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Sure, Indiana Jones touched the literal Holy Grail. But real-life scientist William

“Bill” Parkinson (’92 LAS) counts himself fortunate to hold what he calls the “holy grail of archaeology jobs”: curator at The Field Museum of Natural History, Chica-go.

The role involves the same fieldwork he’s done his entire career, digging up evi-dence of how the earliest cities emerged in Greece and Hungary. He also teaches through a joint Ph.D. program with UIC,

“in the very same room where I had Intro to Greek,” he says, laughing.

But the Field gig, unlike other aca-demic positions, offers opportunities to educate and influence an enormous audi-ence.

Take the massive new exhibit, The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great, which debuted at The Field Museum in November 2015. Parkinson spent the bet-ter part of three years coordinating the project.

“For me, it’s a once in a lifetime show,” he says. By the time the nearly 600 an-cient relics are returned to 21 Greek lend-ing institutions, more than 1 million people will have viewed them, Parkinson estimates.

Each visitor, he hopes, will leave know-ing more about both ancient Greek civili-zation and modern society. After all, the foundations of democracy were forged in 5th century Athens; the exhibit explores this unfolding as well as the way Greeks came to comprehend individual identity.

“If we want to understand how the world came to be how it is,” Parkinson says, “we have to understand how we got here—and those are the lessons we learn from archaeology.”

On a personal level, Parkinson’s past

illuminates his current successes. A native of Symerton, Ill. — a small town just out-side Joliet — he arrived at UIC planning to study English, and followed his father and grandfather into journalism. But he disliked literary criticism and, in an effort to try something different, wound up in Professor Lawrence Keeley’s archaeology class.

Parkinson admits to slacking as a stu-dent. In fact, he skipped Keeley’s midterm. But when he asked for a retake, expecting a stern lecture in return, Parkinson found himself enthralled by tales of excavating 7,000-year-old Northern European Villag-es.

“There was a moment where I am look-ing at him [Keeley] and going, ‘Wow, this guy likes what he does so much, he’s will-ing to talk to some kid he knows was blowing off his class,’” he recalls.

Parkinson quickly realized that his tal-ents for languages and teamwork would serve him well on field projects in faraway lands. Intellectually, he appreciated archae-ology’s reach across disciplines — politics, economics, sociology, anatomy and the humanities. Plus, he savored its blend of deep thought and hard labor.

“Archaeology is very tangible — it’s vi-sual and tactile,” he says. “You are feeling dirt. You are seeing beautiful objects. You are licking something you just took out of the ground because you want to see if it’s stone or bone, because bone sticks to your tongue.”

After finishing his Ph.D. at the Univer-sity of Michigan, and post-docs at both the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State University, Parkinson landed at Flor-ida State University. Seven years later and shortly after earning tenure, he heard about the Field Museum opening. Some academics might not give up such security to start over at a new institution, but Par-kinson took the risk and moved with his

family to Oak Park in 2008.Fittingly enough, humanity as a whole

shifted toward the metropolitan that same year. “We crossed this threshold where more than half of all the people in the world live in urban environments,” Parkin-son says. “And that’s a process that started 7,000 years ago.”

The Greek exhibit moved on to the Na-tional Geographic Museum in Washing-ton, D.C., April 10, giving Parkinson a break from tours, presentations and inter-views. He’s returning to studying and writ-ing about the provenance of urbanization.

“As a species, we weren’t bred to live in cities,” Parkinson explains. “We evolved to live in small groups that move around the

“There’s plenty of evidence to say there’s a need, and there’s plenty of evidence to say there’s not a need.”

Lee Friedman, associate professor of environ-mental and occupational health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health, on the University of Chicago’s plans for a new Level I trauma cen-ter. April 12 Crain’s Chicago Business

“I embody resistance.”

Janaé Bonsu, a doctoral student in social work, on shaping the Black Lives Matter movement in Chicago. April 7 Chicago Reader

By Cindy Kuzma — Alumni Magazine

landscapes. We’ve done a pretty good job over the last 50 years of understanding how hunter-gatherers became agricultur-alists. We haven’t done a really good job of understanding how some farming villages turn into big, complicated urban polities and how others don’t.”

The reasons, he suspects, have to do with geography, environment and the in-teractions between societies. But even as Parkinson strives to uncover them, he doesn’t expect definitive answers. Instead, he says, “The best research leads to more questions.”

—Reprinted with permission from UIC Alumni. Uncondensed version available at uicalumni.org

“The parties want a process that facilitates a selec-tion of an optimal candidate that the party can rally around.”

Noah Kaplan, clinical assistant professor of polit-ical science, on the political delegate system and what could unfold at the upcoming Republican and Democratic national conventions. April 12 WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight”

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“For me, it’s a once in a lifetime show,” says archaeologist William Parkinson of The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great, the exhibit he spent nearly three years curating for The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

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STUDENT RESEARCH FORUMBy Libby Goldrick — [email protected]

Students’ hard work came to fruition April 12 as they presented their projects at the Student Research Forum.

Nearly 300 students showed off their work at the UIC Forum, judged by 300 faculty and alumni judges.

Students from all disciplines were invit-ed to present their work individually to judges and others during a three-hour pre-sentation session, which was followed by an awards ceremony.

Senior Jeff Harvey, a physics major, en-joyed discussing his project, which uses physics to try and understand what’s hap-pening on a molecular scale when an ion is

extracted from the water into the oil phase.“It was a great opportunity to get to talk

to people that are outside of physics and try to show them why this work is interest-ing,” he said. “Presenting work in this kind of forum is also a really good test of how well I understand the material myself. Being able to explain things in an accessi-ble manner takes a lot of work, and forces you to really identify the key points of the concepts in order to paint a cohesive and logical picture.”

Ruxandra Griza presented her work on the relationship between food waste and energy and the impact of smart food

University President Timothy Killeen presents a leadership award to UIC College of Dentistry alumnus Dale Nickelsen. — Photo: Diane M. Smutny

By Christy Levy — [email protected]

UIC highlighted the ways philanthropy has benefitted students, researchers and the campus as a whole during “An Evening With Legacies and Leaders” April 7 at the UIC Forum.

“You have inspired and challenged us all to be better, to do more and to try harder to give UIC students every opportunity to succeed in their education and their ca-reers,” UIC Chancellor Michael Amiridis told donors during the event.

“You have supported collaborative proj-ects that empower communities by putting students and faculty on the ground, work-ing to enact positive change across Chicago, the state of Illinois and around the world.”

Nearly 450 people attended, including donors, UI Foundation board members, university administrators, faculty members, alumni and student leaders.

In a series of videos, students and facul-ty members told donors exactly how cam-pus gifts have made their dreams a reality.

Zitlalli Roman Rodriguez, a graduate student in social work, spoke on behalf of all students whose college experience has

been made possible thanks to private gifts to campus.

“Whether you have supported scholar-ships, research or community engagement, you are helping to shape tomorrow’s lead-ers,” she said. “You have truly made a dif-ference in our journeys.”

University President Timothy Killeen presented the William Winter Award for Outstanding Advocate Leadership — which recognizes those who inspire others to engage with campus, volunteer and give

— to UIC alumnus Dale Nickelsen. A 1962 graduate of the UIC College of

Dentistry, Nickelsen has contributed gifts to the college for more than 35 years. He made the leadership gift for a new dental clinic, which was dedicated the Dale C. Nickelsen and Caren C. Nickelsen Pediat-ric Dentistry Postgraduate Clinic in Febru-ary.

“He has been a model of what it means to form a lifelong relationship with one’s alma mater,” Killeen said.

View a photo and video gallery at evening.uic.edu

packaging. “I’m really into environmental things, es-

pecially when it’s considering wasteful be-havior not only with food but with plastic waste and water waste,” said Griza, a fresh-man in earth and environmental sciences.

Dimitra Papadakis, a senior in psycholo-gy, focused her research on juror motivation by gender. She conducted a mock jury study that showed that contrary to previous re-search, women didn’t change their minds more frequently than men.

“All the studies that say that women change their minds were done before the year 2000, so maybe that means that

women do not struggle to uphold a posi-tion. Maybe there has been a cultural change. Maybe women are more motivated to speak up, so I think that’s pretty cool,” she said.

Sarah Lee, a senior in neuroscience, was happy to fulfill a dream she’s had since freshman year of presenting at the research forum.

“Now since I’m a senior, I feel like I’ve got my nostalgia goggles on, and I just want to enjoy everything as it’s happening,” she said.

View a complete list of award winners at research.uic.edu/srf

Nearly 300 students presented their research for about 300 faculty and alumni judges at the Student Research Forum. — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin

Jasmine Lopez, an undergraduate in biological sciences, presents her research on reversing retinal ischemic injuries. — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin

UIC says ‘thank you’ for campus gifts

Undergrads showcase award-winning projects


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Forever Flames celebrates gradsBy Francisca Corona — [email protected]

UIC celebrates its graduating class with a send-off April 25 to 28 that will recognize them as Flames forever.

The celebration, known as Forever Flames, includes a variety of events for graduating seniors.

“Having students graduate is one of the best accomplishments for the uni-versity, and that’s why we want to dedi-cate this time to celebrate students,” said Rhonda Laylo, assistant program director of the Center for Student In-volvement.

Students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to give back at a blood drive April 25.

Students can pick up graduation essentials in Student Center East April 26.

Seniors can enjoy a barbeque April

27, then take buses to the Cubs game. Tickets for the game are free and re-served for graduating students only; RSVP on UIC Connection (connect.uic.edu) is required.

A final toast to graduating students takes place April 28.

“We hope that this event can really bring some tradition to students, and that they will have some really great memo-ries in their final moments here at UIC,” Laylo said.

Organizers and sponsors for the events include the Center for Student Involvement, Student Leadership Devel-opment & Volunteer Services, Retail Op-erations and the Office of Advancement.

For more information or to RSVP for events, visit commencement.uic.edu or connect.uic.edu

Nico Cabrera, the Red Bull-sponsored Chicago bike messenger, needed a new bag to carry his deliveries. That’s when the global energy drink firm turned to UIC’s School of Design for their expertise.

Ted Burdett, industrial design alumnus and current faculty member, partnered with Red Bull for an industrial and graphic design student competition.

In just 10 days, 19 teams of undergradu-ate and graduate students listened to Cabrera’s needs, then began working fever-ishly on prototypes to create a bag for the messenger. His requirements: hold legal file boxes, secure envelopes, handle sweat and all types of weather and keep his back

from being sore. Each team had only three minutes to

convince Cabrera that their bag was the one for him during an event April 8 at the Innovation Center. All the prototypes were well thought out and it was difficult to choose, Cabrera said.

The winning bag was designed by stu-dents Felipe Garcia, Michael Diaz and Fiba Kelani. Their bag provided an expand-able interior, exterior pockets and adjust-able “spider straps” on the back that could clip to the front to hold large, bulky pack-ages.

The winners each receive a personal sewing machine.

Use the hashtag #ForeverFlames on social media to share pictures, videos or comments, and follow @UICStudentIn-volvement on Instagram for updates.

Apr. 25“We Bleed Blue and Red” Blood DriveBring photo ID or your blood donor cardNoon–5 p.m., Atrium, Student Residence and Commons

Apr. 26Grad FinaleGet graduation essentials — like caps and gowns, honor cords, portraits and stoles — and decorate caps or create a time capsule.10 a.m.–2 p.m., Illinois Room, SCE

Apr. 27Flamin’ BBQ and Cubs Game OutingChicago Cubs vs. Milwaukee BrewersBBQ 3 p.m., Halsted Street cul-de-Sac (south of the Hull House Museum)Bus departure at 5:30 p.m.; game starts at 7:05 p.m., Wrigley FieldRSVP required

Apr. 28Grad ToastUIC alumnus toasts graduating students5–7 p.m., Circle Patio (in front of Student Center East)

Students design bag for Red Bull bike messenger

Industrial design faculty member Ted Burdett (from left), contest winners Felipe Garcia, Michael Diaz and Fiba Kelani; Red Bull-sponsored bike messenger Nico Cabrera and Daniel McKewen, creator and creative director of Seagull Bags.

The UIC community can engage in conversation with foreign diplomats about global issues in a unique lecture series.

Each spring, the Allan Lerner Lecture Series brings five consuls general to UIC.

“The series is a great opportunity to dis-cuss complicated topics, in the right way and with the right people, and to get a bet-ter understanding of the topics rather than approaching them in a very simplistic way,” said Nora Bonnin, senior director of the Office of International Affairs and co-founder of the lecture series.

Polyxeni Petropoulou, the consul gener-al of Greece, will speak at UIC from 12:30

to 1:45 p.m. Thursday in the White Oak Rooms, Student Center East. RSVP is re-quired; email [email protected]

“This is part of the university’s commit-ment to civic engagement,” said Katharine Floros, visiting assistant professor of politi-cal science.

The series “builds ties between UIC and other parts of the world,” said Dick Simp-son, political science professor and co-founder of the series.

Speakers have later supported UIC ex-hibits, events and conferences. “We’re looking to engage the members of the con-sular corps in the life of UIC,” Floros said.

By Francisca Corona — [email protected]

Lecture series connects UIC to world

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By Pearl Shin — [email protected]

“IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MANY YEARS WE’VE BEEN TEACHING — WE CAN ALWAYS DEVELOP OUR PRACTICES IN WAYS THAT WE HAVEN’T BEFORE.”

More than 300 students, faculty and alumni came together Saturday to give back to the com-munity during the 7th annual UIC Day of Ser-vice.

Volunteers worked at 30 sites across the Chi-cago area, cleaning up beaches, framing a house, walking homeless animals and more.

At the El Paseo Community Garden in the Pilsen neighborhood, volunteers spread fertilizer, piled woodchips and pulled weeds to transform the unused railroad space into a garden.

Freshman Anne Zheng volunteered at the site to take a break from studying.

“My favorite part was looking at everyone work together to help the community,” she said.

Celina Diaz, a senior in biochemistry, also vol-unteered at the garden.

“Since I’m approaching graduation soon, I thought that it’s time to do something,” she said.

“There are a lot of good people here. It was nice interacting with the community and the people around here.”

Antonio and Paula Acevedo are the garden leads at the El Paseo Garden. Antonio Acevedo said having UIC students participate on the proj-ect was beneficial.

“We got so much done in four hours that would have taken us multiple days to do. [The students] are very helpful,” he said.

Diaz plans to continue to serve her community. “It felt good to do something and give back to

the community and the people who are actually going to enjoy this place,” she said.

Left: Students from Campus Housing plant at the Gingko Organic Gardens during the UIC Day of Service. Right: UIC students help sort clothes donations for the Cornerstone Community Outreach Free Thrift Store. — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin

UIC community lends a helping hand


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

Music motivates people to get up and move, but does it have the power to en-courage people to move even when moving is painful?

UIC researchers from the east and west sides of campus are collaborating on a pilot study to see if music can help patients with peripheral artery disease — which makes movement painful — stick with an exercise regimen.

“We’re trying to find a way to use music to promote exercise and distract from the pain,” said Eileen Collins, professor of the biobehavioral health science in the College of Nursing.

Collins is collaborating on the project with Ulf Bronas, associate professor in the biobehavioral health science department, and Steve Everett, dean of the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts.

Everett, a noted composer, will manipu-late the music so that it encourages pa-tients to get moving.

“He’s able to take the artistic part of music and play with it a little and turn it into science to make the brain and the muscles work together in ways that we don’t think about,” Collins said.

Participants in the pilot study will be patients from the University of Illinois Hospital and the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital who suffer from peripheral artery disease, a condition that causes claudica-

tion — a cramping, painful feeling in the legs.

“These patients are limited to walk-ing half a block to a block before they experience significant leg pain,” Bronas said. “They have to stop and rest three to five minutes, then the pain goes away and they can walk again.”

Age, diabetes and smoking are the major risk factors for the disease, which is improved most effectively through walking. Supervised exercise programs help relieve pain, Collins said, but these programs often are not reimbursed by in-surance.

“Patients essentially are told to go home and walk, and they don’t do it because it’s painful,” Collins said.

Researchers aim to create a home-based exercise regimen that participants can stick with on their own.

“We are encouraging walking at home to see if the music makes a differ-ence in how far people walk without pain,” Col-lins said.

“We want to really empower individuals to take charge of their own health care,” Bronas added.

Everett will create playlists based on musi-cal genres that the par-ticipants enjoy and manipulate songs to en-courage them to walk.

“We can use music as a way to lessen the pain in certain patients,” Everett said.

The researchers plan to complete the pilot study this summer and submit grant proposals in the fall for a larger study.

Their collaboration was formed by chance when Collins met Ever-

College of Nursing faculty Eileen Collins and Ulf Bronas study peripheral artery disease, which makes movement painful. — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin


Music as a motivator to move through the pain

ett at a committee meeting. Collins was filling in for a colleague who couldn’t at-tend the meeting and started talking to Everett about his work, then later realized his expertise could be helpful as she and Bronas discussed research ideas.

“His experience in music as motivation was perfect,” Bronas said. “Meeting new people throughout campus is really im-portant.”

Music also has medical applications beyond peripheral artery disease, Everett said, such as helping patients with Alzhei-mer’s recall songs they enjoyed in their childhood.

“There are so many areas where people are trying to understand how music has this ability to work with certain medical conditions,” he said. “There are underlying tones that music is not just something for

Steve Everett, dean of the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts. — Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin

pleasure; it’s something that’s maybe much more critical for our own psychological health.”

The opportunities for students studying music and sound design are expanding far beyond the traditional prospects of com-posing concert music and designing sound for theater, Everett said. His students are finding jobs using their musical skills in fields such as computational informatics and sonification, which involves using audio to express data.

“Students are finding work in industries now that really 20 years ago weren’t there,” he said.

Collaborations across disciplines are critical for solving problems, Everett said.

“Ideas are no longer formed in silos,” he said. “Great universities have a way to build conversations across silos.”

“COLLABORATIONS ACROSS DISCIPLINES ARE CRITICAL FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS.”

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

Daniel Helm still has a few weeks be-fore he graduates, but he’s already had a taste of real-world workplace interactions.

Helm is among more than 30 students in bioengineering, business and industrial design who are working together — and learning from each other in the process — to solve complex medical problems in a two-semester course, Interdisciplinary Product Development.

“It’s really great to get that team-based type of environment right before going into the workforce because that’s what you’re going to be dealing with your entire life,” said Helm, a senior in industrial de-sign.

During the course, which has been of-fered since 2002, students typically develop products to suit the needs of a corporate partner. This semester, however, the course partnered with Mark Rosenblatt, professor and head of ophthalmology, to address health care problems identified by faculty members.

“We want to create a culture of innova-tion within our department, think differ-ently and take risks to do important things,” Rosenblatt said. “I’ve been tremendously impressed with the Innovation Center and what’s happening there.”

Collaborative teamsStudents gather in the Innovation Cen-

ter to tackle their product development projects under the direction of three pro-fessors: Stephen Melamed, industrial de-sign, Miiri Kotche, bioengineering, and Jelena Spanjol, business. Students collabo-rate to develop an idea for a product, create and test it, and formulate a marketing plan.

They are tackling five complex problems on topics such as helping patients with macular degeneration see better, relieving dryness related to computer vision syn-drome, and screening babies for an eye dis-ease in a more cost-effective way, among other projects.

Rosenblatt is impressed with the stu-dents’ work so far.

“It’s a wonderful group of people work-ing in concert, with multidisciplinary un-derstandings of the problems,” Rosenblatt said. “They’re making great progress and have a lot of passion and see how they can actually help people. Things they had only imagined are really starting to happen.”

Rich Hickey’s group is working on de-veloping a more effective way to administer eye drops.

“We thought it was an inspiring prob-lem,” said Hickey, a senior in bioengineer-ing.

His group includes two industrial de-signers, two bioengineers and two market-ers.

“We have a good dynamic,” he said. “We’ve learned how to distribute the work amongst the different disciplines. I’ve learned a lot about how to design some-thing and what considerations you need to sell it, and that’s something as engineers that we don’t talk a lot about when solving problems.”

Louis Panozzo, a senior in marketing, is working with his group on developing a device that would help physicians more quickly diagnose conditions related to cor-neal sensitivity, such as dry eye syndrome.

“Working with other disciplines really helps the project come to fruition, where


Students blend backgrounds to design medical products

Students in the Interdisciplinary Product Development course work on their projects in the Innovation Center. “It’s really great to get that team-based type of environment right before going into the workforce,” says senior David Helm.— Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin

everyone is working toward the same goal,” he said.

The course instills a sense of confidence in its students, said Kotche, who has taught the class for four years..

“There are only one or two people from each discipline on a team, so you can’t hide behind someone else,” said Kotche, clinical associate professor of bioengineering.

The students’ work could enhance exist-ing patent applications or potentially gen-erate new intellectual property, Melamed said. In past years, students’ work has been further developed and even commercial-ized by corporate sponsors.

“Every year we are stretching the bound-aries of the course,” Spanjol said. “These are very high-level problems. I’m incredibly

impressed by the technical capabilities of the students individually, but also how they are able to come together and really leverage each other.”

Faculty working togetherMelamed has taught the course since its

inception in 2002, and is one of the three founding faculty members of the IPD Pro-gram.

“We thought it was important to expose our students to best practices and give them the experience they would have in the work-ing world while still in the academic institu-tion,” said Melamed, clinical professor in the School of Design.

Collaboration among faculty members from three disciplines has also been a tre-mendous learning opportunity, Melamed said.

“It’s a lot more work than teaching your own class but the rewards are immense,” he said. “It has really broadened my perspective on my own discipline.”

Course materials are jointly developed and delivered by the faculty team, said Span-jol, who has taught the class for five years.

“We get to model for students how to work across functional boundaries,” said Spanjol, associate professor of marketing.

The class will expand next year to include second-year medical students from the in-novation medicine program.

“The addition of medical students will be fantastic and serve to integrate health care provider experiences into the innovation development process,” Spanjol said. “It’s very unique to have this many different perspec-tives onto the same problem and project.”

Students in bioengineering, industrial design and marketing are developing products to address health care problems identified by UIC faculty members in ophthalmology. Next year, medical students will join the two-semester course.— Photos: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin


FINALE CONCERTUIC Jazz Ensemble and Jazz WorkshopHighlighting graduating seniors with a performance of jazz standards 7:30 p.m. UIC Theatre

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UIC WIND ENSEMBLE AND UNIVERSITY BANDThe Wind Ensemble will play Mothership by recent Chicago Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence Mason Bates, John Mackey’s Harvest and Kingfishers Catch Fire, and Eric Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque. The University Band will play Harold Bennet’s Military Escort March, Samuel Hazo’s Dia-mond Fanfare, Bach’s Come Sweet Death and Clifton Williams’ Symphonic Dance No. 3, Fiesta7:30 p.m. Logan Center for the Performing Arts 915 W. 60th St.

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UIC ROTC ALUMNI RECEPTION Celebrating 100 years of Army ROTC RSVP to [email protected]:30–7:30 p.m. Cardinal Room, SCE

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FOREVER FLAMES Events celebrating graduating seniors include BBQ and Cubs game, grad toast and more. View complete list of events at connect.uic.edu

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UIC ORCHESTRA, PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE, MARIACHI FUEGOConcert features the winner of the annual con-certo competition, performing with full orchestra under the direction of Javier Jose Mendoza 7:30 p.m. UIC Theatre

PERFORMANCE APR27

CHORAL MASTERWORKSThe UIC Symphonic Choir performs with the Janus Ensemble. Haydn’s Requiem in C Minor is paired with Gjielo’s Song of the Universal and more for a grand performance with the Janus Ensemble, with Martin Davids as concertmaster, under the direction of UIC’s Michael J. Anderson and Andrew Lewis7:30 p.m. St. Francis of Assisi 813 W. Roosevelt Rd.

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OUR DUTY TO FIGHT Gallery 400 exhibition on Chicago organizing and rebellion, organized by Black Lives Matter ChicagoTues.–Fri.: 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Sat.: Noon–6 p.m. and by appointment Gallery 400

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“All of us, both civilians and veterans, must continue to fight for those who have sacrificed and those who are continuing to sacrifice so much on behalf of our country,” says David Kwon.

David Kwon’s reasons for enlisting in the U.S. Army changed over time.

“I initially joined the military for college benefits,” said Kwon, a sophomore in philosophy and mathematics.

“However, during my time in service, I realized the work I was doing meant something greater.

“All of us, both civilians and veterans, must continue to fight for those who have sacrificed and those who are con-tinuing to sacrifice so much on behalf of our country.”

Kwon enlisted in the Army in 2010 as a paratrooper, also known as an 11B Infantryman.

After attending boot camp, infantry school and air-borne school at Fort Benning, Georgia, he was assigned with the famous 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Kwon deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom XII.

During his time in the Army, Kwon was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, Army

Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, NATO Medal, National Defense Service Medal and Army Service Rib-bon.

He was honorably discharged 2014 at the rank of Spe-cialist (E4). Since then, he has volunteered in impover-ished areas in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, and farmed in the Andes of Bolivia with the indigenous Aymara people.

President of the Student Veterans Association and Nontraditional Students Organization, Kwon is also in-volved with the United Students Against Sweatshops organization.

“The University of Illinois at Chicago is one of the best educational institutions out there,” he said.

“The fact that it is immensely diverse and located in the hub of a global city makes it all the more profound, not to mention the spectacular student veterans and leaders on this campus.”


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Doug Gills, 69, associate professor emeritus of urban planning and policy, died March 31 in Goldsboro, North Caro-lina.

Gills joined the UIC faculty in 1994 as assistant professor of urban planning and policy and was promoted to associate pro-fessor in 2002. He retired in 2012.

During his career, he taught a variety of courses, including professional planning practice; cultural heritage tourism; race and class issues in planning; history and theory in planning; community develop-ment; and urban space, place and institu-tions.

He also teamed with colleagues and others to co-teach courses covering topics involving Chicago, politics, race, planning and social movements.

Former colleague John Betancur said Gills smoothly incorporated social equity and academics.

“We worked together in the develop-ment of transformative race relations by both gathering positive experiences from throughout U.S. cities and bringing to-gether leaders in our communities to ex-plore collaborations across races,” said Betancur, professor of urban planning and

policy.“He be-

lieved in the need for practice theory that could help

with the transformation of society to-ward a more equitable and human American society of communities of be-lief and sharing.”

Gills was director of graduate studies in urban planning and policy for several years and served on many department, college and university committees.

Prior to his faculty appointment, he was an assistant research associate in the Center for Urban Economic Develop-ment from 1991 to 1994.

“Doug was a kind and compassionate man and will be missed by many,” said Michael Pagano, dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. “Our CUPPA family extends deepest sympa-thy to his sons and family.”

He is survived by his sons, Raymond and Scott, two sisters, and four grand-children.

Services have been held.

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UIC Police received a report at 1:50 p.m. Friday that a student had been sexually assaulted in a universi-ty residence hall at 600 S. Halsted St. at approxi-mately 2 a.m. Thursday.

The offender, who is not affiliated with UIC, was known to the victim through a mutual friend. The offender is described as a black male, 6 feet 3 inches to 6 feet 4 inches, 180 to 190 pounds, of muscular build, and a light complexion. He was wearing a white t-shirt and dark sweat pants.

The university is providing resources to assist the victim and will continue to take actions to maintain the safety and security of the campus community.

UIC Police are leading the investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call 312-996-2830.

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By Eric Phillips — [email protected]

Baseball preps for tie-breaking game

Alex Dee takes a swing. The Flames host Valparaiso this week. — Photo: Steve Woltmann

With their victory Sunday, the Flames moved into a tie for second place in the Horizon League. But the tie will be broken Friday when UIC faces Valparaiso as they bat-tle it out to see whose 7-4 record improves.

The Flames host a doubleheader against Valparaiso beginning at 12:05 p.m. Friday at Granderson Stadium.

Their last game, which began as a pitcher’s duel through six innings Sunday, turned into an exciting come-from-behind 6-5 win for the Flames versus Milwaukee.

It was the second straight victory for UIC (15-19, 7-4 HL) over Milwaukee (14-16, 6-4 HL).

The Flames lost the opener Friday versus Milwaukee, 7-0, then won the second game, 10-3, before clinching the series in the finale at Granderson Stadium.

UIC starter Ian Lewandowski and Milwaukee pitcher Adam Reuss went pitch-for-pitch for six innings. Le-wandowski carried a perfect game through 3.2 innings, retiring 11 straight and 12 of the first 13 batters he faced. The Flames right-hander allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits while striking out six in six innings. Reuss retired seven in a row and did not allow a hit until the fifth before leaving in the eighth inning.

Milwaukee put up three runs on UIC reliever Trevor Lane (three earned runs/three innings pitched) to take a 5-1 advantage after seven innings. In the eighth, Derrick Patrick started the UIC rally with a one-out single and advanced to second on a single by David Cronin. Milwau-kee brought in pitcher Jake Tuttle to relieve Reuss and freshman Scott Ota greeted him with a walk to load the bases for Ricardo Ramirez. Ramirez collected an RBI on a sacrifice fly, scoring Patrick to cut the deficit to 5-2.

With two out, Conor Philbin walked to load the bases again with Brandon Gibis stepping up to the plate. Gibis was hit by the first pitch, which forced Cronin home. Alex

Dee laced an infield single off the pitcher’s leg, scoring Ota from third base as the Flames trailed by just one run, 5-4.

After another Milwaukee pitching change, Rob Cal-abrese looped a two-run single to right field, scoring Phil-bin and Gibis to give UIC a 6-5 lead.

SPORTS

The softball team (26-12, 12-2 HL) put together 15 runs through two games against Northern Kentucky (9-30, 2-9 HL) to come away with its third Horizon League series sweep of the season Saturday at Flames Field.

The Flames hung on for a 6-4 victory in game one, then routed the Norse in five innings in game two with a 9-1 final.

“We played much better in game two as a whole,” head coach Michelle Venturella said. “It was nice to see the kids fight hard and come out on top. Our pitchers did a nice job against their hitters, which is always good to see, and our offense continues to have quality at-bats, which is a goal every time we play.”

UIC reached an 18-hit mark on the day and had six extra-base attempts.

Senior LaRi Mitchell had a team-high four hits, in-cluding a triple that gave the Flames the walk-off in game two, followed by sophomore Taylor Cairns and freshman Lexi Watts with three apiece.

With one hit in each game, senior Laura Swan ex-tended her hit streak to a career-high 13 games. Of the 13 RBI, Mitchell, junior Kaleigh Nagle and freshman Skylee James each brought in three runs.

The pitching staff of redshirt-freshman Karissa Frazier,

senior Bridget Boyle and junior Elaine Heflin held the Norse to 10 combined hits with five strikeouts and five walks.

The Flames play a doubleheader in Green Bay today, then host Northern Illinois at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Flames Field.

By Laura White — [email protected]

Softball sweeps Northern Kentucky

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Fri. April 22 Baseball vs. Valparaiso 12:05 p.m. Granderson Stadium

Baseball vs.Valparaiso 3:05 p.m. Granderson Stadium

Sat. April 23 Women’s tennis vs. Cleveland State 10 a.m. Flames Outdoor Tennis Courts

Men’s tennis vs. Cleveland State 2 p.m. Flames Outdoor Tennis Courts

Sun. April 24 Women’s tennis vs. Youngstown State 10 a.m. Flames Outdoor Tennis Courts

Men’s tennis vs. Youngstown State 2 p.m. Flames Outdoor Tennis Courts

Sun. April 24 Softball vs. Northern Illinois 5 p.m. Flames Field

FLAMES @ HOME

UIC students free with i-card

UIC sent 10 men to the plate to score five times in the inning, including four runs after there were two outs.

Trevor Lane returned to the mound for the final inning and closed the door on Milwaukee by getting Luke Meeter to line into a game-ending double play for his third victory of the year.

Taylor Cairns readies at the plate versus Northern Kentucky. — Photo: John Kon

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