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MCORE improvements on schedule to start this fall
Multimodal Corridor Enhancement Project transportation improvements are on schedule to begin this fall. The scale of this infrastructure work on key corridors will have significant traffic impacts including detours and street closures during construction. Updated project timelines and associated information will be provided beginning in late summer 2016. A partnership between the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit […]
FY17 Benefit Choice is May 1-31
University of Illinois employees are reminded that if they wish to make changes to their health, dental, state optional life, dependent coverage or re-enroll in the flexible spending plans, these changes must be made using NESSIE, the university’s online self-service benefits application. All changes must be made by midnight May 31 and will be effective […]
Killeen statement on stopgap funding agreement
Dear colleagues: Today, the Legislature approved a bipartisan measure that will provide stopgap funding for the University of Illinois and the state’s other public universities, and the governor has expressed his support for the bill. While we are grateful that partial funding will be restored, we see the agreement as only a beginning, not the […]
On the Job: Terry Free
In need of a classroom for an event or review session? Terry Free, an office manager for the Office of the Registrar, has got you covered. He handles the academic event scheduling for the campus, which involves finding space in general-assignment classrooms for everything except classes. “It’s a very much behind-the-scenes kind of job,” […]
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 […]
NCSA’s Advanced Visual Lab contributed to IMAX 3-D film ‘A Beautiful Planet’
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the U. of I. is helping produce movie magic with cinematic scientific visualization. The Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA recently worked on “A Beautiful Planet,” the latest 3-D space documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Toni Myers and IMAX Entertainment, made in cooperation with NASA, which premiered in New York […]
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, […]