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Nation’s foremost African-American labor leader to speak Wednesday
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Reg Weaver, the president of the National Education Association and the nation’s foremost African-American labor leader, will speak Wednesday night (Nov. 20) at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Weaver’s talk, “Education in America: Securing Our Collective Future,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in […]
Assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury to speak Tuesday
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Richard H. Clarida, assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, will give a lecture on “The United States in the World Economy” Tuesday (Nov. 19) at the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The lecture will begin at 5 p.m. in 141 Wohlers Hall, 1206 […]
‘Magnificent’ gift enhances family resiliency program
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Chancellor Nancy Cantor has announced a $11.5 million gift from Doris and Jay Christopher and The Pampered Chef Ltd. to support the Family Resiliency Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The gift provides funds for a new building, a maintenance endowment, and an endowed chair. “This magnificent gift reflects the […]
Authority on African-American families to speak Nov. 12
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Robert B. Hill, a nationally known authority on African-American families, will speak on “Understanding Black Families: Strengths and Challenges” in a lecture Nov. 12 (Tuesday) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hill’s talk, the first in a new “Visiting Scholars in Child Welfare” series, will begin at 10 a.m. in Room […]
Flash Economic Index rose slightly in October
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The University of Illinois Flash Economic Index rose slightly in October to 95.6 from the 95.4 level recorded for the previous three months (July 1 through Sept. 30). The reading – below the 100 dividing line between growth and contraction – illustrates the halting performance of the Illinois economy, which mirrors that […]
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 […]
Faculty art, Lorena Johnson exhibitions to open Nov. 16 at KAM
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The most brilliant display of fall color to be found this season may be indoors – at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Krannert Art Museum. On view at the museum Nov. 16 through Jan. 5 is the always-colorful annual Faculty Art Exhibition and “Summoning the Sacred: The Art of Lorena Johnson, […]
Works by six artists displayed in I space exhibition
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The most brilliant display of fall color to be found this season may be indoors – at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Krannert Art Museum. On view at the museum Nov. 16 through Jan. 5 is the always-colorful annual Faculty Art Exhibition and “Summoning the Sacred: The Art of Lorena Johnson, […]
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 […]
Participants needed for course on balancing work, life
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Work and home: Two worlds that most parents juggle daily. How to balance the two so the pressure of one doesn’t overwhelm the other is the focus of a five-part program under development by University of Illinois Extension. Beginning next month, the program’s first segment, “Intentional Harmony: Balancing Work and Children,” will […]