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UI alumnus to use MacArthur grant for Chicago community
Students collect cans for area food bank
Salgado accepts “genius grant” to continue to help immigrants BY CHARLOTTE COLLINS AND JASON CHUN ASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITORS
Juan Salgado, University alumnus, said he never expected he would be named a MacArthur Fellow. In fact, it was so unforeseen, he almost missed the announcement. “I was shocked,” Salgado said. “First of all, I didn’t recognize the number so I almost didn’t answer; they actually called twice. When I finally understood what it was, I was
shocked. I was grateful. I was speechless.” Salgado was named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow on Monday. He will receive a “no-strings-attached” $625,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation, also known as a “genius grant,” to continue his research . Salgado graduated from the University in 1993 with master’s degree in urban planning. His work now focuses on immigrant communities centered in the southwest area of Chicago. According to the MacArthur Foundation’s website, the fellowship “celebrates and inspires the creative potential of individuals through no-stringsattached fellowships.”
The fellows are nominated to the program by external nominators who are encouraged to suggest “the most creative people they know” from a broad range of disciplines including dance, journalism, various sciences and economics. Fellows are then selected by an independent selection committee that consists of leaders in the sciences, arts and humanities, for-profit and nonprofit industries. Salgado developed the Instituto del Progreso Latino in 2001 in Chicago . The institute works with adults who are often underemployed and face barriers in the working
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From left: Dorothy Pham, undergraduate in LAS; Alex Celmer, undergraduate in LAS; and Reno Stephens, undergraduate in AHS. They are donating to Cans Across the Quad at Anniversary Plaza on Tuesday.
Construction of solar farm almost completed
Report suggests race influences performance
Fast facts about the solar farm
The University solar farm will be complete at the end of 2015 and will provide 2 percent of the campus’s energy demand in its first year. Project Timeline Request for Feb Proposal 2012 Publication
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Solar power will account for two percent of the University’s energy source next year. Construction on the 20.8 acre solar farm — located south of Windsor Road and west of First Street — began July 20 and the clean-energy project is expected to be completed by the end of 2015. “They are actually slightly ahead of schedule right now,” said Morgan Johnston, project contact and director of sustainability at facilities and service, F&S. The project was approved in December 2014, F&S and the UI Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) entered a power purchase agreement with Phoenix Solar LLC to complete the project. The farm will cost roughly $15.5 million over 20 years, resulting in a $5.3 million up, front cost with $1.05 million coming from the SSC over three years and $4.25 coming from the campus utilities budget. Phoenix Solar LLC will oversee all of the design work as well as the installation of panels, electrical
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Juan Salgado, CEO of Instituto Del Progreso Latino, at his office in Chicago on Sept. 15.
Cost: $15.5 million $1.05 million given by Student Sustainability $4.25 million given by campus utilities budget
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Undergraduates with Size: 20.8 acres assistants of the Cost: teaching $15.5 million, $1.05 mil given by Student Sustainability, $4.25 mil by campus utilities budget
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grid operations and farm maintenance over a 10 year period. After the 10 years, responsibilities will be handed to F&S. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the solar farm will be one of the largest on-site
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university solar farms in the country. The solar farm will generate 7.86 million kilowatthours in its fi rst year, producing two percent of the University’s total energy
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Engineering reaches out to youth BY VIVIENNE HENNING CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The College of Engineering hopes to use specialized outreach and the implementation of new programs to attract a more diverse student population, and they’re trying to build their future classes early on. “It is important what we do to engage more and more students, as early as possible, from underrepresented groups, said Andreas Cangellaris, dean of Engineering. “(It’s important to)
have them thinking about and getting excited about engineering,” Cangellaris said students need to start thinking about the competitiveness of engineering as early as possible and how difficult it may be to succeed. He said middle schools and high schools are aiming to better prepare students who may be interested in pursuing engineering. Kevin Pitts, professor in physics, said some students don’t have the proper
resources to help them prepare for the rigorous courses that engineering offers. “The biggest thing is the problem of unequal opportunity,” he said. “Students who are living in lower socioeconomic areas do not have the opportunities that students who are living in richer areas do. We’re trying to focus on what we can do to help students be better prepared and level the playing field.”
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same race or ethnicity are more likely to achieve higher TIMELINE: (graphic/bob??) PROJECT grades, experts Request say. for Proposal Publication: February 2012 These findingsBoard wereoffiTrustees rst Approval: November 2012 published in September by State Approval of Award: March 2014 graduate student Lester of Agreements: December 2014 State Approval Lusher, his advisor Substantial Scott Completion: Fall 2015 Carrell of the University of University Ownership: 2025 California at Davis, and Professor Doug Campbell from JUSTIN WOLFE THE DAILY ILLINI the New Economic School in Dana Ostrander, graduate in FAA, helps Maddie Wallace, Russia. sophomore in FAA, review for her History of Photography This is considered the first midterm. study on the racial interac0RUH LQVLGH Visit tions between students and characteristic that benefits Page A4 to read their teaching assistants. the student.” the Editorial Board’s The researchers used The role-model effect is data on students’ grades and when “the students look up take on the report. teaching assistant demo- to their teaching assistants graphics from the economics and feel more comfortable assistants are a “resource.” department of an undisclosed approaching them and askInside Higher Education Californian university. ing them questions, mere- reports, the role of teach“Even in the second week ly because their race is the ing assistants is becoming of school, students are more same or similar to them- increasingly significant with likely to attend their teach- selves,” he said. assistants amounting to 15 ing assistants’ session if they The team also found that percent of the teaching workare of a similar race,” Lush- the correlation between force in higher education. er said. teaching assistants’ correLusher said as class sizes The team has determined spondence with students increase, there is an increastwo mechanisms that are the and a student receiving high- ing anonymity between proprimary causes of their find- er grades is most apparent fessors and students and ings: match quality and the in essay-based exams as questions can easily be left role-model effect. opposed to multiple choice. unanswered. The opporMatch quality, Lusher said, Researchers additionally tunity to attend discussion is when “some characteris- found if teaching assistants sessions, ask questions and tics of teaching assistants know the content prior to the review material in a peerof certain races benefit stu- exam, they may teach to the based environment allows dents of a similar race. That test. students to consolidate could be language; it could Regardless of race or eth- course knowledge to obtain be learning style and all nicity, Rory Johnson, teach- a higher grade. kinds of things. By chance, ing assistant for educationthe teaching assistant has a al psychology, said teaching SEE TEACHING | 3A
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