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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The first comprehensive U.S. exhibition of the work of Japanese architect Kengo Kuma will be exhibited Oct. 10 through Nov. 15 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Campus screening • noon Oct. 29, Room 223 of Gregory Hall Urbana Public Television • 7 p.m. Oct. 23 • 9 p.m. Oct. 31 • 9:30 p.m. Nov. 2 • 6 p.m. Nov. 5 On the Web The documentary also will be posted sometime this fall on the College of Media's Web site.

UI physics and astronomy professor Susan Lamb's approach to retirement is similar to the colliding galaxies she studies - it's simply a matter of merging and evolving.

Janette Bradley Wright is staff secretary for the College of Communications, department of advertising for about a year, and she’s been in the department for about 10 years.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Creatures ugly, endearing and dangerously curious, including a monster named "Bobo," a legendary "She" sea spirit and a "Traction Man," are among hundreds of protagonists book experts are recommending kids get to know this year, and they all appear in the 2005 edition of the "Guide Book to Gift Books."

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Five University of Illinois scholars have received National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for 2015. The U. of I. is the only institution to be awarded more than three of the fellowships for the coming year.

Coralyn Beem is an associate police training specialist.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Throughout 2012, the United States was battered by severe weather events such as hurricanes and droughts that affected both pocketbooks and livelihoods. Research suggests that in the coming years, U.S. five-day forecasts will show greater numbers of extreme weather events, a trend linked to human-driven climate change.

About 25 students are participating in a pilot program this academic year that the UI is conducting in conjunction with Parkland College to help transfer students make the transition from community college to the university.

The discussion about establishing a faculty union on the Urbana campus has accelerated in recent months amid efforts by the Campus Faculty Association to identify and sign up supporters. News Bureau news editor Mike Helenthal submitted the same questions to CFA leaders and two critics of a faculty union, asking them to discuss shared governance and the pros and cons of establishing a faculty union at Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Whether a proposed jobs bill might carve into U.S. unemployment still languishing near double digits is anybody's guess, a University of Illinois economist says.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - According to University of Illinois dance professor Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, published research on modern and postmodern dance was fairly sparse until about a quarter of a century ago. Most of what existed was limited to books on dance history or biographies of dancers and choreographers, or was otherwise narrowly focused.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - University of Illinois professor Huimin Zhao has received a 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Although the next U.S. presidential election is 19 months away, for Illinois student Kevin Fanning it’s an exciting time to be in Washington, D.C., working for one of the presidential frontrunners, Sen. Barack Obama.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The artistic process - that mysterious zone between creative thinking and doing - will be explored in a new exhibition on view April 25 through May 31 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Debbie Kemphues, administrative assistant to the Provost, has worked at the UI for 28 years.

Until the U. of I. astronomy department's 117-year-old telescope is returned to full working order, Mars will just have to sit in mid-retrograde.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - For nearly a half century, composers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - often in collaboration with scientists and engineers - have been making music and music history within the soundproof walls of the School of Music's Experimental Music Studios.

University officials have unveiled the Illinois Strategic Excellence Hiring Program, a search initiative designed to seek out and find the top academic talent - then bring it back to the UI.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Stick this somewhere prominent on your bulletin board: Five University of Illinois industrial design students won a first-place award in a competition co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America and BusinessWeek magazine for their redesign of the thumbtack.

It's a little hard for a visitor to miss Mark Mitchell's office in the U. of I. College of Veterinary Medicine's Small Animal Clinic.

CHAMPAIGN,Ill. - Ralph Cicerone, the president of the National Academy of Sciences, will give the inaugural lecture Monday (Sept. 13) in a series honoring the late Charles David Keeling, an analytical chemist who measured atmospheric carbon dioxide with great precision.

Dr. Richard Isaacson and Max Lugavere will discuss “The Role of Nutrition in the Management of Alzheimer’s Disease” at 6 p.m. Sept. 23 in the auditorium of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Too much heat can destroy a sturdy automobile engine or a miniature microchip. As scientists and engineers strive to make ever-smaller nanoscale devices, from molecular motors and switches to single-molecule transistors, the control of heat is becoming a burning issue.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Fifty-six high school bands from across Illinois will compete in the 32nd annual Illini Marching Band Festival on Saturday (Oct. 19) at the University of Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Some of the nation's leading landscape architects will work with University of Illinois students and faculty members next week to explore ideas for development of the Windsor Road corridor linking the campus, Champaign and Urbana.

In the summer of 2012, two undergraduate students tackled a problem that plant ecology experts had overlooked for 30 years. The students demonstrated that different plant species vary in how they take in carbon dioxide and emit water through stomata, the pores in their leaves. The data boosted the accuracy of mathematical models of carbon and water fluxes through plant leaves by 30 to 60 percent.

Cooler weather has caused soil temperatures to decrease across the state, according to Jennie Atkins, Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program manager at the Illinois State Water Survey at Illinois.

All groundbreaking, earth-changing, multidisciplinary research has something in common: a starting point.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Neil Rogers of Lemont, Ill., was crowned King Dad by the University of Illinois Dads Association at its annual banquet Nov. 13 during Dads Weekend festivities.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Atlantic magazine named "Evening's Empire," by University of Illinois history professor Craig Koslofsky, as one of the 15 best books reviewed by the magazine or published in 2012. Benjamin Schwarz, the magazine's literary editor, assembled a top-five list for the year, followed by a list of 10 runners-up, where Koslofsky's book appeared.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The record $100 million-plus settlement earlier this month by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County in California to victims of sexual abuse by priests raises the question of how the church will pay for this and other claims.

As this issue of Postmarks reaches your home, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign we are moving into the final months of the academic year.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Wild and wacky Rube Goldberg machines, robots fighting for possession of wooden blocks, and more than 120 fun-filled exhibits are among the attractions awaiting visitors to the 84th annual Engineering Open House at the University of Illinois.

Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University, will present his lecture “Winter is Coming: The Trump Regime and the American Press” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, at 1092 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - University of Illinois students Natalie and Alex Marks believe their mother qualifies for any number of titles - from Wonder Woman to creator of the world's best chicken noodle soup.

A Minute With™... Ruby Mendenhall, a professor of sociology and of African American studies at Illinois

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Herbert E. Whiteley, the head of the department of pathobiology and veterinary science at the University of Connecticut, will return to the University of Illinois as the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, pending approval of the UI Board of Trustees at its meeting May 23-24 in Springfield.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Frederick K. Lamb and Ralph G. Nuzzo, professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A popular memorial dedicated to U. of I. students who served in the U.S. military during wartime will be returned May 28-29 to its original place of honor in the south courtyard of Lincoln Hall.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The threat of hunger among senior citizens in the U.S. is a growing crisis that will likely lead to additional public health challenges, says a University of Illinois economist who studies the efficacy of food assistance programs on public health.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Advancements in science education will bloom on the prairie as middle school teachers from mostly rural Illinois school districts converge at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on June 13 to participate in the two-week Prairie Flowers Program.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A total of $100,000 in federal scholarship funds has been offered to eight University of Illinois students to support their study abroad as part of a wider U.S. government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical languages.

A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members.

Lynn Smith is a marketing specialist with the Office of Continuing Education.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Virginia R. Dominguez, recruited as an "excellence hire" by the University of Illinois anthropology department in January, has been elected president-elect of the American Anthropological Association. Her term as president-elect begins Dec. 2; she becomes president in two years.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A longtime University of Illinois educator and administrator who was a pioneer in the evolution of labor-management relations for more than a half-century will be remembered at a tribute and memorial service Saturday.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - "Disciplinarity - Films on Film" is the theme for the fall film series sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Six Urbana campus faculty members have been named University Scholars. The program recognizes excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. The faculty members will be honored at a campus reception Tuesday (Sept. 10) from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Levis Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana.

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Access is now accepting nominations for the annual Larine Y. Cowan “Make a Difference” Awards. The awards honor campus community members who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to promoting diversity and inclusion on campus in the following areas (nomination forms and criteria are online):