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LED panels light up set for Lyric Theatre production of ‘Kiss Me Kate’
U. of I. graduate student Anson Woodin (Fred/Petruchio) is on the set April 19 during a rehearsal of “Kiss Me Kate” in the Tryon Festival Theatre at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The Lyric Theatre at Illinois production premieres at 7:30 p.m. April 21, with other performances scheduled at 7:30 p.m. April 22 and […]
Georgian prime minister – an Illinois alumnus – to visit Urbana campus April 27
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Giorgi Kvirikashvili, the prime minister of the country of Georgia and a 1998 master’s degree graduate in finance from the University of Illinois, will speak on campus April 27. He will make remarks and take questions at 4:45 p.m. in the Deloitte Auditorium of the Business Instructional Facility, 515 E. Gregory Drive, […]
Open letter about NTFC strike
Dear Members of the Campus Community: The Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition (NTFC) has organized a strike that began this morning. The picketing is localized to the English Building and we are told the strike will continue through tomorrow. Although we continue to believe a strike is not in the best interests of our specialized faculty members, […]
Report offers insights into Illinois students’ success after graduation
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Analysis of a first-ever campuswide survey of recent Illinois graduates provides extensive information on where those students ended up after college. Released today, the Illini Success initiative invited 7,701 bachelor’s degree recipients in 2014-15 from nine Urbana campus academic schools or colleges to participate. Combining the survey with other methods of collecting […]
U. of I. researchers help discover ‘dark galaxy’
Researchers have uncovered the existence of a dwarf “dark galaxy” lurking nearly 4 billion light-years away from Earth. The discovery was made when a team of researchers, including astronomers at the University of Illinois, using the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, noticed subtle distortions in the image of gravitational lens […]
IPRH–Andrew W. Mellon Bio-Humanities Fellowships, new research group announced
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities / ncastro@illinois.edu The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has awarded its inaugural 2016-18 IPRH-Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Bio-Humanities and its 2016–17 IPRH-Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in Bio-Humanities. Led by Samantha Frost, the IPRH-Mellon Faculty Fellow in […]
Krannert Art Museum galleries to close during summer renovations
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Krannert Art Museum will act on its multiyear commitment to transform galleries and other public spaces by renovating four main-floor galleries this summer. As a result, the museum will close to the public after the final day of its spring semester exhibition calendar, May 15. The Rosann Gelvin Noel Gallery and Annex, […]
Digitization project finds anthrax samples in collections
Champaign, Ill. – When anthrax became a household name in 2011, even curators of some herbaria were unaware that samples of Bacillus anthracis, the source of anthrax, had been housed in their microfungal collections for more than a hundred years. Recently, a digitization project at the Illinois Natural History Survey at the Prairie Research Institute […]
Events celebrate Illinois’ history as a top producer of Fulbright scholars
The University of Illinois has a history of Fulbright success, ranking as a Top Producer of Fulbright students nationally for the past six years. To capitalize on this momentum, the National and International Scholarships Program is partnering with several campus units to create the first Illinois Fulbright Week, offering a range of programming that both […]
March 2016 the 10th-warmest March on record in Illinois
Champaign, Ill. – March 2016 was the 10th-warmest March on record with an average temperature of 46.5 degrees, 5.2 degrees above normal. Illinois was not alone; essentially the entire U.S. was warmer than normal in March, according to Illinois State climatologist Jim Angel of the Illinois State Water Survey at the University of Illinois. March is […]
Faculty/Staff Emergency Fund seeks donations
Crisis knows no season. And for as little as $5 per month – about the cost of one large gourmet coffee or a deluxe fast-food burger – you can make a difference in the life of a co-worker. Perhaps it will be a staff member who is critically ill but doesn’t have enough benefit time […]
Former U. of I. police chief remembered as great leader
Former University of Illinois police chief Paul Dollins is being remembered as a leader in law enforcement, a community builder and a great friend. Dollins, 81, died March 30 in Urbana. After serving in the U.S. Army, working briefly as a teacher and later as a narcotics investigator downstate, Dollins started at the U. of […]