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Bruce Rhoads, U. of I. geography professor, wins Guggenheim Fellowship
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Bruce Rhoads, a professor of geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has received a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is among 186 artists, scholars and scientists to be selected in the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s 81st annual competition. Winners are chosen on the basis of their “distinguished achievement in the […]
France to honor U. of I. history professor and past award-winners at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – John A. Lynn, a history professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded one of France’s highest honors for academic achievement. He will receive the Palmes Académiques, or the Academic Palms, for outstanding contributions to French culture and history on Tuesday (April 12) during a campuswide ceremony. According to […]
Six professors, six students win Humanities Fellowships at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Six professors and six graduate students have won fellowships for the academic year 2005-2006 to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The newly elected Fellows will spend the year engaged in research projects that consider “Belief,” IPRH’s theme for the year. Fellows also […]
Linda Bierds, prolific poet, to read from latest work, meet with U. of I. students
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Award-winning poet Linda Bierds will be on campus in April, the last speaker in the 2004-2005 Carr Visiting Authors Reading Series at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While on campus, Bierds, the author of seven volumes of poetry and a MacArthur fellow, will meet one-on-one with students in the Masters in […]
International group of scholars to meet at Illinois to consider Arabic linguistics
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Scholars from 10 countries will gather at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in April for a symposium on Arabic linguistics. The 19th annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics will be held April 1-3 (Friday through Sunday) in the Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, and in the Illini Union, 1401 […]
Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – In a new and novel study, scientists are looking to nature – specifically, to ants, bees and viruses – for ways to improve human collaboration during disaster relief efforts. At the center of the scientists’ sights are a sub-group of their own species – specifically, civil engineers, who historically have had a […]
‘Little Rat Rides’ wins 2005 Gryphon Award for children’s literature
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The winner of the 2005 Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature is Monika Bang-Campbell, for her easy-to-read book, “Little Rat Rides” (Harcourt, 2004). Molly Bang illustrated the book. The award, which includes a $1,000 prize, is given by the Center for Children’s Books at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at […]
Children’s Book Center annual sale takes place Feb. 21-23 at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Center for Children’s Books‘ fourth annual Book Sale will run from Feb. 21 to 23 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The three-day sale will take place in the center, in Room 24 of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign. According to the […]
Fiction writer leads off Carr Visiting Authors Reading Series at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Fiction writer Dan Chaon will launch this semester’s Carr Visiting Authors Reading Series at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The author of a recent and widely hailed first novel and of two collections of short fiction, Chaon (pronounced shawn) will begin reading from his work at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 15 (Tuesday) […]
Poet’s latest collection inspired by paintings of three Caribbean artists
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Like the mangoes that splash across his beloved spiritual home in the islands of the Caribbean, the poems in Laurence Lieberman’s latest collection are colorful, lush, seductive and rich with cultural and restorative qualities. In his new book, “Hour of the Mango Black Moon” (Peepal Tree Press, England), the Detroit-born poet once […]
Rise and fall of steel industry chronicled
Steel was once the prototype and pace-setter of American industry, dwarfing every competitor in the world. “Making Steel” chronicles the rise and decline of the steel industry by focusing on the 115-year history of a steel mill and company town – Sparrows Point, Md. Established on the outer tip of Baltimore Harbor in 1890, Sparrows […]
Holiday season brings joy to Illinois community focused on foster children
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – For a small Illinois community dedicated to saving foster children, the Christmas season has been unusually merry and bright. First a U.S. senator came visiting. Then there was news of a federal grant for the five-block subdivision tucked into an abandoned Air Force base in Rantoul, Ill. But the best gift of […]