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October 29
2014
For the community of the University of Illinois at Chicago
VOLUME 34 / NUMBER 10
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TRACKING DOWN
STUDENT ATHLETE
TESS EHRHARDT
2014
UNIVERSITY
SCHOLARS
Among the best for
teaching, research
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PREEMIE GRADS
RETURN FOR HAPPY
NICU REUNION
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ENGINEERING TEAM
DESIGNS A PATH
TO SUCCESS
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DANA CAPOCCI
JOINS THE
GLOBAL BRIGADE
SPECIAL SECTION
2014 EMPLOYEE
RECOGNITION
AWARDS INSIDE!
INSIDE:
CAMPUS NEWS 5
POLICE 7
CALENDAR 8
SPORTS 12
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PROFILE
TESS
EHRHARDT
Remarkable runner
By Gary Wisby — [email protected]
When it comes to women’s events in
cross country and track at UIC, there’s
never been anyone like Tess Ehrhardt.
This remarkable runner holds nine
school records in track and field and two
in cross country.
The only event in which Ehrhardt
competes that she doesn’t hold the record
for is the outdoor 1,500-meter race.
Her favorite run is the outdoor 5K.
“I love cross country because it’s outside,
and the 5K is kind of the standard distance for women,” she said. “I’m just comfortable with it.”
Ehrhardt has also played soccer, but
finds running to be more satisfying.
“You have more control over your individual success, or failure,” she said. “Anything you do, it’s all you.”
She started running at age 8 or 9, taking part in road races with her father —
“nothing too competitive.”
In middle school, she took up cross
country. “It was the only sport available
for sixth-graders,” she said.
She kept running at Geneva High
School, where “I was not the best on the
team, but we did really well.” The team
won the state title twice and placed fourth
and fifth other years.
Ehrhardt says running cross country at
Geneva High was a lot of fun.
“The atmosphere — I haven’t seen it
anywhere else,” she said. “There are a lot
more fans [than in college]. The energy is
really good at a high school cross country
meet.”
A senior majoring in kinesiology, she
has a full-ride athletic scholarship at UIC.
She’ll work as a prosthetics and orthotics practitioner after she earns her
master’s degree — preferably at North-
Ehrhardt also plays soccer but finds running more satisfying. “Anything
you do, it’s all you,” she says. — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin
Tess Ehrhardt holds nine school records in
track and field and two in cross country.
— Photo: Steve Woltmann
western University “because I
This year Ehrhardt is exploring Chiwant to stay in Chicago.” If not,
cago, starting with her race training.
she could pursue her master’s at
“The coach sends us for a run — ‘Go
schools in California, Washingrun for an hour’ — and I like to find a
ton, Connecticut, Georgia or
new route,” she said. “The lakefront gets
Texas.
kind of boring when you do it over
Ehrhardt lives in a residence
and over.”
hall on campus. “A big thing for
Ehrhardt is an admirer of the Belme is making my own food,” she gian street artist ROA. One of his musaid. “I did eat dorm food my
rals can be seen in Pilsen — “I’ve taken
freshman year, and it’s the most
the team down there,” she said. With a
unhealthy I’ve ever felt. Some of
teammate, she found another of his
it’s good — the salad bar, and
works.
they’ll make you a sandwich —
“We couldn’t find it on a run, but I
but there’s also pizza and cake.”
heard you could see it on the [CTA]
She loves making ceramics
Brown Line,” she said. “We came to the
and pottery and playing the
last stop and there it was. I got really
piano.
excited. It was cool to find.”
“These are things I’ve not had
She plans to seek out more of his art
time for with school and runwhen she and her family visit Europe
ning,” she said. “It’s worth it to
over Christmas.
sacrifice for now, but these are
“I really like his stuff,” Ehrhardt said.
things I want in my life; I want to “He does animals. It doesn’t look like
pick them up again.”
graffiti.”
“The trend of having LGBT characters as
recurring characters that are other things
— doctors, lawyers, parents — is a good trend.
It shows people as complex human beings.”
“We have to seize this opportunity to show
how a library can transform a neighborhood
that is one of the most under-resourced in
the city.”
Stacey Horn, professor of educational psychology, on the increase of LGBT characters
on TV, Oct. 11 Newsweek
Lisa Lee, director of the School of Art and
Art History and member of the UIC Obama
Presidential Library steering committee, on
UIC’s proposal, Oct. 24 Chicago Tribune
“These animals will be gone and we won’t
even know they existed.”
Roy Plotnick, professor of earth and environmental sciences, on species that may vanish
without leaving a fossil record, Oct. 21 Nature
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Happy celebration as Children’s Hospital
welcomes former neonatal care patients
By Sonya Booth — [email protected]
The invitation said “Halloween Happiness.” And the 2014 reunion of graduates
from the neonatal intensive care unit of the
Children’s Hospital University of Illinois
might have been one of the happiest parties in Chicago Saturday.
Hospital staff greeted kids they barely
Former preemies leave party with
faces painted. — Photo: S.K. Vemmer
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recognized, if at all — big, active healthy
versions of the tiny patients they once
cared for in the NICU.
“We remember the moms,” said nurse
manager Shirley Belocura. “We don’t know
how the kids look now.”
The NICU has provided intensive care
to ill newborns since the early 1960s, including critically ill babies referred from
other hospitals in Illinois.
Franklin Borre, 15, and his family chatted with retired nurse Bok Lee, who reminisced about Franklin’s time in the NICU.
Lee’s nametag read “Grandma” because she
has remained in contact with many patients and families, attending their birthdays and other milestone celebrations.
“It’s great, seeing everyone and just being
here,” said Franklin, looking around at the
younger children dressed as superheroes
and bumblebees.
Felando Bethel, 4, wearing a Transformers costume, dismantled a balloon animal.
Nearby his mother, Keshauna Fulton, remembered the six months he spent in
Graduates of the neonatal intensive care unit celebrate at a Halloween party.
“We remember the moms,” says nurse manager Shirley Belocura. “We don’t
know how the kids look now.” — Photo: S.K. Vemmer
NICU after he was born early — “23
weeks and five days,” she said, “1 pound,
3-point-5 ounces.”
“In the beginning it was very hard,” she
said. “I kept thinking he’d be coming home
every day.”
The party, made possible by donations
from Discovery Labs, Friends of Pediatrics
and hospital staff, had games, entertainment, pumpkin decorating and face painting.
But the real attraction was the opportunity to compare then and now.
“There’s deep roots and relationships,”
said Jeanine Klaus, family support specialist for the NICU and intensive care nursery.
Former congressman launches Center on Depression and Resilience
By Rick Asa
Former congressman Patrick Kennedy bluntly told a capacity audience of his
own bouts with mood disorders and substance abuse in an impassioned keynote
speech Oct. 21 to launch the new Center
on Depression and Resilience.
In a booming voice, Kennedy praised
UIC for its vision of a multidisciplinary,
translational approach that will attack
mental illness in the same way any leading institution would go after cancer and
cardiovascular disease: with leading edge
science, technology and experts who
“treat the brain like it’s an organ of the
body.”
The center, based in the College of
Medicine’s department of psychiatry, includes practitioners, educators and researchers in pharmacy, nursing,
engineering, public health, psychology
and social work, as well as the Institute
for Juvenile Research and the UIC Veterans Program.
The center is a member of the National Network of Depression Centers, a
consortium of 20 academic medical centers.
Anand Kumar, head of psychiatry who
worked to pull the center together, addressed an audience that included Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares, former deans
and national figures in the mental health
community.
“We think this is a first step, the first
step toward our creating a broader center
on mental illness and resilience overall,”
Kumar said at the event, held in the College of Medicine Research Building.
“I love the family approach that you are
undertaking here,” said Kennedy, a longtime champion of parity in the prevention and treatment of mental illness and
an outspoken critic of the societal stigma
it carries.
“I love the fact that you are addressing
the parents’ challenges in order to address
the kids’ challenges and I love the focus
in treating depression by preventing depression.
“I love the focus you have on resiliency
Patrick Kennedy speaks at the opening of the Center on Depression and
Resilience. — Photo: Joshua Clark
and figuring out what the mechanisms
to build resiliency are.”
Kumar described the economic toll
of mental illness, citing data from a
worldwide study that put disorders of
the brain at the top of the list. If conditions such as substance abuse and anxiety are included, it’s an astronomical
drain on resources, he said. And yet, he
noted, depression is severely undertreated, basic mechanisms responsible for
mood disorders remain a mystery and
funding toward answers has been
slashed.
Suicide “is a topic that most people
are uncomfortable with,” Kumar said,
but data from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention reports that
more people die from suicide than homicide in the U.S. “This point alone is
worthy of thought,” he said.
“If you look at the disconnect between
national health priorities, our patient
resources and inadequate discussion, this
would be one of the topics.”
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UIC engineering team designs path to success
By Francisca Corona — [email protected]
UIC’s Chicago Engineering Design Team celebrates its second-place finish.
“We’ve gotten better every single year,” says team president Jasen Massey.
Team members Krystian Gebis (from left), John Sabino and Basheer Subei put
their heads together at the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition.
In just seven years, UIC’s Chicago Engineering Design Team has gone from not
qualifying for the annual Intelligent
Ground Vehicle Competition to beating
out some of the top universities in the nation.
It’s the team’s drive and dedication
that’s pushed them to succeed — snagging
second place for robot design at the com-
petition over the summer, said team president Jasen Massey.
“Over the years we’ve seen progression
in our standing and our competitions,” said
Massey, a graduate student in engineering.
“We’ve gotten better every single year.”
This year’s participants were challenged
to build a robot that could complete an
outdoor obstacle course, independent of an
operator. The national engineering competition, held at Oakland University in
Michigan, had more than 40 university
robotics teams in attendance, including the
Georgia Institute of Technology, Yale University, University of Texas and California
State University.
The team streamlined its electrical designs, did an overhaul on the brains of the
robot and made mechanical design changes to create a sleek, efficient design. Those
improvements helped them make the jump
from third in robotic design in 2013 to
second just a year later.
The best part about designing robots is
seeing designs come to life, Massey said.
“It goes from just being an idea to a
completed project,” he said. “It’s a really
good time.”
The team has 60 members, working on
robots for three national competitions. Up
next is the Jerry Sanders Design Competition in March.
Massey encourages all students to join
the fun, no matter what their major.
“It’s a great learning opportunity,” he
said.
“You’ll learn about engineering, machine
tools and how to project manage.”
The team accepts members throughout
the year. Students interested in joining can
email [email protected]
Experiencing Diwali night
By Timothy Nguyen — [email protected]
I didn’t know what Diwali was until
Oct. 20, when I got to experience it first
hand with the UIC Indian Student Association.
Diwali, a Hindu festival celebrated
each autumn, is also known as “festival of
lights” because of its spiritual roots —
light shining over darkness, good overcoming evil and hope conquering despair.
Diwali isn’t just a festival that gets celebrated every year by millions of people
from around the world. It’s also a way of
building community and expressing family values that can sometimes be underappreciated throughout the year.
The night of Diwali started with short
skits where the board members of the
UIC Indian Student Association acted
out funny scenes while talking about the
history of Diwali. Indian student dance
teams performed between skits and everyone enjoyed traditional Indian food.
According to legend, Diwali
celebrates the return of Lord Rama after
years away from his home, Ayodhya.
Lord Rama had just defeated the evil
Ravana of Lanka and rescued his
wife in the process. To celebrate Rama’s
return and his defeat of Ravana, they
placed candles all around, lighting up the
path of his return. Rama was then
named King of Ayodhya. This is what
Diwali celebrates every year, good
overcoming evil.
The UIC Indian Student Association celebrates Diwali with dance, skits
and stories in Student Center East. — Photo: Timothy Nguyen
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CAMPUS NEWS
Celebrate Day of the Dead
Decorate sugar skulls, feast on Bread
of the Dead and watch an exclusive theater performance at the Latino Cultural
Center’s Day of the Dead events today
and Thursday.
All events take place at the Latino
Cultural Center, Lecture Center B2.
A communal altar to honor loved
ones who have died will be created today,
1 to 4 p.m. Participants can bring photos
or remembrance items, decorate sugar
skulls and create paper marigold flowers
for the altar. The altar is co-hosted by
Mexican Students de Aztlan.
Chicago actors Laura Crotte and Jasmin Cardenas will present stories, songs
and performances about the Day of the
Dead Thursday, 3:30 to 5 p.m., at “A Celebration of Life and Death.” Bread of the
Dead (Mexican sweet bread made for the
Day of the Dead) and hot chocolate will be
served.
“This is the grand finale because it’s a
very special event,” said Mario Lucero, assistant program director of the Latino Cultural Center. “We’re really excited for this
one.”
The Latino Cultural Center invites all
students and employees to learn about and
share the significance of the celebration.
“You don’t have to be from Latin America to connect to the Day of the Dead,” Lucero said. “The significance is to remember
those that aren’t here with us anymore.”
Decorate sugar skulls and create paper marigold flowers for a communal altar
today at the Latino Cultural Center’s Day of the Dead event.
Share photos in #SustainableUIC contest
By Ayah Chehade — [email protected]
Artwork created by UIC students will be on display Nov. 12 to Dec. 8 in Student
Center East’s Montgomery Ward Gallery.
Show off creative talent at UIC Art Fest
Students can showcase their talent at
the UIC Art Fest next week.
Artists and novices will be provided
with a canvas, paint and brushes to create
masterpieces between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Nov. 3 to 7 in UIC Campus Programs,
340 Student Center East.
Students can sign up to participate
through Friday at go.uic.edu/ARTFEST
Artwork will be featured in the
Montgomery Ward Gallery Nov. 12
through Dec. 8.
“We have really talented students here
at UIC,” said Sladjana Grbic, assistant
program director for Campus Programs.
“This gives them a space to just be
creative, relax and take their minds off
their classes.”
During an opening reception Nov. 19,
votes will be tallied for the “Best Painting”
and prizes will be given to the top
three artists.
“Last year we got about 70 students
interested and were only able to take 35
to 40 students,” Grbic said. “Because of
the amount of students that wanted it to
happen more than once a year, we started
to put the event on once a semester.”
Students participating in the Art Fest
can document their work as part of the
UIC Experience program. For more information visit uicexperience.uic.edu
The Office of Sustainability celebrates
Campus Sustainability Day with a photo
contest that challenges students, faculty
and staff to showcase what makes them
sustainable.
Winner will receive a $50 gift card to
the UIC Bookstore.
“UIC has put so much effort into cultivating a sustainable campus,” says Lisa
Sanzenbacher, program coordinator in the
Office of Sustainability. “It’s great for students to recognize that effort and share it
with folks outside of UIC.”
To enter, submit photos by Nov. 21 to
the Office of Sustainability’s Facebook
(facebook.com/SustainableUIC) or Instagram
page (instagram.
com/sustainableuic).
Captions should
include a short
description of the
photo, photographer’s name and
major/department,
and hashtags #SustainableUIC #goUIC
and #CleanEnergyU.
The hashtag #CleanEnergyU recognizes
Chevrolet’s Campus Clean Energy Program, Sanzenbacher said, which invests
$40 million in projects to reduce up to 8
million metric tons of carbon dioxide from
the atmosphere.
Upcycle T-shirt into scarf for good cause
Craft a fun gift for a good cause —
The upcycled scarves are a useful and
using nothing but old T-shirts.
decorative gift, said Katherine BatteeAt “Gift Giving on a Budget,” 4 to 6
Freeman. “Chicago is always cold so this
p.m. Tuesday in 121 Burnham Hall, stugift is both functional and fun,” said
dents and employees can learn how to reBattee-Freeman, co-chair of the Minority
make old T-shirts into trendy scarves for
Women Concerns subcommittee.
local organizations that support women.
Making the scarves benefits others, said
The event is sponsored by the student
Alison Chen, Donate By Design president.
organization Donate By Design and the
The organization makes and sells clothing
Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of
and accessories and gives proceeds to vicWomen, Minority Women Concerns sub- tims of domestic violence, sexual assault
committee.
and stalking.
Do-it-yourself instruction takes place
“Just bringing in T-shirts that you don’t
every half hour so people can drop by and
wear or that are too small can help keep
leave at any time. Bring two T-shirts to
someone else warm,” said Chen, a senior in
reinvent — one to keep and one to donate. biology.
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White House adviser
‘impressed’ with UIC’s
Asian American initiatives
By Christy Levy — [email protected]
It’s up to universities like UIC to help
President Obama achieve his vision, says
White House adviser Akil Vohra.
“From the president’s perspective, we
want to make sure that by 2020, we have
the highest proportion of college graduates
in the world,” said Vohra, senior adviser at
the White House Initiative on Asian
Americans and Pacific Islanders. “That goal
is not going to be met unless we target
first-generation, low-income communities.”
Vohra was on campus Friday to meet
with UIC students, faculty and administrators and learn about UIC’s efforts as an
Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution
(AANAPISI).
UIC was designated an AANAPISI by
the U.S. Department
of Education in 2008,
meeting the requirements of having at
least 10 percent of its
student population
identify as Asian
American or Pacific
Islanders, with at least
half of the institution’s degree-seeking
students eligible to
receive federal Pell
Akil Vohra (right) talks with Anna Guevarra, director of
grants.
UIC’s Asian American studies program.
Vohra visited the
— Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin
Asian American Re-
White House adviser Akil Vohra (center) visits with senior Hannah Aztlan, a tutor
at the Writing Center, Vainis Aleksa, Writing Center director (left), and Karen Su
(right), director of UIC’s AANAPISI program. — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin
source and Cultural Center, the Asian
American studies program and the Writing
Center; sat in on an AARCC Lunchbox
student discussion about the concept of
love between Asian parents and their children; and talked with UIC administrators
and faculty members.
“I’m very impressed,” Vohra said. “It’s
great to see students who are involved and
faculty and administrators who understand
the community.
“The Asian American Resource and
Cultural Center provides a great environment for students to come together and
have discussions. It provides a home away
from home.”
UIC is the only university in the Midwest to receive designation and funding
from the AANAPISI program, said Karen
Su, principal investigator and project director of the UIC initiative.
“It really highlights the important role
that UIC is playing in terms of supporting
Asian American and Pacific Islander students in the Midwest,” said Su, clinical
assistant professor of Asian American
studies.
“A lot of times, people have the misconception that Asian American students do
not need any support — that they’re all
doing well academically and are economically well off, and at UIC, that’s not really
true. Our Asian American students are
very much like all students at UIC — we
have a high number of low-income,
first-generation college students.”
UIC should share its best practices for
supporting Asian American and Pacific
Islander students with the rest of the country, Vohra said. According to the U.S.
Census data, the nation’s Asian American
population “is only going to increase by
leaps and bounds,” he added. States such
as Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana, which
typically had a small population of
Asian Americans, are seeing that demographic grow.
“We want to make sure that the experiences that UIC has had with these populations is being shared, and that’s where UIC
can play a critical role,” Vohra said. “We
know that more is being asked of our institutions, but schools and universities are
doing it with less. We want to make sure
that although we recognize the capacity
constraints, we are highlighting the federal
funds that are available.”
UIC received two AANAPISI grants: a
five-year, $1.86 million grant through fiscal
year 2015 and a five-year, $2 million grant
through fiscal year 2016. The first award
provides student support in recruitment,
retention and graduation by enhancing
activities for the cultural center and academic program. The second funds academic and writing skills development, college
preparation and career advancement.
“It’s very unusual to have two grants,”
Su said. “We’re serving Asian American
students in the Chicago area in a significant way.”
The grants fund programs that are available to all UIC students — not just Asian
Americans, Su said. Funding goes to UIC’s
first-year writing program, Writing Center
initiatives, student support programs at the
Asian American Resource and Cultural
Center and initiatives in the Asian American studies program, which are open to all
students.
“Our AANAPISI funding benefits the
campus as a whole,” Su said.
The grant also funds a new college visit
day, she said, with students recruited from
area high schools, youth groups and cultural centers.
“When the students arrive on campus,
it’s usually a very multiracial group,” she
said. “They are the kinds of diverse students we want to see come to UIC and
continue to contribute to our campus.”
For more information on the UIC
AANAPISI Initiative, visit
http://bit.ly/1wv0fli
Celebrating Employees at
UIC
The University acknowledges and thanks all our UIC employees whose daily efforts shape
this great campus. During Employee Recognition Month, the University of Illinois at Chicago
is pleased to recognize and congratulate these outstanding employees.
NOVEMBER2014
EMPLOYEE
RECOGNITIONMONTH
Employee Recognition
Awards Ceremony
The Employee Recognition Award Ceremony will recognize recipients of the Award of Merit,
Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award (CAPE), INSPIRE and Luminary
Awards, UIC employees celebrating 25 years through 50 years of service, and the
campus accolades of UIC Woman of the Year, Janice Watkins Award, and University of Illinois
Hospital and Health Sciences Systems’ Class Act and Academy Award.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
At the UIC Forum — 10:30 a.m. ceremony followed by reception.
UICAWARD
OFMERIT
The UIC Award of Merit is conferred by the university. This is a
university-wide honor, recognizing outstanding academic
professionals and civil service employees for sustained excellence
in performance and commitment to their jobs.
Teresita D. Soto Plutz
Kelsey (McCoy) Kapolnek Lisa Junkin Lopez
Yolanda Rodríguez
Emily M. Jordan
Executive Assistant to the Chancellor
Office of the Chancellor
Coordinator of Communications and
Media, Institute of Government and
Public Affairs (UA)
Project Coordinator and Interim
Director, Jane Addams Hull-House
Museum, College of Architecture,
Design, and the Arts
Associate Director of Operations
Office of the Vice Provost for
Academic and Enrollment Services
Assistant to the Head and Director of
Grant Management, Department of
Kinesiology and Nutrition, College of
Applied Health Sciences
Stephanie Ann Johnson
Jie Chen
Alejandra “Alex” Cantero Laura E. Knights
Elena Lathos
Executive Director, Pediatric
Resource Center (PRC)
College of Medicine, Peoria
Manager of System Services,
Survey Research Laboratory,
College of Urban Planning and
Public Affairs
Assistant to the Chair, Departments
of Educational Policy Studies,
Educational Psychology, Special
Education, College of Education
Visiting Senior Research Specialist,
Center for Literacy
College of Education
Project Coordinator, Department of
Computer Science
College of Engineering
Sharon Casillas
Athanasia Papaioannou
Arnold S. Diaz
David Haschemeyer
Yesenia Alverio
Graduate Program Coordinator,
Department of Criminology,
Law and Justice, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences
Assistant Director, Women's
Leadership and Resource Center
Office of Diversity
Assistant to the Head, Human
Resources, Department of Pharmacy
Practice, College of Pharmacy
Research Specialist
Institute for Health Research and
Policy
EMG Senior Technician II,
Department of Neurology and
Rehabilitation
Susana De Leon Jinang
Caroline Deskin
John J. Fino
Christina James
Megan Kennedy
Registered Nurse, 5 East Surgical
Specialties and Rehabilitation
Specialist, Department of Speech
Pathology
Supervisor, Department of
Intraoperative Monitoring
Medical Social Consultant,
Department of Psychiatry
Physical Therapist,
Department of Physical Therapy
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UIC Employee Recognition Month 2014
UICAWARD
OFMERIT
The UIC Award of Merit is conferred by the university. This is a
university-wide honor, recognizing outstanding academic
professionals and civil service employees for sustained excellence
in performance and commitment to their jobs.
Kay McGee
TaNisha Nicole Taylor
Kathleen J. Walrath
Kevin R. Cisner
Wanda Giles
Coordinator, Department of
Occupational Therapy
Customer Service Specialist,
4E NeuroScience Center
Associate Director of Nursing,
Department of Clinical Practice and
Professional Development
Laboratory Safety Coordinator,
Environmental, Health, and Safety
Office
Office Support Associate,
Office for Capital Programs
Armando Juarez
Jeff Winter
Paula M. Benton-Pierce
Wayne Lowell Odle
Detective, University Police
Machinist, Facilities Management
Manager, Student Learning
Resources Center,
African American Academic Network
Multimedia Designer,
Campus Auxiliary Services
2014 Campus Charitable Fund Drive
September 9, 2014 to November 26, 2014
UIC hosts the annual Campus Charitable Fund Drive (CCFD) in conjunction with the State of Illinois' SECA campaign. There are twelve
Umbrella Charities representing over 2000 organizations. For further information about the eligible charities, pledge forms, and donation
instructions visit UIC Human Resources’ CCFD webpage at https://www.hr.uic.edu/paychecksinfo/charitable/.
Employees can contribute in two ways:
1.
Continuous payroll deduction: Employees who contribute through continuous payroll deduction have a designated amount
withdrawn from their check each pay period. Designations are ongoing and continue until the employee requests a change or
forwards a cancellation request in writing. At any time throughout the year a UIC employee can create, adjust, or cancel their
continuous payroll deduction.
2.
One-time donation: Employees may also give a one-time donation to one or more charities of their choice by completing the
One-Time Direct Gift section of the CCFD pledge form. An employee can donate as an individual or a group of employees can
combine their efforts and make one larger donation. One Time Direct Gift checks are made payable to “Campus Chest” and should
be submitted with the completed pledge form to UIC Human Resources, Special Programs/CCFD, MC 897
Contact Us
UIC Human Resources, Special Programs
Rebecca Fortier
Marilyn Sommer
Special Events Facilitator
Special Programs Coordinator
312-413-2960
312-996-3504
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The Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence
Award (CAPE), established in 1988, recognizes the
demonstrated excellence of academic professional staff
and encourages their professional development. It
indicates the institution’s high regard for the
contributions of this key segment of our community. The
CAPE Award is based on peer review broadly selected
from the ranks of academic professionals. This year,
there are six recipients of the CAPE Award.
CHANCELLOR’SACADEMIC
PROFESSIONALEXCELLENCE
(CAPE)AWARD
Gillian J. Coombs
Elizabeth Herrera
Steven Kragon
Karen Sholeen
Hugo Teruel
Charu Thakral
Director, Faculty Affairs
College of Medicine
Assistant Director
Office of Career Services
School of Public Health
Executive Assistant Dean
Graduate College
Administration
Assistant Dean
College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences
Director, LARES (Latino
American Recruitment and
Educational Services)
Office of Diversity
Associate Director
Office of Diversity
JANICEWATKINSAWARD
FOR DISTINGUISHED CIVIL SERVICE
Tina Kavukattu
Administrative Assistant, Office of Global
Health Leadership
College of Nursing
Shelissa Rodriguez
Human Resources Manager
UIC Human Resources
This award recognizes exceptional Civil Service employees,
who have distinguished themselves by performing their
duties with diligence and superior dedication.
This award is organized each year by the Staff Advisory
Council in memorial to Janice Watkins, an individual who
exemplified the highest level of service and dedication.
Janice Watkins worked as a supervisor in the Insurance
Office on UIC’s east campus and served as the President of
the Staff Advisory Council.
Jerome Sides
Safety Officer I, Asbestos Coordinator
Environmental Health and Safety Office
WOMAN
OFTHEYEAR
AWARD
CCS W
Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women
Dr. Robin J. Mermelstein
This award was established by the
Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of
Women (CCSW) in 1990 to annually honor a
UIC woman for her significant contributions
to women at the university.
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Director, Institute for Health Research and Policy
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INSPIREAWARD
The INSPIRE Award recognizes individuals who have
consistently and over long periods of time based
their every action on UIC’s Core Values, “Integrity,
Nurture, Service, Pride, Intellect, Respect, and
Excellence.” This year, there are eight recipients of
the INSPIRE Award.
Kathryn S. Kirrish
Michelle Parker-Katz
Coordinator, Projects & Operations,
Clinical Professor,
University Student Financial Services & Department of Special Education
Cashier Operations (USFSCO), Office of College of Education
Business & Finanacial Services
Barbara Travis
Clerical Assistant,
Center for Literacy
College of Education
Priscilla Velarde
Wilson
Associate Director for Residence
Life, Campus Housing
UICLUMINARY
Arnold S. Diaz
Irma Hernandez
Assistant to the Head—Human
Resources, Department of
Pharmacy Practice
College of Pharmacy
Social Worker, Developmental Disabilities
Family Clinics; Department of Disability
and Human Development
College of Applied Health Sciences
Mary Wais
Brian Ward
Assistant to the Head,
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Academic Advisor & Program
Specialist, Honors College,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The annual UIC Luminary Award is given to
the INSPIRE recipient who best represents the
pinnacle of service to our campus and its
constituents.
AWARD
The Luminary Award recipient will be
announced during the Employee
Recognition Ceremony on November 4.
CLASSACT
AWARD
The “Class Act” award is given to an employee described as a role model who
continuously demonstrates exceptional competence and compassion in the
performance of his/her job responsibilities and is an outstanding example of the
University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System’s five values, “Integrity,
Innovation, Service Excellence, Safety and Accountability.”
Ronald Aslan
Cara Bonwell
Alexander Davis
Yesenia Ovando
Andre Johnson
Jeanine Klaus
Maria Esperanza
DeGuzman-DeVicais
Christina Evangelista
UNIVERSITYOF ILLINOIS
HOSPITAL AND
HEALTHSCIENCESYSTEMS
ACADEMYAWARD
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Hilario Lechuga
Linda Mars
Heather Moky
Senad Osmanovic, MD
Latonia White
At the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System Employee Recognition
Award Program, the recipient of the Academy Award is honored. The Academy Award
recipient is selected by the employee recognition committee from the year’s Class Act
recipients and the selected recipient is the Employee of the Year. The employee’s
identity is announced at an annual dinner held in honor of the year’s awardees.
Andre Johnson
Department of Social Work
UICSERVICE
During UIC’s Employee Recognition Month we honor our
service honorees with five or more years, in five year
increments, of service. University employees who are eligible
civil service employees, academic professional employees,
and eligible faculty working at UIC are recognized.
RECOGNITION
AWARD
50 YEARS
Louis Rocah
45 YEARS
Jack H Prost
Maryann P Teal
40 YEARS
Samad Hedayat
Paul L Mc Pherson
Joseph Jacob Persky
Kary Raines
Mo-Yin S Tam
Christopher Wenckus
35 YEARS
Jerry L Bauman
John-Jairo Betancur
Sonya M Booth
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty
Joan E. Donay
Catherine A Driscoll
Randy Evans
Sharon Frazier
Wallace J Hammond
Genneine O Johnson
Linda Jean Konczyk
Richard L Magin
Sohail Murad
Joyce A Oliver
Elise A Sahly
Marisa Angela Santangelo
Djaja Djendoel Soejarto
Maria Renee Torres
Joyce A Williams
30 YEARS
Suresh K Aggarwal
Farid M L Amirouche
Gary L Anderson
John Arthur Anderson
Mark Claude Baker
Reinalda Bautista
Kirk A Berbert
Barbara Susan Borden
Bonnie J Breitmayer
Dorris C Brown
Cennetta Burwell
Susan T Carmody
Gerard A Catrambone
Harry Oliver Channon
Leslie Ware Chapital
Verna Rose Chatman
Thomas J Danaher
Primal De Lanerolle
Mark Donovan
W. Clarke Douglas
Lawrence Man Hou Ein
Johnette Foster
Mary L Fremarek
John C Gallagher
Rupam B Ganatra
Kenneth William Gehrke
Henri Antoine Gillet
Wendy Kay Goetter
Robyn R Harwell
Laura A Honda
Susan Huhndorf
Gloria Jones
Noelle Tn Jordan
Therese M Jorwic
Darlene Kendall
Sandra Kennebrew
John Leon Kennedy
Wai-Yee Keung
Nancy R Kieft
Elizabeth S Kijek
Mary Ellen Korman
Jalayne M Lapke
Kevin W Madison
Andrew S McFarland
Glenn D Netto
Frank P Paloucek
Lidia T Pomper
Mrinalini Chatta Rao
Ann C Roach
Keith A Rodvold
Marta H Salgado
Erlinda Santos
Ruth Andrea Seeler
Rajiv Pandit Sharma
Karen Ann Sholeen
Veronica Ann Stanfield
Lowell G Stein
Belinda Stewart
Michael Trenary
Karen Valencia
Linda S. Vanpuyenbroeck
Esperanza Villarreal
Phyllis Denise
Warren-Lawrence
25 YEARS
Pablo Acevedo
Ahlam Al-Kodmany
Ray A Allen
Maria E Andrade
Michael A Arendt
Diana Y. Austin-Zuno
Lee A Ayers
Betty J Bady
Imelda F Baker
Lenore Bass
Claudette Franchester Battle
Deborah Benjamin
Andrew Bolden
Carson A Bording
Chanel R Brown
Teauria Brown
Valerie M Brown
Colman I Buchbinder
Frederica Buckman
Philip C Burton
Yolanda P Callico
Delores H Campbell
William H Chamberlin
Jose R Cintron
Henrique Obino Cirne-Lima
Kathy I Cloninger
Sharon M Collins
Elaine Cowherd
Barbara J Crawford
Michael A Crnich
Richard J Crnich
Christopher J Cullen
Marilyn Davis
Lee N Dixon
Delania A Dukes-McCormick
Doreena Durbin
Mary Jean Dzurisin
Edward M Echavarria
Courtney Dean Ehlers
John D Evans
Laverne Evans
Alan Dov Feinerman
Robert E Fields
Linda R Filson
Julia Anne Fish
Jose L Flores
Gladys Flunder
Bobbie J Ford-Johnson
Sally Freels
Timothy J Gaffney
Patricia Garcia
Amira M Ghadeer
Jerry R Gill
Joyce Y. Gittens
Peggy Glowacki
Mark H Gonzalez
Anil Gulati
Andrew J Haas
Allan G Halline
Cynthia K Halsey
Kathleen M Hayden
William C Head
Glenn Hedman
Judy Mae Heffernan
Michael T Herkes
Felipe Herrera
Nicola C Hill-Cordell
Susan K Hobbs
Jordan Hupert
Mohsen Issa
Tammy F Jackson-Taylor
Vernell Jefferson
Leslie S Johns
Bradford Ray Johnson
Nell E Johnson
Timothy P Johnson
Linda Johnston
Carol Jones
Felicia D Jones
Michelle Jones
Regina Jones
Veronica J Jones
Steve Jordan
Vivek S Kantayya
Pamela A Keating
Dennis John Klinkhammer
Marie G. Laforest
Lester F Lau
Charles E Laurito
Ada B Lawrence
Gerald A Lawrence
Theresa Ann Laws
Lola L Leach-Gary
Maria C Llanes
John S Marshall
Shawn T Marshall
Monica L Mason-Hayden
Precedia L Massey
Lisa M McCall
Timothy B McDonald
Charles A McShane
Genelle L Meland
Lisa M Micele
Nancy C Miles
Martha G Montes
Andrea Moore
David G Moore
Shirley Moore
Patrick F Moran
Meldaree A Morgan
Nelson Morris
Albert Moy
Christina P Moy
John C Mueller
Wanda J Neely
Anthony A Niemiec
Eric A Noel
Ergun Onal
Aris M Ouksel
Olga I Padilla
Vincent Parker
Louester Petty
Theresa Pittman
Barbara J Poltzer
Cynthia Porter
Michael J Proskey
Hazel L Radloff
Dennis Ramos
Bharathi Reddivari
Paul D Revis
Laura Robles
Michael Ryan
Atisak Sapying
Michael J Schmitt
Vivian A Shields
Michael L Siemieniec
Evette L Smith
Prudence Smith
Susan Zelazo Smith
Nora Lee Stafford
Anthony Sturdivant
Anthony Gerard Tasset
Donna S Teague
Celina Tejada
Pamela D Terrell
Jerry D Thomas
Dean M Toriumi
Louise Travis
Freda B.d. Vargas
Irma E Vazquez
Jaime A Velasquez
Marlos A G Viana
Nikolaus Wagner
James V Walsh
Darlene Altamease Walton
Barbara J. Washington
Elaine Watson
Richard Weatherspoon
Catherine M. Wehmhoefer
Sylvester L. White
Roosevelt Williams
Linda M Williams-Barker
Tonia M Wright
Vicky Marie Young
Ting-Wei Zhang
Laura Ann Zilinsky
20 YEARS
Maria Abdalah
Guy R Adami
Lashelle Adams
Helen H. Akons
Vainis Aleksa
Rahman Shakir Ali
Nanette Ambriz
Demetrius L. Anderson
Helen C. Anderson
Richard C Anderson
Anjum Ansari
Jonathan J Art
Shirley Ash
Marc S Atkins
Boaz Avitall
Hugh Avitia
David Barishman
Maurice Anthony Bass
Michelle D. Baucom
Brian S Bauer
Rosalind N Beltran
Tammy F Bender
Enrico Benedetti
Jacqueline M. Berger
Mary L. Berta
Marilyn Bingham
James N Bitakis
Judy L Bolton
Robin Anne Brierton
Bertha Briseno
Mary R Brown
Yvonne Brown
Prentice Bufkin
Virginia Hope Buglio
Edith Gaoat Cabanilla
Richard R Cameron
Bradley C Cannon
Nerissa Aco Capapas
Rose Marie Capulong
Michael K. Carr
Eileen Censotti
Hui-Ching Chang
Alicia D. Chavez
Lee-Yin Chen
Sofya Churilova
Paula L. Clemons
Pamela L. Coleman
Diana L. Cook
Elaine Marie Jimenez
Crisostomo
Vicki L. Cummings
Rosea B. Daliva
Sandra A. Dastych
Danette Aline Degraaf
Elizabeth Dooley
Dionisio T. Ducusin
Deborah E. Duna
Malgorzata Dylska
Antoinette Evonne Ellen
Edgar Eloby
Blanca Elva Erazo
Carlotta A. Evans
Lolita Santos Fagaragan
Robert N Faull
Stephen J. Fehr
Margarita M. Flores
Roberta Franks
Lisa A Freeman
Robin R Garrett
Lynn A.l. Gasmen
Maureen R Gecht
Lourdes Gubatan Gibbons
Vanessa C Glover
Elizabeth Siy Go
Debra A Goldstein
Mario C Gonzalez
Ruth Saprid Gorospe
James F. Graumlich
Jacqueline Marie Gray
Johnnie M. Greene-Freeman
Catherine Griffin
Jaqueline Hale
Penny J. Halverson
Audrey Dell Hammerich
Rand F Harlow
Ira Dean Harrington
Paula E Hartweg
Willie Harvey
Nancy K. Harvey-Kodish
Lizzie E. Hatch
Evelyn Haynes
Hannah B Higgins
Maureen L. Hillman
Kathy A Hooyenga
Janise D. Hurtig
Mohammed Iqbal
Percy J. Jackson
Jessie M. Jakes
Ruby R. Jefferson
Tonya L. Jefferson
Ming Guang Jiang
Carol Johnson
Christine A. Johnson
Cynthia C. Johnson
Stephanie A Johnson
Laverne Jones
Jeffrey A Jopes
Edward F. Jose
Denise Marie Kelly
Jill Ann Kelly
Maurice Anthony Kendall
Ghaly R Kerolus
Rhonda D Kineman
Cynthia Lee Klein-Banai
Michael James Koronkowski
Anne Therese Krajacic
Thomas T. Lagen
Michael D. Lancaster
Marcia E Lausen
Paulette R. Lewis
John Jeffrey Link
Marinella C. Long
Filemon Lopez
Virginia Lopez
Yolanda Lopez Gonzalez
Joyce Ann Loston
Roy Marsh Lowman
Kamlesh S Macwan
Robin G. Mahnken
Catherine M Main
Veronica L Majors
Paulette Malden
Kulbhushan Markan
Norma Alicia Martinez
Blake E Max
Janis E McCall
Neal Joseph McCollam
Tasha R McCullough
Samuel B McIntyre
Evan C McKenzie
Beth A McLeod
Lynn K. McNish
Mark Meadows
Deborah Meeks Green
Stephen Melamed
Encarnacion Manueli Mendoza
Karen Milla
Joseph C. Miller
Tracy Morin
Sandra V. Mundt
Melissa Ann Nelson
Andrea E Nevels
Margaret Nickless
James L. Norwood
Ales Obrez
Peter G Okkema
Jacqueline Okoli
Richard R Olson
Sally Jo Opel
Lilibeth Magabilin Ortiguerra
Kevin T. O’Shea
Alexis Otero
Sandra L Owens
Faustina Palos
Thomas J Park
Faina Pasman
David E Peters
Jamie L. Pettite
Sandra Petty
Jennifer Hanh Tran Pham
Ruby P. Pitts
Sergey V Popov
Sharron A Porter
Anna Prabowo
Ocie L. Prater
Shelley Villareal Punzalan
Linda Sue Querry
Ellen I. Rago
Ram T S Ramakrishnan
Sonia N. Ramos
Mary E. Randle
Joey Dwayne Richardson
Lyn Concepcion Robelo
Kimberly A. Robinson
Zandra Robinson
Janice A. Rodawold
Michael Rollins
Jacqueline Rosa-Ramirez
Glendali Rosario
Cherise Rosen
Jennifer M Rowan
Sara L Rusch
Miro Samardzich
Marina Santillan
Bonnie S Saunders
Mark L Schlossman
Albert J Schorsch
Edgar Seledon
Bronislava Shahnovsky
Dorothy L Sholeen-Modrzyk
Shayel Siegel
Claudia Pabody Sittler
Linda J Skitka
Gary Slutkin
Alicia Lynn Smith
John M Smith
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Patricia M. Smith
Steven Smith
Vanessa Smith
Harold Sosa
Teresita D Soto Plutz
George Southard
Derrick Stanley
Robin G. Starks
Kathleen H. Stauffer
Angel Suarez
Giedrius Subacius
Petronio Sumait
Ronald John Suszek
Richard E Swanson
Elizabeth H Talbott
Rafaela Tapia
Alvin C. Taylor
Jacqueline L. Taylor
Janet M Taylor
Robbin Taylor
Melissa Parinas Thomas
Angela Lynn Thompson
Nancy Susan Tow
Karen E. Tuleja-Lehner
David S Ucker
Gregory M Ulanov
Richard B Van Breemen
Tawanda L. Vaughn
Rosa L Villarreal
Christine M. Wadle
Debra Ann Walczak
Emily C. Walker
William R. Watson
Joanne F. Webb
Paul E Wedel
Stephen M Weeks
Tracey Latrese Whitaker
Lois N. Whitby
Elise M. Williams
Greg E Williams
Linda J. Williams
Deborah Willis
Robert J. Witas
Sheri Lynn Wylie-Buergel
Stacey Marie Zubel
Arnold Scott Zullow
15 YEARS
Lourdes Abdallah
Mohsin A Abdou
Tracy S Abraham
Teresa Aguado
Lonnetta M Albright
Lea Alexander
Simon T Alford
Luis Almazan
Norman Altman
Agustina Alvarado
Omar Alvarado
Bradley W Appier
Editha A. Armamento
Herlinda Arroyo
Seema Shahid Ashrafi
Winston A Atwater
Lesley D. Austin-Thomas
Marilyn Lenora Avent
Emilia M Aviles
Jane L Bagnall
Tytrea D Baker
Larry D Baldwin
Dayla M Balster
Lei Bao
Rosemary Bauer
Bobbie J Bean
Rhea M Begeman
Ashok Bennett
Valarie Billingsley-Head
Ellen Smith Blokus
Wayne Walter Bondad
Cynthia L Booth
Connie A. Bouye
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Nicholas Mainey Brown
Cheryl M. Bruce
Rosie M Burgess
William S Burton
Margaret Hae Young Byun
Michael S Caffrey
Deborah E Carr-Woods
Laura A Castillo
Vanessa Ceja
Isaac H Cha
Juliana Chan
Kimberly J Charles
Jie Chen
David M Cheng
Samuel J Chmell
Seungjin Cho
Tasneem Chowdhury
Sylvester Christion
Theodore C Claiborne
Geraldine E Clark
John M Cleary
Robert A Cohen
John P Colagrossi
Shatell Coleman
Alejandro Colunga
Christina G Copeland
Miguel Cortez
Brian K Cousins
Jelene M Crehan
Catherine M Creticos
Rebecca Cruz
Lorena Cruz-Garabito
Natalie Dagres
Robert S Danziger
Arthel Davy
Marites D De Claro
Sandra De Groote
Hipolito A De Peralta
Jennifer M Delago
Luis R Delgado
Eileen Lorraine Deluhery
Barbara Di Eugenio
Carolyn A Dickens
Larry T. Dickerson
Richard T Dineen
Lise A Dirks
Kathleen Robin Diviak
Carol Lynn Dodge
Erbo Dong
Samuel Dorevitch
Suzanne Dressen
Sarah E Dunn
Samuel M Echevarria
Herbert H Engelhard
Danilo Erricolo
Yolanda A Escalante
Zong Juan Fang
Carmen L Feliciano
Yolanda Ferguson
Jimette Fields
Andreas J Fischer
Samuel Fleischacker
Marybel Flores
Veronica G Flores
Myriam Fortineaux
Charles T Funk
Alexander Furman
Guadalupe Galvan
Xiao-Pei Gao
John Garofalo
Jana M Gatton
Vladimir Gevorgyan
Roger Gibson
Ravinder K. Gill
Christina Marie Godwin
Benjamin A Goldberg
Kristen L Goliak
Carmella Gomez
Francisca M Gonzales
Olga Iris Gonzales
Juan C Gonzalez
Rachel A Gordon
Deborah A Gortowski
Gerald Graff
Vicki L Groo
Jesus Guerrero
Tom Lee Guerrero
Re-Jin Jennifer Guo
Samir K Gupta
Helene A Gussin
Yesenia Gutierrez
Marie M Hamilton
Micheal D Hampton
Tricia Anne Harvat
Mary Janis Hayden
Judith A Heinschel
Michel P Helmke
Cheryl Lynette Henderson
Maryann Holtcamp
Gil A Horton
Christine S Hryhorczuk
Mona Hurt
Lottie Hutchins
Maria Iusco
Allan P. Jackimek
Henry L Jackson
Lenore B. Jackson
Rachel S Jacob
Michael J Jankowski
Constance J Jeffery
Kimberly Ann Jezek-Tisch
Jessica A. Jhally
Barbara J. Johnson
Jamell Johnson
Deborah G Jones
Lynette M. Jones
Charlotte Enns Joslin
Shirley K Junius
Kate Lynn Kaplan
Eileen C Katman
Kazuya Kawamura
James E. Kehoe
Robbie Kelly
Allan Kershaw
Manorama Mocherla Khare
Shiyun Kim
Christiana Maria Kinder
John D. Kirksey
Laura A. Klinefelter
William Russell Kohler
Michelle A. Kominiarek
Tohru Kozasa
Irina L Krymova
Sandeep Kulkarni
Beth A. Lafollett
Roberta J Lamonica
Rhonda F Larkin
Arnon Lavie
Kimberly A Lawless
Thomas Gregory Lee
Jason Leigh
Jie Liang
Janet Yueh-Yun Lin
Charles Layaphett Lindsey
Natalia O Litbarg
Regina F. Little
Derong Liu
Elizabeth A Loentz
John Lopez
Laura Lopez
Xenia G Lopez
Luis F Lopez-Carretero
Malinda K Lorkovich
Luz M Luna
Michael Gabriel Lund
Adrian Benjamin Lung
Aleksander V Lyubimov
Dolores Layug Mahmud
Terrance A Mankus
Catherine Manski
Janet M Martin
Diana Martinez
Luz Maria M. Martinez
Miguel M Martinez
Donna L. Masters
Rosamma Mathew
Mark A Mattaini
Jeaneth E Mazzocco
Renee Reifsteck McCarthy
Deirdre N McCloskey
Anastasia P McGee
Dolly Mehta
Alejandra Mendoza
Paul Andrew Miller
Andres Miranda
Carole P Mitchener
Celia Monreal
Bonnie K Montgomery
Thomas J Morano
Alan E Morris
James E Morris
Rachel L Morrow
Patrick J. Mortimer
Linda G Murph
Jaime Murua
Susan L. Myers
Ma Socorro I Naret
Cynthia A. Navar
Charles R Neach
James W Nell
Adela Nieto
Susan E Niezgoda
Vasil Nika
Dejan S Nikolic
Michael A Okal
David Scott Onufrock
Peter Orris
John Peebles
John L Perri
David C Perry
Cynthia L Petty
Fred J Piemonte
Thaddeus W Pietron
Lawrence P Prabhakar
Angela J Prazza
Heather M Prendergast
Pamela Anne Quiroz
Michael E Ragozzino
Jill E Ralph
Amsaveni Ramachandran
Zachary Ramey
Christine Marie Ramos-Carlo
Kiira Maria Ratia
Tonie Anita Rent
Shelly Ann Resendez
Brian E Reynolds
Trillia M Richards
James B Ricker
Richard E Riddle
Barth B Riley
Thomas H Riley
Glenda Rios
Stephond L Robinson
Carmella Roby
Martin E Roche
Lashon D Rollins
Brett M. Ruiz
Deidre Renae Rush
Sherry L. Russell
Seema Saksena
Enedelia Salgado
Antonio Samaniego
Anna S Sandoval
Armando Santana
Dalia Santana
Jonathan E Santanni
Teresa A Savage
Patrick J Scannell
David W Schaafsma
Bradford S Schwartz
Anthony Sedeno
Toya V Sevier
Anita L Shaperd
Scott A. Shippy
David Alan Simpson
Asa S. Sims
Jeanette Smiley
Aura L Smith
Selena Evette Smith
Steve Sners
Silvia Victoria Solis-Antilaf
Brenda A Solomon
Rita Soni
Rosalva Soto
Belinda Speights
Deborah L. Spencer
Christine A Spitkovsky
Kenisha Stallworth
Michael P Stanislaw
Gerald R Stapleton
Amy Christine Starin
Mikhail A Stephanov
Wandra L Stimage
Dorothy J Streight
Daniel L Sutherland
Jonas Talandis
Xu H Tan
Michael D Tarantino
Perlita S. Tarroza
Steven R Telkamp
Eljim P Tesoro
Peter L Thanos
Catherine E Theorell
Mitchell D Theys
Marvin L Thompson
Faith M Thurmond
Patricia A Tiller
Jennifer L Tobin
Xiaochun Tong
James A Tornabene
Kevin A Tribble
Elmer Y Tu
Mark Urosev
Luis A Urrea
Thasarat S Vajaranant
Irene Valerio
Luis Vargas
Milan Velebit
Mary J. McHugh Wais
Grace B Walczak
Alice Wallace
Katherine W. Walsh
Joella D Warner
Tracy L Warner
Jordan B Waugh
Guy L Weinberg
Wesley R Weisenburn
Beverly Wellington
Lawrence M Wells
Cassaundra Ann Wilson
Dora A Wilson
Jill R Wilson
Sophie M Worobec
Hao-Liang Xu
Melinda Gail Young
Rachel P Yudkowsky
Milos Zefran
Blas M Zelaya
10 YEARS
Dansel Abando
Liliana Aceves
Mary Jane Acosta
Yolanda Aguilar
Nenita S Alcantara
Raphael Damian Alvarado
Katherine C Arjona
Louise R. Arzu
Michelle L Atkinson
Kurt Wolfgang Bachmaier
Marc J Baez
Natasha Hausler Banke
Andrew Joseph Barrett
Kerry-Ann L Bartley
Rosemarie C Bastone-Leverenz
Marc Richard Benoit
Sumit Bhattacharyya
Cathy L Birkenstein-Graff
Cheryl Ann Bittner
Paula Marie Black
Sandra Michelle Blackwell
Michael P Blair
Joan Cecelia Bloomfield
Igor L. Bolotin
Thomas C. Bothen
Saundra Ethel Brady
Debra Brandt
Maximo Oscar Brito
Deborah Brooks
Anne Brooks Ranallo
David P Brown
Denise Latreace Brown
James Wesley Brown
Darcia Brundidge
Robin Bryant
Allen Jeffrey Bryson
James T Bui
Yesenia Bustamante
Maria De Lourdes Caceres
Paola Caicedo
Latrice S Caldwell
Randall Steven Carter
Mary Case
Margaret Z. Cassey
Andrea Marie Celerio
Anis Chacko
Bobby Chacko
Julio C. Chavarria
Zheng Wei Chen
Ni Cheng
Chandramu Chetty
Andy C Chiou
Seung Whan Choi
David B Chojnowski
Christopher John Ciastko
Joshua David Clanton
April E Clark
Ryan Clements
Rebecca J Clifford
Lisa Marie Cochran
Charles Coleman
Dianne M. Coleman
Willie Colon
Kristen Marie Connolly
Anthony M Corte
Colleen Corte
Nicole Dyan Cox
Cathleen Culotta-Rullo
Suhey Curiel
Chunfang Dai
Judith G. Damazo
Cynthia Daniels
Braulio I Deanda
Christopher Peter Deegan
John DeGuide
Marcia Dellenbach
Hartley N Dennis
Tony N Denson
William A Dieber
Milka Dokic
Maria Elena Dominguez
Patrick Thomas Donovan
Karen A. Dop
Kevin A. Dorsey
Chaunto Drape
Jon Andrew Dykens
Everett C Earley
Candice Eisenhauer
David J. Elsen
Kim Marie Elseth
Anamay A Esleta
Caswell Evans
Eileen Fajardo-Furlin
Giamila Fantuzzi
John Joseph Farrell
Ronald Ferguson
Michael Fischer
Marian Fitzgibbon
Betty Fitzpatrick
Brian M. Flood
Charmoiny Samara
Frazier-Jackson
Vincent L Freeman
Maxim Frolov
Leslie Wo-Mei Fung
Robert Gaffin
Alba L. Gaitan
Balaji Baskaran Ganesh
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AWARDS
annaleena parhankangas,
assistant professor of managerial studies in
the College of Business Administration,
won a best paper award at the 2014 Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance annual
meeting in Burbank, Calif., for “Do we
recognize a successful entrepreneur when
we see one? The role of first impressions
and stereotypes in predicting the success
of crowd-funding campaigns.”
pauline lipman, professor of educational policy studies and director of
the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in
Education in the College of Education,
was named a Hallsworth visiting professor
in the School of Environment, Education
and Development at the University
of Manchester.
susan levine, professor of history
and director of the Institute for the Humanities, received the inaugural Janet
Colm Award for Transformative Leadership Award, presented by Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina.
The honor, named for the group’s longtime and retiring chief executive officer,
recognizes leadership to help ensure increased access to comprehensive health
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care for women, men and teens.
Levine, president of the Planned Parenthood Orange County, North Carolina,
board of directors when it expanded its
services, was honored Oct. 18 at the organization’s annual gala event.
zizi papacharissi, professor and head
of communication, received the High Impact Scholar award from the School of
Journalism at University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication.
Papacharissi, who earned her Ph.D. in
political communication and new media
from UT, was among five doctoral graduates recognized as the most productive and
highly cited scholars.
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dan maggin, assistant professor of
special education, and marie hughes,
professor of special education, received a
$800,000 grant from the U.S. Department
of Education for a program to train doctoral students in intensive interventions for
students with special needs. The consortium includes UIC, Southern Methodist
University, Vanderbilt University, Virginia
Commonwealth University, University of
Texas, University of Minnesota and University of Connecticut.
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Battery: 3
ARRESTS BY UIC POLICE
Oct. 22: A man was arrested at the UIC
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A man was arrested for burglary at 1:36
Burglary: 1
Narcotics: 1
Criminal defacement: 1
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Oct. 24: A man was arrested for aggravated battery of a child at 2:40 p.m. at
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College of Nursing professor Tonda Hughes receives Betty Ford Award for
her work in substance abuse. — Photo: Alicia McConnell Hatch
Tonda Hughes, an internationally
known researcher on women’s mental
health and substance abuse, will receive
the Betty Ford Award from the Association of Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse.
The award is given to an individual
who has made a significant impact on
the field of alcohol and drug abuse, particularly in women’s issues, substance
abuse education and recovery.
Hughes will be presented with the
award at the association’s annual conference in San Francisco Nov. 6.
Hughes, professor of health systems
science and associate dean for Global
Health in the College of Nursing, has
received nearly $20 million in funding
over 25 years to study women’s mental
health and substance abuse.
She was among the first researchers
to receive major national funding for
research on sexual-minority women’s
health, an area identified by the Institute of Medicine as greatly understudied.
“Compared to heterosexual women,
sexual-minority women have been
shown to be at higher risk for a number
of unsafe health behaviors and negative
health outcomes, including being overweight, obesity, smoking and substance
abuse,” Hughes said.
Her study of risk and protective factors for heavy drinking and drinkingrelated problems was the first study
funded by the National Institutes of
Health on sexual-minority women’s
drinking behaviors and related risk factors. Now in its 15th year, the study is
the longest-running of its kind.
Sexual minorities are one of six population groups identified in the federal
Healthy People 2020 report as experiencing major health disparities. The document is the blueprint for national public
health prevention and policy goals for
the next decade.
“Health disparities among sexual minorities have long been explained on the
basis of excess stress resulting from being
part of a marginalized and stigmatized
population group,” Hughes said. “However, our work on childhood victimization has begun to point to another
potentially critical factor underlying
these health disparities — mainly, the
enduring impact of sexual and physical
abuse into adulthood.”
In a recent paper published in the
journal Addiction, Hughes looked at the
links between victimization and substance use using data from the National
Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and
Related Conditions. She found that
compared to women who identify as heterosexual, women who identify as lesbian
or bisexual are more than twice as likely
to report victimization over their lifetime.
Three times as many lesbians as heterosexual women reported childhood sexual
abuse.
“Given the enormous impact of childhood victimization on health, this work
has major implications for improving the
health and quality of life of both sexualminority and heterosexual populations,
and for progress toward eliminating
health disparities based on sexual orientation,” Hughes said.
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CALENDAR
OCTOBER 29
“FROM VISION TO LEGACY:
LALS 40TH ANNIVERSARY
Kick-off event and fundraiser for LALS
Student Scholarship Fund. Music and
presentations on the history and future
vision of the program
6–9 p.m. / National Museum of
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$15 students / $30 public
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EXHIBITS
THROUGH OCTOBER 31
THROUGH APRIL 2015
“South Asian American History,
Culture and Community”
“Visualizing Uncle Tom’s Cabin : Pictorial
Interpretations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Novel”
Historical text, images celebrating
South Asian American culture
Hours: Mon–Thurs, noon–9 p.m.
Fri, noon–5 p.m.
Montgomery Ward Gallery, SCE
Examining how characters and events are
represented through the years
Hours: Mon–Tues & Thurs–Fri, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Wed 10 a.m.–7 p.m. / Sat 12:30–4:30 p.m.
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LECTURES
OCTOBER 29
“Training Parents of Students with
Disabilities: Using Technology
to Enhance Civic Engagement”
Meghan Burke, special education, UIUC,
and Linda Sandman, UIC Developmental
Disabilities Family Clinic. Sponsored by the
Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement
OCTOBER 30
“Youth Entrepreneurship”
Real Time Chicago Lecture
Series sponsored by the
Great Cities Institute
Noon–1:30 p.m.
CUPPA Hall, fourth floor
Noon–1 p.m. / 1-470 Daley Library
OCTOBER 30
“Digging in: Past, Place and Other
Notions”
Virginia Nazarea, professor of anthropology
and director of Ethnoecology/Biodiversity
Laboratory, University of Georgia. Chicago
Area Food Studies Working Group, Institute
for the Humanities
3–5 p.m. / lower level, SH
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NOVEMBER 4
Employee
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Ceremony
OCTOBER 29
“Learn the Thriller Dance”
Get in the Halloween spirit with UIC Campus Recreation
4:30–5:15 p.m. / Multipurpose room, SRF
Honoring campus
award winners and
employees with 25, 30,
35, 40, 45, and 50 years
of service
10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
UIC Forum
NOVEMBER 4
“HardArt groop”
Bassist John Elmquist leads
evolving assembly of musicians. Free performance
sponsored by the UIC
School of Theatre & Music.
Tuesdays-at-One
1–1:50 p.m.
Recital Hall L060, ETMSW
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The University Scholar award, now in its 30th year, honors UIC faculty who are among the best in their fields — those who
show superior performance and great promise in research and teaching. Winners receive $15,000 per year for three years.
By Sharon Parmet — [email protected]
“We may be able to develop therapies to treat
depression and prevent suicide,” says Ghanshyam
Pandey. — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin
By Sam Hostettler — [email protected]
Guido Pauli sees more than beauty in plants. He is
conducting groundbreaking research on how they can aid
human health.
“Throughout history, plants have been used for countless
purposes,” says Pauli, professor of medicinal chemistry
and pharmacognosy. “Nutrients, essential factors and therapeutics, but also toxins, have given them an invaluable
role in human development.”
Pauli, co-director of the UIC/NIH Botanical Center for
Dietary Supplements Research, is developing new ways
to identify what’s in botanicals and how they work. He developed quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance (qNMR)
methodologies to evaluate the purity of a wide variety
of natural products, including hops, licorice, eucalyptus and
wild yam, as well as for the anti-TB drug he is developing
in UIC’s Institute for Tuberculosis Research, where he
is associate director.
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has become
“Once we really know the biological causes of depression
and suicide, we may be able to develop therapies to treat
depression and prevent suicide,” Ghanshyam Pandey says.
Pandey is professor of psychiatry and director of the
Mood Disorders and Suicide Research program, one of the
only research programs of its kind studying the neurobiological causes of teen suicide.
Pandey’s main research interests are the underlying
biological causes of depression and suicide, especially in
teenagers.
He focuses on three main areas related to depression and
suicide: neurotransmitters such as serotonin, the immune
system and hormones.
He was one of the first researchers to discover that a
subtype of serotonin receptor is often present at abnormal
levels in the blood of depressed patients and in the brain
tissue of suicide victims.
the best technique for determining the structure of organic compounds for over past 50 years. One major advantage for the work with precious natural product samples is
that NMR is nondestructive and important data can
be obtained from samples weighing less than a milligram.
Pauli has developed collaborations in natural products
research that directly benefit investigators on campus and
throughout the world. He recently established a translational research project with the Guanxi Institute of
Botany in Guilin, China, where he is a Bagui scholar and
visiting professor.
He also holds three patents, including one for the
potential anti-tuberculosis drug.
The Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research is the oldest in the U.S. devoted to establishing the
safety and effectiveness of botanical dietary supplements.
It is the only such center continuously supported by the
National Institutes of Health since 1999.
Judy Bolton, professor and head of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy, says Pauli is “uniquely qualified”
for the University Scholar Award.
“Guido is an outstanding scientist, and he actively
participates in training the next generation of natural
product chemists,” Bolton says.
“He deserves to be recognized as a University Scholar.”
“This receptor is a valid biomarker for identifying
people at a higher risk of suicide,” Pandey says. “Testing
for levels of this receptor through a blood test can help
these people get earlier preventive treatment.”
His studies of the hormones of the neuroendocrine
system found that cortisol, a hormone produced in
response to stress, doesn’t function properly in depressed
people. They have abnormal levels of the hormone that
causes the release of cortisol in the brain.
When Pandey turned his attention to the immune
system, he found abnormal pro-inflammatory factors
called cytokines in the blood and brains of people with
depression and in brain tissue after death.
He is currently investigating signaling pathways in
bipolar disorder and inflammatory markers in suicide.
Pandey began studying mood disorders because he
was interested in brain function. Through his interviews
with depressed and suicidal teenagers, Pandey realized
that their risk factors, behaviors and characteristics were
different than adults.
“This observation led me to believe that the underlying
neurobiology of teen suicide and depression should be
studied separately, rather than considered to be similar to
neurobiological findings from adult patients,” he says.
“Throughout history, plants have been used for
countless purposes,” says Guido Pauli.
— Photo: Joshua Clark
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He originally trained as a cognitive psychologist, but
James Pellegrino’s work has evolved over four decades to
focus on the learning, instruction and assessment of students from kindergarten through college.
Pellegrino, distinguished professor of psychology and
education, combines cognitive science, assessment, educational technology, instructional practice and educational policy.
His goal is to better understand the nature of students’
knowledge in specific disciplines and the conditions that
enhance deep understanding, inform the design of instructional practices and materials, and accurately measure what students know and don’t know.
“I’ve come to understand over a long period of time
trying to work at this, that connecting theory, research
and practice requires constant effort, attention and collaboration,” says Pellegrino, a distinguished professor in
liberal arts and sciences.
He has led large-scale research and development
projects for the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences and the Office of Naval Research. He was the principal investigator for an NSF
grant to the College Board to redesign and improve Advanced Placement science courses and assessments.
Pellegrino was elected to the National Academy of
Education and named a fellow of the American Educational Research Association.
Much of his current research concerns assessment of
student learning in mathematics and science. He is helping states and school districts measure the knowledge
and skills students need to succeed under the Common
Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science
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Standards.
Testing has become a national obsession that tends to
distort the entire education process, he says.
“There are aspects of testing and assessment that,
when done well and woven into a larger scheme that
integrates curriculum, instruction and assessment in a
low stakes fashion, can be very informative and beneficial,” he says.
“We just happen to have jacked this up to a high
stakes game in the United States. It’s high stakes for
kids, it’s high stakes for teachers and it’s high stakes for
schools.”
Pellegrino and his wife, Susan Goldman, also a distinguished professor of psychology and education and
LAS distinguished professor, left Vanderbilt University
for UIC in 2001 to establish an interdisciplinary center
that grew to become the Learning Sciences Research
Institute.
“I came to UIC in part because I sensed there was an
environment here with people from multiple departments, multiple disciplines, who shared common interests about studying student learning, and studying
teaching and improving schools,” he says.
“That perception of the possible has been realized over
the 13 years that I’ve been here.”
By Anne Brooks Ranallo — [email protected]
“Can we produce such principals routinely, instead
of waiting for them to come along?” says Steve
Tozer. — Photo: Jenny Fontaine
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Steve Tozer made a major turn in his academic career
— and in UIC’s College of Education — in 2002, when
he switched his interest from the social context of schools
to the training of urban school principals.
“The social foundations work deeply informed my understanding of why schools are so predictably inequitable.
Most schools’ outcomes are determined by the neighborhood. The question was, what do you do about it?” says
Tozer, professor of educational policy studies.
“I began to believe that explaining the causes wasn’t
enough. I wanted to change the outcomes. That drove me
toward more scholarship of demonstration — find out
what can be done by doing it, then investigate where it’s
falling short, and fix it.”
Tozer initiated a doctoral program to produce urban
principals who could turn schools around. Tozer defines
them as principals who know how to support teachers in
developing quality instruction.
“We’ve known for 35 years that a great principal could
go into a terrible school and dramatically improve it. The
“Connecting theory, research and practice requires
constant effort, attention and collaboration,” says
James Pellegrino. — Photo: Jenny Fontaine
question for me was, can we produce such principals routinely, instead of waiting for them to come along, as geniuses?”
Thirteen students entered the first class preparing for a
doctorate in urban education leadership in 2003. Tozer
and his colleagues decided to cap each class at 20, but
found that 15 or 16 typically finish the residency, which
combines studies with a year of administrative work in the
Chicago Public Schools.
Today, the program boasts 99 percent placement in
administrative jobs, 70 percent of those as school principals. It has received increasing support from the U.S. Department of Education, including a recent grant of $1.9
million over the next three years.
“The beauty of this program as a lever is that there are
only 400 principal vacancies annually in Illinois,” Tozer
says. “The resources of this state — 30 universities — are
more than adequate to educate 400 people annually to
become change agents in schools. We’re demonstrating
the scale at which it can be done.”
Three years ago, Tozer established UIC’s Center for
Urban Education Leadership.
“The horizon for us is twofold: to assist the program in
having better and better results in principals’ impact on
schools, because nobody has it all the way right yet; and
researching the result in a way that can move the field.”
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We are living at the beginning of the era of Big Data,
when buying something at the local big-box store can produce a personal profile the NSA would envy.
“A lot of your daily activity is being captured,” says Philip
Yu, distinguished professor and Wexler chair in information
technology.
While this may seem worrying, Yu sees things differently.
He is one of the foremost experts on data mining —
identifying patterns, then using them to extract information
from huge data sets.
Yu came to UIC in 2008 after 29 years at IBM, where he
had become an internationally renowned researcher. His impact on the field is fundamental and shows no sign of slowing, says Robert Sloan, professor and head of computer
science.
Since 2011, Yu has published 102 conference papers, 36
journal articles, co-edited a book and given 32 keynote and
invited talks. “These are normal 23-year numbers, not three-
“We are in this exciting era of Big Data with a
tremendous opportunity to use this data to enrich
our lives,” says Philip Yu. — Photo: Joshua Clark
By Sharon Parmet — [email protected]
“When neurons don’t have the materials they need
to function, they can lose contact with targets,”
says Scott Brady. — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin
By Jeanne Galatzer-Levy — [email protected]
“My research lies at the boundary of materials science,
physics, a little chemistry, a tiny bit of engineering,” says
physics professor Serdar Ogut.
Ogut’s research is related to energy and materials — trying to find better ways of harvesting and storing energy.
“I do two separate things,” Ogut says. First, he develops
methods to understand the very small materials called
nanostructures. Most of what we know about materials that
we can see and touch doesn’t apply to the nanoscale, he says,
and you need powerful computational methods to understand it. At that scale quantum mechanic effects are very
important so you have to do a very detailed analysis to predict a material’s properties.”
He also studies larger-scale materials and the interesting
properties that arise from their interfaces, imperfections,
impurities and flaws.
Although it sounds like a very theoretical, very solitary
occupation, the power of Ogut’s research comes from col-
Scott Brady wants to understand the cell and the molecular biology of neurons: how they can get so large (as much
as 1 meter or more long in humans), how materials get
from one end of these long cells to the other, and how dysfunctions may underlie neurodegenerative diseases like
ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease.
Right now, he’s looking at the transport of structures,
proteins and signaling molecules along the cytoskeleton of
nerve cells.
“When neurons don’t have the materials they need to
function, they can lose contact with targets, whether other
neurons or muscles,” says Brady, professor and head of
anatomy and cell biology.
Neurons that lose connection with their target cells are
programmed to die, Brady says. “Cell death is the final step
in the lengthy neurodegenerative diseases like ALS, but we
need to understand the earlier stages of disease, when treatments can make a difference.”
laboration. This is a good time for computational materials
science, he says, because other people recognize that using
fundamental properties to guide experiments helps avoid
dead ends.
When asked to explain the connection between a basic
science problem and the real world, “I don’t have to work
very hard,” Ogut says. He prefers to tackle everyday problems. “I like to keep my feet on solid ground.”
For example, Ogut is working Robert Klie, an experimental physicist down the hall. Klie was interested in a material called calcium cobaltite and their conversations got
Ogut interested, too. Two published articles have already
emerged from their collaboration. Calcium cobaltite is relatively cheap and nontoxic. But it shows promise for turning
waste heat into electricity, Ogut says.
Early in Ogut’s career, he got a number of job offers
from industry. He was recently married and the money
sounded good, but, his wife said, “I think you want to be in
a university environment, because you love teaching.”
Like all new professors, Ogut taught 100-level courses
his first years. He loved it.
“I worked really hard on that course and lost 10 pounds,”
he says. “I told my next class that I expected them to make
me work hard enough to lose weight.”
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year numbers, for a successful full-time professor,” Sloan
says, adding that Yu’s lifetime publication total, 776 papers
with a citation count of 49,390, is unprecedented.
Yu has enormous enthusiasm for the possibilities in
his field.
“There is so much that we can use in a constructive way,”
he says.
Yu envisions a time when we will be able to diagnose
illness; understand pollution; know where and when a tornado is coming; and get dead-on recommendations from
Amazon.
One of his current collaborations is with neuroscientists
looking at brain images, fMRIs of the brain, to detect early
anomalies in the brain related to disease.
Currently, the changes to the brain wrought by diseases
like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s can’t be seen until it’s far
too late. Yu is working on advanced techniques to detect
these diseases more accurately and earlier, bringing the possibility of early intervention and, possibly, prevention.
Instead of analyzing the image, Yu maps the image into
a network and looks at connectivity, comparing healthy
brains and brains suspected of disease.
“The brain is a big thing with million of connections,” he
says. “We are in this exciting era of big data with a tremendous opportunity to use this data to enrich our lives.”
Brady and his colleagues have studied disease-causing
proteins associated with a number of neurodegenerative
diseases. For example, they found that mutations in a protein called SOD1, which cause about 10 percent of cases of
inherited ALS, affect the motor proteins that move materials along nerve axons.
Using a technique that combines video and light microscopy, which allows him to observe the movement of
materials in neurons, Brady saw that when he added the
mutated protein to squid axons, transport slowed down.
Following up on these studies, his laboratory identified how
the mutant protein affects transport and nerve function.
They found similar changes in Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease, each affecting a unique aspect of the neuron.
Brady also studied the stabilization of the neuronal cytoskeleton and the role of glial cells in supporting the architectural structure of neurons. His earlier work discovered a
new kind of motor protein, kinesin, and showed that kinesin is the primary motor molecule for the transport of materials along microtubules in neurons.
In 2013, Brady was named a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. He is
president-elect of the Association of Anatomy Cell
Biology and Neurobiology Chairpersons.
Serdar Ogut’s research “lies at the boundary of
materials science, physics, a little chemistry, a tiny
bit of engineering.” — Photo: Joshua Clark
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DANA
CAPOCCI
Teaching healthy habits around world
Capocci traveled to Honduras last year with Global Brigades. “It was an
amazing, life-changing experience,” says Capocci, a junior.
UIC softball player Dana Capocci is traveling to Panama in December with the UIC
Chapter of Global Brigades to provide child hygiene education.
Dana Capocci is no ordinary student.
Not only does she balance her studies with her role as
a UIC softball player, but she volunteers her time to
teach healthy habits to children around the world.
Capocci is traveling to Panama in December with
the UIC chapter of Global Brigades, a student-led global health and sustainable development organization. She
will lead the group’s efforts on child hygiene education.
She traveled to Honduras last year on a similar mission.
“It was an amazing, life-changing experience that I
wish for everyone to experience,” said Capocci, a junior
in communication. “It really makes you think twice
about the things we take for granted like hot showers,
clean food, clean water and medical care.
“It was the most humbling experience of my life.”
Students in UIC’s chapter of Global Brigades go on
medical and public health missions to Honduras, Panama and Ghana. Another group of students will head to
Nicaragua in January to provided preventive health
methods and education.
“The cool thing about this trip is you go with fellow
UIC students so I’ve made many friends and continue to
hang out with them,” she said.
Last year, Capocci taught children how to brush their
teeth by singing songs.
“Most of the kids have never brushed their teeth before,”
she said. “The kids were putting their toothbrushes in the
dirt because they didn’t understand the concept.”
A typical day as a volunteer abroad requires waking up
at 6 a.m., eating breakfast and taking a bus about 30 minutes to the village. Volunteers work from morning until
lunch, take a half-hour break, then continue working until
dinner. Although the work was grueling, it was worth it,
Capocci said.
“We built environmentally-friendly stoves and more
sterile bathrooms from scratch,” she said. “We were literally mixing cement all day with our hands. When I came
home I slept for, like, a week.”
Even when volunteers weren’t working, they were
spending time with the village children.
“They don’t really have technology so we would just let
them play on our devices,” she said. “They loved playing
with the tablets.”
Capocci set up a fundraising campaign through UIC
Athletics where students and employees can donate
school supplies, dental and medical supplies and hygienic
products. Donations can be dropped off at the Flames
Athletic Center through Dec. 3.
Capocci set up a personal fundraising campaign online,
empowered.org/Dana-Capocci, to help cover the cost of the
trip.
After graduation, Capocci plans to study abroad in
Spain and hopes to work in the medical field.
Capocci leads a busy life but loves her role as a student
and an athlete on the softball team.
“It’s a great opportunity and a great responsibility,” she
said. “We have three-hour practices every day. My team is
like my family and my coaches are like having parents
here.”

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