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New transistor laser could lead to faster signal processing

U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n

Nov. 18, 2004

Vol. 24, No. 10









By James E. Kloeppel

Physical Sciences Editor







U

I researchers have demonstrated the laser

operation of a heterojunction bipolar light-

emitting transistor. The scientists describe

the fabrication and operation of their transistor laser

in the Nov. 15 issue of the journal Applied Physics

Letters.

“By incorporating quantum wells into the ac-

tive region of a light-emitting transistor, we have

enhanced the electrical and optical properties, mak-

ing possible stimulated emission and transistor laser

operation,” said Nick Holonyak Jr., a John Bardeen

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

and Physics at Illinois.

The same principle making possible the transistor

– negative and positive charge annihilation in the ac-

tive region (the source of one of the transistor’s three

currents) – has been extended and employed to make

a transistor laser, he said. Holonyak invented the first

practical light-emitting diode and the first semicon-

ductor laser to operate in the visible spectrum.

Unlike a light-emitting diode, which sends out

SEE TRANSISTOR, PAGE 5



Building upon their discovery of a three-port

light-emitting transistor earlier this year,

Nick Holonyak Jr., right, and Milton Feng,

have developed a transistor laser.

photo by Kwame Ross









Creative solution

Fond farewell

The campus honored

James Stukel and his

allows flight instructor

wife, Joan, for his nearly

10 years as president back into the cockpit

of the three-campus

By Sharita Forrest

University of Illinois at a

Assistant Editor

reception Nov. 10 at the

A flight instructor at the Institute of Aviation who was grounded by

Illini Union. He became

serious injuries he sustained in a traffic accident a few years ago re-

president in 1995 after

cently was able to pilot a plane again, thanks to his own determination

serving as chancellor

and the support of his colleagues, including an innovative maintenance

and an administrator

foreman.

at UIC. The Stukels’

John Suppok, an associate aviation education specialist, was criti-

affiliation with the

cally injured on Oct. 9, 2000, when his motorcycle collided with a

university goes back to

semi-truck trailer on Staley Road just west of Champaign. Although

1961 when Jim Stukel

doctors initially had hoped to save both of Suppok’s legs, the severity

entered the College

of his injuries and a resulting bone infection made it necessary for them

of Engineering as a

to amputate his left leg below the knee a few weeks after the accident,

graduate student. After

then operate again a short time later and amputate above the knee. They

earning his master’s

were able to save his right leg but had to fuse the knee, leaving him

degree and doctorate,

unable to bend it. Suppok also sustained a broken neck and collarbone,

he joined the faculty.

which necessitated fusing the vertebrae in his neck and implanting tita-

Joan Stukel, who had

nium plates on each side.

a career in pharmacy

While the life-changing magnitude of Suppok’s injuries might have

and business, earned

demoralized some, Suppok was determined to resume his life right

an MBA and three of

where he’d left off, especially his duties as a flight instructor.

their four children also

“From the get-go, as soon as I became aware of the situation in the

earned degrees from the

hospital, it was ‘When could I get back to teaching?’ ” Suppok said. “I

UI. Interim Chancellor

wanted to do students’ oral exams from the hospital, but Rick Weinberg

Richard Herman, who

(the institute’s chief pilot at the time), said, ‘No, you can’t do that.’ And

co-hosted the event with

I said, ‘Why not? Send ’em down.’ ”

the board of trustees,

Suppok said he learned to fly in 1964, when he was an ROTC stu-

presented the Stukels

dent at West Virginia University; he later was a helicopter pilot in Viet-

with a sculpture by

nam, a commercial helicopter pilot in Alaska for three years and flew

artist Alex Fekete, a

with the Army National Guard for another 18 years before joining the

professor of art and

UI’s staff in 1999.

design.

photo by Clark Brooks

While Suppok was recuperating in the spring of 2001, he was a guest

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INDEX

Look! No hands! Who wins? ACHIEVEMENTS 13

In This Issue









Scholars show hands-free According to a UI sports

BENEFITS BRIEF 13

cell phones still cause economist, the presence

dangerous distraction. of a professional sports BRIEF NOTES 14

PAGE 6 team does not boost the CALENDAR 15

local economy. DEATHS 14

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Across-the-board tuition increases needed, trustees told

By Sharita Forrest sity of Michigan, also served as Michigan’s The trustees also approved: 14,000-square-foot facility to be built at 4-

Assistant Editor interim president during 2002. He has also ■ A $12.7 million expansion plan for the H Memorial Camp adjacent to Robert Al-

Across-the-board tuition increases are been an independent director or trustee of Natural History Survey at Urbana, to be lerton Park, Monticello. The project is be-

needed during the coming fiscal year for several major companies. funded by $6.1 million in state appropria- ing funded with donations from Gerald For-

the University of Illinois to meet more than The trustees honored Stukel for his 43 tions and $6.6 million of institutional funds sythe of Marshall, Ill., who has expressed

$47 million in new expenses, according to years of service to the university and ap- from the Urbana campus operating budget. interest in constructing other amenities at

a report presented to the board of trustees pointed him president emeritus and profes- ■ An expenditure not to exceed $200,000 the camp.

last week. sor emeritus in the colleges of engineering for the preliminary design of a new airport ■ Site and design for the South Campus

The trustees, who convened in Urbana on at Chicago and Urbana. In addition, the control tower for Willard Airport, Savoy, Mixed Use Development project at UIC,

Nov. 11, heard a report from Chester Gard- trustees designated that student residence contingent upon receiving Federal Avia- which is to be constructed by December

ner, vice president for academic affairs, halls planned for construction at UIC be tion Administration funding for the project, 2007. The complex includes a 754-bed resi-

who said that the university will be saddled named the James J. Stukel Towers in his which is expected to cost $12.9 million. dence hall, a 3,000-seat convocation center,

with $47.14 million in additional expenses honor. ■ Site and design for a practice and train- kitchen and dining facilities, an event cen-

in FY06. The expenses will include $7.4 Chairman Lawrence Eppley expressed ing facility for the men’s and women’s golf ter, classroom spaces and more than 18,000

million to operate and maintain new facili- the board’s gratitude to the 19 members of teams at Urbana. The Demirjian Indoor square feet of retail space. The board also

ties, $5 million for utility price increases, the consultative committee, to board secre- Golf Facility, to be built at the corner of approved site and design for construction of

and $2 million for debt service on bonds tary Michele Thompson and the search firm South Wright Street and St. Mary’s Road, a $56.7 million Advanced Chemical Tech-

to fund the deferred maintenance program. Baker-Parker for their assistance in select- Champaign, will include six hitting bays, nology Building at UIC.

However, the largest portion of the new ex- ing a new president. two with video systems; an interior chip- ■ A $102 million plan for refurbishing

penditures was a proposed $25.84 million Relative to several contracts awarded at ping, pitching and green area; locker rooms; building enclosures universitywide, part of

salary program for faculty and staff mem- the meeting, Carroll asked how many of the and a kitchen, lounge and exterior terrace the backlog of deferred maintenance proj-

bers, which Gardner said must be a priority companies involved were minority owned for social functions. Total project costs for ects identified in the May 2003 facilities

if the UI wants to remain competitive with because constituents are greatly concerned the 15,500-square-foot facility were esti- audit report. The board authorized the issu-

its peers and retain and attract top quality that minority-owned businesses are not be- mated at $3.2 million. ance of up to $55 million in certificates of

faculty members. ing adequately represented in the univer- ■ Approved designs for the Gerald R. participation to fund the repairs. ◆

If the UI’s state appropriations are cut sity’s transactions. Naranjan Shah, chair & Jean Forsythe Memorial Dining Hall, a

next fiscal year, administrators may be of the buildings and grounds

forced to reduce the faculty salary increas- committee, and Lyle Wachtel,

es slightly, Gardner said, “but we are going associate vice president for

to recommend a salary program,” and he facilities planning and pro-

strongly urged the board to consider mak- grams, said that the contracts

ing cuts in other areas first before reducing were awarded to the lowest

or eliminating the salary increases. bidders through sealed bids

The proposal also called for $3 million but that they would provide

in recurring funds beginning next fiscal Carroll with the information

year to upgrade and maintain the UI Inte- they had.

grate system, which will include modify- Joseph Flaherty, whose

ing the HR module to make it more user appointment as dean of the

friendly and less difficult for staff to learn, College of Medicine was ap-

Gardner said. proved at the meeting; Hugh

Between FY90 and FY05, the UI lost Rose, chief financial officer,

about $100 million because its state appro- and John DeNardo, executive

priations and undergraduate tuition revenue director, of UI Medical Center

did not keep pace with the rate of inflation, at Chicago, reported on the fi-

and educational quality is at risk because nancial challenges faced by the

student-faculty ratios have increased more medical center and received

than 30 percent over the past two decades, board approval to conduct

Gardner said. a feasibility study on a five-

Tuition increases are being proposed at year, $326 million plan for

all three campuses for AY06. At Urbana, renovating the medical center

undergraduate non-guaranteed tuition and revitalizing its business.

would increase $210, to $3,217 per se- The plan projected that these

mester; the undergraduate guaranteed rate strategic investments, among

would rise by $291, to $3,521, and graduate others, would increase operat-

students would pay $234 more, or $3,580 ing income from $7.3 million

per semester. in FY04 to more than $17 mil-

At Chicago, the undergraduate non-guar- lion by FY09. Staff will return

anteed tuition rate would increase $185, to the board for approval of

to $2,830 per semester; the undergradu- the plan in January 2005.

ate guaranteed rate would go up $256, to Plans are also under way

$3,097; and graduate tuition would increase to expand the Research Park

by $214, to $3,264 per semester. at Urbana. The trustees des-

Trustee Frances Carroll, who expressed ignated that the development

concern about the university’s decreased zone for the Research Park

minority enrollment this semester, asked be modified to encompass the

her colleagues to be mindful that the pro- land directly east of the park photo by Kwame Ross



posed tuition increases might make the UI and bounded by St. Mary’s Welcome to the academy

unaffordable for some students and said Road on the north, Fourth Promoted and newly tenured faculty were honored Nov. 9 with a reception at Grainger

that the university should explore other po- Street extended on the east, Engineering Library Information Center and a book plating, sponsored by Acting Provost

tential revenue streams. Windsor Road on the south Jesse Delia and University Librarian Paula Kaufman. Participating faculty members were

Stukel responded that the most needy and First Street on the west. asked to select books, either extant volumes or new additions to the university’s collections,

students – about 30 percent of the student Staff members expect to pres- of personal significance to them and explain their rationale in 50 words or less. The 54

body at UIC, 20 percent at Urbana and 35 ent an updated Campus Mas- volumes chosen were embossed with commemorative bookplates for the 77 faculty members

percent at UIS – pay no tuition and fees, ter Plan to the trustees by July who participated; the books are on display in the library’s main corridor. The program is

and that tuition increases would not affect 2005. in its fifth year.

them, as would increases in housing rates,

Stukel said.

Stephen Rugg, vice president for admin-

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Molecular technique shows

On the Job Lisa Burdin promise in destroying drug

resistance in bacteria

By Molly McElroy With the help of chemistry graduate stu-

News Bureau dents Johna C.B. DeNap, Jason R. Thomas

A new approach to outwit resistance to and Dinty J. Musk, Hergenrother devel-

antibiotics has been discovered by a team oped a technique that mimicked plasmid

of UI researchers. incompatibility by incubating bacteria con-

By inserting a naturally occurring mol- taining plasmids with a specific compound

ecule into an antibiotic-resistant bacterium, – in this case an aminoglycoside called

the team was able to gradually destroy the apramycin that binds to plasmid-encoded

machinery responsible for the resistance. RNA and prevents proper plasmid repro-

“Multidrug-resistant bacteria are now duction.

ubiquitous in both hospital settings and the Apramycin was chosen after numerous

larger community,” wrote Paul J. Hergen- potential aminoglycosides – a group of an-

rother, a professor of chemistry, in a paper tibiotics effective against gram-negative

that appeared online ahead of publication bacteria – were tested to find those that bind

in the Journal of the American Chemical tightly to the target plasmids. Positively

Society. “Clearly, new strategies and tar- charged apramycin bound to negatively

photo by Kwame Ross gets are needed to combat drug-resistant charged plasmid-encoded RNA, which al-

bacteria.” lowed apramycin to prevent the actions of

Lisa Burdin, a secretary IV, works in one of the coolest places on campus: Antibiotic resistance makes it difficult to the protein that triggers plasmid reproduc-

the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center in the department of fight infection and increases the chance of tion. By thwarting that protein, apramycin

mechanical and industrial engineering. Maybe that’s why she’s chosen to acquiring one while in a hospital. That, in blocked plasmid replication.

work there for most of her 17-year career with the university. But when the turn, has led to more deaths from infection, The apramycin treatment was applied to

temperatures outside begin to dip into the lower digits every winter, Burdin longer hospital stays and a greater use of bacterial cultures that were grown for 250

and her husband, Steve, who also works on campus, like to flee Illinois for more toxic and expensive drugs, according generations. By the end of the experiment,

tropical climes, such as the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Mexico. to the National Institutes of Health. the plasmids no longer were present, mak-

Resistance occurs when bacteria develop ing it possible for antibiotics to work.

Tell me about the center.

ways to make themselves impervious, such “This is the first demonstration of a

We explore ways to make energy-efficient, cost-effective equipment and

as by pumping antibiotics out of the cell, mechanistic-based approach to system-

minimize the environmental impact, ozone-free refrigerants, etc.

preventing them from entering the cell or atically eliminate the plasmids,” Hergen-

I started (at the university) in October 1987 working in the department demolishing them. A common way bacteria rother said. “Standard antibiotics target the

of philosophy. I worked there for two years and came to mechanical and develop resistance is by laterally transferring cell wall, but as resistance to antibiotics

industrial engineering in February 1990 and have been in this position plasmids – pieces of extra-chromosomal emerges, there needs to be other targets.

ever since. DNA – from one bacterium to another. We validated that plasmids work as a new

I answer the phones, do correspondence and help the professors with These plasmids contain genetic codes for target for antibiotics.”

their schedules. I do basic updates to our Web site, such as adding new proteins that make bacteria insensitive to Further studies are needed to identify

pages. We have annual reports and proposals that we send out. We also antibiotics. whether apramycin is useful against the

publish reports when students finish their theses. The reports are initially “Our idea was that if you could eliminate plasmids occurring in different strains of

sent to the sponsoring companies for their review, and once they look plasmids that make the bacterium resistant, antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It is possible

them over and make sure there’s nothing proprietary in them, we can send then the bacterium could be sensitive to an- that other compounds may be needed to

them to the library for general distribution. We currently have 29 industry tibiotics again,” Hergenrother said. target specific plasmids, Hergenrother said.

sponsors. We also have about 100-150 visitors to our labs each year. The researchers’ approach was to use a Future studies in his lab will investigate

We have meetings twice a year that I prepare for, a fall meeting where our natural process called plasmid incompat- those questions.

sponsors visit to see what’s happened in the last year and the students ibility. “If there is one plasmid in a cell and The Office of Naval Research, the Na-

present their last year’s work, and another meeting the last week of March another one is introduced, then they com- tional Institutes of Health and the Research

where we present proposals for new research, and the professors present pete with each other for resources,” Her- Corporation, a private Arizona-based foun-

at that meeting. genrother said. “One of them wins and the dation that supports basic research in the

other is eliminated.” physical sciences, funded the work. ◆

You’ve been in your job a long time. What’s made you stay?

I like what I do, and I hate change. You get familiar with something and it

is hard to change. ACRC started in August 1989. I started here in February

1990 and have seen a lot of companies and students come and go,

at least 150 grad students who have gotten their degrees and moved

on. Some of them come back for the meetings because they work for

sponsoring companies, so it’s nice to see them.

What’s the most challenging part about what you do?

The meetings. The last-minute changes can drive me crazy. But it’s nice to

know that once the meeting is over that you’ve pulled it off again. I know in

some jobs they do that kind of thing all the time, and it’s not easy.

The most recent meeting, which we just finished, is my 30th. We had 44

visitors at the meeting.

What’s your educational background?

I took about two years of courses at Parkland but I didn’t finish. I was

majoring in data processing. It was a little tougher than I expected.

What kinds of things do you like to do when you’re not working?

I read a lot, mostly mysteries. I like to read any author that writes a series.

I like the serious mysteries written by Patricia Cornwell and Jan Burke;

I like the funny ones by Janet Evanovich. J.D. Robb has a futuristic series.

I also like John Grisham.

photo by Kwame Ross

I like to sew doll clothes for my nieces for Christmas and birthday presents.

I also like to try to quilt. I made one quilt out of recycled blue jeans that is Bacterial resistance Chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother, second from right,

denim on one side and cotton on the other. and graduate students, from left, Jason R. Thomas, Johna C.B. DeNap and Dinty J.

Musk have discovered a new approach to outwit resistance to antibiotics.

I also have a small vegetable and flower garden.

I bowl in the faculty-staff league at Western Bowl. It is a lot of fun. I’ve

been bowling in this league for four or five years. I average about 140.

I actually met my husband bowling about 10 years ago in a Monday-night

job market

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Steve and I like to travel during January to nice, warm locations. For acpro employment opportunites:

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Not yet. We like to take advantage of last-minute deals. I’d have to say Current UI employees and students can receive e-mail notification of open positions by

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— Interview by Sharita Forrest

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Employees complete ethics training as required by new law

By Sharita Forrest

Assistant Editor

No matter which candidates they rooted

for in the recent U.S. elections, state of Il-

linois employees, including the 33,000

permanent employees at the three UI cam-

puses, were subject to new restrictions on

the types of political activities they could

engage in at work as part of a recently en-

acted ethics law.

The State Officials and Employees Act,

which took effect in December 2003, re-

stricts employees from engaging in politi-

cal activities such as campaigning and so-

liciting contributions during work time and

on state premises as well as banning them

from accepting or soliciting gifts from pro-

hibited sources. The law also requires all

state employees to undergo annual ethics

training.

Although the UI had its own ethics pro-

gram in place for about a year and a half pri-

or to the legislation, and had trained about

14,000 of its employees by July 2004, the

university’s program was suspended, and

the state program made available to univer-

sity employees. While the university’s pro-

gram focused on ethics problem-solving in

everyday situations, such as confronting

co-workers’ pilfering office supplies, the

Office of the Executive Inspector General,

which oversees ethics training, decided that photo by Kwame Ross

this year’s training for all state employees Ethics training Richard Traver, university ethics officer and director of the Office of University Audits, and Donna McNeely,

would focus on the provisions of the law. enterprisewide audit director, manage the university’s ethics training program. According to the State Officials and Employees

All university employees are required to Ethics Act, all state of Illinois employees must complete ethics training annually. The state Office of the Executive Inspector General,

complete the ethics program. Employees at which was created as part of the new law, oversees the statewide ethics program and determines its content.

the Chicago and Springfield campuses were

the first groups to undergo training, which complete the course. our diverse population to be a training year, so that employees who complete the

occurred from mid-September to late Oc- Employees without computer access in challenge.” training this fall are not confused by having

tober, said Donna McNeely, enterprisewide their workplaces, or those uncomfortable New employees at the Chicago and to go through it again right away.

audit director in the Office of University with using computers, participate in group Urbana campuses appointed after Septem- “Certainly it’s been a bit challenging

Audits. training sessions in which Traver provides ber and October respectively will undergo for some of the departments because of the

“We’re still working with the Chicago an overview of the legislation and reviews training in early 2005, although McNeely switchover mid-year. I don’t anticipate the

and Springfield employees who haven’t some of the online material. said she hopes the state does not require the training process being as confusing next

completed training, contacting supervisors The university’s workforce also com- university to conduct its program until mid- year,” McNeely said. ◆

and trying to encourage people to train,” prises thousands of extra help and tempo-

McNeely said. “The Urbana employees rary undergraduate student workers who

and university administration will have also must undergo ethics training. They are

through Nov. 19 to complete their training. being issued copies of the legislation and

Then we’ll pick up those who didn’t have must sign and return receipts acknowledg-

an opportunity to train during the estab- ing their receipt and understanding of the

lished window.” information.

More than 90 percent of permanent “Everybody’s been pretty accepting of

employees at the Springfield and Chicago the fact that there’s a new law in Illinois

campuses and in University Administration and we need to work through this training

have completed the required program, ac- to ensure compliance with the new law,”

cording to Richard Traver, university ethics

officer and executive director of the Office

of University Audits.

McNeely said.

Traver and McNeely will be meeting

with state officials soon to begin planning

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“We’re very happy with how it’s go- the timing and content of the program for

ing so far,” McNeely said. “We still have

a number of employees to contact, but it’s

going well. Most employees are being very

next year. They hope that they will be able

to tailor next year’s program so it will be

more relevant to workplace situations that

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The majority of employees have been may not win that debate,” Traver said.

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FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR, FROM PAGE 1

lecturer a few times for the instructor who Up, up and

had taken over his ground-school classes away

at the institute. By that summer, Suppok A hand control

was teaching ground school and simulator developed

training part time, but he was determined to by aviation

teach in the cockpit again, too. maintenance

Through physical therapy and rehabilita- foreman Jay

tion he had learned new ways to do things, Bongiorno (right)

such as driving a car using hand controls. enables flight

One day in September 2001, he and his instructor John

physical therapist decided to see if Suppok Suppok to pilot

could get himself into the cockpit of one of planes again by

the Piper Archer PA28181 airplanes that the allowing Suppok

institute uses for instruction. to control the

“Everybody else just puts one foot up rudder with his

on the wing and raises themselves up and hands instead of

climbs in,” Suppok said. “We worked; it his feet.

was extremely difficult to get into that air-

plane – to step up onto the wing and liter-

ally just pull myself into it. I wasn’t strong

enough at the time. But we worked at it, and

I got in and said, ‘Yes, this will work.’ ”

Suppok’s colleagues at the institute were

so impressed by his determination to fly

again that they resolved to help him and be-

gan looking for adaptive devices that would

enable Suppok to operate the planes’ rudder

photo by Kwame Ross

controls with his hands rather than his feet.

Jay Bongiorno, aviation maintenance into place. By moving the bar up or down, and on Oct. 26, Suppok flew again for the the time I was in the hospital, has been

foreman at the institute, and Suppok trav- Suppok can control the rudder and steer the first time since his accident, accompanied absolutely outstanding. The people at the

eled to Iowa together to inspect a device plane. The device can be installed or re- by Sybil Phillips, chief pilot and head of the institute have been closer than family and

being used by other pilots that they hoped moved within a matter of minutes so other professional pilot division at the institute. have just been so encouraging. The other

would work in the institute’s planes. While pilots can use the same plane. “It was fantastic to get back up in the air day when we went out to make that flight,

they decided against that device because it “It’s very different because I’ve been and see all the changes that have occurred the whole staff was outside lined up in front

required permanent installation, Bongiorno flying since 1964, and I’m conditioned that in the city in four years. The exhilaration of the building, and as we taxied past, I told

said the time he spent with Suppok inspired if the airplane tips or rocks to use the right of being up there was just indescribable. I Sybil, ‘All you guys have done is make it

him to keep looking for solutions. foot pedal and roll the wings back down,” didn’t need an airplane to fly,” Suppok said absolutely impossible for me to retire.’ ” the

“I never really knew John too well be- Suppok said. “When that happens, my toes about the flight. 63-year-old Suppok said.

fore his accident,” Bongiorno said. “I had are working like crazy – even the ones that Currently, Suppok is restricted to stu- “It was a real team effort,” said Phillips,

just started working here then. But when I don’t exist – and since I can’t reach the ped- dent-pilot privileges and must be accom- who also accompanied an FAA inspector

flew out to Iowa with him, I could tell he als, they’re not doing anything. I have to panied by an instructor; Phillips has agreed on a flight to test the device during the ap-

just had a really great desire to fly. I have condition myself to use my hand instead.” to serve as Suppok’s instructor as he learns proval process. “The staff and students at

a pilot’s license too, and I do enjoy flying; Developing the device only took about how to fly again. the institute have been truly inspired by

however, I can take it or leave it. But you two weeks, Bongiorno said. The toughest The paperwork process of getting FAA John’s determination, positive outlook and

can tell it’s just a passion of his, so it made challenge was getting it certified by the approval for the device was daunting at dedication. I don’t think there was ever a

me want to get something together for him Federal Aviation Administration – a pro- times, Suppok said, but now that the de- doubt in anyone’s mind that we were go-

to get him back up there.” cess that had to be successfully completed vice has been approved, he aims to regain ing to do this. It’s a rare opportunity we

Bongiorno subsequently developed a bar before Suppok could fly with it. It took his pilot’s certificate before the end of the have to show our students what determi-

that attaches to the rudder pedal horizontal about 18 months from start to finish. semester. nation and commitment to people will do

support bar on the cockpit floor and latches The FAA rendered approval on Oct. 7, “The support that I’ve gotten here, from for you.” ◆



TRANSISTOR, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

broadband, incoherent light, the transistor otechnology Laboratory. Unlike traditional

laser emits a narrow, coherent beam. Mod- transistors, which are built from silicon and

ulated at transistor speeds, the laser beam

could be sent through an optical fiber as a

germanium, the transistor laser is made

from indium gallium phosphide, gallium

Class Schedules now online

high-speed signal. arsenide and indium gallium arsenide, but Only limited paper copies available in fall

“This is a true, three-terminal laser, with can employ other materials in this family

an electrical input, electrical output and an (the so-called III-V compounds). By Sharita Forrest semester and discovered that ap-

optical output, not to mention a coherent “This work is still very much in its infan- Assistant Editor proximately 20 cartons of the Class

optical output,” said Milton Feng, the Hol- cy,” Holonyak said. “There is much more to Registration for spring 2005 class- Schedule had gone unused.

onyak Professor of Electrical and Computer be learned, including how to separate and es is in full swing, and for the first Peer schools, such as Michigan

Engineering at Illinois. “It is a device that optimize the transistor laser output between time the venerable Class Schedule, State University, have stopped pub-

operates simultaneously as a laser and as electrical signals and light signals.” formerly known as the Timetable, is lishing paper versions of their sched-

a transistor.” Feng is credited with creat- Down the road, ultra-fast transistor la- available online only. Paper editions ules.

ing the world’s fastest bipolar transistor, a sers could extend the modulation band- of the schedule were not printed, and University administrators began

device that operates at a frequency of 509 width of a semiconductor light source from students registering for spring class- considering eliminating paper cop-

gigahertz. 20 gigahertz to more than 100 gigahertz. es must refer to the online version, ies of the Class Schedule, the Course

At laser threshold – where the light Used as optoelectronic interconnects, tran- which is part of the Course Informa- Catalog and Programs of Study as far

changes from spontaneous emission to sistor lasers could facilitate faster signal tion Suite in UI Integrate. back as 1997, when it began to be ap-

stimulated emission – the transistor gain processing, higher speed devices and large- Web-savvy students probably parent that students were becoming

decreases sharply, but still supports three- capacity seamless communications, as well won’t even miss the paper publica- more reliant on the Internet for in-

port operation, Feng said. “The electrical as a new generation of higher performance tion, according to Keith Marshall, as- formation than on printed materials.

signal goes down, but the optical signal electrical and optical integrated circuits. sistant provost and chair of the Cata- With the implementation of UI Inte-

goes up.” Co-authors of the paper with Feng and log Review Committee. grate, and the full-featured Course

Earlier this year, Feng and Holonyak Holonyak are postdoctoral research associ- “We had informal discussions Information Suite, the timing seemed

reported their discovery of a three-port, ate Gabriel Walter and graduate research with faculty members and students appropriate for discontinuing the pa-

light-emitting transistor. Building upon that assistant Richard Chan. The Defense Ad- and found that students rely on the per versions, Marshall said.

work, the researchers fabricated the transis- vanced Research Projects Agency funded Web for information, not on paper Printing costs for the Class Sched-

tor laser in the university’s Micro and Nan- the work. ◆ materials,” Marshall said. “The peo- ule were about $70,000 per year,

ple who are reliant on paper copies Marshall said.

are really those who keep archival

graphic from Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak









Although the Class Schedule

The transistor laser light copies on their shelves for reference won’t be printed for spring, about

beam with an infrared and who may not be as comfortable 10,000 copies will be printed for the

wavelength labeled “hv” at using computers.” fall semester for distribution to new

the top is captured by CCD About 108,000 copies were being students when they come to campus

camera. The contact probes printed each year and were avail- for orientation and registration. Paper

(dark shadow) on the able at various venues around cam- copies are needed for those students,

emitter, base and collector. pus. Marshall said he visited the Il- Marshall said, because they do not

lini Union Bookstore and the main have enough time or the opportunity

library, two of the main distribution to go online in order to register when

points on campus, during the spring they are on campus. ◆

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Study shows hands-free cell phones distracted drivers’ attention

By Jim Barlow

News Bureau Staff Writer

Driving with one hand on the wheel and

another on a cell phone has led to legal re-

strictions and proposals to require drivers to

use hands-free phones.

Hello?

UI researchers have tested the hands-free

approach and found that drivers – young

and old – struggled to see dangerous sce-

narios appearing in front of them.

The experiments, reported in the Fall

2004 issue of the journal Human Factors,

were conducted in a virtual reality suite at

the Beckman Institute for Advanced Sci-

ence and Technology. Eye-tracking tech-

niques allowed researchers to see the effects

of distractions.

“With younger adults, everything got

worse,” said Arthur F. Kramer, a professor

of psychology. “What we found was that

both young adults and older adults tended to

show deficits in performance. They made

more errors in detecting important changes

and they took longer to react to the chang-

es.” The impaired reactions, he said, were

“in terms of seconds, not just milliseconds,

which means many yards in terms of stop-

ping distances.”

For the experiment, 14 young licensed

drivers (mean age 21.4) with at least one photo by Kwame Ross

year behind the wheel and 14 older, expe- Driver attention Talking on the phone, even on hands-free models, while driving significantly impairs safety, according to a

rienced drivers (mean age 68.4) actively study co-written by psychology professor Art Kramer. In testing young drivers and older adults in a virtual reality suite at the

engaged in a casual hands-free phone con- Beckman Institute, researchers found that regardless of participants’ age or years of driving experience, their active engagement

versation. in phone conversations slowed their reaction times and distracted them from noticing important changes in the landscape.

As they talked, they faced a flickering

6-foot-by-3.5-foot screen on which digi- changes related to salience, such as colors tect meaningful changes, such as a little girl In another experiment, the researchers

tally manipulated images of Chicago traffic becoming brighter. However, their ability running between cars in traffic, than they found no significant negative impairments

and architecture continually changed. Each to detect changes that should be important were able to detect changes that were not among participants who simply listened on

flicker, which simulated eye movements, to a driver dipped significantly. meaningful to driving safely.” hands-free phones as others carried on a

resulted in a change of scenery that might “For the older adults, it was quite scary Younger subjects did detect relevant conversation. The subjects were 13 young

or might not be important to a driver – a in that contextual restraints no longer drove changes more readily and with fewer errors adults (mean age 20.64) and 13 older adults

child running into a driver’s path, a simple their eye-scanning strategies,” Kramer said. than older adults, but their reaction times (mean age 67.33).

change in a theater sign or bright or subtle “When they were in a conversation on a were slowed. “When you are driving, you Kramer theorized that the requirement to

color changes. cell phone, they were no longer any faster often don’t have extra seconds to react,” comprehend and generate speech during a

The older adults were able to detect or any more accurate in their ability to de- Kramer said. SEE CELL PHONES, PAGE 8









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Pro sports stadiums don’t bolster local economies, scholars say

By Melissa Mitchell

News Bureau Staff Writer

If you build it, they will come … with

wallets bulging, eager to exchange green-

backs for peanuts, popcorn, hot dogs and

beer, and T-shirts and ball caps with team

logos.

At least that’s the theory embraced –

time and time again – by mayors and city

council members hoping to lure profession-

al sports teams to their cities by promising

to build new arenas for the teams. But one

guy who’s not buying it is sports economist

Brad Humphreys, a UI professor of recre-

ation, sport and tourism.

That’s because Humphreys and col-

league Dennis Coates, a professor of eco-

nomics at the University of Maryland, Bal-

timore County, haven’t uncovered a single

instance in which the presence of a profes-

sional sports team has been linked to a boost

in the local economy.

“Our conclusion, and that of nearly all

academic economists studying this issue, is

that professional sports generally have little,

if any, positive effect on a city’s economy,”

Humphreys and Coates wrote in a report

issued last month by the Cato Institute in

Washington, D.C. The institute commis-

sioned the professors to study the economic photo by Kwame Ross

impact of a deal proposed by Anthony Wil- Sports economy Brad Humphreys, a UI professor of recreation, sport and tourism, and a colleague from the University of

liams, the mayor of Washington, D.C.; un- Maryland, were commissioned by the Cato Institute to study the economic impact of a deal proposed by the mayor of Washington,

der terms of the agreement, Major League D.C.; under terms of the agreement, Major League Baseball would move the Montreal Expos to the nation’s capital in exchange for a

Baseball would move the Montreal Expos new, city-built ballpark. Humphreys found – as economists before him studying this issue elsewhere – no boost to a local economy

to the nation’s capital in exchange for a from a professional sports team.

new, city-built ballpark.

The professors based their report on new teams over nearly 30 years, was a reduction local economy, including an average net benefit significantly from the presence of a

data as well as previously published re- in real per capita income over the entire loss of 1,924 jobs; pro team, with an average annual salary in-

search in which they analyzed economic in- metropolitan area,” Humphreys and Coates • an increase in wages in the hotels and crease of $490 per worker, Humphreys said.

dicators from 37 major metropolitan areas noted in the report. other lodgings sector (about $10 per work- However, he said, “this sector includes the

with major-league baseball, football and The researchers found other patterns er year), but a reduction in wages in bars professional athletes whose annual salaries

basketball teams. consistent with the presence of pro sports and restaurants (about $162 per worker per certainly raise the average salary in this sec-

“The net economic impact of profession- teams. Among them: year). tor by an enormous amount. As it turns out,

al sports in Washington, D.C., and the 36 • a statistically significant negative im- Those employed in the amusements and those workers most closely connected with

other cities that hosted professional sports pact on the retail and services sectors of the recreation sector appeared, at first glance, to SEE SPORTS STADIUMS, PAGE 8









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SPORTS STADIUMS, FROM PAGE 7 CELL PHONES, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6

the sports environment who were not pro- In other words, revenues generated inside the “substitution effect.” conversation results in interference with

fessional athletes saw little improvement in the stadium may not be new revenues, even “As sport- and stadium-related activities the scanning of driving scenes. Com-

their earnings as a result of the local profes- if they are dedicated specifically to paying increase, other spending declines because prehension, in the absence of the need

sional sports environment.” for the new stadium. people substitute spending on sports for to generate coherent responses, requires

Humphreys, who plans to present data Humphreys and Coates also take excep- other spending,” Humphreys said. “If the fewer mental resources and, therefore,

from the report at an upcoming hearing in tion to the idea that corporate “ballpark stadium simply displaces dollar-for-dollar does not interfere with change detection

Washington, D.C., said it is fairly common fees” would shield residents from the costs spending that would have occurred other- in driving scenes.

for city officials – blinded by bright visions involved. “Whether it is a surcharge or an wise, there are no net benefits generated.” Kramer’s team now is conducting sim-

of dollar signs – to pose as cheerleaders increase in the corporate income tax rate, In the end, Humphreys said, while a pro- ilar experiments in a driving simulator.

for projects aimed at attracting pro teams. this so-called fee is a tax increase, pure fessional sports team may not be the golden The six co-authors of the research

Arena-funding measures vary from initia- and simple. Corporations do not pay tax- goose that city leaders in the nation’s capi- were Kramer, Jason S. McCarley and

tive to initiative, with taxpayers typically es, people do. Whether it is in the form of tal and elsewhere may hope for, there are David E. Irwin, all of the UI psychology

covering most of the tab – even though crit- lower wages for workers, lower asset val- some benefits to having a home team. department; graduate students Margaret

ics of such plans maintain that team owners ues for corporate owners, or higher prices “A baseball team in D.C. might pro- J. Vais and Heather Pringle (now on the

could easily foot the bill themselves. In the for consumers of the goods and services duce intangible benefits,” Humphreys said. faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy in

Expos case, Humphreys said, the mayor of those companies provide, this tax increase “Rooting for the team might provide satis- Colorado Springs, Colo.); and David L.

Washington, D.C., has promoted his plan will touch D.C. residents in some way.” faction to many local baseball fans.” Strayer, a professor of psychology at the

by stating that the ballpark would be funded Funding structures aside, Humphreys However, he added, “that is hardly a University of Utah.

entirely by team owners, ballpark users and said government officials lobbying for sta- reason for the city government to subsi- General Motors and the National Insti-

the district’s largest businesses, and not by dium deals often base perceived economic dize the team. D.C. policymakers should tute on Aging funded the research through

residents’ tax dollars. benefits on flawed impact studies. In the not be mesmerized by faulty impact stud- a grant to Kramer. McCarley was sup-

Humphreys called the proposal a “novel D.C. case, the researchers report that the ies that claim that a baseball team and a ported by a Beckman Institute Postdoc-

approach,” but discounted it as disingenuous. Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning new stadium can be an engine of economic toral Fellowship. ◆

“To say taxpayers won’t pay for the construc- and Economic Development claimed the growth.” ◆

tion is really a sin of omission,” he said. team and ballpark would create 30 jobs

“First, the team’s share of financing earning an annual total of $94 million – or a

the stadium is a 30-year lease committing whopping $261,111 per job.

the team to an initial rent of $3.5 million “The wonder is that anyone finds such

each year, increasing to $5 million by the figures credible,” Humphreys said. “Yet

fifth year, and then increasing by 2 percent decade after decade, cities throughout the

minus $10,000 per year thereafter,” Hum- country have struggled to attract or keep

phreys and Coates note in their report. But, professional sports teams, and the idea that

in real terms, with inflation averaging a pro-

jected 3 percent over 30 years, taxpayers

will in reality be handing the team what the

a team brings with it large economic gains

invariably arises. As it turns out, claims

of large tangible economic benefits do not

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just five years. That’s because such impact studies of-

“Second,” they state, “taxes will be col- ten are based on skewed data. For instance,

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is likely that the District of Columbia resi- ports is projected to have on the communi-

dents who purchase food, beverages, and ty’s wider economy – impact studies often

clothing while attending games would have overstate such contributions and fail to dif-

chosen to eat and purchase clothes in the ferentiate between net and gross spending.

district – and pay taxes on those purchases – And, Humphreys added, such studies typi-

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Vegetable lovers should be

viewed as different from fruit

aficionados

By Mark Reutter fruits are healthy replacements for desserts

News Bureau Staff Writer or candy, and how fruits can offer an easy

Health educators and dietitians ought way to complement a meal without requir-

to be more precise the next time they ad- ing much time or talent,” Wansink said in

vise Americans that “vegetables and fruit an interview.

are good for you,” according to a study by Conversely, a person with a predilection

a UI nutritional for spicy foods

expert. “For health professionals and and entertain-

That’s be- ing could be en-

educators, the importance of

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cause a person couraged to try

who likes veg- targeting different messages to different spices

etables tends to with vegetables

have different differently predisposed target rather than meats

food tastes and markets can mean the difference and impress din-

social

from a person

habits

between a cost-effective

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the right choice

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who prefers

fruits. Lumping “For health

the two groups –Brian Wansink p r o f e s s i o n a l s

together may un- and educators,

dercut the effectiveness of “better-health” the importance of targeting different mes-

educational campaigns that seek to reduce sages to differently predisposed target mar-

America’s over-consumption of processed kets can mean the difference between a

snacks, desserts and fatty foods. cost-effective program and a wasted ef-

The study by Brian Wansink, a professor fort,” Wansink concluded.

of nutritional science and of marketing at The study was based on a random se-

Illinois, was published in the November is- lection of 2,000 adults who were mailed a

sue of the Journal of the American Dietetic survey. The 770 people (38 percent) who

Association. completed the survey had an average of

It found that adults who preferred veg- 1.6 children living at home, were 37 years

etables to fruits ate more spicy foods, drank old and had a median household income of

wine more frequently with dinner, cooked $38,000. Seventy percent of the respon-

more elaborate meals and liked to try new dents were Anglo-American, and 61 per-

recipes. cent were women.

Fruit lovers not only had a greater han- Of these, 508 could be categorized as

kering for sweets, but were less adventur- either prone to vegetables or fruit by using

ous in the kitchen, entertained fewer guests a cross-classification technique based on

and ate desserts more often after dinner. their preference ratings for fruits and veg-

“A vegetable-lover’s taste for savory etables and by their self-perceptions.

or bitter taste sensations is consistent with The study was co-written by Kyoungmi

an attraction to spicy foods and tannic red Lee, a graduate student at Illinois. Wansink

wine, and a fruit-lover’s sweet tooth is con- is the director of the Food & Brand Lab at

sistent with an attraction to desserts,” Wan- Illinois.

sink wrote. The paper is titled, “Cooking Habits

By knowing the different cooking habits Provide a Key to ‘Five-a-Day’ Success,”

and food preferences of these two groups, five-a-day referring to a better-health cam-

a dietitian or health professional can better paign sponsored by the National Cancer

tailor healthier eating recommendations. Institute. ◆

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Fruits vs. Veggies Lumping fruits and vegetables into the same nutritional

category may be undercutting the effectiveness of health and wellness messages

because people who prefer vegetables have very different food tastes and social habits

from people who prefer fruit, according to a study by Brian Wansink, professor of

nutritional sciences and of marketing and director of the Food & Brand Lab. The

study was published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic

Association.

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Child-welfare Web site gives caseworkers first-time access to data

By Craig Chamberlain

News Bureau Staff Writer

Child-welfare caseworkers tend to focus

on daily crises.

State and federal governments, when

looking at child welfare, are focused in-

creasingly on outcomes – on long-term

progress in the overall safety, permanency

and well-being of the foster-care popula-

tion.

Illinois caseworkers and agencies can

now integrate the two, bringing outcome-

based concerns into their day-to-day prac-

tice, thanks to a federally funded project at

the UI. Central to the project is a Web site,

brought online in mid-September, which,

for the first time in any state, makes agency-

specific outcome data available to those in

the field.

“The key to this data is that it’s really

based on performance over time, and that’s

also what makes it very unique,” accord-

ing to Melinda Lis, the project director and

assistant director of the Children and Fam-

ily Research Center (CFRC), part of the

university’s School of Social Work. “An

agency can really get an idea of how they

are faring over a number of years.”

Caseworkers and administrators get the

outcome data specific to their own agency

through a password-protected section of the

Web site, which includes data going back

to 1996. Another part of the site, accessible

without a password, breaks down the state’s

outcome data by region and by public and

private sector. (http://xinia.social.uiuc.edu/outcomessite/ training modules, free of charge, which from the federally mandated outcomes and

“Many agencies have been surprised to index.htm), which could serve as a model can be easily adapted to individual agency actually walks it down to the casework

learn precisely where they stood on various for other states, came from a three-year needs, Hartnett said. This is especially im- level,” Hartnett said. It ties together an out-

indicators,” said Mary Ann Hartnett, the grant from the U.S. Department of Health portant in Illinois, where about 80 percent come-based focus with the recognized best

project’s principal investigator and associ- and Human Services. “HHS was very in- of children in foster care are served by pri- practices in the field, showing how to help

ate director of the CFRC. “The data helps terested in how to take outcomes and make vate agencies, many of which don’t have achieve big-picture goals on a case-by-case

them to focus on the outcomes that need them more integral to the real work, the the time or resources to develop training of basis, she said.

improvement,” she said. daily work, that caseworkers and agencies their own, she said. Outcomes have been an important aspect

The funding to develop the “Outcome do,” Lis said. “I think what our curriculum does that of child welfare, and caseworkers and agen-

Based Child Welfare Practice” Web site The site also provides outcome-based makes it very unique is it builds a bridge SEE CHILD WELFARE, PAGE 11









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Abundance of protein in infected swine may

result in reduced muscle mass

By Jim Barlow

News Bureau Staff Writer

A study looking at chronic infectious

respiratory diseases that affect most swine

during their critical growing stage has

shed new light on the reasons for restrict-

ed weight gain and reduced muscle mass.

In the November issue of the Journal

of Nutrition, UI scientists report that the

production of inflammatory cytokines by

immune cells appears to be responsible

for declines of both protein accretion and

weight gain in swine infected with Porcine

Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome

Virus (PRRSV).

The study also suggests that myostatin,

a protein that limits muscle growth, is over-

produced during infection, thereby reducing

the growth of skeletal muscle, said Rodney

W. Johnson, a professor in the department

of animal sciences and the interdisciplinary

Division of Nutritional Sciences.

Johnson and colleagues isolated pigs in

disease-containment chambers and exposed

different experimental groups to the bacte-

rium Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and/or

PRRSV.

Almost all U.S. swine are exposed to the

bacterium in production facilities, while

about 60 percent are exposed to PRRSV. photo by Kwame Ross

These pathogens open the way for other in-

fectious agents. During the pivotal growing

Sick swine Rodney W. Johnson, a professor in the department of animal sciences and the interdisciplinary Division

of Nutritional Sciences, and colleagues have studied chronic infectious respiratory diseases that affect most swine

stage, pigs are at the most risk and suffer

during their critical growing stage. The researchers have found that the production of inflammatory cytokines by

from cough, fevers and depressed appetite.

immune cells appear to be responsible for declines of both protein accretion and weight gain in swine infected with

Reduced market weight or increased time

Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus.

for pigs to reach a desired market weight

can be a substantial cost to producers. PRRSV infection alone resulted in a is why animals have reduced appetite when been linked to double muscling in cattle

Infection from the bacterium alone did daily weight gain of just 50 percent of that they are sick. and to abnormally large muscles in a Ger-

not reduce weight gain compared with the of the control animals (300 grams per day “The cytokine molecules are the key, be- man child.

control group during the four-week-long ex- compared with 600 grams per day) and sub- cause they are the messengers used by the Johnson’s team found a substantial in-

periment, but it did lead to the development stantially less protein accretion. The drop immune system to alter other systems that crease in the amount of myostatin mRNA

of lesions that affected 8 percent of the total in growth began three days after exposure are relevant to growth,” Johnson said. in the muscles of infected pigs. “We have

lung area in infected pigs. The finding was to PRRSV and continued for the remaining At the suggestion of co-author Jeffery shown, using an infectious disease model

similar to earlier work in Johnson’s labora- two weeks of the trial. Escobar, a former doctoral student now where animals grow slowly, that there is an

tory. However, the introduction of PRRSV PRRSV infects macrophages, a type of with the USDA/ARS Children’s Research increase in muscle myostatin mRNA.”

caused damage to the lungs from the bacte- white blood cell that attacks pathogens. Center at the Baylor College of Medicine In addition to Johnson and Escobar, co-

rium to jump to 40 percent. The virus is spread from the lungs as the in Houston, the researchers examined myo- authors were William G. Van Alstine of the

“One thing the virus does is suppress macrophages migrate to other tissues. Be- statin gene expression in the infected pigs. Animal Disease and Diagnostic Laboratory

the immune system,” Johnson said. “When fore infected macrophages die from the vi- Myostatin’s role in muscle development at Purdue University and David H. Baker,

PRRSV and mycoplasma are together, the rus, they produce inflammatory cytokines, is becoming clear, Johnson said. Mice with a professor of animal sciences at Illinois.

PRRSV-induced immunosuppression al- hormone-like molecules that enable the im- the myostatin gene deleted become muscle- The Illinois Council for Food and Agricul-

lows the mycoplasma to spread unchecked. mune system to influence other parts of the bound, and a defective myostatin gene has tural Research funded the study. ◆

It really takes over the lungs.” body. One part affected is the brain, which



CHILD WELFARE, FROM PAGE 10

cies have always strived to achieve certain Illinois was an ideal place to develop one possible. adoption of foster children, particularly as

outcomes in their cases, Hartnett and Lis an outcomes-based Web site, Hartnett said, The CFRC also had a history of apply- it relates to those in the care of relatives.

noted. But those outcomes were not stan- because the state’s Department of Children ing technology to child-welfare training and It is the recipient of a two-year, $5.8 mil-

dardized and fully defined until HHS be- and Family Services (DCFS) had a history practice. Two years ago, the center, working lion grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts

gan its Child and Family Services Review, of quality data-gathering going back at least with the university’s Prairienet Communi- to host a national education and outreach

a process over the last four years of review- two decades. ty Network, produced an online reference program, called Fostering Results (http://

ing states’ compliance with federal child- Added to that was the partnership be- manual for use by all caseworkers in Illi- www.fosteringresults.org), that is raising

welfare requirements. Those requirements tween DCFS and the Children and Fam- nois. awareness of issues facing children in fos-

were an outgrowth of the federal Adoption ily Research Center, going back to a 1996 The center also has been noted for its ter care. ◆

and Safe Families Act of 1997. agreement, which makes projects like this research on subsidized guardianship and









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Life on Earth: New course focuses on sustainability

By Jim Barlow

News Bureau Staff Writer

The textbook for a new elective course

last spring was a cartoon guide. The profes-

sor was outside her specialty. However, she

and her 13 students – most of them upper-

level undergraduates – took the class seri-

ously. After all, the focus was life on Earth

and the future of civilized society.

The new course, “The Challenge of a

Sustainable Earth System,” is offered by

the UI department of geology. It ponders the

course of human survival amid rapid popu-

lation growth and dwindling resources.

The challenge is big. For example, one

homework assignment had the students cre-

ating their own ecological footprint, an ex-

ercise that considered the rates of consump-

tion and resource utilization of themselves

or that of a family member. One student

found that it would take 16 planet Earths if

everyone now alive lived the lifestyle of her

father.

In a world whose population is projected

to rise from 6.4 billion to 9.3 billion by 2050,

the challenge of sustaining any individual’s

level of life, let alone that of many societies

and countries, is staggering. The object of

the assignment was to stimulate resolutions

for how individuals might change their be-

haviors for the good of the planet.

The underlying theme of the course,

sustainability, is difficult to define, said Su- photo by Kwame Ross



san W. Kieffer, the Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Teaching responsibility Geology professor Susan Kieffer is surrounded by students from her inaugural offering of “The

Chair and professor of geology. “It’s easier Challenges of a Sustainable Earth System,” from left, Matt Borkowski, Joe Brewer, Lisa Tranel, Nicole Bettinard and Alex

to define what is not sustainable,” she said. Bettinard.

“We go with a variation on the Brundtland

report, which says that sustainability ‘is ate students experience directly the intel- is now interconnected, and we are using ciety and tracked them seven generations

meeting the needs of the present without lectual and emotional needs of our planet up resources that took millions of years to both backward and forward. “It was in-

compromising the ability of future genera- that beckon us,” Brewer said. “Sue has put form.” credibly thought-provoking, because I had

tions to meet their needs.’ “ together a course that seeks to connect the Last spring, the discussion-oriented class to imagine what the world may be like in

The Brundtland Report was issued in knowledge students gain with a sense of used “The Cartoon Guide to the Environ- specific ways as humans continue to sig-

1987 as “Our Common Future” by the responsibility and introspection about how ment,” by Larry Gonick and Alice Outwa- nificantly alter our planet is unprecedented

World Health Organization headed by Dr. we affect our world.” ter, as a textbook. The book, by way of car- ways,” he said.

Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway. It stat- Kieffer is an expert on fluid dynamics, toons, covers chemical cycles, life commu- A group project had each student ran-

ed that a direct link exists between the econ- which considers such things as the move- nities, human population growth and global domly playing the role of a world leader

omy and environment; the needs of the poor ment of water and wind, volcanic eruptions warming. The class also read and discussed or other affected individual to argue about

in all nations must be met; to protect the en- and meteorite impacts, but this new course “The State of the Planet,” a series of articles keeping or removing megadams. They fo-

vironment, the economic that appeared in 2003 in Sci- cused on the histories, goals and environ-

conditions of the world’s “All too often, our education is merely job training. ence magazine, and students re- mental problems of the Glen Canyon Dam

poor must be improved; viewed a book on ecology. on the Colorado River and the Three Gorges

and “in all our actions, we Too rarely do undergraduate students experience One day each week the stu- Dam on the Yangtze River in China. Their

must consider the impact directly the intellectual and emotional needs of our dents came armed with notes work resulted in a 34-page report to a ficti-

upon future generations.” about a current event. “We cious National Academy of Sustainability.

Kieffer’s spring-only plant that beckon us. Sue has put together a course were challenged to find both The students, Kieffer said, learned the

course should be on the ra- that seeks to connect the knowledge students gain good and bad news stories from difficulties of reaching a consensus on a

dar screen for all students around the world,” said Nicole controversial topic. They concluded that

at Illinois, said Joe Brewer, with a sense of responsibility and introspection Bettinardi of Downers Grove, neither keeping nor removing the Glen

a graduate student in at- about how we affect our world.” Ill., now a graduate student in Canyon Dam was the answer. They recom-

mospheric sciences from geology. “I was already aware mended that output should be lowered “in

Wheaton, Mo., who took –Joe Brewer of the negatives of today, but an attempt to re-mediate the river’s natural

the course last spring. the positive advances in science flow” and that the dam should become a liv-

“It is such an impor- is her passion. The course can accommo- and procedure in various coun- ing museum to educate the public about the

tant subject,” he said. “It is the question of date up to 20 students. tries were very interesting, and encourag- “uses and misuses, hazards and securities

our times: Can we find a way to live sus- “I enjoy teaching this course - a lot. It is ing, to hear about.” that such a dam can offer.”

tainably? If yes, then we will be forced to an adventure to teach something you have A homework assignment that had stu- The students in the initial class last

change our behaviors substantially. If no, no experience with, but it is important to dents envisioning life for future generations spring were guinea pigs, so “sometimes it

then catastrophe will rebalance the Earth. nurture leadership in sustainability,” she was an was a little rough around the edges, but Sue

“All too often, our education is merely said. “Our children and grandchildren will eye-opener, Brewer said. The students is very passionate about this subject, and it

job training. Too rarely do undergradu- inherit a different world. The whole planet selected eight or more properties of a so- SEE SUSTAINABILITY, PAGE 13









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achievements

benefits brief A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of

faculty and staff members

McKinley offers flu shots to high-risk employees business Institute is an educational non-profit, inter-

McKinley Health Center has a limited amount of flu vaccine and Lois Meerdink, assistant dean of busi- national, scientific society whose purpose

can now offer flu shots to state employees who meet the Centers for ness career services, was named Boss of the is to promote and disseminate research in

Year by The Secretariat, a fellowship orga- combustion science.

Disease Control guidelines for “high risk.” These include

nization for secretaries at the UI. Meerdink John A. Rogers, professor of materials

people who are 65 years old or older; those who have was nominated by Lezli Cline and will have science and engineering, was selected as

underlying, long-term illness such as heart or lung dis- her name inscribed on a traveling plaque. a 2004 Small Times Magazine Best Small

ease, diabetes, kidney disease, a blood disorder or a Tech Researcher Award Runner-up. The

weakened immune system; women who will be preg- communications Small Tech Awards recognizes the best peo-

nant during the flu season; health-care workers who Thomas C. O’Guinn, professor in the ple, products and companies in nanotech-

Institute of Communications Research, has nology, MEMS and microsystems.

take care of patients; or those who have or take care

won the Journal of Consumers Research’s Nick Sahinidis, professor of chemi-

of a baby under 6 months old. Best Article Award for 2001 for his article cal and biomolecular engineering, won the

Those who fit into one of these categories “Brand Community,” which he co-wrote 2004 Computing Society Prize of the Insti-

can get a shot at McKinley’s Immunization with Albert M. Muniz Jr. O’Guinn is the tute for Operations and the Management

and Travel Clinic, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon- only person to ever receive the award twice. Sciences. He shares the award with his for-

day-Friday. No appointment is necessary and Each year the journal, published by Univer- mer student, Mohit Tawarmalani, now an

sity of Chicago Press, names a Best Article assistant professor at Purdue. The award is

there is no charge for employees or retirees.

Award from issues published three years given annually for research excellence in

Spouses who fit into a category can have the earlier. He was a co-winner in 1997 and a the interface between operations research

shot for $17. finalist in 1989 and 1998. and computer science. The 2004 prize was

For more information, go to awarded to Sahinidis and his former stu-

www.mckinley.uiuc.edu. ◆ education dent for “their contributions to the field of

The Global Human Resource Develop- nonlinear global optimization summarized

ment distance master’s degree program has in their book, ‘Convexification and Global

been given the Best Buy HR Degree Award Optimization in continuous and Mixed-In-

SUSTAINABILITY, FROM PAGE 12 by GetEducated.com, a Web site designed teger Nonlinear Programming,’ and embod-

showed, so that helped a lot,” Bettinardi She will describe how she tried “to balance to help people find online undergraduate ied in the BARON software package.”

said. “Her teaching style required us to in- reality and pessimism with optimism and and graduate programs. The award was

teract with her and the class, and the class action ideas.” given on the basis of fall 2003 tuition costs liberal arts and sciences

was effectively one big discussion group, Kieffer is the one of two Walgreen Chairs and education quality for adult and non- Martha U. Gillette, professor of molecu-

aided by assigned papers or projects.” at Illinois. She earned her doctorate in plan- traditional learners. lar and integrative physiology, has received

Next spring’s primary textbook will be etary sciences in 1971 from the California the 2004 Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achieve-

still be “The Cartoon Guide,” and students Institute of Technology. She also holds de- engineering ment Award from the Society of Neurosci-

may tackle either forest or soil manage- grees in physics, mathematics, geological John Buckmaster, professor of aero- ence’s Women in Neuroscience group. The

ment as a group project. sciences and planetary sciences. space engineering, was awarded the Ya B. award, given since Salpeter’s death in 2000,

In early November, Kieffer will discuss Kieffer will host a forum on sustain- Zeldevich Gold Medal by the Combus- recognizes career achievements of women

her course at the annual meeting of the ability in April. The forum, “Planet Earth’s tion Institute. The medal is awarded for in neuroscience and their roles as scientists,

Geological Society of America, in a special Challenges to Human Survival,” is funded outstanding contributions to the theory of mentors and teachers. ◆

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briefnotes

Thanksgiving holiday

from the trash at the UI’s Waste Transfer Station. Once re- ings on postage thanks to a new partnership with a presort

Shut down tips for campus facilities covered, the books will be blended in with another lower vendor that took effect Nov. 15.

With the holiday season approaching, Facilities & Ser- grade of paper and then baled for shipment to a paper mill. The discount applies to first class 1-, 2- and 3-oz. read-

vices wants to reduce the risk of weather damage and inter- All other recyclables should be disposed of in their proper able mail. The cost for a first-class 1-oz. letter drops from

nal damage to facilities. They offer the following tips: recycling containers. $0.37 to $0.32, for example.

1. Close and lock all windows and doors, close blinds Questions should be directed to Recycling and Material Departments that currently meter and handle their own

and close curtains. Reduction Coordinator Tim Hoss at 244-7283. mail by switching to Stores, Mail, and Receiving can real-

2. Turn off all unnecessary lab services including gas, ize additional savings.

15 percent discounts

air, vacuum and water. More information on this program and other cost-saving

3. Turn off fume hood fans that are not needed. Consider Campus units save on postage measures being investigated is available at 333-6101. ◆

consolidating chemical storage in fewer hoods. Units that process their mail through Stores, Mail and

4. Leave all radiator valves turned on to ensure adequate Receiving will be able to take advantage of 15 percent sav-

heating and avoid freeze damage.

Facilities and Services personnel will check all areas

for problems such as open windows, but they cannot alter

operations of fume hoods or lab services since they must

deaths

presume the use is intentional. Mozell Douglas Avant, 70, died Nov. 10 at Provena 61821.

Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. Avant retired as a Katharine C. Schrader, 69, died Nov. 1 at Champaign

Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership

food-service worker after 18 years at the UI. Memorials: County Nursing Home. Schrader worked at the UI for

Entrepreneurial sucess to be shared Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church Building Fund, 1310 25 years.

Faculty members will share their “entrepreneurial suc- N. Sixth St., Champaign, IL 61820. Lester G. Seligman, 86, died Nov. 2 at Provena Cov-

cess stories” at a panel discussion from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Brad Patrick Eizinger, 56, died Nov. 6 at Life Care enant Medical Center, Urbana. Seligman was a professor

Dec. 1 at the Levis Faculty Center. The event, sponsored by Center, Rochester, Ind. Eizinger was an associate avia- of political science at the UI for 15 years, retiring with

the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership, seeks to iden- tion education specialist at the UI for eight years, leaving emeritus status in 1988. Memorials: Social Action Fund

tify accomplishments on campus that “are clearly entrepre- in 1993. Memorials: Hope Hospice. of Sinai Temple, 3104 W. Windsor Road, Champaign,

neurial in the way they were conceptualized and realized.” Don W. Graffis, 76, died Nov. 13 at his home in Ionia, IL 61822.

Panelists will include Sara Hook, professor of dance; Mich. Graffis was an agronomist with UI Extension. He Larry E. Willfong, 59, died Nov. 11 at Carle Foundation

Robert W. McChesney, professor of library and information retired in 1997 after 31 years of service as a specialist in Hospital, Urbana. Willfong had worked in the Division

science and in the Institute of Communications Research; hay and pasture crops. Memorials: PSP Society; Lyons- of Operation and Maintenance as a laborer at the UI until

and Andrew C. Singer, professor of electrical and computer Muir Bell Tower Fund; or Hospice of West Michigan. 2003.

engineering. Leigh S. Estabrook, professor of library and Z. Burt Parker, 75, died Nov. 3 at Carle Foundation Lawrence “Larry” E. Williams, 81, died Nov. 4 at The

information science and of sociology, will moderate the Hospital, Urbana. Parker was a police officer with the UI Carle Arbours, Savoy. Williams worked in dairy science

panel discussion. Police, retiring in 1986. Memorials: Pheasants Forever; at the UI for 30 years, retiring in 1983.

Its days are numbered

Cornbelt Volunteer Fire Department; or St. Joseph-Stan- Memorials

ton Volunteer Fire Department. A memorial service for Judy Algozin will be at 9 a.m.

Old phone book disposal instructions Edward J. Quinlan, 76, died Nov. 10 at Provena Cov- Nov. 19 in the auditorium of the Beckman Institute. A

With new phone books being delivered on campus, enant Medical Center, Urbana. Quinlan was supervisor reception will follow the service. Algozin, 45, died Oct.

Facilities and Services is asking the campus, excluding at the main desk of the Illini Union for 19 years, retiring 23. She was director of development for foundation rela-

Housing Division, to place old phone books in the trash. in 1990. Memorials: American Legion Post 71, 107 N. tions in the Office of Campus Development. During her

This will make it easier to get the old books out of build- Broadway Ave., Urbana, IL 61801; St. John’s Catholic 14-year career at the UI, she also had worked in the col-

ings. Housing Division will have collection sites through- Chapel, 604 E. Armory Ave., Champaign, IL 61820; or leges of Engineering and Education and in the UI Foun-

out each building for residents to drop off old books. The St. Mary’s Church, 612 E. Park Ave., Champaign, IL dation. ◆

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calendar

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 insideil@uiuc.edu. More information is available from Marty Yeakel at 333-1085.







of events

The online UIUC Events Calendar is at www.uiuc.edu/uicalendar.





Note: $ indicates Admission Charge Nov. 18 to Dec. 5

lectures ucation Building. Bureau of 150 Animal Sciences Lab. Nu- al. Will Campbell, saxophone. sports Communication.” 7-9 p.m.

Educational Research. tritional Sciences. 4:30 p.m. Music Building au- 209 Illini Union. Counseling

20 Saturday ditorium. To confirm times, go to Center Paraprofessionals.

“Technique and Representa- 29 Monday 2 Thursday Doctor of Musical Arts Project

www .fightingillini.com

tion in the Work of African- “Model Checking Software “Learning From Longitudinal 2 Thursday

With VeriSoft.” Patrice Gode- Case Studies of Teacher Edu-

Recital. Faith Holley, trumpet. 19 Friday Coffee Hour: Lebanese. 7:30-

American Artists.” Lowery 7:30 p.m. Music Building audi- Men’s Basketball. UI vs. Del-

Stokes Sims, Studio Museum, froid, Bell Labs, Lucent Tech- cation Graduates: Implica- torium. 9:30 pm. Cosmopolitan Club,

nologies, Lisle, Ill. 4 p.m. 1404 tions for Higher Education.” aware State. 7 p.m. Assembly 307 E. John St., Champaign.

Harlem, N.Y. 3 p.m. Krannert Hall. $

Art Museum. Center for Ad- Siebel Center. Computer Sci- Renee Clift, UI. Noon. 242 20 Saturday Cosmopolitan Club.

vanced Study, Art and Design, ence. Education Building. Bureau of Master of Music Recital, Part 20 Saturday

Illinois Program for Research “Androgyny and Ethics in Educational Research. 1. Cyrus Pireh, composition. 4 Saturday

Women’s Basketball. UI vs. Krannert Art Museum Family

in the Humanities and Afro- Postmodern Gothic: The Crow “Language and the Future 7:30 p.m. Music Building au- University of Arkansas-Pine

and Fight Club.” Lauren Good- of (Eastern) Europe.” Susan ditorium. Festival. 10 a.m.-noon. Activi-

American Studies. Bluff. 7 p.m. Assembly Hall. ties and live music in the gal-

lad and Lilya Kaganovsky, UI. Gal, University of Chicago. $

30 Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Levis Faculty Cen- 4 p.m. 101 International Stud- 21 Sunday leries. Krannert Art Museum.

“The X Prize: Advancing Pri- ter. Criticism and Interpretive ies Building. Russian, East Eu- Master of Music Recital, Part 21 Sunday Book signing: Doug Wilson of

vate Space Exploration.” Theory. ropean and Eurasian Center. 2. Cyrus Pireh, composition. Men’s Basketball. UI vs. Flor- “Trading Spaces.” 1 p.m. Au-

Gregg Maryniak, Ansari X 5 p.m. Music Building audito- ida A&M. 3 p.m. Assembly thors corner, second floor, Illini

Prize Foundation. 6 p.m. Foel- 30 Tuesday music rium. Hall. $ Union Bookstore. Illini Union

linger Auditorium. Illinois “Modern in Form, Socialist Bookstore.

Space Society. in Content: Housing and Ma- 18 Thursday 30 Tuesday 24 Wednesday

terial Culture Under Khrush- Doctor of Musical Arts Re- UI Jazz Combos. 7:30 p.m. Men’s Basketball. UI vs. Oak- 5 Sunday

4 Saturday chev.” Christine Varga-Harris, cital. Steve Prescott, clarinet. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert land University. 7 p.m. Assem- Latin American Celebration.

Saturday Physics. “The UI. Noon. 101 International 3 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Center. Five different com- bly Hall. $ 2-4 p.m. Spurlock Museum.

Crystals That Nature Can- Studies Building. Russian, Hall. bos led by Chip McNeill, Ron Activities include dance dem-

not Make.” Jim Eckstein, UI. East European and Eurasian Senior Recital. Ari Vilhjalms- Bridgewater, Dana Hall, Chip 26 Friday onstrations and tours. Refresh-

10:15-11:30 a.m. 141 Loomis Center. Stephens and Glenn Wilson $ Volleyball. UI vs. University of ments will be provided. For

son, violin. 3:30 p.m. Memo- more info, visit www.spurlock.

Lab. Saturday Physics Honors “Scanning Tunneling Micros- rial Room, Smith Hall. School of Music. Minnesota. 7 p.m. Huff Hall.

Program. Enescu Ensemble. Sherban $ uiuc.edu. Spurlock Museum.

copy Using Dynamic Laser UI Steel Band and World Per-

Heating.” Josh Ballard, UI. Lupu, conductor and violin.

5 Sunday Noon. 3369 Beckman Institute.

cussion Ensemble. Ricardo

7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great 27 Saturday exhibits

“In Search of ‘Older Women,’ Flores, director. 7:30 p.m. Volleyball. UI vs. University of

Imaging Technology Group/ Hall, Krannert Center. $ “Dia de Muertos”

Sex and Gender in the Late Krannert Center, Colwell Play-

School of Music. Iowa. 7 p.m. Huff Hall. $

Beckman Institute. house. $ School of Music. Latin American display case.

Paleolithic.” Olga Soffer, UI.

3 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Muse- “Magnetic Field Conversion of Ivo Pogorelich, piano. 7:30 2 Thursday 1 Wednesday “Commemorating John Phil-

um. Archaeological Institute of Carbon Nanotubes Between p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Tania Libertad. 7:30 p.m. Stu- Men’s Basketball. UI vs. ip Sousa’s Contributions

America and Classics. Metallic and Semiconducting Krannert Center. $ Concert dio Theater, Krannert Center. Wake Forest University. 6 p.m. to America’s Music Heri-

States.” Alexey Bezryadin, Prep: 6:45 p.m. Studio The- One of Latin America’s most Assembly Hall. $ tage”

colloquia UI. 4 p.m. 1005 Beckman In- ater, Krannert Center. Ivo Pog- established singing stars, Lib- On view Nov. 1-28.

stitute. Nanoscale Science and orelich, piano, and Katherine ertad performs in this theater’s et cetera Main hall display cases, Li-

18 Thursday Technology. Syer, speaker. club-style setting. $ brary.

“Community Colleges and 18 Thursday ■

America’s Future.” Norton 1 Wednesday Illini Women and University Steven Curtis Chapman. “All Coffee Hour: Pakistani. 7:30-

A Celebration of Souls: Day

“Genetic and Genomic Ap- Chorus. Michelle LeLoup and Things New Tour.” 7:30 p.m. 9:30 pm. Cosmopolitan Club,

Grubb, University of Cali- David Sawatzky, conductors. of the Dead in Southern

fornia, Berkeley. Noon. 242 proaches to Understand Cilia Assembly Hall. With guests 307 E. John St., Champaign.

7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Casting Crowns and Chris Cosmopolitan Club. Mexico”

Education Building. Bureau of in Algae and Humans.” Susan Through Dec. 30.

Educational Research. Dutcher, Washington Univer- Hall. Tomlin. $

sity School of Medicine. Noon. Doctor of Musical Arts Project 19 Friday Five galleries featuring the cul-

22 Monday B102 Chemical and Life Sci- Recital. Faith Holley, trumpet. 3 Friday “Across the Sky.” 7-8 p.m. tures of the world.

7:30 p.m. Music Building audi- Interval Series. Kennedy’s Staerkel Planetarium, Park- Spurlock Museum, 600 S.

“The Place of Public Educa- ences Lab. Cell and Structural Gregory St., Urbana. Noon-5

tion in a Global Era.” John Biology. torium. Kitchen. Noon. Lobby, land College. Astronomy and

Krannert Center. A multi-gen- stories blend as led by David p.m. Tu; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. W-F; 10

Willinsky, University of Brit- “Modulation of Muscle Gene

ish Columbia. Noon. 242 Ed- Expression by Reduced Activ- 19 Friday erational band from South Leake, Staerkel Planetarium; a.m.-4 p.m. Sa.

ity.” Kimberly Huey, UI. 4 p.m. Doctor of Musical Arts Recit- Bend, Ind., serves up a casual Kim Sheahan, Spurlock Mu- ■

mix of lively jigs, pub songs seum; and Kim Petzing of Al- “Bill Traylor, William Edmond-

and traditional tunes. lerton Park. Call 351-2568 for son and the Modernist Im-

Kenny Rogers Christmas reservations. Allerton Park and pulse”

Show. 7:30 p.m. Assem- Conference Center. “Before Recognition: Experi-

bly Hall. Kenny Rogers and ments in Art and Science

Friends celebrate the season 20 Saturday at the Threshold of Per-

featuring Rebecca Lynn How- “Winter in the Woods.” Art- ception”

ard and Billy Dean. $ ists at Allerton, Gift Shop Sale, Through Jan. 2.

Children’s Crafts. 10 a.m.-5

Faculty Recital. Timothy p.m.; Conference Center Open Featured Works XIX. “Of

Ehlen, piano. 7:30 p.m. Foel- House. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Lunch Books and Tales: Salva-

linger Great Hall, Krannert at Allerton House. 11:30 a.m. or dor Dali and the World of

Center. $ 1:30 p.m. Convention Center; Imagination”

Tania Libertad. 7:30 p.m. Stu- Carriage Rides. Noon-4 p.m. Through Feb. 13.

dio Theater, Krannert Center. Visitor’s Center; Nature Hike. “Opulent Display: Textiles

$



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Dinner at Allerton House. 5:30 Asia”

4 Saturday p.m. Convention Center; Lu- Through March 27.

Tania Libertad. 7:30 p.m. Stu- minary Hike and Stargazing. Krannert Art Museum and

dio Theater, Krannert Center. 7:30-8:30 p.m. Visitor’s Cen- Kinkead Pavilion. 9 a.m.-5

$



for online

ter, Allerton Park. More info p.m. Tu, Th-Sa; 9 a.m.-8 p.m.

5 Sunday and to make reservations for W; 2-5 p.m. Su. Free admis-

Carol Concert. 3 p.m. Foel- meals: www.allerton.uiuc.edu. sion; $3 donation suggested.

linger Great Hall, Krannert Allerton Park and Conference ■

Center. “Roger Blakley: New Works”



version

Center. Short groupings of sea-

sonal pieces interspersed with 21 Sunday “Harold Boyd: Tributes”

traditional carols and holiday “Winter in the Woods.” Art- Through Nov. 20.

songs. $ ists at Allerton, Gift Shop Sale, I space, 230 W. Superior St.,

Holiday Tree Lighting Cere- Children’s Crafts. 10 a.m.-5 Chicago. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tu-

mony. 4 p.m. Lobby, Krannert p.m. Allerton Park; Conference Sa.

Center. Music, a visit from Center Open House. 10 a.m.- ■

Santa and an opportunity to 4 p.m. Allerton Park; Sunday @art gallery. Online exhibit of

select a gift recipient from the Brunch at Allerton House. 10 the UI School of Art and De-

Giving Tree. Krannert Center a.m.-1 p.m. Convention Cen- sign. www.art.uiuc.edu/@art.

Student Association. ter; Carriage Rides. Noon-4

p.m. Visitor’s Center; Nature ongoing

dance Hike. 2-3:30 p.m. Visitor’s

Center, Allerton Park. More Altgeld Chime-Tower Tours

2 Thursday info and to make reservations 12:30-1 p.m. M-F. Enter

“The Nutcracker.” 7:30 for brunch: www.allerton.uiuc. through 323 Altgeld Hall. To

p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, edu. Allerton Park and Confer- arrange a concert or Bell Tower

Krannert Center. The Cham- ence Center. visit, e-mail chimes@uiuc.edu

paign Urbana Ballet, in cooper- or call 333-6068.

ation with Sinfonia da Camera Family Cosmic Bowling. 2-5

p.m. Rec Room, Illini Union. Arboretum Tours

and Krannert Center, presents To arrange a tour, 333-7579.

this annual family classic with Illini Union.

Beckman Institute Cafe

music by Tchaikovsky. $ 23 Tuesday Open to the public. 8 a.m.-

3 Friday Nature ABCs and 123s: “T is 3 p.m. M-F. Lunch served

“The Nutcracker.” 7:30 for Turkey.” 10-11 a.m. Vis- 11 a.m.-2 p.m. For monthly

p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, itor’s Center, Allerton Park. menu, www.Beckman.uiuc.

Krannert Center. $ Ages 2-5. More info: www. edu/cafe/.

allerton.uiuc.edu. $ Allerton Bevier Cafe

4 Saturday Park and Conference Center. 8:30-11 a.m. coffee, juice and

“The Nutcracker.” 2 and 7:30 baked goods; and 11:30 a.m. to

p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, 24 Wednesday 1 p.m. lunch.

Krannert Center. $ “Around the World Wednes- Campus Recreation

days.” 9 a.m.-noon. Rowe IMPE Bldg.: 6:30 a.m.-mid-

5 Sunday Learning Center, Spurlock Mu- night. M-Th; 6:30 a.m.-10

“The Nutcracker.” 2 p.m. Try- seum. For children and parents. p.m. F; 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Sa;

on Festival Theater, Krannert More info, call 265-0474. Do- 9 a.m.-midnight Su; IMPE

Center. $ nations. Spurlock Museum. Indoor Pool: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

daily; CRCE: closed for reno-

30 Tuesday

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CALENDAR, FROM PAGE 15

vations. at 5 p.m. most Th. ◆

Kenney Gym and pool will be Intermezzo Cafe: Open 7:30

open to all faculty/staff at no a.m.-3:30 p.m. on non-perfor-

charge during scheduled hours mance weekdays; 7:30 a.m.

with valid ID card. More info through weekday performanc-

and schedules, 333-3806 or es; weekends from 90 minutes

visit www.campusrec.uiuc. before until after performances.

edu. Promenade gift shop: 10 a.m.-

English as a Second 6 p.m. M-Sa; one hour before

Language Course until 30 minutes after perfor-

7-8:30 p.m. LDS Institute mances.

Building, 402 S. Lincoln Ave., Ticket Office: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Urbana. Weekly on Th. daily, and 10 a.m. through first

intermission on performance

Falun Dafa Practice Group days.

3:20-4:40 Sunday 404 or 407 Tours: 3 p.m. daily; meet in

Illini Union. 244-2571. main lobby.

Huizenga Commons Cafeteria Library Tours

Serving breakfast. 7:30-11 a.m. Self-guided of main and un-

and lunch 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. dergraduate libraries: go to

M-F. East end of Law Bldg. Information Desk (second

Ice Arena Open Skate floor, main library) or Media

Open Skate: 11:20 a.m.-12:40 Center (undergrad library).

p.m. M-F (while university is Meat Salesroom

in session). Hours: 7:30-9:30 102 Meat Sciences Lab.

p.m. F; 1:30-4 p.m. Su. Cheap 1-5:30 p.m. Tu & Th; 8 a.m.-1

Skates: 7:30-9:30 p.m. First p.m. F. For price list & spe-

W of each month. www.cam- cials, 333-3404.

pusrec.uiuc.edu/skating/index. Robert Allerton Park

html. Open 8 a.m. to dusk daily.

Illini Union Ballroom “Allerton Legacy” exhibit at

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. M-F. Sec- Visitors Center, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

ond floor, NE corner. For res- daily; 244-1035. Garden tours,

ervations, 333-0690; walk-ins 333-2127.

welcome.

Vet Med Café

Japan House Open weekdays 7 a.m.-3 p.m.

photo by Kwame Ross

Tours: 1-4 p.m. Th; 1-5 p.m. South end of Vet Med Basic Dress rehearsal Ronald Romm (left) and Michael Ewald, professors in the School of Music, practice a number

Third Sa of the month. For Sciences Building. For weekly for the “Stars, Stripes, Sousa” halftime show during the UI vs. Indiana football game on Nov. 6. Romm and Ewald

a group tour, 244-9934. Tea menu, www.cvm.uiuc.edu/.

Ceremony: First and third Th are playing e-flat cornets, also called over-the-shoulder horns, from the 1850s, which are part of the university’s

of the month. $5/person. organizations collection. The concert was one of many events held on campus during November as part of a monthlong

Krannert Art Museum and sesquicentennial celebration of John Philip Sousa’s birth.

Kinkead Pavilion Council of Academic Profes-

sionals Meeting

Tours: By appointment, call 1:30 p.m. First Th monthly. 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana. Discussion Group pany, 706 S. Goodwin Ave., VOICE: Poetry and fiction

244-6582 December meeting at 500 7 p.m. 317 Illini Union. Read Urbana. reading

Illini Folk Dance Society

The Fred and Donna Giertz Swanlund. www.cap.uiuc.edu “Ella Minnow Pea,” by Mark 7:45 p.m. Second Thursday of

8-10 p.m. Tu and Sa, Illini The Deutsche Konversation-

Education Center: 11 a.m.-1 or mjreilly@uiuc.edu. Dunn for Jan. 6. More info: each month. The Bread Com-

Union. Beginners welcome, sgruppe

p.m. Tu-Th; Palette Cafe: 8 355-3167 or www.uiuc.edu/ pany, 706 S. Goodwin Ave.,

Classified Employees 398-6686. 1-3 p.m. W. The Bread Com-

a.m.-4:30 p.m. M-Sa, 2-4:30 ~beuoy. Urbana.

p.m. Su.; Office hours: 8:30 Association Italian Table pany, 706 S. Goodwin Ave.,

a.m.-5 p.m. M-F. 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. first Italian conversation M at noon, PC User Group Urbana. Women’s Club

Th monthly. 244-2466 or Intermezzo Cafe, KCPA. For schedule, call Mark Secretariat Open to male and female

Krannert Center for the nblackbu@uiuc.edu. Zinzow, 244-1289, or David faculty and staff members

Performing Arts Lifetime Fitness Program 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. third Wednes-

French Department: Pause Harley, 333-5656. day monthly. Illini Union. 333- and spouses. 398-5967,

Interlude: Open one hour be- 6-8:50 a.m. M-F. Kinesiology,

Café 244-3983. Scandinavian Coffee Hour 1374, mdavis@uiuc.edu or kmarshak@prairienet.org or

fore until after events on per- http://wc-uiuc.prairienet.org.

formance nights. Wine tastings 5-6 p.m. Th, Espresso Royale, 4-6 p.m. W. The Bread Com- www.uiuc.edu/ro/secretariat.

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