2015 spring/summer illinois international review

ILL INOIS INTERNATIONAL

REVIEWUNIVERSIT Y OF ILL INOIS AT URBANA- CHAMPAIGN

ISSUE NO. 20 SPRING/SUMMER 2015

Alumnus Bringing Light to Villages Around the World

Experiences Abroad Prepared Student for Disaster at Home

International Partnerships INSPIRE’d by Success

Illinois Mobilizes to Educate on Ebola

Veerle Opgenhaffen | Executive Editor

Matt VanderZalm | Managing Editor

I am honored to return to my alma mater as the vice provost for international affairs and global strategies. I vividly remember when I first arrived on campus in the summer of 1992 to pursue my graduate studies. I stood in complete awe in front of the Alma Mater statue’s outstretched arms, and could scarcely imagine what the future held in store for me. As I return to campus more than 20 years later, I have the great privi-lege of working with the most talented students, faculty, staff, and alumni in the world to realize the Chancellor and Provost’s vision of making Illinois a pre-eminent university with global impact, building on a strong tradition of academic excellence. As I assume this role, I want to thank my predecessor, E. Bryan Endres, for his service and leadership of International Programs and Studies at Illinois over the past 18 months. Let us wish Bryan the best in his future professional endeavors.

The higher education landscape in the 21st Century is dynamic and increasingly complex, but also provides opportunities to explore, expand our intellectual boundaries, and engage across disciplines to seek innovative solutions to some of our world’s most challenging problems. Grounded in the land-grant mission of teaching, research, and engagement, our international and global efforts at Illinois provide an invigorating academic environment where our faculty and students can thrive and become global leaders.

We are very proud that for the sixth consecutive year, our campus has been recognized as a “U.S. Scholar Top Producer,” with six faculty recipients of U.S. Fulbright Scholar awards (see back page). Illinois ranks fifth among U.S. research universities with regard to the number of faculty receiving this prestigious award to enhance their teaching and research abroad.

In late 2014, six of our Thematic and Area Studies Centers received Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center designations, with funding totaling more than $12.5 million over the next four years. These centers provide pivotal opportunities for our faculty and students to cultivate innova-tive scholarship to engage and address the world’s increasingly complex issues.

The outstanding accomplishments of our faculty enrich our students’ academic experiences and strengthen our institu-tional commitment to prepare globally competent students. At Illinois, we take the responsibility of training the next gen-eration of national and international leaders very seriously. With the increasing impact of globalization, we must graduate students with superior academic preparation and a competi-tive advantage to navigate successfully in a wide variety of

On the cover:

Mechanical engineering major Amanda Steelman (second from left) heads out dog-sledding on a trip to the Lappland region of Sweden. Steelman received a $2,500 scholarship award funded by H. Gerald Nordberg Jr. and Linda Nordberg in support of a study-abroad experience at one of three Swedish insitutions, which are part of the INSPIRE partnership. See page 8 for more on Steelman’s experience and INSPIRE.

In This Issue 3 2014 International Achievement Award

Recipients

5 Alumnus Bringing Light to Villages Around the World

6 Experience Abroad Prepared Student for Disaster at Home

8 International Partnerships INSPIRE’d by Success

11 Belgian Scholar Leverages UI Partnership to Further Research

12 Wamkilekile - Welcome to South Africa

15 Illinois Mobilizes to Educate on Ebola

18 Distinguished Composer Calls Illinois Home

20 Illinois Top Producer of Fulbright Scholars

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IIR is also available online at international.illinois.edu/iir

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contexts throughout the world. Our commitment to student excellence is evidenced by the fact that our campus is ranked among the top 15 in the U.S. with respect to its number of Fulbright recipients. This year 13 of our students received Fulbright fellowships — a distinguished accom-plishment for our campus.

Illinois’ academic reputation is also reflected in the global context. For example, the Institute for Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently ranked our campus the 28th best univer-sity in the world and the 20th best university in the U.S. This reputation is further reflected in our position as a leader among our public university peers in the number of international students we attract to our campus. Illinois is ranked third overall in the nation and first among all public uni-versities in the number of international students. The more than 10,000 international students we have on our campus bring diverse experiences that enrich the cultural and intellectual environ-ment for all who study, teach, and work here. Our international students have also contributed an estimated $336 million to the campus and local economies.

We are committed to international excellence, both in terms of the students and faculty we bring to campus, as well as the opportunities we afford our students through our exceptionally robust and innovative study abroad programs. We will continue to work hard to ensure that increasing numbers of students will have an international experience before they graduate from Illinois.

I am excited about international and global pos-sibilities that await Illinois International in the future and I invite you to work with our team to position our great institution to become the preeminent, truly global university.

Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela, Ph.D. Vice Provost for International Affairs and Global Strategies

MATT VANDERZALM, MANAGING EDITOR

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign honored alumni, faculty, and students at the annual International Achievement Awards banquet on April 9th at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center.

Dr. Byung-Ho Chung, a native of South Korea, is the founding director of the Insti-tute for Globalization and Multicultural Studies at Hanyang University. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Illinois in 1983 and 1992, respectively.

Established in 2000, the Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement is awarded annually to a distinguished inter-national alumnus who has helped to better their own nation or the world through their contributions to government, humanity, science, art, or human welfare. Dr. Chung was honored for his work on social activism and education reform extending through-out East Asia. The founder or co-founder of six civil society social justice organizations, he has focused particularly on the relationship between North and South Korea, promoting multiculturalism and peace and establishing organizations to care for refugees, many of them children. His leadership at Hanyang University and his anthropological research have inspired students and community leaders in efforts for social reform.

Chung said he was “honored and humbled” to receive the award, calling it “sobering.” He pointed to his study of cultural relativ-ism and his experience as an international student at Illinois as key factors that helped shape his anthropological research.

“I have wanted very much to help children and young people at risk, and most of these risks still persist,” he said. “I have tried to solve these problems for years, yet some of them continue to worsen. However, this award suggests that perhaps my efforts have been fruitful in some ways. [It] gives me momentum to carry on my research and practice with a refreshed perspective and courage.”

Dr. Mohammad Babadoost is a professor of plant pathology and extension specialist in the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) at the University of Illinois. Dr. Prasanta Kalita is a professor of soil and water resources engineering and is the director of the ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss, also in the College of ACES.

Dr. Byung-Ho Chung, recipient of the 2014 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement.

Dr. Mohammad Babadoost

Dr. Prasanta Kalita

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The Sheth Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement is presented to faculty with profound international accomplishments in teaching, research and public service. Dr. Babadoost was honored for his work with plant pathology and global food security throughout Mexico, China, and the Middle East. As coordinator of the Library Assistant Program, he has created access to agricultural and educational infor-mation to universities and research institutes around the world. Dr. Kalita was recognized for his efforts in water resources management, which have improved water quality and created pollution control connections spanning multiple continents, as well as his mentorship of students.

Babadoost said receiving the Sheth Distinguished Faculty Award “stands out as a high honor” among many he has received in his career. “This recognition demonstrates the emphasis that the University of Illinois places on being a global leader in establishment of food secu-rity,” he said. “In this regard, the university’s mission combined with my teaching, research, and extension programs have been highly complementary towards strengthening food security globally.

Kalita was pleased to receive the award for his interna-tional engagement, calling it an “honor” to be recog-nized. “We still have a lot to do; being part of a premier Land Grant institution provides each of us plenty of encouragement and opportunities to engage with global communities and develop meaningful partner-ships,” Kalita said. “We will continue to move forward with our university’s mission to make this world a better place to live.”

T. Patrick Walsh (see page 5) is a founder of Greenlight Planet Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of solar-powered LED lights for the developing world. The Charles C. Stewart International Young Humanitarian Award recognizes the meritorious contributions, research and commitment of the univer-sity’s young international humanitarians. Walsh was honored for his work with Greenlight. He designed Greenlight Planet’s first solar lantern as an undergraduate student after spending a summer in rural India with the campus student orga-nization Engineers Without Borders. The company has so far sold over three million Sun King lamps to off-grid families in South Asia and Africa. He graduated in

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2007 with a B.S. in engineering physics and a B.A. in economics.

Walsh said he was “grateful” for the award, and looked forward to returning to campus, especially during International Week, calling it “a great oppor-tunity for students to explore international careers.”

Gregory Damhorst is a bioengineering and medical graduate student at Illinois. The I llinois International Graduate Achievement Award recognizes a graduate student whose innovative and sustained international research or public service abroad has had the greatest impact (or has the greatest potential impact) on the uni-versity, larger community or internationally. He was recognized for his research focused on HIV/AIDS, and his global health initiatives, humanitarian work, and interfaith efforts that have impacted communities in Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Haiti.

Damhorst said the award “is affirmation that the goals we have worked toward in building inter-national partnerships around health, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations, and training the next generation of global health leaders are in line with what the Illinois community values and the vision it has for the future.”

Nora Onstad is a senior in agricultural and bio-engineering at Illinois. The Illinois International Undergraduate Achieve-ment Award recog-nizes an undergraduate student for a significant service or contribution resulting from participa-tion in an international study course, program or project. She was honored for her efforts with Engi-neers Without Borders, which included providing a community in rural Cameroon with clean water. Upon her return to campus, she has demonstrated leadership and collaboration in continued global water quality work.

Visit: international.illinois.edu/grants/awards.html

Nora Onstad

T. Patrick Walsh

Gregory Damhorst



Patrick Walsh’s humanitarian efforts (see page 4) began with a trip to India.

While visiting a village without electricity in 2005 as an undergraduate student at Illinois, Walsh recog-nized the need for reasonably priced lighting solu-tions in rural areas. What resulted was an odyssey that saw him design an affordable, solar-powered LED lamp that could replace kerosene lamps and other crude lighting sources commonly found in under-developed countries.

Subsequently, the Riverside, Illinois native helped found Greenlight Planet, a company that has sold millions of the lamps around the world since its incep-tion in 2007, the same year he graduated from Illinois and a year before he was awarded the prestigious Lemelson-Illinois prize for innovation. That $30,000 seed money allowed Walsh and co-founders Anish Thakkar and Mayank Sekhsaria to set up large-scale manufacturing of the lamps.

There were challenges along the way, to be sure. A solar-powered light would seem to be a rather simple device. However, designing and producing the lamps for $5 per unit, that can be easily understood by users, and is tough enough to withstand harsh climates, made the task more difficult, Walsh said. “We have tighter cost constraints than your typical consumer durable product designed for Western markets,” he noted.

In April 2015, Walsh’s efforts resulted in his receiving the Charles C. Stewart Young Humanitarian Award from the University of Illinois, an award Walsh said he is “grateful” to receive.

It was his experience with Engineers Without Borders (EWB) at Illinois that “sparked” Walsh’s “passion for social entrepreneurship and global development,” according to University YMCA Associate Director Kasey Umland, who nominated Walsh for the award.

“When I first met Patrick (in 2007) he had recently graduated and was working to establish Greenlight Planet as a company, but he would come back and visit with students still involved with EWB,” Umland said. “It was obvious even then that Patrick would reach millions more people than if he had remained exclusively in the non-profit sector. I say confidently and without hesitation that I know of no other alumnus of the university who better exemplifies the qualities and values this award seeks to highlight.”

Umland points to the way Walsh thinks about development and the role of business in improv-ing lives of people around the world as factors that have driven his success. “He considers respecting low-income customers choices as an essential first step to meeting their needs, and profit to be an essential first step to ensuring the company is accountable to a customer,” she said.

Alumnus Bringing Light to Villages Around the World

(Above) A customer uses a sewing machine with help from the solar lamp created by Patrick Walsh and his team at Greenlight Planet.

(Below) One version of the lamp can also be used to charge mobile phones, a common need for rural residents in developing countries.

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VEERLE OPGENHAFFEN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR; AND ALLISON VANCE, PUBLIC AFFAIRS

When Jessica Weston was choosing a study abroad location, she had two qualifi-cations: that it has beautiful weather and be English-speaking. So, she chose the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, where she was able to fulfill her academic requirements, as well as develop her interest in volunteer work through a course called “Rebuilding Christchurch.” The New Zealand city was recovering from a series of violent earthquakes.

Several months later, her own hometown, Washington, Illinois, was hit with a disaster: a powerful tornado that injured more than 120 people and damaged almost 500 homes. She drew upon her experiences to start a successful grass roots relief effort run out of her campus apartment.

In November 2014, Jessica was invited to return to Christchurch to give the keynote address at the Second Annual New Zealand Tertiary Community Engagement Summit at the University of Canterbury, an honor acknowledging her tremendous service to both the community of Christchurch and her hometown.

She credits her success to the opportunities made avail-able by the Illinois study abroad program.

What do you think makes the Illinois study abroad experience unique compared to other schools’ programs?

The Illinois study abroad experience is unique because of the vast opportunities and choices made available

to students. The office does an excellent job of engaging with students from the moment they step onto campus to get them thinking about the benefits of study abroad and to help them determine the best ways for building it into their educational plan. For example, even though Canterbury didn’t have many classes that were pre-approved for credit, I was able to take every class for credit through professor approval.

It’s very encouraging to experience the U. of I. working with you personally to create the experience that fits best with your life goals. Illinois a very pro-study abroad university, which makes it easier for students to take advantage of this life-changing opportunity.

What drew you to a study abroad program in New Zealand, and why was “rebuilding Christchurch” such a meaningful part of that experience?

I was originally drawn to New Zealand because I wanted to study abroad in a famously beautiful locale and English-speaking country, so that I could connect with the locals on a deep level – unhampered by language limitations – and also enjoy the natural habitat.

Jessica Weston studied disaster relief in New Zealand. Months later, when her hometown was ravaged by a tornado, she was ready to help.

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The University of Canterbury stood out to me as soon as I read about the “Rebuilding Christchurch” course, which is modeled on the Student Volunteer Army’s post-earthquake response. Volunteering is something I have always enjoyed, but being able to deconstruct what it meant at an intellectual level and then design my own programming sounded like an amazing academic opportunity.

My favorite service project was our final class project where we designed and implemented an initiative to help with the continued rebuilding of Christchurch. As a class we organized the first event of the newly launched “Bring It Home” initiative, where our class volunteered alongside the residents of Rattray Street for a collective cleanup day. I worked on the marketing team that branded the event, built awareness, designed the logo, and reached out to local businesses for donations.

The experience was empowering on two key levels: one, it challenged me to look at problems in my own home community and to think creatively about how I could use my new talents and skills to find solutions there going forward; and, two, the program really focused on ways in which my generation – often overlooked when thinking about social global issues – could band together to make a difference in the world.

How did your study abroad experience impact your understanding of who you are in the world? And how have those lessons helped you in further volunteer projects? First and foremost, it helped me understand what my personal strengths are, and then allowed me to develop the tools I would need to apply those strengths to similar contexts. Because it was hands-on and community based, the course was pivotal to developing my creative capacity to take relief concepts and apply them more broadly.

This subsequently enabled me to develop a disas-ter relief campaign for my hometown, Washing-ton, Illinois, which was severely damaged by a tornado in 2013. Even though this is a town most of my classmates at the U. of I had never heard of, I managed to raise awareness of its plight and needs by organizing other students to help assist in my relief efforts. Our team focused on sharing stories and pictures of Washington and using social media to support our #fillthetruck campaign, aimed at gathering emergency supplies for my town. The visual shock of the devastation and the way we organized our outreach and logistical efforts really

(Top) Jessica Weston (right) developed a disaster relief campaign and provided supplies and more than $5,000 for tornado victims in Washington, Illinois.

(Right) Weston explor-ing a glacier during her time abroad in New Zealand.

rallied the people of Champaign-Urbana to help immediately. We made it easy for people to donate by opening our campus apartments as donation drop-off centers and offering online monetary donation options. We also reached out to local news stations to mobilze a larger network in Champaign, and our interviews yielded even more donations.

My team and I started our campaign on the Monday before fall break; by Friday, we had an entire 18-foot truck full of supplies and over $5,000 in monetary donations. And that was just the beginning.

How has your Illinois study abroad experience changed your life for the better?

I truly found a “home away from home” in Christ-church, and I largely credit this course for giving me a way to connect with the local population on a deep and tangible level – which then came full circle and enabled me to help my hometown. I think that’s really the beauty of the U. of I. study abroad experience – not only do you find your personal strength and grow in a new environment, you get to return home with so much more to offer.



With a plethora of popular study abroad destina-tion options available, Sweden may not be in the forefront of every student’s mind – but it should be.

The Scandanavian nation has a lot to offer for those looking for a great opportunity abroad. Just ask Illinois student Amanda Steelman, who spent a semester in Sweden in Spring 2014.

“It was a really fantastic opportunity to take technical courses at a very well-known university (KTH Royal institute of Technology in Stockholm) and be able to experience study abroad at the same time,” said Steelman, a mechanical engineering major and 2014 Nordberg INSPIRE student scholar.

INSPIRE, short for the Illinois-Sweden Program for Educational and Research Exchange, began in late

2010 through an initiative by KTH and was quickly expanded to include Stockholm University (SU) and Karolinska Institutet (KI). The 2014 Nordberg INSPIRE Student Scholar Award Steelman received is a $2,500 scholarship award funded by H. Gerald Nordberg Jr. and Linda Nordberg in support of a study-abroad experience at an INSPIRE partner institution.

Steelman hadn’t given much consideration to study-ing abroad in Sweden, before reading about a program at KTH in a department email that seemed interesting. “I’ll admit that my decision to study abroad in Stockholm was pretty impulsive,” she said. “I had never spoken a word of Swedish in my life,

applied on a whim, and figured I’d decide whether I’d actually go or not later.”

And go she did. Learning as much Swedish as she could before departure, she arrived in Sweden to find a country as welcoming to English-speaking students as it is to native Swedes. “Everywhere I went, they spoke English, so if my terrible Swedish failed me, it wasn’t a problem,” said Steelman. “It really surprised me how well most Swedish people can speak English, and it makes me feel bad that we don’t work on foreign languages as much [in the U.S.].”

Steelman is one of more than 100 students who have studied abroad with INSPIRE programs since its inception. In addition, 10 student exchange pro-grams have arisen from INSPIRE, and study abroad to Sweden by Illinois students has increased sevenfold and continues to rise. Plus, 24 other educational collaborations have resulted from INSPIRE, includ-ing the exchange of graduate students, co-taught courses, workshops, and a joint certificate program.

Professor Anna Westerstahl Stenport, a founding faculty member of INSPIRE and current director of the European Union Center at Illinois, believes the collaboration is a true asset to Illinois students and the campus. She points to the fact that of 10 students receiving prestigious, nationally competi-tive Gilman Scholarships at Illinois in 2015, three chose Sweden as their destination.

“[These students] going to partner universities in Sweden for study abroad, and the fact that these three recipients are all pursuing majors tradition-ally underrepresented in study abroad (Molecular and Cellular Biology, Mechanical Engineering, and Psychology) is fantastic proof that the strategic partnership and long term institutional investment provide significant benefits to students and the institution as a whole,” Stenport said.

Despite its famously frigid climate, the country itself is inviting to visitors. The cleanliness of Stockholm and the breadth of the country’s recycling efforts and waste reduction overwhelmingly impressed Steelman. “In our student corridor, the recycling bins were bigger than the trash can,” she said. “Almost everything that could be recycled would be.”

While encouraging Illinois students to take advan-tage of the benefits of studying abroad in Sweden is one facet of the program, the INSPIRE partner-ship itself is about far more; facilitating research collaboration and both corporate and community

International Partnerships INSPIRE’d by Success

Steelman and fellow UI student Andrew Widlacki show off their school spirit during a break on a trip to Lappland, Sweden.

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International Partnerships INSPIRE’d by Successengagement are key components of the INSPIRE program. Since its inception, more than 55 research projects have been funded through the program; three research symposia held; 41 additional faculty exchanges have occurred in a diverse range of fields; and 45 co-authored articles have been published, with more on the way.

Strategic partnerships like INSPIRE enhance the experience of students and researchers, according to Illinois Professor Harry Dankowicz, another found-ing faculty member of the program. “Collaboration in research is a multiplier that grows with practice,” said Dankowicz. “Strategic partnerships ensure sustained opportunities to engage with comple-mentary expertise, access nontraditional sources of funding support, and achieve broad impact.

INSPIRE has also led to engagement within the community and corporate environments. In 2012, an Illinois delegation visited Stockholm and the Malmö region in the south of Sweden, to evalu-ate issues coupled to renovation of social housing and also to explore recent innovative examples of creating sustainable multifamily communities. The delegation included Illinois faculty and staff, as well as executive directors from the Rockford Housing Authority and the Illinois Housing Development Authority.

In addition, an educational program was developed and implemented to both Swedish and American schoolchildren and educators; two presentations were conducted to Illinois government and industry on sustainable and green initiatives in Sweden in 2013; and the Innovation Immersion Program of Illinois Business Consulting expanded to include Swedish networks in 2014.

INSPIRE, and Illinois Strategic International Part-nerships (ISIP)—the broader initiative for which it served as the pilot project—represents an innova-tive new approach to inter-institutional partnerships for Illinois, and the first significant campus-level investment in strategically expanding Illinois’ “global footprint.” Over $150,000 has been invested in expanding the partnership through seed funding new collaborative research projects and educational activities, with more allocated to projects currently underway.

INSPIRE has also provided the model for another strategic partnership, BRIDGE (Birmingham–llli-nois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement and Education). Formed in 2014, the partnership created a framework for continued collaboration

and investment to grow the strategic partnership between Illinois and the University of Birmingham (UK).

The BRIDGE partnership engagement currently encompasses more than 25 established faculty-to-faculty links in 14 key academic disciplines. Its framework aims to deepen these existing col-laborations and develop wider faculty networks to: build cognate research areas; expand educational exchange opportunities; and strengthen strate-gic aspirations for institutional engagement. To this end, the institutions have established a joint BRIDGE Project Seed Fund to foster more research collaboration between the two universities.

Stenport credits Illinois Strategic International Partnerships (ISIP), headed by ISIP Director Tim Barnes, for helping facilitate the creation of INSPIRE, BRIDGE, and numerous other partnerships.

(Top) Steelman and friends take time from their trip to Lappland to visit the Norway-Sweden border.

(Bottom) Steelman and Widlacki enjoy the cherry blossoms and the start of spring in Stockholm.


“Without the dedicated leadership and vision of [Barnes], his staff, and the advisory committee, it is unlikely INSPIRE would have reached the consider-able success in a relatively short time that it has,” Stenport said.

Barnes said the idea for partnerships like INSPIRE and BRIDGE grew from an increasing awareness of the limits of an entirely decentralized model for developing international partnerships. “All of our international engagement activities must be driven by faculty, advance their research agendas and serve the needs of our students,” Barnes said. “But if we rely solely on individual faculty initiative to develop and sustain international partnerships, this precludes any sort of strategic engagement with the world, at the institutional level.”

Barnes also noted that these prioritized, strategic partnerships are supplements, and not replace-ments, to the more decentralized, faculty-driven collaborations. The vision for ISIP is to establish a small network of key partners around the world, and through the partnerships advance all of the core missions of the university—research, teaching, public engagement and economic development.

As for Steelman, she doesn’t have to go all the way back to Sweden to be reminded often of her stay. A trip to her computer allows her to visit the special Facebook page a group of friends from her trip set up, and they attempt to Skype together regularly. A walk to the kitchen could involve an encounter with her roommate, a woman who is doing a semester exchange from Stockholm.

“She and I were connected through a mutual friend, and she’s subleasing from one of my roommates who is currently studying abroad in Spain,” Steel-man said. “It’s been a really great experience so far because I’ve got to meet a lot of the Swedish law students who are studying [at Illinois] in her program. It’s nice to be around Swedish people again, even if it makes me miss my time in Stock-holm more, and they like that I know what they’re talking about when they talk about home.”

Does Steelman plan to return to Sweden? “One day I’d really like to go back. There’s so much more I want to do there that I didn’t get to do and other things I’d just like to experience again.”

Visit: international.illinois.edu/partnerships/index.html


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When Anna Van Cauwenberge was considering where she might conduct her research on political entertainment media, it was pretty clear that the University of Illinois was her best choice.

The visiting scholar from the Institute of Media Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) was first introduced to the prospect of collaboration with Illinois from her supervisor, Professor Leen d’Haenens, who mentioned the “interesting col-laboration” occurring between the two schools. That collaboration had seen nearly 40 faculty members from a wide variety of disciplines participate in the faculty exchange. Beginning in January 2009 the exchange was opened to include advanced Ph.D. students, like Van Cauwenberge, who wished to conduct research at the partner institution.

As she considers Illinois to have “one of the top 10 communications departments in the world,” and with Illinois Professor David Tewksbury one of the foremost experts in the world in the field of political communication, the choice was simple for Van Cauwenberge, who had already read several of Tewksbury’s papers while conducting her own doctoral research.

“Political satire is more prominent in the U.S. than in Belgium or the Netherlands, so it made sense to come here,” Van Cauwenberge said. “And I love [Tewksbury’s] writing approaches and perspectives. And the chance to work with his team was one I couldn’t pass up.”

So in Spring 2014, she came to Illinois as a visit-ing scholar, and returned in 2015 to continue her research. Van Cauwenberge’s work looks at young people’s motivations for watching shows such as “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and how effective such programs are in imparting political knowledge.

“Over the course of the last decade, political enter-tainment media such as political satire programs and late-night entertainment talk shows have become popular venues for young news audiences and key sources among the younger demographics for making sense of and learning about the political world,” Van Cauwenberge said.

Van Cauwenberge sees programs like “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” as “key to a

Communications Professor David Tewksbury (right) and Ph.D. student Julius Riles with Anna Van Cauwenberge (middle).

Belgian Scholar Leverages UI Partnership to Further Research

changing environment” for youth to get what they, at the least, perceive as news. “It’s a question of punch line vs. information,” she said.

The partnership between Illinois and KU Leuven is one of more than 500 formal agreements Illinois has with other educational institutions in more than 50 countries. Under the terms of this particular agreement, faculty and Ph.D. candidates from either institution are eligible to apply for funding for an exchange visit of between one and three months. The hosting institution provides housing and a modest living stipend, while the sending institution provides round trip airfare.

For Van Cauwenberge, her second visit to Illinois was a great opportunity to continue her research in a welcoming environment.

“I just really enjoy the campus community, everything from the facilities (like the Activities and Recreation Center and the Meat Salesroom) to the bus system, to the Quad in summer,” Van Cauwenberge said. “It was a bit like coming home.”

Visit: international.illinois.edu/partnerships/kul.html


INTRODUCTION BY JAN BROOKS, TEACHING ASSOCIATE, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Illinois students participate in a variety of South African study abroad options, including trips to see and study wild animals in the game reserves, design new technology with agricultural engineering students at the University of KwaZulu Natal, learn about ongoing challenges with housing and urban planning, and experience community immersion and service learning within the diverse communities in and sur-rounding Cape Town. I have offered director-guided three week service learning trips organized around issues for children and health care for the past eight years, and have more recently had the opportunity to assist in setting up a fall semester program in which students earn eight credit hours through intensive humanities courses followed by eight credit hours for full time 12-week internships which are custom fit to their career goals and fields of study. Students considering study abroad can find all of these programs and more with a search for the destination South Africa on the University of Illinois Study Abroad website.

South Africa is a land of breath-taking beauty, friendly people, and adventurous tourism. I find more to learn through my own interactions in this complex and diverse society on each new trip I take! Following are excerpts of short reports by students who recently completed these programs, offering a taste of life in South Africa and insight into how the experiences have impacted these students’ lives.

Wamkilekile – Welcome to South Africa

Illinois student Stephanie Reyna (fourth from left) and fellow students learn some dance moves while taking a break in South Africa.

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My study abroad experience in South Africa taught me to appreciate what I have and to take advantage of all the opportunities that are given to me. I really enjoyed the Beth Uriel Shelter, a home for young adult males who need guidance. Their personalities were cheerful; they shared their music and dance. These are young men who may be homeless, orphaned, and/or have previously had legal problems. They don’t have much to live on, but I have never met such an enthusiastic group of people. They taught me that family is not only about biological links, but also about those that love you and will go above and beyond to help you.


Site B medical clinic, I was constantly thrown into extremely uncomfortable situations where I had to make my own connections, establish myself, and contribute in whatever way possible.

FOREX (The Foreign Exchange) is a beacon for students seeking to explore foreign places and broaden their horizons. I have always enjoyed the saying, “Work hard, play hard,” as unsophisticated as it is, because I think it is important to work toward a goal and reward oneself for accomplishments. But the addition of “… & explore the world” really struck a chord with me when I took this picture on the second to last day of the trip. Those who never travel miss out on so much development as a human being.

MICHERA DOBBS

The winter study tour to Cape Town is an experi-ence that has greatly impacted my life. One day, our group decided to go on a hike at Lions Head Mountain after working at our volunteer sites. In my heart I really and truly did not want to hike this mountain. I just had a long day playing with kids and it had to be around 90 degrees and right when the sun and heat was at its peak. I was having so much difficulty with breathing from the heat and the sun beaming down on me due to my asthma. I had to stop multiple times and sit. Eventually I made it to the top and I was so proud of myself! It also felt good because everyone in the group congratulated me because I had made it after struggling initially. Making it to the top showed me that although I was physically and mentally exhausted I could do anything if I just push myself past my limits.

A sign outside the Foreign Exchange in Capetown, South Africa.

I was also happy to visit the Maitland Cottage Home. It felt really nice coming in every morning and having the children clap with excitement, because the other three volunteers and I were there to play with them. They were all in hospital beds with broken bones, but always smiling as they interacted with us. I learned that many came from foster homes, while others had families that couldn’t afford the transportation to the home. These children were used to being independent and looking after themselves. Many had been in the home for months and had grown relation-ships with one another, and with the nurses. As a future clinical psychologist, I have learned that patients I might treat one day might come from a completely different background from mine. These experiences have taught me to always do my best to help people in need.

CHAMIA CHATMAN

As I recall my time spent in South Africa, I realize that though our adventures were amazing, it was not what I did in South Africa that necessarily made it a great program, but rather the people I was with. The group of students I became friends with and the amazing people I worked with at Vondi’s Holistic Pet Nutrition made my transition into life in a new country almost seamless.

Waking up for work every morning and creating research documents on topics out of my comfort zone taught me the value of being open to new ideas. For that reason, I learned more about compan-ion animal nutrition in South Africa than I expected. It is because of the kindness and patience of Vondi’s staff that I have grown as an animal scientist. This experience has also given me the confidence I needed to continue my entrepreneurial endeav-ors. I believe that having three months to work at this company allowed me to become part of the Vondi’s family.

PAUL PRIESTER

My trip to Cape Town will forever be one of the most memorable experiences of my lifetime. I never had the expectation to emerge significantly changed by this experience, but upon returning to the U.S., and even on the trip home, I began to vividly realize how mistaken I was.

Exiting one’s comfort zone is such an incredibly crucial step in growing as a person, and I made sure to actively step out of mine. At Khayelitsha

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MARK HENDRICKS

The university’s study and intern program was a wonderful experience that took a group of 14 stu-dents from the classrooms and beaches of Durban to the multicultural and scenic Cape Town. Along the way we were able to see some of the best scenery that South Africa has to offer via the Wild Coast and Garden Routes, all while learning of South Africa’s long history and varied cultures.

We began the program by studying for a month in Durban. Then made our way to Cape Town via the Wild Coast and Garden Routes with every day of our two-week trip being an adventure. Afterwards, we made it to Cape Town where we settled in for our three-month internships. While working in a volunteer capacity, many of my friends worked at hospitals and medical clinics, while others worked at children’s homes, women’s shelters, and local businesses. My own internship was with Crown National, an international spice company, where I was responsible for following up with suppliers on overdue deliveries as well as coordinating incoming and outgoing shipments with the procurement and warehousing divisions. We all gained much from our internship responsibilities as well as from our interactions with co-workers, clients, patients, and other interns.

Left: Agriculture and Consumer Economics major Mark Hendricks practices his surfing posture while studying abroad in South Africa.

Above: Hendricks and some fellow students take a break from studying.

Looking back, studying abroad has opened up many opportunities to me and has helped shape my own goals for the future. I hope to go back to South Africa in the near future.

ANEISHA DUNMORE

I had the pleasure of working at Maitland Cottage Home for children recovering from surgeries and injuries. The majority of the children at my location were restricted to their beds. Therefore, interaction with them on a daily basis involved being creative. My group members and I would read books, sing nursery rhymes, and do arts and crafts. Once a week the doctors and medical students would complete rounds, examining the children and their x-rays to see if they are making progress. I was allowed to walk with the doctors and medical students to observe what the doctors were discussing about each child. The doctor would proceed by stating what type of surgery the child would need, how long it would take them to recover, and when they would possibly be discharged from the site. By being an observer, I was able to learn about different bone disorders and the prognosis for the disorders. Also, while observing, one of the doctors specifically called me out to feel a child’s hip in order to feel the range of her bone. It was very interesting and will always be something that I won’t forget.

The most influential and important aspect that I have taken away from volunteering at this site is the relationship that I developed with the children. It was very rewarding to look back from the first day to the last day and see the trust built between the children and me. Because of this experience, I know that I want to work with children, possibly in a health care setting, as my career.

Visit: http://go.illinois.edu/SouthAfrica

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Above: Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), carefully removes his gloves as he exits an Ebola treatment unit in Liberia. Through each step of this process, staff from Doctors Without Borders decon-taminate equipment with a chlorine/water solution.

Below: Hotel employees in Conakry, Guinea after a training session on Ebola.

Illinois Mobilizes to Educate on EbolaDAVE EVENSEN, MEDIA & COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST, COLLEGE OF LAS; MATT VANDERZALM, MANAGING EDITOR

In 2014, an Ebola virus epidemic once again hit parts of West Africa, and experts and officials at Illinois did their part to educate local residents, mitigate dangers to its students abroad, and assist those potentially in harm’s way.

For Merle Bowen, director of the Center for African Studies (CAS) and professor in the Department of African American Studies, fear and mis-information were significant obstacles to quelling concerns about Ebola. She was perplexed, for example, at reports that a small college in Texas refused appli-cants from African countries where Ebola had not been diagnosed. That kind of reaction not only went too far, she said, but it also cast the entire African continent in a negative and inaccurate light.

“Africa has 54 countries,” she said. “The continent is massive—covering an area over three times that of the United States. The disease has been confined [primarily] to three West African countries: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. To think that someone from South Africa [posed a threat], that’s pretty incredible. That’s the type of Ebola hysteria that we wanted to introduce some facts to.”

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was met with much reaction by the university, where the pre-vailing attitude was that the virus could be kept under control by people with information and the proper perspective.

For example, CAS, in partnership with the Center for Global Studies (CGS), the Global Health Initia-tive (GHI) and the University YMCA, conducted a teach-in on Ebola in September, making Illinois one of the first universities to conduct such an event. (It was in consortium with Northwestern University, which live-streamed the teach-in.)

That was before the virus was first diagnosed in the United States, however, igniting a firestorm of media attention and reactions. So CAS and CGS organized a second educational program, an Ebola 101 Seminar, to calm the waters over the question of what would happen if Ebola reached Illinois. Held on campus November 10th, the second event featured doctors and professors, including Micro-biologist Brenda Wilson.

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Working with international collaborators, Scientific Animations Without Borders created an Ebola pre-vention video that is now being distributed in Sierra Leone. Pictured, clockwise, from back left: Enrique Rebolledo, the program coordinator for the Sierra Leone/YMCA Partnership; U. of I. Entomology Profes-sor Barry Pittendrigh; U. of I. YMCA Communications Director Megan Flowers; SAWBO staffer Anna Pérez Sabater; and Julia Bello-Bravo, the assistant director of the Center for African Studies.

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CAS also created a blog to share articles, statements, educational materials, and other information about the virus.

Illinois offers a study abroad program in Sierra Leone. The outbreak caused the university, after careful consideration in gathering information from the CDC, the U.S. Department of State, and organizations like the Peace Corps, to suspend this program August 1, 2014, according to Andrea Bordeau, assistant director for international health and safety at Illinois. Although there were no Illi-nois students in imminent danger, as none were officially in the country at the time, 10 applicants for the winter break program were rerouted to other programs, she said.

“The safety and security of our students, faculty, and programs abroad is a top priority,” Bordeau said. “It was not an easy decision to suspend our program in Sierra Leone but it was one that was made collaboratively.”

Media interest in the issue was “frenzied,” Bordeau said, and she did a number of media interviews, including with national publication USA Today. She added that, as a “premier research institution,” officials at Illinois hope to resume the program in Sierra Leone soon.

Others sought to bring information to those directly affected by the epidemic, residents of Sierra Leone. Barry Pittendrigh, professor of entomology and director of U of I’s Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO), said they were working with students at Njala University in Sierra Leone on a different project when Ebola began to spread. Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa, was among the countries hardest hit by the virus, with more than 11,600 reported cases and more than 3,600 deaths by early March 2015.

The concern was urgent enough that SAWBO, which has produced animations on everything from cholera and malaria prevention to agricultural


practices, began working on an animation detailing symptoms of Ebola, prevention, and how officials and residents should respond. SAWBO received assistance from students on campus through GHI, CAS, CGS, volunteers who work with the World Health Organization, and with volunteer and finan-cial support from the University YMCA.

Today, the Ebola animations are in the hands of teams at Njala University and the Sierra Leone YMCA for distribution within their country. The videos are available in several West African languages and can be distributed on the web, shared between cellphones, downloaded on tablets and laptop computers, and pushed out to cellphones and computers through data hubs placed in strategic locations.

“Ebola education is an absolute challenge, for a host of reasons,” said Pittendrigh. “First, the message needs to be accurate and consistent. Second, it must be translated into many different languages. And perhaps the biggest challenge is getting information into as many hands as possible, as fast as possible.”

This last task is especially difficult because those who know the most about Ebola are busy caring for patients and trying to control the spread of the disease. Other challenges face those trying to bring Ebola education to people in remote areas. For example, in southeastern Guinea in September 2014, in one of several incidents in which health care workers were attacked, villagers killed eight visitors, including health care workers and journal-ists. The villagers mistakenly believed the outsiders would infect them with Ebola.

Cellphone animations have the potential to reach more people than teams of health care workers can, sharing information from phone to phone via Bluetooth technology, Pittendrigh said.

“Cellphones are very common in Africa,” he said. “It is not unusual to find villages without plumbing or electricity but they have solar-powered cellphone charging stations.”

SAWBO makes the videos available in various file formats so they can be displayed on many types of electronic devices, he said.

Because the videos are animated and narrated in local languages, they can deliver information in a culturally neutral context, said SAWBO co-founder Julia Bello-Bravo, CAS assistant director. Health

“Ebola education is an absolute challenge...perhaps the biggest challenge is getting information into as many hands as possible, as fast as possible.”

”experts make sure the information is accurate, outreach workers on the ground help place the animations in the proper cultural context, and translators and voice-over volunteers step up to help with new languages, she said.

“We are a sort of crowd-sourcing operation,” Bello-Bravo said. “Once the videos are done, other groups will take the content and put it on their own plat-forms. And that’s great. That’s what we want.”

Visit: casillinois.blogspot.com

Ebola outbreak in West Africa – outbreak distribution map as of February 4, 2015.


Distinguished Composer Calls Illinois HomePAULA JAIME, COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT, ILLINOIS INTERNATIONAL

Christos Tsitsaros began his musical studies at the Greek Academy of Music in his native country, Cyprus. His talent has taken him all over Europe (Poland, Greece, France), and while in Paris, he apprenticed with reknown pianist Aldo Ciccolin and graduated from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, obtain-ing the Dimplôme Supérieur d’ Exécution with distinction. In 1986, thanks to a

scholarship from the A. G. Leventis Foundation, he crossed the Atlantic to keep studying and growing as a musician at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington.

After finishing his M.M. at Indiana, he moved to Champaign and entered the School of Music at Illinois, attaining a D.M.A. in Piano Perfor-mance. Since arriving at Illinois, Christos has found a growing love for composing music, and this love and newfound inspiration pro-pelled him to win the Music Teachers National Association 2014 Distinguished Composer of the Year award.

Tsitsaros spoke with Paula Jaime, Illinois Inter-national communications assistant, about his time at Illinois and his feelings about his adopted home.

Jaime: How has being a professor at Illinois impacted or influenced your career?

Tsitsaros: In my capacity as a professor of Piano Pedagogy specifically, I have been able to develop a lot of materials over time for instruction, and by doing that I had to challenge myself creating different difficulty-set materials for different piano student abilities so they can learn and study from them (high school, undergraduate, etc.). Also as I graduated with my Ph.D. from Illinois, I won a competition sponsored by the National Conference of Piano Pedagogy. This award got the attention of world-renowned publisher Hal Leonard and I was lucky enough to sign a contract with them back then. From all these years of collaboration I created a line of materials that are now established as examination materials all over the U.S. and that have been adapted by many different universities as teaching materials.

What are your plans for the future?

I want to continue writing because there is nothing that gives me more pleasure than composing. I am still a performer and I like performing but since I moved here and started teaching my interests have shifted to composing rather than performing. Here I have found a community of very interesting and culturally rich people that inspire me to keep composing for piano. I will also be on sabbatical next fall and I will go back to my country for that semester to be able to be with my family and travel around Europe to find new inspiration for future pieces.

Christos Tsitsaros, a native of Cyprus, was named 2014 Distinguished Composer of the Year by the Music Teachers National Association.

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Would you say that Illinois has become your home away from home?

I have to say that Illinois has definitely become my home away from home. It was a very radical change and it was difficult at the beginning to adapt and get used to not only the different city-setting (I was living in Paris for several years before moving here), but also the culture and food. I had to have a lot of perseverance and work really hard to establish myself here. Also, it was hard to get used to the different educational system in the U.S. Back in Europe whenever you study music you study at the Conservatory and you only study music. Here I had to take the general education courses (history, sociology, English, etc.) and it was hard for me to focus and learn everything that I had to.

However, now that I have been here for so many years I have grown to love the differences and I have also shaped myself into a more open minded individual thanks to the different countries I have lived in and thanks also to the diversity that we enjoy here on our very own campus.

Also, like I mentioned before, I love the inspiration this university has provided me with. Not only does the School of Music have a wide variety of disciplines that have fed my inspiration, but also the upscale intellectual community here at Illinois has become a fountain of inspiration that is difficult to find somewhere else. Actually, I cannot even find this in my own country. Therefore when I am here, I miss some aspects of back home, but when I am back in Cyprus I also miss some aspects from here.

Is there anything that you would like to tell the younger generation of international students?

Something that I would like to communicate to all interna-tional students is to embrace the many different values of this culture and to be open to different ideas and the North American culture itself. As years have passed by, I have learned to appreciate and love this culture, but at the beginning, because it was hard and it was different I would not accept certain trades. Now I am proud to say that this living abroad experience has helped me become more tolerant not only of other cultures and people with different ideas but also of other religions, beliefs and different political background. All of this was unthinkable for me at the beginning when I first got to the U.S. but now it has become a part of me.

I would like all international students to embrace this culture, its freshness and its freedom and learn from it as much as they can, because studying abroad is a one of a kind experience that can teach them more about life that any book ever will.

Visit: www.music.illinois.edu/faculty/christos-tsitsaros

Alumnus Bringing Light to Villages Around the World (continued from page 5)

Walsh himself gives the university much of the credit for preparing him for the path he has taken. “University of Illinois programs (like EWB, the Tech-nology Entrepreneur Cemter, and others) were absolutely and almost completely responsible for my career,” Walsh said.

“They not only helpfed prepare me for my career, but also helped me figure out what career I should pursue. I can’t say enough good things about the university.”

Walsh considers himself “lucky” to have encountered the “right opportunities” at the right times, and is “grateful” to administrators, faculty, and staff for helping him achieve his goals. “I’m in awe of the quality of public education I was lucky enough to receive,” he said.

Greenlight Planet has also developed models that may function as chargers for mobile phones, offer-ing significant benefit to rural communities. Many residents of areas far from urban centers rely on cellular phones for their information needs, where wiring for Internet and electricity are not available. “Some villagers travel five to 10 miles every week just to charge their phones,” Umland said.

Walsh and Greenlight Planet aren’t stopping there. They are working on other solutions. These include an installment payment system, using a cloud-based system that tracks customer’s incremental payments toward ownership, allowing people who may earn just a dollar a day to purchase a lamp that costs $10. They are also releasing “solar home systems,” which can light up three rooms at once and charge a phone for just $90. “It lasts five years with no maintenance or electricity cost,” Walsh said.

“This has been a real odyssey for us. Light is some-thing we take for granted, but it’s a prerequisite for modern life.”

Visit: greenlightplanet.com


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Illinois Top Producer of Fulbright ScholarsThe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been recognized as a “U.S. Scholar Top Producer” for academic year 2014–5, with six recipients of U.S. Ful-bright Scholar awards, according to a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The campus ranks fifth among U.S. research institutions with regard to the number of faculty receiving the prestigious award in support of teaching and research abroad.

In addition, for the fifth consecutive year the Uni-versity of Illinois was named as a top producer of U.S. Fulbright Students. Thirteen Illinois students were awarded Fulbright Scholarships in 2014, placing the campus in the top 15 among public universities. The selected students are offered the opportunity to design their own program and pursue one academic year of study or research abroad.

“We are extremely proud of our six Fulbright Scholars, and very pleased to be recognized among the nation’s top producers of U.S. Fulbright Scholars in this current cycle,” said Reitumetse Mabokela, vice provost for international affairs and global strategies at Illinois. “This accomplishment is another indicator of the creative and innovative thinking, overall excellence, and above all, strong desire to engage with the world beyond our borders that is so characteristic of our faculty.”

“No less important is the fact that our campus is sending 13 Fulbright Student awardees this year. It shows that our students are not only motivated to have deep international experiences, but have the academic excellence to make it through a highly competitive selection process.”

The Fulbright Program was founded in 1947 by Senator J. William Fulbright, who saw the program as a much-needed vehicle for promoting “mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world.” It sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals and 1800 students abroad each year to 140 different countries allowing scholars to study, teach, conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

The application process for faculty Fulbright Scholars at Illinois is coordinated by Tim Barnes, director of Illinois Strategic Inter-national Partnerships (ISIP), while student Fulbright applications are coordinated by David Schug, director of the National and International Scholarships Program.

The six Illinois Fulbright Scholars:

Mohamed Boubekri, professor, School of Architecture

Ramona Curry, associate professor, Department of English

Mark Dressman, professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Harley T. Johnson, professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering

Luisa Maria Rosu, research associate, Illinois Science, Technology and Mathematics Initiative (ISTEM)

Cara J. Wong, associate professor, Department of Political Science


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