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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. […]
Former U.S. House majority leader to speak Oct. 24
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Dick Armey, a former majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, will give a first-hand account of how bills become law at the Piper Rudnick-Vacketta Lecture on Government and the Law at 3 p.m. Oct. 24 (Friday) at the University of Illinois College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Champaign. Armey […]
Illinois professor wins Nobel Prize in physics
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Anthony J. Leggett, a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics and a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics. He shares the prize with Alexei A. Abrikosov of Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., and Vitaly L. Ginzburg of […]
Illinois professor wins Packard Fellowship
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Scott K. Silverman, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is among 16 U.S. researchers named 2003 Packard Fellows in natural sciences by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. He will receive $625,000 during the next five years to enhance his research efforts. Silverman, 31, joined the Illinois […]
Illinois professor wins Nobel Prize
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Paul C. Lauterbur, a pioneer in the development of magnetic resonance imaging and a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shares the prize with Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham in England. Mansfield was a […]
I space presents two new exhibitions beginning Friday
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Two new exhibitions open this month at I space, the Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Both shows are on view Oct. 10 through Nov. 29. The group exhibition “After Whiteness: Katherine Bartel, Suk Ja Kang Engles, Kojo Griffin, Tana Hargest, Laurie Hogin” includes installation and video work, paintings […]
‘After Whiteness: Race and the Visual Arts’ symposium set for Oct. 11
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Artist Suk Ja Kang Engles initially began to ponder issues of race and identity as a teenager growing up in a small town in Korea. “There was a woman, in a poor neighborhood in my town, who became a streetwalker on the military base … after sleeping with a black soldier, she […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Flash Index of Illinois economy down in September
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – In a surprising development, the University of Illinois Flash Economic Index dropped in September, indicating no apparent pickup in the Illinois economy. The September reading of 96.2 – down from 96.7 in August – is at odds with generally positive signs about the national economy. This was the lowest Index reading since […]