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Since 1989, Postmarks has delivered the news on campus to the parents of undergraduates at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. It is published each spring and fall semester by the News Bureau | Public Affairs. The paper is distributed by U.S. mail to the parents' homes.

STAFF
Editor: Mare Lehnherr Payne
mlpayne@illinois.edu, 217-333-0567

WRITERS (News Bureau Staff)
Liz Ahlberg, eahlberg@illinois.edu
Craig Chamberlain, cdchambe@illinois.edu
Phil Ciciora, pciciora@illinois.edu
Sharita Forrest, slforres@illinois.edu
Mike Helenthal, mhelenth@illinois.edu
Dusty Rhodes, rhodes8@illinois.edu
Diana Yates, diya@illinois.edu


Current Issue

Amelia Lee shaves cane

SPRING 2013 | pdf


Amelia Lee wasn’t sure she wanted to attend the University of Illinois. As a serious oboist, her idea of college was an arts institution such as Oberlin Conservatory or the Manhattan School of Music. Her mother, however, wanted Lee to get a more well-rounded education, and with a top-10 ranked music school, the U. of I. suited them both. So Lee came to Urbana to audition for oboe professor John Dee, an internationally known performer and conservatory-caliber coach.
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Archived Issues

GAMES participants

FALL 2012


"Girls rock!" Landria "Landi" Lark shouted over the chatter of a dozen high school girls and the whirring of coaster-sized robotic cruisers.
"Yes, we do!" came the answering chorus. Conversation and motors suddenly stilled.
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Julie Honegger

SPRING 2012


Life – and career – lessons can take many forms. For seven UI undergraduates, a hands-on engineering collaboration with peers in South Africa – with weekend excursions to some of the most exotic locales on the planet – offered just about all of them.
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John Rynecki

FALL 2011


It was the final game of the Urbana Park District basketball season, and Jordan Morris’ motley crew of third- and fourth-grade boys (at right) was winning. He watched them dribble, pass and deploy the pump fake and the jab step – moves he and his friends had taught them at practice – to almost double their opponent’s score.
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