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New day, location for Spark in the Park

Open House showcases what UIC has to offer

Library exhibit explores 50 years of Chicago NOW

Basketball team adds coaching staff

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MEET THE GREEKS Showcase of Fraternity & Sorority Life

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Showcase of Greek lifeUIC students learned how they can do

good, give back and get ahead academi-cally Thursday during Meet the Greeks, a showcase of Fraternity & Sorority Life on campus.

Several hundred students attended the event to learn about UIC’s 30 active Fra-ternity & Sorority Life chapters.

“We were so delighted with the turnout and we got consistent positive feedback from not only all of the organizations, but also from those who were visiting,” said Kevin Cane, director of Fraternity & Sorori-ty Life.

Students who are involved in Greek or-ganizations on campus can develop fel-lowship through brotherhood and sisterhood, as well as find a supportive group to help guide their success at UIC, Cane said.

“Fraternity & Sorority Life is a place to build a small group of what looks like a liv-ing, learning community, where folks who have common interests come together and find support to ensure that academics remain No. 1, and that together, they can do more through their leadership and service efforts,” Cane said.

Greek chapters are managed by five governing councils: the Collegiate Panhel-lenic, Interfraternity, National Pan-Hellen-ic, Greeks of the Pan-Asian American and Latino Greek councils. The UIC Center for Student Involvement supports the chap-ters by providing help with recruitment, events and professional development.

Meet the Greeks showcased the 30 active Fraternity & Sorority Life chapters on campus. (Photo: Jenny Fontaine)

Chapters will begin recruitment ef-forts in a few weeks, so Thursday’s event was an opportunity for students to ex-plore all of the chapters, Cane said.

“There are dozens of options for men and women,” he said. “Meet the Greeks was a really great preview.”

Students who want to learn more can visit the Involvement Fair, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 6 and 7 in the Lecture Center Quad.

For more information, follow @uicgreek on Facebook, Twitter or Insta-gram.

Recruitment starts soon for Greek chapters. (Photo: Jenny Fontaine)

‘WOW’ WELCOMES STUDENTS BACK TO UIC

UIC students are being greeted back to campus with special events during Weeks of Welcome (WOW), an initiative that aims to showcase UIC’s cultural, academic and social diversity.

During the first six weeks of fall semes-ter, students can be seen browsing stu-dent organizations at the Involvement Fair, lined up in professional clothes at the On-Campus Job Fair, and more. View a complete list of WOW events at orientation.uic.edu/weeks-of-welcome

“Active and positive involvement in WOW is one of the important ways in which new students can start to become part of the UIC experience,” said Sladjana Grbic, assistant program director for the Center for Student Involvement. “The ac-tivities offered help to increase personal connections with other students, faculty and staff, and promote a sense of belong-ing.”

With events including wellness semi-nars, cultural showings and a free concert, WOW provides students multiple opportu-nities to connect with their campus.

“I get to find different interest groups that exist in the school,” said Bennet Chan, a fifth-year accounting major who attend-ed UIC’s Rec Fest Thursday. “It’s cool to walk around and go, ‘Wow, they actually

have that here.’” WOW officially ends Sept. 29 with the

Revelry Carnival, but students can contin-ue connecting with student organizations and get involved in campus events through the UIC Connection website, connect.uic.edu

By Christy Levy — [email protected]

By Hoda Fakhari — [email protected]@uic.edu

Weeks of Welcome events run through September. (Photo: Amod Mahadik)

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New day, location for annual Spark in the Park concertBy Francisca Corona — [email protected]

This weekend, a free concert comes to Harrison Field.

Spark in the Park, the university’s free annual show for the campus community, returns Saturday to its outdoor location at Harrison Field, 866 W. Harrison St. This year’s lineup features Nick Jonas and DRAM.

“Spark in the Park is an important welcome back tradition,” said Allen Womble, associate director of the Cen-ter for Student Involvement, which spon-sors the event in collaboration with the Student Activities Board and UIC Radio. Past headliners have included Travis Scott, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, twenty one pilots, Childish Gambino and Frank-ie Knuckles.

This year, Spark’s prime location and date change make the event stand out. At the request of students, the event will take place outside. Since 2014, perfor-mances have been held in the UIC Pa-vilion because of construction related to the Jane Byrne Interchange project.

Organizers hope the location and date change — the event traditionally was held on a Thursday — will en-courage students to attend.

“We’re giving people a unique experience,” said Pedro Gonzalez, a se-nior and member of the marketing com-mittee for Spark. “This year’s lineup reflects the school’s diversity.”

Also new this year is a collaboration with DePaul. As many as 500 students from DePaul can purchase tickets for

Spark in the Park features headliner Nick Jonas, with DRAM and opening student acts DJ CeaseDays and LETTUCEHEAD. This year, the free concert returns to Harrison Field.

Spark in the Park, and 500 UIC stu-dents will have the chance to buy tick-ets for DePaul’s an-nual concert in the spring.

“Student involve-ment offices across the Chicagoland campuses have in-tentionally come together to strategi-cally utilize resourc-es to bolster each other’s events and provide the broad-est portfolio of events to our stu-dents,” Womble said. “This strategic part-nership also meets the Student Affairs division and the overall university’s goal of creating more synergy with the greater Chicago com-munity in a way that enhances the stu-dent experience and campus life at UIC.”

Pop singer Jonas gained worldwide at-tention during his time as a Disney Channel

star and for his role in the Jonas Broth-ers, a boy band he formed with his two older brothers. Together, they recorded four studio albums that sold more than 17 million copies before their split in 2013. In 2014, he released a self-titled album, “Nick Jonas,” featuring the hit

singles “Jealous” and “Chains,” which both landed in the top 20 of the Bill-board Hot 100. “Nick Jonas X2,” a re-release, included the song “Levels” and new tracks. “Last Year was Compli-cated” is his latest solo album. Debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, the album includes the lead single “Close” and songs featuring Tove Lo, Ty Dolla $ign and Big Sean.

Rapper, singer and songwriter DRAM will perform before Jonas. The Virginia native, who released his debut studio album, “Big Baby DRAM” in 2016, is known for his songs “Cha Cha,” “The Uber Song” and “Cute.” His breakout single “Broccoli” received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap/Sung

Collaboration in February. Openers include student acts DJ

CeaseDays, the winner of this year’s DJ Battle, and Battle of the Bands winner LETTUCEHEAD.

“We’re excited to see this event come to fruition,” Womble said.

Gates open for the event at 4 p.m. and performances begin at 5:30 p.m. A valid UIC i-card is required for free ad-mission, but i-card holders can also bring one guest for $30. Alumni can buy tickets for $25.

For more information and to buy tickets, visit go.uic.edu/spark2017

Visit or follow the CSI Facebook page (@uiccsi) for a chance to win VIP passes.

UIC today provides one-stop site for campus news UIC Public and Government Affairs has

launched a new internal communications platform for the campus community — UIC today.

The new site, available at today.uic.edu, provides a one-stop web-based site for all news, information, events and announce-ments for UIC. It is an up-to-the-minute source for all information of interest to the campus community.

Students and employees are encour-aged to make UIC today their web brows-er’s opening home page or start-up page.

“UIC today will provide real-time clear, concise, and consistent communications to the campus community on a daily basis,” said Michael Redding, vice chan-cellor for public and government affairs.

“Moreover, the site provides a forum for campus announcements, enabling us to

reduce the massive volume of emails and a platform to more effectively share information of importance to the cam-pus.”

Beginning Sept. 18, official an-nouncements and massmail messages will only appear online at UIC today. An-nouncements or official messages can be submitted online at today.uic.edu

Public safety advisories will continue to be sent by email to the university

community, in compli-ance with the federal Clery Act. Other com-munication methods, such as SMS/text mes-saging, social media and website alerts may also be used to commu-nicate with the campus community during an emergency situation.

Visit UIC today throughout September for contests and promo-tions.

To submit content for UIC today, or if you have an idea for a story, video or photo, visit today.uic.edu

UIC TODAY WILL PROVIDE REAL-TIME CLEAR, CON-CISE, AND CONSISTENT COMMUNICATIONS TO THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY ON A DAILY BASIS.

“SPARK IN THE PARK IS AN IMPORTANT WELCOME BACK TRADITION.”


See what UIC has to offer at Open HouseBy Carlos Sadovi — [email protected]

Prospective students, nostalgic alums, local residents and media are invited to attend Open House 2017, the all-access pass to UIC — the city’s only public re-search university.

The daylong event offers many options to choose from to receive a total immer-sion of what UIC has to offer.

The Open House will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 16 in Student Center East.

Through the UIC Open House, pro-spective students and others will have

more than 100 opportunities to listen in on distinguished faculty discussing cur-rent topics, observe state-of-the-art lab and studio demonstrations and engage in family-friendly activities in the quad.

“We’re trying to open as many doors as possible to provide a sample of student life and student experiences, but we’re also trying to provide a small, hopefully compelling, look at the kinds of things people are doing here,” said Oscar Rodri-guez, director of recruitment and out-reach. “It’s about showcasing the learning, engagement, research and the development of knowledge that happens on campus.”

In addition, experts will offer financial aid presentations to give prospective stu-dents and their families clear and detailed information about the financial aid pro-cess.

Walking tours of the campus and housing structures will offer opportuni-ties to experience UIC firsthand. Ses-sions will offer everything from foreign language courses to Electronic Visual-ization Lab experiences.

Registration is required. To register, receive a complimentary parking pass, or to learn more about the event, visit openhouse.uic.edu

Students can participate in an interactive activity in one of our internationally recognized research centers like the Electronic Visualization Laboratory.

OPEN HOUSE

CAMPUS NEWS

Sept. 168 a.m. to 2 p.m.Student Center East

UIC Urban Forum to examine influence, future of infrastructureUIC’s 2017 Urban Forum

brings together policymakers, civic leaders, researchers and journalists to discuss public infrastructure projects where people work and play, and to make well-designed urban plans that connect them.

The event takes place from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 14 in the Illinois Rooms, Student Center East.

From “hard infrastructure,” such as roads and bridges, dams and canals, to “soft infra-structure,” like parks and town squares, public art and rails-to-trails, a city’s overall infrastruc-ture significantly influences daily life and links its residents, neighborhoods and businesses.

Given the important role of infrastruc-ture, the 2017 UIC Urban Forum panels will address issues related to uniting hard and soft infrastructures, the built environ-ment’s lasting impact on a city and its people, opportunities for economic devel-opment, and the future of city design.

Carol Ross Barney, founder and presi-dent of Ross Barney Architects, and Randy Blankenhorn, secretary of the Illi-

nois Department of Transportation, will deliver keynote addresses.

The first panel, “Building a Just City: Shaping Communities’ Quality of Life,” will include Miguel Aguilar, artist; Gia Biagi, principal of urbanism and civic impact at Studio Gang; Juanita Irizarry, executive director of Friends of the Parks; and Scott Stewart, executive director of the Millen-nium Park Foundation. The discussion

will be moderated by Alexandra Salomon, editor for WBEZ’s Curious City.

The second panel, “Connecting Peo-ple and Places: Designing Transportation Systems for Smart Cities,” will feature MarySue Barrett, president of the Metro-politan Planning Council; Ron Burke, ex-ecutive director of the Active Transportation Alliance; Clayton Harris III, executive director of the Illinois Interna-

tional Port District; and Leanne Redden, executive director of the Regional Transportation Authori-ty. Miles Bryan, producer and re-porter at WBEZ, will serve as moderator.

Full event details, including agenda, speakers, and white pa-pers, are available on the Urban Forum website, uicurbanforum.org

Admission is $25 for the gen-eral public (including lunch) and free for all Chicago-area teach-ers, faculty and students with a valid school ID. Registration is required. For more information, call 312-413-8088.

Co-chairs of the 2017 UIC Urban Forum are Toni Preckwin-

kle, Cook County Board president; and Michael D. Amiridis, UIC chancellor. Mi-chael A. Pagano, dean of the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, serves as program director.

This year’s Urban Forum is sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, WBEZ 91.5, The Chicago Community Trust, UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, and UIC Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement.

Students who are members of UIC Mo-torsports — the College of Engineer-ing’s student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers — design, build and test their own cars.


By Carlos Sadovi — [email protected]

Years after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women were still experiencing blatant discrimina-tion. The Chicago chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) took it as its mission to help change that.

The group targeted many local companies like Sears, which would pass women over for high-level positions, United Airlines for running “Executive Flights” that barred female passengers, and the Chicago Tribune for running segregated help-wanted ads for male and female job hunters.

Founded 50 years ago, the Chicago chapter of NOW focused much of its energy on employment-related is-sues because its founders had roots in the workers’ rights movement in Chicago, said David Greenstein, vis-iting lecturer for special collections and university ar-chives.

To celebrate the Chicago chapter’s anniversary, Greenstein is curating “Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot: Chicago-NOW’s fight for Equality,” an exhibit in UIC’s Richard J. Daley Library that uses documents, photo-graphs and other memorabilia from its collection to high-light the local group’s fight for gender equality. The exhibit, which opened Friday, will run through the fall se-mester at the Daley Library.

The collection had been previously donated to UIC and consists of hundreds of boxes of items, he said.

Thanks to the work of NOW, Aug. 26 became known as Women’s Equality Day to celebrate passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in 1920. But even after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s, women were still fighting for equality, Greenstein noted.

Library exhibit explores 50 years of Chicago NOW“Other types of desegrega-

tion had already begun but women were still not allowed equal access to many public ac-commodations,” he said. “They tried all kinds of different ways to change these things, to fix these kinds of inequalities.”

The exhibit, which is open to the public, dramatizes the extent of the fight that the chapter was embroiled in. The group had struggled to use everything from lawsuits to lobbying efforts to get government and corporate officials to honor and enforce the tenets of the Civil Rights Act for women. Ultimately, it came down to economic pressure.

“One of the main points I want to make in the exhibit is that they tried all kinds of differ-ent ways to change these things, but the things that really made substantial changes were more direct actions like strikes, boy-cotts and protests on the streets,” Greenstein said. “These direct actions put pub-lic pressure on groups to change.”

Some of the documents on display in the exhibit in-clude a 1970 flier calling for women to strike on the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s passage. Among the items demanded by the group were equal

pay for equal work, equal job opportunities, publicly funded child care centers, jobs listed in newspapers by occupation — not by gender — and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

“Most of those on the list are still lacking,” Greenstein said.

David Greenstein is curator of a new Daley Library exhibit, “Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot: Chicago-Now’s fight for Equality.” (Photo: Jenny Fontaine)


LET ME BE AN OBJECT THAT SCREAMSGallery 400 exhibit curated by Matt Morris that displays a range of works by contemporary artists that examines the concepts of “subject” and “object.”

Tues.-Fri.: 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Sat.: Noon–6 p.m.

INVOLVEMENT FAIRConnect with more than 200 student organizations, campus departments and community partners. Food, fun and giveaways. Sponsored by the Center for Student Involvement.

11 a.m.–4 p.m. Lecture Center Quad

SEPT. 6–7SPECIAL EVENT

SEPT. 8-OCT. 21EXHIBIT

WEST SIDE FLU CLINICFree for registered UIC students with CampusCare. Bring i-card.

9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Second floor Student Center East

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO REDUCE INFANT MORTALITY: A GLOBAL ASSETS PERSPECTIVE Free symposium unites local, national and international infant mortality and maternal and child health leaders, advo-cates and scholars to discuss transformative approaches to improve infant and child health locally, engaging global partners. Sponsored by the UI Health Cancer Center.

Sept. 8: 7 a.m.–5 p.m.

Sept. 9: 7 a.m.–11 a.m.

University Club 76 E. Monroe St.

Register & view the schedule: tinyurl.com/GAIAsymposium

For more information, email [email protected]

SEPT. 8–9SYMPOSIUM

ATHLETICS BLOOD DRIVEParticipants receive a free t-shirt and coupon for a free Subway sandwich.

9 a.m.–5 p.m.

Student Recreation Facility

SEPT. 12SPECIAL EVENT

CALENDAR MORE CAMPUS EVENTS AT today.uic.edu

Submit information about campus events at today.uic.edu/submit-an-event

UIC SPARK 2017Free concert for the UIC community, featuring headliner Nick Jonas, with acts DRAM, UIC Battle of the Bands winner LETTUCEHEAD and UIC DJ Battle winner DJ CeaseDays. Sponsored by the Center for Student Involvement, Student Activities Board, UIC Radio. Bring i-card.

Gates open at 4 p.m.; show 5:30–10 p.m.

Harrison Field

Free with i-card; each i-card holder can bring one guest for $30; alumni $25.

go.uic.edu/Spark2017


GRAND OPENINGRibbon cutting for new Chick-fil-A and Panda Express. Free samples, giveaways

10 a.m.–noon

First floor, Student Center East



ADOPT A BEACHSponsored by Freshwater Lab. Help out by cleaning Ohio Street Beach, collecting and analyzing waste data, and learning about how sound public policy and personal action can main-tain the health of our drinking water.

3:30–5:30 p.m.

Ohio Street Beach 600 N. Lakeshore Dr.



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By Brian Flood — [email protected] do political figures appear to be

able to get away with mild truth bend-ing and sometimes even outrageous lies?

A new study, from UIC researchers and published online in Social Psycho-logical and Personality Science, sug-gests people have more leniency for politicians’ lies when they bolster a shared belief that a specific political stance is morally right.

“It appears to be because those lies are perceived by supporters as an ac-ceptable and perhaps necessary means to achieve a higher moral end,” says Allison Mueller, doctoral candidate in psychology and lead author of the study. “A troubling and timely implica-tion of these findings is that political figures may be able to act in corrupt ways without damaging their images, at least in the eyes of their supporters.”

Mueller and Linda Skitka, professor of psychology, examined responses to a 2014 survey where participants read a political monologue about federal funding for Planned Parenthood that they believed was previously aired over public radio.

Respondents were randomly as-signed one of two feedback conditions and later told whether the monologue

Study examines tolerance of political lies for shared views

they had read was true.They were then asked to report the

extent to which they believed that the speaker was justified in delivering the monologue. Then, they reported their attitude positions for federal funding of women’s reproductive services and their moral conviction for the issue.

Although honesty was positively val-ued by all respondents, the researchers found that lying that served a shared moralized goal was more accepted and advocacy in support of the opposing view, or nonpreferred end, was more condemned, regardless of whether the statement was true or false.

Skitka said the findings expand knowledge of the moral mandate in two ways.

“Moral conviction for a cause, not the fairness of procedures, may shape people’s perceptions of any target who engages in norm-violating behaviors that uphold moralized causes, such as federally funded family planning in this situation,” she said.

“The findings also suggest that, al-though people are not comfortable ex-cusing others for heinous crimes that serve a moralized end, they appear comparatively tolerant of norm viola-tions like lying.”

Students involved in the CHANCE summer program meet with members of the Metro-politan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, where the program was honored.

UIC’s CHANCE program honoredBy Carlos Sadovi — [email protected]

Cook County officials recently hon-ored the UIC CHANCE program’s ef-forts to assist the campus in the recruitment and retention of students from underrepresented groups.

CHANCE, which stands for Coun-seling Help and Assistance Necessary for a 21st century College Education, was formed in 2004 to help UIC reach students from underrepresented pop-ulations and provide them with sup-port through counseling and work-shops. The program has graduated 660 students, including 596 bachelor’s degree recipi-ents, 53 mas-ter’s degree recipients and 11 doctoral degree re-cipients.

The Metropolitan Water Reclama-tion District of Greater Chicago hon-ored the program by passing a resolution Aug. 3 applauding its ef-forts.

The proclamation, sponsored by Commissioner Kari Steele, also ap-plauded the Chicago Housing Authori-ty and Ameresco Corporation for joining UIC in 2011 to create the CHANCE for CHAnge Summer Youth STEM camp. The summer program seeks to introduce 25 high school sophomores and juniors to science, technology, engineering and mathe-matics fields.

“Over a six-week period these stu-dents came to the UIC campus daily and were exposed not only to our col-lege setting and our rigorous curricu-la but, of most importance, a safe-zone environment,” said Kendal Parker, director of the CHANCE pro-gram.

The students involved in the sum-mer program were part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s One-Summer Chica-

go Youth Employ-ment Program. The students had the opportunity to live in a dorm for a week and re-ceived a mone-tary stipend.

As part of the summer program, the students toured the Stick-

ney Water Reclamation Plant, consid-ered the largest wastewater treatment facility in the world. The plant serves 2.3 million people in a 260-square-mile area.

This summer, CHANCE officials also hosted the National Summer Transportation Institute and the Exelon-ComEd STEM Academy.

Taahira Muhammad, Clarke Eaddy and Aimme Muro — UIC students who participated in the Ex-elon-ComEd STEM Academy — each received a merit-based scholarship of $16,650 for up to four years from the United Negro College Fund, its newest partner, Parker said.

For more, visit chance.uic.edu

“STUDENTS CAME TO THE UIC CAMPUS DAILY AND WERE EXPOSED NOT ONLY TO OUR COLLEGE SETTING AND OUR RIGOROUS CURRICULA BUT, OF MOST IMPORTANCE, A SAFE-ZONE ENVIRONMENT.”


Spending summer studying languagesJosephine Chaet, Maria Folvarska, Amreen Matharu

By Brian Flood — [email protected]

Three UIC students partici-pated in intensive foreign lan-guage programs this summer after being awarded scholar-ships from the U.S. Department of State.

Awarded from the depart-ment’s Critical Languages Scholarship program, the com-petitive study abroad award placed Josephine Chaet, of Chi-cago (Portage Park/Irving Park); Maria Folvarska, of Itasca; and Amreen Matharu, of Vernon Hills, in a fully funded eight-week lan-guage program that includes cultural enrichment experienc-es.

Chaet, a graduate student in

anthropology, studied intermediate-level Arabic at the Jordan Language Academy in Amman, Jordan.

Her interest in the Arabic lan-guage began in high school through classes at Lincoln Park High School, where she gradu-ated in 2012, and through a summer language program at the University of Chicago. Chaet later took Arabic classes and studied abroad in Jordan while attending Grinnell College, where she earned bachelor’s degrees in anthropology and history in 2016.

“I just fell in love with a lan-guage that was at once interest-ing, challenging, and rewarding,” said Chaet, whose research ex-plores honor-based violence and gender. “I have recently in-corporated my language studies into my graduate research, as my work primarily focuses on Jordan.”

Folvarska, a senior dual ma-joring in history and mathemat-ics and computer science, studied Russian at Lobachevsky State University in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The summer program is the equivalent of one academic year of university-level study.

This is the second Critical

Language Scholarship for the Slovakia-born Folvarska, who studied advanced-level Rus-sian last summer at the KORA Russian Language Center in Vladimir, Russia.

Earlier this year, she com-pleted her UIC Honors College capstone research project about the Canadian Doukhob-ors, a Russian dissident sect that migrated from the Cauca-sus region to Canada at the end of the 19th century.

Folvarska, who is also minor-ing in French, is a 2013 gradu-ate of Lake Park High School and plans to pursue doctoral programs in history, with a

focus on Eastern European and Russian studies.

Matharu, also a two-time Critical Language Scholarship recipient, studied intermedi-ate-level Punjabi at the Ameri-can Institute of Indian Studies in Chandigarh, India. She stud-ied beginner-level Punjabi at the institute last summer.

“I didn’t know anything about my own culture and it was nice to have a structured program for reading, writing and speaking the language all in a span of two months,” she said. “A deeper interest with Punjabi definitely came after learning more about access to

quality mental health care in India and more specifically, Punjab.”

Matharu, a 2014 graduate of Glenbrook South High School, is entering her fourth year at UIC, where she is a pre-medicine student majoring in psychology and a member of the Honors College.

After medical school, Matha-ru plans to use her Punjab lan-guage skills to reduce the stigma of mental illness and increase accessibility to mental health services.

All three recipients are stu-dents of UIC’s College of Liber-al Arts and Sciences.

APPOINTMENTSCharu Thakral, associate

vice provost for diversity, is serv-ing as interim vice provost and associate chancellor for diversi-ty. Thakral also serves as adjunct faculty in the College of Medi-cine, Honors College and Col-lege of Education.

AWARDSEvelyn Figueroa, residency

program director in family medi-cine, is the recipient of the Medi-cine Award from the Health & Medicine Research Policy Group. She was honored for her work developing innovative pro-grams to help learners expand their understanding of caring for vulnerable populations.

She will receive her award at a gala Oct. 13 at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Wonhwa Cho, professor and head of chemistry, received an Avanti Award from the Biophysi-cal Society. He received the award for his pioneering work in the study of lipid binding domains and development of lipid-specific fluorescent sensors for real-time imaging in cells.

HONORSKevin Schultz, professor of

history, Catholic studies and reli-gious studies, was selected as a featured contributor to “Made by History,” a new blog in The Wash-ington Post’s Outlook section that explores parallels between today’s political climate and his-tory. Schultz, president of the So-ciety for U.S. Intellectual History, studies 20th century American history with special interests in religion, ethno-racial history, and intellectual and cultural life.

PEOPLE

Josephine Chaet

Maria Folvarska studied in Russia while Amreen Matharu spent her summer in India.

Julia Koxholt, a doctoral student in Germanic studies, was awarded a research grant from the German Aca-demic Exchange Service, also known as Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD). The fellow-ship, which is funded by the German government, allowed her to conduct six weeks of preliminary disser-tation research this summer at the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her dissertation analyzes relationships between German-Jewish and non-Jewish German characters depicted in works by writers Olga Grjasnowa, Kat Kaufmann and Sasha Salzmann.

Doctoral student wins research award


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Men’s basketball team adds coaching staffBy Dan Yopchick — [email protected]

Former Illini basketball great Dee Brown and former Texas Southern coach Tony Harvey will join head coach Steve McClain as assistant coaches for the men’s basketball team. Phil Gaul returns to his alma mater to serve as the director of basketball operations.

“Our UIC basketball family is incredi-bly excited to add two coaches as talent-ed and dynamic as Dee Brown and Tony Harvey,” said McClain. “Both bring an ex-tensive knowledge of the game and an enthusiasm to both seek out and devel-op the highest quality student-athletes to our program.”

Brown, the 2005 Sporting News Na-tional Player of the Year, played at the University of Illinois from 2002–06. He helped the Fighting Illini capture Big Ten championships in 2004 and 2005 and reach the national championship game of the NCAA Tournament in 2005. A con-sensus First Team All-American and the Big Ten Player of the Year in 2005, Brown graduated as the winningest play-er in program history with 114 wins, and as the school’s all-time leader in minutes (4,698) and starts (136).

Following his successful stint in Champaign, Brown was selected by the

Utah Jazz in the 2006 NBA Draft. In ad-dition to stops in Washington, Phoenix and Dallas on the NBA circuit, the May-wood native spent nine seasons as a professional basketball player, mainly overseas. He was a two-time champion in Europe and named Player of the Year with PBC Lukoil Academic in Bulgaria in 2015.

As a local prep standout at Proviso

East High School, Brown was named Mr. Basketball in Illinois and a McDonald’s All-American in 2002.

Upon announcing his retirement as a player in 2015, Brown returned to his alma mater as a special assistant to the athletic director. He also was the director of player development and alumni rela-tions for the men’s basketball program under then-head coach John Groce.

Brown’s first foray into coaching came in the AAU circuit with Chicago Means-treets. He also led Bloomington Flex, a USA select team, on a tour through China this summer.

Brown, whose hire is pending Board of Trustees approval, graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in recreation, sports & tourism.

“Coach Brown knows the city of Chi-cago extremely well and the city knows him,” McClain said. “It’s a great fit and I know he’s going to fully dedicate himself to making everyone around him better all the time.”

Harvey possesses more than 16 years of coaching experience, including four seasons as the head coach at Texas Southern University. He led the Tigers to their first 20-win season in 15 years during the 2010–11 campaign. That year, Harvey was named the SWAC Coach of the Year while the team earned an NIT bid.

Prior to arriving in Houston, Harvey spent time as the associate head coach at Missouri. He helped bring in six re-cruiting classes that were each ranked in the top 10 nationally, while helping the Tigers to reach the NCAA Tournament four consecutive times between 2000–03. Twice those MU teams advanced to

the Sweet 16, and in 2002 the team played in the Elite 8.

Harvey was named one of the top five recruiting assistants in the country and one of the hardest working assistants three times by insiderhoops.com. In both 2001–02 and 2002–03.

In addition to his tenures at Texas Southern and Missouri, Harvey spent time on collegiate staffs at Eastern Mich-igan (1996–99), McNeese State (1994–96) and Southern University (1993–94). He began his coaching career in the high school ranks at Benton Harbor High School and Martin Luther King High School.

Harvey received a bachelor’s degree in health/physical education with a minor in biology from Cameron Universi-ty in Oklahoma.

“Coach Harvey has been an integral part of successful programs for nearly two decades,” McClain said. “He is a re-lentless recruiter with a strong work ethic that can benefit all of us as players and coaches.”

Gaul returns to UIC as director of op-erations. The UIC alum was on McClain’s first staff at UIC as a graduate assistant during the 2015–16 season. His duties include the coordination of team travel, video operations, budgetary responsibili-ties and practice schedules. He also oversees the student manager program and aids the squad in several logistical areas.

Gaul graduated with a bachelor’s de-gree in political science in 2012. He received a master’s in instructional leadership in 2013.

“Phil is no stranger to UIC and we are fortunate that he has rejoined us at his alma mater,” McClain added. “He is an alum who is passionate about this pro-gram and I believe that his eagerness to succeed will carry over to everyone on the team.”

UIC endured more than 85 min-utes of scoreless play Sunday before Naomi Rushe put the game-winner in the back of the net with about two minutes to play for a 1-0 victory over SIUE at Flames Field — second-straight clean sheet for the Flames.

Rushe led all players and matched her career high with five attempts, followed by Emily Valen-tine with two. Rushe (3), Valentine (2) and Tamae Douglas (2) had the team’s seven shots on goal.

Annie DiCanio was strong in the goal for the second-straight game as she garnered her second shutout. While she came up with five bit saves, the Flames defense kept the Cougars from creating more than their 14 shot opportunities.

DiCanio had her first save in the 13th minute, before UIC had a suc-cession of shots that went wide from Olivia Everin, Valentine and Rushe. DiCanio was faced with two more

shots in the half and made another save at the 30th minute.

After Douglas had a shot saved a minute into the second half, SIUE put together a run of six shots in seven minutes, featuring another save for DiCanio and a ball that corralled off the post.

In the 63rd minute of play, Rushe nearly converted twice, as the Cou-gars’ goalkeeper made back-to-back saves.

Coming off an offside call on the Cougars, the Flames played the ball up the right side in the 88th minute with Ashlin West sending the ball to Everin, who passed it to the 6-yard box, where Rushe was waiting to bury it home for her first goal of the sea-son.

UIC prepares now for four games on the road. The Flames will take on Belmont at 6:30 p.m. Friday in Nash-ville, before heading to Murfreesboro, Tenn., to face Middle Tennessee at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Women’s soccer claims shutout winBy Laura White — [email protected]

The Flames will begin their regular season in November. (Photo: Steve Woltmann)

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