University of ChicagoThe ... convocation /[no.] 500 (2009: October 9)Bib:215102 Copy:142237 Rec'd:10/21/09THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTHE 500TH CONVOCATIONOctober 9,200910:30 A.M.ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL CHAPELORDER OF EXERCISESROBERT J. ZIMMERPresident of the University, PresidingPRELUDEWylie Crawford, CarillonPRELUDES AND PROCESSIONALThomas Weisflog, OrganTHE CONVOCATION PROCESSIONThe Congregation stands and remains standing until after the Call to Order.Flag BearersMarshal of the University and the Student MarshalsFaculty of the UniversityRepresentatives of the Student BodyThe Alumni Board of GovernorsVice Marshal500th Convocation Planning CommitteeSenior AdministratorsDistinguished Alumni GuestsDeans of the FacultiesOfficers of the University and the Medical CenterTrustees of the University and the Medical CenterThe Student GreeterThe President of the Alumni Board of GovernorsRecipients of Honorary Degrees and Their PresentersThe Faculty SpeakerProvost of the UniversityPresidents Emeriti of the UniversityChairman of the Board of TrusteesPresident of the University3CALL TO ORDERCATHERINE C. BAUMANNMarshal of the UniversityWELCOMEROBERT]. ZIMMERPresident of the UniversityFANFARE FOR BRASS SEXTETComposed by Marta PtaszynskaMillar Brass EnsembleMARTA PTASZYNSKA has been a professor at theUniversity of Chicago since 1998 and was namedthe Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professorof Music and the Humanities in 2005. Ptaszynskais an internationally known composer who hasreceived commissions from major orchestras andopera houses, including the Chicago SymphonyOrchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, the ClevelandChamber Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Orchestra,the Sinfonia Varsovia, the National SymphonyOrchestra, and the National Opera in Poland.Ptaszynska has been honored with many prizes andawards, including the 2006 Benjamin H. DanksAward of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Music Foundation Award, FirstPrize at the International Rostrum of Composersin Paris, several awards from the Percussive ArtsSociety, multiple ASCAP Awards, and, in 1995, theOfficer Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland.Prior to joining the University, Ptaszynska taughtcomposition at Northwestern University, IndianaUniversity in Bloomington, the Cincinnati College­Conservatory of Music, the University of Californiaat Berkeley and at Santa Barbara, and BenningtonCollege in Vermont.The commission of this composition was made possibleby a gift from Ronald J Schiller and Alan Fletcher.4GREETINGSANDREW M. ALPEROn Behalf of the Board of TrusteesATREYEE RUPA DATTAOn Behalf of the Alumni Board of GovernorsSABAHAT F. ADILOn Behalf of the Student BodyRESONANS CAMPANISComposed by Kotoka SuzukiThomas Weisflog, OrganKOTOKA SUZUKI has been an Assistant Professorof Music at the University of Chicago since2004. She is a composer of instrumental andelectro acoustical music, large multimediaproduction works, and music for dance and film.Since her artist-in-residency at DAAD BerlinerKunstlerprogramm, she has been increasinglyengaged in producing collaborative audio-visualworks with several artists in Germany, Canada,and the United States. Her commissions includethose from Sender Freies Berlin Radio, DAAD,Penderecki String Quartet, MATA, EnsembleModern, Continuum, and Technical University of Berlin Electronic Studio. Among her recentawards are the George A. and Eliza GardnerHoward Fellowship, the Bourges InternationalElectroacoustic Music and the Sonic ArtCompetition Prize in the multimedia category, theMusica Nova International Electroacoustic MusicCompetition Honor Prize, the Robert FlemingPrize from the Canada Council for the Arts, andthe Gerald Oshita Memorial Fellowship from theDjerassi Resident Artists Program in California.The commission of this composition was made possibleby a gift from Joel Seligman.THE CONVOCATION ADDRESS"On Laying Siege to Problems"MARTIN E. MARTYFairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Historyof Modern Christianity in the Divinity SchoolMARTI N E. MARTY has taught at the University ofChicago, chiefly in the Divinity School, for thirty­five years and is the founder of the Martin MartyCenter, which promotes "public religion" endeavors.Born in West Point, Nebraska, Marty moved toChicago to attend the Lutheran School of Theologyand was ordained in 1952. In 1956, he received aPhD from the University of Chicago. Marty servedLutheran parishes in the west and northwestsuburbs of Chicago for a decade before joining theUniversity of Chicago faculty in 1963.Marty has authored more than fifty books and overfive thousand articles, as well as copious essays,articles, papers, chapters, and forewords. He is therecipient of numerous honors, including the NationalHumanities Medal, the National Book Award, the Medal of the American Academy of Arts andSciences, the University of Chicago Alumni Medal,the Distinguished Service Medal of the Association ofTheological Schools, and the Order of LincolnMedallion (Illinois' top honor). Marty is an electedmember of the American Antiquarian Society and ofthe Society of American Historians, an elected fellowof the American Philosophical Society, and theMohandas M. K. Gandhi Fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Sciences. Marty hasreceived seventy-five honorary doctorates.Marty and his wife, Harriet, a musician, live inRiverside, Illinois, and enjoy an extended family ofseven children, including two who joined the familyas foster children, nine grandchildren, and threegreat-grandchildren.6AD SCIENDAM ...Composed by Shulamit RanENGLISH: To know wisdom; receive instruction of wisdom; to understand;to receive words of prudence, and instruction of words; let the wise know the one who understands,and increase in learning; justice, judgment, and equity (excerpted from multiple translations)HEBREW: Imrey bina; la'da'at chochma u'musar; tzedek u'mishpat u'meisharimLATIN: Ad sciendam, sapientiam ad disciplinam; prudentiae, iustitiam prudentiae;ad intelligenda verba; et suscipiendam eruditionem; iustitiam, equitatum(Adapted from Proverbs 1:2-5)crescat scientia vita excolaturMembers of the University ChoirsJames Kallembach, ConductorThomas Weisflog, OrganSHULAMIT RAN joined the University of Chicagofaculty in 1973 and is presently the AndrewMacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Music.In addition to receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1991,Ran has been awarded most major honors givento composers in the United States, including twofellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,grants and commissions from the KoussevitzkyFoundation in the Library of Congress, the NationalEndowment for the Arts, the Fromm MusicFoundation, Chamber Music America, the AmericanAcademy and Institute for Arts and Letters, andfirst prize in the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awardscompetition for orchestral music. Her music hasbeen performed by the world's leading orchestras,including the Chicago Symphony, the ClevelandOrchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the IsraelPhilharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, and theAmsterdam Philharmonic. Between 1990 and 1997, Ran served as Composer-in-Residence with theChicago Symphony Orchestra, and she is currentlythe Vice President for Music at the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters.About her composition she writes: "The first chapterof the book of Proverbs provides a grand statementin praise of the pursuit of knowledge. Wisdom,understanding, and learning are extolled as a meansto justice, judgment, and equity. I could think ofno more appropriate text for a musical compositionwritten in celebration of the 500th Convocation ofthis great University than these words, with English,Latin, and the original Hebrew freely combined andinterwoven. In the latter part of Ad sciendam. .. theUniversity of Chicago's own motto, crescat scientiavita excolatur, makes a brief appearance."The commission of this composition was made possibleby a gift from Don Michael Randel and Carol Randel.7CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREESThe Candidates will be presented by the Provost and a member of the Faculty.The Degrees will be conferred by the President of the University.FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCEDAVID L. DONOHODepartment of Statistics, Stanford UniversityDAVID L. DONOHO has pioneered the applicationof principled methods in mathematical statisticsto address a great modern scientific challenge, theproblem of "sparsity" in high dimensional datasets. A data set of a million cases is not large if tendimensions are recorded for each case and thereare a huge number of potential interrelations orinteractions among the characteristics. An unknownvery few of these are likely to be important, and inthat sense the structure is sparse. Determining waysto reveal that structure is a daunting challenge.Donoho draws upon classical statistics andcrafts both elegant theory and novel algorithmsto overcome the dimensional complexity. Hedevises methods that include the use of waveletsand what he terms "compressed sensing" torecover sparse relationships with a fraction of thenumber of observations needed by other methods.This methodology is enormously influential inastronomy, genetics, geophysics, signal processing,financial analysis, and medical imaging. At one level this work is only Occam's razor, but thetechnical complexities are immense and the clarityand mathematical rigor Donoho brings to this areaof analysis are nothing short of extraordinary.The candidate will be presented by Stephen M Stigler,Ernest De Witt Burton Distinguished Service Professor,Department of Statistics and the College; Chairman,Department of Statistics; Member, Committee onConceptual and Historical Studies of Science.CITATIONDavid L. Donoho is a mathematical statistician,and also one of the more influential appliedmathematicians of his generation. Building uponthe discipline of statistics, Donoho has developedeffective new approaches to constructing low­dimensional representations for modern high­dimensional data problems. His work provides newinsight into some of the most pressing scientificquestions of the present day.8FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCEDEBORAH S. JINFellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology,Fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, and Adjoint Professor of PhysicsUniversity of ColoradoDEBORAH S. JIN'S discovery of a new form ofsuperfluidity in ultracold atomic gases has led toa profound deepening of our understanding ofquantum matter. These fermionic superfluids, basedon one of the two types of fundamental particles inquantum systems, correspond to a highly organizedstate of matter. Through her work, we have come torealize that the traditional superconductors studiedover the last century are a very special case of amuch more general phenomenon and we now havea powerful simulation tool to investigate matterat the intersection of atomic, condensed matter,nuclear, and particle physics. It is a rare discovery inphysics that can anticipate as widespread an impact.Jin is to be lauded for setting her sights on thisholy grail of fermionic superfluidity and, over aperiod of many years, leading the communitythrough the various milestones en route to thediscovery. Among these are the development of laser cooling techniques and key breakthroughs withinthe realm of quantum statistics, including the firstobservations of Fermi degeneracy, of a Bose Einsteincondensate composed of fermion pairs, and of afermionic condensate in a strongly interacting gas.The candidate will be presented by Kathryn Levin,Professor, Department ofPhysics, James Franck Institute,and the College.CITATIONThrough her groundbreaking research in thephysics of ultracold atomic systems, Deborah S. Jinhas discovered a new form of quantum matter, adiscovery that has had an impact across the entirephysics discipline. She is to be lauded for herdevelopment of new tools and for showing us how totune, to probe, and to characterize these fascinatingsuperfluids. The complexity of her experimentaltechniques makes hers a truly heroic achievement.9FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCEALI MEHMET CELA.L �ENGbRProfessor of GeologyIstanbul Technical UniversityA. M. CELAL SENGOR is an internationallyrenowned scientist and scholar whose work in geologyand the history of geology, particularly the historyof tectonics, is widely recognized as definitive. Hisextensive writings, including those that emphasizehistorical developments as well as those that mainlyaddress contemporary issues, make relevant andcurrent our understanding and interpretations ofthe past for use as important stepping-stones toadvance science today.�engor has brought the synthesis of existingknowledge of the earth sciences into the twenty­first century through his unparalleled knowledgeof global geology, skills in a multitude of languages,a near photographic memory, and a voraciousappetite spanning both the history of geologyand cutting-edge research. His syntheses of thePaleo-Tethyan and Neo- Tethyan realms, extendingfrom the Pyrenees to New Guinea and spanningthe Paleozoic to the present, define state-of-the-art scholarship, while his generosity to other researchersmarks him as a scholar and an individual of thehighest merit. Finally, he has been an outspokenvoice within Turkey for the central and vital roleof science.The candidate will be presented by David B. Rowley,Professor, Department of Geophysical Sciences andthe College.CITATIONA. M. CeIal �engor has created unequaled synthesesof global geology that have expanded awarenessand relevance of local geology in the pursuit ofglobal knowledge. His scholarly synopses of thehistory of geology remind us all of the foundationsupon which we build our evolving understanding,and his uncompromising devotion to academicexcellence and the pursuit of knowledge embodiesthe essence of scholarship at the beginning of thetwenty-first century.10FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERSDAVID SHULMANRenee Lang Professor of Humanistic StudiesThe Hebrew University of JerusalemDAVID SHULMAN is the leading interpreter ofSouth Asian literature, religion, and history in thisgeneration. He has opened up new fields of researchthrough his publications about local Tamil myths,Telugu literature, and South Indian history, changingthe ways South Asianists go about their own workas well as how they educate their students. Hislist of publications is not only unusually long butamazingly varied in genre and discipline, includingliterature, religion, history, folklore, ritual, myth,translation, exegesis, art history, comparative studies,and anthropology. More than that, he has inspireda new trend in collaborative scholarship, which hasproduced groundbreaking work in a variety of fields.As Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies inJerusalem, he has inspired scholars to join him inwide-ranging international seminars and to reach outinto areas where they had not ventured before. Hishumanity anchors both his scholarly rigor and hispoetic gifts. His humanity anchors both his scholarly rigor and his poetic gifts. Everything that he writes,including his ongoing chronicle of his work forpeace with Israelis and Palestinians, is driven by adeep compassion for other cultures and a genius formaking his readers share that compassion.The candidate will be presented by Wendy Doniger,Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professorof the History of Religions in the Divinity School,Department of South Asian Languages andCivilizations, the John U Nef Committee on SocialThought, and the College.CITATIONDavid Shulman has inspired a generation of scholarsto find new meanings in the poetry, folklore,religion, and history of South Asia in general,and South India in particular, and has generateda new kind of collaborative interdisciplinaryscholarship, which resonates beyond the boundsof South Asian studies.IIALMA MATERMembers of the University ChoirsJames Kallembach, Conductor(Please stand)Text: Edwin H. Lewis, PhD, 1894��! 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BAUMANNMarshal of the UniversityRECESSIONALThomas Weisfiog, OrganTHE CONVOCATION RECESSIONALFlag BearersMarshal of the UniversityPresident of the UniversityChairman of the Board of TrusteesPresidents Emeriti of the UniversityProvost of the UniversityThe Faculty SpeakerRecipients of Honorary Degrees and Their PresentersThe President of the Alumni Board of GovernorsThe Student GreeterTrustees of the University and of the Medical CenterOfficers of the University and of the Medical CenterDeans of the FacultiesDistinguished Alumni GuestsSenior Administrators500th Convocation Planning CommitteeVice MarshalFaculty of the UniversityStudent MarshalsRepresentatives of the Student BodyThe Alumni Board of GovernorsSWINGING PEALWylie Crawford, CarillonFollowing the Convocation ceremony, a series of lectures will be presentedby distinguished alumni guests and honorary degree recipients.13LECTURES IN CELEBRATION OFTHE 500TH CONVOCATION"Transgressing Disciplines"Robert McCormick Adams, Jr., PhB'47, AM'52,PhD' 56, Department of Anthropology, University ofCalifornia, San Diego. Hosted by the Departmentof Anthropology.Location: Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall"Religious Identity, Justice, and Hope:The Case of Peacebuilding"Lisa Sowle Cahill, AM'lJ, PhD'76,]. DonaldMonan Professor, Department of Theology, BostonCollege. Hosted by the Divinity School.Location: Swift Hall Third Floor Lecture Hall"The Effect of Employment Protectionon Worker Productivity:Evidence from Public Schooling"Brian A. Jacob, PhD' 01, Walter H. AnnenbergProfessor of Education Policy and Professor ofEconomics, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy,University of Michigan. Hosted by the HarrisSchool of Public Policy Studies.Location: Harris School Lecture Hall I42"Boom Town? The State of Black Businessin Chicago"John W Rogers, Jr., Lab'76, Chairman and ChiefExecutive Officer, Ariel Investments; Trustee of theUniversity. Hosted by the Center for the Study ofRace, Politics, and Culture.Location: Social Sciences, Lecture Hall I22 "Learning from AIDS: Remaining Challengesin the HIV Epidemic"Paul A. Volberding, AB'7r, MD; Professor andVice Chair, UCSF Department of Medicine; Chief,Medical Service, SF Veterans Affairs MedicalCenter; Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDSResearch. Hosted by the College.Location: Kent Hall Room I07"The Human Genome Project: Its Impact onScience and Medicine"Robert Waterston, MD'72, PhD'72, Professor andChair, Department of Genome Sciences, Universityof Washington. Hosted by the Department ofHuman Genetics.Location: Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room OOI3:00-4:00 P.M."Tearing Down the Berlin Wall Intermedially:Alexander Kluge and Heiner MOilerin Dialogue"David Bathrick, PhD'70, Jacob Gould SchurmanProfessor Emeritus of Theatre, Film & Dance, andGerman Studies, Cornell University. Hosted by theDepartment of Germanic Studies.Location: Regenstein Library, Franke Institute"Seasonality, Mood, and Migration"Ruth M. Benca, PhD'79, MD'8r, Director, Centerfor Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research; Professor ofPsychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health,University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hosted by theDepartment of Medicine.Location: Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery,First Floor Auditoriumr4"More Unknowns Than Equations:Yes, We Can!"David L. Donoho, PhD, Department of Statistics,Stanford University. Honorary Degree Recipient.Location: Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall"Chopin's Pencil"Jeffrey Kallberg, PhD'82, Professor of MusicHistory and Chairman of the Department ofMusic, University of Pennsylvania. Hosted by theDepartment of Music.Location: Goodspeed Hall Fulton Recital Hall"Plato and Paradox"Stephen Menn, AM'84, PhD'89, Professorof Philosophy, Department of Philosophy,McGill University. Hosted by the Department ofPhilosophy.Location: Harper Memorial Library, Lecture Hall I30(Please note this is a ninety-minute lecture.)"The Past, Present, and Future of Civil War"Stathis Kalyvas, AM' 90, PhD' 93, Arnold WolfersProfessor of Political Science, Department ofPolitical Science, Yale University. Hosted by theDepartment of Political Science.Location: Ida Noyes Hall Max Palevsky Cinema"Intelligent Design on Trial"David DeRosier, SB'6r, PhD'65, Professor ofBiology Emeritus, Abraham S. and Gertrude BurgChair of Life Sciences, Brandeis University. Hostedby the Department of Molecular Genetics and CellBiology.Location: Kent Hall Room IOl "Evolutionary Trees and Population Genetics:A Family Reunion"Joseph Felsenstein, PhD'68, Professor of GenomeSciences and of Biology, Department of GenomeSciences, University of Washington. Hosted by theDepartment of Ecology and Evolution.Location: Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room II5"Civic Republicanism and the Establishmentof Religion"Judge Michael W McConnell, JD'79, Director,Stanford Constitutional Law Center, Stanford LawSchool. Hosted by the Law School.Location: Law School Courtroom"Proving the Object"Stephen Melville, AB'7r, PhD'8r, ProfessorEmeritus, Department of the History of Art, TheOhio State University. Hosted by the Departmentof Comparative Literature.Location: Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall"Science, History of Science, and the Muse ofDiscovery"Ali Mehmet Celsl Sengor, PhD, Professor ofGeology, Istanbul Technical University. HonoraryDegree Recipient.Location: Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery,First Floor Auditorium"How to Put Together a Goddess Outof Musical Scales"David Shulman, PhD, Renee Lang Professor ofHumanistic Studies, The Hebrew Universityof Jerusalem. Honorary Degree Recipient.Location: Ida Noyes Hall, Max Palevsky CinemaABOUT THE LECTURERSROBERT McCORMICK ADAMS, JR., is theSecretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution inWashington, DC, and an Adjunct Professor inAnthropology at the University of California, SanDiego. Adams began his academic career at theUniversity of Chicago, earning a PhB in 1947, anAM in 1952, and a PhD in 1956 in anthropology. Heremained at the University for forty years, serving asa faculty member, Director of the Oriental Institute,Dean of the Division, and Provost. He conducts hisprimary field research in the Middle East and Mexicoresearching the environmental, urban, and techno­economic history of these regions.DAVID BATHRICK is the Jacob Gould SchurmanProfessor Emeritus of Theatre, Film & Dance andProfessor of German Studies at Cornell University.His areas of specialization include the history andtheory of modern drama, the theater of BertoltBrecht and Heiner Muller, twentieth-centuryGerman literature, critical theory, Weimar culture,the cultural politics of East Germany, European film,Holocaust studies, and Nazi cinema. He is currentlycompleting a book on the Holocaust and film andmakes his home in Bremen, Germany. Bathrickreceived his PhD in Germanic languages andliteratures in 1970 from the University of Chicago.RUTH M. BENCA is Professor in the Departmentsof Psychiatry and Psychology at the University ofWisconsin-Madison and the Director of theUniversity of Wisconsin Center for Sleep Medicineand Sleep Research. She received her PhD inpathology in 1979 and her MD in 1981, both fromthe University of Chicago, before completing aresidency in psychiatry and a fellowship in sleepdisorders medicine, also at the University of Chicago.She has held leadership positions in severalprofessional organizations, including President of theSRS and on the Board of Directors of the AASM.Benca has served as principal investigator for basic and clinical research studies funded by the NationalInstitutes of Health and the Department of Defenseand has written over one hundred articles, reviews,and book chapters.LISA SOWLE CAHILL is the J. Donald MonanProfessor at Boston College, where she has taughttheology since 1976. She is currently a member of theCatholic Common Ground Initiative; the AdvisoryBoard of Catholics in Alliance for the CommonGood; and of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network,sponsored by the University of Notre Dame andCatholic Relief Services. Her current research interestsare global health access; peacebuilding theologies andstrategies; New Testament and ethics; and Christo logyand ethics. Cahill received her AM and PhD degreesfrom the University of Chicago Divinity School in1973 and 1976, respectively.DAVID DeROSIER is Professor Emeritus of Biologyand the Abraham S. and Gertrude Burg Chair of LifeSciences at Brandeis University. His primary researchinterests include macromolecular assemblies, motors,and the cytoskeleton of actin. He is a member of theNational Academy of Sciences and the recipient ofnumerous awards and fellowships. DeRosier receivedboth his SB in physics (1961) and PhD in biophysics(1965) from the University of Chicago.D A VI D L. DON 0 H 0, Department of Statistics atStanford University, is a member of the NationalAcademy of Sciences and the American Academy ofArts and Sciences, a MacArthur Fellow, and arecipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award. Over theyears, Donoho has been most interested in sparseeffects in data analysis, where a small fraction ofsignal samples, or a small fraction of noise samples,behave very differently than the bulk of data.Donoho received his PhD in statistics from HarvardUniversity in 1984.JOSEPH FELSENSTEIN is Professor of GenomeSciences and of Biology and Adjunct Professor ofComputer Science and of Statistics at the Universityof Washington, Seattle. He originally trained as atheoretical population geneticist and did primarilythis for his first decade of work. Then a side interest ininference of phylogenies (evolutionary trees) came tobe his primary research area. Lately he has beendeveloping statistical methods for measurable charactersin fossil data. In 1968, Felsenstein received his PhDin zoology from the University of Chicago.BRIAN A. JACOB is the Walter H. AnnenbergProfessor of Education Policy, Professor ofEconomics, and Director of the Center on Local,State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) at the Gerald R.Ford School of Public Policy at the University ofMichigan. He is also a Research Associate at theNational Bureau of Economic Research and anExecutive Committee Member of the NationalPoverty Center. His primary fields of interest arelabor economics, program evaluation, and theeconomics of education. His current research focuseson urban school reform and teacher labor markets.Jacob received his PhD in public policy from theUniversity of Chicago in 2001.JEFFREY KALLBERG is Professor of Music Historyand Chair of the Department of Music at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. He is a specialist in musicof the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, editorialtheory, critical theory, and gender studies. Kallberghas published widely on the music and culturalcontexts of Chopin, most notably in his bookChopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and MusicalGenre (Harvard University Press). He also has beenguest of honor twice at the International FryderykChopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland. Kallbergreceived his PhD in music in 1982 from theUniversity of Chicago. STATHIS KALYVAS is Arnold Wolfers Professor ofPolitical Science and Director of the Program onOrder, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University. Heis the author of The Logic of Violence in Civil �r(Cambridge University Press, 2006) and The Rise ofChristian Democracy in Europe (Cornell UniversityPress, 1996), and the co-editor of Order, Conflict, andViolence (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He iscurrently researching various aspects of conflict,including the dynamics of violence and participation,and the evolution and transformation of civil wars.Kalyvas received his AM in 1990 and PhD in 1993in political science from the University of Chicago.JUDGE MICHAEL W. McCONNELL is the Richardand Frances Mallery Professor of Law and FacultyDirector of the Constitutional Law Center atStanford University. Prior to his appointment atStanford, he served as a federal judge on the U.S.Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit. Judge McConnellhas written on a broad range of topics related toconstitutional law but is best known for his work onfreedom of religion, a key focus of his scholarshipbefore he ascended the bench. Judge McConnellreceived his JD from the University of Chicago in1979 and served as a Professor of Law from 1985-96.STEPHEN MELVILLE is Professor Emeritus of ArtHistory at The Ohio State University. He haspublished widely on contemporary art as well as onissues in contemporary theory and historiography.He served as resident faculty at the Getty SummerInstitute in Visual and Cultural Studies (Universityof Rochester, 1999) and co-curated As Painting:Division and Displacement at the Wexner Center forthe Arts in May of 2001. Most recently, he served asLeverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department ofArt History and Theory at the University of Essex.Melville has an AB (1971) in history and philosophyof religions and a PhD (1981) in comparative study ofliterature, both from the University of Chicago.17STEPH EN MEN N is Professor of Philosophy atMcGill University. His research areas include ancientand medieval philosophy and the history andphilosophy of mathematics. He is currently completinga book manuscript entitled "The Aim and theArgument of Aristotle's Metaphysics" and revising adraft of a book called "Feuerbach's Theorem: AnEssay on Euclidean and Algebraic Geometry."Menn received an MA (1982) and PhD (1985) inmathematics from The Johns Hopkins University, aswell as an AM (1984) and a PhD (1989) in philosophyfrom the University of Chicago.JOHN W. ROGERS, JR., is the Chairman, CEO,and Chief Investment Officer of Ariel Investments, aprivately owned money management firm he foundedin 1983. Beyond Ariel, he serves as a corporate boardmember for three Fortune 500 companies: AonCorporation, Exelon Corporation, and McDonald'sCorporation. He is a member of the John S. andJames L. Knight Foundation, director of the ChicagoUrban League, and a Trustee of the University ofChicago. Rogers graduated from the University ofChicago Laboratory Schools in 1976 and currentlyserves as the school's Board Chairman.ALI MEHMET CELAL SENGOR is Professor ofGeology at the Istanbul Technical University andformer Chairman of the History of Geology Divisionof the Geological Society of America. He is the author,editor, co-author, or co-editor of fourteen books andsome two hundred research papers on diverse aspectsof geology, a number of them regarding the history ofthe earth sciences. �engor's most significant contributionto geology has been the elucidation of the hithertopoorly understood structure and geological evolution ofthe earth's largest continent, Eurasia. In 1982, �engorreceived his PhD from the Department of GeologicalSciences at the State University of New York at Albany.DAVID SHULMAN is the Renee Lang Professor ofHumanistic Studies at The Hebrew University ofJerusalem. He has published some twenty books, several of them in collaboration with other scholars,on South Indian philology and cultural history, thehistory of South Asian religion, Sanskrit poetry andpoetics, and related topics. He has translatedextensively from Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit poetryinto Hebrew and English. A published poet in Hebrewand English, he is a passionate aficionado of classicalIndian music. Shulman received his PhD in Tamilliterature in 1976 from the University of London.PAUL A. VOLBERDING is Professor and Vice Chairof the Department of Medicine at the Universityof California, San Francisco, and Chief of theMedical Service at the San Francisco Veterans AffairsMedical Center. He is the Principal Investigatorand Co-Director of the UCSF-GIVI Center forAIDS Research and chairs the Scientific AdvisoryBoard of the Infectious Disease Institute ofMakerere University in Kampala, Uganda. His researchcareer began with investigations of HN-relatedmalignancies, especially Kaposi's sarcoma, and shiftedto clinical trials of antiretroviral drugs. He has beeninstrumental in testing many compounds, includingearly studies in asymptomatic infection that lead tothe concept of HN disease, not simply AIDS, as thetarget of treatment. Volberding received his AB inbiology from the University of Chicago in 197I.ROBERT WATERSTON is the William H. Gates IIIEndowed Chair in Biomedical Sciences and Chairof the Department of Genome Sciences at theUniversity of Washington in Seattle. In the 1990S,while at Washington University, he and John Sulstonpainstakingly unraveled the genetic code of the tiny,transparent worm C elegans, marking the first timescientists had sequenced the complete DNA of anyorganism larger than a single cell. The team's successpaved the way for the Human Genome Project,which revolutionized the practice of medicine and isproviding a more complete understanding of humanevolution. Waterston received both his PhD inpathology and MD in pediatrics in 1972 from theUniversity of Chicago.18ABOUT THE UNIVERSITYThe University of Chicago was founded in I890 byJohn D. Rockefeller, biblical scholar William RaineyHarper, and Chicago-area Baptists. The University'sArticles of Incorporation commit the institutionto excellence in both undergraduate and graduateeducation, an explicit policy of co-education, and anatmosphere of non-sectarianism.Harper agreed to become the first president of theUniversity on the condition that he be allowedto establish a university that would be unlike anyother. He conceived of a university that wouldemphasize the creation of new knowledge and"make the work of investigation primary." To thisend, the University has always been dedicated toexcellence in research and has sought the mostdistinguished scholars for its faculty.Over the years, the University and its faculty havehad a major impact on American higher education.Faculty scholarship has shaped several essentialdisciplines and established important and distinctive"Chicago schools" in such disparate fields aseconomics, evolutionary biology, sociology, literarycriticism, anthropology, and law and economics.More than eighty Nobel laureates have beenmembers of the faculty, researchers, or students at theUniversity. Programmatic innovations originating atthe University include the invention of the four­quarter system, the establishment of a coherentprogram of general education for undergraduates,the initiation of a full-time medical school teachingfaculty, and the development of extension courses andprograms in the liberal arts for adults. The University includes an undergraduate College,the William B. and Catherine V. Graham School ofGeneral Studies, four graduate divisions (BiologicalSciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and SocialSciences), six graduate professional schools (DivinitySchool, Law School, Pritzker School of Medicine,Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public PolicyStudies, School of Social Service Administration,and the University of Chicago Booth School ofBusiness), and a diverse collection of academicsupport units and resources, including libraries,research institutes, clinics, museums, theaters, anda university press. The University has more than2,200 faculty and other academic personnel, andan enrollment of over I5,000 students. The 2IIacre campus is located along the Midway Plaisancein Hyde Park, a residential community on LakeMichigan south of Chicago's Loop.The University's English Collegiate Gothic buildings,built of gray Indiana limestone, were designed toframe shady, green quadrangles. Contemporarycampus buildings have been designed in keepingwith the original Gothic theme while drawingfrom the tradition of great modern architecture forwhich the city of Chicago is famous. Eero Saarinenand Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed strikingbuildings for the Law School and the School ofSocial Service Administration. The National Trustfor Historic Preservation praised the University forits insistence on architectural continuity over "acentury of social and academic change."On July I, 2006, Robert J. Zimmer became theUniversity's thirteenth president.I9TRUSTEES OF THEUNIVERSITYAndrew M. Alper, AB'80, MBA'8!Chairman of the BoardChairmanAlper Investments, Inc.David G. Booth, BA, MS, MBA'71CEODimensional Fund AdvisorsThomas A. Cole, BA, JD'75Chairman of the Executive Committeeand PartnerSidley Austin LLPE. David Coolidge III, BA, MBAVice ChairmanWilliam Blair & Company LLCJames S. Crown, BA, JDPresidentHenry Crown and CompanyKatharine P. Darrow, AB'65, JDRetired Senior Vice PresidentThe New York Times CompanyErroll B. Davis, Jr., BSEE, MBA'67ChancellorUniversity System of GeorgiaCraig J. Duchossois, BA, MBACEOThe Duchossois Group, Inc.James S. Frank, BA, MBAPresident and CEOWheels, Inc.Jack W Fuller, BA, JDRetired PresidentTribune Publishing CompanyTimothy M. George, SB'74, MBA'75Founding PartnerGreenhill & Company, LLC Rodney L. Goldstein, BA, MBAChairman and Managing DirectorFrontenac CompanyMary Louise Gorno, BA, MS, MBA'76Managing DirectorHudson Highland, Inc.Kathryn C. Gould, BS, MBA'78Founder and General PartnerFoundation CapitalSanford]. Grossman, AB'73, AM'74,PhD'75Chairman and CEOQ.F.S. Asset Management LPKing W Harris, BA, MBAChairmanHarris Holdings, Inc.Kenneth M. Jacobs, AB'80, MBADeputy Chairman and Head of LazardNorth AmericaLazard LLCKaren L. Katen, AB'70, MBA'74Senior AdvisorEssex Woodlands Health VenturesDennis J. Keller, BA, MBA' 68Director Emeritus and Co-FounderDeVry Inc.Steven A. Kersten, BA, JD'80PresidentWater Saver Faucet CompanyJames M. Kilts, Jr., BA, MBA'74Founding PartnerCenterview PartnersMichael J. Klingensmith, AB'75,MBA' 76Senior AdvisorAdMedia PartnersMichael L. Klowden, AB' 67, JDPresident and CEOMilken Institute20 Robert W Lane, BA, MBA'74Chairman and CEODeere & CompanyCharles A. Lewis, BA, MBAChairmanLewis-Sebring Family FoundationPeter W May, AB' 64, MBA' 65President and Founding PartnerTrian PartnersJoseph Neubauer, BS, MBA' 65Chairman and CEOARAMARK CorporationEmily Nicklin, AB'75, JD'77PartnerKirkland & Ellis LLPHarvey B. Plotnick, AB' 63Retired PresidentParadigm Holdings, Inc.Michael P. Polsky, MSME, MBA'87Founder, President and CEOInvenergy LLCThomas]. Pritzker, BA, MBA'76,JD'76ChairmanGlobal Hyatt CorporationGeorge A. Ranney, Jr., BA, JD'66President and CEOChicago Metropolis 2020Thomas A. Reynolds III, BA, JDCapital PartnerWinston & StrawnJohn W Rogers, Jr., Lab'76, ABChairman and CEOAriel InvestmentsAndrew M. Rosenfield, BA,MCRP,JD'78Managing PartnerGuggenheim PartnersDavid M. Rubenstein, BA, JD'73Co- Founder and Managing DirectorThe Carlyle GroupSteven G. Stevanovich, AB'85, MBN90PresidentSGS Group of CompaniesRichard P. Strubel, BA, MBAVice ChairmanUNext Inc.Mary A. Tolan, BA, MBN 92Founder and CEOAccretive HealthByron D. Trott, AB'8I, MBN82Managing partnerBDT Capital PartnerMarshall 1. Wais, Jr., AB'63, MBACEOMarwais International LLCGregory W. Wendt, AB'83, MBASenior Vice PresidentCapital Research CompanyJon Winkelried, AB'8I, MBN82Retired President and Co-COOGoldman, Sachs & CompanyPaula Wolff, BA, AM'69, PhD'72Senior ExecutiveChicago Metropolis 2020Paul G. Yovovich, AB'74, MBN75PresidentLake CapitalFrancis T. F. Yuen, AB'75Deputy ChairmanPacific Century RegionalDevelopments Ltd.Robert J. Zimmer, AB, PhDPresidentThe University of Chicago TRUSTEES OF THEMEDICAL CENTERTrisha Rooney Alden, BAPresident and CEOR4 Services, LLCAndrew M. Alper, AB'80, MBN81ChairmanAlper Investments, Inc.Paul F. Anderson, BS, MSSenior AdvisorBooz&Co.Jeffrey S. Aronin, BS, MBAPresident and CEOLundbeck, Inc.Diane Atwood, BA, MSDirectorAtwood FoundationRobert H. Bergman, BA, BFAPresidentBergman Design, Inc.Edward McC. Blair, Jr., AB, MBAPrincipalWilliam Blair & Company, LLCEllen Block, BSPresidentNonsense, Inc.Deborah A. Bricker, BSFounderBricker & Associates, Inc.Kevin J. Brown, BAPresident and CEOLettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc.John Bucksbaum, BSChairmanGeneral Growth Properties, Inc.Benjamin D. Chereskin, BA, MBAManaging Partner and Co-FounderMadison Dearborn Partners21 Frank M. Clark, BS, JDChairman and CEOCornEdStephanie ComerPresidentThe Comer FoundationJames S. Crown, BA, JDChairman of the BoardPresidentHenry Crown and CompanyCraig J. Duchossois, BBA, MBACEOThe Duchossois Group, Inc.Stephanie Field-Harris, ABDirectorLincoln Park ZooJames S. Frank, BA, MBAPresident and CEOWheels, Inc.Stanford J. Goldblatt, AB, LLBPartnerWinston & StrawnRodney L. Goldstein, BA, MBAChairman and Managing DirectorFrontenac CompanyLinda H. Heagy, BA, MBN86Former Regional Managing PartnerHeidrick & StrugglesWilliam J. Hunckler III, BS, MBAPrivate InvestorJeffrey D. Jacobs, BA, JDPartnerThe Jacobs EndeavoursKenneth M. Jacobs, AB'80, MBADeputy Chairman and Headof Lazard, NALazard LLCKenneth Lehman, BA, MAManaging PartnerKKP Group LLCCarol Levy, BSCo-ownerMaterial PossessionsCheryl Mayberry-McKissack, BS, MBAFounder, President and CEONia Enterprises, LLCDane A. Miller, BS, MS, PhDFounder and Board MemberBiomet, Inc.Ralph G. Moore, CPA, BSPresidentRalph G. Moore & AssociatesChristopher J. Murphy III, BA,JD,MBAChairman, President and CEO1st Source CorporationEmily Nicklin, AB'75, JD'77PartnerKirkland & Ellis LLPBrien M. O'Brien, BSChairman and CEOAdvisory Research, Inc.Timothy K Ozark, BS, MBAChairmanAim Financial CorporationNicholas K PontikesPresidentKenny's KidsJames Reynolds, Jr., BA, MMFounder, Chairman and CEOLoop Capital Markets, LLCThomas A. Reynolds III, BA, JDCapital PartnerWinston & StrawnGordon Segal, BSChairmanCrate and BarrelBenjamin Shapiro, AB, MBA' 94ManagerMason Avenue Investments, LLC Jeffrey T. Sheffield, AB'76, JDPartnerKirkland & Ellis LLPJorge A. Solis, BS, MBADirector, Division of Banking of theIllinois Department of Financial andProfessional RegulationMelody Spann-Cooper, BSChairmanMidway Broadcasting CorporationJohn A. Svoboda, BA, MBASenior Managing DirectorSvoboda Capital Partners LLCMichael Tang, BA, JDCEONational Material LPMarrGwen Townsend, BS, AM'76Retired FounderArchipelago, LLCJames C. Tyree, BA, MBAChairman and CEOMesirow FinancialTerry L. Van Der AaChairmanProvidence BankScott Wald, BS, MBAFounder and PresidentRomar Services, LLCKelly R. Welsh, AB, MA, JDExecutive Vice President and GeneralCounselNorthern TrustBruce M. White, BA, OPM ProgramFounder, Chairman and CEOWhite Lodging Services Corp.Paula Wolff, BA, AM'69, PhD'72Senior ExecutiveChicago Metropolis 202022 OFFICERS OF THEUNIVERSITYRobert J. Zimmer, AB, PhDPresident of the UniversityThomas E Rosenbaum, AB, MA, PhDProvost of the UniversityNimalan Chinniah, BS, MBAVice President for Administration andChief Financial OfficerKermit E. Daniel, BA, MA, PhD' 93Vice President for Financial Strategyand BudgetDavid B. Fithian, BA, MPhil, PhDSecretary of the UniversityLawrence J. Furnstahl, AB'83Vice President for Financial Planningfor ScienceKimberly M. Goff-Crews, AB, JDVice President for Campus Life andDean of Students in the UniversityDavid A. Greene, AB, EdM,EdM,EdDVice President for Strategic InitiativesBeth A. Harris, AB'74, MA, JDVice President and General CounselDonald H. Levy, BA, PhDVice President for Research and forNational LaboratoriesAnn Marie Lipinski, BAVice President for Civic EngagementJames G. Nondorf, AB, MLAVice President and Dean of CollegeAdmissions and Financial AidJulie A. Peterson, BA, MBAVice President for CommunicationsRonald J. Schiller, BAVice President for Alumni Relationsand DevelopmentMark A. Schmid, BS, MBAVice President and Chief InvestmentOfficerEverett E. Vokes, MDInterim Vice President for MedicalAffairs and Interim CEO, UniversityMedical CenterOFFICERS OF THEMEDICAL CENTERLarry A. Callahan, BA, MAVice President and Chief HumanResources OfficerKrista Curell, BS, JD, RNVice PresidentRisk Management, Patient Safety, andComplianceJeffrey A. Finesilver, BS, MBAVice President and Director of ComerChildren's HospitalMayumi Fukui, AB, MM, MBAVice President for Managed Care andProgram DevelopmentLawrence J. Furnstahl, AB'83Chief Financial and Strategy Officer,TreasurerBenjamin Gibson, BA, JDSecretary of the Board of Trustees,Director of Governmental Affairsand Associate General Counsel of theMedical CenterDave Hicks, BS, RPh, MBAVice President and Chief PharmacyOfficerDavid Ho, BA, MBAVice President for Finance Jamie M. O'Malley, BSN, MSVice President and Chief NursingOfficer, Patient ServicesMichele Schiele, BS, MSVice President and Associate Dean forDevelopmentJane T. Schumaker, BA, MAVice President and Associate Dean forAdministrationKennethJ. Sharigian, BA, PhD, MBAVice President and Associate Dean forOrganizational Strategy and PlanningMarkA. Urquhart, BS, MBA'o6Vice President for Facilities, Design,and ConstructionEverett E. Vokes, MDInterim Dean, Division of BiologicalSciences and Pritzker School ofMedicine, Interim Vice President forMedical Affairs and Interim CEO,University Medical CenterEric E. Whitaker, BA, MD' 93, MPHExecutive Vice President for StrategicAffiliations and Associate Dean forCommunity-Based ResearchCarolyn S. Wuson, BSN, MBAChief Operating Officer and AssociateDeanEric B. Yablonka, BS, MBAVice President and Chief InformationOfficerDEANS OF THE FACULTIESJohn W. Boyer, BA, AM'69, PhD'75Dean of the College, and MartinA. Ryerson Distinguished ServiceProfessor in History and the CollegeRobert A. Fefferman, BS, PhDDean of the Division of thePhysical Sciences, and Max MasonDistinguished Service Professor23 John Mark Hansen, BA, MPhil, PhDDean of the Division of the SocialSciences, and the Charles L. HutchinsonDistinguished Service ProfessorSaul Levmore, BA, PhD, JD, LLDDean of the Law School, andWilliam B. Graham Professor of LawJeanne C. Marsh, BA, MSW, PhDDean of the School of Social ServiceAdministration, and George HerbertJones Distinguished Service ProfessorColm O'Muircheartaigh, BA,MSc, PhDDean of the Irving B. Harris GraduateSchool of Public Policy Studies, andProfessorRichard Rosengarten, BA, AM'88,PhD'94Dean of the Divinity School, andAssociate ProfessorMartha T. Roth, BA, PhDDean of the Division of theHumanities, and Chauncey S.Boucher Distinguished ServiceProfessor of AssyriologyDaniel W. Shannon, BA, MA, PhDDean of the William B. and CatherineV. Graham School of General StudiesEdward A. Snyder, BA, AM'78,PhD'84Dean of the Chicago Booth Schoolof Business, and George Pratt ShultzProfessor of EconomicsEverett E. Vokes, MDInterim Dean, Division of theBiological Sciences and Pritzker Schoolof Medicine, and John E. UltmannProfessor of Medicine and Radiationand Cellular OncologyALUMNI BOARD OFGOVERNORSOFFICERSPresidentAtreyee Rupa Datta, AB' 90, PhD' 01Oakland, CASenior Survey Director, NationalOpinion Research CenterVice PresidentsWilliam Florida, AB'87, AM'87Chicago,ILFinance, Advisory Research, Inc.Michael Frankel, AB' 90, AM' 90,MBA'95, JD'95New York, NYSenior Vice President for BusinessDevelopment and M&A, LexisNexisGroupLaura Haines, AB' 93Alexandria, VAAssistant Vice President for FederalAffairs, The Hartford FinancialServices GroupSajal Sahay; AB' 90Issaquah, WAHead of Marketing and InternationalBusiness, Botanical Laboratories, Inc.MEMBERSHerbert Caplan, AB' 52, JD' 57Chicago,ILRetired Corporation Counsel for theCity of ChicagoDavid Casner, AB' 02New York, NYVice President, The Goldman SachsGroupAlbert Chang, AB'93Foster City, CAMarketing Analyst, Intuit Inc. Christopher Darnell, AB' 92Snoqualmie, WAGroup Finance Manager, MicrosoftCorporationJohn Davey; LAB'56, AB'6I, JD'62Chicago,ILAttorney, Gerstner & GerstnerBrooks Dexter, AB'79, MBA'84Manhattan Beach, CAManaging Director, Duff & PhelpsSecuritiesRolf Friedli, MBA' 96Herrliberg, SwitzerlandPartner, Cap Vis Equity Partners, Ltd.Katharine Fultz Hollis, LAB'78, AB'82Los Angeles, CAEducation and Research, Universityof California at Los AngelesGary Hoover, AB'73Austin, TXChairman & CEO, TravelFestSuperstores, Inc.Nina Huang, MBA' 04Pasadena, CAFounder, Bamboo Venture LimitedKaren Hyman, AB'82, AM'88Champaign, ILAssociate Director for PublicEngagement, University of Illinois atUrbana-ChampaignMichael Ilagan, AB'88Dallas, TXPrincipal, Sun TX Capital PartnersKaren Kerr, PhD'95New York, NYFounder and Managing Director,Agile EquitiesMennette Larkin, AM'83Kensington, CAWriter24 Stephanie Larsen, AM' 66Houston, TXPsychoanalyst in private practicePhilip Lisagor, MD'72Reno, NVChief of Surgery, Reno VA MedicalCenterLeslie Maitland, AB'7IBethesda, MDWriterDaniel Mass, AB'7I, MD'75Chicago,ILProfessor of Surgery and Vice Chair,Section of Orthopaedic Surgery andRehabilitation Medicine, University ofChicago Department of SurgeryGreg Miarecki, AB' 94Chicago,ILPartner, Winston & StrawnMichael Peters, AB' 90New York, NY/London, UKManaging Director, Eastdil SecuredlWells Fargo SecuritiesJoan Spoerl, AB'85Cleveland Heights, OHConsultant, Usborne Books at HomeJudith Stein, AB' 62, AM' 64Chicago,ILRetired teacher and educationconsultantKatrina Vidal, AB:78Scarsdale, NY. Real estate appraiserTHE MARSHALAND THE STUDENTMARSHALSMARSHALCatherine C. BaumannVICE MARSHALDavid LaRue CrabbASSISTANT MARSHALSRobert AshenhurstTed CohenAndrew DavisHelma DikMartin FederRachel FultonRichard HelmholzRichard SchuermanMichael SilversteinHerman SinaikoRonald ThistedChristina von NolckenLinda WaitePeter WhiteSTUDENT MARSHALSSara AbarbanelJane BabiarzRoderick BakerHannah BirnbaumChristopher BootsTimothy BoutelleLuis BrennanPeter BrownSarah CarlSamuel CasperAntonia CliffordBiljana Droca Laura EberlyCameron ErensMaxwell FalkowitzBenjamin FieldHilary FruitmanNicholas GellerClaire GillChloe GoldmanNathalie GormanTsion GurmuBenjamin HalbigJessica HesterDebora HuEric JaffeJi Won KimMarshall KnudsonIlana KowarskiChristopher LaubacherJoshua LeavittWilliam LeebAmulya MandavaAndrew McLeodJessica MothsTracy MumfordRicardo RiveraAviva RosmanBenjamin RossiStephen SaltarelliJulia SheffieldAnya ThetfordHallie TraugerBenjamin UmansNalika VasudevanJi-Sook YimLiliana ZaragozaTengren Zhang The office of Marshal of the University wasestablished in 1895 to assist with the conduct ofofficial ceremonies. Until 1903 the Marshal was anundergraduate upperclassman, assisted by otherundergraduate upperclassmen and by membersof the faculty. Since 1903 the Marshal has been amember of the faculty, assisted by other membersof the faculty and by undergraduate upperclassmen.The Marshal, Vice Marshal, and Assistant Marshalsof the University of Chicago wear maroon doctor'srobes with alternating black velvet and gold metallicbars on the sleeves. Prior to receiving their bachelor'sdegrees, Student Marshals wear maroon bachelor'srobes with maroon mortarboards. When receivingtheir degrees, they wear black mortarboards.Student Marshals are appointed by the Presidentof the University in recognition of their excellentscholarship and leadership. Appointment as aStudent Marshal is the highest honor conferred bythe University upon undergraduate students.25MUSICIANSThomas WeisflogRockefeller ChapelOrganistWylie CrawfordUniversity CarillonneurEric PancerDjembefolaMILLAR BRASSENSEMBLEMatt LeeDirectorTrumpetsDavid InmonKari LeeHornsJeremiah FrederickMary Jo NeherTrombonesJoseph RodriguezMark Hoelscher MEMBERS OF THEUNIVERSITY CHOIRSJames KallembachConductorSopranoLindsay BarcheChristine BurasHyun Suk JangBeth KellyAdriana KopeckaAlexia KrugerEmily Joy LeeHeidi Jo StirlingAltoRobin AgneCarol DonovanLon EllenbergerSarah PonderMelissa ArningTenorHoss BrockNathan ChanMatthew DeanBrian HoffmanWilliam HohnkeWayne ParhamDavid Von BargenBassMichael BrownEthan JerzakBenjamin RiveraAndrew SchultzeBrian StreemMark WinstonDavin Youngs 500TH CONVOCATION PLANNINGCOMMITTEEPhilip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman DistinguishedService Professor, Ethnomusicology, Departmentof Music and the College (Chair)Catherine C. Baumann, Senior Lecturer,Department of Germanic Studies and the College,and Marshal of the UniversityCatherine A. Brekus, Associate Professor,Divinity SchoolKathleen N. Conzen, Professor, Departmentof HistorySheryl A. Corey, Senior Event Manager, Convocationsand Special Events, Office of Special EventsDavid B. Fithian, Secretary of the University, Officeof the PresidentRamon A. Gutierrez, Preston and Sterling MortonDistinguished Service Professor, Department ofHistory and the College, Director of the Center forthe Study of Race, Politics, and CultureCharles Lipson, Peter B. Ritzma Professor,Department of Political Science and the College,Director of the Program on International Politics,Economics, and SecurityStephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt BurtonDistinguished Service Professor, Department ofStatistics and the College, Chairman of the Departmentof Statistics, and Member of the Committee onConceptual and Historical Studies of SciencePeter White, Professor, Departments of Classics andNew Testament and Early Christian Literature,Herman C. Bernick Family Professor in the CollegeACADEMIC DRESSThe robes worn by participants in academicceremonies originated when European universitieswere being formed in the twelfth and thirteenthcenturies. Since many of the instructors came fromreligious orders and taught in unheated and draftybuildings, they adapted their religious robes for useas the university attire.The long robe with an attached cape or hood becamethe standard and variation in the costume indicatedthe rank of the person wearing it. They were wornevery day and served to distinguish scholars and theirstudents from other citizens. The apparel worn byuniversity faculty that is seen in old engravings isremarkably similar to that which is worn today. Thegown is a symbol of the democracy of scholarshipsince it covers any clothing indicating other rankor status. While everyday fashions have changed,universities retained the earlier style for formal attireto beworn by students, graduates, faculty, anduniversity officials on ceremonial occasions.European universities each developed their ownstyles and colors of academic dress, and some of thedifferences seen in the academic procession todayillustrate that variety. In the United States, however,an intercollegiate congress in 1895 agreed on a singlestandard for academic dress in this country thathas been adopted by most American colleges anduniversities. Individuals with bachelor's degrees wear a black gown, which has long pointed sleeves.The gown of master's degree holders is also black,with sleeves that are squared at the end. Doctor'sgowns are fuller with velvet facings down the frontand three bars on the generous bell-shaped sleeves.While the usual color is black, within the past halfcentury some American universities have adoptedgowns of a color appropriate for each school; at theUniversity of Chicago our doctoral gown is maroon.The cape of the earliest academic costumes hasbecome a hood, worn, by individuals with doctoraldegrees, over the shoulders and hanging behind. Thelining of the hood is folded out and its colors indicatethe school from which the wearer obtained his or herdegree. The velvet border designates the degree areaof study (white for arts, yellow for science, blue forphilosophy, green for medicine, purple for law, andred for divinity). University of Chicago honorarydegree recipients receive a hood with a white facing(doctor of humane letters), purple (doctor oflaws),or yellow (doctor of science).The cap has its own traditions. The first right of afreed Roman slave was the privilege of wearing acap, so the academic cap is the sign of the freedomof scholarship. Although the flat square cap ormortarboard is most usual, Chicago's doctoral cap isan octagonal tam of velvet.27ROCKFELLER MEMORIAL CHAPELORGAN AND CARILLONTHE ORGANBuilt with the Chapel itself in 1928, RockefellerMemorial Chapel's regal organ is one of fourUniversity organs of the American organ-builderE. M. Skinner (the others being at Yale, Princeton,and Michigan). These organs are considered amongthe finest examples of twentieth-century romanticorgans built in America. On November I, 1928,Rockefeller's organ, Opus 634, was unveiled at arecital by Lynnwood Farnam, reportedly to a crowdof over 2,500 admirers.In the Rockefeller organ, Skinner fully invested hisgenius for realizing a full orchestral sound, with acomplete collection of voices and many soft etherealeffects. Many of the large pipe scales, which arenecessary to achieve a full sound in a building thesize of the Chapel, are no longer built and thuscannot be found in contemporary organs. Theoriginal Chapel organ inclu.ed four manuals andhad 6,6ro organ pipes in ro8 ranks; since its 2008restoration, it now has 8,565 pipes in 132 ranks.The organ's bay of pipes, located in the Chapelchancel, is a work of art in itself and is an integralelement of the interior architecture of Rockefeller.In addition to the chancel organ located at the frontof the Chapel, Skinner installed a gallery organ inthe upper balcony of the Chapel, to accompanythe gallery choir. The organs can be playedindependently or as one, using either console. THE CARILLONThe Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillonwas installed during the summer of 1932, a yearafter its sister instrument at Riverside Church inNew York City, and was dedicated at Thanksgivingthat year. Both carillons are the masterworks ofthe Gillett & Johnston bell foundry of Croydon,England. Carillons of this size had never beforebeen built and have not been constructed since.The Chicago instrument, comprised of 72 bellsand roo tons of bronze, is the single largest musicalinstrument ever assembled. Its bells were cast overa three-year period and include a massive 18.5-tonbourdon sounding a low C#.Since carefully tuned carillon bells of this sizehad never been created, the design consultant,Frederick Mayer (organist and choirmaster at WestPoint), took the ground-breaking step of placingthe fourteen largest bells below the playing cabinso that the sound of these bells would not deafenthe performer to the smaller bells. Similarly, he laidout these 58 smaller bells so that the tiniest of themwould be directly above the cabin, with the largerones higher in the tower. He also placed trapdoorsin the roof of the cabin, thus providing thecarillonneur with a balanced sound. In the 1960s,several changes were made to the installation and amajor restoration of this instrument was undertakenfrom 2006-08. Today, the layout of bells favors theaudience rather that the carillonneur.