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MONDAY September 19, 2016
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University police address campus safety concerns BY LILLY MASHAYEK STAFF WRITER
The University of Illinois Police Department works every day to keep students safe. But it also believes that campus safety is a partnership between police officers and students. Crime is often in the back of many students’ minds, but they don’t always remember that the police are there
to help, not to get them in trouble. Jeff Christensen, UIPD police chief, said the most common type of crime that occurs on campus is property theft. “Our number one crime is property crime,” he said. “But we’re not this sacred island, so we do have violent crime that unfortunately happens, and we work very
hard with neighboring agencies to prevent that.” Christensen said the Campus Safety Notices that students receive can sometimes make them feel unsafe because it makes them concerned about the crime levels around campus. “But the purpose of those Campus Safety Notices is to protect people, to make them safe,” Christensen said. “So
that’s why we push them out, so people know what’s happening.” Patrick Wade, communications specialist at the UIPD, said that based on a yearly review of crime statistics, such as how many incidents occur each year, there has not been any significant changes in the trends of different crimes on campus.
“The Year in Review will show our crime stats compared to other schools that we see ourselves as comparable with,” he said. “So the other Big Ten schools and a couple of California schools.” He said it looks at schools that are similar to the University in both size and community. There haven’t been any
“alarming peaks,” Christensen said; the trends have remained fairly consistent. “When you look at that as far as aggravated assault, robbery, I think sexual assault, we’re kind of right in the middle of where everyone else is at,” Wade said. “Yes, violent crime happens here, just like it happens
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ARC hosts annual Engineering Expo
Promoting community healing
Around 150 companies set to be at Expo BY VIVIENNE HENNING ASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
Nikhil Kamath, senior in electrical engineering, understands the stress of career fairs. As a freshman, what started as a curious stop at the Engineering Employment Expo turned into his personal focus for the next four years. Kamath, along with Jack Grayeb, serve as co-directors of the Expo. Their work has boosted both their own and other engineering students’ professional connections. “We’re basically running our own company because there’s so many moving parts, with the budget and everything,” Kamath said. “And we are a registered non-profit, all the funds go back to the students.” The Expo will be held at the Activities and Recreation Center on Sept. 19 and 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Approximately 3,000 students will walk through
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Drew Matott (right) places a piece of paper onto the table to remove it from the screen during a Peace Paper Project workshop at Allen Hall with senior Diana Liao (left) and freshman Avalon Ruby (center). Matott’s interest in papermaking began after he turned his late father’s clothing into a book of poetry as a memorial. The project works to facillitate trauma therapy, community engagement and self-empowerment.
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the ARC doors to talk to a display of around 150 companies over the course of those two days. In addition to its fall dates, the Expo will be held again during the spring semester. Kamath started on the Expo committee as a sophomore and then worked his way to co-director the following year. All of the planning, budgeting and preparation for the event are constructed and strategized by the committee of over 20 students. Both Kamath and Grayeb take pride in their studentrun endeavor, which has become a personal project as well. “It’s been a great experience for me,” Kamath said. “I’ve met a lot of my really good friends through Expo.” University alumni Drew Johnson and Jim Stapleton founded the Expo during their time here in 1989. They aimed to better connect students to potential employers. The Expo hosted 30 different companies in its fi rst year. The Expo is one of the nation’s largest student-
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Supercomputing center celebrates 30 years of research Event applauds contributions to research BY LILY MASHAYEK STAFF WRITER
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) celebrated its 30th anniversary Friday, with a reception outlining what it has accomplished throughout the years. Ed Seidel, director of NCSA, began his time at the institution in 1989 as a post
doctorate for the NCSA’s founder Larry Smarr. “At that time, supercomputing was sort of taking the world by storm, it was changing the way people did science, it was changing industry and industrial competitiveness in the country,” he said. “And a lot of that came out of NCSA, with the center that Larry Smarr started.” Both Smarr and Seidel were present at the NCSA’s celebration reception, which was held at the NCSA building. President Timothy Killeen, Interim Chancel-
lor Barbara Wilson, Dean of Engineering Andreas Cangellaris and Provost Ed Feser were also in attendance. The event began with appetizers and drinks for attendees, followed by speeches from NCSA, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and University leaders such as Chancellor Wilson. John Towns, the executive director for science and technology at NCSA, was also present at the event. “There have been a number of things that have come out of NCSA that have been
quite important to a very broad community,” he said. Towns leads the NCSA’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) initiative, which recently got an award for $110 million from NSF. “(NCSA) evolved in many ways and really for two purposes,” he said. “One is in response to the community that we live in, and the other is in trying to get ahead of things and trying to lead the way into new areas.” Seidel said that NCSA and supercomputing had a significant impact on dif-
ferent industries, such as pharmaceutical, airplane construction and even climate change. During the event, a video was shown that explained one of the industries that NCSA is involved with: crop science. Scientists at NCSA work together with crop scientists to study, through computer visualizations, how climate change is affecting crops. Towns and Seidel both agreed that a major contribution of NCSA is its ability to integrate different disciplines, including the sciences and the humanities. “All scholarship is in fact impacted a lot by computing,” Seidel said. “This place had a lot to do with that.” Towns said throughout the 1990s, there were a lot of collaborations between NCSA and the University. Due to decreased funding in the 2000s, he said the number of those partnerships decreased. “Particularly with Ed Seidel’s taking the role of director, he has made a really strong point of rebuilding that,” he said. “Over the past two years we have significantly increased the number of students that are
at the center.” He elaborated by saying that around 100 to 150 students are currently involved at NCSA in some way, with the majority of students being involved in research. “I’ve focused a lot on making it possible for different colleges and different departments across the entire campus to work together closely with NCSA,” Seidel said. “And then NCSA is one of the elements that helps the entire University move forward, to be nimble in the 21st century.” TelNet, released by NCSA in the 1980s, became very broadly used in the community as a program to log into remote supercomputer systems directly, Towns said. He said NCSA also created Mosaic in the early 1990s, which was the fi rst web browser and “the predecessor of all web browsers today.” Moving forward, Seidel said NCSA hopes to remain a leader in supercomputing. “Though NCSA has had difficult times in its past, it’s really positioned to be quite successful going forward,” Towns said. lmasha3@dailyillini.com
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Ed Seidel, the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and founding professor of the UIUC Department of Physics, raises a toast to the next 30 years of the NSCA at its 30th anniversary reception on Friday. DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS
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