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Film series to look at women in sport
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Gender and Women’s Studies Program (GWSP) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced its fall semester film series. The series, titled “Run Like A Girl: Representing Women in Sport After Title IX,” is supported by the Chancellor’s Office in conjunction with the university’s yearlong examination of the Brown v. […]
Richard Powers wins two more literary prizes
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Richard Powers, the prize-winning American novelist, MacArthur Foundation “genius award” recipient and English professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has won two more literary prizes. Powers, the author of eight novels including his most recent, “The Time of Our Singing,” has won the 2002 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. […]
Love for the library revealed in 10 millionth volume
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A national treasure is adding another gem to its collection. The Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – the largest public university library in the world, a place so beloved by faculty, students and scholars that people have been married there – has acquired its 10 millionth volume. A dedication […]
NASA pioneer’s gift to be celebrated Thursday
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The University Library is celebrating the gift of the collection of pioneering NASA scientist John C. Houbolt with a dedication ceremony and panel discussion Thursday (Oct. 9) at the Grainger Engineering Library, 1301 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana. U. of I. faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the free event, which […]
Three original Freedom Riders to speak Oct. 18
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – In May 1961, a group of six blacks and seven whites boarded buses in Washington, D.C., for the original Freedom Ride, designed to test the legality of “separate but equal” facilities in interstate public travel in the South. The riders would never reach New Orleans, their intended destination, as they would be […]
Conference to focus on path-breaking Chinese filmmakers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A conference focusing on the Shaw Brothers Studio, a path-breaking filmmaking enterprise that was founded in Shanghai, and later based in Singapore and Hong Kong, runs Oct. 2-4 (Thursday through Saturday) on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. According to Poshek Fu, the conference organizer and a professor of […]
Conference to explore future of budget-challenged UI Library
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A conference to explore the future directions of the budget-challenged Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be held Oct. 30-31 at the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana. The conference will feature presentations by international experts in a wide variety of fields, including Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for […]
Veracruzana University librarian to give Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Jesus Lau, a prolific author and internationally recognized library and information science scholar, will give the Mortenson Distinguished Lecture for 2003 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His talk on “Information Competencies: A Bridge to Narrow North-South Knowledge Gaps” will begin at 4 p.m. on Sept. 23 (Tuesday) in Room 126 […]
Clinical-community psychology doctoral program honored
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The doctoral program in clinical-community psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been honored for its record of creating and sustaining effective programs for recruiting, retaining and training ethnic minority students. The American Psychological Association Suinn Minority Achievement Award was presented Aug. 7 during the 111th annual APA meeting in […]
Alston selected for ACE Fellows Program
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Kal Alston, the director of the women’s studies program and professor of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been selected for the 2003-04 American Council on Education Fellows Program. Established in 1965, the program is designed to strengthen institutions and leadership in American higher education by identifying […]
Ukrainian scholars to gather for conference June 16-21
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Members of Ukraine’s intelligentsia will be living – and working – in Central Illinois next month. They plan to tackle a wide range of topics in a program dealing with Ukrainian culture and history: from new developments in Ukrainian linguistics and literature to an assessment of the Chernobyl disaster. Thirty-six distinguished Ukrainian […]
‘Deep Throat’ unmasked: UI journalism professor, students identify key Watergate source
The identity of “Deep Throat” is no longer a mystery, at least not for one investigative journalism class at the UI. After four years of work, involving more than 60 students over eight semesters, UI professor Bill Gaines and his current class believe they know the identity of the anonymous source who helped two Washington […]