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UI Police officers honored with awards April 24
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Aaron Frederick will be honored as University of Illinois police officer of the year during a reception Wednesday afternoon hosted by the Division of Public Safety and held at the Levis Faculty Center in Urbana. Officer Doug Beckman will receive the Lifesaving Award for having helped administer CPR to a man who had […]
Graduate student wins fellowship in architectural history
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A University of Illinois graduate student in landscape architecture has been awarded a fellowship sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). Rachel Leibowitz, a first-year student in the UI Landscape History and Theory doctoral program, has won the Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship, which is given […]
Two seniors win prestigious Gates Scholarships to Cambridge
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Two University of Illinois seniors are among this years recipients of the prestigious Gates Cambridge Trust Scholarship. The merit-based scholarships, which are funded by an endowment from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle, were awarded to Harish Agarwal of Alsip, and Jennifer Ifft of Fairbury. The awards cover the full cost […]
Clarence Shelley to receive Chancellor’s Medallion
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Clarence Shelley, a former dean of students and associate vice chancellor, will receive the Chancellor’s Medallion today for his 33 years of exemplary service to the University of Illinois and the Champaign-Urbana community. The medallion, the third the UI has awarded, recognizes outstanding work on behalf of the campus. The award is given […]
Kaler’s latest book honored by Association of American Publishers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A University of Illinois astronomy professor has won an Association of American Publishers (AAP) annual award for his latest book on stars.S “Extreme Stars: At the Edge of Creation,” by Jim Kaler, received the 2001 award for excellence in the category of physics and astronomy from the AAP’s Professional/Scholarly Publishing division. The book, […]
Freshman honored for academic achievement, community involvement
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A University of Illinois student has received a scholarship from Lifetouch Inc., a photography company, for her academic achievement and community involvement. Jennifer Perko, a freshman in international studies, was awarded the 2001-2002 Richard P. Erickson scholarship. The $2,000 award is given annually to 15 college students who are children or grandchildren of […]
Doctoral students receive inaugural survey research awards
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Two University of Illinois doctoral students will become the first recipients of new dissertation awards bestowed by the UI Survey Research Laboratory in memory of two longtime faculty members. The Robert Ferber and Seymour Sudman Dissertation Awards will be given annually to UI doctoral candidates who achieve excellence in survey research as part […]
Graduate student in metalworking wins scholarship
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A University of Illinois graduate student in fine and applied arts has received a scholarship from the Society of North American Goldsmiths. Brooke Marks, a second-year graduate student in the metals program, was awarded a $1,000 Educational Endowment Scholarship for her college expenses. The scholarship is the highest award the society offers to […]
Junior wins grant for study in France
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The honor society of Phi Kappa Phi has awarded a UI student a grant to help defray study abroad program expenses. Erin Carlstrom, a junior in elementary education with a minor in art, received a Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant of $1,000. She is using the award money this semester to study […]
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities awards fellowships
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Six faculty members and six graduate students at the University of Illinois have been awarded fellowships to the UI’s Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for 2002-2003. Fellowships will support research over the coming academic year on projects that consider IPRHs new theme: “The South.” Fellows also will take part in the […]
UI physicist on symposium panel in Chicago for “Copenhagen” premiere
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. An emeritus professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who worked on the Manhattan Project will be a panelist at a free symposium for the premiere of the play “Copenhagen” in Chicago. As a young man, Albert Wattenberg worked under Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, who oversaw the first controlled […]
Works by four students selected for juried ceramics exhibition
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Artwork by four ceramics students in the University of Illinois School of Art and Design has been selected for inclusion in a juried exhibition. The UI students work will be exhibited at the Annual Student Competitive Exhibition, which coincides with the National Council on Education for the Ceramics. The exhibition will be on […]