Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Graduate research assistants are important members of the GCI community. We would like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of several of GCI's more than 40 graduate research assistants who will be receiving their Master's degrees this spring and summer:

Shoshana Cohen, Urban Planning and Policy
Valerie Lee, Business Administration
Ashish Manerikar, Computer Science
Anupam Rath, Business Administration
Lynn Stevens, Urban Planning and Policy
Alva Winfrey, Urban Planning and Policy

Congratulations to all!

David Perry Professor and Director	Lauri Alpern Associate Director

Calendar
GCI Lecture Series - Upcoming Programs

Are We Capable Yet? Assessing and Building Organizational Capacity
Thursday, October 10, 2002
Save the date for this one-day conference for and about non-profit organizations. The conference will be hosted by the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois and Spertus College. It will take place at the UIC Chicago Circle Center, 750 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL. For more information, please e-mail jmudd1@uic.edu.

People

GCI Senior Fellow Davis Jenkins was a panelist in a Policy Soundings session on the upcoming reauthorization of the federal welfare law. Sponsored by the University of Illinois's Institute for Government and Public Affairs (IGPA), Policy Soundings is a series of recorded briefings on current topics that are distributed to policy makers throughout the state.

GCI Scholar Marcia Farr presented her research at the First Symposium on Intercultural Cognitive and Social Pragmatics held at the University of Seville, Spain on April 10.

GCI research assistant Shomit Manapure has been elected as the new President of the Indian Graduate Students Association at UIC. As president of one of the largest student organizations on campus, Shomit says he hopes to offer guidance and career counseling to new students arriving from India.

Urban Water Resources Conference Proceedings Available
Proceedings from the conference, Improved Decision-Making for Water Resources: The Key to Sustainable Development for Metropolitan Regions, are now available from the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program. The publication examines the emerging legal and institutional issues of water resources management, the urban water infrastructure needed for sustainable development, and the use of integrated economic and ecological modeling of metropolitan water resources in a series of papers and commentaries written by prominent academics, water resources managers, and policy analysts. Copies of the report are available at: http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/publications/programreports.htm.

Contact: Martin Jaffe, Coordinator, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program & Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, 312-996-2178, mjaffe@uic.edu

GCI Faculty Scholar Spotlight

This month we are pleased to introduce you to three scholars of the 2001-2002 academic year. We would also like to thank all of this year's scholars for spending the year at GCI and we wish them well in their future academic endeavors.

A member of the UIC faculty since 1968, David Jordan was a Senior University Scholar and a two-time recipient of the Shirley A. Bill Award for Excellence in Teaching from the History Department. In 2000, he was appointed LAS Distinguished Professor of French History. As Dr. Jordan explains, he is currently "involved in the third panel of a triptych composed of arguably the three most important figures of the French Revolution." The first two panels were books on Louis XVI and Robespierre. His study of Napoleon will complete the three-part project. In addition to these works, Dr. Jordan is the author of Gibbon and His Roman Empire and Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann. He served as Editor of British and Continental History for The Eighteenth Century: A Current Biography, and President of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, as well as chairing two academic prize committees. Dr. Jordan has published in American Scholar, the Stanford French Review, and Daedalus, among other publications. Dr. Jordan holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

Beth Richie is Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Department and the Women's Studies Program at UIC. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr. Richie is examining challenges faced by women and youth at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. She is the recipient of three major awards: the National Advocacy Award by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Violence Prevention; the Audre Lorde Legacy Award of the Union Institute stemming from her work with the National Network for Women in Prison; and the Visionary Award of the Violence Intervention Project. She is the author of Compelled to Crime: the Gender Entrapment of Black Battered Women and many more publications. Most recently, she coordinated the Color of Violence II 2002 Building a Movement conference in Chicago, which was attended by over 1,000 activists and academics. Dr. Richie holds a Master's of Social Work Degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in Sociology, with a Certificate in Women's Studies, from City University of New York.

Professor of Language, Literacy and Rhetoric in the UIC English Department, James Sosnoski is coordinating the Virtual Harlem Project, an instructional technology project using virtual reality scenarios. He is also collaborating with David Downing on Living on Borrowed Terms, a study of the use of terminology in literary and rhetorical studies. Dr. Sosnoski recently oversaw The Culture Crossing project at UIC which focused on students who experience academic culture as an environment contrasting sharply with their own and in which their rhetorical strategies are less successful, often leading them to abandon college. Dr. Sosnoski is the author of Modern Skeletons in Postmodern Closets: A Cultural Studies Alternative and Token Professionals and Master Critics: A Critique of Orthodoxy in Literary Studies, and he is editor of three collections of online research: The Geography of Cyberspace, Cultural Studies and Composition and The TicToc Project: Teaching in Cyberspace through On-Line Courses. In addition, he has published articles in Narrative, Minnesota Review, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language, Works and Days, Modern Fiction Studies and the James Joyce Quarterly, among others. Dr. Sosnoski holds an M.A. from Loyola University and a Ph.D. from Penn State University.