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Guide to children’s books makes gift-giving easier
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Books make great gifts for kids – no doubt about it. But, as anyone who has ever shopped for a child’s book knows, the problem comes in deciding which shiny, fun, appealing – and even important – book would be good for any given child. With some 5,000 new children’s trade books published […]
Illinois professor to talk, perform at Chicago Humanities festival
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Evelyne Accad, a poet, musician-songwriter, author and professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will talk and perform several original works at the Chicago Humanities Festival XIII. Theme of the festival is “Brains & Beauty.” Accad’s performance, part of Series 9: “In the Spotlight,” is scheduled for 6 to […]
Prize-winning professor to speak about writing in Chicago, on campus
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Richard Powers, a prize-winning fiction writer and professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will deliver two humanities talks in November, one in Chicago, the other on the Urbana campus. On Nov. 9 (Saturday), Powers, Swanlund Professor of English and Professor at the Center for Advanced Study, will speak […]
Interplay between arts, humanities, sciences, technology kicks off Nov. 7
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. An innovative initiative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will officially kick off Nov. 7 (Thursday) with a panel discussion. The panel discussion of the initiative, titled “Silicon, Carbon, Culture: Combining Codes Through the Arts, Humanities and Technology” (SCC), will begin at 7 p.m. in the auditorium (Room 62) of the Krannert […]
Faculty authors featured during UI press week
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Seven local authors – and their most recent books – will be featured Oct. 21-24 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The authors – all U. of I. professors – will lead discussions of their books during UI Press Week, a joint event of the University of Illinois Press and the […]
Choldin to deliver Mortenson Lecture
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Marianna Tax Choldin, the Mortenson Distinguished Professor and director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will deliver the 2002 Mortenson Distinguished Lecture. The topic of her talk is “Walls and Windows, Islands and Bridges: Libraries Along the Road to Civil Society.” The free […]
Two professors to receive distinguished French award
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Two professors in the French department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are to receive one of France’s oldest awards. Douglas Kibbee and Lawrence Schehr will accept The Order of the Academic Palms (L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques), with the rank of Chevalier (Knight), for “dedication and accomplishment in the areas of […]
Spurlock Museum opens: Visitors learn about world history and cultures
More than five years after the groundbreaking ceremony, the William R. and Clarice V. Spurlock Museum opened Sept. 26 in its new location at 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, just east of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The 53,000 square-feet building has five permanent galleries representing different world cultures: Africa, the ancient Mediterranean, Europe, […]
‘French Means Business’ forum to be held Oct. 10
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The French department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites bilingual (English-French) job seekers, including students, to “find out how far their knowledge of French can take them in the world of business.” The 2002 “French Means Business Forum,” headlining more than a dozen executives from companies doing business with France, […]
Sept. 11 hasn’t changed public’s attentiveness to news, study reveals
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Americans are no more attentive today to news of the world than they were before the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a study just released in the September issue of PS: Political Science & Politics. The study by Scott Althaus, a professor of speech communication and political science at the University of Illinois […]
Hosts sought to share American culture with visitors
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The Intensive English Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hoping to recruit dozens of friendly local residents who would like to host visiting Japanese and Korean college students in Champaign-Urbana this summer. Students from Korea Maritime University (Pusan) will be on campus for three weeks in July, and Japanese students […]
Journalism students reveal most probable ‘Deep Throat’ identities
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. After six semesters of digging and analysis, a journalism class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has produced a list of seven candidates for “Deep Throat,” the anonymous source who helped two Washington Post reporters expose the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s. The identity of the source has been a subject […]