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History professor wins Guggenheim Fellowship for work on UI physicist
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – University of Illinois history professor Lillian Hoddeson has been selected to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, an annual award that recognizes outstanding accomplishments and future potential for achievement. Hoddeson was nominated for her work chronicling the life and science of physicist John Bardeen, a two-time Nobel Prize winner and UI professor of physics […]
Engineering students honored at annual convocation
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Six University of Illinois College of Engineering students and a recent graduate were honored Friday (April 7) at the 36th annual Engineering Awards Convocation for their achievements in and out of the classroom. The recipients and their awards: • Daniel Therriault won the Henry Ford II Scholar Award. The Ford Award is […]
Fourteen engineering faculty members honored for excellence
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Fourteen faculty members of the University of Illinois College of Engineering were honored Friday (April 7) at the 36th annual Engineering Awards Convocation for their excellence in research and teaching. The winner of the Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, which recognizes faculty members who have received national or […]
Four alumni honored by College of Engineering
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Four alumni of the University of Illinois College of Engineering were honored Friday (April 7) at the 36th annual Engineering Awards Convocation. Each year the college recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding alumni and former faculty members with the Alumni Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Engineering. The award honors leadership, contributions to […]
Police captain honored with Moms Association’s Medallion
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Mothers Association’s Medallion of Honor will be presented to Capt. Krystal Fitzpatrick of the UI police department at a Moms Day tea scheduled for Saturday (April 8). The tea will be from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at Campbell Hall, 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana. Since 1977, the medallion has been given […]
Phi Eta Sigma initiates 981 UI freshmen
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, a national scholastic honorary society for freshmen, initiated 981 members at a campus ceremony this spring. The initiates are UI students who have earned a minimum 3.5 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale in either their first semester, or first and second semesters […]
Four UI students to receive Goldwater Scholarships
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Four University of Illinois students will receive the Goldwater Scholarship, which is awarded to undergraduate students who excel in the study of mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. This year’s scholarship recipients are David A. Fike, Benjamin R. Marks, Jared J. Mehl, and Erik R. Stauffer Fike is majoring in physics and […]
UI to honor student employees April 7 as part of national recognition
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – An award ceremony to honor student employees of the year is scheduled for 3 to 5 p.m. April 7 in the General Lounge of the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana. The ceremony is being held by the student employment unit of the Office of Student Financial Aid to celebrate National […]
Historian Orville Vernon Burton named Carnegie Scholar
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Orville Vernon Burton, a history and sociology professor at the University of Illinois, has been selected as a Carnegie Scholar in the Pew National Fellowship Program. Burton was selected not only for his classroom practices, but also for “the character and depth of student learning that results from that practice.” This is […]
Four engineering professors elected to National Academy of Engineering
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Four University of Illinois professors were chosen as members of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors an engineer can receive. Tamer Basar, the Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; David Daniel, a professor and head of civil and environmental engineering; Richard DeVor, […]
Swanlund Chairs named
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Five University of Illinois professors have been chosen as Swanlund Chairs, the highest endowed title that can be awarded to a UI professor. The endowed appointments, made possible by a gift from alumna Maybelle Leland Swanlund, are given to people who have made outstanding contributions in their fields. Selected as the newest […]
Fourteen awarded fellowships to study cities
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Cities can be many things to many people: They are centers of culture, architectural marvels and sometimes even catalysts of decay – in short, they capture the world at its best and at its worst. For that reason, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities chose “Cities” as its theme for […]