IN THIS ISSUE: Marching Illini to perform at Assembly Hall | Fundraiser is pet-centered costume party | Pet fish health is focus of workshop |UI All Employee Expo is Oct. 20 | CAPE awards now seeking nominations | SUCSAC election is Oct. 20 | Annual Chris Cringle Crafts Sale is Nov. 6-7 | Olympian Jean Driscoll to speak at YWCA celebration | Krannert to host Halloween concert | Event to promote your pet's health | President White to speak Oct. 15 | Ebertfest passes on sale Nov. 1 | Horse health event offered Oct. 24 | Professor teaches through dance | Brazil experts participate in discussion | Mumford House uses to be discussed | One Book One Campus book announced | Language workshop is Oct. 27-28 | Library hosts annual book sale Oct. 29 | Graduate education and the Illinois economy | Retirees, long-serving staff honored
Assembly Hall
Marching Illini to perform Oct. 18
The Marching Illini will present its annual Marching Illini in Concert at Assembly Hall at 3 p.m. Oct. 18.
The band is known nationally and internationally for its traditions and unique style. For more than 20 years the Marching Illini has entertained thousands in this concert. The group will perform halftime highlights, fan favorites and traditional music.
Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 the day of the concert. UI students, children under 12, groups and senior citizens will receive a discount of $2 per ticket. Tickets are available at the Assembly Hall box office, Ticket Central at the Illini Union or by phone, 333-5000.
As part of a survey project conducted jointly with CFO magazine, chief financial officers of 1,050 companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia were polled in December, asking whether their firms have been pinched by an ongoing credit crisis and how tight lending is affecting operations.
The study, co-written by finance professors John Graham and Campbell Harvey of Duks Fuqua School of Business, found stark contrasts between U.S. firms constrained by the financial crisis compared with those with easier access to credit.
Companion Animal Memorial Fund
Fundraiser is pet-centered costume party
Dress your pets in their spookiest Halloween costumes and let them strut their alter egos at the fourth annual Oskee “Boo” Wow masquerade from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 27 at the UI College of Veterinary Medicine.
Judges will select the best-dressed pets at the Oskee "Boo" Wow masquerade Oct. 27.
Judges will select the best-dressed pets. Among the panel of judges will be Kirby and Cindy Pringle, known for their humorous books filled with whimsical photographs of “dog people,” and WILL’s Mike Sola.
Hors d’oeuvres and wines will be served by Jim Gould, English Hedgerow and Piccadilly Wines. Other goodies will be provided by Cousins Dog Biscuit Co.
Registration is $50 a person and $10 a pet. To register, call 333-2761 or online.
Proceeds from the event will support the college’s Companion Animal Memorial Fund, which encourages veterinary education and benefits companion animal health through non-invasive research to improve treatment options.
Pet fish health
Workshop is Oct. 24-25
Veterinarians, certified veterinary technicians and fish enthusiasts can explore practical ways to keep pet fish healthy through an educational weekend with a leading veterinary expert.
Veterinarians, certified veterinary technicians and fish enthusiasts can explore practical ways to keep pet fish healthy through an educational weekend with a leading veterinary expert Oct. 24-25.
On Oct. 24 and 25, Mark A. Mitchell, a professor of veterinary medicine, will lecture on topics including fish anatomy, husbandry (water quality, filtration and diet), diseases of fish, diagnosis and treatment. There will be hands-on laboratories in fish anesthesia and diagnostic testing. The workshop will be held at the College of Veterinary Medicine. The program includes handout materials, continental breakfast and lunch both days.
Information is available at online or by calling 333-2907.
Information on benefits, services
UI All Employee Expo is Oct. 20
All employees of the UI are invited to attend the All Employee Expo on Oct. 20. Representatives from campus, community and affiliated organizations will provide information about benefits, services, programs and other related topics.
The event is hosted by Academic Human Resources, the Staff Advisory Council and Staff Human Resources. Employees must bring their i-cards to be admitted to the free event, which will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Illini Union Rooms A, B and C.
This is an approved event for civil service employees, who may take up to one hour to attend, operations permitting and with prior supervisory approval.
For more information go to http://go.illinois.edu/Expo.
Academic professionals
CAPE awards now seeking nominations
The Office of the Chancellor is seeking nominations for the 2010 Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence awards. The awards honor the contributions to the university of academic professionals.
The CAPE awards’ purpose, criteria, eligibility requirements and nomination procedures are explained online at www.ahr.illinois.edu/CAPE/index.htm.
The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. Oct. 30.
State Universities Civil Service Advisory Committee
Election date set for Oct. 20
All Civil Service employees, excluding temporary and extra help, are encouraged to vote Oct. 20 for a representative to the State Universities Civil Service Advisory Committee.
The polling place, in the southwest area of the Illini Union overlooking the Quad, will be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Voters must present a current i-card to vote. Candidate information can be viewed at www.shr.illinois.edu/Labor/SUCSS_Advisory_Committee.html.
Chris Cringle Crafts Sale
Holiday sale to be Nov. 6-7
Tickets are on sale now for the 30th annual Chris Cringle Crafts Sale to be at Assembly Hall from 3 to 9 p.m. Nov. 6 and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 7.
The sale is one of the Midwest’s largest craft shows, covering all three levels of Assembly Hall. It features more than 140 booths displaying a variety of handcrafted items by local and area artists.
Admission is $5 and includes parking and an entry for door prizes. Children under the age of 6 are free. Strollers and carts are welcome. Tickets are available at the Assembly Hall box office, Ticket Central at the Illini Union, or 333-5000.
YWCA celebrates 125 years
Olympian Jean Driscoll to speak Nov. 6
The YWCA is celebrating 125 years on the UI campus and will commemorate the milestone with a gala event Nov. 6 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign. Paralympics athlete Jean Driscoll will be the keynote speaker.
Started in 1884, the YWCA at the UI is now the oldest, continuously operating campus-based YWCA in the United States. Throughout its 125 years of service on campus, the YWCA has worked with students to demonstrate the organization’s mission of eliminating racism and empowering women.
Tickets for the event cost $55 per person and can be purchased by calling the YWCA at 344-0721. All proceeds will support women’s issues and racial justice programming at the YWCA.
Driscoll retired from her successful racing career following the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney. She works as the associate director of development for the College of Applied Health Sciences.
UI Symphony Orchestra
Krannert to host Halloween concert
If you’re haunting for a new Halloween witchual this year, UI music professor Elliot Chasanov has a suggestion: Attend the Illinois Brass Quintet’s sixth annual Halloween “Spooktacular” Oct. 31 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
This year’s event, hosted by WILL-FM’s Kevin Kelly, begins at 6:30 p.m. with a costume contest for children up to 12 years old in the Krannert lobby. The contest will be followed at 7:30 p.m. with a concert of appropriately spooky music performed by the ensemble and guest artists.
Chasanov conducts the quintet and plays trombone; other members of the group are Ronald Romm and Jake Walburn, trumpets; Thomas Jöstlein, horn; and Mark Moore, tuba. Joining them on stage will be the UI Graduate Brass Quintet.
Guest artists will include Don Schleicher, the director of the UI Symphony Orchestra, who will conduct the pair of quintets in Giovanni Gabrielli’s “Sonata Pian e Forte” and Chasanov’s arrangement of Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain.”
Among the program’s highlights will be a performance featuring Robert Graves, the dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, narrating “Animal Ditties,” by Anthony Plog, with the poetry of Ogden Nash. The performance also will feature the Yankee Ridge Dancers from Urbana’s Yankee Ridge School, directed by Betty Allen.
Tickets are available at the Krannert Center ticket office, 333-6282 or online at krannertcenter.com.
Pet U lessons
Event to promote your pet’s health
Pet U, coordinated by the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Companion Animal Resource and Education Center, will help pet owners keep their pets healthy and happy. Pet U is a series of classes offering practical information about the daily care of companion animals.
Classes are taught by UI Veterinary Teaching Hospital faculty or staff members, area veterinarians, or experts in the subject matter. Topics range from promoting good litter-box habits to learning fun exercises to do with your pets, maintaining your pet’s health during the winter and more.
Class sessions are from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on the second Monday of each month and are held at the Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital. To ensure a safe and effective learning environment, these classes are for people only; pets should be left at home.
Registration is $13 per class. Those registering two weeks in advance will receive a $5 discount. To register, call 333-2907, or register online at vetmed.illinois.edu/ope/petu/.
‘Brilliant Futures for America’s Children’
President White to speak Oct. 15
UI President B. Joseph White will speak on “Brilliant Futures for America’s Children” at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center at 7 p.m. Oct.15.
White’s speech is this fall’s Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program Lecture and the lead-off event for the Illinois Summit on Early Childhood and Healthy Beginnings, which will take place the next day. The summit will serve as a “call to action” on key policies and issues facing early childhood educators and child-care providers in promoting healthy development during the preschool years.
The evening lecture is free and open to the public and also will include remarks by Doris Kelley Christopher, founder and chairman of The Pampered Chef Ltd.
Roger Ebert’s Film Festival
Festival passes on sale Nov. 1
Festival passes will go on sale Nov. 1 for the 12th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival April 21-25 at the Virginia Theater and the UI.
Also known as Ebertfest, the festival features films selected by Ebert that he believes have been overlooked by audiences, critics or distributors.
The passes, which cover all 12 screenings during the five-day event, are $125. Passes can be purchased starting Nov. 1 through TicketWeb, by way of the festival Web site, www.ebertfest.com, or starting Nov. 2 through the theater box office, 356-9063. Tickets for individual movies will be available April 5.
Ebert, a 1964 Illinois journalism graduate, adjunct professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will again host the event.
The lineup of films, along with additional information on film-associated guests and other festival events, will be announced several weeks before the festival.
Sponsors and volunteers for the festival are being sought. Those interested should contact Mary Susan Britt at 244-0552, or by e-mail at marsue@illinois.edu.
UI Veterinary Hospital
‘Horse Health’ event offered Oct. 24
Horse owners can take advantage of discounted horse health packages at the UI Veterinary Teaching Hospital with appointments scheduled for the morning of Oct. 24.
This one-day event, called “Horse Health at Halloween,” offers three package options with various vaccines and exams available. In addition, participating clients who schedule an equine dental treatment for a later date will receive a 20 percent discount on those dental services, and the examination fee for the date of dental service will be waived.
The examinations by experienced equine veterinarians will be at the Large Animal Clinic.
For more information about the packages available or to schedule an appointment, call 333-2000.
Mahomet Aquifer Project
Professor teaches through dance
UI dance professor Jennifer Monson’s multi-year, multi-layered “Mahomet Aquifer Project” will continue throughout the community until Oct. 18. The series of free dance performance and public-engagement activities is organized through Monson’s interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance.
The dancers, who include Kyli Kleven, Stephen May, Amy Swanson and Stephen West, will perform at 5 p.m. Oct. 16 on the northeast terrace of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
The remaining performances in the series will take place in area parking lots. From 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 17, the group will dance at the Market at the Square, the farmer’s market at Lincoln Square Village. From 2 – 4 p.m. Oct. 18, they will perform near the railroad tracks on the east side of Neil Street, between Williams and Charles streets in Champaign.
A mobile gallery also will be at some locations. The gallery will exhibit new-media images of the geology of the Mahomet Aquifer as well as the molecular behavior of water, in an effort to enhance viewers’ understanding of society’s dependence on water and its local sources.
Monson, an internationally acclaimed artist with a commitment to environmental issues, creates what she calls “contexts for unexpected collaboration.” The Mahomet Aquifer Project, which had its first public performances in 2008, is designed to demonstrate the ways in which residents in East Central Illinois communities are dependent on the aquifer as a water source. The project, she said, is based on discussions with researchers from the Illinois Water Survey, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the UI’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
For more information about the program, go to http://mahometaquifer.wordpress.com/.
Lemann Institute inauguration
Brazil experts participate in discussion
Six internationally known experts on Brazil will take part in a discussion Oct. 15 on “Brazil’s Rising Status in the 21st Century” as part of the inauguration of the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at the UI.
The discussion, to begin at 3 p.m. in the auditorium (Room 1122) of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, will be followed by an inauguration ceremony at 5 p.m. and a reception at 5:30 p.m. The ceremony and reception will be in the first-floor atrium of the NCSA Building. All events are free and open to the public.
The institute is under the auspices of the campus’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and International Programs and Studies.
Brazilian entrepreneur Jorge Paulo Lemann and his family pledged $14 million to the UI in February to establish the institute. The gift is the largest ever to Illinois from non-alumni. The institute will build on existing programs and initiatives related to Brazil to create one of the leading Brazilian studies programs in the nation.
For more information about the event, go to www.clacs.illinois.edu/brazilian/.
Public meeting
Mumford House uses to be discussed
A public planning meeting has been scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 20 to discuss the future uses of the Mumford House at 1403 W. Lorado Taft Drive. The meeting will be in the Monsanto Room of the ACES Library, Information and Alumni Center.
The meeting will begin with a formal presentation by the UI’s selected restoration architects/engineers from Vinci Hamp Architects Inc., of Chicago, describing the present condition of the building and its components.
Those who have prepared a presentation or want to make public comments will be allowed to do so, but will be limited to no more than five minutes each. Breakout sessions or brainstorming will follow.
Afternoon sessions will include team presentations and a discussion of the pros and cons of presented ideas. The sessions will conclude with announcements of next steps in the process.
For more information, contact Melvyn Skvarla, campus historic preservation officer, at 265-6133 or mskvarla@illinois.edu.
One Book One Campus
Book by UI alumnus selected
“Acts of Faith,” by UI alumnus Eboo Patel, has been selected as the One Book One Campus book selection for the 2009-2010 academic year.
The program, sponsored by the Illini Union, provides a shared experience for the UI campus community through reading the same book. Community members have the opportunity to engage in dialogue and explore various themes suggested by the reading. Through lectures, book discussions and other activities, students, staff, faculty and the campus community can learn about themselves through others.
Patel is the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, an international nonprofit organization building the interfaith youth movement. More information is available at www.union.illinois.edu/involvement/oboc. For additional program information, contact Franne Davis, 244-1522, or fadavis@illinois.edu, or Scott Baseler, 244-2118, or sbaseler@illinois.edu.
‘Teaching Greek as a Second Language’
Language workshop is Oct. 27-28
Those interested in less commonly taught languages may take advantage of a new two-day workshop, “Teaching Greek as a Second language,” with a pre-workshop session on “Minority Languages in Greece.”
Guests from Ohio State University, University of Thessaloniki, University of California at San Diego and University of Cyprus, among others, will lead the workshop program, which takes place Oct. 27 and 28.
The pre-workshop will start at 6 p.m. on Oct. 27 in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of The Foreign Languages Building and the rest of the workshop will continue from 1 - 5 p.m. on Oct. 28. It is sponsored by the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, the department of linguistics, the Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, and the European Union Center.
For more information, contact Marina Terkourafi, mt217@illinois.edu.
UI Main Library
Annual book sale is Oct. 29
The Library will hold its annual book sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Marshall Gallery within the main Library (on the main floor, east entrance).
Materials will include books, audiovisual materials, prints and more. All proceeds help support the library’s collections. A $3 bag sale begins at 3 p.m.
For more information, go to www.library.illinois.edu/booksale.
IAGS 2009 fall conference
Graduate education and the economy
The Graduate College will host the 2009 fall conference, sponsored by the Illinois Association of Graduate Schools, Oct. 25-26 in Champaign.
Illinois’ Robert Resek and Walter McMahon will speak at the event to offer the economists’ views.
Guest speaker George E. Walker will join the conference as well. Walker is the senior vice president for research development and graduate education and the dean of the University Graduate School at Florida International University in Miami.
The conference will take place at the iHotel and Conference Center in Champaign. Registration for graduate administrators and faculty members is $130; graduate students may register for $45. For registration and more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/IAGS2009.
Service Recognition Banquet
Retirees, long-serving staff honored
Long-service and retiring staff members will be honored at the annual Service Recognition Banquet on Nov. 10. The banquet begins at 6 p.m. in Illini Union Rooms A, B and C.
To find out who is being honored and to make reservations, go to the Staff Human Resources Web site at www.shr.illinois.edu/service.
The online form should be used by anyone who wishes to attend the banquet who is not an honoree. Reservations should be made by Oct. 19. Honorees plus one guest may attend the banquet for free, and have received a separate invitation with an RSVP card.
For questions regarding this year’s program, call 333-3101.
