Gluon Fluid.” Peter Jacobs,
Lawrence Berkeley National
Lab. 4 p.m. 464 Loomis Lab.
Physics.
17 Thursday
“Settling the Urban Sertao:
Notes on the History of Brazilís Informal Cities.” Brodwyn
Fisher, Northwestern University. Noon. 101 International
Studies Building. Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
“Pseudo-likelihood Estimation in Log Linear by Linear
Association Models.” Zhushan (Mandy) Li, UI. Noon. 42A
Education Building. Educational Psychology.
Inaugural Ralph Simmons
Lecture: “Helium, the Physicist’s Sandbox.” William F.
Brinkman, Princeton University. 4 p.m. 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics. Physics.
“Cell Cycle Control, Cell Differentiation in Bacteria; Bacterial Adhesion.” Yves Brun,
Indiana University. 4 p.m.
B102, Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 South
Goodwin Avenue. Microbiology.
“Terayama Shuji and the
Dramatization of Revolution.” Steven Clark Ridgely,
University of Wisconsin. 4
p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080
Foreign Languages Building.
East Asian Languages and
Cultures.
“Obedience and Its Discontents: The Satisfactions of Affect in the ‘Wife’s Lament.’”
Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe,
Notre Dame University. 4:30
p.m. 4090B Foreign Languages Building. Medieval Studies,
English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
“Contemporary Painting: Inside and Outside of the Ivory
Tower.” Roz Schwartz, UI. 6
p.m. Krannert Art Museum
auditorium. Krannert Art Museum Council.
18 Friday
“Contrast Agents and Microstructured Hydrogels.” Stephanie Rinne, UI, and “I Know
What You Saw Last Summer:
Decoding Brain Activity Associated With Natural Scenes.”
Dirk Walther, UI. Noon. 1005
Beckman Institute. Beckman
Institute Director’s Seminar.
“Recent
Results
from
CLEO-c.” Daniel Cronin-Hennessy, University of Minnesota. Noon. 464 Loomis Lab.
Physics.
“Assembly and Disassembly
of Individual RecA Nucleoprotein Filaments.” Roberto
Galletto, Washington University School of Medicine, St.
Louis. 2 p.m. 464 Loomis Lab.
Physics.
“Latino Before the World:
Panethnicity and the Transnational Diffusion of Identity.” Wendy Roth, University of
British Columbia. 3 p.m. 336
Lincoln Hall. Sociology.
“Analytical Gradient Focusing Separation Techniques.”
Milton Lee, Brigham Young
University. 4 p.m. 116 Roger
Adams Lab. Analytical Chemistry.
19 Saturday
Gallery Conversation: “Connecting Art and Literature:
An Exploration of Death and
Dying in the Visual Arts and
in Tolstoy.” Anne Sautman, UI.
10 a.m. Krannert Art Museum.
Krannert Art Museum.
theater
3 Thursday
“Measure for Measure.” Robert Anderson, director.7:30
p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert
Center. Shakespeare’s comedy questions the legislation
of morality and the morality of
legislators. $
4 Friday
“Measure for Measure.” Robert Anderson, director. 7:30
Center. $
5 Saturday
“Measure for Measure.” Robert Anderson, director. 7:30
Center. $
6 Sunday
“Measure for Measure.” Robert Anderson, director. 3 p.m.
Studio Theater, Krannert Center. $
11 Friday
“Urinetown.” 7:30 p.m. Assembly Hall. A tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution in
a time when water is worth its
weight in gold. $ Illini Union
Board.
12 Saturday
“Urinetown.” 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Assembly Hall. A tale of greed,
corruption, love and revolution
in a time when water is worth
its weight in gold. $ Illini
Union Board.
music
3 Thursday
Doctor of Musical Arts Project
Recital. Jee-Ean Kim, piano. 5
p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Kronos Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert
Center. One of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of our time. $
4 Friday
Musicology Colloquium. “How
to Read Tropes of Gender:
Victorian Manliness.” Ruth
Solie. 4 p.m. Memorial Room,
Smith Hall.
Recital. Tracey Ford, soprano.
5 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
UI Symphony Orchestra. Donald Schleicher, conductor. 7:30
p.m. Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. With Oratorio
Society. $ School of Music.
Senior Recital. Tara Blocki,
saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Music
Building auditorium.
5 Saturday
Senior
Recital.
Lindsay
Gomes, oboe. 11 a.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
Master of Music Recital. Anne
Kovarik, trumpet. Noon. Music
Chamber Music. Little Brasscals Brass Quintet. 2 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
Master of Music Recital. Kelly
Carlson, trumpet. 5 p.m. Music
Gil Shaham, violin, with Akira Eguchi, piano. 7:30 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert
Center. Champaign-Urbana native Shaham is coming off a
2006-2007 season in which he
appeared with the New York
Philharmonic, Cleveland Sym-
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and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
$
UI Percussion Ensemble. William Moersch, director. 7:30
p.m. Tryon Festival Theater,
Krannert Center. $ School of
Music.
Undergraduate Recital. Sara
Lloyd, soprano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Senior Recital. Kiel Lauer,
bass trombone. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
6 Sunday
Senior Recital. Keelin Eder,
harp. 11 a.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Lesley Hastings, clarinet.
1:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
Junior Recital. Lis Troyer, saxophone. 2 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
Master of Music Recital. Ricardo Sepulveda, baritone. 5
Undergraduate Recital. Claire
Stolarski and Rachel Atlas,
oboe. 5 p.m. Memorial Room,
Smith Hall.
Slippery Tuba Quartet. 5:30
p.m. Music Building auditorium. Philip Coleman and
Josh Benjamin, euphonium;
Colby Fahrenbacher and Phillip Bloomer, tuba.
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra. Steven Larsen,
music director and conductor.
With Garrison Keillor, special
guest. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger
Great Hall, Krannert Center.
The author, columnist, champion of English majors, role
model for shy people and host
of NPR’s “Prairie Home Companion,” joins the CU Symphony for a concert that’s certain to be “above average.” $
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital in Vocal Coaching and Accompanying. Joohyun Sung,
piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Senior Recital. Sarah Yun, cello. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room,
Smith Hall.
7 Monday
Recital. Anne Guist, bassoon.
4 and 5 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
Student Composers Recital.
7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
8 Tuesday
Student Composer’s Recital.
Kyle Rowan, Ming-Ching
Chiu and Taylor Briggs, composers. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Dione Bennett, soprano.
7:30 p.m. Memorial Room,
Smith Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Christopher Combest, tuba.
7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
9 Wednesday
Master of Music Recital. JuiChen Huang, bassoon. 7:30
p.m. Memorial Room, Smith
Hall.
Recital. Rochelle Sennet,
Smith Hall.
10 Thursday
Junior Recital. Jenny Wong,
soprano. 11 a.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great
Hall, Krannert Center. One of
Germany’s leading ensembles
specializing in early music on
the international scene. $ Prelude: 6:30 p.m. Tryon Festival
Theater Foyer.
Composition Division Recital:
New Music for Gayagum (Korean traditional instrument).
7:30 p.m. Memorial Room,
Smith Hall.
11 Friday
Doctor of Musical Arts Project Recital. Petra Music, flute.
Noon. Memorial Room, Smith
Hall.
12 Saturday
Annual Moms Day Harp Studio Recital. 11 a.m. Music
Building auditorium. Featuring
students of Ann Yeung and Julia Kay Jamieson.
Master of Music Recital. Katie Seidel, bassoon. 11 a.m.
Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
Women’s Glee Club Moms
Day Concert. Joe Grant, conductor. 2 p.m. Foellinger Great
Hall, Krannert Center. $
Master of Music Recital. Joshua Haggerty, percussion. 2 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
“American Songs.” 2 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall. Students of Julie Gunn.
Undergraduate Recital. Everett James, tuba, and Allison
McGuire, euphonium. 2 p.m.
Music Building auditorium.
Junior
Recital.
Lauren
Waidelich, flute. 5 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Dione Bennett, soprano. 5
Junior Recital. Josh T. Benjamin, euphonium. 5 p.m. Music
UI Black Chorus Moms Day
Concert. Ollie Watts Davis,
conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger
Repertoire from the sacred music tradition, including spirituals, anthems, hymns and gospel selections. $
Senior Recital. Jamie Hestad,
flute. 7:30 p.m. Memorial
Room, Smith Hall.
Junior Recital. Charles Lane,
jazz saxophone. 7:30 p.m. 25
Smith Hall.
13 Sunday
UI Cello Choir. Aaron Kaplan,
director. 11 a.m. Music Build-
ing auditorium.
Undergraduate Recital. Lucy
Abrams, clarinet. 11:30 a.m.
Concerto Competition. 1 p.m.
“American Songs.” 2 p.m.
Students of Julie Gunn.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Michael Jones, jazz trumpet. 3 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.
Panorama Brass. Jeffrey
Spenner and Katrina Kral,
trumpet; Michelle Rivera,
horn; Joseph Sheets, trombone;
and Colby Fahrenbacher, tuba.
5 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra. Steven Larsen,
music director and conductor,
and Jeffrey Biegel, piano. 7:30
Krannert Center. Celebrate the
rebirth of symphonic music
by composers who found inspiration in the popular music
world; selections by Milhaud,
Antheil, Anderson, Emerson
and Shostakovich. $ Preshow performance: 6:45 p.m.
Lobby, Krannert Center.
“American Songs.” 7:30 p.m.
Students of Julie Gunn.
14 Monday
Graduate Recital. Sunhye
Shim, piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
Master of Music Recital.
Meng-Han Wang, oboe. 7:30
p.m. Memorial Room, Smith
Hall.
15 Tuesday
Interval: Road to the Isles.
Noon. Lobby, Krannert Center.
Music of Ireland and Scotland
that brings life into the ancient
traditions of Celtic cultures.
Art in Conversation With Anton Kuerti. Mike Ross, host. 5
p.m. Stage 5, Krannert Center.
New Music Ensemble. 7:30
Krannert Center. The program
will include music by twentieth century Mexican composers Silvestre Revueltas and
Carlos Chávez. $ School of
Music.
16 Wednesday
Anton Kuerti. 7:30 p.m.
Center. Pianist Kuerti takes on
Beethoven’s “Diabelli Variations,” presenting them with
commentary from the stage. $
UI Brass Choir. Elliot Chasanov, director. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
JungSoo Joseph Choi, violin.
7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
17 Thursday
Junior Recital. Jacquelyn
Kress, mezzo-soprano. 11 a.m.
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Senior Recital. Yun Me Park,
Smith Hall.
British Brass Band and UI
Trombone Choir. 7:30 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall and
Music.
Illini Women and University
Chorus. Andrea Solya and
Jean-Sebastien Vallee, conductors. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Junior Recital. Melissa Morrow, oboe. 7:30 p.m. Music
18 Friday
Traffic Jam: Folklore Urbano.
5 p.m. Stage 5, Krannert Center. This 12-member group is
composed mainly of Colombian musicians based in New
York City and includes a lineup of vocals, horns, percussion,
bass and keyboards.
UI Philharmonia. Louis Bergonzi, conductor, and Sherban
Lupu, violin. 7:30 p.m.
Center. Sibelius’ Finlandia, Op.
26 and 27, and Wienlawski’s
Legende, Op. 17. $
19 Saturday
Shawn McNamara, trombone.
2 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
Undergraduate Recital. Colby Cooman and Katrina Kral,
trumpet. 4:30 p.m. Music
UI Varsity Men’s Glee Club.
Barrington Coleman, director. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great
Hall, Krannert Center. $
UI Gamelan. Asnawa, director.
7:30 p.m. Colwell Playhouse,
Music.
20 Sunday
Junior Recital. Nick Wolny,
horn. 2 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
Concert Choir. Chester Alwes,
conductor. 4 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Undergraduate Recital. Allen
Chen, trumpet. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
dance
17 Thursday
Studiodance II. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center.
Dances made for and by students. $
18 Friday
Studiodance II. 7 and 9 p.m.
Studio Theater, Krannert Center. Dances made for and by
students. $
19 Saturday
Lecture/Demonstration With
Aniruddha Knight and Douglas Knight. 1 p.m. 25 Smith
Hall. An inside look at the
Indian dance style of bharata
natyam.
Studiodance II. 7 and 9 p.m.
Studio Theater, Krannert Center. Dances made for and by
students. $
20 Sunday
Aniruddha Knight and Ensemble: “From the Heart of
a Tradition.” 3 p.m. Foellinger
Knight and an ensemble of vocal and instrumental musicians
perform a fresh interpretation
of South Indian classical music and dance that springs from
inside a nine-generation family
artistic practice. $
films
3 Thursday
“Children of Men.” 5:30 pm 62
Krannert Art Museum, Room.
Illinois Program for Research
in the Humanities.
4 Friday
Latin American Film Festival.
Boardman’s Art Theatre, 126
W. Church St., Champaign.
More info: www.clacs.uiuc.
edu/news/filmfestival/. Continues through April 10. Latin
American and Caribbean Studies.
8 Tuesday
European Movie Night: “Czech
Dream.” Vit Klusak, director. 6
p.m. G36 Foreign Languages
Building. European Union
Center.
10 Thursday
Polish film: “Pornography.” A
film by Jan Jakub Kolski, 2003.
7 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building. Polish Studies/Slavic Languages
and Literatures.
17 Thursday
Czech film: “Dark Blue World.”
A film by Jan Sverak, 2001.
7 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge,
Foreign Languages Building.
Czech Studies/Slavic Languages and Literatures.
sports
To confirm times, go to
www .fightingillini.com
11 Friday
Softball. UI vs. Northwestern
University. 6 p.m. Eichelberger
Field. $
Baseball. UI vs. University of
Michigan. 6:05 p.m. Illinois
Field. $
12 Saturday
Softball. UI vs. Northwestern
University. Noon. Eichelberger
Field. $
Michigan. 3:05 and 6:05 p.m.
Illinois Field. $
13 Sunday
Softball. UI vs. Michigan State
University. Noon and 2 p.m.
Eichelberger Field. $
Michigan. 1:05 p.m. Illinois
Field. $
15 Tuesday
Baseball. UI vs. Eastern Il-
linois University. 6:30 p.m.
Grimes Field, Mattoon. $
16 Wednesday
Softball. UI vs. Illinois State
University. 6 p.m. Eichelberger
Field. $
18 Friday
Softball. UI vs. University of
Minnesota. 6 p.m. Eichelberger
Field. $
19 Saturday
Softball. UI vs. University of
Minnesota. Noon. Eichelberger
Field. $
et cetera
3 Thursday
Reading. Patrick Rosal, author.
4:30 p.m. Author’s Corner, Illini Union Bookstore. Carr
Reading Series/English.
Workshop. “Ecologies of Consumption: Markets, Sustainability and Consumer Culture.” Majorca Carter, Sustainable South Bronx. 6 p.m. Conference Room, ACES Library.
Center for Advanced Studies,
Democracy in a Multiracial
Society and Communications.
Third Annual Midwest Workshop on Latin American History. Music Room, Levis Faculty Center. Continues through
Saturday. More info: visit www.
clacs.uiuc.edu. Latin American
and Caribbean Studies and
History.
4 Friday
Conference. 38th Linguistic
Symposium on Romance
Languages. 8:30 a.m. Beckman Institute. Plenary speakers:
Barbara Bullock, Pennsylvania State University; Gennaro
Chierchia, Harvard University;
Grant Goodall, University of
California-San Diego; Michele Koven, UI. Information/
registration:
www.lsrl.uiuc.
edu/. Continues through Sunday. Linguistics; Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; French;
Beckman Institute; Center for
Advanced Studies; European
Union Center; Office of the
Associate Provost for International Affairs; Speech Communication; and Anthropology.
ARTzilla. 7-11 p.m. Krannert
Art Museum. Art, music, performances and food. More info:
www.kam.uiuc.edu. Krannert
Art Museum.
5 Saturday
Veterinary Medicine Open
House. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. College
of Veterinary Medicine. More
than 50 fun and educational
exhibits and demonstrations
for all ages. More info: www.
cvm.uiuc.edu/.
Veterinary
Medicine.
WCIA Home and Garden
Show. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Assembly
Hall. More than 140 exhibitors.
“Heirlooms, Artifacts and
Family Treasures: A Preservation Emporium.” Noon.
Spurlock Museum. Meet and
talk with preservation experts.
Spurlock Museum.
Black Women’s Achievement Dinner. 6-9 p.m. Holiday Inn, Urbana. Tickets/
more info: 344-0721 or e-mail
ywcauofi@hotmail.com.
$
University YWCA.
6 Sunday
WCIA Home and Garden
Show. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Assembly Hall. More than 140 exhibitors.
7 Monday
Conference. “From Magnificat to Magnificence, The
Aesthetics of Grandeur: Medieval Art, Architecture, Literature and Music.” 1 p.m. 209
Illini Union. More info: www.
medieval.uiuc.edu/events/
magnificat-program.pdf. Continues through Wednesday.
Medieval Studies, Music,
School of Literatures, Culture
and Linguistics and Liberal
Arts and Sciences.
Reading Group. “Decolonizations: Subaltern Studies and
Indigenous Critical Theory.” 8
p.m. Illinois Program on Research in the Humanities. Unit
for Criticism and Interpretive
Theory and American Indian
Studies Program.
8 Tuesday
“Designing a Special Collections Library: A Worthy Home
for World-Class Collections.”
3-4:30 p.m. Temple Buell Architecture Gallery. Reception
and awards ceremony. Rare
Book and Manuscript Library
and Architecture.
Film and Dinner Series.
“Cruising the Orient on the
QE2.” 6:30 p.m. Illini Rooms,
Illini Union. Tickets: 3335000. Illini Union Faculty
Staff Social Committee.
“Livin’ It Up, Loving It Up:
LGBT Dating 101.” 7 p.m.
406 Illini Union. Counseling
Center.
9 Wednesday
Nature ABCs and 123s. “G
is for Grass.” 10-11 a.m. Allerton Education Center, 515
Old Timber Road, Monticello.
Ages 2-5. Program includes
stores, songs and hands-on
exploration. $ Allerton Park
and Retreat Center.
Lunch and Learn Series.
Noon. Bruce Nesbitt African
American Cultural Center. A
weekly lunch series to discuss
topics relative to the African
American community on a local, national or international
level. African American Cultural Center.
“Getting Started With Service-Learning Course Design
Series:
Service-Learning
Implementation Tips.” Valeri Werpetinski, UI. Noon.
428 Armory Building. Registration: www.uiuc.edu/goto/
cte_040908. Center for Teaching Excellence.
Film and Dinner Series.
“Cruising the Orient on the
QE2.” 6:30 p.m. Illini Rooms,
Illini Union. Tickets: 3335000. Illini Union Faculty
Staff Social Committee.
Rhythms and Dances of Africa. Midawo Gideon Alorwoyie, master drummer. 7 p.m.
Spurlock Museum. African
Studies, Global Studies and
Spurlock Museum.
10 Thursday
Conference. “Race, Diversity and Campus Climate
at University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.”
9
a.m.-5 p.m. Illini Union. More
info/registration: http://cdms.
ds.uiuc.edu/pages/Conferences/. Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Office of the
Chancellor and Office of the
Provost.
Author’s Corner special session: “The Works of Evelyne
Accad.” 4:30-6:45 p.m. Author’s corner, second floor, Illini Union Bookstore. French,
Women and Gender in Global
Perspectives and South Asian
and Middle Eastern Studies.
11 Friday
CWS Research-In-Progress
Brownbag Lunch Series.
Melissa Littlefield, UI. Noon.
107A English Building. Center
for Writing Studies.
“Conflict and Conversation in
College Teaching.” Alan Phillips. 3:30 p.m. 428 Armory.
Registration: www.uiuc.edu/
goto/cte_041108. Center for
Teaching Excellence.
Reading. David Foster Wallace, author. 4:30 p.m. Author’s
Corner, Illini Union Bookstore.
Carr Reading Series/English.
Red Pin Bowling Special.
6:30-11:30 p.m. Illini Union
Rec Room. Parent Programs
Office.
12 Saturday
Book Arts Workshop: “Box
With Bone Clasp.” 9 a.m. Facilities and Services Printing
Department, 54 E. Gregory
St., Champaign. Registration:
www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/
mbms/registration_form.html.
$ Graduate School of Library
and Information Science.
Mom’s Weekend Craft Fair.
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Illini Union.
Parent Programs Office.
Japan House Spring 2008
Open House. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Japan House. Tours and tea
ceremonies will take place
throughout the day. Japan
House.
Panel. “Predicting the 2008
Election: Punditry, Polling
and Political Science.” Jeffrey Mondak, Brian Gaines
and Kris Miler, UI. 10 a.m.
192 Lincoln Hall. Political
Science.
Nature ABCs and 123s. “G
is for Grass.” 10-11 a.m. Allerton Education Center, 515
Old Timber Road, Monticello.
Ages 2-5. Program includes
stores, songs and hands-on ex-
ploration. $ Allerton Park and
Retreat Center.
Ninth Annual Transitional
Workshop. Timothy Mitchell,
New York University. 10 a.m.-5
p.m. 22 Education Building.
Sociology.
Weaving
Demonstration.
Magda Sotz Mux, guest artist.
10 a.m.-noon and 1:30-3 p.m.
Spurlock Museum. Spurlock
Museum and Latin American
and Caribbean Studies.
Allerton Wildflower Hike. 1-3
p.m. Visitor’s Center, Allerton
Park. Search for spring woodland wildflowers. For more
information, visit allerton.uiuc.
edu. $ Allerton Park and Retreat Center.
Spanish Storytime. 2 p.m.
Children’s Department, The
Urbana Free Library. Latin
American and Caribbean Studies, and The Urbana Free Library.
Storytelling Festival. 7 p.m.
126 GSLIS, 504 E. Daniel
St., Champaign. $ Graduate School of Library and Information Science Center for
Children’s Books.
14 Monday
Panel Discussion. “Slovenia
and the Global Economy: Doing Business With the EU’s
Eastern Members.” Irena
Lukac, Embassy of Slovenia;
Wilmer Otto, Equipment Direct, USA; and Charles Bukowski, Bradley University.
4:30-6 p.m. 210 Illini Union.
European Union Center.
15 Tuesday
Eighth Annual European
Union Day Celebration. Keynote speaker: Samuel Zbogar,
Ambassador of Slovenia. 10
a.m. Beckman Institute auditorium. European Union Center.
Panel Discussion. “Indigenous Language Revitalization
in the Americas: Contemporary Perspectives.” Magda
Sotz Mux, San Juan Comalapa;
Brenda Farnell, Ryan Shosted,
Anna Escobar, Amy Firestone,
UI; and Patrick Marlow, University of Alaska. Noon. 101
International Studies Building.
Latin American and Caribbean
Studies.
“Stretch Your Buck: The Art
of Managing Your Money.”
7 p.m. 406 Illini Union. Counseling Center.
16 Wednesday
Lunch and Learn Series.
Noon. Bruce Nesbitt African
American Cultural Center. A
weekly lunch series to discuss
topics relative to the African
American community on a local, national or international
level. African American Cultural Center.
17 Thursday
Launch of the Digital DI. 3
p.m. Illini Media Building,
512 E. Green St., Champaign.
Daily Illini.
InsideIllinois
Panel Discussion. “Landscapes and Identity in Latina/
Latino Arts.” 4 p.m. Krannert
Art Museum. Krannert Art Museum and Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities.
Discussion Group: “Some Varieties of Religious Inclusivism.” Robert McKim, UI. 4:30
p.m. 242 Education Building.
Program for the Study of Religion and Educational Policy
Studies.
Eleventh Annual Conference
on New and Re-emerging
Infectious Diseases. Opening speaker: David A. Jessup,
California Department of Fish
and Game. Includes remarks
on “Biodefense Policy” by
Kavita Berger, Center for Science, Technology and Security
Policy at the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. 6:15 p.m. College
of Veterinary Medicine, Large
Animal Clinic. More info/registration: www.cvm.uiuc.edu/
ope/idc/details.html. Center for
Zoonoses Research/Veterinary
Medicine and Arms Control,
Disarmament and International Security.
18 Friday
Conference: “Auerbach and
the Future of Criticism.” 9
a.m.-noon, 3:30-7 p.m. Lucy
Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign
Languages Building. Continues Saturday. Italian, Spanish
and Portuguese; Literatures,
Cultures and Linguistics; Medieval Studies; Germanic Languages and Literatures; Criticism and Interpretive Theory;
and Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.
CWS Research-In-Progress
Brownbag Lunch Series.
Spencer Schaffner, UI. Noon.
107A English Building. Center
for Writing Studies.
Weaving
Demonstration.
Magda Sotz Mux, guest artist.
10 a.m.-noon. Spurlock Museum. Spurlock Museum and
Studies.
Kaqchikel Maya Weaving Lecture/Demonstration. Magda
Sotz Mux, guest artist, and
Peter Rohloff, guest curator. 2
p.m. Spurlock Museum. Latin
American and Caribbean Studies and Spurlock Museum.
Doodle for Wildlife. 6-10 p.m.
Round Barn Banquet Center.
Dinner, entertainment and auction event to benefit the Wildlife Medical Clinic. Veterinary
Medicine.
exhibits
“Petals and Paintings”
April 12 and 13. Krannert Art
Museum.
“Indigenous Population of
the Caribbean”
Library.
Through April 30.
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“Qak’aslem, Qakem: Kaqchikel Maya Weavings”
Through June 8.
“Calypso Music in Postwar
America: Photographs and
Illustrations, 1945-1960”
Through Aug. 10.
Five galleries featuring the cultures of the world.
Spurlock Museum, 600 S.
Gregory St., Urbana. Noon-5
p.m. Tuesday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m.-4
p.m. Saturday; Noon-4 p.m.
Sunday.
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“Que Bola?: Cuban Hip Hop in
Movement”
Marc D. Perry, UI.
Through May 9.
Humanities Lecture Hall,
IPRH, 805 W. Pennsylvania
Ave., Urbana. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Friday.
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“Jay Ryan: Animals and Objects In and Out of Water”
Through May 11.
“The Archaeological Heritage
of Illinois”
Through June 1.
“MusiVerse”
“Landscapes of Experience
and Imagination: Explorations by Midwest Latina/
Latino Artists”
On view April 4.
Krannert Art Museum and
Kinkead Pavilion. 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, until 9
p.m. Thursday; 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Free admission; $3 donation suggested.
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Asian American Women Art
Show: “Reflections of Who
I Am”
Through April 30.
Asian American
Cultural
Center, 1210 W. Nevada St.,
Urbana. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
I space, 230 W. Superior St.,
Chicago. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.
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@art gallery. Online exhibit of
the UI School of Art and Design. www.art.uiuc.edu/@art.
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1 p.m. lunch.
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Champaign.
CRCE, 1102 W. Gregory Drive,
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open to all faculty/staff at no
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month.
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Excellence
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3:30-5 p.m. 23 Illini Hall.
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April 10.
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and Caribbean Studies and Spurlock Museum, Mux has
sought to raise awareness of the Maya language, culture
and health-care issues.
One of her weavings – a shirt with brilliantly colored flowers – was commissioned by the Spurlock Museum and is featured in the exhibit “Qak’aslem, Qakem:
Kaqchikel Maya Weavings,” in the museum’s Campbell
Lobby. The exhibit, on display through June 8, also features two other examples of woven Maya textiles representing two other villages from Guatemala’s Kaqchikelspeaking region.
Several other events are planned in conjunction with
Mux’s visit – on campus and in the community – in April.
They include lectures as well as public weaving demonstrations at Spurlock from 10 a.m.-noon and 1:30-3:30
p.m. on April 12, and 10 a.m.-noon on April 19. u
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Events feature Latino-American films, Latino art and culture
A
variety of campus arts-related
activities planned this month will
focus attention on the culture and
cultural identities of Latinos as
well as on people living in various Latin
American countries.
Among the events opening April 4 is
the second annual Latin American Film
Festival, organized by the Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies with collaboration and support from Boardman’s
Art Theater in downtown Champaign. The
festival kicks off at 7:30 p.m. at the theater with a screening of “The Violin.” The
2006 Mexican film, directed by Francisco
Vargas, chronicles the activities of humble
farmer-musicians who surreptitiously support a homegrown guerrilla movement.
Also showing later that evening, at 9:45,
Film fest “The Violin,” a 2006 Mexican
film directed by Francisco Vargas, will
kick off the Latin American Film Festival
at 7:30 p.m. April 4 at Boardman’s Art
Theater in Champaing.
is “Cocalero,” a 2007 documentary on the
grassroots campaign of Bolivian president
Evo Morales that is the directorial debut of
Alejandro Landes.
The festival continues through
April 10.
Other featured films include
“The Aura,” a 2005 thriller directed by the Argentine filmmaker Fabián Bielinsky, who
died in 2006; “Alice’s House,”
a 2007 film about domestic drama by Brazilian director Chico
Teixeira; and “Madeinusa,” Peruvian director Claudia Llosa’s
depiction of how life in a remote mountain village suddenly
changes with the arrival of an
outsider.
“All of the films have been
awarded prestigious national
and international prizes and
have never been shown in commercial movie theaters locally,”
The Latin experience Six artists have explored
said festival coordinator Angethe theme of landscapes through mixed and new nar- lina Cotler, associate director of
rative media installations, as well as drawing paint- the UI center.
ing and sculpture, in the exhibition, “Landscapes
Cotler said the festival was
of Experience and Imagination: Explorations by
designed “with the goal of
Midwest Latina/Latino Artists.”
strengthening and disseminating
knowledge of the cultural diversity and creativity of the Latin American region.”
Also opening April 4 at 7 p.m. is the
exhibition “Landscapes of Experience and
Imagination: Explorations by Midwest
Latina/Latino Artists” at Krannert Art Museum.
The exhibition, initiated by Lambda
Theta Phi Fraternidad Latina Incorporada
and UI art history professor Oscar Vazquez
as a response to culturally insensitive fraternity-sorority parties that have occurred on
campus in the past, features art by a group
of mostly Chicago-based artists: Miguel
Cortez, Gisela Insuaste, Paul Sierra, Edra
Soto and Gabriel Villa. Also exhibiting is
UI anthropology professor Alejandro Lugo.
Works on view explore perspectives of
the immigrant and non-immigrant experience in an effort to understand underlying
cultural issues, and focus on themes ranging
from family separation resulting from migration to personal identity crises.
The exhibition is organized by the museum’s visiting curator Judith Hoos Fox.
Said Fox: “This is work that is about living in the world today.”
An opening reception for the exhibition
will take place in conjunction with the museum’s “Son of ARTzilla” late-night party
from 7-11 p.m. The reception and party
will feature food and performances by the
UI Latin Jazz Ensemble and Miami-based
artist Kiki Valdes, known for his ability to
draw inspiration from live music and transform it into art on the spot.
The “Landscapes” exhibition will be on
view at the museum through July 27.
Continuing on campus through April 21
will be a residency by Guatemalan weaver
and activist Magda Silvia Sotz Mux. The
multi-talented Mux coordinates activities
of a midwifery cooperative in San Juan
Comalapa; teaches the indigenous Kaqchikel language and coordinates a Kaq-
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www.wuqukawoq.org
chikel literacy program; and serves as field
manager of Wuqu’ Kawoq, a nonprofit organization working to develop first-language
medical resources in Guatemala and promote cultural and linguistic revitalization
movements.
Mux has been a scholar-in-residence at
the UI since March 19. During her residency,
sponsored by the Center for Latin American
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Visiting artist Artist Magda Silvia Sotz
Mux of San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala,
will demonstrate her weaving techniques
on the back-strap loom in a series of
special events at Spurlock Museum.

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