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Snapshot of the New Orleans recovery efforts
Rob Olshansky is a professor and the associate head of the department of urban and regional planning. His teaching and research focus on land use and environmental planning, with an emphasis on planning for natural hazards. He has written extensively on post-disaster recovery planning, and studied the topic during a recent sabbatical year at Kyoto […]
Hit film adaptations for young audiences a ‘mixed blessing’ expert says
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – What’s not to like about today’s youth films, titles like “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?” Adapted from respected novels for children, the PG and PG-13 titles, respectively, have a lot going for them: They are not only enjoying huge box-office receipts, but between them are […]
Author Andrei Codrescu to visit U. of I., celebrate gift to campus library
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Andrei Codrescu, a social critic and radio commentator, is coming to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to open and celebrate the Andrei Codrescu Collection. A prolific poet, novelist and essayist, Codrescu gave his collection of hundreds of Romanian books, periodicals and other materials – many of them rare – to the […]
Women’s and Gender History symposium to focus this year on ‘mobility’
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The seventh annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History will take place March 9-11 (Thursday to Saturday) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Most sessions of the event, which is free and open to the public, will be in the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana. The symposium, sponsored […]
Research on minority stars for Baseball Hall of Fame a revelatory process
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – One of the 12 people who will vote in a historic special election for Negro League inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Feb. 27 says that the research involved in choosing the candidates changed history. Researching the names, stories and statistics for black and Latino ballplayers who the nominating […]
Grant, gifts enable U. of I. Library to preserve endangered materials
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Thousands of endangered materials spanning at least seven centuries will be rescued at the Library of the University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign. A $700,000 preservation grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and contributions of $1.4 million from more than 1,000 “Library Friends” will support the preservation of the at-risk works. The […]
Scholar to lecture on African-American children’s literature
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The second annual Gryphon Lecture will be given by a pioneer in children’s literature, Rudine Sims Bishop. Bishop’s talk, which is free and open to the public, begins at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 23 (Thursday) in Room 126 of the Library and Information Science Building, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign. Her topic is […]
Many new immigrants to U.S. change diet — and not for the better
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Coming to the land of milk and honey can be hazardous to new immigrants’ diet and health. So says Ilana Redstone Akresh, a visiting professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of a new analysis of dietary assimilation and immigrant health. In her study, Akresh considered […]
Research project spotlights African-American architects from U. of I.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – After Rodney Howlett graduates from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master’s degree in architecture, he hopes to return to his home base near St. Louis to design churches. In the meantime, he’s devoted countless hours to collaborating on the design of a Web site aimed at spreading a different […]
Carr Authors Series to feature honored writers across genres
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Five prize-winning writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry will read from their works this semester at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The writers are taking part in the Carr Visiting Authors Reading Series, an event of the English department’s MFA Creative Writing Program. All of the readings are free and open […]
The ‘truth’ about memoirs
Philip Graham is a professor of English and the director of the English department’s Creative Writing Program. He is the author of two short-story collections and a novel, and a co-author with Alma Gottlieb of a prize-winning memoir of Africa. He also is the fiction editor of Ninth Letter, a journal of literature and the […]
Grant to benefit four Nigerian university libraries
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Nigerian librarians are wrestling with serious problems – insufficient bandwidth, unstable power and limited access to research materials, but they are about to receive some help thanks to a new grant to the Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs has received a $303,000 […]