PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 21, No. 9, Nov. 1, 2001

brief notes

Chancellor’s Academic Professional Award
CAPE deadline is Nov. 16
The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2002 Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award is Nov. 16.

The award provides an opportunity to honor academic professionals who perform a wide range of critical functions for the UI campus community and beyond. These functions include advising, counseling and assisting students, faculty and staff members; providing critical administrative support services; and offering important outreach programs throughout the state.

Criteria, eligibility requirements and nomination procedures can be found at http://webster.uihr.uiuc.edu/ahr/cape/index.htm.

Any questions may be directed to Kathleen Pecknold, associate provost and director of Academic Human Resources at kpecknol@illinois.edu.

Campus Recreation
Mid-semester memberships for sale
Campus Recreation is offering mid-semester memberships valid through Jan.13. Membership privileges include use of all facilities, including four indoor pools, free lock and towel service, discounts on outdoor equipment rentals and adventure trips and clinics, eligibility for intramural sports, special rates for personal fitness training programs, daily guest sponsorship, and free admission to public ice-skating sessions.

For more information, visit Member Services in 140 IMPE or call 333-3510. A membership form is available at www.campusrec.uiuc.edu.

Environmental Council
Submissions for EH2002 sought
The Environmental Council is seeking research posters, artwork, performances and exhibits by agencies and environmental organizations for display at its annual universitywide conference, Environmental Horizons 2002, April 1 and 2.

Exhibits can include photographs, paintings, sculptures and written poetry. A limited number of performances will be selected. Performances that are no longer than 20 minutes in length can include music, dance, plays, poetry readings or slide shows or other artistic work that is best displayed live. Posters can include graphic representations of scientific research and outreach.

Art exhibits and performances submitted for this conference do not need to be complete at the time they are submitted. In addition, the pieces can be shown elsewhere or can be done specifically for the event. Applicants will be evaluated on environmental relevance.

Applications must be received by Feb. 1. The event will be held at the Illini Union. Visit www.environ.uiuc.edu/Horizons2002 for more details and application forms.

Division of Environmental Health and Safety
Oil-spill prevention seminars offered
The Division of Environmental Health and Safety is offering training seminars that deal with prevention and response to oil or fuel spills on campus. Annual training in spill prevention, required by law, is a key component of UI’s Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan.

Each one-hour session includes a brief introduction to the spill-prevention plan. The correct handling and disposal of oil and standard procedures to protect campus storm drains, streams and land areas from oil spills will be discussed. Common possible spill occurrences and actions to take after a spill also will be highlighted.

The seminars are open to students, staff and faculty members. Individuals who dispense or handle petroleum oil, fuel or cooking oil on campus are encouraged to attend.

Upcoming sessions:
o 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 6, Room 280 Noyes Lab
o noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 13, Room 253 Mechanical Engineering Building

To register, visit the DEHS Web site at www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~ecs/programs/train.htm. For more information, contact Vicki Ursitti at ursitti@illinois.edu, or call 265-0915.

UI graphic designer
Employee’s artwork featured
A reception celebrating the opening of two art shows by Michele Plante, graphic designer in the Office of Publications and Marketing, will be from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Boneyard Gallery, 403 S. Water St., Champaign. The shows, "Still Life With Architecture" and "Extended Family Portraits," will be on exhibit through Nov. 17 at the gallery. The shows feature works of glass, paint, charcoal, pastels on glass, wood and canvas.

Film discussion: ‘All God’s Children’
Ally Network to host meeting
The Ally Network will meet Nov. 2 to discuss the film "All God’s Children." The meeting will begin at noon in Room 406 Illini Union and will last until 1:30 p.m., with a break at 12:55 p.m. for those who need to leave early. Refreshments will be served. The group plans to continue the series with meetings on the first Friday of each month. For more information, contact the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Office at 244-8863.

CCSO
People needed for wireless survey
The Computing and Communications Services Office is sponsoring an online survey to assess the campus need for wireless services. Such services include wireless cards for laptop computers and Web-enabled electronic organizers.

The survey consists of general questions about equipment being used, how the respondent connects to campus and what wireless-based services would interest the user. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the survey.

Faculty and staff members, and students who complete and submit the survey by 5 p.m. Nov. 15 will be eligible for a drawing of Palm™ handhelds. A link to the survey and information on the rules and regulations is available at www.cso.uiuc.edu/docs/wireless/. For more information, e-mail wireless@commeng.cso.uiuc.edu.

Levis Faculty Center
Southern-style social is Nov. 6
Levis Faculty Center Sponsors Inc. invites faculty and staff members to attend a Southern-style social from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 6 on the third floor of Levis Faculty Center. Hors d’oeuvres, prepared by Classic Events, will be served for $4. Beverage and cocktail service also will be available.

UI Concert Choir featured
Veterans Day concert is Nov. 11
The UI Concert Choir, under the direction of Chester Alwes, will give a concert, "To Honor and Remember," during the Nov. 11 WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert on Veterans Day.

The public is invited to the 2 p.m. free concert in the West Gallery of the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. The performance will be broadcast live on WILL-FM 90.9 (101.1 in Champaign-Urbana) with host Roger Cooper.

The concert choir is a mixed chorus of 40-50 undergraduate students. Alwes, a UI professor of music, also is co-founder and music director of the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana.

The WILL-FM Second Sunday Concerts are a joint venture of WILL-FM, the UI School of Music and the Krannert Art Museum.

The Bureau of Educational Research
Ikenberry to speak Nov. 15
Stanley Ikenberry, UI president emeritus and regent professor of the College of Education, will give a lecture titled "Educational Organization and Leadership: Higher Education From a National Perspective" from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 15 in Room 242 Education Building.

Throughout his career Ikenberry has been a national leader for higher education. He has been on boards for the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Association of American Universities and the American Council of Education.

The seminar is presented by the Bureau of Educational Research.

International Council
Travel grants available
Research travel grants, available to tenure-track faculty members, will be offered by the International Council to be used in the summer of 2002 or parts of the 2001-2002 academic year. Financial support is available for a maximum of $4,000 per award.

Applications are due Nov. 26. Five awards are anticipated; recipients will be announced about Dec. 15.

The source of these funds is an endowment initiated by a grant from the Hewlett Foundation that was matched by private donations and university funds.

These grants are intended to fund travel and related expenses outside of the United States for purposes of international research, both basic and applied.

Research travel must be for a period of at least two weeks. Successful applicants must be employed at UI during the subsequent academic year, during which time recipients of grants will be expected to present results of their research travel in an appropriate forum.

For additional information and application forms, contact Becky Billman at 333-6104 or write to 303 International Studies Building, MC-480. More information also can be found at www.ips.uiuc.edu/ic/hewlettresearch/.

International Council
Conference grants available
The International Council has made money available to support small conferences involving leading experts on topics of current scholarly interest that have international content.

The source of these funds is an endowment initiated by a grant from the Hewlett Foundation that was matched by private donations and university funds.

The purpose of the funds is to foster conferences where six to eight leading figures in the selected area participate in presentations and discussions for two to three days on campus. Each participant will be expected to present an original paper, prepared and made available in advance of the conference and open to critique from others.

It is expected that the papers presented at the conference will be published or made available to the wider scholarly community.

Honoraria for presenting papers will not be supported by Hewlett funds. Any department, or combination of units, can submit proposals, but each proposal must include a funding plan that includes support from other sources (for example, Research Board, departmental units), and designate a person responsible for arrangements. Financial support is available to a maximum of $12,000 per award.

The deadline for proposal applications is 5 p.m. Nov. 26. Proposed conferences should be scheduled within the 2001-2003 academic years.

For additional information and for application forms, contact Becky Billman at 333-6104 or write to 303 International Studies Building, MC-480. More information is at www.ips.uiuc.edu/ic/hewlettconference/index.html.

New tax proposal to be discussed
Campustown meeting is Nov. 6
A public hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Council Chambers of the City Building, 102 N. Neil St., Champaign, to discuss a proposal by the city of Champaign Planning Department for funding improvements in campustown.

City planners are proposing that a tax district, known as the Campustown Special Service Area, be created and an additional tax be levied on properties within the new district to pay for constructing streetscaping. The proposed tax would be based upon a combination of equalized assessed valuation and footage adjacent to the public right of way.

The new taxing district would include properties along Green Street (from approximately 180 feet west of the Fourth and Green intersection east to the intersection of Wright and Green streets) and properties along Sixth Street from Healey to John streets.

The proposal is a result of the $4.5 million Campustown Infrastructure Reconstruction and Streetscape Project approved by the city council at its Sept. 25 study session. At that session, city planners said they were considering such a tax levy proposal to fund improvements such as benches, trees, flowerbeds and other amenities not covered by the city.

The city council has slated its Feb. 5 meeting for formally adopting the proposed special service area. Construction is expected to begin about March 11, with substantial completion expected by Aug. 28.

Property owners within the designated area and other members of the public are invited to the Nov. 6 hearing to voice their concerns. After the public hearing, voters and property owners have 60 days to file petitions to defeat the proposal. The ordinance can be defeated and cannot be reconsidered for two years if a petition is filed containing signatures from at least 51 percent of the property owners and at least 51 percent of the registered voters residing in the proposed special service area. If the waiting period elapses with no adequate objection being filed, the city council will be free to adopt the proposal.

Afro-American Studies and Research Program
Fall symposium is Nov. 13, 14
The Afro-American Studies and Research Program is sponsoring a fall symposium Nov. 13 and Nov. 14 titled "Black Identity Formation and Political Economy Across the African Diaspora."

James Stewart, professor of African studies, African-American studies, and of labor and industrial relations at Pennsylvania State University, will present "Racial Identity and Wealth Disparities: Comparing Strategies to Reduce Inequality" from noon to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at Afro-American Studies and Research Program Building.

There will be a panel discussion from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 13 at 180 Bevier Hall chaired by Leon Dash, UI Swanland Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Journalism. Flore Zephir, professor of romance languages at the University of Missouri at Columbia, will lecture on "Haitian Identity in the United States."

Additional presenters for the evening include: Helen Neville, UI professor of Afro-American studies and of education counseling psychology; Kwaku Korang, UI professor of English; Jean Allman, UI professor of history, of women’s studies and of African studies.

Stewart will give a presentation on "Long Cycles and the Economic Status of Black Americans: Lessons from the Past to Guide the Future" at 6 p.m. Nov. 14 in 180 Bevier Hall. Audrey Petty, UI professor of Afro-American studies and of English, will serve as chair for the panel discussion.

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, director of Afro-American studies at the UI and professor of history, will be a presenter for the evening. Dianne Pinderhughes, UI professor of Afro-American studies and of political science, and Todd Shaw, UI professor of political science, will be respondents.

For additional information, call 333-7781.