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Hosts sought for Japanese students coming to university in August
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Japanese college students coming to Champaign-Urbana in August to spend a month brushing up on their conversational English are hoping to find friendly local hosts to share their American experience with. Female students from Dokkyo University in Tokyo need hosts who will meet with them two or three times a week while […]
Humanities Research Program at Illinois names fellowship award-winners
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced its Fellowship Awards for 2004-2005. Five U. of I. faculty members and six U. of I. graduate students have won awards to spend the next school year engaged in research projects that consider the year’s […]
Anthology traces life of poet who inspired Harlem renaissance writers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Despite his roving bohemian soul, his penchant for abandoning people and places, and his radical politics, which kept him one step ahead of intelligence agents, Claude McKay could not outrun one thing: fame. Almost in spite of himself, the Jamaican-born grandson of a West African slave would produce a unique and avant-garde […]
Movies elevate, rather than denigrate, journalism and reporters, author says
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Are movies to blame for the public’s low opinion of reporters and journalism? Has the Hollywood portrayal of the news business grown harsher in recent decades? Some in the news media think so, says former reporter Matthew Ehrlich, now a journalism professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author […]
Bush administration has used 27 rationales for war in Iraq, study says
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – If it seems that there have been quite a few rationales for going to war in Iraq, that’s because there have been quite a few – 27, in fact, all floated between Sept. 12, 2001, and Oct. 11, 2002, according to a new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. All […]
New book focuses on ‘remarkable people’ who shaped the University of Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Perhaps any large public research university could tell the same basic story, but it is unlikely that any other telling would be richer or deeper. The story is in fact 21 stories – historical vignettes drawn from one university over an entire century – which together reveal “how knowledge is produced and […]
Roger Ebert to donate papers to library at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, will give his papers to his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ebert, widely regarded as the most visible and the most influential U.S. film critic, announced his intention to leave his papers to Illinois’ Library at the kickoff […]
Schools failing to accommodate teens who are pregnant or new mothers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Title IX legislation of 1972 has been celebrated for the dramatic benefits it brought to girls in school sports. But another group of girls, also guaranteed educational equality through Title IX, have seen little benefit, says Wanda Pillow, a professor of educational policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In […]
Writing program at Illinois publishes inaugural issue of literary magazine
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – In the trade, they’re often called “little” literary magazines. But there is nothing even remotely little about the new literary magazine just published by the Masters in Fine Arts creative writing program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Weighing in at 26 ounces, measuring 9 by 12 inches, nearly a half-inch […]
Conference to focus on 15th century history, literature, art, music
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – For a few days in May, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be rocked by scandal, religious unrest and war. Such events will play out May 2-4 during the fourth “Fifteenth Century Conference,” sponsored by the Richard III Society and the Medieval Studies Program at Illinois. The conference is free and […]
New Sousa archivist revitalizing collection, planning monthlong musicfest
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The John Philip Sousa collection at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is marching to the beat of a different drummer, and by all appearances, it is a quick march. The drummer in this case is an archivist, Scott Schwartz. On board as the new Sousa archivist since last fall, Schwartz has […]
History students on last leg of journey to the Middle Ages
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – At a time of year when people are firming up their summer plans, students in a college history course are wrapping up a three-month journey. Using Marco Polo (1254-1324), the great Venetian traveler and travel writer, as their guide, the 21 undergraduates in History 201 are engaged in medieval travel and in […]