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Lee Wen has been exploring different strategies of time-based and performance art since 1989. His work has been strongly motivated by social investigations as well as inner psychological directions using art to interrogate stereotypical perceptions of culture and society. He is a contributing factor in The Artists Village alternative in Singapore and had been participating in Black Market international performance collective. He helped initiate and co-organize "Future of Imagination" (2003-), an international performance art event, "R.I.T.E.S.- Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak" (2009-), and Pulau Ubin Artist-in-Residency Program (2011) as vehicles to support and develop alternative art practices, discourse, infrastructure and audiences in Singapore. Artist's link - http://republicofdaydreams.wordpress.com/
Ben Puah is a new breed of contemporary Asian artists who's made a huge impact with his energy and vision. A self-confessed mentally "乱七八糟" artist of 'crazy artworks', Ben creates shocking and powerful works that refuse to fit into the mainstream. Art is very important to Ben because it is a way of expressing oneself and an abstraction of how he feel about life. His works are like in the state of phantasmagoria where there is a mix of real and imagined elements. At the psychological level, he seemed to suffer from paranoid personality disorder and have a negative view about the world, and is quietly frantic at the same time. This resulted in the penetration of unsettled emotions where his art seems temperamental with an erratic behavior that tells the honest truth to his audience. Ben has exhibited his works in Singapore, Australia, Germany, Japan, USA, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil, London, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi and China. His artwork is in the public and private collections in numerous local and international locations. Ben has also conducted workshops in many schools and art institutions. Artist's link - http://www.benpuah.com/
Liu Wen Chao (b. 1992) is a 3rd Year Fine Arts student majoring in oil painting at NAFA. For him, journeying from China to Singapore has been both an experience of discovery and wandering.In the two years of his time in Singapore, the artist has been studying the works of others and doing performance art. His recent performances include a collaboration with three other students at Bencoolen Street (2011), a performance on school grounds (2012), and participation with four other artists in the festival 'Future of Imagination 8' (2012). In 2013, he assisted the artist Ben Puah with his exhibition in Iran.
"Marla Bendini" was created in 2007 as an amalgamation between art and life, to explore multiple liminal identities and fluidity in perspectives. Her multidisciplinary approach towards this amalgamation has become a signature form of hypervisibilty, using the existing politicized body as a catalyst and vehicle for further discourse. She seeks to both engage and disarm audiences and to bridge the present to what she envisions to be an inevitable trans/post-human condition. Her first self-titled exhibition "Marla." (2008) was presented in a transsexual bar in Pattaya, Thailand. Sponsored by Fridae.com, Asia's largest LGBT portal, she presented "Conversations between father and son" (2010), a multimedia installation- performance over 10 days, supported by The Substation Gallery, Singapore. She exhibited and performed in Supermarket 2012, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, sponsored by Riksutställningar / Swedish Exhibition Agency. Artist's link - www.marlabendini.yolasite.com
Andrée Weschler's artistic endeavours focus on using the physical body to explore the boundaries of acceptable social constructs. The performing body is used as a tool for discovery, often becoming material in itself. Her work also attempts to challenge the audience into reading her performance of bodily differences. Born in France, she has been living and practicing her art in Asia for more than 18 years. Her formative visual arts training were in Singapore, Australia and France. Her art practice encompasses Performance Art, Drawing, Video Art, Photography and Installation. At Les Beaux Arts de Paris, she worked in the atelier of Annette Messager. Since 2000, she has been invited to participate in international art events in Asia and Europe. Her exhibition participations include ICASTICA 2013 International Women's Art Biennale Italy 2013, The 4th Guangzhou Triennal China 2011, The Asian Pulse 10+1 Bangkok Culture & Art Center Bangkok Thailand 2011, The National Review of Live Art Glasgow Scotland 2009, "The Park---The Contemporary Artists in Asia 2008" Related Art Exhibition of Yokohama Art Triennale Japan 2008, Eros-Arrows by the London Biennale 2004 England, International Eco-Environment Art Exhibition Seoul Arts Centre Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2002.
Syv Bruzeau born in France. After a Master in Russian-English and marketing, Syv came to Asia where she extensively traveled, following her curiosity to experience different cultures. She opened a few restaurants in the region and this passion for providing joy and bonding between people led her to movement therapy. She discovered Butoh while in Japan, and studied it in the Himalayas with Lee Rhizome, in New York City and Japan mainly with Katsura Kan, Eiko and Koma, Natsu Nakajima, Tetsuro Fukuhara. She practiced other movement-based and awareness techniques and is now sharing her experience through her own method. For Syv, Butoh is a creative, self-discovering and healing, process. Butoh is a space of freedom. A space of infinite possibilities and a life style. Syv will be collaborating with 8 dancers in an improvised dance production for The Zentai Art Festival.
Yuzuru Maeda is born in Ogaki, Japan in 1978. She had received a Music BA from the LaSalle Collage of Arts, Singapore in 2009 and currently lives in Singapore. In her daily musical practice, she produces soundtracks, jingles and music compositions for independent films, commercials and her own video works. She performs mainly with the Sanshin (Japanese), Sarod (Indian) and Violin (Classical) with electronic sound compositions. Her musical lineage is La Monte Young and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. She explores music and sound in cross cultural contexts and her musical works are described as 'Beyond time and space' which experess about divine energy and spirituality. Besides her musical practices, Yuzuru Maeda has been making video-based works under the title of Zentai Art Project. These video works are visual explorations that are extended from her practice as a contemporary musician. In Zentai Art Project, the artist uses the 'Zentai' sub-culture to investigate into the human conditions of identity, spiritual connections with cosmic energy in the universe and as a means to come to terms with one's living environment. Zentai Art Project www.yuzuru.weebly.com
Eng Kai Er is an independent dance and theatre artist currently based in Singapore. In 2013/2014 Kai is participating in Directors' Lab, a theatre directing mentorship programme organized by The Substation. Prior to that, Kai was involved in various dance-theatre projects in Sweden / Europe where she lived from 2007 to 2012. In Sweden she initiated the collective The Family, which created several performances/ workshops/ experiments, including "House Hole" (2010), a dance-theatre performance, and "Unmaking House Hole" (2011), an improvisation-based workshop/performance series that attempted to un-create the pre-existing performance. Her other Europe-based works include "fPhD" (2011), a fake thesis defence of a fake PhD degree, and "The Pleasure of Eating Oranges" (2013), a dance-theatre duet about love between two women, performed in Singapore, Toulouse, Berlin, Brussels and Stockholm in 2013. Kai has also created a full-length dance-theatre solo performance, "The Prayer" (2012), commissioned by the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2012. "The Prayer" was subsequently shortlisted for the Outstanding Performance Award at Prague Fringe Festival 2012.
In Singapore, Kai is currently interested in developing projects that investigate society, freedom, independence and HAPPINESS!, so in 2014 Kai started doing dance improvisations on the MRT without anybody's permission. When Kai is not working on her performance or art projects, her hobbies include artistic inline skating, pole dancing and contact improvisation.
Geraldine Ginanimo Kang, enjoys conversation and establishing earnest connections with people. She has relied onphotography as a means of resolving emotions and unraveling identities within spaces. Geraldine's latest work about Singapore marks a move out of the private domestic sphere into an external one. Through her observations, Geraldine tends to highlight the contradictions of urban living, capturing the mundane and daily findings through her exploration within the city-state, transforming her personal observations The artist had recently exhibited her inaugural solo-exhibition at Grey Projects (2014) Singapore. Artist's link - http://geraldinekang.weebly.com
Brian Sergio Depending on who you talk to, Brian Sergio is a pervert, a genius, a hack. His photographs and zines have fueled arguments, fired imaginations, and launched careers. His vision blurs the boundaries between the accepted and the profane, a sophisticated sublimity hiding in the garish poses and overexposed lighting that have come to be distinct marks of his work. Brian's greatest talent lies in his ability to inadvertently charm the viewer despite his initially shocking subject matter. There's a sense of fun behind his work, which doesn't ask viewers to take it seriously, even though they are compelled to do so.
Frank Pinckers was born in Belgium on 11 Jan 1957. The artist studied film and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium. Trained in Milano, Italy under fashion photographer Nadir, Frank worked as Fashion & Advertising photographer in Brussels until 1993. He is based in Singapore since 1994 as a free-lance commercial photographer who specialises in people, architecture , interior & industrial photography. Besides his commercial work Pinckers continues his passion for analog photography by producing a small body of personal work.
Ana Hupe born in 1983, is an artist who lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is currently pursuing PHD at School of Fine Arts at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The artist at present is teaching modeling in Visual Arts at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her works are composed by written words, photography, videos, actions investigating the invisible and languages of things. Ana was a member of collective Opavivará! (www.opavivara.com.br) from 2009 to 2013. Together with the art collective Opavivará!, Ana had taken part in numerous critical acclaimed exhibitons at MAM-SP, Casa França-Brasil & Museu de Arte do Rio, Brazil. Artist's link – www.anahupe.com
Trained at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Dan Yeo explored human body art in the fields of sculpture, performance art and photography in his early years. In 2007, he began his journey as a professional photographer and founded Nomads' Studio, specialising in pet photography, while continuing his practice as an artist. He went on to co-found White Room Studio, further exploring his love for the beauty of the human body in dance, performance art and nude portraiture. White Room Studio is presently an established photography studio where Dan continues to work,
Ho Zheng Feng (Sg) was born in 1992, raised in Singapore, Zheng Feng is a freelance artist and he is striving to create artworks that are not only visual appealing but also have a good meaning behind it. With a unique eye for details, most of his drawings are filled with lines and wonderful colors. He like taking part in art competitions and has won some awards. Aspiring to be a multi disciplinary artist, he is always striving to create distinctive visuals. Besides drawing and painting, he likes to take photograph in his free time.
On 2013, he bought his first DLSR, as he wants to learn more about photography. With a distinction grade in one of his final year module in digital photography, he hopes that it will be an encouragement to continue and developing his craft in photography. His work, which involves photography and illustration, has been rewarded as the top 5 in Levi's 501-photo contest. He hopes to do more photography related work to build his photography portfolio. His works has been exhibited in Noise Singapore showcase in 2012.
Linda Sim Solay is a Swedish-Austrian artist, currently living in Jerusalem, Israel. Her practice in fine art photography and installation focuses on psychological and philosophical evolutionary thematics and contemporary science. Her work is orientated around shaping audience-internal atmosphere, spiritual proximation and potential for perceptive immersion.
After earning her BA in Media Arts from RMIT University Melbourne in 2005 majoring in Fine Art Photography under Dr. Les Walkling, she completed in 2012 her MA at Goldsmiths College London/Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore, of which her research on the use of scent in contemporary art has earned her the Golden Key Asia-Pacific Postgraduate Award as well as the Lasalle Scholarship. Furthermore she was award twice the GK Visual & Performing Arts Achievement Award; once for the installation "Timensions" which thematically explores current models in Quantum Physics and String Theory; developed in collaboration with Dario Lombardi and the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the University of Singapore, and secondly for her multi-sensory installation "Continuum of Consciousness" centred around sentient awareness of perpetual reality, exhibited at the Institut Francais Bandung, Indonesia. Linda has exhibited extensively both in Europe and Australia in over 30 solo, collaborative and group exhibitions, and has undergone artist residencies and extensive travels to over 30 countries.
Installation and Mixed Media Art
Justin Lee was awarded Mont Blanc Young Artist World Patronage Project 2006, Hamburg, German. He was also awarded the NAFA Scholarship for his BA degree course in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore in 2005 and the National Art Council, Georgette-Chen Arts Scholarship for his Diploma in Fine Arts from the Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore which he completed in 1999.
In 2000, he was selected to complete a 6-months intensive training programme at the Tyler Print Workshop in New York, under Mr. Ken Tyler's supervision. He returns and worked as an apprentice with the Singapore Tyler Institute for two years. Justin has also participle in several exhibitions in Singapore and his first solo art exhibition "Double Happiness, a Fantasy in Red" (2003) and second solo "Toy Nation" (2003). His 3rd Solo Exhibited at Esplanade Tunnel, and level 3 Community Wall (April/July2005), and also has been invited to participate in the Singapore Art Festival in Japan (24 July 05, Aoyama kottou douri, Tokyo), Gwang Ju National Museum and Okgwa Museum in Korea, "6th Culture and Art Festival of Songzhuang" in Beijing, Bangkok (BACC), Taipei- Taiwan, "CausewayEXchange-2011" in Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia and current works "Art Garden" at Singapore Art Museum-2011 & 2012, Singapore National Museum and "Life after Death" at Asia Civilizations Museum, Singapore (2011) and Japan "Itoshima Arts Farm" (2012). His up current experimental short video work is show casing in Singapore Art Museum, Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, starting now till 25 December 2012.
Han Fei (Sg) Chen Han Fei is currently a year 2 visual arts major (BFA) in Emily Carr University of art and design located in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to this, he graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in media and communications. Born and raised in Singapore, Han is influenced by politics surrounding the country and the need to illuminate societal issues that arises on a day-to day basis. His mother has been a great influence in his art as well, often dedicating his pieces to her. He is currently majoring in visual arts with a concentration in sculpture and has made more than 10 contemporary sculptures/installations throughout his first year at Emily Carr. Three of his works has been exhibited in the 2014 Emily Carr foundation show and two out of these three were handpicked by university professors, Mimi Gellman (MOMA) & Henry Tsang to be in the curated section of the show. Han usually employs the use of lights and shadows in many of them. The medium he uses ranges from photography to film, plaster, wood, ready-mades, mirrors and glass. Aside from conceptual art, Han has been an independent photographer and filmmaker since 2009. He has made more than 5 short films (screened in 2 festivals and Singapore's old school Sinema).
Bruce Quek (b.1986) is an interdisciplinary artist well-versed in installation art, sound art as well as photography. Having received a Diploma in Fine Arts (Sculpture) from LASALLE-SIA in 2006, Bruce went beyond the conventions of traditional mediums to work on installation and performance pieces from as early as 2004 at 37 In The Bar to 2008 where he exhibited solo at Post-Museum and finally to 2010 where he participated in a group exhibition, B.E.A.U.T.Y. Show in Copenhagen, Denmark. His experiences range from collaborating on a music project with Shazanah Hassan to working as both photographer and videographer for The Artists' Village and AHPY. The diversity of his mediums belie the various concerns of his work, which include; the distribution and dissemination of information, as well as other conceptual investigations, which range from critiques of artistic infrastructure to studies of various pathologies and emergences. One of his interests in the representation and speculation of koan- a concept of Zen Buddhism- beyond its form of a story but at a given place and time in one's life.
Artist's link - http://www.contemporaryart.sg/bruce-quek/
Nigel is a composer, sound and video artist who works with various mediums bearing the weight of unorthodox structure with the blend of electroacoustic aberrant sounds. He explores the basis of music through different styles and history bearing in mind the importance of the process within layers of texture. Influenced by experimentalist of film and music from both the eastern and western culture, the pieces churned out are intertwined randomly to reflect change which in turn motivates a purpose. He also engages in various forms of mixed media, primarily in the film and visual aspect marrying sight with sound through the blend of the abstract and narrative.
Nigel graduated with a diploma in Film, Sound and Video from Singapore's Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2009 and is currently in his final year pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Music majoring in Interactive Composition from University Of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts. His work includes site specific and audiovisual installations that have been shown at galleries including Ian Potter Museum of Art, Instinc Gallery Singapore and a work in progress for The Arts Centre Melbourne as well as George Paton Gallery. In addition to this, he actively writes music for film/television, mixed media and performance art.
Xuyen Ho was born in 1989 and raised in a little town in the Mékong River Delta région of Vietnam. She currently lives in Bali and works at an architectural office. Living and breathing art, Xuyen enjoys painting, science, architecture, interior design and spirituality. Her artwork represents a silent, subconscious rebellion, striving to break the narrow bounds of imagination imposed by language
Xuyen's work breaks genres, incorporating randomness such as the shape of water stains, wood texture, or a little velvet voice during her meditation practice.
http://xuyenhomy.crevado.com
Film and Moving Images
Hashiguchi Ryosuke's wonderfully subversive comedy is in six chapters. The first four show same-sex groups in conversation; they invite us to guess which participant is a secret zentai fetishist. The last two are set in a karaoke bar, with a zentai group in one room and a group of housewives next door. You'll be shopping for Spandex the moment it's over. "Zentai" film trailer link - http://youtu.be/yRRk3tYwGZg
Screening Film: "Zentai"
(Japan, 2013, 61 mins, HDCAM)
Director: Hashiguchi Ryosuke
Cast: Shinohara Atsushi, Iwasaki Noriko, Ellen, Yamashita Koji, Matsushita Sadaharu, Ito Koichi
Screening: Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Camera: Ueno Shogo, Edit: Ono Hitoshi, Music: Akaboshi
Production Company: "Zentai" Production Partners
"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement in our own skins," said Tennessee Williams. But zentai—full-body-suit fetishists—have found a get-out clause. Ordinary people, such as amateur baseball players, promotional models, beer drinkers and supermarket cashiers, have discovered that they can lose inhibitions, erase their character flaws, even blur their sexual preferences when they don full body suits.


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Synthetic organic chemistry is the art of building-up organic compounds from smaller entities. This science has found application in the synthesis of organic compounds of commercial interest, in the construction of new, potentially bioactive molecules derived from rational design, in the challenge to synthesize very complex natural products, in finding new methods and strategies to render this science more efficient
Organic Synthesis Research Group (UGent)
Prof. Johan Winne
Em. Prof. Pierre De Clercq
The main focus of the Organic Synthesis Research Group of UGent (Faculty of Science) is the chemical synthesis and derivatisation of target compounds with non-trivial carbon connectivities, such as those found in polycyclic Natural Products.
The chemical synthesis part mainly involves the development of novel strategies and methods to assemble complex scaffolds, focusing on multiple bond forming steps such as cycloadditions and cascade reactions.
For the chemical derivatisation part, the group focuses on the development of application-oriented versatile covalent ligation reactions to generate multiple derivatives from a single synthetic intermediate.
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The concepts of versatile ligation reactions and modular building blocks in organic synthesis are also explored and applied in various collaborative research projects going from macromolecular and materials science to chemical biology.
Chemical expertise keywords: terpenes, furans, carbocationic processes, fused polycyclic systems, stereochemistry, cycloadditions, click chemistry, natural products, organic reactivity
Organic and Biomimetic Research Chemistry (UGent)
Prof. Annemieke Madder
The Organic and Biomimetic Chemistry Research Group at UGent belongs to the Faculty of Science.
The group has built an extensive expertise in the synthesis, modification, conjugation and crosslinking of large biomolecules such as peptides and oligonucleotides. Methodologies for selective chemical modification of specific residues within peptides and nucleic acids have been developed. Profound knowledge concerning the construction of conformationally restricted peptides has been generated through synthesis of multipodal scaffolds and immobilization of up to three different peptides onto them. Both short and longer helical peptides have been generated for immobilization through linear or convergent strategies.
Molecular Design and Synthesis KU Leuven
Prof. Wim De Borggraeve
Prof. Wim Dehaen
Prof. Erik Van der Eycken
Molecular Design and Synthesis is one of the divisions of the Department of Chemistry at KU Leuven. Within this division, the colleagues listed above are carrying out research that is situated in the domains of heterocyclic chemistry, peptide mimetics and chemistry of natural product analogues. Extensive use is made of process intensification techniques such as microwave or sonochemically enhanced reactions as well as continuous flow chemistry methodology. New synthetic methodologies such as noble metal (e.g. Ag, Au, Pd) catalyzed coupling reactions, and multicomponent reactions to get fast access to libraries of bioactive compounds are being developed. NMR spectroscopy is used extensively as a tool to evaluate the structures of the products obtained. The participating colleagues have extensive collaborations allowing to test and optimize the medicinal properties of the relevant compounds.
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Group of Organic Synthesis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB)
Prof. Guido Verniest
Prof. Steven Ballet
Prof. em. Dirk Tourwé
The research of the Group for Organic Chemistry (ORGC) at the VUB, headed by Prof. Steven Ballet and Prof. Guido Verniest, focuses on the synthesis of modified peptides as well as low molecular weight molecules (small molecules) and the development of new synthetic methods for application in medicinal and materials chemistry. The ORGC collaboration network constitutes a platform for the thorough and efficient characterization of the chemical (3D) structure, but also for the determination of the in vitro and in vivo bioactivity of the prepared compounds.
The research unit has established a long standing tradition in the preparation of modified peptides and applications thereof, under the direction of Prof. em. Dirk Tourwé. Being appointed as an associate professor at the VUB, and being trained in the ORGC group, Prof. Steven Ballet carries this research on, making use of the gained expertise. With further support of Prof. Guido Verniest, the group also has expertise in the development of new synthetic methodology, mainly in the field of non-peptide heterocycles, alkyne transformations and late transition metal catalysis. ORGC is an interdepartmental research unit (Department of Chemistry and Department of Bioengineering Sciences) with strong links to the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine and the Faculty of Engineering of the VUB.
Chemical expertise keywords: (cyclic) peptides and derivatives (e.g. conjugates; imaging probes); peptidomimetic synthesis; heterocyclic chemistry; alkyne chemistry; synthetic methodology development
Supramolecular Chemistry Group (UGent)
Prof. Richard Hoogenboom
The Supramolecular Chemistry Group operates at the interphase of organic and polymer chemistry aiming to develop adaptive and responsive smart materials. Within this research, we have developed strong expertise in the utilization of less common synthetic methodologies for organic and polymer synthesis:
Automated parallel synthesis with Chemspeed robot systems
Automated serial microwave synthesis
Mechanochemistry with high shear vibrational milling
These advanced synthesis tools are available in our group and they allow the development and optimization of fast and green synthetic protocols. In addition, fast and efficient preparation of focused libraries of compounds is enabled by the automated synthesizers.
Organic Synthesis University of Antwerp (ORSY)
Prof. Bert Maes
Prof. Kourosch Abbaspour Tehrani
The major activity of the Organic Synthesis group is the development of new sustainable synthetic methodologies, with a focus on transition-metal catalyzed transformations and organometallic chemistry. In particular, the expertise of Prof. Maes (group spokesman) in the transition-metal catalyzed C-H bond activation and functionalization is unique in Belgium and is well recognized worldwide. Specific research lines are related to the replacement of expensive catalytic metals with cheaper and more abundant alternatives, techniques for recovery of homogeneous catalysts, and the application of catalytic synthetic methodologies to the synthesis and derivatization of heterocyclic scaffolds. Prof. Abbaspour Tehrani is an expert in the synthesis and derivatization of imines. Recently, he started the development of new biobased (renewable) building blocks.
Link: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/rg/orsy/
Polymer Reaction Design(UHasselt)
Prof. Thomas Junkers
The PRD group strives for the development of new materials via state of the art polymer synthesis methods. From fundamentals and kinetics of polymerizations to the design of new polymer reaction pathways, all elemental steps are addressed and custom-made precision polymer materials are constructed. Continuous flow synthesis in microreactors is one of the most prominent research lines, next to surface modification, light induced ligation reactions and kinetic modelling of complex polymerization systems.
Specific synthesis techniques offered:
Continuous flow synthesis techniques
UV reactors
Computer-aided design of polymers
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Laboratory for Organic and Bioorganic Synthesis (UGent)
Prof. Johan Van der Eycken
Chirality determines the biological activity of a large number of natural and synthetic compounds, e.g. drugs: mostly, only one of the enantiomers displays the desired biological activity, while the opposite enantiomer can be inactive, show a different type of activity, or even can be extremely toxic. Accordingly, the development of novel synthetic methods allowing to obtain pure enantiomers instead of racemates is of tremendous importance for the pharmaceutical industry nowadays. The most efficient and economic way to reach this goal is by inducing chirality in a prochiral substrate using a chiral catalyst. Such a catalyst mostly consists of a transition metal (e.g. Pd, Rh, …) chelated by chiral ligands, creating a chiral environment in the transition state. The synthesis and screening of novel chiral ligands is an important research topic in our laboratory.
The group has also gained expertise in enzyme-catalyzed reactions for the synthesis of chiral building blocks.
Apart from this, the group has ample experience in solid phase synthesis of peptides and small heterocyclic peptidomimetics.
Synthesis, Bioresources and Bio-organic Chemistry (SynBioC) (UGent)
Prof. Chris Stevens
Prof. Matthias D'hooghe
Prof. Sven Mangelinckx
The SynBioC (Synthesis, Bioresources and Bioorganic Chemistry) Research Group focuses on diverse aspects of organic and bioorganic chemistry. Key research topics are related to methodology development in organic synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry in general and the study of small-ring azaheterocycles in particular (ring transformation of aziridines, azetidines and beta-lactams), the synthesis of bioactive substances with applications in various fields (medicine, crop protection,…), aminophosphonate chemistry, natural products chemistry, renewable resources (modification of biopolymers, the production of biofuels and renewable fuel additives,…), microwave-assisted synthesis, and microreactor technology (flow chemistry). The group is well equipped to deal with all aspects concerning the synthesis, purification and structure elucidation of new organic compounds.

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The Arab Spring: to live with the dignities of human rights or die trying
Tuesday 2 August 2011, by Erin Hudson
"They are saying death or dignity. Yes, it has come down to this…Do not make a mistake; this is not a religious revolution. This is not an ideological revolution. This is a human rights revolution."
As one speaker addressing the crowd at the Global Day of Action for Syria in Montreal said, the revolutions of the Arab Spring are, without a doubt, human rights revolutions depicting the people's stark choice: death or dignity.
Beginning in Tunisia during the winter of 2010, the Arab Spring refers to the revolutionary movements that have emerged throughout Northern Africa and the Middle East. Demonstrators are demanding freedom from authoritarian regimes in order for their human rights to be respected and upheld.
In the Tunisian revolution around three hundred people were killed, though as activist Haroun Bouazzi says, even one is too many. Across the region, many more people have lost their lives in a struggle for freedom and justice from authoritarian regimes.
Bouazzi, a member of the Montreal Collective for Social Struggles in Tunisia, discussed the importance of mobilized diaspora communities for the revolution in Tunisia. "Dictators hate the light. They want to stay in the dark and do whatever they want and making the media talk about what they're doing, you know, I'm pretty sure we actually saved lives," he said.
The population of the Tunisian migrant community in Canada numbers around sixteen thousand yet, despite their small number, Bouazzi believes there was a large impact from demonstrations organized by the Montreal Collective for Social Struggles in Tunisia—particularly among francophone media. "We felt that it was our duty to be in the street, and to make the media talk about this," he said.
Since the revolution, Tunisian civil society actively expresses its' needs and demands. Violence towards sex workers and increased police wages were among some of the reasons that Tunisians took to the streets. Along with new associations being formed and older associations finally granted the freedom to carry out their work, Bouazzi described how Tunisians are "learning freedom."
"Everyone agrees that they want [the elections] to be a success. Not only for Tunisians, but for all the Arab world, the Muslim world and the world. We feel that we have a responsibility here. We started something way bigger than our country—nobody would have expected something like this—and we don't have the right to fail for us and for everyone else," said Bouazzi.
Though conditions in post-revolution Tunisia appear positive, the bloated public sector implicates many Tunisians in the actions of Ben Ali and his regime. Out of the 10.4 million Tunisians, approximately two million were claimed to be members of Ben Ali's party, the Rally for Constitutional Democracy (RCD), in existence since 1988. "Justice is far from done. Ben Ali is just the head of a big system," added Bouazzi.
This big system in Tunisia is in part a result of the adoption of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's structural adjustment plan in 1986 and occupies a key contributing role to the Arab Spring. Neoliberal economics, the logic behind the creation of structural adjustment plans, are as much a part of the Arab Spring as the dictators who are now facing an uncertain future. The Arab Spring represents one of the largest challenges to the neoliberal status quo and policies to date.
Throughout the world, the implementation of structural adjustment plans has led to the emergence of vast inequalities in wealth among people—the Middle East and North Africa are no exception. A disproportionate number of people have been excluded and marginalized while a small few have become extremely wealthy. Interestingly, the locations of the first revolutions of the Arab Spring, in Tunisia and Egypt, are the countries that have governed in accord with neoliberal adjustment plans for the longest.[ [1]->http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201122414315249621.html]
Damascus (Arabic: Dimashq, commonly known as al-Shām, also known as the City of Jasmine (Madīnatu 'l-Yāsmīn)) is the capital and the second largest city of Syria as well as one of the country's 14 governorates.
In the view of Collective for Syria activist Brian Aboud, the vast inequality of wealth in combination with increasing unemployment rates and worsening of many Syrians' economic wellbeing is what mobilized them to demonstrate against their President Assad's regime—and it is not a phenomenon unique to Syria.
"There's a set of very pronounced economic conditions that you see in other parts of the Middle East that gave rise to those revolutions as well," said Aboud.
In addition to poor economic conditions, it is state repression, injustice and life under an authoritarian regime that exert a large toll. Syrians lived under a forty-nine year emergency state—the longest in the region. With all rights suspended, security forces could arrest anyone at anytime without accusations, a warrant or any kind of due process according to activist Buschra Jalabi.
"We have to remember—this is a police state. The only way to think or act, in terms of security, is in terms of repression," she said.
Security forces given free reign, like those in Syria, are able to repress perceived threats to a regime with minimal fear of consequences or accountability due to the international community's support. Through albeit tumultuous working relationships, the international community, in line with neoliberal policies and led by the United States, supported most, if not all, authoritarian regimes throughout the Middle East and North Africa. The track records of human rights violations seem to factor into the international consciousness only if international economic interests are in jeopardy. With authoritarian regimes able to garner international support in exchange for the provision or guaranteed availability of their regional interests, these regimes appeared immune and insurmountable.
However, uprisings and demonstrations continue in spite of the enormous amount of repression exerted upon people by their own governments. Demonstrations for change throughout the region show the conviction and strength these people, otherwise labeled as disenfranchised, marginalized or powerless, possess and the changes they are achieving through their own efforts.
Recent accounts of the Syrian regime's brutality is interpreted by many to be part of an effort to re-establish fear of the government among Syrians. The targeting of children along with unarmed civilians attending demonstrations has become a part of the Syrian regime's strategy for quelling uprisings. With people continuing to demonstrate despite severe repression, their message to the Syrian regime is clear: they will not back down.
"I think the uprising in Syria erupted at a point which could not be delayed further," said Jalabi in reference to the detention and torture of a group of boys between nine and thirteen years old who were apprehended by Syrian security forces for painting revolutionary graffiti. The boys' graffiti slogan was a popular slogan; the people want the fall of the regime.
Evidence of this strategy includes the case of thirteen-year-old Hamza al-Khateeb. Taken by security forces at a demonstration, his body was returned to his family bearing evidence of severe torture, cigarette burns, mutilation and emasculation. The returning of the deceased to the family is a rare happening that Jalabi interprets as a gesture of calculated provocation.
"This kid shows the horrific violence to which they're capable of," said Jalabi.
The responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Arab Spring cannot be overstated. Recalling pictures he saw from Syria, Bouazzi said, "It's a real massacre that is going on and we have at least to show these people that they are not alone in their struggle. Nothing can stop these people from winning and we have to be on their side."
The Arab Spring shows that governments and mass systems of oppression can be stopped—they are not inevitable or invulnerable to mass actions and by extension, anyone can challenge the status quo by adding their voice to support the Arab Spring's demand for human rights.
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Erin Hudson is a student at McGill University, an editor at the McGill Daily and a volunteer at McGill's campus-community radio station CKUT 90.3FM.
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How A Financial Crisis Caused The French Revolution
The assignat of the French Revolutionary period is one of the worst paper money disasters in history.
It started with the failure of the state's finances.
In 1789, the French monarchy found itself in a perilous financial position.
In the preceding decades attempts to bring the state's financial position under control had failed and France had a crushing debt and a massive deficit.
A deficit of 41.7 million livres in 1781 exploded to 116.1 million livres in 1789.
Given that the French monarchy did not have fiat money, they could only increase their revenue through taxation or borrowing.
Tax reform was needed to save the monarchy but because of political gridlock it didn't happen. Throughout the squabbling of the 1780s the government continued to borrow. That is until they exhausted their ability to borrow any more.
With no ability to raise new taxes and public pressure ruling out the option of bankruptcy, the Crown's only remaining option was to turn to paper money.
Better financial management, or rather a willingness to confront the difficult political decisions that better financial management would entail, would have restored confidence and perhaps avoided the subsequent events that became the French Revolution.
But sadly good financial sense did not prevail.
Unable to solve the financial crisis, King Louis XVI made the fateful decision to call on the Estates-General, the representative assembly that had not met since 1614, in the hope they would approve the financial reform needed to restore the country's finances.
This was a serious attempt to engage society in financial, but not political or social reform, yet it triggered a chain of events that unleashed revolutionary forces that led to the downfall of the monarchy and a complete restructuring of French society and the political order.
Financially, nothing was solved as the revolution abandoned gold and silver backed money to embark on one of the world's largest paper money experiments, which resulted in runaway inflation.
Indeed, those who advocated for paper money were not ignorant about its risks. France had experimented in paper money with disastrous results in the early 1700s, before returning to money backed by gold and silver. But the revolutionaries thought that this time they could control it.
They were very much mistaken. Their paper money initiative, the assignat, unravelled with disastrous and tragic results. Prices skyrocketed and angry mobs roamed the streets.
King Louis XVI
When the Revolution came under the control of the Jacobins, the country descended into chaos. The King was executed in January 1793, starting a reign of terror.
The inflation led to shortages and calls for wage and price controls, which were established in May 1793.
The Jacobin terror soon exhausted itself and eventually some degree of economic stability was restored through the abolition of wage and price controls in December 1794 and the end of money printing in December 1795. After previously being banned, gold and silver were once again permitted for trade. The assignat was abandoned and a silver franc was established.
By 1795, five years after the first issue the paper currency, the assignat, had lost 99% of its value.
The French Revolution continued under the directory until 1799, when Napoleon took power in a coup de tat. He became First Consul of the French Republic before being crowned Emperor in 1804. Under Napoleon, the new Banque de France established a monetary system with gold and silver coins with the silver/gold ratio set at 15:1.
The revolution had initially begun as a way to restore order to the country's finances. But it gradually changed into a movement for moderate constitutional reform and then morphed into to a period of chaos and violence that unleashed untold terror on the people of France and left an indelible imprint on both Europe and the world.
So what was the key cause of the French Revolution?
Why The Financial Crisis Caused The French Revolution
The reasons why the French Revolution occurred are complex and multifaceted. There is no easy answer and historians have debated the causes for centuries. However, the financial and economic causes are often relegated to a minor footnote amongst the more popular political and social interpretations.
I agree with the minority view that sees economics and finance as the key causes, in particular the failure of the French monarchy to balance the budget and the subsequent decision to embrace paper money.
A recent book has been published by Rebecca Spang, who argues that economics and in particular money is often overlooked because it is wrongly considered to be neutral, and that actually money is a critical part of understanding history.
I emphatically agree.
She makes an astute point that while the Marxists focus on the means of production, to understand the social implications of economic and financial decisions, we should really be analysing the means of exchange instead i.e. money.
However, I disagree with Spang in that she doesn't see paper money as being significant, because she argues that society can give value to anything as money.
Instead I align with Andrew Dickson White and Edmund Burke in the view that the adoption of paper money in response to the financial crisis in France was critical and destructive. As White puts it:
"It [paper money] came by seeking a remedy for a comparatively small evil in an evil infinitely more dangerous. To cure a disease temporary in its character, a corrosive poison was administered, which ate out the vitals of French prosperity. It progressed according to a law in social physics which we may call the "law of accelerating issue and depreciation." It was comparatively easy to refrain from the first issue; it was exceedingly difficult to refrain from the second; to refrain from the third and those following was practically impossible. It brought, as we have seen, commerce and manufactures, the mercantile interest, the agricultural interest, to ruin. It brought on these the same destruction which would come to a Hollander opening the dykes of the sea to irrigate his garden in a dry summer. It ended in the complete financial, moral and political prostration of France—a prostration from which only a Napoleon could raise it."
Undoubtedly there were other political and social forces at play, which amplified and extended the chaos of the French Revolution. Not least were those who desired to see an end to the monarchy and the establishment of a republic. Yet if better policy prevailed much earlier, this crisis could have been avoided.
"Statesmanlike measures, careful watching and wise management would, doubtless, have ere long led to a return of confidence, a reappearance of money and a resumption of business; but these involved patience and self-denial, and, thus far in human history, these are the rarest products of political wisdom. Few nations have ever been able to exercise these virtues; and France was not then one of these few."
After all, the political challenges the Enlightenment produced for the Ancien Regimes in Europe, did not result in revolution elsewhere. The German, Austrian and Russian empires did not meet their end until they too were devastated financially, in their case by the Great War of 1914-1918.
History has shown that paper money always fails and that it always causes social chaos. What is uncertain is how soon it will fail and how much chaos it will cause when it does.
Sadly in 1790s France the paper money system failed rapidly and it caused the maximum amount social chaos rarely seen in history.
There are several lessons the 21st century investor can learn from this period in history.
Lessons for Investors from the French Revolution
1. Systemic risk is difficult to foresee
The Paris stock exchange, founded in 1724, was an active yet volatile market until the revolution. The stock exchange survived the initial revolutionary period, but as things turned more violent it too met its demise, being closed in June 1793 with joint-stock companies subsequently being abolished and investors unable to sell their shares.
This was a crisis moment for investors like nothing we have seen in recent times. And yet for an investor in France during the 1790s, you would probably be more concerned about maintaining your life than maintaining your portfolio.
Yet even at the start of the revolutionary period, it was difficult to foresee that things would play out as they did. Nobody in 1789 could predict that King Louis XVI would lose his head a mere four years later. When the Estates-General first met, it was widely believed that they would find a solution to the financial crisis.
Even when social unrest began and crowds descended on the Bastille, King Louis famously remarked, "Is it a revolt?" to which the reply came, "No sire, it is a revolution."
The question this raises is how does an investor accurately predict when bad news is just a temporary setback or the arrival of a black swan and a major crisis?
The short answer is, you can't.
That's why a dead cat bounce exists. Investors buy the dip, thinking the good times will resume, before a bear market is unleashed upon them and hindsight shows them to be foolish.
We live in an era of significant systemic risk. In the last few decades we have seen the Asian Financial Crisis, the Dot Com Bubble, the Great Financial Crisis and Covid-19. We have a worldwide financial system of central bank created fiat money.
So you have to be prepared but at the same time not overly cautious – a very difficult balance to strike.
There is no shortage of people who tell you that disaster is just around the corner and you need to sell all your paper and load up on gold. They may be right in their analysis of the flaws of the financial system. Yet they don't know anymore than the next person, when the day of reckoning will come or how just bad it will be when it does.
I believe there is a danger in being too defensive in that you can waste precious years of your short investing life missing out on gains by preparing yourself for an event that might be years and years away or might not be as bad as the doomsayers predict.
I certainly have fallen into that trap over the last ten years. We've been living in a long period of peace and prosperity since 1945 yet when I first started investing I paid too much heed to those commentators who predicted that crisis was just around the corner and to prepare for geopolitical collapse, the imminent demise of the dollar and the stratospheric rise in the value of gold.
Anyone who moved their assets into gold in 1789 and fled France for England would have been proven to be very wise, as the financial and social chaos was about as bad as it could get. Yet how could anyone have possibly predicted that?
A revolution of that magnitude is so rare to the point that it's not something worth losing sleep over.
All you can do as an investor is keep a portion of your portfolio defensively positioned as insurance, in case of crisis, whether large or small, while you continue to invest the remaining funds in a normal prudent way.
To not have any funds set aside in defensive insurance policies such as gold, would be a mistake. But to overcommit in perpetual fear of a systemic crisis, would equally be unwise.
2. Diversify Your Political Risk
There are times in history where having your home, your job and your assets all in one country becomes incredibly risky, financially and otherwise.
Again, these are very rare situations that should not cause undue concern but it is worth thinking about.
France in 1789 was one of those times. Other examples were Germany in 1923 and 1933, China in 1949, South Vietnam in 1973. Yet it is not always clear to people living through it, just when the turning point arrives.
The execution of Robespierre and Saint Just
In such cases the time to react is short and those who are unprepared may suffer. It helps to have prepared in advance and have diversified yourself politically. This might mean a second passport or it might mean a foreign bank, brokerage or precious metals account.
Even if a country maintains its social cohesion during a time of crisis, it may be prudent to keep some funds outside the country to protect yourself against any financials risks inherent in your home country. Just ask any Argentine who has lived through the financial chaos of the last half century.
3. Markets Always Recover Eventually
It took over a decade, but under Napoleon hard money was eventually restored and prosperity returned to France.
Paris once again became one of Europe's major financial centers. As dark as the French Revolution was, once stability had returned, so too did human endeavour and economic progress. And as always with progress came the opportunity for economic gain.
It's always tempting to despair in times of market turmoil and feel that an economic downturn is the end of the world. But humans are remarkably resilient and we will always find a way to press on.
And while it's incredibly difficult to time and execute in reality, but if you do manage to avoid the carnage of a crisis and re-enter once stability is restored then you will do very well as an investor as you can pick up quality assets at bargain prices.
Unfortunately for the French, the 1790s were a lost decade, financially and otherwise.
The French Revolution was one of the most tragic events in modern History yet had a tremendous impact on European and World History.
While its causes have divided historians, the economic and financial analysis is often somewhat overlooked. The argument that the adoption of paper money was a critical cause of the revolution is a minority one that is very much out of fashion in the modern analysis. Yet I personally find it the most compelling.
The lessons for investors are to be aware of the political risk that governments can cause through misguided fiscal and monetary policy and take defensive steps to insure yourself against government induced calamities, such as the purchase of gold and silver and the storage of some wealth outside your home country.
However this comes with a caveat. As bad as the French Revolution was, an event like this is a true outlier. Even if we face financial crises and social upheaval in the future, it is unlikely to be on such a scale. Don't be spooked into becoming too defensive and avoid the possibility of gains to be made in the market.
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Spang, Rebecca L. Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017.
White, Andrew Dickson. Fiat Money Inflation in France: How It Came, What Brought It and How It Ended. New York: Appleton-Century, 1933.
White, Eugene N. "Measuring the French Revolution's Inflation: The Tableaux de Dépréciation." Histoire & Mesure 6, no. 3 (1991): 245–74.
———. "Was There a Solution to the Ancien Régime's Financial Dilemma?" The Journal of Economic History 49, no. 3 (September 1989): 545–68.
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Møller and Loft (2014) remind us that to keep the comet assay statistical analysis simple, appropriate study design and statistical power should be carefully considered when planning experiments. P.B. For calibration, hydrogen peroxide is usually used to provide a standardized level of DNA damage. Fairbairn DW, Olive PL, O婬l KL. At the molecular level, the formation of comet in the DNA of cells upon genotoxic insult can be visualized through the method of gel electrophoresis and indicates DNA strand breaks, as the damaged DNA migrates at a different rate than nondamaged DNA during electrophoresis. The comet assay, also known as the single-cell gel electrophoresis (SCGE) assay, measures DNA strand breaks in individual cells. Tests with cells from the gonads (testis and ovary) seem to be the most appropriate and a promising tool for demonstrating that a test compound reaches the gonads and is able to interact with the genetic material of germ cells.
Statistical analysis of comet assay results. The likely explanation for comet tail formation is that loops containing a break lose their supercoiling and become free to extend toward the anode (Tice et al., 2000; Collins, 2004). Res. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. [106] is a method for measuring DNA strand breaks and can serve as an alternative to in vivo testing for DNA damage. These include genotoxicity testing, human biomonitoring and molecular epidemiology, ecogenotoxicology, as well as fundamental research in DNA damage and repair. Genet. [7][8][9][10] In alkaline conditions, however, additional DNA structures are detected as DNA damage: AP sites (abasic sites missing either a pyrimidine or purine nucleotide) and sites where excision repair is taking place.[11][12]. Briefly, cells placed in low-melting agarose on the surface of microscope slides are subjected to electrophoresis after the action of a damaging agent. Also including "omics" data will aid in unraveling the mode of action of genotoxic compounds (Slyskova et al., 2012, 2014; Santos et al., 2015)—though it is worth pointing out that several studies have shown that phenotypic measures of DNA repair do not necessarily correlate with genomic or transcriptomic data (Collins et al., 2012; Slyskova et al., 2012, 2014); the different approaches should be regarded as complementary. The aqueous salt disrupts proteins and their bonding patterns within the cell as well as disrupting the RNA content of the cell. Fluorescent, "DNA double-strand breaks measured in individual cells subjected to gel electrophoresis", "A simple technique for quantitation of low levels of DNA damage in individual cells", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comet_assay&oldid=963628749, Articles with dead external links from August 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles needing additional references from May 2014, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Hughes CM, Lewis SEM, McKelvey-Martin V, Thompson W. Reproducibility of human sperm DNA measurements using a single cell gel electrophoresis assay.
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Doing Good is Good Business
By Joan Leotta
Randy Lewis Creates Jobs with Living Wages for People with Disabilities
The Walgreens Distribution Center in Williamston, South Carolina
Randy Lewis is a man on a quest for justice—justice for people with disabilities, which according to Lewis, includes the right to the accommodations necessary to become a productive employee. Lewis' motto, "doing good is good business," is his blueprint for creating change for people with disabilities in the modern American workplace. During his tenure as a Walgreens' executive, Lewis persuaded Walgreens' corporate leaders to adopt a best practices model which led to increased employment opportunities and job retention for people with disabilities within their South Carolina distribution center. As much as Lewis is gratified by the success of the program, this issue was not only a professional win but also a paternal victory. His son, Austin, a young man on the autism spectrum, inspired Lewis to make inclusion a reality in every facet of his son's life. These efforts have contributed to his vision of justice in the workplace.
Randy Lewis and his son, Austin
Inspired by these events, Randy Lewis wrote, No Greatness Without Goodness, to share the experiences that ultimately lead to Walgreens' to lead the industry in transformation. While No Greatness Without Goodness is a corporate handbook, it is also a deeply personal narrative that traces the Lewis family's personal struggles when first learning of, and ultimately adjusting to, life with Austin. No Greatness Without Goodness lays out a life-tested blueprint for others to create an atmosphere where workers with disabilities can achieve great things alongside their fellow, non –disabled employers. (See Sidebar—Review of the book)
As Austin's father, Lewis learned to develop greater flexibility while still expecting the best from his son. Through Austin's victories, Lewis discovered that while his son's best would come about in unexpected ways, his best would indeed come.
Contemplating the future of his differently- abled child and anticipating how little was available for him in the job market, Lewis approached Walgreen's with the idea of hiring 200 of their 600 anticipated new employees in a newly-constructed South Carolina distribution plant.
The two words, "no limits," perfectly capture Lewis' approach to realizing an employment plan for workers with disabilities. Another byword, "why not?" became just as familiar. When the Walgreens' executives and the line staff found themselves confronted with any potential problem unique to these 200 new hires, one question in particular was inevitably asked: 'can a person with a disability of this or that type perform the needed task?' Lewis' team became accustomed to his reply, "Why not?". Because parenting Ausitn taught him flexibility and confident expectation in his son's abilities, Lewis placed no limits on what Walgreens' newest hires might achieve: "Our experience was with autism but [even then] each case is individual with autism. People are not dis-abled, just differently-abled. Why limit yourselves? The typically-abled view differently-abled people all as equally inadequate—I knew the biases so we did not presume that certain [new employees] could or could not do the work. For instance, I didn't consider cognitive impairment until it was brought to me, but when someone asked about it I said, 'why not?' There are no limits to what we can do, what anyone can achieve."
Making it Happen
Lewis says that the first line of business was to think through the design of the building and remove physical barriers for this unique workforce. Then they reached out to the community, both the larger disability community and the local community to gain further input. The next step was to involve current Walgreens' employees.
"Getting colleagues and subordinates to engage was a matter of building the program in such a way as that everyone understood this project was my responsibility. We simply had to … take away [professional] fears. There were no punishments or rewards associated with hiring people with disabilities. If you introduce fear, people run away. To innovate, you need them to run to something. So, I reminded them 'if we don't do it who would? And if we can't then no one can.' We also went with a—'let's give it our best and see' approach. Making it a no-risk positive encouragement was the way to go. People want to do good. My colleagues just had to be assured that if the project fell through, I was the point man who would take the blame. Once they were free from possible punishment, they also were free to do good."
The President of the company also had to be persuaded. Lewis accomplish this lofty task by pointing to the bottom line: hiring people with disabilities would not sacrifice revenue. Further, as a pharmacy, the company was already geared towards serving the community. Lewis simply demonstrated that from a business standpoint, Walgreens was capable of both doing good and earning a profit by continuing its already established practice of making a difference within the communities served by the company.
There were several groups and one individual in particular who rallied behind the idea of selecting a third of the workforce from people with disabilities. Lewis remembers that "the HR people, and the people in training … really believed in this and helped make it happen." He realizes that at times corporate culture tends to be yield to the credo: 'it's not personal, it's business," so that discussions involving the heart and emotions are infrequent. This team set a new standard. Karen Preston, the head of training, was joined by Walgreens' staff in South Carolina where they laid the groundwork that proved crucial to training people with autism. Lewis adds,"They got excited [when] they knew they were going to change the world, … what we were doing had never been done before. As the staff members worked they saw their assumptions being brushed aside by their experience with people with disabilities. They knew they could right a wrong and recognized that it was unjust to not hire these people." The initial goal of this effort was to ensure that one third of the 600 newly hired employees were differently-abled. Lewis says, "We exceeded that goal when the employees with disabilities became about forty percent of the workforce."
Wage Achievement
One of the greatest advancements in this initiative was that from the outset both the differently and typically abled employees earned the same wage for the same work. Lewis explains, "We expected the same performance and so we paid the same wage. When problems arose that made it difficult for the new hires to do the same job, at the standard level of productivity … again we approached each problem with the, 'why not?' mentality as opposed to the 'why?'.
A Profile of the Workforce
Over eighty percent of the hires had never been able to hold a job before being employed by Lewis at the Walgreens' distribution facility in 2007. Some were made supervisors at the beginning and many have become supervisors since. Almost all of the original hires are still working for the company. The retention rate is twice that of typically abled employees.
Share the Wealth: What They Have Learned and Shared with Others
What is even more remarkable is that Lewis has taken steps to ensure this success continues. From the beginning, Walgreens viewed this effort as a template for others to use when seeking to an employment demographic of diverse abilities. With Walgreens' proud approval, Lewis gives tours of the distribution center to share the success story with other companies and stand as a model for equity and inclusion .
"From the beginning we had to get things right," Lewis says. "I have had to learn new vocabulary —everywhere we went we contacted people. We did not presume we knew how to do it so we went … within the community to work. We got the word out in newspapers. When our story reached the disability community, it spread like wildfire. By word of mouth, soon everyone had heard about it. Even the Wall Street Journal had an article about our progress."
Models of Modifications
Making the building accessible was one of Walgreens' top priorities. Lewis explains that Walgreens had early decided to go above and beyond legal accessibility compliance standards. The comfort and capability of the employees were always of the utmost importance. Furthermore, Lewis found ways to be financially prudent by approaching accessibility with creativity: "We didn't spend a lot of extra money when designing the equipment. [We tried to be] as flexible as possible while anticipating various needs: sensitivity to light, motion, noise. We were able to adjust the equipment without spending more money. We were not limited by the necessary financial boundaries by opting to take a creative and effective approach to make the work space both efficient and accepting. The term 'universal design' encompassed our solutions. Of course they were not perfect, but with time we adjusted."
Lewis goes on to say, "Some of it we over-thought. At first we were so concerned about transportation for the employees with disabilities that we considered vans. That turned out not to be practical so next we worked with the city on transportation and asked them to rearrange the bus routes so that more people could get to facility. After a while, I discovered that not many people were using it."When he addressed the issue with a member of the disability community, that person replied: "When people are paid a good wage for the job that they do, they will find a way to get work."
Lewis says that the best advice he can give to those who want to replicate Walgreen's inclusion model is taken from the movie, Field of Dreams: "If you build it, he will come." "Our approach was to find the shortest distance between two points–a straight line. We hired people and then figured out how to structure the job and or worksite so they could do it." He advises those who are moving towards similar targets to ensure that they have the will to accomplish the goal of hiring people with disabilities. He adds, "the how will become apparent to you."
Today, Lewis works with executives to help them accomplish what Walgreens has and to remind them that such projects are not easily completed; they require support at all levels within a company, ranging from the executives to the line workers. Progress has to begin with executive support, he notes, and the firm belief that the company really wants to do be successful. Without these well-coordinated cogs, the project will fail.
The payoff, however, is enormous and the future for similar accomplishments across the business landscape is bright. Randy Lewis looks forward to many other companies hiring people with disabilities and leveling the playing field for all employees.
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THEY DID IT! The U.S. women's national team has won the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, trouncing Japan in one of those games that you can throw in the faces of people who think there's no scoring in soccer. Going into the tournament final, FiveThirtyEight's forecasting model had the team's chances of winning at 67 percent. [FiveThirtyEight]
The U.S. Navy is extending to 18 weeks the amount of paid maternity leave available to female sailors and Marines. The Navy says about 5,000 women will be eligible each year. [Associated Press]
Health insurers are trying to crank up rates in states across the country. In Minnesota, Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans are pursuing an average 54 percent hike, but that's on the high end of the spectrum nationally. The proposed increases range from 20 percent to 40 percent or higher, according the The New York Times. State insurance regulators will have some ability to prevent such large increases from going into effect. [The New York Times]
Oxi! In a referendum, Greeks soundly rejected a bailout deal from the country's creditors that would have led to greater austerity measures. According to preliminary figures from the government, 61 percent voted "no" on the ballot measure. [Business Insider]
That's the number of federal inmates who have responded to the Obama administration's call for clemency applications. Over the next couple of weeks, President Obama may bring the total number of commutations he has granted during his presidency to more than 80 as he acts to reduce the sentences of some nonviolent drug offenders. [The New York Times]
A master of disguise pulled off a $75,000 heist from a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma. He dressed up as an armored truck driver, pretended to be at the store to pick up a gigantic pile of money, and then sped off in his Chevrolet Malibu. [News On 6]
Tanning beds — you know, that product that allows you to exchange your future skin health for not looking like a pasty cave-dwelling Excel power user at the beach — are on the decline. In 2013, about 1.6 million fewer women and 400,000 fewer men used tanning beds, compared with 2010. [New York Magazine]
Four weeks on, and "Jurassic World" is somehow still leading the weekly box office. That "Terminator" sequel failed to bring audiences back, and "Inside Out" has yet to overcome the timeless story of guys who probably should have been more cautious when making dinosaurs. [Bloomberg]
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