PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 22, No. 5, Sept. 5, 2002

brief notes

NESSIE knows!
Notification of Appointment online
Budgeted academic employees will receive their 2002/2003 Notification of Appointment on the NESSIE (Net-driven Employee Self-Service and Information Environment ) Web site at http://nessie.uihr.uillinois.edu. (After logging in, go to the "Your File" section of the site.)

Only academic staff members who are new or who receive a major position change or a notice of non-reappointment will receive a paper copy of their notification of appointment.

For assistance with NESSIE on the Web, go to "3 Easy Steps for Accessing NESSIE" at http://nessie.uihr.uillinois.edu/steps/.

School of Art and Design
Saturday art classes for kids
The School of Art and Design is offering Saturday art classes for children.

"Making Art Together" is for children between the ages of 2 1/2 to 4 1/2 years and one parent. Classes will be Saturdays from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. or from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuition is $125 per semester.

Saturday classes also are being offered for students from preschool/kindergarten (minimum age 4 1/2) through high school. Registration fee is $75.

Both classes will meet for 11 sessions beginning Sept. 7.

For more information or to enroll in either class, contact Carole Smith, 333-1652 or e-mail cssmith2@illinois.edu.

3-6 p.m. Sept. 19
University YMCA hosts open house
The University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign, is hosting an open house from 3 to 6 p.m., Sept. 19. Free tours will be offered and light refreshments served. For more information, call 337-1514.

WILL-TV and WILL-AM (580)
Candidate forums announced
WILL-TV and WILL-AM will give viewers and listeners an opportunity to hear candidates discuss critical state and community issues when "Election 2002" candidate forums air Thursday nights during September and October.

WILL-TV will air the forums live from the WILL-TV studios, with WILL-AM (580) simulcasting the audio on-air and on the WILL AM-FM-TV Web site at www.will.uiuc.edu. WILL-TV’s John Paul will moderate the forums, which will include a call-in segment.

The schedule of forums is available on the WILL Web site. September forums: 7 p.m. Sept. 5: 55th Illinois Senate District, Dale Righter (R) and Steve Thomas (D); 7 p.m. Sept. 12: 44th Illinois Senate District, Bill Brady (R) and Gerald Bradley (D); 7 p.m. Sept. 19: 110th Illinois House District, Chapin Rose (R) and John Hayden (D).

WILL-AM will repeat the programs at 3 p.m. the Saturday following each Thursday forum. At 5 p.m. Sundays, beginning in mid-September, WILL-AM will air in-depth interviews with candidates for Illinois governor, U.S. Senate, Illinois attorney general, and for the 15th and 19th districts of the U.S. House of Representatives. Check the WILL Web site in September for the schedule.

Performance schedule announced
WILL-FM ‘Second Sunday’ season
The 14th season of WILL-FM’s "Second Sunday Concerts" will open at 2 p.m. Sept. 8, with a performance by UI tuba professor Mark Moore. Moore will perform with Fritz Kaenzig, tuba; Maureen Reagan, euphonium; and Ken Steinsultz, euphonium.

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

A shuttle service will be provided by the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District from Campbell Hall to Krannert Art Museum on Sept. 8 and Nov. 10, because those dates coincide with Chicago Bears’ games at Memorial Stadium. The Sept. 8 shuttle bus will leave Campbell Hall at 1:15 p.m. and return to Campbell Hall after the concert. Parking will be available in UI lots east and north of Campbell Hall.

For a complete list of "Second Sunday" concerts, go to WILL’s Web site at www.will.uiuc.edu.

Fall welcome meeting Sept. 9
Women’s Club hosts meeting
The UI Women’s Club, open to both male and female faculty and staff members, is hosting a fall sign-up meeting to welcome new members and allow people to register for interest groups. The meeting is from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sept. 9 at Lincoln Square Mall, Urbana. The event is free.

More information about upcoming meetings and interest groups is available at http://wc-uiuc.prairienet.org/ or from Diane Dold, dold@illinois.edu or 344-3578.

Scholarly communication
Library’s e-Newsletter offered
Faculty and staff members may sign up to receive "Scholarly Communication Issues," the University Library’s electronic newsletter that focuses on current trends shaping academia. Distributed every one to two weeks, it addresses topics such as e-publishing and includes links to reports, magazines and other resources. For subscription information and to view previous issues, go to: www.library.uiuc.edu/administration/subscribe_instructions.htm.

English as an International Language
English program available
Adults who have a low to intermediate English proficiency and who are not UI students may apply for the Special English Class to be offered by the UI Division of English as an International Language.

The 10-week course will begin Oct. 1. Classes meet from 1-2:50 p.m., Monday through Thursday. The fee is $50.

Enrollment is limited; priority will be given to those who appear most likely to benefit from the course.

Placement tests will be from 1-2 p.m., Sept. 17 or 19 in G-11 Foreign Languages Building. To take the test on one of these dates, sign up at 3070 Foreign Languages Building or call 333-1506.

Gift honors inventor
ECE to receive bust of Nikola Tesla
On behalf of his pupils, an elementary schoolteacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., will present a bust of inventor Nikola Tesla to the department of electrical and computer engineering at 3 p.m. Sept. 10 in Room 167 Everitt Laboratory.

In 1983, John Wagner came across a biography of Tesla, who developed the first practical methods for utilizing alternating current. Wagner then encouraged pupils in his English composition classes at the Summers-Knoll Elementary School to campaign to make people more aware of Tesla’s many contributions to science. Tesla, who had 111 inventions patented, died in 1943 at age 86.

Wagner and his pupils have collected contributions for busts of Tesla to be placed in universities across the country. The University of Illinois will be the 10th university to receive a Tesla bust.

"Sacred Dance and Music for World Peace"
Tibetan monks return to campus
A return visit of Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery is planned for Sept. 6. The visit is part of their "2002 North American Tour, Sacred Dance and Music for World Peace."

The monks will perform a choral prayer at Krannert Art Museum in the 20th Century Gallery at 4 p.m. The sand mandala that they created during their spring visit is on view in the museum’s Asian Gallery. The monks also will give a 7:30 p.m. performance of sacred music and dance at Smith Memorial Hall. Both events are open to the public without charge.

For information about Krannert Art Museum hours and current exhibitions, visit www.art.uiuc.edu/kam/.

"Indigenous Music Cultures"
Ethnomusicology lecture announced
Beverley Diamond, professor of music and folklore at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, will speak about "Indigenous Music Cultures in an Interconnected World" at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in Room 407 of the Levis Faculty Center. The lecture is the second annual Bruno and Wanda Nettl Distinguished Lecture in Ethnomusicology.

The lecture series, sponsored by the Division of Musicology of the School of Music, was established by Professor Emeritus Nettl and his wife in 2001.

Office of Volunteer Programs
Projects to honor 9/11 victims
Members of the UI’s Urbana campus community can pay tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks while serving others through an initiative being offered by the Office of Volunteer Programs (OVP).

The Unity in the Spirit of America (USA) Initiative is a national endeavor to organize volunteer service projects in honor of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. The initiative was suggested by a group of victims’ family members who felt community service projects would be appropriate for memorializing those who perished and promoting healing throughout the country.

Projects must be registered with OVP by Oct. 21 and completed between Sept. 11 and Dec. 13.

For more information or to register a project, contact the Office of Volunteer Programs, 277 Illini Union, at 333-7424 or by e-mail at ovp@illinois.edu.

The USA Initiative was part of the USA Act signed into law by President Bush in January and is sponsored by the Points of Light Foundation.

CCSO and CET merge
CITES sites and where to find them
On April 3, Chief Information Officer Peter Siegel announced the formal integration of the Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO), the Center for Educational Technology (CET), and the Office of the Chief Information Officer. The new organization is called Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES).

The most immediate impact of the reorganization is that certain Web pages and hostnames have moved from cet.uiuc.edu or cso.uiuc.edu to cites.uiuc.edu. For example, the old CCSO Web page is now www.cites.uiuc.edu and CET’s Blackboard is now reached at http://blackboard.cites.uiuc.edu. Wherever possible, there will be a transition period during which the old URL or hostname will still be active. To avoid potential confusion later, update your bookmarks and other references to point to the new name.

If you’re not sure whom to call when you need help using CITES services, contact the CITES Help Desk (244-7000 or consult@illinois.edu). Consultants will answer desktop computing and networking questions or connect you to someone who can.

Support group holds first meeting of year
Ally Network to meet Sept. 6
The Ally Network will host its first meeting of the academic year from noon to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 6 in Room 405 Illini Union. The Ally Network is a group of faculty and staff members who provide support and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students.

The first meeting will be organizational and informational. New members are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Jane Reid at 333-3704.

CAS/MillerComm
Lecture series announced
Food security, climate change, urban sprawl and alternatives to prisons — as well as the physics of dance and the social history of the bagel.

These and other topics will be the subjects of discussion this fall in the Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm lecture series at the UI. Talks are free and open to the public.

A complete schedule as well as more information about speakers and their topics is available on the Center for Advanced Study Web site (www.cas.uiuc.edu) or by calling the CAS Events Line, 333-1118. (Or browse the "Inside Illinois" calendar, page 8.)

"The Independent Family Newspaper in America"
Journalism symposium is Sept. 8-10
The number of independent family-owned newspapers has rapidly declined in recent years as corporate chains have increased their holdings. What that and other recent trends mean for journalism, for communities, and for democracy will be the focus of a symposium Sept. 8-10.

The symposium, "The Independent Family Newspaper in America: Its Future and Relevance," will take place at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Participants will include prominent names from all sides of the issue.

The symposium commemorates the 150th anniversary of Champaign’s independent newspaper, the News-
Gazette, along with the 75th anniversary of Illinois’ College of Communications. The event is sponsored by the paper and its owner-publisher, Mrs. Marajen Stevick Chinigo, and by the college’s department of journalism.

The various talks and panel discussions are open to the public. For more information, see www.conted.uiuc.edu/newspaper or call 333-2880.

‘Living With Fire’ week
National effort aimed at students
In an effort to better educate students and campuses about fire safety, fire departments nationwide will be participating in "Living With Fire" week Sept. 16-20.

At the UI, the message firefighters hope to impart is simple: Learn how to prevent fires and learn how to escape from one.

Among the joint projects the Champaign and Urbana fire departments have planned include observing fire drills at the Sherman and Florida Avenue residence halls and, if need be, suggesting how the evacuations might be done better; training students on how to handle and use fire extinguishers in the case of a lab accident; and distributing "Get Out & Stay Alive" instructional videos and pamphlets to the presidents of all certified housing units.

Noyes Lab
Centennial celebration is Sept. 13-14
The centennial celebration of the construction of Noyes Laboratory will take place on Sept. 13 and 14. The two-day symposium will feature talks and a special dedication ceremony.

On Sept. 13 at 3:45 p.m., Steven L. Miller, chief executive officer of Shell Oil Co. and a UI alumnus, will present the inaugural Parr Lecture, "Crucible of Change" in Room 100 Noyes Laboratory.

Representatives of the American Chemical Society will recognize Noyes Laboratory as a National Chemical Landmark on Sept. 14 at 9 a.m. The event will take place on the Quad outside Noyes Laboratory. Following the ceremony, Steve Zumdahl, director of the UI general chemistry program and author of a best-selling chemistry textbook, will give a lecture titled "General Chemistry, Past, Present and Future" in Room 100 Noyes Laboratory.

When built in 1902, Noyes Laboratory was the single, largest chemical laboratory in the world, and the first interdisciplinary research institute in chemistry. The invention of the aerosol can, discovery of the first synthetic sweetener, and the development of magnetic resonance as a chemical tool were made at Noyes Laboratory.

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