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Jan. 18, 2001
Vol. 20, No. 12
U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n
Messages from mom
In This Issue
Short documentary by journalism professor to be
screened at Sundance Film Festival
By Melissa Mitchell
News Bureau Staff Member
Neuroscience
Research by Akira Chiba
and other UI scientists,
which appeared in the
journal Nature
Neuroscience, has
attracted growing
interest.
PAGE 4
Lasting legacy
In a recently published
book, UI architecture
scholar Sharon Irish was
the first to offer a
comprehensive profile
of American architect
Cass Gilbert.
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U
I journalism professor and filmmaker
Jay Rosenstein didn’t know why he
couldn’t bring himself to delete the
rambling, sometimes incoherent messages his
mother left on his home Voicemail system.
“What happens with Voicemail at home,”
Rosenstein said, “is every 15 days they ask you,
‘Do you want to erase this message?’ And I kept
resaving and resaving them. We finally
disconnected the system. So if I wanted them, I
would have to dump them to tape, because they
were going to be lost forever. I decided to do
that.”
But Rosenstein didn’t just save the messages.
He eventually used them as the foundation for
a short documentary film. The film, “Erased,”
presents a poignant picture of Rosenstein’s
aging mother as she and those close to her are
affected by her deteriorating mental capacity,
brought on by dementia.
The film has just earned Rosenstein one of
the most coveted forms of recognition among
filmmakers: a screening at the 2001 Sundance
Film Festival. The internationally renowned
festival, founded by actor Robert Redford, runs
from Jan. 18-28 in Park City, Utah, and is
regarded as America’s premiere showcase for
independently produced documentary and
dramatic films. Each year, members of Sundance
Institute’s programming staff view more than
3,000 submissions and select about 100 featurelength and documentary films and 60 shorts for
exhibition at the festival.
photo by Bill Wiegand
Slipping away Jay Rosenstein’s short
documentary ( just over four minutes) uses
Voicemail messages from his mother to
present a poignant picture of her as her
mental capacity continues to deteriorate
because of dementia. The film also uses
home movies shot by his father.
“Erased,” which has a run time of just over
four minutes, earned a spot in the festival’s
“shorts” category. In addition to the Voicemail
messages, “Erased” incorporates footage from
home videos shot by Rosenstein’s father, Earl.
Running throughout the piece, under the video
Study takes close look at how teens
and young adults share secrets
Thanks a million
For the first time, this
campus raises more
than $1,000,000 for the
Campus Charitable
Fund Drive.
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BRIEF NOTES
CALENDAR
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JOB MARKET
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live: original, single-parent or “blended.”
Contrary to popular belief and fairy tales,
A new study finds that the secrets teens and which see blended and single-parent families
young adults tell are remarkably similar – as significantly different from, even inferior to,
regardless of the family structure in which they original families, researchers have found that
for at least one form of family
communication – secrets – there’s
Telling secrets very little difference between these
John P. Caughlin, a family structures.
professor of speech
So says John P. Caughlin, a
communication,
professor
of
speech
was the lead
communication at the UI, and lead
investigator in a
investigator in the study of
new study of
intrafamily secrets. It is the first
intrafamily secrets. such study to demonstrate in a
It is the first study systematic manner that there are
to find that
no big differences between the
regardless of family family groupings in terms of this
structure, the
one important communication
secrets teens and
process. “Our study looked hard
young adults tell
for differences in secret keeping,
are remarkably
and didn’t find many,” Caughlin
similar.
said. The findings will be
S
EE SECRETS, PAGE 12
By Andrea Lynn
News Bureau Staff Writer
and other audio, is the traditional Jewish prayer/
song “Shalom Aleichem,” performed by
mandolinist and multiple Grammy Award
nominee David Grisman and Andy Statman.
The film, which has a more artful tone to it
than the typical journalistic-style documentary,
represents something of a shift of gears for
Rosenstein, whose previous work includes the
award-winning “In Whose Honor?,” a
documentary about American Indian mascots
in sports.
“It [‘Erased’] doesn’t go very far into the art
world, believe me,” the filmmaker said. “But it
is a departure. One of the things that really
influenced this departure was my time teaching
video production in the UI’s School of Art and
Design.”
After he completed the film, he had the
opportunity to show it at a screening session
held during New Day Films’ annual meeting of
its membership. Rosenstein is a member of
New Day, which is a co-op for filmmakers who
specialize in the production of documentaries
on social issues.
“When I showed it at New Day, nobody
knew anything about it. I just said, ‘Here’s
something I’ve been working on’ and put it in.
In the beginning, people were laughing out
loud. They thought it was really funny. And
then, sort of one by one … it’s getting a little
quieter … and a little quieter. Then at the end,
it’s total silence. Some people came up
[afterward] and apologized for laughing. And I
said, ‘No, that was a wonderful reaction.’ ”
SEE SUNDANCE, PAGE 12
Special tuition
increase proposed
only for new
students
A special tuition increase for new UI
students will result in improved student
services and programs, enhanced
educational technology and expanded
enrollment in key high demand courses
and disciplines, university leaders
announced last month.
The increase of $500 per year for each
of two years at the Urbana-Champaign
and Chicago campuses will provide
specific benefits to the new students who
pay it. The higher tuition begins in fall
2001 for freshmen and other first-time
students only, pending approval by the UI
Board of Trustees. (See accompanying
charts.) Additional financial aid will offset
the higher costs for students and parents
least able to pay.
SEE TUITION, PAGE 2
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Jan. 18, 2001
TUITION, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Current students will see their tuition such as expanding enrollment, improving
rates climb by 5 percent at Urbana- academic and career advising, expanding
Champaign and 3 percent at the Chicago course access, upgrading access to libraries
and using the latest
campus next fall.
technology
to
“High quality
“The new tuition
handle admissions,
costs money, and
our newest students
increase applies only financial aid and
tracking academic
will directly benefit
to new students
progress,” Gardner
from the new
because they will be
said. “Some of these
programs
and
benefits will be truly
systems we will put
the primary
remarkable, while
in place during the
beneficiaries of the
others will be both
next several years,”
educational program
welcome
and
said UI President
expected
of
a
top
James J. Stukel.
and service
quality university,”
“For a decade we
improvements.”
he said.
have held the line
— Chester S. Gardner
S t u d e n t s
on
tuition
currently enrolled
increases,” Stukel
said. “Tuition increases at Urbana- will not pay the special increase because
Champaign have been among the lowest of they and their parents have not had the
Big Ten universities, and UIC’s tuition opportunity to plan for increases of this
increases have been near the bottom of the magnitude, and because these students will
IBHE [Illinois Board of Higher Education] not directly benefit from most of the
improvements, he said.
peer group,” he continued.
Gardner noted that the UI received nearly
The new tuition increase applies only to
new students because they will be the $1,200 less in state tax support per student
primary beneficiaries of the educational during the current fiscal year (FY2000)
program and service improvements, said than it did 20 years ago, once inflation and
Chester S. Gardner, interim vice president enrollment changes are factored in. “Tuition
for academic affairs. Students entering the increases in the last two decades have not
Urbana-Champaign and Chicago campuses overcome this loss of state support,” he
for the first time in Fall 2001 would pay an said. “We need to close the gap.”
“We provide our students the knowledge
additional $500 in tuition for that year. In
Fall 2002, a second increase of $500 would they need to prepare for leadership roles in
be added, bringing the total increase to the state’s businesses, government,
educational system and many other fields,”
$1,000 by the end of that academic year.
“The special tuition will allow the said Michael Aiken, chancellor of the
Urbana-Champaign and Chicago campuses Urbana-Champaign campus. “To ensure
to make a series of vital improvements, our students receive the best education a
nationally ranked university can provide, it
is essential that we continue to enhance the
learning experience offered here.”
Students at all three University of Illinois
campuses (including Springfield) will also
Robert Vickrey
appointed as
UI trustee
By Craig Chamberlain
Robert Vickrey of Peru, Ill., was
appointed Jan. 4 by Gov. George H.
Ryan to serve a six-year term on the
UI Board of Trustees.
Vickrey, a Republican, replaces
Judith Reese, a Chicago Republican
who had served two terms on the
board. Reese was first elected as a
trustee in 1988 and then re-elected in
1994, prior to legislation that shifted
the trustees from elected to appointed
posts.
Vickrey, 56, is vice president of
legislative affairs and economic
development for Miller Group Media.
The company produces several
publications, among them Illinois
Agri-News and the News-Tribune in
LaSalle, and also owns three radio
stations.
The appointment to the UI board
comes a year after Vickrey resigned
as chairman of the Illinois Gaming
Board. He had served on the board
since 1992 and was appointed as its
chair in 1999.
Vickrey plans to attend this week’s
board meeting in Chicago. ◆
benefit from a series of student-system
improvements designed to radically upgrade
admissions, registration, financial aid,
course scheduling and academic recordtracking.
Students will be able to:
■ Add or drop courses, check tuition and
other charges, check financial aid and
print schedules, all online;
■ Check on course availability and use an
automated wait list for high-demand
courses;
■ View and print grade reports, request
transcripts and account balances and
make a series of transactions any time
of day or night.
“Once the new tuition program is fully
in place, it will be easier for students to
register for the courses they want and it will
be more likely they will have the courses
they need,” Stukel said. “Libraries, advising
and study abroad will be more accessible,
and the Internet will be the convenient way
to provide both existing and new services at
any hour.”
While all students benefit from this
special tuition program, it preserves access
to our neediest students by sharply
increasing financial aid, Stukel said. “In
recent years state taxpayers, alumni and
other donors and the federal government
have all shouldered greater responsibility
for funding the UI. Now we need our newest
students and their parents to increase their
share.” ◆
Compared with peers,
recent UI tuition increases
are low:
Tuition increases at UI’s Urbana
campus since 1990:
■ Lowest among Big Ten
universities (rank 11/11).
■ Lowest among UIUC’s IBHE
peer group (rank 21/21).
■ Second from last among
public AAU institutions (rank
30/32).
Uses for additional revenues at Urbana-Champaign
($23 million per year by the fourth year of implementation)
$ Expand course offerings in
fields of high demand, including
information technology,
business, arts, humanities and
social sciences;
$ Improve library services –
increasing hours, expanding
group study spaces and
increasing on-line access to
library collections;
$ Improve academic advising
across colleges by expanding
advising staff and adding Web-
based degree status
information;
$ Expand the number of living/
learning communities to serve
additional students;
$ Expand career advising to all
undergraduates;
$ Increase “capstone” research
and small group experiences for
upper-class students;
$ Expand access to and improve
study abroad programs.
Pending board approval, six selected to receive
honorary degrees at spring Commencement
Six people have been selected to receive
honorary degrees at spring Commencement,
pending approval by the UI Board of
Trustees at its meeting Jan. 18 in Chicago.
The 130th Commencement takes place May
13 at Assembly Hall. The recipients:
Robben Fleming will receive a doctor
of university administration degree.
Fleming served as the director of the Institute
of Labor and Industrial Relations at the UI
at Urbana-Champaign from 1952-58 as well
as a professor of law at the UI from 195764. Fleming later served as chancellor of
the University of Wisconsin at Madison
from 1964-68 and then as president of the
University of Michigan from 1968-79. His
most visible role began in 1979 when he left
Michigan to become the president of the
Corporation of Public Broadcasting. He
also has served as president of the American
Association of University Presidents,
chairman of the Board of the American
Council on Education, and chairman of the
Board of the Carnegie Fund for the
Advancement of Teaching.
Lukas Foss, a professor of music theory
and composition at Boston University, will
receive an honorary doctor of music degree.
A distinguished composer, conductor,
pianist and pedagogue, he has been a major
influence on musical life in America for
more than 50 years. He attended the Curtis
Institute after auditioning for conductor
Fritz Reiner, graduating with honors and
diplomas in composition, conducting, and
piano at the age of 17. By age 20, he had
won a Pulitzer Scholarship; at 22, was
honored with the New York Critics’ Circle
Award; and at 23, was the youngest
composer ever to receive a Guggenheim
Fellowship. Foss has composed in virtually
every area of music and has been
commissioned by major musical
SEE HONORARY DEGREES, PAGE 3
InsideIllinois
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Editor
Doris K. Dahl
Photographer
Bill Wiegand
Calendar
Marty Yeakel
Student Assistant
Ryann Craig
News Bureau contributors:
Jim Barlow, life sciences
Craig Chamberlain, education, applied life
studies, social work
Sharita Forrest, general assignment
James E. Kloeppel, physical sciences
Andrea Lynn, communications, humanities,
social sciences
Melissa Mitchell, arts, international programs
Mark Reutter, business, law
InsideIllinois
Jan. 18, 2001
On the job Bill Cearlock
JOB: Assistant
manager for the
Illini Union guest
rooms. He books
and assigns the
76 available
rooms and
ensures that the
guests are
comfortable. He
has worked at
the Union since
1997. He and his
wife, Kathy, live
in Ogden with
their son, Ross,
who is 15.
Tell me about the hotel and guest rooms.
Lots of people call up and say, ‘I didn’t know you
had a hotel there.’ ‘Are the rooms all right?’ ‘Are
they nice?’ Actually, they’re better than a lot of
hotels in the area. Some hotels are sort of plastic
looking. The rooms all look the same. But ours
have character; they’re a little richer. There’s a lot
of wood and a kind of colonial-style wallpaper. Our
maids are really nice ladies. They’re concerned
about the guests and they take care of any
special requests that they can help the guests
with. And they’re friendly. We don’t have a big
turnover. Our staff has been here for years.
Where are the guest rooms in the Union?
The rooms are on the third and fourth floors of the
south wing. Originally there were 14 rooms in the
north wing. In the ’60s when they built the south
wing, they added 76 rooms there. So many of
them have views of the Quad. The North wing
rooms were converted to meeting rooms in the
’80s.
What are the busiest times of the year?
Recruiting season in the fall. We have corporate
recruiters come on campus in September, October
and a little into November to recruit students.
They keep our rooms booked.
Why do you think that is?
We can’t advertise as extensively as the private
sector does. We’re not a private company. We are
part of the university, but the money that’s made
from here goes to help the Union provide many of its
free programs and services for the students. The
money goes back to the students themselves in a
sense.
Do the students use the guest rooms much?
Yes. Before school starts, I think we have two to three
weeks when we offer special rates to new international students. They’re coming to campus from
around the world, and they need to get here before
classes start to find a place to live. And we have a lot
of them take advantage of that.
And we have Finals Week study specials that we also
offer to the students. So often students find that the
dorms are so noisy that they can’t study, so they can
stay in a guest room at a special student rate. A lot of
them will study down in the lounges and then go up
to their room. We also offer them a snack pack with
little goodies.
Do you have a lot of regular customers?
Some of our football people have been coming here
for years and years. We also have the UI Board of
Trustees. They’re a nice group of people. They’re
really friendly and easy to work with.
Do you frequently have celebrities stay here?
David Hartman was just here. The governor’s come
through. Roger Ebert’s here quite a bit. All the people
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honored by the university at Commencement stay
here. We meet them and we talk to them.
What do you do when you’re not working?
I have a honey-do list. I’m remodeling a bathroom
now. I remodeled the utility room. If I’m not
working on that I’m going to sports events with
Ross. He plays baseball, football and is in wrestling. We’re always involved with that.
And I’m secretary of the school board for the
Ogden Grade School. This is my fourth year. It’s
been interesting. I think school boards are great.
The school board is about education, about kids.
When I decided to run I saw things going on in the
school system that I didn’t like to see. So you can
sit on your thumbs or you can go get involved.
What else do you do?
I cut a lot of grass. My son has a lawn-mowing
business during the summer. When he’s not in
sports or in school or in practice, he cuts the
grass. But if there’s something going on with him,
I cut the grass. So I’m busy all the time.
I also do a lot of reading. I love to read. Right now
I’m doing science fiction. Next week it may be
mysteries or westerns.
Do you like working at the UI?
I like the security. It’s a good place to work. There
are good benefits. I plan on my son going to
school here.
And I like to work with the students. I hire students
and we train the students. We always have
students working as a desk clerk and a page. We
work around their schedules. The students are like
family. I like to hire freshmen and keep them their
entire careers here. It’s fun to watch them develop. For some of them, this is the first job
they’ve ever had. Then when they leave, it’s like
losing one of your own.
Is it interesting to meet so many different
people all the time?
Each guest has a different story. They’re all
interesting. Since we are the campus we also have
international guests. That’s challenging to communicate with them sometimes. But I’ve learned that
most all of them, if they can’t speak English can
write and read English. So if you can write notes,
you have found a new friend.
— Interview by Becky Mabry
HONORARY DEGREES, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2
organizations worldwide. He has appeared
as a solo pianist with such orchestras as the
New York Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh
Symphony.
Ekaterina Genieva, the director general
of the Library for Foreign Literature in
Moscow and a Mortenson Distinguished
Lecturer at the UI, will receive an honorary
doctor of letters degree. Since the dissolution
of the Soviet Union, Genieva emerged as
director of the most active library in Russia,
and as a leader of cultural reform in the
country. She is president of the Soros
Foundation in Russia. Under her leadership
it has distributed hundreds of millions of
dollars to support science, education, the
arts and culture, and civil society initiatives.
She has served as first vice president of the
International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions. Genieva has
been instrumental in opening access to
research resources for students and scholars
from the UI and other institutions throughout
the United States and the world. She has a
strong UI connection through her
collaboration with professor Marianna Tax
Choldin, the director of the Mortenson
Center for International Library Programs.
Vartan Gregorian, the president of the
Carnegie Corp., will receive an honorary
doctor of humane letters degree. A former
president of Brown University, Gregorian
was for eight years the president and chief
executive of the New York Public Library.
His leadership of the library was seen as
visionary and his fund-raising brought the
library to a significant new stage of
operations. He has held numerous academic
appointments, teaching fellowships, and
professional affiliations. His background
is in Armenian history and culture.
Gregorian is the recipient of an Eleanor
Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal (1999) and his
international decorations include the Grand
Oficial da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique
(Portugal, 1995), the Officier de l’Ordre
des Arts et Lettres (France, 1986), and the
Cavaliere Ufficiale dell’Ordine Al Meriot
della Repubbica (Italy, 1986), among
others. Gregorian is a member of the
editorial boards of a number of prestigious
publishing houses and journals.
Judith Heumann, assistant secretary for
the Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services in the U.S.
Department of Education, will receive an
honorary doctor of public administration
degree. Heumann helped found several
important disability organizations,
including the World Institute on Disability
and the Coalition of Citizens with
Disabilities, and has worked to develop
international linkages in disability research
and advocacy. She pioneered modern
legislation recognizing that the U.S.
Constitution guarantees equality of access
and opportunity to persons with disabilities.
As legislative assistant to the chairperson
of the Senate Committee on Labor and
Public Welfare in 1974, she helped develop
legislation that became the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act. President
Clinton appointed her to the U.S. delegation
to the Fourth United Nations World
Conference on Women in Beijing.
Orion Samuelson, agricultural services
director of WGN radio and television in
Chicago, will receive an honorary doctor of
letters degree. Samuelson was referred to
as a “farm broadcasting institution” in 1996
when he was inducted into the Chicago
Journalism Hall of Fame. He has
distinguished himself as the premier
agricultural broadcaster in the nation and in
the food agriculture system, and has served
as an effective communicator on behalf of
agriculture to the non-farm audience.
Samuelson has been invited to participate
in official government missions on both the
state and federal level. He has served as the
director of the Chicago Board of Trade, a
Trustee of the Farm Foundation and as
president of the National Association of
Farm Broadcasters. Often referred to as the
“Voice of Agriculture,” Samuelson started
his broadcast career in Sparta, Wis., in 1952
and moved to Chicago in 1960 to become
agricultural services director for WGN. In
1975, Mr. Samuelson was elected a vice
president of WGN. ◆
InsideIllinois
PAGE 4
Jan. 18, 2001
Soft lithography used to fabricate transistors on curved substrates
By James E. Kloeppel
Researchers at the UI have fabricated silicon thinfilm transistors – critical components of numerous
sensor and display technologies – using soft
lithographic
block-printing
techniques and polymer inks in
place of photolithography.
“Conventional photolithography
works great for many applications
– such as cramming a lot of
information into small amounts of
silicon real estate,” said Ralph Nuzzo, a UI professor
of chemistry and of materials science and engineering.
“The desire for new patterning processes is being
driven by the need to fabricate components over large
formats and to use unconventional materials.”
Because soft lithography is compliant, the
patterning process can conform to small surface
irregularities, flexible substrates and threedimensionally curved surfaces. Possessing the
advantages of block printing, the patterning technique
can be used in applications where photolithography
cannot.
“Thin-film transistor arrays deposited on
spherically curved substrates could be used in optical
detectors to take pictures over a very wide field of
view,” said John Abelson, a UI professor of materials
science and engineering. “The human eye, for
comparison, focuses images on a nearly spherically
curved retina that neatly accommodates the relatively
Fabrication process Ralph Nuzzo, a professor of chemistry and simple optics of the eye’s lens.”
Soft lithographic patterning techniques – such as
of materials science and engineering, and colleagues fabricated
micron-scale
polymer molding – on curved substrates
silicon thin-film transistors using soft lithographic block-printing
do
present
special
challenges, Nuzzo said. “For
techniques and polymer inks in place of photolithography.
example, the mold must be flexible enough to conform
to the curvature of the substrate, yet stiff enough to
preserve the integrity of the pattern.”
To test the general effectiveness of polymer
molding, Nuzzo, Abelson and graduate students
Martin Erhardt and Hyun-Chul
Jin fabricated thin-film transistors
on both planar and curved
substrates using two different
transistor architectures.
“One design was a common
gate,
common
channel
architecture for single-level patterning on a
spherically curved glass substrate.” Abelson said.
“The other was an isolated channel, inverted staggered
architecture with multilevel pattern registration on a
planar glass substrate.”
To fabricate the microstructures on a spherically
curved substrate, the researchers first deposited thin
films of aluminum, silicon and silicon nitride. A
patterned silicone mold was then placed in contact
with the substrate, and a polyurethane precursor
flowed into the mold by capillary action. Following
curing, the mold was peeled away, leaving a
polyurethane pattern on the substrate, roughly 30
microns high. Typical etching and metallization
steps completed the fabrication process.
“While many engineering issues, from throughput
to electrical performance, must still be solved,”
Nuzzo said, “this work demonstrates the versatility
of the soft lithographic patterning technique.”
A paper describing the fabrication process is
scheduled to appear in the journal Chemistry of
Materials. Funding was provided by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency. ◆
research
news
Target cells found to play active role in synapse formation
By Jim Barlow
When axons connect with target cells,
synapses form – a pivotal brain development
stage that allows for such things as muscle
coordination, learning and memory. The
outward reaching
fingers of axons, called
filopodia, have been
thought to be the
driving force for these
connections. However,
a new view is emerging
at the UI.
Using a scanning electron microscope
and green fluorescent protein (GFP) to coat
target cells, in this case live cell muscle
membranes from Drosophila, UI researchers
detected similar axon-like fingers. Filopodia
extending from axons – the communicating
arms of neurons – are well documented and
thought to be the reaching, seeking fingers
that latch on to the receptors of target cells
such as muscles.
In the October issue of Nature
Neuroscience, the UI scientists documented
their findings, which have attracted growing
interest from neuroscientists learning of the
work at professional meetings.
“The idea has been that pre-synaptic
axons were doing all the searching, and
muscles were just sitting there very
passively,” said Akira Chiba, a professor in
the UI department of cell and structural
biology and neuroscience program. “The
dynamics of the interaction on the postsynaptic side has been poorly documented.
What we have shown is that the muscle side
has long processes just like
axons, if not more. They are
dynamic,
long
and
numerous.”
To differentiate the newly
found thread-like processes
of muscles
from the
neuronal
filopodia,
Chiba and
co-authors
S a r a h
Ritzenthaler, a UI doctoral
student, and Emiko Suzuki
of the University of Tokyo,
have labeled them as
myopodia.
“The myopodia are there,
and they are very dynamic,”
said Ritzenthaler, who has
presented the work at several
meetings. “They are just like
neuronal filopodia in their
activity and in their cellular
components.”
Growing
interest
Akira Chiba, a professor in the UI department of cell and structural biology
“This research has
and neuroscience program, and colleagues have detected filopodia, extending from axons – the
changed my own bias and
communicating arms of neurons. The discovery by UI scientists is attracting attention from
that of probably many other
other neuroscientists who are learning of the work at professional meetings.
people with regard to what is
happening where and when in destroying them. The technique, Chiba said, building a lifeline to a ship at sea. During
synaptogenesis,” Chiba said. “So far, we allowed microscopes to zoom in on the this interaction, Chiba said, the two sides
are raising the status of the activity on the difficult-to-capture interaction of cells are matchmaking, realizing their
post-synaptic side to essentially the same communicating in the central nervous compatibility. “If this interaction does not
system.
occur properly, there is no synapse,” he
level as that of the presynaptic side.”
Time-lapse photography clearly showed said. “Muscle does not become connected
The genetically engineered GFP allowed
researchers to coat the membranes of both the myopodia, only in the presence of axons, with the brain.” ◆
live axons and live muscle cells without appearing to cluster to the filopodia, as if
research
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job market
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420, 807 S. Wright St., maintains listings of academic
openings that can be reviewed during regular business
hours. Listings also are available online. Academic
professional positions are listed at
www.uihr.uillinois.edu/jobs. Faculty job opportunity
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academic professional
Academic Policy Analysis, University Office of. State
director, North Central Association Commission on
Accreditation and School Improvement. Earned doctorate in
educational administration, systemic reform/school
improvement, or curriculum/instruction from a regionally
accredited institution. Experience in school administration
and teaching; demonstrated leadership with educational and
related organizations; knowledge of NCA CASI’s school and
program evaluation and development of educational evaluation
systems; knowledge of models to improve student performance
and instruction (teaching-learning process) required. Available:
July 1. Contact University Office for Academic Policy
Analysis, 807 S. Wright St., Suite 370, MC-307. Closing date:
Feb. 12.
Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Administration. Plant care facilities coordinator. BS or MS
degree in horticultural, agricultural or biological sciences or a
related field, and at least three years’ experience in operating
a greenhouse or conservatory in either a research or commercial
situation required. Must have or be able to obtain a pesticide
applicator’s license. Must have proven organizational and
budgeting skills, and a technical knowledge of greenhouse
operations including computer-based environmental control
systems. Available immediately. Contact John Masiunas,
244-4469. Closing date: March 15.
Applied Life Studies. Assistant director of development.
Bachelor’s degree required. Strong preference will be given to
candidates with at least two years’ experience in development,
alumni relations, or public relations. Should be proficient in
word processing, Web development, and desktop publishing
applications. Available immediately. Contact Sara Kelley,
333-2131, [email protected]. Closing date: Feb. 15.
Broadcasting. Senior producer, production services, WILLTV. Baccalaureate degree in broadcasting, radio/TV
communications or related field; a minimum of five years’
professional experience in broadcast television or related
field; strong written and verbal skills and experience in
writing corporate/educational and public affairs material
required. Available immediately. Contact Nena Richards,
333-1070, [email protected]. Closing date: Jan. 19.
Campus Recreation. Assistant director. Bachelor’s degree
required. While a degree in recreation, physical education,
sports management, or related field may be advantageous,
overall proven experience in intramural sports programs is
necessary. Minimum of two years’ experience. Available:
June 1. Contact Robyn Deterding, 244-6423. Closing date:
Feb. 23.
Career Center. Assistant director of the Career Center and
coordinator of graduate school information. Master’s degree
and experience (may include internships and practicum) with
counseling and programming required. Available immediately.
Contact Guy Davis, 333-0820. Closing date: March 1.
Chief Information Officer, Office of. Research programmer
(network security officer). Bachelors degree and three years’
experience in computing or networking required. Also must
have working knowledge of Web page creation, e-mail lists,
how to post information to newsgroups; Internet applications;
and common TCP, UDP, and IP protocols required. Available
immediately. Contact Debbra Sweat, 244-9724, d
[email protected]. Closing date: Jan. 29.
Chief Information Officer, Office of. Research programmer
(network security specialist). Bachelor’s degree required,
advanced and computing-related degree preferred. Five years’
experience in computer security and/or system administration;
familiarity with Internet applications; working knowledge of
TCP, UDP, and IP protocols required. Available immediately.
Contact Debbra Sweat, 244-9724, [email protected]. Closing
date: Jan. 29.
Chemistry. Teaching laboratory specialist and safety officer.
Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or related field, plus two
years’ experience in a research setting required. Available:
March 21. Contact Gregory Girolami, 333-5071. Closing
date: March 1.
Civil and Environmental Engineering. Research
programmer. Bachelor’s degree in management information
systems, computer science or a closely related field required.
Also must have demonstrated professional experience with
Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 server products
for Web and database development and deployment, and
professional experience with Macromedia development tools.
Available immediately. Contact David Daniel, 333-3814.
Closing date: Jan. 22.
Computing and Communications Services Office. Research
programmer (application services). Bachelor’s degree and at
least one year’s relevant experience. Programming experience
in a language such as C, C++, PERL, JAVA, Visual Basic, or
Shell Scripts; experience managing software applications on
UNIX or NT systems; previous experience administering and
or developing software on either a UNIX or NT platform
required. Available immediately. Contact Debbra Sweat,
CCSO search #00121, 1120 DCL, MC-256, or [email protected]. Closing date: Jan. 22.
Computing and Communications Services Office. Senior
research programmer (manager of production applications
group). Bachelor’s degree and at least five years’ relevant
experience. Programming experience in a language such as C,
C++, PERL, JAVA, Visual Basic, or Shell Scripts; experience
managing software applications on UNIX or NT systems;
previous experience administering and or developing software
on either a UNIX or NT platform; project management
experience; previous experience managing personnel, projects
and budgets required. Available immediately. Contact Debbra
Sweat, CCSO search #00121, 1120 DCL, MC-256, or d
Computing and Communications Services Office. Research
programmer (manager of production applications group).
Bachelor’s degree and at least one year’s relevant experience.
Programming experience in a language such as C, C++,
PERL, JAVA, Visual Basic, or Shell Scripts; experience
managing software applications on UNIX, or NT systems;
previous experience administering and or developing software
on either a UNIX or NT platform; project management
experience; previous experience managing personnel, projects,
and budgets required. Available immediately. Contact Debbra
Sweat, CCSO search #00121,1120 DCL, MC-256, or [email protected]. Closing date: Jan. 22
Computing and Communications Services Office. Senior
research programmer (application services). Bachelor’s degree
and at least five years’ relevant experience; programming
experience in a language such as C, C++, PERL, JAVA,
Visual Basic, or Shell Scripts; experience managing software
applications on UNIX or NT systems; previous experience
administering and or developing software on either a UNIX or
NT platform; project management experience; previous
experience managing personnel, projects and budgets required.
Available immediately. Contact Debbra Sweat, CCSO search
#00121, 1120 DCL, MC-256, [email protected]. Closing
date: Jan. 22.
Counseling Center. Clinical counselor. Master’s degree in
social work or doctorate in clinical or counseling psychology
or related field required. Demonstrated interest, expertise, and
experience in the area of alcohol and other drug intervention;
demonstrated ability to function at a high level as a generalist
counselor in a setting with both diverse clients and staff
colleagues required. Available: July 1. Contact Dennis Vidoni,
Counseling Center, 610 E. John St., MC-306. Closing date:
April 9.
Housing. Resident director (one or more positions). Bachelor’s
degree and a minimum of one year’s full-time work experience
in a related field (education, counseling, social work, etc.) or
a master’s degree in higher education, college student
personnel, counseling or a related field required (master’s
degree is preferred). One year’s prior residence hall staff
experience is strongly preferred. Twelve-month positions
require a desire to work in a living/learning community
environment and collaborate with faculty members. Available:
July 1. Contact Patricia Anton, 333-0770. Closing date: March 1.
Housing. Area coordinator. Master’s degree in higher
education, college student personnel, or related field, three to
five years’ full-time experience working with college students,
and supervisory experience required. Available: July 1.
Contact Patricia Anton, 333-0770. Closing date: March 1.
Housing Division/Residential Life. Program coordinator.
Master’s degree in related field (education, college student
personnel, liberal arts and sciences, engineering) required;
doctoral degree or progress toward a doctoral degree preferred.
Two years’ experience in the area of undergraduate program
administration is required. Available: May 21. Contact Patricia
Anton, 333-0770. Closing date: March 7.
Housing Division/Residential Life. Assistant director for
multicultural education and programs. Master’s degree in
college student personnel or a related field, and a minimum of
two years’ full-time experience or a bachelor’s degree and five
years’ full-time experience working in higher education with
a diverse student population required. Available: June 1.
Contact Patricia Anton, 333-0770. Closing date: March 7.
Human Resources, University Office of. Documentation
specialist (one or more positions). Bachelor’s degree in related
discipline plus previous professional experience in preparing
documentation and/or preparing professional publications
required. Available immediately. Contact Suzanne Millas,
807 S. Wright St., Suite 440, MC-312, or [email protected].
Closing date: Feb. 2.
Human Resources, University Office of. Application
specialist. Bachelor’s degree in related discipline plus previous
professional experience using technology and information
management principles to support business processes required.
Available immediately. Contact Suzanne Millas, 807 S. Wright
St., Suite 440, MC-312, or [email protected]. Closing
date: Feb. 2.
Human Resources, University Office of. Training
coordinator. A bachelor’s degree in training and development,
business, human resources or related discipline, plus three
years’ experience in the areas of instructional design, adult
education, organizational redesign, and training development
required. Available immediately. Contact Suzanne Millas,
807 S. Wright St., Suite 440, MC-312, or [email protected].
Closing date: Feb. 2.
Illinois Connection. Assistant director. Bachelor’s degree
required and a minimum of two to three years’ experience in
public affairs, alumni/foundation relations or other field.
Some travel is required. Available immediately. Contact
Chair, Assistant Director Search, Illinois Connection, 116
Henry Administration Building, MC-389, 333-9826,
Information Technology and Communication Services.
Visiting research programmer, database management.
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher
education; two years’ experience with graphical information
systems and/or image processing; two years’ practical
experience working in a programming team environment;
practical experience, in academic, commercial, or
governmental settings, in GIS data development and/or
application use and development required. Available
immediately. Contact Floyd Davenport, 333-9519. Closing
date: Jan. 26.
Law. Assistant dean for career services. J.D. degree, knowledge
of the legal job market, and strong verbal and written
communication skills required. Available immediately.
Contact John Rossi, 333-9862. Closing date: Jan. 19.
Library and Information Science. Research programmer.
B.S. degree; fluency in Perl, Java, and HTML; experience
with UNIX and Windows operating systems required.
Available: Feb. 21. Contact Dorlene Clark, 333-3281,
[email protected]. Closing date: Feb. 12.
Library, University. Assistant to the head, library human
resources. Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of two years’
relevant experience in any aspect of human resources or
related field, or two years’ increasing responsibility in a
professional capacity required. Available: Feb. 20. Contact
Cindy Kelly, 333-8169, [email protected]. Closing date:
Jan. 22.
Master’s of Business Administration. Director of recruiting
and admissions. Master’s degree in business administration or
other closely related field; previous management experience
in recruiting and admissions with a nationally ranked MBA
program; at least five years’ previous experience in
administration, marketing, and/or recruiting of MBA students
required including demonstrable knowledge in the use of
information systems and databases in the recruiting and admissions
process. Available immediately. Contact Paul Magelli, 2448019, [email protected]. Closing date: March 2.
McKinley Health Center. Director. PhD/master’s degree(s)
in business, hospital administration, or related field required;
medical degree preferred. Three to five years’ experience in
an upper-level administrative position in a comparable
environment is essential. Available immediately. Contact
Mark Krinsky, Vice President, Tyler & Company, 1001 Craig
Road, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63146. Closing date: March
1.
Measurement and Evaluation. Measurement specialist.
Relevant doctoral degree that includes training and primary
expertise in educational measurement, statistics, and research
design required. Available: Aug. 1. Contact Cheryl Bullock,
333-3490, www.oir.uiuc.edu/dme. Closing date: April 20.
Molecular and Integrative Physiology. Research specialist
in life sciences. Minimum of BS in biology, biochemistry, or
chemistry required (which include some laboratory work).
Available: March 1. Contact Denice Wells, 333-1133,
Molecular and Cellular Biology. Visiting computer assisted
instruction specialist. Bachelor’s degree in biology or related
field, working knowledge of molecular and cellular biology;
advanced programming experience for development of Webbased interactive course materials required. Available: Jan.
29. Contact Christine Smith, 333-3166, [email protected].
Online, UI. Research programmer (database/Web
programming). Bachelor’s degree (preferably in computer
science or management information systems) and at least two
years’ relevant professional experience required. Intermediate
or advanced Web/HTML authoring and scripting skills, Webto-database development skills, and demonstrated proficiency
in at least two programming and/or scripting languages
required. Available immediately. Contact Lynn Ward, 2446465, [email protected]. Closing date: Jan. 31.
Online, UI. Marketing director. Bachelor’s degree required,
master’s degree preferred, with a major or significant
coursework in communications, public relations, or marketing.
Minimum of three years’ professional experience in marketing
communications; knowledge of print and electronic media
production processes, including Web-site development and
management; experience with Web-based advertising and
promotion; ability to conduct a comprehensive market research
campaign required. Available immediately. Contact Tara
Smith, UI Online, 176 Henry Administration Building, MC353, or [email protected]. Closing date: Feb. 5.
Police Training Institute. Director. Master’s degree in
criminal justice, social sciences, education, business or related
field or JD is required; doctorate degree preferred. A minimum
of 10 years’ experience in law enforcement/criminal justice
field, evidence of leadership ability and senior level
administrative experience in these fields required. Two years’
law enforcement/criminal justice related teaching experience,
knowledge of, and active participation in state, regional and
national law enforcement/criminal justice activities required.
Available: Aug. 21. Contact Chair, Search Committee, 2448601. Closing date: April 15.
Provost, Office of. Director, Institute of Aviation. Candidate
must be a recognized scholar in aviation human factors or an
aviation-related field and have a proven record of research,
executive leadership and program administration. A PhD in
psychology, industrial engineering or other related discipline
required. Available: Aug. 21. Contact Edward Shoben, Office
of the Provost, 217 Swanlund Administration Building, MC304. Closing date: Jan. 26.
Provost, Office of. Program administrator. Bachelor’s degree
required, master’s degree preferred. Three years’ relevant
professional experience in an institution of higher education
required, preferably at the UI. Available: Feb. 15. Contact
David Swanson, Search Committee Chair, c/o Office of the
Provost, Swanlund Administration Building, MC-304. Closing
date: Jan. 26.
Provost, Office of. Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced
Science and Technology. Doctoral degree in a discipline
represented in the institute required. Familiarity with the
academic environment is essential. Available: Sept. 1. Contact
Peter Beak, Chair, Search Committee Office of the Provost
and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, 204 Swanlund
Administration Building, MC-304. Closing date: March 1.
Rehabilitation-Education Service, Division of. Learning
disability specialist. Master’s degree in an area related to
services for students with learning disabilities (for example,
psychology, rehabilitation counseling, special education,
educational administration, etc.) required. Available
immediately. Contact Nancy Mansfield, DRES, 1207 S. Oak
St., MC-574. Closing date: Feb. 15.
Supercomputing Applications, National Center for.
Research programmer. Master’s degree in computer science,
engineering, or physics required, or other area with significant
computing experience, including parallel computing, during
master’s program and/or subsequent work experience.
Advanced computing skills in Unix environments, particularly
with computational science codes required. Available
immediately. Contact NCSA Human Resources, Search #7514,
333-6085 or [email protected]. Closing date: Jan. 31.
Survey Research Laboratory. Visiting Sampling Operations
Coordinator. B.S./B.A. degree with major in social science,
business, education, communications, or related field with at
least one year’s experience in research methods and sampling
procedures and techniques; or a master’s degree in social
science, business, education, communications, or related field
with demonstrated research capabilities required. Familiarity
with statistical software, spreadsheets, and database programs
a must (preferably Microsoft products). Available immediately.
Contact Linda Owens, Sampling Operations Supervisor, 909
W. Oregon, Suite 300, MC-036, or fax 244-4408. Closing
date: Feb. 1.
UI-Integrate Communications Team. Communications
specialist. Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing,
and/or a change management related field as well as a minimum
of two years’ experience in project management, organizational
communications, Web site development, and/or marketing
and promotion techniques required. Available immediately.
Contact UI-Integrate Resource Management, 50 Gerty Drive,
MC-673, or [email protected]. Closing date: Jan. 26.
UI-Integrate Project Office. Applications specialists
(Chicago, Springfield or Urbana-Champaign). Bachelor’s
degree in a related discipline and demonstrated experience
supporting major systems implementation activities required.
Responsible for developing expertise in application features,
functionality, and data structures. Lead analysis/design efforts,
and develop functional specifications for interfaces and
software modifications. Available immediately. Contact UIIntegrate Resource Management, 50 Gerty Drive, MC-673, or
UI-Integrate Project Office. Decision support/reporting
specialists (Chicago, Springfield or Urbana-Champaign).
Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and previous
experience supporting major systems implementation activities
required. Responsible for assessing and documenting reporting
requirements, implementing decision support strategies, and
writing/testing reports. Available immediately. Contact UIIntegrate Resource Management, 50 Gerty Drive, MC-673, or
UI-Integrate Project Office. Documentation specialists
degree in a related discipline and previous experience
Responsible for developing systems documentation and
associated materials in support of ERP system (both vendor
provided and custom solutions). Available immediately.
UI-Integrate Project Office. Process and workflow specialists
Responsible for designing and implementing process
improvements and workflow solutions in support of ERP
systems development activities. Available immediately.
UI-Integrate Project Office. Testing and security specialists
Position is responsible for the development of testing and
security strategies, change control and disaster recovery
planning, and definition of appropriate audit controls. Available
immediately. Contact UI-Integrate Resource Management,
50 Gerty Drive, MC-673, or [email protected]. Closing
date: Jan. 31.
UI-Integrate Project Office. User support specialists
Responsible for development of user support materials,
establishment of case tracking and problem resolution
mechanisms, and provision of direct end-user support.
Available immediately. Contact UI-Integrate Resource
Management, 50 Gerty Drive, MC-673, or
UI-Integrate Project Office. Web deployment specialists
Responsible for development and implementation of Webbased interfaces to the ERP system (both vendor-provided and
custom solutions). Available immediately. Contact UIIntegrate Resource Management, 50 Gerty Drive, MC-673, or
UI-Integrate Project Office. Assistant vice president,
enterprise resource planning implementation. Master’s degree
from an accredited institution; ability to work collaboratively
with university, vendor and consulting staff; leadership skills;
at least 10 years’ progressive fiscal and personnel management
experience in higher education required. Available
date: Jan. 29.
UI-Integrate Project Office. Project office coordinator.
Bachelor’s degree and at least three years’ progressively
responsible administrative experience required, preferably in
an educational setting. Key skills include exceptional oral and
written communication skills, strong project management
proficiency, ability to exercise initiative and judgment, and to
apply recognized management techniques. Available
date: Jan. 29.
Veterinary Biosciences. Coordinator of research programs.
Bachelor’s degree in business communications, education, or
similar field, plus one year’s managerial/organizational
experience in a research or business setting required. Must be
proficient in both written and spoken English, with strong
organizational and interpersonal skills. Available immediately.
Contact Val Beasley, 333-9360 or [email protected]. Closing
date: Jan. 22.
faculty
Business Administration. Hoeft professor of information
systems/information technology. A PhD and an outstanding
record of scholarly accomplishments required. Available:
Aug. 21. Contact Greg Oldham, 333-6340 or [email protected]. Closing date: Feb. 5.
Civil and Environmental Engineering. Professor (rank open),
transportation. PhD degree in engineering or related science
field required. Must have research interest and background in
one or more of the following areas: intelligent transportation
systems, traffic safety and operation, information technologies,
application of advanced technologies in transportation,
transportation planning, demand and supply analysis, logistics,
commercial vehicle operations, transportation system analysis,
and GIS and geometric design. Available: Aug. 21. Contact
David Daniel, 333-3814. Closing date: Feb. 12.
Civil and Environmental Engineering. Professor (rank open),
construction manager. PhD degree in engineering or related
science field required. Must have expertise in construction
procedures, project management, construction management,
data management, information systems related to construction,
or related construction topics. Will be expected to develop a
strong research program in one or more of the areas mentioned,
and teach undergraduate and graduate level courses. Available:
SEE JOBS, PAGE 6
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Jan. 18, 2001
Cass Gilbert, designer of well-known buildings, deserves higher profile
to another book about the architect,
scheduled for publication this year.
Why all the sudden interest in Gilbert?
Few American architects of the 20th
“In part,” Irish said, “much of the
century left such a broad and lingering
imprint on the American landscape as Cass attention may be due to the fact that most
of
the
Gilbert, whose
“One reason Cass Gilbert
buildings he
designs range
from
the
has been forgotten is that designed are
100 years old,
Gothic-style
his approach to design
and the owners
Woolworth
doing
Building and more or less died with him.” are
United States
— Sharon Irish centenaries.”
And, thanks to
Custom House
in New York City to the U.S. Supreme renewed interest in building preservation
Court Building in Washington, D.C., the in recent years, people are beginning to
St. Louis Art Museum and the Minnesota appreciate the quality craftsmanship that
is one of Gilbert’s signatures. His buildings
State Capitol.
But until recently, Gilbert has remained – from the New York skyscrapers to the
largely in the shadows of his monumental monumental government buildings –
typically borrow features from the great
achievements.
Among those who have been working to European architectural traditions of
bring the architect and his work to light is previous centuries. They are distinguished
UI architectural scholar Sharon Irish. Her by highly ornamental facades and grand
recently published book “Cass Gilbert: interiors. And while most of the architect’s
Architect” (Monacelli Press) was the first major commissions are extant today and
to offer a comprehensive record of Gilbert’s generally regarded as community icons by
work. The flurry of interest in Gilbert, she those who pass by or through them, few
said, has continued with an exhibition, seem to know much about the man who
“Inventing the Skyline: the Architecture of built them.
“One of the reasons he has been
Cass Gilbert,” which runs through Jan. 21,
at the New-York Historical Society. Irish forgotten,” Irish said, “is that his approach
contributed an essay to the exhibition to design more or less died with him. His
catalog. She also is contributing a chapter last major building, the U.S. Supreme Court
By Melissa Mitchell
JOBS, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5
Aug. 21. Contact David Daniel, 333-3814. Closing date:
Feb. 12.
Labor and Industrial Relations. Assistant professor or
higher. PhD in economics required. Applicants with
experience should have a strong track record of research
and teaching accomplishments. ABDs should demonstrate
strong potential for conducting exemplary research and
teaching. Available: Aug. 21. Contact Kevin Hallock,
333-3842 or [email protected]. Closing date: Feb. 15.
Library, University. Kolb-Proust librarian and assistant
professor of library administration. Accredited master’s
degree in library and information science, or an equivalent
combination of education and experience beyond the
bachelor’s degree; excellent interpersonal and written
communication skills with native or near-native French
and English language abilities; familiarity with format
and metadata standards for creating and managing digital
information; experience with SGML, HTML, scanning,
and Web technology and standards; experience with text
encoding; a broad knowledge of late 19th and early 20th
century French culture; and a thorough familiarity with
the works of Marcel Proust required. Available: July 1.
Contact Cindy Kelly, 333-8169. Closing date: Jan. 19.
Library, University. Assistant circulation and bookstacks
librarian and assistant professor of library administration.
Master’s degree in library science from an ALA-accredited
library school; one-year’s experience in a library public
services environment; proven ability to effectively
supervise others; ability to work collegially with library
faculty and staff; evidence of the ability to meet university
requirements for tenure and promotion required.
Available: Feb. 1. Contact Cindy Kelly, 333-8169.
Library, University. South Asian and middle eastern
studies librarian and assistant professor of library
administration. MLS from an ALA-accredited library or
its equivalent; strong English-language communication
skills; linguistic and subject expertise in Arabic and/or
Indic languages as well as knowledge and understanding
of south Asia and/or middle east culture, and willingness
to develop and supervise the area of non-specialization;
knowledge of or experience in reference and collection
development; cataloging experience, including experience
with LC classification, LCSH, LCRI, AACR2, MARC
format and familiarity with bibliographic utility, preferable
OCLC; knowledge of library applications of computer
technology and online databases and electronic
information; evidence of research orientation and ability
to meet university requirements for promotion and tenure
required. Available: April 1. Contact Cindy Kelly, 3338169 or [email protected]. Closing date: March 1.
Library, University. Geology and digital projects librarian
and assistant professor of library administration. MLS
from an accredited library school or its equivalent; at least
two years’ successful professional library experience in
an academic, research, or special library; experience with
the literature of physical or life sciences; ability to manage
Web sites and an understanding of and experience with
the research and development efforts necessary to support
a digital library environment; strong communication and
leadership skills; ability to work collaboratively required.
Available: Aug. 21. Contact Cindy Kelly, 333-8169 or
Library, University. Assistant map and geography librarian
and assistant professor in library administration. An MLS
degree from an ALA-accredited library school or its
equivalent. Academic or work-related background in one
of the social or spatial sciences such as geography or urban
planning including experience with GIS software, such as
ArcView and Arc/Info, and digital geospatial data.
Demonstrated knowledge of cartographic information in
a variety of formats and/or knowledge of cartographic
information resources in a library setting. Familiarity with
metadata construction. Evidence of research orientation
and ability to meet university standards for promotion and
tenure required. Available: Feb. 1. Contact Cindy Kelly,
333-8169. Closing date: Jan. 19.
Natural Resources and Environmental Studies.
Assistant professor, conservation biologist/riparian
ecologist. PhD in any aspect of conservation biology,
riparian ecology or aquatic ecology, or a related natural
resources field; aptitude for research and teaching in a
challenging academic environment; and promise for
developing an extramurally funded research program
required. Available: Aug. 21. Contact Joyce Canaday,
333-2771. Closing date: Jan. 22.
President, Office of. Vice president for academic affairs.
An earned doctorate or equivalent and a record of teaching
and scholarship that would merit appointment as a tenured
professor at the UI are required. The ability to understand
and work effectively in a complex academic culture
influenced by multiple campuses, a land-grant university
tradition and a medical school, also required. Available:
Aug. 1. Contact Donald Uchtmann, 333-5227 or
Veterinary Biosciences. Assistant professor. PhD or
equivalent degree from an accredited institution,
demonstrated experience in pharmacological research at
the molecular level required. Available: Aug. 21. Contact
Gary Koritz, 333-7981. Closing date: March 31.
Veterinary Clinical Medicine. Clinical assistant/associate
professor or tenure track, assistant/associate professor
(one or more positions). DVM degree or equivalent;
ACVIM diplomate status or board eligible required.
Experience in clinical and didactic teaching required.
Available immediately. Contact David Sisson, 333-5300.
Closing date: April 15.
staff
Personnel Services Office is located at 52 E.
Gregory Drive, Champaign. For information about
PSO’s Employment Information Program, which
provides information to those seeking staff
employment at the university, visit the Personnel
Services Office Web site at www.pso.uiuc.edu. To
complete an online employment application and to
submit an exam request, visit the online Employment Center at www.uihr.uillinois.edu/jobs.
Architectural profile “Cass Gilbert: Architect,” by UI architectural scholar Sharon
Irish, was the first book to offer a comprehensive record of Gilbert’s work, most of
which is now more than 100 years old.
Building, was completed in 1935, a year
after his death. Modernism – with a capital
‘M’ – was introduced to America in 1932
and began to flourish here after World
War II.” And that approach to architecture,
she said, “was not regarded as one way,
but the way of doing architecture.”
In the end, Irish said, “Cass Gilbert was
a lucky guy” – in terms of having worked
on projects that remain visible and viable
today. “He happened to work on buildings
with tremendous sites, such as fronting on a
city park.” And at the time they were
constructed, she said, “he was aware of how
his buildings would relate to other buildings,
and designed them not to blend in, but to
coexist. He was respectful of the buildings
he thought had integrity.” ◆
Law must be changed to adapt to
shifting realities of adult partnerships
By Mark Reutter
The foremost issue facing family law
today is how to realign the legal principles
governing marriage to the current reality of
complex adult and family relationships, a
UI expert writes.
Harry D. Krause, the Max L. Rowe
professor emeritus of law at the UI, argues
that piecemeal attempts to deal with the
social changes surrounding adult
partnerships – in particular, the knee-jerk
reaction by 30 state legislatures to forbid
same-sex marriages – have only made
matters worse.
“Marriage may not yet be history, but it
should be seen for what it has become: one
lifestyle choice among many,” Krause wrote
in the Family Law Quarterly, published by
the American Bar Association. The “real
challenge” to marriage is not from samesex couples, who seek to extend the
conventions of marriage to their
partnerships, but from the widespread
dissolution of lifelong commitment among
heterosexual pairs.
Among the dramatic changes in
American family life are serial divorces,
marriages and other relationships by adults,
which leave behind a trail of children and
former partners whose legal and financial
responsibilities “many divorcing adults
cannot meet and many others shirk.” In
addition, the increasing number of childless
couples, old and young, married and
unmarried, raise the question of whether
these relationships should have the same
legal and financial rights as married partners
with children.
Until society acknowledges the
prevalence of non-nuclear family
arrangements, the free-for-all atmosphere
will continue. “A pragmatic, rational
approach would ask what social functions
of a particular association justify extending
what social benefits and privileges,” Krause
wrote. “Marriage would not be the one
event that brings into play a whole panoply
of legal consequences. Instead, legal
benefits and obligations would be tailored
according to the realities of the parties’
relationship.”
For example, the tax laws make
assumptions based on a “one-size-fits-all”
marriage that does not distinguish between
couples with and without children. “Why
should our tax law, based as it is on ability
to pay, make a distinction between two
childless two-earner, equal-career
partnerships, based solely on whether the
partners are married?”
Much of the problem is that family law
is still wrapped in a “cocoon” of sentiment
where all reside in a heterosexual family
and where divorce is both hard to obtain
and socially unacceptable.
As a first step, the UI law professor
argued, “the state’s secular interest in
marriage should be defined separately from
the religious-personal meaning of
marriage.” By accepting the reality of nontraditional relationships, society can better
formulate what it expects from nontraditional associations, especially in areas
of financial obligations to children and to
former partners. ◆
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Estrogen a possible factor in obesity
– for both sexes, researchers say
By Jim Barlow
Estrogen – even in men – may join food
indulgence and lack of exercise as factors
affecting obesity, researchers on two
continents say.
That conclusion is
drawn from two
companion
papers
published in the Nov. 7
issue of the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences. In the
studies, male mice that had been genetically
altered to lack either one type of estrogen
receptor or the ability to produce estrogen
became obese when fed the same amounts
as normal mice, expended less energy and
built up larger stores of fat.
Scientists from the UI and University of
Missouri did one study; researchers at Prince
Henry’s Institute in Australia did the other.
“Male mice without the receptor for the
classical form of estrogen, which has always
been considered a female hormone, got
fatter than wild-type mice,” said Patricia A.
Heine, a professor in the department of
biosciences in the UI College of Veterinary
Medicine. “Our findings suggest that
estrogen may be important for regulating
fat in men as well as women,” said Paul S.
Cooke, a departmental colleague and colead investigator.
Australian researchers, led by Margaret
Jones and Evan Simpson, reached similar
conclusions after observing that male mice
genetically engineered to lack estrogen also
became obese.
The World Health Organization
estimates that more than 60 percent of the
adult population of the United States is
overweight and a growing number of adults
are obese – a problem that is mirrored in
other developed nations. Also rising are
rates of Type 2 diabetes, which is closely
linked to obesity.
Using the genetically altered mice and
normal wild-type mice, researchers studied
the effects of estrogen on various tissues in
both males and females.
In the altered mice, they
saw a rise of up to 170
percent in the amount of
fat, becoming apparent
first at 30 days of age and
increasing through one
year of age. In addition, the estrogendeficient mice had an 11 percent decrease
in energy expenditure.
“The increase in fat,” Heine said, “was
due to both an increase in the size of the
individual cells making up the fat, as well as
the number of cells present.” The lack of
estrogen led to an increase in white adipose
tissue, as well as insulin resistance and
glucose intolerance. Such a relationship
was known to occur in female mice and
post-menopausal women, but it had not
been shown in males.
“In light of the metabolic results of our
study, it appears that estrogen enhances
one’s ability to burn excess fat in both
males and females,” Heine said. “We don’t
know yet if the lack of estrogen is merely
decreasing the basal metabolic rate, or if it
is also decreasing the activity level of mice.”
Co-authors with Heine and Cooke were
Gary A. Iwamoto, a UI professor of
kinesiology, and J.A. Taylor and D.B.
Lubahn of the University of Missouri in
Columbia. The work was supported by
grants from the National Institutes of Health
and the Animal Health and Disease Research
Funds of the UI Agricultural Experiment
Station. ◆
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deaths
Walter James Austin Jr., 80, died Dec. 11
in Houston, Texas. Austin was a faculty
member in the UI’s civil engineering
department from 1947 to 1960 and at Rice
University from 1960 to 1988. Memorials:
Dr. Walter James Austin Scholarship Fund
for Undergraduate Civil Engineer Students
at Rice University, c/o Office of
Development, Rice University, P.O. Box
81, Houston, TX 77030.
Everett C. Block, 79, died Dec. 13 at
Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana.
Block came to the UI in 1963 and retired in
1991. He was a lab animal technician in
Veterinary Clinical Medicine. Memorials:
Sidney United Church.
Lawrence C. Brevard, 42, died Dec. 31 in
his Urbana home. Brevard had been
associate director of housing since July.
William R. Bryan, 68, died Dec. 24 at
Loyola Medical Center, Chicago. A
memorial service will be planned for early
this year. Bryan had been interim dean of
the UI’s College of Commerce and Business
Administration since August. He was
directing the UI master’s of business
administration program when he was
appointed interim dean. He was a professor
of finance in the college from 1966 to 1994.
Memorials: Josh Gottheil Fund in support
of nursing care for lymphoma patients, 509
E. Holmes St., Urbana, IL 61801; or Jamie
Whitfield Jacobson Fund for treatment of
severe burns at the Loyola University
Medical Center, 2160 S. First Ave.,
Maywood, IL 60153.
Lela B. Costin, 82, died Dec. 29 at the
Burke Health Care Center in Burke, Va.
Costin was a professor in the School of
Social Work at the UI until she retired in
1986. Memorials: Children’s Defense Fund,
25 East St., N.W., Washington, DC 20001.
Ruskin L. Cunningham, 84, died Dec. 24
at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island. Cunningham was a
carpenter at the UI from 1948 until he
retired in 1977. Memorials: Queen Elizabeth
Hospital, Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island, Canada.
Jean G. Davis, 75, died Dec. 29 at the Carle
Arbours, Savoy. Davis was a secretary in
the Office of Admissions and Records. She
came to the UI in 1968 and retired in 1987.
Robert A. Edwards, 73, died Dec. 11 at his
home in Fisher. Edwards was an electrical
engineer in the UI’s Division of Operation
and Maintenance for 10 years, retiring in
1984. Memorials: St. Malachy Building
Fund, St. Malachy’s Catholic Church.
Lester E. Elliott, 81, died Dec. 21 at
Meadowbrook Health Center, Urbana.
Elliott joined the UI staff in 1946 as a buyer
to the assistant director of purchasing. He
served as director of purchasing at the UI
for many years. Memorials: Clark-Lindsey
Village or Carle Hospice.
Irven R. Franklin, 86, died Dec. 3 at Urbana
Nursing Home, Urbana. Franklin was an
instrument maker in the electrical
engineering department at the UI from 1947
to 1979. Memorials: Alzheimer’s
Association or the Curtis Road Church of
God, Champaign.
Therese Gallivan, 73, died Jan. 11 at
Provena Covenant Medical Ceneter,
Urbana. She worked as an accountant in the
chemistry department at the UI. Memorials:
Sjogren’s Syndrome Foundation.
Collin Jay Harmon, 29, died Jan. 1 at Carle
Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Harmon was
a UI police officer for three years, winning
a departmental commendation and a Merit
Award in May 1999. Memorials: Youth
Christian Education Fund of First United
Methodist Church, 304 S. Race St., Urbana,
IL 61801.
Burnet M. Hobgood, 78, died Dec. 11 at
Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana.
Hobgood was a professor emeritus of theater
at the UI. He directed the doctoral program
in the department of theater from 1975 to
1991. Memorials: UI department of theater.
Robert A. Hoch, 71, died Dec. 22 at his
Champaign home. Hoch retired in 1987
after 20 years of service as a police officer
with the UI police department. Memorials:
Emmanuel Memorial Episcopal Church
Champaign or Carl Hospice Memorial
Fund.
Richard Lee Jones, 37, died Jan. 8 at Carle
Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Jones was a
parking meter mechanic and had worked at
the UI since 1990.
Paul E. “Copper” Kiley, 82, died Dec. 26 at
Boxwood Healthcare Center, Newman.
Kiley was a building service worker in the
Housing Division. He came to the UI in
1969 and retired in 1988.
Robert Joseph McEvoy, 76, died Jan. 9 at
his Rantoul home. McEvoy was employed
at the UI and retired as a physical plant
manager in charge of elevator personnel.
Memorials:
Muscular Dystrophy
Association.
Rowe Richards, 89, died Jan. 8 at Provena
Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. Richards
retired in 1981 after 20 years of service as
a labor electrician in the UI’s Division of
Operation and Maintenance. Memorials:
UI Arboretum or Countryside United
Methodist Church, Urbana.
Margaret Corrine Clink Sullivan, 98, died
Nov. 23 at her home in Gulfport, Fla.
Sullivan was a piano and cello instructor at
the UI School of Music from 1931 to 1939.
Until 1967 she gave private lessons and
played cello in the UI Symphony.
Orlena M. Welch, 68, died Dec. 13 at
Lakeland Health Care Center, Effingham.
Welch was a secretary at the UI from 1950
until she retired in 1992, working in
education administration since 1958.
Memorials: St. Peter Lutheran Church, St.
Peter.
Frank O. Williams, 74, died Jan. 4, at
Edgewater Medical Center, Chicago. In
1969, Williams joined the UI Press and four
years later moved to what is now UI at
Chicago. He was a mapmaker, book
designer and editor who retired as assistant
director of the UI Press at the Chicago
Circle Campus.
Paul Martin Zonn, 62, died Dec. 8 at
Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. Zonn
was emeritus professor of composition and
theory in the School of Music. He joined the
UI faculty in 1970 and retired in 1996. His
main instruments were the clarinet,
saxophone and keyboards, and he was a
well-known composer of classical music.
Memorials: a humane society of the donor’s
choice. ◆
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brief notes
the event.
The council also invites faculty members, graduate and
undergraduate students to submit posters for the conference.
Those interested in submitting a poster should complete
and return an abstract form available on the Web at
www.environ.uiuc.edu. Abstract submission deadline is
Feb. 14.
Blood Alcohol Educator
Web site shows effects of alcohol
Knowing when to say when, as the familiar advertising
tagline says, just got a little easier, thanks to a new Web site
– www.b4udrink.org – and an interactive program that can
be found there: the Blood Alcohol Educator (BAE). “What
the program allows people to do is interactively simulate
the important relationship between amount [of alcohol]
consumed and what happens to your body over time,” says
Janet Reis, a UI professor of community health, who
developed the BAE prototype. By knowing that, they can
better set their own safe limits, Reis said.
At the center of the BAE, online in both English and
Spanish, is a virtual bar. After entering a gender and weight
into the program, the user can choose drinks and how fast
to drink them, and get a constant update of the resulting
BAC, its effects, and how long it will take to return to
sobriety. The BAE was initially part of an interactive CDROM, “Alcohol 101,” developed to influence drinking
behavior among college students. Leading its development
were Reis; William Riley, the UI dean of students; and
Lawrence Lokman, with The Century Council, a national
non-profit organization funded by America’s leading
distillers.
University Primary School
Applications now being accepted
University Primary School, an early-childhood gifted
education program that serves preschool, kindergarten and
first-grade children in a project-based curriculum, will be
accepting applications for enrollment through March 16
for the 2001-2002 academic year. An informational meeting
about the school will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. Jan. 18 in
Room 26 of the Children’s Research Center, 51 Gerty
Drive, Champaign. For more information, parents may
contact Nancy B. Hertzog, director of the school, at 3334892, or pick up an information packet at either 403 E.
Healey (Colonel Wolfe School) or at the Children’s
Research Center.
Annual faculty retreat
Event to teach critical thinking
Free performance
Marilyn Nonken, a pianist who has emerged as
one of the most gifted young musicians
performing modern music, will perform a
program of commissioned new works in a free
concert beginning at 8 p.m. Jan. 23 at Smith
Memorial Hall. Nonken will perform “North
American Spirituals,” by Michael Finnissy;
“Allegro Penseroso,” by Milton Babbitt; “Echoes’
White Veil,” by Jason Eckardt; “Etudes,” by
David Rakowski; and “Chelsea Square,” by Jeff
Nichols. Finnissy’s piece is a tribute to Charles
Ives and Carl Ruggles. Nonken also is an active
chamber musician and performs with Ensemble
21, Bargemusic and the Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center.
Art for adults
Courses teach drawing, fabric art
Adults interested in introductory drawing or fabric art
can register for an 11-class course being offered from 6 to
9 p.m. on Mondays beginning Jan. 29 at the UI School of
Art and Design. Registration is $90. “Introductory Drawing”
will provide a series of experiences for both beginning and
advanced participants; the “Fabric Art” course will provide
traditional southeast Asia fabric art methods and will
introduce a more contemporary and experimental approach
to the media. The course also will offer batik painting,
silkscreen painting and tie-dying. For more information,
visit http://bardo.art.uiuc.edu/arted/satschool or contact
Carole Smith at 333-1562 or by e-mail at
[email protected].
Art smart
Classes offered for young artists
The UI School of Art and Design is offering spring art
classes for children from age 4 1/2 through high school
beginning Jan. 27. The Saturday morning classes will meet
11 times, with the final class on April 29 featuring an open
house and exhibition of the student art at the Link Gallery
in the school. Registration fee is $65. For more information,
visit http://bardo.art.uiuc.edu/arted/satschool or contact
Carole Smith at 333-1562 or by e-mail at
[email protected].
Author/UI alumnus to speak
Book reveals cartographic crime
Miles Harvey, a 1984 UI graduate, will discuss his
book, “The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of
Cartographic Crime,” during an event from 3 to 5 p.m. Jan.
23 in the Rare Book and Special Collections Library,
Room 346 of the University Library. Harvey’s book tells
the story of an antiques dealer who allegedly stole an
estimated $500,000 worth of antique maps from research
libraries in a cross-country crime spree. Barbara Jones,
head of the Rare Book and Special Collections Library,
also will be on hand to talk about the issue of library theft
and the importance of security for special collections. This
event is open to the public but individuals wishing to attend
should RSVP by Jan. 22 to 333-5683.
Harvey also will talk about his work from noon to 1 p.m.
Jan. 22 during a journalism department “brown bag”
discussion, “Investigative Journalism: Tracking An Ancient
Map Thief,” in Room 123, Gregory Hall.
Environmental Horizons 2001
Artists invited to participate
The UI Environmental Council is expanding its call for
participation in its annual conference, “Environmental
Horizons.” The conference aims to display the depth and
breadth of environmental research, study and expression
across the campus. Accordingly, the council invites works
by UI artists for inclusion in “Environmental Horizons
2001.” The works will be judged by a panel of artists.
Submissions may be from any of the visual and performance
arts. Work should be related to the conference theme of the
environment or exploration of the environment. The works
will be displayed/performed at the Illini Union South
Lounge March 26; submissions should be appropriate for
that space, and each performance piece should be suitable
for a presentation of about 20 minutes. Those interested in
submitting works should complete and return the
submissions form, available at www.environ.uiuc.edu/
artists%20call%20for%20submissions.htm. For more
information, call 333-4178 or e-mail [email protected].
Submission deadline is Feb. 14. The jury panelists will
notify artists by March 1 if the work has been accepted for
This year’s annual faculty retreat on Teaching for
Active Learning (“Teaching Critical Thinking Using Active
Learning”) takes place Feb. 7 at the Illini Union. The event
brings faculty members from all disciplines together to
focus on best practices in teaching at the college level. The
keynote speaker will be Charles Bonwell, an instructional
consultant and the president of Bonwell Associates, Green
Mountain Falls, Colo. Bonwell has been involved with
more than 200 workshops nationally and internationally on
active learning and critical thinking. In 1986 he was one of
50 faculty honored nationwide by the American Association
of Higher Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching for his “outstanding educational
leadership.”
The retreat will begin with a welcome by Provost
Richard Herman, who will present the 2000 Distinguished
Teacher Scholars: Joseph Squier, art and design, and
Philip Buriak, agricultural engineering. Following the
keynote there will be concurrent sessions featuring faculty
from a variety of disciplines. Faculty members can register
through the Web at http://nautilus.outreach.uiuc.edu/
conted/ or by calling 333-2888.
Call for nominations for new award
International alumni to be honored
The UI has many alumni who have distinguished
themselves in service to universities, governments, private
sector firms and other organizations in nations outside the
United States. The campus plans to recognize these alumni
with a new award – the International Alumni Award for
Exceptional Achievement to be given in the late spring
each year.
Nominees must have received a degree from the UrbanaChampaign campus (in exceptional cases, attendance for
one academic year may also be sufficient); been a citizen
of a country other than the United States upon enrollment
at the Urbana-Champaign campus and have a distinguished
record in activities in a country other than the United States
or in an international context; and not be a current member
of the UI faculty, staff, or board of trustees.
Nominations papers must include the nominee’s name,
employer or institutional affiliation, country of residence,
degree(s) received from the UI, name and contact
information of nominator, a summary of the nominee’s
qualities, achievements and work relevant to the award
criteria, resume of the nominee, and three letters of
support. Completed nominations should be sent to Earl D.
Kellogg, 303 International Studies Building, 910 South
Fifth Street, MC-480. Deadline for nominations is Feb. 9.
A selection committee will be appointed to evaluate
nominations and suggest up to three choices to the chancellor
for final selection. The associate provost for international
affairs will seek nominations for members of the selection
committee from deans, directors, or heads of the relevant
units.
Catch the downbeat
WILL jazzing up the airwaves
A live performance by Champaign-Urbana jazz
musicians Gregg and Jeff Helgesen on WILL-FM (90.9;
101.1 in Champaign-Urbana), along with WILL-TV’s
broadcast of Ken Burns’ documentary on jazz, are heating
up nights in Central Illinois this month. The Helgesens’
Jan. 20 WILL-FM performance, “Live From the Studio X
Café: A Jazz Time Machine,” begins at 8 p.m. with Gregg’s
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band, Papa Doc Helgesen and His Roaring
’20s Jazz Band, playing music of the ’20s
’30s and ’40s, and ending with music of the
swing era. Then the Jeff Helgesen Quintet
will take the jazz time line the rest of the
way, performing bebop and post-bebop
music. Medicare 7, 8 or 9 founder Dan
Perrino will host the program before a live
audience in WILL’s Collins television
studio. The Helgesens, father-son gems of
the Central Illinois jazz scene, say they’re
excited to be involved in the radio
performance. “It’s a nice opportunity to dig
up some support for jazz programming and
also to get our own music out there,” said
Jeff Helgesen, who has been named “Best
Jazz Artist” by readers of the ChampaignUrbana weekly, The Octopus, for the past
two years. Burns’ “JAZZ,” six years in the
making, continues through Jan. 31, on
WILL-TV.
Outstanding student awards
Nominees sought
Student Affairs is seeking nominations
for its annual student leadership awards,
which have been given since 1987. Some
of the leadership awards are named in honor
of distinguished alumni, companies and
organizations; monetary prizes accompany
all of the awards. The awards and luncheon
banquet (April 28) are underwritten by
contributions from alumni and friends of
Student Affairs. Award information,
descriptions and nomination forms can be
found at www.odos.uiuc.edu/awards. The
required nomination forms and material
may be submitted electronically or by mail,
according to the nominator’s preference,
with the exception of the Consent to Release
Records form. This form, which is required
for some of the student awards indicated,
must be mailed. Nomination forms must be
received by 5 p.m. Feb. 14. Any questions
regarding the awards should be directed to
Willard Broom, associate dean of students,
333-0055.
Diva subject of profile
Leontyne Price featured
WILL-FM’s Roger Cooper says the
voice of Leontyne Price “not only soared
into the heavens and caught the attention of
the angels, but it also reached down into the
ghetto and found me.” Cooper’s ninth
“Classically Black” program, airing on
WILL-FM (90.9/101.1 in ChampaignUrbana) at 4 p.m. Feb. 3 and distributed to
public radio stations around the country by
Public Radio International, will profile the
brilliant opera star who has long been his
favorite. When Cooper was first introduced
to Price’s voice in a music appreciation
course, he had never heard a black person
sing opera. She inspired him to keep going
at the University of Evansville, where he
was one of only two African-American
students in the music program. “For the
first time I realized that I could do anything
I wanted to in music,” said Cooper, who
has completed his course work for a
doctorate in music at the UI. “I had thought
I would go into teaching, but she opened up
the entire world of possibilities to me.”
The one-hour program on Price
volunteers of the Campus Charitable Fund able to continue programs that help
showcases her extraordinary voice and
includes interviews with her former husband
William Warfield and soprano Martina
Arroyo. It describes Price’s childhood in
Mississippi, her Metropolitan Opera debut
that ended with an unprecedented 42-minute
ovation, her rapid ascent in the opera world,
and her farewell bow in “Aida” in 1985.
The program will be repeated on WILLFM after the Metropolitan Opera broadcast
Feb. 17.
Saturday Safari
Museum classes offered
What’s it like to be 9 feet tall or weigh a
ton? Why do some animals smell so bad to
human beings? How do animals work as a
team to survive and thrive in the wild?
These are among the questions children
will learn the answers to while participating
in the Saturday Safari classes offered by the
UI’s Museum of Natural History.
Reservations are now being accepted for
the program, in its fifth year and targeted to
children in kindergarten through fifth grade.
The cost is $5 per class; pre-registration is
required. For more information on the series
or to receive a series flier, call Kim Sheahan,
244-3355.
Special English class
Course for non-students
An eight-week course for adults with
limited English proficiency is being offered
by the Division of English as an International
Language. The class, for those who are not
students at the UI, meets eight hours per
week, Monday through Thursday, from 2 to
3:50 p.m., beginning Feb. 26. The course
fee is $50. Teachers in the class primarily
are students earning their master’s degrees
in teaching English as a second language.
They are under the supervision of the
professional staff of the division. Enrollment
is limited; those who appear most likely to
benefit from the classes will be given
priority. A placement test will be given
from 9 a.m. to noon on Jan. 19 and Jan. 24
with a half-hour oral interview in the
afternoon. People interested in enrolling
should sign up in 3070 Foreign Languages
Building to take the test. For more
information, call 333-1506.
Stress and Anxiety Clinic
Overwhelmed by worry?
A free program to help adults that are
experiencing problems relating to excessive
worry is being offered during the spring
semester by the Stress and Anxiety Clinic
coordinated by Howard Berenbaum, a
professor of psychology. The program is
designed for people who worry about many
different things, have been worried for a
long time, can’t seem to stop worrying, and
often are overwhelmed by worry.
Participants will be evaluated as to the
causes of their worrying. Treatment will
consist of group-therapy sessions. For more
information, call 333-0041. ◆
Drive to exceed the annual goal of $875,000 children succeed in school,make food availand to raise $1,000,000, I was thinking of able for those who are hungry, provide
the thousands of people those additional temporary shelter for people in great need,
dollars could assist. Now that we’ve and offer the emotional support missing
exceeded even that mark by raising in so many lives. Across the country and
$1,011,000, I am thinking of all of you–the around the world as well, other needs will
volunteers and donors who worked hard be met because you understand that
to make that challenge a reality. I have although charity begins at home, it doesn’t
always had great faith in the generosity, have to end there.
dedication and commitment of everyone
at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. This is one more tangible piece
of evidence of how appropriate that
confidence is.
Thank you for contributing to the fund
drive and thank you for being generous in
many other ways to the services represented in the drive as well as many other
deserving organizations.
As we return to another semester after
enjoying the holidays, I hope that you can
reflect on the good things that will
happen through your contributions.
Michael Aiken
Chancellor
2000 Campus Charitable Fund Drive:
U & I Caring and Sharing in 2000
Section
Amount
% of
goal
Administration and Human Resources
$18,844
117%
Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
$65,554
121%
Alumni Association
$2,000
116%
Applied Life Studies
$7,601
68%
Assembly Hall
$304
61%
Aviation
$5,414
130%
Campus Administration
$50,812
108%
Chemical Sciences
$23,100
106%
Commerce and Business Administration
$47,798
109%
Communications
$9,335
99%
Continuing Education and Public Service
$6,118
122%
Education
$32,136
110%
Engineering East
$44,722
102%
Engineering West
$47,353
97%
Fine and Applied Arts
$27,593
129%
Foundation
$9,271
122%
Housing
$22,781
118%
Illini Union
$5,504
166%
Integrative Biology
$7,353
117%
Intercollegiate Athletics
$5,919
110%
Labor and Industrial Relations
$6,855
113%
Law
$15,224
117%
Liberal Arts and Sciences
$74,740
99%
Library
$24,966
109%
Mathematics
$24,724
137%
McKinley Health Center
$11,884
109%
Medicine/Nursing
$13,604
91%
Molecular and Cellular Biology
$8,353
130%
Office of Admissions and Records
$6,638
135%
Office of Business Affairs
$13,546
152%
Operation and Maintenance
$61,068
124%
Psychology
$17,641
115%
Research
$15,268
115%
Retirees
$123,781
145%
Social Work
$10,306
164%
State Geological Survey
$17,789
119%
State Natural History Survey
$13,366
132%
State Water Survey
$13,278
133%
Statistics
$5,194
127%
Student Affairs
$25,973
118%
University Administration
$48,884
113%
Veterinary Medicine
$19,181
100%
Goal: $875,000 Amount raised: $1,011,775* (116% of goal) 20.7% participation
*Receipts as of Dec. 8, 2000
Participation
39%
18%
37%
15%
11%
40%
11%
7%
20%
27%
40%
26%
11%
9%
16%
64%
28%
29%
8%
18%
30%
19%
13%
20%
16%
36%
19%
7%
44%
42%
40%
14%
17%
200%
24%
51%
30%
42%
39%
44%
37%
14%
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calendar
of events
Entries for the calendar should be sent 15 days before the desired publication date to
Inside Illinois Calendar, News Bureau, 807 S. Wright St., Suite 520 East, Champaign,
MC-314, or to [email protected]. More information is available from Marty Yeakel at
333-1085. The online UIUC Events Calendar is at www.uiuc.edu/uicalendar/cal.html.
lectures
18 Thursday
“The Debt: The Case for
Reparations to AfricanAmericans and African
Countries.” Randall
Robinson, TransAfrica. 4 p.m.
Illini Rooms B and C, Illini
Union. MillerComm, AfroAmerican Studies and
Research and African Studies.
24 Wednesday
“Moving a Museum:
Information Management
and Exhibit Design at the
New Spurlock Museum.”
Paul Marty, UI. 5:30 p.m. 62
Krannert Art Museum.
Archaeological Institute of
America, Classics and
25 Thursday
“How R&D Bridges the Gap
From Drug Targets to Drug
Development.” Steve
Rosendahl, MediChem,
Lemont, Ill. Noon. 274
Medical Sciences Building.
Biotechnology Center.
“The New Monsanto: New
Scientific Directions for the
21st Century.” David
Songstad, MediChem,
Lemont, Ill. 4 p.m. 274
Medical Sciences Building.
Biotechnology Center.
28 Sunday
“Jorg Immendorff: A Painter
Talking About His Work.”
Jorg Immendorff, German
painter. 4 p.m. Room 62,
MillerComm.
29 Monday
“Analogy or the Art and
Science of Relating.”
Barbara Stafford, University
of Chicago. 8 p.m. Third
floor, Levis Faculty Center.
Center for Advanced Study
and Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities.
31 Wednesday
“Defining Values for
Research and Technology:
The University’s Changing
Role.” Michael K. Hansen,
Consumer Policy Institute,
Consumers Union. 4 p.m.
Law School auditorium.
Center for Advanced Study.
colloquia
24 Wednesday
“Belarus: Between East and
West, and Dreaming of Its
Women.” Elena Gapova, UI.
Noon. 101 International
Studies Building. Russian
and East European Center.
“Boost-Phase Ballistic
Missile Defense.” Dean
Wilkening, Stanford
University. 4 p.m. 151
Loomis Lab. Physics,
Mathematics, and Arms
Control, Disarmament and
International Security.
29 Monday
“Novel Human–Computer
Interface.” Tom Huang, UI.
Noon. Center for Advanced
Study, 912 W. Illinois St.,
Urbana. Center for Advanced
Study.
“The Architecture of
Complexity: From the
Diameter of the WWW to
the Structure of the Cell.”
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi,
University of Notre Dame.
3 p.m. 3269 Beckman
Institute. Theoretical
Biophysics.
“Interactive Workspaces:
Interaction and
Infrastructure for Ubiquitous
Computing.” Patrick M.
Hanrahan, Stanford
University. 4 p.m. 1320
Digital Computer Lab.
Computer Science.
31 Wednesday
ACDIS Millennium Series:
“21st Century Institutional
Development, Economic
Growth.” Hadi Salehi
Esfahani, UI. 4 p.m. 356
Armory Building. Arms
Control, Disarmament and
International Security.
theater
19 Friday
“Beowulf.” Benjamin Bagby,
voice and lyre. 8 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center.
Bagby, co-founder of the
medieval music ensemble
Sequentia, uses all the
conviction of a modern-day
bard to offer a rare theatrical
experience. With supertitles.
Admission charge.
20 Saturday
“Beowulf.” Benjamin Bagby,
voice and lyre. 8 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center.
Bagby, co-founder of the
medieval music ensemble
Sequentia, uses all the
conviction of a modern-day
bard to offer a rare theatrical
experience. With supertitles.
Admission charge.
26 Friday
“STOMP.” Luke Cresswell
and Steve McNicholas,
directors. 8 p.m. Tryon
Festival Theater, Krannert
Center. The eight-member
troupe uses everything but
conventional percussion
instruments to fill the stage
with magnificent rhythms.
Admission charge.
27 Saturday
directors. 2 and 8 p.m. Tryon
Center. Admission charge.
28 Sunday
directors. 2 p.m. Tryon
Center. Admission charge.
music
18 Thursday
Guest Artist Recital. “Breath
and Sound: Contemporary
Works for Solo Flute.”
Lesley Olson, Essen,
Germany. 8 p.m. Memorial
Room, Smith Hall.
19 Friday
Doctor of Musical Arts
Accompanying Recital.
8 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall. Nancy Ambrose King,
oboe; Rudolf Haken, viola;
and Rachel Jensen, piano.
20 Saturday
Danwen Jiang, violin. 8 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. With
Haewon Song, piano.
Admission charge. School of
Music.
21 Sunday
Recital. Deb Eastwood,
trumpet. 1 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Accompanying Recital.
Hall. Monica Zerbe, mezzosoprano, and Rachel Jensen,
piano.
23 Tuesday
Guest Artist Recital.
“Signature Pieces.” Marilyn
Nonken, piano, New York
City. 8 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall. Program of
contemporary music will
include works of Michael
Finissy.
Stomping to the rhythm
The international percussion sensation STOMP comes to Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts for four performances in the Tryon Festival Theater at 8 p.m.
Jan. 26; 2 and 8 p.m. Jan. 27, and 2 p.m. Jan. 28.
The young performers in STOMP use everything but conventional percussion
instruments. “[We will] make a rhythm out of anything we can get our hands on
that makes a sound,” says co-founder/director Luke Cresswell. Synchronized stiffbristle brooms become a sweeping orchestra; eight Zippo lighters flip open and
closed to create a fiery fugue; wooden poles thump and clack in a rhythmic
explosion.
24 Wednesday
Jan 18 to Feb 4
Krannert Center. With Dana
Robinson, organ. The “King
of Instruments” takes center
stage as the Symphony
presents Camille SaintSaëns’ “Organ Symphony,”
and Richard Strauss’ tone
poem “Thus Spoke
Zarathustra.” Admission
charge.
Dresden Staatskapelle
Orchestra. Giuseppe
Sinopoli, music director and
conductor. 8 p.m. Foellinger
Great Hall, Krannert Center.
Europe’s oldest orchestra
presents an all-Strauss
program that includes “Don
Juan,” “Ein Heldenleben,”
and “Tod und Verklärung.”
Admission charge.
26 Friday
31 Wednesday
UI Symphony Orchestra.
Donald Schleicher,
conductor. 8 p.m. Foellinger
Great Hall, Krannert Center.
Winners of the UI School of
Music Student Concerto
Competition will be featured
as soloists on this concert.
Music.
Recital. Jacqueline Ware,
soprano. 8 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Guest Artist Recital. Ronald
YaDeau, piano, Millikin
University, Decatur. 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Program will include works
by Eugen Suchon.
27 Saturday
Faculty Recital. Gustavo
Romero, piano. 8 p.m.
Krannert Center. Concertos
by Bach, Haydn, Mozart and
Beethoven are on the
program. Admission charge.
School of Music.
AfterGlow Concert.
Barrington Coleman Trio.
9:45 p.m. Lobby, Krannert
Center. Barrington Coleman,
piano/vocalist; William
Koehler, bass; and Robert
McEntyre, percussion.
28 Sunday
Faculty Recital. Elliot
Chasanov, trombone. 2 p.m.
Krannert Center. With Ray
Sasaki, trumpet; William
Moersch and Ricardo Flores,
percussion; and Casey
Robards, piano. This
program features the world
premiere of “Concerto for
Trombone, Piano and
Percussion,” by the Polish
composer Benedykt
Konowalski; Eric Ewazen’s
“Pastorale for Trumpet,
Trombone and Piano;” and
other works. Admission
charge. School of Music.
Senior Recital. Thayer
Preece, viola. 2 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
Undergraduate Recital.
Anne Lyle and Heather
McCullagh, bassoon. 4 p.m.
Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
Faculty Recital. Kazimierz
Machala, horn; Danwen
Jiang, violin; and Susan
Teicher, piano. 7 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall. Program
will include works of Donald
Banks and Brahms.
29 Monday
Guest Artist Lecture/
Recital. “The New
Virtuosity–Recent Works for
Solo Piano.” Michael Finissy,
composer, United Kingdom.
Hall.
“Liederabend.” Ronald
Hedlund, baritone, and Eric
Dalheim, piano. 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall. An
evening of songs to German
texts by Beethoven, Brahms,
Charles Griffes, Mahler and
Strauss.
25 Thursday
30 Tuesday
Champaign-Urbana
Symphony Orchestra.
Steven Larsen, music director
and conductor. 8 p.m.
Recital. Kyung-A Yang,
piano. 6:30 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
1 Thursday
Undergraduate Recital. Kris
Becker, piano. 8 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
2 Friday
UI Symphonic Band II and
UI Concert Band I. Peter J.
Griffin and Kenneth
Steinsultz, conductors. 8 p.m.
Krannert Center. Music from
the symphonic and concert
band repertoires is featured.
Music.
3 Saturday
Master of Music Recital.
Connie Frigo, saxophone.
5 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
UI Wind Symphony and UI
Symphonic Band IB. James
F. Keene and Thomas E.
Caneva, conductors. 8 p.m.
Krannert Center. The premier
ensembles of the UI Band
Division present interesting
and challenging works, both
contemporary and traditional.
Music.
4 Sunday
Jan-Erik Gustafsson, cello. 3
p.m. Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. This
Finnish cellist, who won the
1994 Young Concert Artists
International Auditions,
presents sonatas by Debussy,
Beethoven and Brahms,
along with a pair of preludes
and fugues by Einojuhani
Rautavaara. Admission
charge.
Recital. Mina Somekawa,
piano. 4 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Junior Recital. Thomas
Parker, bassoon. 4 p.m.
Music Building auditorium.
Recital. Timothy Schmidt,
bass-baritone. 7 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
dance
1 Thursday
Festival 2001. 8 p.m.
Colwell Playhouse, Krannert
Center. Premieres and
repertory works by resident
faculty artists and guest
choreographers, and
masterworks from our dance
heritage. Featured this year
are “Two Deaths,” a newly
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commissioned work by
“Bessie” Award-winning
choreographer Tere
O’Connor; Rebecca Nettl’s
“Seeger Suite”; former Ohio
Ballet director Heinz Poll’s
“Bolero”; and works by Sara
Hook, Linda Lehovec and
Renée Wadleigh. Admission
charge.
2 Friday
choreographers, and
heritage. Admission charge.
3 Saturday
choreographers, and
heritage. Admission charge.
Admission charge.
Men’s and Women’s
Gymnastics. UI vs. Ohio
State University. 7 p.m. Huff
Hall. Admission charge.
4 Sunday
Men’s Wrestling. UI vs.
University of Minnesota. 1
p.m. Huff Hall. Admission
charge.
Women’s Basketball. UI vs.
University of Minnesota.
2 p.m. Assembly Hall.
Admission charge.
et cetera
18 Thursday
Financial Services
Workshop: “Investment
Fundamentals.” 7 p.m. UI
Employees Credit Union,
2201 S. First St., Champaign.
Workshop is free but
reservations are required. For
more information, send email to membfinsrv@
uiuecu.org or call 278-7768.
UI Employees Credit Union.
films
23 Tuesday
26 Friday
Discussion and reading:
“Crime and Intrigue in the
Rare Book Room.” 3-5 p.m.
346 Library, Rare Book and
Special Collections. Miles
Harvey, 1984 Illinois
graduate and author of “The
Island of Lost Maps: A True
Story of Cartographic
Crime.” Library
Development and Public
Affairs.
“Pay It Forward.” 7 and 9:30
p.m. 112 Gregory Hall. For
more information, call 3333663, or send e-mail to
[email protected].
Admission charge. Illini
Union Board and Student
Affairs.
27 Saturday
“Pay It Forward.” 7 and 9:30
p.m. 112 Gregory Hall. For
more information, call 3333663, or send e-mail to
[email protected].
Admission charge. Illini
Union Board and Student
Affairs.
sports
19 Friday
Northwestern University.
7 p.m. Huff Hall. Admission
charge.
20 Saturday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs.
Pennsylvania State
University. 1:30 p.m.
Assembly Hall. Admission
charge.
Men’s Gymnastics. UI vs.
University of Minnesota.
7 p.m. Huff Hall. Admission
charge.
21 Sunday
Indiana University. 1 p.m.
Huff Hall. Admission charge.
Purdue University. 2 p.m.
Assembly Hall. Admission
charge.
25 Thursday
University of Wisconsin.
7 p.m. Assembly Hall.
Admission charge.
3 Saturday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs.
Northwestern University.
1:30 p.m. Assembly Hall.
26 Friday
Cross Country Skiing for
Beginners. 1-4 p.m. Campus
Rec Outdoor Center, 51 E.
Gregory. This clinic is
designed for the beginner or
first-time cross country skier.
Participants will be grouped
with a small number of skiers
along with a professional.
Instruction begins with the
fundamentals, such as
equipment selection, and
moves on to skiing
techniques and turning
maneuvers. For more
information, call 333-7250,
or send e-mail to
[email protected].
Admission charge. Campus
Recreation.
27 Saturday
Cross Country Ski Day Trip.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Meet at
Outdoor Rec Center, 51 E.
Gregory. Spend a day cross
country skiing at Allerton
Park in Monticello. For more
information, call 333-7250,
or e-mail [email protected].
Admission charge. Also
offered Feb. 3 and 17.
Campus Recreation.
30 Tuesday
Women’s Health Fair. 5:307:30 p.m. Intramural Physical
Education Building. Learn
more about healthy eating
and strength training. Blood
pressure testing, fitness
demonstrations, dietician
consulting, music, prizes and
more. For more information,
call 333-3510, or send e-mail
to [email protected].
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Campus Recreation and
McKinley Health Center.
2 Friday
Workshop series: “Working
Papers in Asian American
Studies: New Directions for
the Field.” Moon-Kie Jung,
UI. 1-3 p.m. Asian American
Studies Committee Building.
For more information, e-mail
[email protected] or call 2449530. Asian American Studies
Committee.
3 Saturday
Women and Strength
Training Clinic. 9-10:30 a.m.
Intramural Building free
weight room. This is a fourweek clinic that meets on
successive Saturdays to
enhance knowledge of
resistance training through
the specific use of free
weights, resistance tubing,
body weight and core
stabilization. For more
information, call 265-0833 or
e-mail [email protected].
Admission charge. Campus
Recreation.
Cross Country Ski Day Trip.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Meet at
Outdoor Rec Center, 51 E.
Gregory. Spend a day cross
country skiing at Allerton
Park in Monticello. For more
information, call 333-7250, or
e-mail [email protected].
Admission charge. Also
offered on Feb. 17. Campus
Recreation.
exhibits
“Electoral College”
Through Jan. 31.
Government Documents
Library, main hall, wall case.
“Celebrating Faculty
Achievements: Library
Selections From Newly
Promoted or Tenured
Faculty at the UI”
Through Jan. 31.
Main hall case, Library.
“Lost University of Illinois:
What Once Was–What
Might Have Been”
Through Jan. 31.
University Archives.
“Old Soldiers Never Die;
They Write Novels.”
James Jones and World
War II
Through Jan. 31.
“Poesia Latino Americana
Contempranea”
Through Jan. 31.
Latin American Library.
“Yehuda Amichai: Israeli
Poet Revolutionary,
1924-2000”
Through Jan. 31.
Modern Languages and
Linguistics Library.
“Presidential Inauguration”
Through Jan. 31.
Mueller display, Library.
■
“Country-City Blues” Local
Urbana artist, James
Golaszewski, exhibits his
acrylic and oil paintings in
his first gallery showing.
Through Jan. 30.
Illini Union Art Gallery.
7 a.m.-10 p.m. SundaySaturday. IUB Art Gallery
Committee.
■
Krannert Art Museum and
Kinkead Pavilion. 10 a.m.-
A bloodthirsty tale
Benjamin Bagby, pictured, takes the role of chieftain’s bard, recreating the chilling
and bloodthirsty tale of “Beowulf” in Krannert Center for the Performing Arts’
Studio Theater at 8 p.m. Jan. 19-20. In the revered tradition of the itinerant weaver
of stories, Bagby accompanies his expressive voice with a six-string lyre.
Dressed in simple,unassuming black,on a softly illuminated stage, Bagby improves
melodies,transporting his audience to another time through dramatic techniques
of intonation and haunting theatrical gestures. He gives life to the Scandinavian
prince Beowulf who frees the Danes from the terror of Grendel, a monster of a
figure — half man and half fiend.
5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.8 p.m. Wednesday; 2-5 p.m.
Sunday. Admission to the
museum is free; a donation of
$2 is suggested.
■
@art gallery. Online exhibit
of the UI School of Art and
Design. www.art.uiuc.edu/
@art.
■
World Heritage Museum.
Closed. Will reopen as the
new Spurlock Museum of
World Cultures at a new
location in 2001.
www.spurlock.uiuc.edu
ongoing
Altgeld Chime-Tower Tours
12:30-1 p.m. weekdays. Enter
through 323 Altgeld Hall.
Beckman Institute Cafe
Open to the public. 8 a.m.
-3 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Bevier Cafe
Reopens Jan. 22. 8:30-11 a.m.
coffee, juice, baked goods;
and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch.
Cerebral Cafe
Noon Wednesdays when
classes are in session.
Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union.
Bring your lunch and
opinions. Ideas for topics
welcome; call Illini Union
Program Department, 3333660.
Huizenga Commons
Cafeteria
8 a.m.-2 p.m. MondayFriday. East end of College
of Law building.
Illini Union Ballroom
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Monday-Friday. Second
floor, northeast corner. Call
333-0690 for reservations;
walk-ins welcome.
Intermezzo Cafe: Krannert
Center
Morning menu: 7-11 a.m.;
Lunch menu: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.;
Cafe menu: 2-3:30 p.m. on
nonperformance weekdays;
2 p.m. until 30 minutes after
performance on weekdays;
one and a half hours before
until 30 minutes after
performance on Saturday and
Sunday.
Japan House Tours
1-4 p.m. Thursdays; 1-5 p.m.
third Saturday each month.
Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts
Tours: 3 p.m. daily. Meet in
the main lobby. Promenade
gift shop: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Monday-Saturday; one hour
before until 30 minutes after
all performances.
Library Tours
Self-guided audiocassettes of
main and undergraduate
libraries available at the
Information Desk, second
floor of the main library or
the Media Center of the
undergraduate library.
Meat Salesroom
102 Meat Sciences Lab.
1-5:30 p.m. Tuesday and
Thursday; 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
Friday. Retail outlet for
federally inspected beef, pork
and lamb, processed by
animal sciences department.
Call for price list and
specials, 333-3404.
Robert Allerton Park
Open 8 a.m. to dusk daily.
“Allerton Legacy” exhibit at
Visitors Center, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
daily; 244-1035. Garden
tours: call 333-2127.
Tuesdays@Seven. Jan. 30:
“Seven Steps to Academic
Success.” 7-9 p.m. 209 Illini
Union. For more information,
see the Web site at
www.counselingcenter.uiuc.edu/
ccp/. Counseling Center
Paraprofessionals.
organizations
Chancellor’s Committee on
the Status of Women
3-5 p.m. Swanlund
Administration Building. For
calendar, see the Web site,
www.oc.uiuc.edu/oc/csw/
which also outlines the
committee’s purposes,
structure and work.
Classified Employees
Association
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. first
Thursday monthly. For more
information, contact Kay
Busboom, 244-6231, or
[email protected].
Contra Dancing
To live fiddle music with
featured callers in an
atmosphere friendly to
singles, couples and families.
Visit www.prairienet.org/
contra/ or e-mail [email protected] for more
information.
Illini Folk Dance Society
8-10 p.m. Tuesday and
Saturday. Illini Union.
Teaching dances first hour;
beginners welcome. Anne
Martel, 398-6686.
Illini Glider Club
7:30 p.m. first Thursday
monthly. 132 Bevier Hall.
Prospective members
welcome. Information hot
line: 762-4917.
Italian Table
Italian conversation Mondays
at noon, Intermezzo Cafe,
Krannert Center.
Language classes:
Beginners’ Vietnamese
6-7:15 p.m. Mondays. 194
Lincoln Hall. For more
information, e-mail
[email protected] or call
255-6478.
Lifetime Fitness Program
Individual and group
activities. 6-8:50 a.m.
weekdays. Kinesiology, 2444510.
PC User Group
(Schedule varies). 7 p.m.
1310 Digital Computer Lab.
Call Mark Zinzow, 244-1289,
or David Harley, 333-5656,
for more information.
Scandinavian Coffee Hour
4-6 p.m. Wednesdays. The
Bread Company, 706 S.
Goodwin Ave., Urbana.
Secretariat
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. third
Wednesday monthly. Illini
Union. Phone 333-4447, or
www.uiuc.edu/ro/secretariat/
Women’s Club
Open to both male and
female faculty and staff
members and spouses, the
Women’s Club also has many
special interest groups.
Information about meetings
and interest groups is on the
Web at new.math. uiuc.edu/
~wclub or call 333-3221. ◆
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Model reduces stress and warpage in polymer composite structures
By James E. Kloeppel
Fiber-reinforced composites are strong and lightweight,
but suffer from hidden stresses that can warp the final
product or degrade its performance. Modifying the process
variables through trial and error is expensive and time
consuming. Now, a model developed at the UI promises to
improve both the quality and reliability of these polymeric
parts.
“The warpage of composite structures during the
manufacturing process is a direct consequence of residual
stress development,” said Philippe Geubelle, a professor of
aeronautical and astronautical engineering at the UI. “These
stresses arise because of thermal expansion, chemical
shrinkage and non-uniform curing. The ability to predict
the residual stresses and their effects is crucial to the
manufacture of dimensionally accurate composite
structures.”
Geubelle and his colleagues – professors Charles Tucker
and Scott White, and graduate students Qi Zhu, Min Li and
Daniel O’Brien – have assembled a model that simulates
the heat transfer, pressure, curing and residual stress
development that occurs during the manufacturing cycle of
thermoset composite parts.
“When working with metals, you can carve, bend or
stamp the material into the desired shape; but with
composites, you actually make the material as you make
the part,” said Tucker, the W. Grafton and Lillian B.
Wilkins Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
at the UI. “The manufacturing process is complicated, with
many interacting physical phenomena that can affect the
final form. Our model allows us to explore those phenomena
and to perform our ‘trial and error’ on a computer instead
of on a factory floor.”
Often, improving one processing variable only makes
the overall problem worse because another variable that
had previously been offset becomes more prominent,
Geubelle said. “This points out the need for a thorough and
fundamental approach to the issues that control the
manufacturing process.”
By simulating the mechanical effects of process variables,
the model allows engineers to predict accurately the final
Computer model Philippe Geubelle, a professor of aeronautical and astronautical engineering at the UI, and
graduate student Qi Zhu demonstrate a model that simulates the heat transfer, pressure, curing and residual
stress development that occurs during the manufacturing cycle of thermoset composite parts. According to
Geubelle, “The ability to predict the residual stresses and their effects is crucial to the manufacture of
dimensionally accurate composite structures.”
dimensions and residual stresses in polymer-matrix
components – including the tendency of parts to change
shape and “spring forward” when removed from their
molds.
“Combining the simulation with special optimization
methods creates a powerful and versatile analytical tool
that can help reduce product defects and improve
dimensional accuracy,” Tucker said. “We can tell the
software which parameters we are willing to change, and
the program runs multiple simulations to find the best
manufacturing solution that satisfies all of our
requirements.”
Zhu presented the model at the International Congress
of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held Aug. 27 to
Sept. 2 in Chicago. A paper describing the model will
appear in the Journal of Composite Materials. Another
paper in which the model is used to optimize the curing
process will appear in the journal Polymer Composites.
Funding was provided by the National Science
Foundation. ◆
SECRETS, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
published in the next issue of
Communication Studies.
Using 650 college students from all three
family types to explore the nature of
communication “boundaries” and family
structures, the researchers found no
differences in the number of secrets the
students perceived, the topics of those
secrets or the perceived functions of the
secrets. In addition, they found that all
participants were more likely to tell their
original siblings the secret than they were
to tell their parents, and that regardless of
family type, participants’ family satisfaction
was inversely related to their perceptions
that their family had a comparatively high
number of family secrets.
A few differences did emerge: Original
parents in blended families were more likely
than parents in nuclear families to know
students’ secrets, and original siblings in
blended families were more likely than
siblings in nuclear families to know the
secret. This suggests that blended families
have more complicated boundary networks,
but doesn’t imply that they are inherently
problematic or deficient.
Stepparents shouldn’t worry when their
stepteens don’t share their secrets with them,
Caughlin hastens to add, noting that teens
living with original parents often don’t share
secrets either. “Keeping secrets is part of
growing up, and people shouldn’t assume
that it means their stepfamily is
dysfunctional – or any more dysfunctional
than other families.”
The discovery of strong similarities
across the various family configurations
has “potentially important implications”
for how different family forms are studied,
Caughlin said.
In the past, researchers have resisted
comparing family types because they have
bought into a “deficit model” theory in
which nuclear families are regarded as the
standard family, the blended and singleparent family as incomplete, imperfect or
inferior versions of the norm. The current
study, however, demonstrates that such
comparisons “can identify ways in which
family functioning is the same in different
family configurations.” ◆
high hopes for this. Sometimes before
making a film you have an idea in your head
of what it’s going to be when it’s finished.
Then you finish it. And then, normally, I
think, you’re disappointed initially –
because it just didn’t live up to what you
thought it was going to be. Sometimes
things just don’t pan out the way you
envision them. And sometimes things end
up being better than you thought they were
going to be. This was one of those cases.”
Judges for two other film festivals
apparently agreed. In addition to Sundance,
“Erased” has been accepted for inclusion in
the San Francisco Independent Film Festival
and a Jewish film festival in Portland, Ore.,
both of which are coming up soon.
Others are paying attention to the film as
well.
“I got a phone call from someone at
Miramax, who wanted to see it, and from
Atom Films,” an online company that
specializes in shorts and also distributes its
films to airlines and television networks.
Rosenstein said he doesn’t have plans to
make other shorts of this nature. He is,
however, putting finishing touches on a
feature-length documentary about the local
choral group Amasong. The working title
of the film, which he expects will be
completed this spring, is “The Amasong
Choir: Beauty and Justice.”
“It is about a small-town lesbian/feminist
choir that rises from humble beginnings to
become a nationally recognized ensemble,”
Rosenstein said. “But it’s also about how
music and the arts can be used to help
transform a local community to be more
accepting and tolerant of different kinds of
people.
“I think it’s a great, very multitextured
story.” ◆
SUNDANCE, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
In fact, Rosenstein said, the feedback he
received from his peers was “unbelievable.”
“People for days and days afterward
kept coming up to me. One woman gave me
a book her husband wrote; someone else
gave me another video. Even when I got
home, people started e-mailing me, asking
if they could have copies.”
Buoyed by the reactions of his fellow
filmmakers, he decided to submit the film
to Sundance. When the call came saying it
had been accepted, Rosenstein said he was
elated.
“I was extremely happy because I had

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