PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 21, No. 7, Oct. 4, 2001

briefnotes

Psychological Services Center
Community Help Line available
A Community Help Line is available to help people in East Central Illinois process their reactions to the terrorist attacks and their aftermath.

Calls will be taken at 265-7200 between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Calls after office hours will be returned as soon as possible. All calls remain confidential.

The Psychological Services Center created the service. Professional staff, including clinical and community psychologists at the UI and in the Champaign-Urbana area, will be available to answer people's questions and share resources with individuals, as well as with schools, agencies and neighborhood organizations.

Geography department
Corps critic to speak Oct. 12
Donald C. Sweeney will give a lecture titled "My Experience in Opposing the Army Corps of Engineers" at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 12 in 219 Davenport Hall. Sweeney, a former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers economist, protested, first internally and later publicly, the Corp's reversal of his study's conclusions that a $50 million expansion of dams was not economically warranted.

Sweeney is now a visiting scholar at the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

The event, sponsored by the geography department, is free and open to the public.

Alumni Association
Message board on U.S. tragedy
The UI Alumni Association has created a Web site for the UI community to reconnect with each other and to inform each other about the welfare of fellow alumni, students and faculty members in the New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., areas.

The site address is www.uiaa.org/stayintouch.html. The site includes a link where individuals may post messages, a link to the postings themselves where you can read others' messages, and a link to an update page maintained by the Alumni Association that contains information it has received about those alumni and friends who died, were injured or are among the missing, as well as those who are involved in the continuing rescue and recovery efforts.

To contact the Alumni Association directly, e-mail alumni@uillinois.edu or call 333-1471.

Institutional and faculty international collaboration
International travel fund available
A limited travel fund for International Program Development will be available to all interested faculty and staff members.

The fund is designed to support international travel for faculty and staff members, enabling them to work abroad on projects that are likely to result in institutional development or enhancement of international programs. A maximum of $1,000 for each project can be awarded.

Matching funds, which can be from any institutional source, must be secured before international travel funds are awarded. A conditional award may be made if the applicant's request for matching funds from other sources is pending or in preparation. The deadline for this fall is Nov. 19.

The funds will be supplied by the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities Inc., the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, International Programs and Studies at the Urbana Campus, and the Office of External Education at the Chicago Campus.

Award guidelines and applications are available in the Office of Institutional and Faculty International Collaboration, 321 International Studies Building. For more information, call 333-1993, or e-mail a-ramsey@illinois.edu.

Center For Advanced Study
Human Genome lecture is Oct. 7
The Human Genome Project has now completed mapping and sequencing about 95 percent of the genome. This raises a new set of issues about an old set of problems, including the meaning of race, racially targeted pharmaceuticals and forensic science.

Troy Duster will talk about these problems in a lecture titled "Post-Genomics and the Concept of Race in Science: Tensions, Contradiction and Resolution" at 4 p.m. Oct. 7 in Illini Rooms A and B of the Illini Union.

Duster is the Chancellor's Professor and director of the American Cultures Center at the University of California at Berkeley and a professor of sociology at New York University.

For more information, call 333-6729 or consult www.cas.uiuc.edu.

Staff Service Recognition Program
Staff banquet is Oct. 22
The 2001 Staff Service Recognition Program will be Oct. 22 at the Illini Union. The reception begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Illini Union South Lounge and is followed by dinner and the program in the Illini Rooms.

A Web site for the Staff Service Recognition Program is accessible through the Personnel Services Office home page at www.pso.uiuc.edu/service. Retirees and service honorees are listed alphabetically by name, department or number of years served.

Guests should register for the banquet using the reservation form on the Web site no later than Oct. 12. Note: Those being honored at the banquet have received a separate invitation with an RSVP card for themselves and one guest; the Web site reservation form should be used by anyone else wishing to attend the banquet.

If you have questions regarding this year's program, call 333-3101.

Levis Faculty Center
Harvest-season celebration is Oct. 9
Levis Faculty Center Sponsors Inc. invites all faculty and staff members to celebrate the harvest season from 5 Ð7 p.m. Oct. 9 in Room 407 of Levis Faculty Center.

Hors d'oeuvres, prepared by Classic Events, will be served for $4. Beverage and cocktail service will be available. "Celebrate a Bountiful Harvest at Levis" provides a great opportunity for faculty and staff members to gather in an informal setting.

Got an idea?
Staff story ideas sought
Story ideas for Inside Illinois on staff members or staff-related topics may be submitted to the Editorial Committee, established by the Staff Advisory Council. Ideas may be sent to the following members:

• Lori Rushing, Molecular and Integrative Physiology 524 Burrill Hall, MC-114 lrushing@life.uiuc.edu
• Barbara Harned, Housing Division 331 Clark Hall, MC-548 b-harned@illinois.edu
• Cindi Norton, Foreign Languages Business Office 3072 Foreign Languages Building, MC-178 cpresnel@illinois.edu
• Tim Wood, Operation and Maintenance 1501 S. Oak, MC-823 txwood@illinois.edu
• Heidi Johnson, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access 107 Swanlund, MC-304 johnso19@illinois.edu
• Marnita Martin, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access 100 Swanlund, MC-304 marnitam@illinois.edu
• Kerrin Thompson, Personnel Services 150 Personnel Services, MC-562 kerrin@uillinois.edu
• Ronda Rigdon, Anthropology 109e Davenport Hall, MC-148 r-rigdon@illinois.edu

'Reclaiming the Congo and its Potential for Africa'
African colloquium is Oct. 11-13
Several scholars from the Democratic Republic of Congo will be among the participants discussing that nation's future during a colloquium at the UI Oct. 11-13.

The theme of the event, organized by the UI's Center for African Studies, department of linguistics and Center for Research on the Congo, is "Reclaiming the Congo and its Potential for Africa: The Role of the Congolese Intellectuals and Friends of DRC." Activities begin at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 11 in 101 International Programs and Studies Building with registration and a pre-conference workshop, "Visions for a Prosperous and Democratic Congo."

Also that day, Adam Hochschild, visiting lecturer in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, will give a Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm lecture at 4 p.m. at the Levis Faculty Center. His topic is "Background to Catastrophe: King Leopold II and Conquest of the Congo."

The keynote address will be presented at 9:20 a.m. Oct. 12 by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, United Nations Development Program, Abuja, Nigeria. The talk will take place in 407 Illini Union. Subsequent sessions and panel discussions, presented by scholars from the DRC and the United States, and by representatives of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, will be held in various locations at the Illini Union.

Registration information and a schedule of events is available on the Web at www.afrst.uiuc.edu/DRC.html.

Current affairs forum
U.S.-Russia forum is Oct. 13
As the world becomes an increasingly uncertain place, the United States needs to know who its allies are.

Yet, that's still not entirely obvious, as scholars and international policy and security experts will demonstrate as they debate "Putin's Russia Ð New Friend or Old Foe?" during a current affairs forum Oct. 13 at the UI.

"Can both sides bury history, especially now, and realize there are common overlapping interests?" asked Cliff Singer, the director of the UI's Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS). "Or is the history going to continue to drag us in our relations with Russia? That's the fundamental question of the forum, and it's a question on arms control, a question of cooperation on energy, and it's now a question of international diplomatic cooperation." Sponsors of the program are ACDIS, the Russian and East European Center, International Programs and Studies, and the European Union Center.

Among those bringing their unique perspectives to the discussion will be keynote speaker Gen. William Odom, former director of the National Security Agency from 1985-88. A senior fellow and director of national security studies at the Hudson Institute and author of "The Collapse of the Soviet Military," Odom will talk about "Determinants of U.S.-Russian Relations."

The forum also will feature a panel discussion chaired by Kieran Donaghy, director of the UIÕs E.U. Center. Closing remarks will be provided by Singer.

Singer, a professor of nuclear engineering, also will chair an ACDIS-sponsored workshop on multilateral nuclear disarmament, scheduled in conjunction with the forum, on Oct. 12. The workshop will focus on "Unblocking the Impasse on Nuclear Weapons." In that session, Singer plans to share knowledge gathered last spring while conducting workshops and meetings with international arms control authorities on diplomatic and security problems related to nuclear arms control in Annecy, France; Beijing; Geneva; London; New Delhi; Paris; and Washington, D.C. A report that documents the results of those meetings is available at www.acdis.uiuc.edu.

For more information on the current events forum and other activities, including times and locations, go to www.reec.uiuc.edu/forum01.htm.

The Survey Research Lab
Dissertation awards deadline
The Survey Research Laboratory is accepting applications for the Robert Ferber Dissertation Award and the Seymour Sudman Dissertation Award. Both awards recognize excellence in survey research as part of a doctoral dissertation. Eligible dissertations will involve either methodological research related to surveys, including the broader area of cognition that can be applied to survey research, or will be based on primary survey data collection on any topic.

An award of $2,400 will be given to the winner of each of the awards. All doctoral candidates on the Urbana campus are eligible, provided they have successfully defended their proposals prior to Nov. 1. Receiving or being considered for other awards does not preclude a student from applying for this award. Applications are due no later than Nov. 12. Awards will be made in early 2002. For more information, go to www.srl.uic.edu.

Second Sunday
Kirkland Trio to perform
The Kirkland Trio will perform music of Beethoven, Brahms and Alec Rowley during the WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert at 2 p.m. Oct. 14 in the West Gallery of the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. The concert, free and open to the public, also will be broadcast live on WILL-FM 90.9 (90.9/101.1 in Champaigh-Urbana) with host Brian Mustain.

Made up of Millikin University faculty members Georgia Hornbacker, violin; Amy Catron Flores, cello; and Judith Mancinelli, piano, the trio will play Beethoven's Piano Trio in E flat, Op. 1, No. 1; Alec Rowley's "A Short Trio on English Themes"; and Brahms' Trio in C major, Op. 87. The WILL-FM Second Sunday Concerts are a joint venture of WILL-FM, the UI School of Music and the Krannert Art Museum.