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November 16

2016Volume 36 / Number 13

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Miss Chicago Chinatown uses her platform to promote girls in STEM

Bioengineering student Christine Vi is busy preparing for the end of the semes-ter and post-graduation plans. Unlike her peers, however, she’s also preparing for her next big pageant as Miss Chicago Chinatown.

Her fondness for beauty pageants and science both are the result of long-held interests and aspirations from childhood.

“When I was little, I would always look at the Miss Chicago Chinatown on the float, and since then, I had always want-ed to do beauty pageants,” said Vi, a se-nior. She didn’t consider participating until a friend she had met through her bioengineering courses mentioned the opportunity to her.

Since winning her title, Vi has partici-pated in events organized by the Chi-nese American Civic Council, such as a

dinners and parades where Vi has in-spired young girls.

“It was great to talk with them so that I could push them to think about more than just beauty pageants. I use this as an out-let to promote girls in STEM,” she said.

With a concentration in cell and tissue, Vi explores her interest in robotic pros-thetics.

“I always loved engineering within bio-logical systems, so I can still help people without going down the medical route,” Vi said.

Vi joked that she balances her hectic full-time school schedule and fulfilling

Christine Vi, a bioengineering student and Miss Chicago Chinatown, has plans to be an entrepreneur.

By Sarah J. Wotaszak — [email protected]

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her duties as Miss Chica-go Chinatown with no sleep.

“I just make sure none of the schedules conflict, and school always comes first,” she said.

Vi will maintain her title throughout the next year, and represent Chicago at Miss Chinatown in early 2017.

As for her bioengineer-ing career plans, she plans to work at a manufactur-ing company to explore the world of electronics and robotics in relation to health care.

“I can use that experi-ence later in life to maybe open my own practice or company,” Vi said.

“I ALWAYS LOVED ENGINEERING WITHIN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, SO I CAN STILL HELP PEOPLE WITHOUT GOING DOWN THE MEDICAL ROUTE.”

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CAMPUS NEWS

Actress shares family’s immigration story By Tim Goldrick — [email protected]

For many in the UIC community, Diane Guerrero’s immigration speech came at a crucial time.

After a divisive election, Guerrero spoke candidly about what a Donald Trump presidency could mean for un-documented people living in the U.S.

“I don’t know that everything’s going to be fine, but I know that I’m going to keep working,” Guerrero, who advocates for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and Mi Familia Vota, said to students and staff Monday night. “I hope you do, too.”

It’s an issue that hits home for the 30-year-old actress, who stars as Maritza Ramos on the hit Netflix show “Orange is the New Black.” As a teen, Guerrero wit-nessed her undocumented parents be deported back to Colombia. She was able to stay because of birthright citizen-ship, but had to live at friends’ houses in Boston.

“I struggle with not having my family with me every day,” Guerrero said on-stage at the UIC Forum. “Immigration laws aren’t conducive for any reunifica-tion of families.”

Her speech, part of the “An Evening with” series sponsored by the Student Activities Board, was originally set up in a much different way. Before coming to

Chicago, Guerrero had prepared with a Hillary Clinton “victory in mind.” That drastically changed after the Nov. 8 elec-tion.

“I go, ‘What am I going to say to these students?’” Guerrero told UIC News backstage. “I ended up changing my speech, but I think while writing it, it real-ly helped me process this time, too.

“Being here has certainly helped me process and motivated me more than ever to keep on going, to keep on fight-ing for what I believe in.”

Her updated version was centered on sharing her family’s tragic story, delving deeply into comprehensive reform and calling upon students to speak up against injustices facing immigrants.

Although her message was thought-ful and serious, she interjected many moments of levity. The actress told self-deprecating jokes about her anti-quated lingo and dance moves, which had students uproariously laughing.

Nothing was off limits for Guerrero, who has found honesty to be a vital as-pect when sharing her story.

“When I first started this, I just wanted to share my story and relate to others,” Guerrero said backstage. “I would find it really hard to relate to others because I

wasn’t very honest with myself or others about my history with my family and how much the immigration system affected me.

“So I sought out to sort of connect with people, and what I found was that I’ve been able to speak to a lot of people and connect with other folks and come togeth-er to really have an open dialogue about this issue that I care so much about, which

is the issue of separa-tion of families in this country.”

After the event, Guerrero talked with UIC students who were granted VIP ac-cess.

Kimmy Camacho, a freshman in photogra-phy, excitedly waited in line to meet Guerrero and surprise her with a handmade bracelet that read: “No one is illegal.”

“I just wanted to show her that she’s not alone,” she said.

Guerrero thanked her, put it on, then snapped a picture.

Other students in attendance left with a

fuller understanding of immigration struggles and issues facing Americans.

“Being a woman of color also, it’s im-portant that we voice our opinions. Peo-ple have realized that you can’t just sit back,” event lead Jyotsna Bitra said. “Whatever you believe in, whatever val-ues you have, whatever opinions you have, you have to be heard.”

Legislation proposes performance-based funding for U of I systemBy University Relations

Legislation introduced Thursday would redefine the state’s long partner-ship with the University of Illinois system, providing predictable funding for univer-sity operations over the next five years in exchange for tangible performance goals that support Illinois students and serve the needs of the state.

President Tim Killeen outlined the proposed U of I Investment, Performance, and Accountability Commitment (IPAC) during Thursday’s meeting of the Board of Trustees, saying it is “arguably the most comprehensive higher education com-pact of its kind anywhere in the nation.”

“The proposed IPAC agreement is an innovative way forward through the finan-cial challenges facing both the U of I Sys-tem and the state,” Killeen said. “It eliminates the year-to-year uncertainty that hampers planning, and provides the resources and accountability that will ensure our three universities remain springboards to success for students and a pipeline of talent for the state’s workforce.”

The board unanimously approved a resolution supporting the measure, which would be the first in Illinois history to incorporate public university perfor-mance standards into state statute.

Killeen said the U of I system pro-

posed the shift to performance-based funding and worked with legislators to negotiate terms and draft House Bill 6623, sponsored by Rep. Michael Za-lewski (D-Riverside), Sen. Bill Cunning-ham (D-Chicago), and a bipartisan coalition of co-sponsors from the U of I Caucus.

Under the proposal, the state would provide a fiscal year 2018 appropriation of $662 million, matching the U of I sys-tem’s last full appropriation in fiscal year 2015, and funding would increase by the rate of inflation during each remain-ing year of the five-year pact.

The state also would adopt regulatory reforms to improve efficiency across the system, such as exempting the system from state procurement codes that often increase costs and cause delays in pur-chasing.

A state-financed Illinois Excellence Fund also would be created to support investments in classroom and research facility improvements that help recruit and retain top faculty.

In return, the U of I system would commit to meet the following standards that serve the needs of students and the state, beginning in academic year 2017–18:

• Hold tuition and mandated fee in-

creases for in-state undergraduates to no more than the rate of inflation, as measured by the federal Consumer Price Index.

• Set admissions thresholds to build on enrollment of Illinois undergraduates, who comprise more than 80 percent of this fall’s 55,700 undergraduates sys-tem-wide. During each year of the agree-ment, the U of I system would admit at least 27,300 Illinois residents as first-time students or transfers into under-graduate programs – 11,800 in Chicago, 1,500 in Springfield and 14,000 in Ur-bana-Champaign. The agreement also would require that Illinois students com-prise at least half of all growth in on-campus undergraduate enrollments above academic year 2015-16 levels.

• Maintain a system-wide 87 percent freshman retention rate in undergradu-ate programs, which is well above the national average of 72 percent.

• Maintain a six-year graduation rate of at least 72 percent for first-time fresh-men in undergraduate programs across the system. The national average is 60 percent.

• Use at least 12.5 percent of annual state funding – or $83 million during the first year of the agreement – to support need-based financial aid for in-state un-

dergraduates. The amount would in-crease by the rate of inflation during ensuing years of the agreement.

• Commit an additional $15 million in financial aid to attract Illinois students from underrepresented minority groups and students from Illinois counties who are currently underrepresented at the U of I’s three universities.

• Provide an annual report on its web-site with key data on service to the state, including total undergraduate and grad-uate enrollment; enrollment of underrep-resented minorities; and undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees awarded.

“This proposal would provide the U of I with much-needed, stable funding from the state legislature,” Cunningham said. “But it would also create account-ability.”

Appropriations would have to be ap-proved each year by the legislature and governor. If the state failed to provide the funding specified under IPAC during its annual appropriations process, the sys-tem would not be bound by performance standards for the following year.

Likewise, if the U of I system failed to meet any of the goals, the legislature could revisit the agreement and adjust funding for the following year.

Diane Guerrero interjected moments of levity into her speech. (Photo: Jenny Fontaine)


CAMPUS NEWS

Send campus news information to Christy Levy at [email protected]

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONSince 1996, the Shuttle Bug bus ser-

vice has linked workers to public trans-portation in Northern Cook and Southern Lake Counties.

Learn about this public/private part-nership at the fourth Fall 2016 Seminar Series event Thursday hosted by the Urban Transportation Center at UIC.

The presentation is led by Bill Baltutis and Tim Grzesiakowski of TMA of Lake County. The event begins at noon in the Great Cities Institute conference room, fourth floor at CUPPA Hall.

Visit utc.uic.edu for information.

NEW PAYROLL, BENEFITS PHONE SYSTEM

University Payroll and Benefits is implementing a new phone system to improve the customer experience.

Each campus will still have a specif-ic number to call, but callers now can connect to the representative most able to handle the call via a simple menu; hold for a representative and know their place in the queue; and have the option to receive a call back without losing their place in line.

The system will be implemented in late November.

GIVING TUESDAYDonate to UIC, thank donors during Nov. 29 event

For information, call 312-996-7200.

EMBODIED INEQUALITYThe Institute for Research on Race &

Public Policy presents the latest in its Embodied Inequality series, a panel dis-cussion on how survivors of police tor-ture and activists in the wake of Chicago’s historic reparations ordinance are addressing police violence as a public health crisis for the black commu-nity.

The panel will also address the role health practitioners can play in healing collective harms.

The event takes place from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the School of Public Health Auditorium.

Panelists include Darrell Cannon, Chi-cago Torture Justice Center outreach specialist and torture survivor; Christine Haley, Chicago Torture Justice Center executive director; Alice Kim, Chicago Torture Justice Center steering commit-tee; Linda Rae Murray, professor of pub-lic health; and Elena Quintana, Adler University Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice executive director.

For information, email [email protected] or visit irrpp.uic.edu

By Tim Goldrick — [email protected]

This holiday season, the UIC commu-nity will have the opportunity to give cur-rent and future students an important gift.

Giving Tuesday, which will take place Nov. 29, is designed to engage alumni, faculty and students to raise money for UIC. The donations can be allocated to anything from student scholarships to new lab equipment.

“It’s a day for the UIC community to unite in supporting the tenacious who are here chasing an opportunity, world-class faculty and the new knowledge they discover and the service we per-form that empowers communities here and around the world,” wrote Jeff Near-hoof, vice chancellor for advancement, in an email.

Donation tables will be set up around

campus from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to stop by and spread the word about the event by using #GivingTuesday on social media.

“The goal of #GivingTuesday is to focus awareness on the enormous im-pact philanthropy can have at UIC,” wrote Chancellor Michael Amiridis in an email. “Whether through the big foundations or simply the individuals who generously support our efforts, it’s important to be reminded that every gift helps UIC.”

Last Giving Tuesday, the university raised $89,000 from 619 donors. Near-hoof says this year’s goal is to “blow last year’s numbers out of the water.”

To do so, students can contribute in more ways than one. Since it may be hard for current students to give money,

UIC is encouraging them to visit a Giving Tuesday location and write “Thank You” cards to donors. Students will receive a UIC coffee mug for their time.

“As UIC, sometimes we lack pride be-cause we have a lot of commuters,” said Eileen Thanitanont. “We’re still a commu-

nity, we still stand for the same thing. Why not take one day out of the year to step back and realize all that we have?”

Tables will be set up outside Student Center East, Student Center West, and University Hall. Donors can also give at givingtuesday.uic.edu.


Crafting a communityQuilt project brings people togetherBy Carlos Sadovi — [email protected]

In many communities, quilts served to offer warmth, protection and comfort from the cold but what many may not realize is that closely guarded secrets were often hidden in the patchwork pieces that made up the whole.

In the early African American tradi-tion, quilts sometimes served to provide a hidden road map for slaves seeking freedom through the Underground Rail-road.

And often, the practice of gathering to stitch together pieces of fabric served to create a community where people, often women, would join each other to talk, share ideas and seek comfort, said Lori Barcliff Baptista, director of the African-American Cultural Center at UIC.

More contemporary quilting practices include memory, keepsake and family tree quilts. Quilting communities and forums meet in person and communi-cate virtually to share patterns and sup-port.

Barcliff Baptista said she tapped into that history as part of a year-long pro-graming theme of the Centers for Cul-tural Understanding and Social Change to explore the word “remedy” as a way of

UIC community members are creating a quilt as part of a project sponsored by the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change. (Photos: Vibhu S. Rangavasan)

bringing people together.Since the beginning of the school

year, more than a dozen students have attended drop-in sessions at the African- American Cultural Center in Addams Hall to work with Jim S. Smoote II, a Chi-cago textile artist and retired art teacher who is leading the sessions.

“We wanted to think about ‘remedy’ with this summer being especially vio-lent,” said Barcliff Baptista. “Instead of focusing on the negativity and the vio-lence, we wanted to think about this lan-guage of self-care.”

Eventually, they hope to have enough pieces of the quilt produced by students to measure 14 feet by 6 feet. The aim is to have this quilt, along with others, to hang up in the center’s library.

Smoote said his job is to help stu-dents find their creative expression by using the themes of peace, unity and love. A quilt made by Smoote, which was inspired by President Barack Obama’s election victory, was featured at the DuSable Museum.

He said quilting is the perfect art form to bring people together and point-ed to the tradition of creating “Friendship

Quilts,” where people would gather to sew together pieces of cloth to create a large blanket for each member of the group.

He said getting people together to build a community where there is a dis-cussion about what is happening in the world is important to accomplish change.

“You can get so numb from seeing it, so if you start a dialogue about what we can do individually to lessen it, that’s the point,” Smoote said.

Kapri Williams, a senior in applied psychology, has attended the sessions and is working on her portion of the quilt. Her portion shows an outline of a female figure breaking free of chains and appearing to float in the air.

Williams used black fabric with in-grained, intricate designs to fill in the outline of the figure. The figure has bracelets around her ankles with chains attached. The figure’s right leg still is shackled, and over chains reads the words, “lack of origin, police brutality, lack of resources, uneducated, oppres-sion.”

“The things that help us to become

free or self-aware is represented here, ‘love, pride, unity, family, cultural connec-tions,’” she said as she pointed to words written over the other leg, where the chains have been shattered.

She is looking forward to the final product because she wants to leave a legacy of her time at UIC.

“Leaving a mark here on campus is really cool to think about,” Williams said. “Hopefully I can come back years from now with my kids, my grandkids and I can speak on it and reflect on these times.”

Leah Blocker, a senior in African American studies, said her panel depicts Africa as the homeland and as a mother and angel who is looking over and pro-tecting people who have migrated throughout the world.

“If you just keep thinking about how far we came and how much we have to go, then you will always have that reme-dy and you won’t lose sight of what your purpose in life is,” Blocker said. “A quilt is a great way to show the message be-cause it’s something you can pass down; it’s a great method to just keep this mes-sage of remedy forever going.”


meets East Meets West is a collaboration of Provost Susan Poser and Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs Robert Barish

Heart disease. Cancer. Stroke. Diabe-tes. Suicide. These health issues are among the leading causes of death in the U.S.

As researchers across the country look to biomedical studies for new drugs and treatments for answers, the UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy (IHRP) pro-motes a unique, cross-disciplinary ap-proach to reducing death and disability.

“The health problems we face today are complex,” said Robin Mermelstein, director of the Institute for Health Research and Policy. “This complexity results from the multiple causes of chronic diseases that are not only a result of biology but are also frequently a product of behaviors and en-vironments.”

The IHRP spans the entire campus and

is UIC’s largest research institute. The purpose of the IHRP, Mermelstein

said, is to look at the root causes of death and disability — smoking, unhealthy diets, excessive alcohol consumption, and lack of physical activity, for example — and study how individuals and communities can achieve better health by encouraging health-promoting behaviors and reducing risky behaviors, and by adopting public policies that reinforce these behaviors.

A third of all deaths in the U.S. can be traced to only two behaviors: tobacco use, and poor diet and exercise habits.

“By examining the behavioral, psycho-social, community policy and socioeco-nomic influences on health, we are in a position to develop and test methods that may significantly reduce today’s most prevalent health challenges on multiple levels,” Mermelstein said.

Studies at the Institute address issues at the individual level, the community level, and at the public policy level. Currently, there are nearly 50 research projects under way, including studies on e-ciga-rettes, food availability in low-income households, and tax increases to reduce drinking.

“As we study health through the lens of these various influences, it is vital that experts from a broad array of intersect-ing fields, such as psychology, econom-ics, computer science, public administration and sociology, lend their unique expertise to research about pub-lic health challenges,” Mermelstein said.

“Because we are a campus-wide cen-ter, we’ve been able to create an infra-structure that makes collaboration between departments, schools and re-searchers easier.”

From the development of mobile apps for improving health to congressional rec-ommendations on tax policy and munici-pal zoning codes for limiting unhealthy behaviors, the research coming out of the IHRP has been recognized for its influ-ence on major scientific societies and government committees.

Bridging the sciences gap for better health

Research from the IHRP is published in more than 100 publications each year. IHRP researchers include faculty mem-bers, senior research scientists, post-doctoral students and graduate students from nine UIC colleges and more than 30 departments on campus.

The research is powerful because it’s collaborative, Mermelstein said.

“We start with a compelling problem

and we think outside the box to identify the various areas of expertise that can help us improve care delivery or aware-ness,” she said. “I think the IHRP is a shining example of UIC’s best attri-butes: a standard of excellence, an atti-tude of discovery and focus on transforming lives — especially for un-derserved and minority populations — through research.”

“THE HEALTH PROBLEMS WE FACE TODAY ARE COMPLEX.”

Are you involved in an east-west collaboration? Email [email protected] and we may feature your story!

By Jackie Carey — [email protected]

“We start with a compelling problem and we think outside the box,” says Institute for Health Research and Policy director Robin Mermelstein. (Photo: Jenny Fontaine)


East Meets West is a collaboration of Provost Susan Poser and Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs Robert Barish

Are you involved in an east-west collaboration? Email [email protected] and we may feature your story!

When Jamie Chriqui set out to study the relationship between community environ-ments and physical activity, she knew a different approach and a cross-disci-plinary perspective would be needed.

“From the beginning, we had a clear focus and knew that a specific kind of ex-pertise was needed to pull off this project,” said Chriqui, professor of health policy and administration in the UIC School of Public Health and co-director of the Health Policy Center in the UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy.

We asked, ‘What makes the most sense for the study?’ The answer was not exten-sive clinical health care experience. It was support from individuals who had an inter-est in urban planning and a background in understanding the nuances of municipal zoning.”

That’s why she hired UIC students from the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs to help her compile and analyze county and municipal codes of more than 4,000 U.S. jurisdictions in an effort to un-derstand the link between zoning policies and public health.

Working with CUPPA students on this study was a perfect fit, Chriqui said.

“The students I worked with had the right background to understand the vari-ous policies and codes. This project also gave them an opportunity to get involved in a research project that really comple-mented their courses in a unique way,” said Chriqui, who is also an IHRP Fellow.

The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute and was one of the first in the nation to look at community-level land

Public health, urban planning team up

use to see how zoning can facilitate or inhibit structural changes in the environ-ment that could, in turn, lead to increased physical activity among adults. Regular physical activity is one of the most im-portant things individuals can do to main-tain and improve health. However, only one in five Americans meet the activity guidelines recommended by the U.S. government.

“This study was a bridge between pub-lic health and urban planning,” said Sunny Bhatt, one of seven students from CUPPA who worked on the study. “It was particu-larly interesting to me because I’ve al-ways had an interest in zoning policy and grassroots community activism efforts around sustainability and walkability.”

Bhatt, who was a first-year master’s degree student in the Urban Planning and Policy degree program when the study began, said the work was fascinat-ing, although not very glamorous.

“We spent eight hours a day reviewing the zoning codes from every kind of mu-nicipality you can imagine — from large urban areas to small rural communities,” said Bhatt, a 2013 graduate with a mas-ter’s in urban planning who is now a city planner and zoning specialist for the city of New York and its five boroughs.

As a first step, graduate-level CUPPA students collected the zoning codes from the largest 472 U.S. counties and municipalities located in those counties. Under the direction of Chriqui and Emily Thrun — a 2011 master’s in urban plan-ning graduate and an urban planner who helped develop and oversee the project’s

collection and coding efforts — students like Bhatt analyzed the codes.

They were looking for the presence and strength of specific environmental markers related to physical activity. Envi-ronmental markers included sidewalks, active recreation areas and mixed-use developments, for example.

Chriqui, Thrun and the team devel-oped an evaluation tool that linked the zoning code data to reported data on physical activity and active living. Their findings showed the potential of zoning code reform to support physical activity and improve health.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people who are physically active tend to live longer and have a lower risk for heart disease, stroke,

type 2 diabetes, depression and cancer.Chriqui and her team have published

seven groundbreaking articles.Robin Mermelstein, director of the

IHRP, says that the zoning code research is a perfect example of why multidisci-plinary collaboration is necessary when it comes to many of the most pressing public health issues.

“Our health is impacted by so many fac-tors,” Mermelstein said. “To understand how communities affect individual health, we first needed to have experts who un-derstand how communities are planned and sustained. Dr. Chiriquí’s research with urban planners and urban planning students is a great example of how work-ing together can make significant prog-ress toward reducing health disparities.”


Public health researcher Jamie Chriqui studies the relationship between community environment and physical activity. (Photo: Vibhu S. Rangavasan)

Collaborative research connects the dots between community environments, physical activity

Medicine, music programs to host benefit concertIn support of improved access to qual-

ity health care and higher education, the School of Theater & Music in the College of Architecture, Design and the Arts and the division of hematology and oncology in the UIC College of Medicine will host a classical benefit concert Nov. 19.

The performance takes place at 7:30 p.m. in the Studebaker Theater Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave.

The “Va Pensiero” benefit concert will welcome internationally renowned Italian conductor Mattia Rondelli and feature classic operatic works by Bizet, Faure,

Mascagni and Verdi, performed by the UIC Orchestra and Symphonic Choir.

“In addition to offering the highest level of education in our college’s disci-plines, we are dedicated to collabora-tions across the UIC campus,” said Steve Everett, dean of the College of Architecture, Design and the Arts. “The Va Pensiero program is an extraordinary opportunity for us to work with an inter-nationally known conductor to support both our music program and patient care.”

Proceeds from the event will be

shared by the music program and the hematology and oncology program.

Damiano Rondelli, the Michael Reese professor of hematology, chief of the di-vision of hematology and oncology, and director of the bone marrow transplant program, said the concert is the first campus initiative in which the depart-ments of music and medicine have joined forces. He is Mattia Rondelli’s brother.

“Our goal is to bring the campus com-munity and our Chicago neighbors to-gether in support of UIC patients and

students,” Damiano Rondelli said. “The division of hematology and oncology hopes to raise funds to help the patients and families who are suffering from a heavy financial burden as a result of the necessary care and life saving treatment of blood disorders.”

The department will use the funds to address expenses not covered by insur-ance for patients undergoing pre- or post-transplant care, he said.

More information about the benefit concert and tickets can be found at cada.uic.edu



Play weaves childhood stories into dark taleBy Carlos Sadovi —[email protected]

The School of Theatre and Music presents “The Secret in the Wings,” a play from Tony Award-winner Mary Zimmer-man that weaves seven fairy tales to cre-ate a darkly beautiful story about beasts, beauties and other characters from childhood stories.

The play is directed by UIC School of Theatre and Music director and Looking-glass ensemble member Christine Mary Dunford.

Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16–19 and 2 p.m. Nov. 20 in the UIC Theatre, ETMSW.

According to Dunford, the play opens with a little girl “left in the forest” of her home, where she should feel safe. There is a neighbor, a stranger who is an ogre that no one else can or will see. It is a retelling of the “Beauty and the Beast”

story, where the girl realizes in the end that the Beast is lovable. Dunford said she finds honesty and beauty along with hope in fairy tales through their “openhanded, generous playfulness.”

Dunford said she has been reward-ed working with UIC students on the play, which does not have a linear nar-rative but is rich in images and meta-phors that leave room for actors and the audience to chip away at interpret-ing meanings together.

Along with being an associate pro-fessor of theatre at UIC, Dunford has been an ensemble member with the Lookingglass Theatre Company since 1989.

“I have been in love with the text since I ran lights for “The Secret in the Wings” when it was first produced with Lookingglass in 1991. I thought it would be a good exercise in style for UIC students, and an opportunity for me to spend more time thinking about metaphor and movement in storytell-ing,” Dunford said

Tickets are required; visit theatreandmusic.uic.edu for more information.

“I HAVE BEEN IN LOVE WITH THE TEXT SINCE I RAN LIGHTS FOR THE SECRET IN THE WINGS WHEN IT WAS FIRST PRODUCED WITH LOOKINGGLASS IN 1991.


TLC TEACHING CONVERSATION Sponsored by the UIC Center for the Advancement of Teaching-Learning Communi-ties

11 a.m.–noon

Daley Library Conference Room 1-470

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

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESSSam Kirk’s exhibition explores the obstacles LGBT youth face, cul-ture, identity and urban politics

Mon.–Fri.: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Gender and Sexuality Center 118 Behavioral Sciences Building

THE SECRET IN THE WINGSUIC Theatre production of Mary Zimmerman’s work, which adapts little-known classic fairy tales to weave a darkly beautiful new story. Di-rected by Christine Mary Dunford, Lookingglass Theatre Company Ensemble member and direc-tor of UIC’s School of Theatre and Music.

Nov. 16–19: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20: 2 p.m.

UIC Theatre 1044 W. Harrison St.

theatreandmusic.uic.edu

NOV. 16–20PERFORMANCE

CALENDAR MORE CAMPUS EVENTS AT events.uic.edu

THROUGH NOV. 30EXHIBIT

WAGE THEFT, STATE POLITICS AND THE DETERMINANTS OF MINIMUM WAGE COMPLIANCE

Daniel Galvin, Northwestern University. Part of the Political Science Speaker Series

Noon–1 p.m.

1115 Behavioral Sciences Building

NOV. 16LECTURE

GAMES AND SIMULATIONS AS TOOLS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING Sponsored by the UIC Center for the Advance-ment of Teaching-Learn-ing Communities

2–3:30 p.m.

IDEA Commons Class-room, Room 1-010 Daley Library

NOV. 17WORKSHOP

NOV. 22SPECIAL EVENT

GREAT CITIES INSTITUTE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Featuring former university president James J. Stukel and a tribute to Robert Mier, former professor of urban planning and public administration at UIC and creator of its Center for Urban Economic Development, who died in 1995

4:30–7:30 p.m.

East Terrace, Student Center East


GIS DAY 2016Learn more about Geographic Information Systems technologies about how data visualization can be applied to classwork, research and careers. Sponsored by the Urban Data Visualization Lab in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and the Daley Library

9:15 a.m. –3 p.m.

Room 1-470 Daley Library

udv.lab.uic.edu

UIC EXIT STUDY: WHY STUDENTS LEAVE PRIOR TO GRADUATION AND WHERE THEY GO FROM HERE

Sue Farruggia, assistant vice provost for undergraduate affairs. Sponsored by the Office for Research on Student Suc-cess

2–3:30 p.m.

1-470 Daley Library

Studentsuccess.uic.edu

NOV. 28LECTURE



UIC News StaffPublished on Wednesdays during the academic year (monthly during summer) by:

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Mile Square celebrates anniversary, award winners By Jackie Carey — [email protected]

“Health means wealth,” U.S. Rep. Danny Davis said during an awards din-ner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the UI Health Mile Square Health Center Nov. 3.

Mile Square, a network of 12 federally qualified health centers, is one of the old-est community health centers in Chicago. Serving approximately 40,000 people throughout the Chicago area, Mile Square provides comprehensive medical and dental care, mental health support and social services, regardless of an individu-al’s ability to pay.

The awards dinner honored those who have demonstrated a steadfast commit-ment to improving the health and well-being of Chicago’s underserved and underinsured communities.

Davis received the Chancellor’s Me-dallion, the university’s top honor, for his service and leadership improving the global community. UIC Chancellor Mi-chael Amiridis presented the award.

“We are here to celebrate the 50th an-niversary of Mile Square, but also to rec-ognize members in our community who have demonstrated a personal, passion-ate and tireless commitment to serving the health care needs of Chicago’s most vulnerable women, men and children in

UIC Chancellor Michael Amiridis (right) presents the Chancellor’s Medallion to U.S. Rep. Danny Davis during the UI Health Mile Square gala. (Photo: Elizabeth Monge)

the city’s underserved communities,” Amiridis said.

“The Chancellor’s Medallion honors individuals whose extraordinary service and leadership in the world serves to re-mind us all that each one of us has the power to make a difference.”

U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin was also hon-ored at the dinner.

“When political decisions are made and political are values created, they are reflected in our public health system,” Durbin said. “I came to understand that when I met with Dr. Robert Winn, who shared some alarming statics about health disparities right here in Chicago.”

Durbin noted the 16-year difference in average life expectancy between resi-dents of West Garfield Park and those who live on the Near North Side, just a few miles away.

“In Illinois, 1.3 million people receive primary care, dental and behavioral health care in sites like Mile Square. Since 1967, Mile Square has been providing community-based care for Chicagoans, cancer screening, flu shots, and specialty care for HIV and AIDS,” Durbin said.

“That’s an amazing story.”Six Community Health Excellence

Awards were also presented. Recipients

included: Heather Higgins Alderman, president of the Illinois Children’s Health-care Foundation, Community Health Champion Award; Ricardo Estrada, member of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and president and CEO of Metropolitan Family Services, Community Health Roadmap to Excellence Award; Sandy Goldberg, chairman and founder of A Silver Lining Foundation and health and nutrition consultant at NBC5 Chica-

go, Community Health Innovator Award; Kameron Matthews, chief medical officer of Mile Square Health Center, Community Health Roadmap to Excellence Award; Edna Pearce, member of the Mile Square Health Center Community Board, Commu-nity Health Pioneer Award; and Robert Winn, associate vice chancellor of commu-nity-based practice at UIC and director of the University of Illinois Cancer Center, Community Health Innovator Award.

Tech support for facultyBy Francisca Corona — [email protected]

Faculty can now find enhanced sup-port and resources for their teaching and technology needs through one team: the Learning Technology Solutions (LTS) group.

A subgroup of the Academic Comput-ing and Communications Center, LTS pro-vides three major services:

• support for learning tools and envi-ronments, which include common-use learning spaces, learning management systems, web conferencing, lecture cap-tures, media streaming and more.

• instructional design and course de-velopment help that involves identifying appropriate tools and advising or consult-ing faculty for course improvements or redesigns — converting face-to-face classes to blended or online courses, for example.

• multimedia resource identification and production, where faculty are taught how to create or use existing media.

Equipment lending to faculty for in-class use is available in the LTS Support Office in Lecture Center E, Room 112, for microphones, laptops and presentation remotes. In the LTS Academic Multimedia Lab in the Daley Library IDEA Commons, faculty can borrow laptops, camcorders, audio recorders and more for video pro-duction needs. In-person workshops, general help and online webinars are also available to faculty and TAs.

In the past, support for learning tools and instructional design and course development was offered by different ACCC groups — the Instruc-tional Technology Lab and the Learning Environments & Technology Services office. But LTS has merged those ser-vices and improved them.

“Before, faculty wasn’t sure where to go,” said Elizabeth Romero, director of LTS. “So now, we’re really trying to make it accessible.”

The result is a combination of sup-port for instructional design, software, and classroom or computer lab technol-ogy — a central point of contact for easi-ly accessible solutions. There are three LTS facilities, including the Support Of-fice, the Academic Multimedia Lab and the Instructional Design Office, located in Room 181 Benjamin Goldberg Re-search Center.

New multimedia options will let fac-ulty “spice [courses] up using other tools,” Romero said.

The multimedia studio lets faculty record themselves talking during lec-tures, but a Lightboard that will be available next semester will allow facul-ty to record themselves while writing on a tempered, mounted glass board and displaying other relevant materials.

Call 312-413-0003 or email [email protected] for appointments.


SPORTS

MORE SPORTS AT uicflames.com

Wednesday, November 16 Men’s basketball vs. University of Texas at San Antonio 7 p.m. / UIC Pavilion Thursday, November 17 Women’s basketball vs. Robert Morris 7 p.m. / UIC Pavilion Saturday, November 19 Women’s basketball vs. Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis 2 p.m. / UIC Pavilion

FLAMES @ HOME

Soccer team captures league championship By Laura White — [email protected]

The men’s soccer team won the 2016 Horizon League Championship on a goal by Oscar Rivero with four minutes re-maining versus No. 1 Wright State Satur-day, 1-0, at Alumni Field. With the win, the Flames earn the automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.

The Flames take on No. 13 Loyola at 7 p.m. Thursday in the first round. The winner advances to the second round at

Notre Dame Sunday.The tournament title is the fourth for

the program (1999, 2000, 2007); the first since 2007, a year when UIC ad-vanced to the Elite Eight; and the first under the direction of head coach Sean Phillips. The Flames will head to the NCAA tournament for the sixth time (1999, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008).

“To win this game tonight, our guys

had to put in a championship effort and that’s exactly what they did,” Phillips said. “We knew Andrew (Putna) and the de-fense were going to need to step up, and they did. It’s always great to watch se-niors play their best soccer in games like this. They were pivotal tonight in helping us get a very well-deserved win. Now we look forward to representing the Horizon League in the NCAA Tournament.”

UIC put together 12 shots in the match and had six come in the final 20 minutes of play. Oscar Gonzalez, who scored the game-winner in the semifi-nals, led the team with a matched ca-reer-high seven attempts, as Rivero (3), Max Todd (1) and Dimitris Stantzalis (1) made up the remaining shots.

Andrew Putna was a difference maker with a season-high six saves.

Eboigbodin signs letter of intent with UICBy Dan Yopchick — [email protected]

Greg Eboigbodin, a native of Nigeria, has signed a National Letter of Intent to enroll and play basketball at UIC.

Eboigbodin is from Benin City, Nige-ria, but he moved to the United States to attend University of Detroit Jesuit High School, where he is a three-time letter-winner in basketball. As a junior, the 6-foot-9-inch center/forward helped the Cubs to an undefeated season and the 2016 Michigan High School Athletic As-sociation Class A state championship.

In addition to helping U of D Jesuit secure the state title, Eboigbodin has played a role in helping the program to an extraordinary run of success. The

Cubs have claimed three consecutive Catholic division crowns, three Catholic tour-nament championships, three District titles and three re-gional championships since he joined the program. The team also reached the MHSAA Class A semifinals in 2014 and 2015 before mak-ing it to the top in 2016.

Eboigbodin is a two-time All-Catholic Team selection and a member of the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM) Class A All-State Team.

“Greg may not have grown up playing

basketball, but he has de-veloped a tremendous un-derstanding of the game in a short period of time,” head coach Steve McClain said. “He’s got a great back-ground in soccer and he’s a fantastic athlete. Greg can get up and down the floor in a hurry, and he uses his size and strength to his ad-vantage, particularly on the

defensive end. We’re thrilled to welcome him to UIC.”

Eboigbodin plans to study internation-al business and economics at UIC.

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