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Jenny Hoobler asks: where are female leaders in South Africa? More on page 2

INSIDE: Profile / Quotable 2 | Campus News 4 | Calendar 8 | Student Voice 9 | Police 10 | Sports 12

Victor Mateevitsi sees future of technology in Google Glass More on page 5

Gallery 400’s ‘Ghost Nature’ reminds us of our role on Earth More on page 9

Photo: S.K. Vemmer

The UIC Jazz Ensemble shares the stage with Grammy-winning trumpeter Randy Brecker Feb. 19 at the UIC Jazz Festival. “Randy Brecker is a true jazz icon,” says jazz ensemble director Andy Baker. More on page 3.

Women’s basketball team sweeps Valparaiso More on page 12

Performing with a jazz legend

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“It’s good for minimum-wage workers; it’s good for other workers; it’s good for the economy; it isn’t a drag on employers. There is no research that has ever identified a negative job impact from raising the minimum wage.”

Robert Bruno, professor and director of the Labor Education Program, on raising the national minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour, Feb. 4 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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“I don’t think it dropped below freezing the whole time I was there.”

Peter Doran, professor of earth and environmental sciences, on his recent visit to Antarctica, Feb. 8 Chicago Tribune

Jenny Hoobler asks: where are female leaders in South Africa? By Gary Wisby

In South Africa, a country with consti-tutional guarantees of gender equity, why aren’t there more women leaders?

That’s the question that interests Jenny Hoobler, associate professor of management

studies in the College of Business Administration.It’s taken her to South Africa three times, starting with a

2011-12 sabbatical from UIC on a Fulbright research award, and most recently for two weeks over winter break.

On that visit she presented evidence from her research, done with UIC doctoral students Courtney Masterson and Eric Michel, at an African Academy of Management confer-ence in neighboring Botswana.

When South Africa became a democratic nation in 1994, ending apartheid, prohibitions against gender discrimination were written into its constitution.

“They started ahead,” Hoobler said, meaning ahead of the United States.

“Still only 4 percent of U.S. CEOs are female, and women make 87 cents on the dollar that men make.

“So we don’t have it figured out here by any means.”But in the case of South Africa, “what if a country starts

out 100 miles down the road from us?,” she asked. “We’ve been trying for the ERA since the 1960s — corporate leaders are tired of hearing these arguments.”

Hoobler said she was “interested in seeing if things were different there [South Africa], if opportunities for women have really improved greatly since ’94.”

She found that gains have been “mainly for white women.”For blacks and “coloreds” (Indian or mixed race), she said,

“progress has been stagnant, while white women have in-creased their representation in leadership in corporations.”

Hoobler was co-author of a 2009 groundbreaking article on the glass ceiling for women, published in the Academy of Management Journal, with Sandy Wayne, professor of man-agement, and Grace Lemmon, then a doctoral student.

“It was a seminal article, and I’m proud of it,” she said. The piece was a finalist for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for best work and family research, sponsored by the Alliance of Work-Life Progress.

Hoobler also studies another aspect of management that is best described by the title of the recent movie “Horrible Bosses.”

Her term is “abusive supervision.”“Everyone has their story,” she said. “Inevitably at a dinner

party, the conversation turns to someone’s bad boss experi-ence.”

Research shows that most people have an abusive boss sometime in their careers.

“The abuse isn’t physical, but verbal — ridiculing you, undermining you, not giving you credit where credit is due,” Hoobler said.

At any one point, 14 percent of workplaces have an abusive supervisor, she said.

“If it is physical, we know it’s against the law,” she said. “But for people who are emotionally abusive, it’s a much grayer area.

“Intentional emotional distress is harder to prove — it’s ‘he said, she said.’”

Since no boss will report on his or her own bad behavior, evidence must come from the employee.

“When you have a bad boss, there are higher instances of links to anxiety, depression, interest in leaving a company, higher work-family conflicts,” Hoobler said.

“I even have some initial data showing that victimized workers are more prone to PTSD (post-traumatic stress dis-order).”

Hoobler, who has advised women working on master’s degrees at the University of Pretoria, is currently dissertation chair for a student in Ethiopia who is doing the first study of work-family interactions in that country.

The student, Abeba Mengistu, will spend next summer at UIC so Hoobler can do statistical analysis for her study.

“This brings up things you would never think of,” she said. “Things like access to convenience foods — you can make a quick dinner versus spending four hours making dinner for your family — or the quality of roads for your commute.

“It’s amazing to me the limitations — Internet access for two hours a day, and being assigned two ballpoint pens at the beginning of the semester for her role as lecturer.

“Yet she is creating a world-class dissertation.”Hoobler grew up in Gridley, a small town north of

Bloomington. She earned a bachelor’s degree at the Urbana-Champaign campus, an MBA at Springfield, and a Ph.D. from University of Kentucky.

She taught at Northern Illinois University for three years before joining UIC nine years ago.

Her leisure-time activities are running and cooking.She’s married to Ryan Kilpatrick, director of communica-

tions for the nonprofit Center for Neighborhood Technology. They live in Little Italy with their dog, Indie.

“She’s 12,” Hoobler said. “She’s as old as my career.”[email protected]

Photo: Joshua Clark

Jenny Hoobler examines why there aren’t more women in leadership positions in South Africa, a country with constitutional guarantees of gender equality. “They started ahead,” says Hoobler, associate professor of management studies. “Progress has been stagnant.”

“The play is filled with conflicts, with strong wants, and with a family that fights hard but also loves each other hard. It fits my personality.”

Yasen Peyankov, head of the acting program in the School of Theatre & Music, on the play “Russian Transport,” his directorial debut at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Feb. 6 Chicago Sun-Times

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By Anne Brooks Ranallo

It’s not every day that the UIC Jazz En-semble gets the chance to perform with a legend.

The student musicians will share the stage Feb. 19 with Grammy-winning trum-peter Randy Becker, who has performed with artists from Frank Sinatra and Steely Dan to Funkadelic and Frank Zappa.

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Illinois Room, Student Center East. Ad-mission is $10 for the general public and $7 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at the door, online at http://bitly.com/1fVvT2P or by calling 312-996-6068.

Brecker will also give a free master class Feb. 18 at 1 p.m., open to the public as part of the Tuesdays-at-One concert series. The performance will be held in the lower-level recital hall of the Education, Theatre & Music, Social Work Building.

“Randy Brecker is a true jazz icon and one of the most important trumpet play-ers of the last 50 years,” said jazz ensemble director Andy Baker.

“Having an artist of this stature working with our students for two days is a creative and educational experience that they will cherish well beyond their time at UIC.”

Brecker has been shaping the sound of jazz, rhythm-and-blues, rock and fusion for four decades.

His trumpet and flugel-horn per-formances have graced hundreds of albums by artists ranging from Bruce Springsteen to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. His multiple Grammy Awards include the 2014 Grammy for best large jazz ensemble album for “Night in Calisia” with Polish composer Wlodek Pawlik and the Kalisz Philharmonic. Jazz Journal praised Brecker’s compositions as “magnificent edifices of aural architecture.”

Before Brecker performs with UIC’s 18-piece jazz group, music faculty will open the show with a performance by Baker on trombone, Ernie Adams on drums, Mar-quis Hill on trumpet, Stewart Miller on bass, Dan Murphy on piano, Zvonimir Tot on guitar and Cheryl Wilson on vocals.

The concert is also the finale for the UIC High School Jazz Festival.

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By Christy Levy

There’s a common misperception about the people who benefit from food stamps, says researcher Angela Odoms-Young.

More than 75 percent of households receiving assistance from the federal Sup-plemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are seniors, people with disabili-ties, or working adults who have children and are trying to make ends meet.

“The purpose of SNAP is really to en-sure that all Americans have access to an adequate diet,” said Odoms-Young, assis-tant professor of kinesiology and nutrition.

“A lot of people think it’s for people who don’t want to work and that’s not an accurate picture. Many SNAP recipients work, and others who are unemployed are casualties of what’s been happening in our economy.”

But the people who benefit from the program will soon receive less aid, she said.

The federal farm bill, signed by Presi-dent Obama Friday, cut the nation’s food stamp program by about $800 million a year. The cuts reduce the monthly food stamp benefit by an average of $90 a month for about 1.5 million people across the country.

The average food stamp benefit is cur-rently about $134 per person per month, which amounts to less than $1.50 per per-son per meal, Odoms-Young said.

“The cuts that we are going to see are going to be significant,” she said.

Farm bill cuts to food stamps ‘significant’

“SNAP is there for all of us to use when we need it, and we don’t know if we’re going to become that person who needs it.”

Having fewer dollars to spend on food will likely mean that families won’t have nutrition on their minds when they shop, Odoms-Young said.

“Low-income families are already dis-proportionately at risk for obesity,” she said. “People turn to cheap, energy-dense, highly processed foods, which are cheaper than healthier foods.”

With the decrease in food stamp benefits, people will likely turn to emergency food sources such as food pantries or soup kitch-ens, Odoms-Young said. The farm bill did not cut funding for emergency food sources, but an influx of people needing help would put stress on nonprofit food agencies.

“They won’t be able to meet the gap that’s going to need to be met when it comes to SNAP cuts,” she said.

Individuals aren’t the only ones affected by the farm bill provisions — the cuts will have a larger impact on the economy, Odoms-Young said, because every $5 in food stamp

Jazz Ensemble to share stage with legend

benefits generates as much as $9 in economic activity.

“Everybody benefits — agriculture, food processing, warehouse and transportation, and manufacturing and service industries,” she said.

Families who receive food stamps can also benefit from other federal and state pro-grams, such as the National School Lunch Program, which provides healthy meals to schoolchildren, and the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, which provides food, education and medical referrals for mothers and children younger than 5.

Odoms-Young is working with the Il-linois Department of Human Services to implement a program in Illinois called WIC to 5, which aims to retain participants in the Women, Infants and Children program for the duration of their eligibility.

“It’s really important, given the SNAP cuts, that people know about their eligibility,” she said.

For more information on the Illinois WIC program, visit http://bit.ly/1dahm57

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The university has created a website, facultycollectivebargaining.uic.edu, to in-form students, faculty and staff of the status of negotiations and answer questions relat-ing to a possible strike announced Thurs-day by the union representing two faculty collective bargaining units on campus.

The union representing full-time faculty at UIC in colleges other than Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy announced plans for a two-day work stoppage Feb. 18 and 19.

UIC United Faculty, which represents tenured and nontenure-track faculty in separate collective bargaining units, filed a 10-day notice of intent to strike with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board.

The filing allows, but does not require, faculty in the bargaining units to strike any time after 10 days.

The decision whether to strike is up to each individual faculty member.

Negotiations between the university and the union began in August 2012 and

moved to federal mediation last November.Further meetings with the federal media-

tor are scheduled for Feb. 14 and 21.

Website outlines proposals in collective bargaining

For updates and more information on negotiations visit facultycollectivebargaining.uic.edu

Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin

The university created a website with information on negotiations with faculty collective bargaining units.

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UIC Jazz Festival Randy Brecker, UIC Jazz Ensemble7:30 p.m. Feb. 19, Student Center East$7 students, seniors; $10 othersTickets at the door or http://bitly.com/1fVvT2P

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Have green ideas?Student organizations and individual stu-

dents have until Feb. 21 to submit preliminary proposals seeking funds for campus projects related to sustainability, energy efficiency and conservation or renewable energy, in-cluding composting, landscaping and trans-portation.

A total of about $30,000 will be awarded by the Green Fee Advisory Board, which includes students, faculty and staff. The fund-ing comes from the UIC Green Fee paid by undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

For more information, visit http://bit.ly/1o8sV10

Science and religionThe Institute for the Humanities and UIC

Jewish-Muslim Initiative will host a confer-ence March 10 exploring the role of science in religion.

“Science in Judaism and Islam” takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Institute for the Humanities, lower level, Stevenson Hall.

For a complete schedule, visit huminst.las.uic.edu/ifth

Modernizing O’HareFind out details of the $7 billion O’Hare

International Airport modernization project at a lecture Feb. 20.

FAA project manager Christina Drouet presents “The O’Hare Modernization and Chicago Airspace Project” from noon to 1 p.m. at the Great Cities Institute, 400 CUPPA Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the Urban Transportation Center.

For more information, visit utc.uic.edu

Chancellor searchNominations are due Monday for mem-

bers of the UIC community to serve on a search committee to find UIC’s next chancel-lor.

The advisory committee will include 16 members: seven faculty members, an under-graduate student, a graduate or professional student, two deans or directors, an academic professional, a civil service staff member, an alumna or alumnus, a representative from the University of Illinois Foundation and a mem-ber of the Chicago community.

Brief letters of nomination should be sent via email to Elizabeth Dooley, clerk of the UIC Faculty Senate, at [email protected]

UIC Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares’ con-tract expires in January 2015.

Economic jackpot? A lecture Feb. 21 examines the implica-

tions of expanding casino development to help bolster the state economy.

“Casinos as Tools for Economic Develop-ment in Suburban Chicago” takes place from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Great Cities Institute, 400 CUPPA Hall.

Speakers are Ryan Gallagher and Michael Wenz, assistant professors of economics at Northeastern Illinois University.

For information, email [email protected]

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By Jeanne Galatzer-Levy

A new year brings resolutions — and a new book by UIC researcher Krista Varady, The Every-Other-Day Diet, was among Ama-zon’s top 10 in the U.S. during its first week of release.

Varady, associate professor of kinesiology and nutrition, based her book on solid re-search on diet, nutrition and heart health.

“The point was to create a diet people can stick with,” she told the Chicago Tribune.

Her interest in findings ways for people to lose weight and improve their heart health led her to a strategy of modified every-other-day fasting. On her diet, people eat one meal of about 500 calories on the “fast” day and anything they want the next day.

Varady’s research showed that on her diet, cholesterol and blood pressure improve, people don’t have difficulty exercising and, perhaps most important, most seem to find the regimen easy to maintain.

Nor did they make up for the calories lost on the fast day.

Varady said it’s important to have many weight loss options, since no one diet has proved superior in helping people lose

weight and keep it off. Her every-other-day regime is generating

media interest, including articles in the Chi-cago Tribune, the Chicago talk show “Windy City Live” and The Atlantic magazine.

Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin

“The point was to create a diet people can stick with,” says UIC researcher Krista Varady.

In Britain, where her book was in the top 30, coverage includes the Times Magazine, the morning TV program “BBC Breakfast” and the Telegraph.

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Every-other-day diet book among Amazon’s Top 10

Better way to travel?How could transit around campus be im-

proved? Share your ideas through UIC’s Multi-

modal Transportation Plan survey about transportation around UIC at http://svy.mk/1e0CJRK

Members of the UIC community can share their comments today at two workshops: 4 to 5:30 p.m., Thompson Rooms, Student Center West, or 6:30 to 8 p.m., 329 Student Center East.

For more information, visit cmap.illinois.gov/lta/uic

Self-defense skillsThe Chancellor’s Committee on the Status

of Women will host a self-defense class Feb. 20.

The “I Am Self Defense” workshop takes place from 4 to 6 p.m. in the School of Public Health gymnasium.

RSVP at http://bit.ly/1cmNzpl

Free dental screeningsFree screenings by College of Dentistry

students will be offered 9 a.m. to noon Satur-day in the college’s clinics. No appointments are necessary.

Students are preparing for their licensing exams.

Screening includes a free limited dental exam and x-rays, if indicated.

Certain patients will be selected for treat-

ment on the days of licensing exam, March 22 and 23.

Patients with all missing teeth are not ac-cepted.

Must be 18 years old or older and cannot be allergic to latex.

Celebrating HerstoryThe 20th annual Women’s Leadership

Symposium, “HERSTORY: Celebrating Our Past and Soaring into the Future,” is seeking presenters to give workshop sessions on lead-ership development.

The symposium will be held from 8 a.m.

to 5 p.m. June 5 in the Illinois Room, Student Center East.

Deadline to submit proposals is Feb. 19 to [email protected] or the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center, MC 363.

For more information, visit http://bitly.com/Ky2fam

Need help?Not sure how to use computer software?

Ask Lynda.Lynda.com, a collection of online tutorials,

is free for UIC students and employees. For information, visit lynda.com/member


By Matt O’Connor

Smartphones, smart watches and now smart glasses?

That’s right, Google Glass is the latest in-novation in smartwear that transforms the way we communicate.

Google Glass is essentially a hands-free smartphone that uses voice recognition and a touchpad system to let the person wearing the glasses browse apps, shoot video, receive directions, and more — without reaching for a phone.

“It’s something new,” said Victor Matee-vitsi, doctoral student in computer science.

“People are still exploring what you can do with it. The processing power is not great, you need heavy video real-time image processing, like object recognition is really difficult, but you know it’s going to happen eventually.”

The frameless, lightweight glasses have a number of useful features, including the ability to direct your eyes at a website, sign or other material with text and translate it into another language in seconds. A recent up-grade prompts a wink from your right eye to capture a picture.

Simply say, “OK, Glass, share to Facebook,” and you’ve shared something in a matter of seconds.

“It’s a different way of communicating with the data that is online and communicating with the world around you,” Mateevitsi said.

Seeing future of technology in test of Google Glass Glass is currently available only through

the Glass Explorer Program to those testing the $1,500 product. A retail version is expect-ed to be released later this year at a cheaper price.

For now, the technology is still in its early phase with developers like Mateevitsi work-ing on projects to expand its uses. Mateevitsi signed up online to test the product.

“When the first iPhone appeared, you could only make calls and send text messages, but eventually they added an app store and apps,” he said.

“I think it’s all about the apps right now, just writing the correct apps that will make this an experience that you would like to have.”

The Google Glass experience may drasti-cally alter the way we interact with our envi-ronment, Mateevitsi said.

Imagine walking through a store look-ing for a product. Google Glass instinctively brings up a pop-up with pricing at other stores, he said.

Or walking into a house decorated in white and, with Glass, visualize what the counter-tops would look like in marble or the walls blue.

“There is a lot of potential for augmented reality apps,” Mateevitsi said, “when the reality is augmented with information that is virtual and computed on the Glass.”

These advancements are not without prob-

Photo: Lance Long

UIC doctoral student Victor Mateevitsi is testing Google Glass, a hands-free smartphone that lets the user browse apps, shoot video and receive directions. “People are exploring what you can do with it,” he says.

lems and critics.“There definitely are privacy questions,

which as a society we need to find answers to,” Mateevitsi said. “Because what happens if I’m wearing Google Glass and I’m recording you, but you don’t know about it?”

The Five Points Cafe in Seattle already placed a ban on Google Glass, citing privacy as a concern. A Columbus, Ohio, man was questioned by Homeland Security after he was suspected of recording a movie for pi-

rating. A California woman was issued a ticket in October for driving while wear-ing Google Glass, but was cleared because of insufficient proof that they were turned on.

“Think about in the future — the more we use the technology, the more we aug-ment our world and the more we can make,” Mateevitsi said.

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By Sharon Parmet

UIC researchers have found more evi-dence that fetal exposure to a chemical found in water bottles, soup cans and other com-mon products can increase the risk for pros-tate cancer later in life.

Bisphenol A, or BPA, is used to soften plastics. Steering clear of the chemical is nearly impossible, says Gail Prins, professor of urology and physiology and lead author of the paper pub-lished online in the journal Endo-crinology.

“Previous studies have shown that peo-ple who avoided all contact with plastics or other BPA-containing objects for up to a month or more still had BPA in their urine,” said Prins, director of the UIC andrology laboratory.

“Which means they must have come into contact with BPA in the last 24 to 48 hours, since it clears the body rather quickly.

“It’s very hard to avoid,” she added.Exposure of the fetus to BPA in utero is

of particular concern. The chemical, which mimics the hormone estrogen, has been linked to several kinds of cancer, including prostate cancer, in rodent models. The new findings show that human prostate tissue is also susceptible.

“Our research provides the first direct evidence that exposure to BPA during devel-opment, at the levels we see in our day-to-day

Exposure to BPA linked to prostate cancer later in lifelives, increases the risk for prostate cancer in human prostate tissue,” Prins said.

“The findings of adverse effects of BPA in human tissue are highly relevant and should encourage agencies like the Food and Drug Administration to re-evaluate their policies in the near future.”

Prins investigated the effect of BPA on human cells by implanting human prostate stem cells taken from deceased young adult men into mice. Prostate stem cells are long-lived. They arise during early fetal develop-ment and produce and maintain a man’s prostate tissue throughout his life.

To mimic exposure to BPA during embryonic development, for two weeks following implantation the mice were fed BPA — in amounts in line with those seen in pregnant American women — as the cells produced humanized prostate tissue.

“The amount of BPA we fed the mice was equivalent to levels ingested by the average person,” Prins said. “We didn’t feed them exorbitantly high doses.”

After the tissue was allowed to mature for one month, the mice were given estrogen to mimic the naturally rising estrogen levels seen in aging men. This rise in estrogen later in life is one of the known drivers of prostate cancer.

Tissue was collected after two to four months and analyzed for prostate disease. Prins found that a third of tissue samples taken from mice fed BPA had either pre-cancerous lesions or prostate cancer, com-pared to only 12 percent in a control group.

If the prostate stem cells were exposed to BPA before implantation and again as they produced prostate tissue in the mice, 45 per-cent of the tissue samples had pre-cancerous

lesions or cancer.“We believe that BPA actually reprograms

the stem cells to be more sensitive to estro-gen throughout life, leading to a life-long increased susceptibility to diseases including cancer,” Prins said.

Co-authors of the study are Jason Nelles, Andre Kajdacsy-Balla, Wen-Yang Hu, Guang-

Exposure to BPA, a chemical found in plastic items such as water bottles, can increase the risk for prostate cancer, says researcher Gail Prins. BPA, which softens plastics, is “very hard to avoid,” she says.

Bin Shi, Dan-Ping Hu and Shyama Majum-dar, College of Medicine; Gunnan Li, Ke Huang and Richard Van Breemen, College of Pharmacy; Cheryl Lyn Walker, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University, and Shuk-Mei Ho, University of Cincinnati.

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UIC to launch yearlong,accelerated MBA program By Jeff Boynés

The Liautaud Graduate School of Busi-ness is offering an accelerated MBA degree program, beginning in May.

Students in the 12-month, full-time program will choose between two tracks: financial markets and risk manage-ment, or international management.

“This program will prepare students to seize today’s most exciting opportunities and position themselves competitively in the global market,” said Shari Holmer Lewis, assistant dean of the College of Business Administration.

The program is cohort-based, so stu-dents start and stay together in the program through graduation, helping form lasting business and professional relationships.

Cohorts will benefit from a large enroll-ment of students from Asian countries, who bring a crosscultural perspective on some of the world’s fastest growing econo-

mies.March 15 is the ap-

plication deadline for the financial markets and risk management track that begins in May.

June 15 is the appli-cation deadline for the

strategic and international business man-agement track, which begins in August.

More information is available online at business.uic.edu/cmba. Candidates apply through the Liautaud Graduate School of Business.

For more information about the pro-gram, contact Caroline La Torre, director of recruiting and enrollment, at [email protected] or 312-996-4573.

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Gail Prins

“This program will prepare students to seize today’s most exciting opportunities.”


Send information about campus events to Christy Levy, [email protected]

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UIC Jazz Festival

Feb. 19Feb. 12, 1999: President

Bill Clinton is acquitted on two articles of impeach-ment — perjury and ob-struction of justice — after a five-week impeachment trial.

For the perjury charge, 45 Democrats and 10 Re-publicans voted not guilty but the Senate voted 50-50 on the charge of obstruc-tion of justice.

FEBRUARY 12 IN HISTORY

President Clinton acquitted

Trumpeter Randy Brecker with UIC Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Illinois Room, SCE. Tickets $7 for students and seniors, $10 general public. Available at the door, theatreand music.uic.edu or 312-996-6068

EXHIBITS

Through March 1

“Ghost Nature”Group exhibition based around the strangeness of the natural world. Curated by Caroline Picard. Gallery 400, ADH. Exhibit hours, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Fri.; noon-6 p.m. Sat. 312-996-6114

Through May 9

“Chicagoaxaca”Exhibition sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative at UIC. 1-4 p.m., Tues., Thurs. and Fri. Pop Up JUST Art Center, 729 W. Maxwell St. 312-355-5922

LECTURES/SEMINARS

Feb. 19

“The Gender Gap in Patent Law and Copyrights”Anne Elizabeth Moore, author, Fulbright scholar and a UN Press Fellow. Sponsored by Women in Science and Engineering. Noon-1 p.m. Latino Cultural Center, LC B2. [email protected]

Feb. 20

“O’Hare Modernization and Chicago Airspace Project”Christina Drouet, FAA project manager. Sponsored by the Urban Transportation Center. Noon-1 p.m. 400 CUPPA Hall

Feb. 21

“Casinos as Tools for Economic Development in Suburban Chicago”Ryan Gallagher and Michael Wenz, assistant professors of eco-nomics, Northeastern Illinois University. 2 p.m. Great Cities Insti-tute, 400 CUPPA Hall

SPECIAL EVENTS

Feb. 13

Internship and Part-Time Job FairFor all majors. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Illinois Room, SCE. 312-996-3130

Feb. 15

Free Dental ScreeningsFor patients ages 18 and older. 9 a.m.-noon, Dentistry. No appointment necessary

Feb. 18

“Tuesdays-at-One”Randy Brecker. Master class by Grammy-winning trumpeter and flugelhornist in jazz, R&B and fusion. 1 p.m. L060 EPASW

WORKSHOPS

Feb. 16

“How to Find Full Text”Online library workshop. 7-7:30 p.m. http://library.uic.edu

Feb. 19

“Streamlining Group Work Using RefWorks and GoogleDocs”Online library workshop. 2-3 p.m. http://library.uic.edu

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Feb. 12

“History of Racism in Popular Music” Performance and discussion with acoustic hip hop band Scratch Track. 1-2:30 p.m. Illinois Room, SCE. 312-413-5070

Feb. 13

“Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story” Film screening and discussion. Kimberly Alecia Singletary, Northwestern University doctoral student. 12:15 p.m. 1501 UH

Feb. 21

“Clybourne Park” Opening night of Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning show by Bruce Norris. 7:30 p.m. UIC Theatre, 1044 W. Harrison St. Tickets: $11 UIC students, $12 other students, $14 UIC faculty/staff, $16 general public. 312-996-2939

Feb. 26 and 27

Identity Backpack Workshop Guided conversations about personal identity. Noon – 2 p.m. White Oak Room, Student Center East

For more UIC events, visit www.events.uic.edu

Randy Brecker

Scratch Track performs for Black History Month.

Work on display in “Chicagoaxaca,” open through May 9.


Milan Metthey’s “Love Ducking – Experiment 1.” Metthey is among 19 artists displayed in “Ghost Nature” at Gallery 400.

student voice Want to contribute a story? Email Christy Levy, [email protected]

Have your voice heard on campus

Photo: Timothy Nguyen

Gallery 400 intern Francesca Banks takes a look at artwork from the “Ghost Nature” exhibit, on display through March 1.

By Michael Queroz

The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) ac-tively serves as the voice for the undergraduate class.

Here’s the latest news from USG:

Membership opportunities Looking for a leadership position on campus? Start

by running for office in this year’s USG student elections. Members represent the undergraduate class by being advocates for change and improvement through formal communications with university administration and Il-linois elected officials.

Positions available include president, vice president, and assembly member.

To receive more information, visit the Dean of Stu-dents website at deanofstudents.uic.edu

Want to be a member now? USG is accepting spring 2014 interim assembly member applications. Application deadline is Feb. 28.

For more information, visit the USG website at www.uic-usg.org and click on the “Documents” section.

News from USG president Abhinav Reddy

We are seeing a lot of changes in leadership on our campus. We are looking for a new chancellor to start at UIC by Jan. 2015. We are also searching for a new presi-dent of the U of I system, who should be in office by June 2015.

There are also some changes coming through the Sen-ate Committee on Educational Policy. Two new majors will be created: bachelor’s in public policy and bachelor’s in human development and learning.

News from USG vice presidentMateo Uribe

I will be hosting two USG Commuter Student Town Hall meetings today from 11 a.m. to noon and noon to 1 p.m. at the Commuter Student Resource Center. The event includes free food provided for the participants. Administrators are invited to come to a session to hear what the students have to say.

Current projectsWe are currently working on the Oxfam Hunger Ban-

quet. At this event, participants will find out what it really feels like to be hungry and about the hunger problems some students and the larger community face.

At the beginning of the event, participants will take a ticket and depending on what your ticket says, they could be eating a small meal or a three-course deluxe meal. More details coming soon.

We are beginning to plan RECESS in conjunction with the Student Activities Board. RECESS is an annual UIC tradition where fun events are held in the Lecture Center Plaza. This year’s event will be in April.

For more information on USG, visit facebook.com/UICUSG or www.uic-usg.org. Follow USG on Twitter at @UICUSG and email USG at [email protected]

• Mike Queroz is chair of the USG Communications & Recruitment Committee. Reach him at [email protected]

‘Ghost Nature’ reminds us of role on EarthBy Eva Meier

A peculiar, yet fascinating exhibit at Gallery 400 had me contemplating our connection to the Earth in a way that I had not before. We can’t consider ourselves “guests” on Earth any-more. It’s our home, and is here for us to appreciate, cultivate and innovate as time moves forward.

“Ghost Nature,” an exhibit with contributions from UIC students and other artists, reflects the two-way connection Earth has with humankind. The exhibit is on display through March 1 at Gallery 400, located on the first floor of Art and Design Hall, 400 S. Peoria St. Exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon to 6 p.m. Saturday.

With mediums ranging from video clips to raw vegetables, the artists convey an underrated, yet significant message: peo-ple don’t simply take from the Earth anymore; we take, then observe, then modify and enhance.

The artists each took creative and personal license on their interpretations of the different aspects of the Earth.

One such work is Rebecca Mir Grady’s “Long Distance Re-lationship with the Ocean,” in which she writes the equivalent

of a love note to the ocean itself. You can literally feel the rela-tionship Mir Grady has with the sea through her memo — intimate and comforting, remi-niscent of another part of her life, and com-pletely unrelated to the

cold, hard, urban city where she is now. The piece creatively and personally portrays her relationship with the Earth by pre-senting a piece of herself in her note to the “deep blue.”

Lounging beside the rest of the exhibits, a lone beetle (yes, one of those disgusting, speedy little critters) surveys the hap-penings at Gallery 400. But never fear, as gross as the little

plumbing-dwelling creatures may be, this one happens to be a sculpted replica. Making me physically tense for a moment was Jenny Kendler’s “Companion for Utopian” piece. Kendler’s exhibit is self-explanatory by portraying a very literal version of our virtually invisible, yet everyday companions. I found this particular piece to be a bit of an anomaly, as I reluctantly moved closer to the little critter. The beetle symbolized the life on Earth that we don’t particularly notice happening every day, the life that is everywhere.

These pieces are just two in the collection of quirky, but analogous, room full of videos, sculptures and paintings. Conceptually, the content of the exhibit is riveting. The fact that the exhibit moved away from the popular topic of the worldwide eco-friendly movement was a refreshing spin on the human-Earth interaction, especially from young artists.

The exhibit offers a reminder to those who forget that we are part of Earth, too, not just residents for the time being.

Life began on Earth, and though it may not finish here, mankind should always reflect and appreciate the life, beauty and innovation that Earth offers us.

• Eva Meier is a freshman in English. Reach her at [email protected]

‘Ghost Nature’Gallery 400, Art and Design HallThrough March 1: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; noon to 6 p.m. Saturday

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By Sharon Parmet

A check for $1,567,316 is no small change.

That’s the amount represented by the big cardboard poster that former American Heart Association chair William Roach Jr. presented to College of Medicine Dean Dimitri Azar Feb. 4 as the heart associa-tion recognized the UIC researchers it has funded over the past year.

The heart association has supported more than 300 projects at UIC over the past 40 years for a total of about $31 million in funding.

“I’d like to thank the American Heart Association for their generous support of cardiology research here at UIC, and also the faculty who nurture and guide the young investigators who receive AHA fund-ing,” Azar said.

The College of Medicine has more than 20 laboratories focused on finding cures for cardiovascular diseases within the UIC Center for Cardiovascular Research. The unit is the only one in the College of Medi-cine granted permanent center status by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

“Grants from the American Heart As-sociation help support the next generation of scientists who will find therapies that target the biological underpinnings of heart disease that we are discovering in the lab

today,” said E. Doug Lewandowski, center director and professor of physiology and biophysics.

“As the mentor of several AHA fellowship grant recipients, I can see the direct effect these funds have on supporting the early stages of the researcher careers of my stu-dents,” he said.

Ryan Lahey, a medical student in Le-wandowski’s lab, received heart association funding to investigate the effects of different dietary fats on cardiac performance over the course of progressive heart failure. Lahey presented his findings at the American Heart Association annual meeting.

Marcelo Bonini, assistant professor of

American Heart Association supports ‘next generation of scientists’

policeUIC Police emergency: 312-355-5555Nonemergency: 312-996-2830TDD: 312-413-9323

Feb. 3–9Deceptive practice: 3Battery: 3Criminal damage: 1Theft: 5

Arrests by UIC PoliceFeb 3: A woman was arrested at 3:15 p.m.

for theft at the UIC Police Station, in connec-tion with a Jan. 28 crime.

Feb 6: A man was arrested at 3:07 p.m. at Student Center East in connection with a Jan. 30 crime.

Feb 7: A man was arrested for battery at 10:31 a.m. at the hospital, in connection with a Feb. 3 crime.

Visit the UIC Police crime map, uiccrime-maps.org/map/, and the Chicago Police CLEAR Map, http://gis.chicagopolice.org

Suspect sought in off-campus robberyA UIC student was the victim of an off-campus strong-arm robbery at 10:45 a.m. Saturday

in the 600 block of West Roosevelt Road. The suspect approached the student, pointed an object at him and demanded the student’s

laptop. The student and offender fought and the suspect dropped a screwdriver from under his shirt. The suspect pushed the student into the snow and struck him with closed fists.

The suspect fled in a silver Chevy Tahoe. The student was taken to the hospital for a minor injury to his head. The suspect is described as a black male in his early 20s, 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches tall,

140 to 150 pounds with short hair and a medium complexion.Call UIC Police at 312-996-2830 with information.UIC Police strongly recommend complying with an offender whose intent appears to be

taking property or valuables.

cardiology, received a grant from the heart association to seek new therapies for angina, currently treated with nitroglycerin. He is looking for ways to reduce tolerance to the drug, which is prescribed to more than 4 mil-

lion Americans each year. “Funding from the AHA helped me inves-

tigate new ideas and gather data I can use to seek additional funding,” Bonini said.

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Photo: Joshua Clark

UIC College of Medicine dean Dimitri Azar joins faculty members Marcelo Bonini, Beata Wolska, J. Michael O’Donnell, E. Doug Lewandowski, R. John Solaro and Jesus Garcia Martinez and former American Heart Association chair William Roach Feb. 4 to recognize researchers who have funding from the organization.

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By Jeanne Galatzer-Levyand Sharon Parmet

A neurobiologist and a physicist are the latest UIC researchers named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientif-ic society and publisher of the highly regarded peer-reviewed journal Science.

Scott Brady, professor and head of anatomy and cell biology in the College of Medicine, was cited for his contributions to the study of cell and molecular biology of neurons.

Nikos Varelas, professor of physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was honored for his work in experimental particle physics.

They will be among 388 AAAS fellows honored Saturday at the association’s annual meeting in Chicago.

Brady’s work has led to the discovery of cellular mechanisms associated with neuro-logical disorders that affect millions world-wide, and may help in the development of new treatments.

He studied how nutrients, proteins and signaling molecules, including neurotrans-mitters, get from one end of a neuron — some can reach three feet in length in humans — to the other. He helped develop a technique combining video and electron microscopy for directly observing, in real time, the transport

Neurobiologist, physicist lauded for scientific contributionsof materials along the nerve axon in squid neurons.

His recent research suggests that holdups in the transport of materials along the nerve axon may play an important role in the devel-opment of neurodegenerative disorders.

Brady and his colleagues found that a mutant protein associated with inherited ALS caused slowdowns in the transport and deliv-ery of cellular materials when added to squid neurons.

These slowdowns could cause one end of the cell to run out of materials it needs and lose its synaptic connectivity with neighbor-ing neurons. Without these connections, neurons die.

Brady believes that this process may un-derlie the gradually worsening symptoms associated with adult onset neurodegenera-tive diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease.

Brady received a B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from the University of Southern California, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Case Western Reserve University. He was a faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center before joining UIC in 2002.

Varelas’ research in high-energy particle physics focuses on the building blocks of matter and the forces that bind them together.

Over the last two decades — as part of the

D-Zero experi-ment at Fermilab and the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Had-ron Collider at CERN — he has investigated the strong interac-tion that binds quarks together into protons and neutrons.

The Compact Muon Solenoid experiment includes over 3,500 scientists, organized into groups, attacking different aspects of the experiment from building the detector to processing and analyzing the enormous amount of data.

He was also involved in the search for the Higgs boson new subatomic particles. With his team at UIC, he established that quarks behave like fundamental entities down to the level of one thousandth of a trillionth the size of a human hair.

Varelas received his B.Sc. from the Univer-sity of Athens and a Ph.D. in physics from the

University of Rochester. After three years as a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University, he joined the UIC physics faculty in 1997. He has also been a guest sci-entist at Fermilab.

A 2013 University Scholar, he received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Out-standing Faculty and Faculty Service Award in 2012.

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Photos: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin and Joshua Clark

Medicine faculty member Scott Brady (left) and LAS faculty member Nikos Varelas were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.


For more Flames sports, visit www.uicflames.comsports

By Brad Taylor

The women’s basketball team (18-6, 7-4 Horizon League) picked up its seventh Horizon League victory Monday with an 82-73 road win over Valparaiso (3-19, 1-8 Horizon League).

Senior Katie Hannemann scored a season-high 29 points to lead the Flames to a season sweep of the Crusaders.

Sophomore Ruvanna Campbell collected her sixth straight double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds.

UIC’s 18-6 overall record is the program’s best mark through 24 games in program history. UIC is 7-4 through 11 conference contests for the first time since the 2009-10 season.

UIC seeks its eighth Horizon League win Saturday when the Flames travel to Dayton, Ohio, to take on Wright State (17-7, 6-3 Horizon League). Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. at the Nutter Center.

UIC never trailed in Monday’s game and led by as many as 20 in the second half.

The Flames held a 46-32 advantage in points-in-the-paint, grabbed 19 offensive rebounds and scored 24 second-chance points.

Valparaiso cut UIC’s early lead to 19-12 before the Flames went on a 12-0 run to take a 31-12 advantage with 9:29 on the clock. Valpo responded with a 22-6 run and trailed by three (37-34) with 1:21 before half-time. Lexi Miller’s last-second, half-court shot went in to trim UIC’s halftime lead to 42-37.

Jessi Wiedemann’s jumper with 16:09 left in the sec-ond half narrowed the Flames’ advantage to 49-43. But UIC went on a 10-0 run to put the game out of reach.

Hannemann was 11-of-13 from the field and 7-of-8 from the free throw line for her fifth career 20-point performance. Her previous season high was 19 against Texas Southern (Nov. 30).

Hannemann had 14 second-half points and was a perfect 6-of-6 from the floor. Over the last seven games, she has converted 60.2 percent of her field-goal attempts (41-of-68). Hannemann (908 career points) is the 19th player in program history to surpass the 900-career point plateau.

Campbell’s double-double is her league-high 16th of the season. She was 5-of-11 from the field and 4-of-5 from the charity stripe in her 23rd double-digit performance.

Campbell had 11 points and six rebounds in the second

Women’s basketball sweeps Valpo

By Carly Abate

The men’s tennis team (1-4) captured its first win of the season Saturday. The Flames were undefeated in sin-gles play, losing only one match in doubles to dominate Western Illinois, 7-0.

“We are progressing each week and were excited to see such a supportive crowd at the match,” head coach Hans Neufeld said.

UIC was undefeated throughout singles as Alexander Raa started the night by downing Christoph Haertel in the number one spot, 6-5, 6-4.

Alan Reifer was in No. 2 for the Flames and held strong against Mitch Granger winning in two straight, 6-5, 6-4.

In the No. 3 position, Carl Hedstrom dominated Max Cederkall, 6-2, 6-2. Isaac Lloveras kept the momentum going at No. 4, beating Brandon Meeker in two straight, 6-2, 6-0.

Eric Pontow took No. 5, stopping Chris Bunch, 6-3, 6-1.

Finishing out singles play strong for the Flames, Chris-topher Cole defeated Brett Furmanski, 6-3, 6-1.

In doubles play, Pontow and Lloveras teamed up in the No. 1 position, but the duo fell against Haertel and Granger, 6-5.

Reifer and Hedstrom dominated at No. 2 when they stopped Cederkall and Meeker, 6-5. Raa paired with Nate Campanile to face Bunch and Furmanski in the No. 3 position, closing out doubles strong with a 6-0 win.

The Flames return to competition Feb. 22 when the team faces Chicago at the Henry Crown Field House. Match time is to be determined; visit uicflames.com for the latest updates.

Men’s tennis collects first win of season

half. Over the last six contests, Campbell is averaging 21.3 points, 13.7 rebounds and shooting 56.5 percent from the floor (52-of-92).

Senior Rachel Story picked up her 20th double-figure performance with 14 points on 5-of-12 shooting. She tied her career high with seven rebounds.

Sophomores Terri Bender and Imani Moore both contrib-uted nine points.

Bender collected three steals to average 3.3 steals over the last six contests.

Photo: Timothy Nguyen

Senior Katie Hannemann scored a season-high 29 points Monday.

Photo: Steve Woltmann

Alexander Raa won his singles and doubles matches Saturday.

By Laura White

The women’s gymnastics team came away with a victory and scored a season-high 193.475 to beat Alaska Anchorage (190.325) at a tri-meet Sunday. Southeast Missouri took first at the meet with 194.075.

The Flames earned first-place finishes in each event and posted several career-best scores.

On vault, UIC claimed first place with redshirt-junior Kimberly Randall’s career-best score of 9.875, followed by senior Catherine Dion’s career-best 9.800 to tie for second. Freshman Nikki Woodruff collected a personal-best score with 9.650.

Dion took the lead on bars and set a career high with her

Women’s gymnastics team hits highest marksfirst-place score of 9.850. Randall scored a personal-best 9.750 alongside junior Gabrielle May to tie for sixth.

Dion continued to top all competitors with 9.850 on beam for first. Sophomore Kerensa Mitchell registered her first score of the season with 9.650 and freshman Nicole Szabo came away with a career-high 9.600.

The collection of career-best scores continued to the floor exercise, where Dion tied for first with 9.875, sophomore Gi-ulia Hindermann gathered a 9.775 and Randall posted a 9.725.

Through four events, Dion recorded an impressive 39.375 in the all-around for a new career high and first place. Junior Citlali Cuevas took a 38.200 for fourth.

The Flames host Texas Woman’s in a conference meet at 7 p.m. Friday at the Physical Education Building.