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  • European Union Day to focus on post-Sept. 11 world

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Interrelated issues facing the United States and the European Union since Sept. 11 will be the focus of this years European Union Day activities on April 3 at the University of Illinois.

  • 'Ebertfest' campus events announced

    Panel discussions about film and the film industry, featuring many of the directors, actors, critics and other guests of Ebertfest, will be held in the Pine Lounge of the Illini Union, and are free and open to the public.

  • April lectures at Illinois focus on ethics, and on legacy of pesticides

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Ethics will be at the heart of the first of two April lectures in the Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm lecture series at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The second lecture will focus on the health consequences of pesticide use. The lectures are the last in the series for the spring semester.

  • Conference to look at all benefits of diversity at Illinois and beyond

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - What is the true value of racial and ethnic diversity for a college campus? What difference does it make not only in educational outcomes for students, but in teaching, research, curriculum, campus climate and student life?

  • Trustees support Hogan, discuss research, suppliers

    The UI Board of Trustees covered a lot of ground during its March 23 meeting in Springfield.

  • Free brain sharpening this weekend at Lincoln Square in Urbana

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Bring your brain to Lincoln Square in Urbana this Sunday (April 13) for a quick tune-up on the latest brain research, courtesy of the neuroscience program at the University of Illinois.

  • Conference to focus on issues affecting claims to heritage items

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A group of international scholars will gather at the University of Illinois for a conference to discuss how forces of religion and nationalism may act to heighten intergroup tension around heritage claims - even to the point of causing the destruction of ancient and historic sites.

  • SEC considers new software to improve communication

    The Senate Executive Committee is forming a subcommittee to consider a new online communications system designed to allow senators to voice their opinions virtually while maintaining compliance with the Illinois Open Meetings Act.

  • Trustees approve interim dean

    Ilesanmi Adesida, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, was appointed interim dean of the College of Engineering at the Urbana campus during an April 8 teleconference of the UI Board of Trustees executive committee.

  • Health care, pension issues rise to top

    The issue of employee benefits has taken center stage on the UI campus this spring and it likely won't be going away anytime soon.

  • Two more areas for review announced

    Two new Stewarding Excellence @ Illinois project review teams will examine campus utility consumption and space utilization.

  • UI Board of Trustees discuss proposed FY09 state budget

  • President Hogan: Salary increase possible for UI employees

    It could be a lot worse.

  • Solar powered

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  • ARR working group suggestions could save $60 million

    A group established to review administrative functions throughout the university has recommended changes that could save nearly $60 million in the next three years.

  • Committee makes recommendations to improve ‘learning spaces’

    Committee makes recommendations to improve 'learning spaces'

  • NCSA awards fellowships to 13 UI faculty members

    NCSA awards fellowships to 13 UI faculty members The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has named 13 UI faculty members as faculty fellows for the 2006-2007 academic year. The NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows program extends opportunities in advanced computing and information technology to UI faculty members. In addition to financial support, faculty fellows have access to NCSA's high-performance computers, visualization- and data-analysis tools, and other advanced information technology, as well as opportunities to collaborate with NCSA staff members. Awards are administered through NCSA's Campus Relations office, directed by Radha Nandkumar. The program is funded by NCSA and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. "The fellows program offers opportunities for faculty and NCSA staff members to collaborate on projects of common interest and to be exposed to the breadth of research on campus. Nandkumar said "This is a truly beneficial win-win situation." The 2006-2007 fellows and their projects:

  • Senate reviewing opening-meetings policy

    Academic Senate leaders are reviewing the governing body's open-meetings policy and say changes are likely.

  • Campus moves toward supplementing power with wind turbines

    Campus moves toward supplementing power with wind turbines

  • SEC discusses fate of the Institute of Aviation, email policy

    More than a year's worth of discussion and a series of conflicting and inconclusive campus votes on the future of the Institute of Aviation could end today with an up-or-down vote by the UI Board of Trustees at its meeting in Chicago.

  • Smoke-free campus start-date moved to Jan. 1

    Champaign splitting street ownership almost in thirds. "The map will be available this fall to help clarify which areas are part of the smoke-free campus."

  • University decreased energy use during dismal budget year

    Although the UI continues to cope with a backlog of overdue payments from the state, the UI Board of Trustees learned at its July 22 meeting in Chicago that there were a few bright spots in the budget year that ended June 30.

  • History in the making

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  • Citizen's police academy accepting applications

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - If you can't get enough "Law and Order" and "NYPD Blue," you're the perfect participant for the Champaign County Citizen Police Academy.

  • ISGS awarded funding for sequestration technology training

    The Illinois State Geological Survey has been awarded nearly $995,000 over the next three years by the U.S. Department of Energy to create the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium Technology Training Center at the Urbana campus of the UI.

  • SEC to review system for appointing tenured faculty

    The Senate Executive Committee voted to create a task force/ad hoc committee to review aspects of the campus's system for appointing tenured faculty.

  • U. of I. campus begins 12-month study of athletics program for NCAA

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Chancellor Richard Herman announced today (Sept. 5) that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has begun a yearlong campuswide effort to study its athletics program as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletics certification program. Specific areas the study will cover are academic integrity, governance and commitment to rules compliance, equity and student-athlete well-being.

  • New SEC chair expects busy, productive year

    The Senate Executive Committee's first meeting of the academic year was light on business - but don't expect that to become a trend, said new chair Roy Campbell after the Aug. 26 meeting.

  • Having a blast (photo)

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  • Senate presents annual report to trustees

    UI Board of Trustees Chairman Christopher Kennedy indicated further "pruning" of academic programs on the Urbana campus may be needed to alleviate funding pressures facing the university.

  • Trustees approve IBHE request for 5 percent budget increase

    A "basic clamp-down in spending" and tuition increases have left the UI in better financial shape than might have been imagined just a few years ago when the depth of the state's financial decline started revealing itself.

  • Students learn during 'Week at the Museum'

    Fifth-grade students from Urbana's Wiley Elementary School are attending school at Krannert Art Museum this week. The project, called Krannert Art Museum - Week at the Museum, will run through Sept. 16.

  • Trustees discuss budgetary concerns at Sept. 11 meeting

    With the winter heating season rapidly approaching and predictions that energy prices will continue to escalate, the UI Board of Trustees approved a plan that will allow the university to save money by contracting for future deliveries of natural gas.

  • Book Corner

    How social scientists, humanists can better use computers and Anthology focuses on American poetry about the Spanish Civil War

  • Task force report yields 'concrete' ideas to improve campus

    The Senate Executive Committee endorsed the recommendations of its summer Task Force on Faculty Issues and Concerns Sept. 9 and have released the task force's report to the public. The committee also sent the recommendations to the Urbana Academic Senate for further discussion. (See related story.)

  • Trustees approve FY08 and FY09 operating budgets

    President B. Joseph White plans to convene a resource summit in late November or early December to review the UI’s cost structures and revenue to decide how to best allocate its resources.

  • Gift from Nicor Gas to support inaugural fellowship program in civic leadership

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A $10,000 gift from Nicor Gas will support one of the inaugural fellowships in the new Civic Leadership Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • New division will aid researchers in biomedical research

  • Senate endorses preliminary college of medicine plan

    Champaign Senate was unable to get through its full agenda Sept. 22 after discussion of the Steven Salaita issue ran longer than anticipated.

  • Senate approves committee name change, hears budget update

    The Urbana-Champaign Senate held a brief meeting on Sept. 30, its first of the fall semester.

  • Senate discusses concerns with new endowed fund

    The Urbana-Champaign Senate’s first meeting of the academic year, held Oct. 1, and its annual meeting of the faculty on Sept. 24 were largely devoted to discussion of faculty members’ concerns about the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund, an endowment established in the UI Foundation. Some faculty members believe the fund will constrict academic freedom and intellectual diversity on campus, and represents an attempt to propagate a specific political and economic ideology through unprecedented control over educational activities.

  • Finnish envoy to speak at Illinois as part of European Union Day events

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Pekka Lintu, the ambassador of Finland to the United States, will share his views of the current state of the European Union during EU Day activities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Oct. 17.

  • Employees may change health plan Oct. 10-28

    University employees have one more opportunity to change their health plan.

  • Hogan outlines plan for 'strong leadership team'

    UI president Michael J. Hogan outlined administrative changes that he said will unify the university's leadership team, reduce overhead and strengthen its missions of teaching, research and clinical health care.

  • Hunter College scholar to give Provost's Lecture on Gender Equity

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Virginia Valian, a distinguished professor in the department of psychology at Hunter College, will be the speaker for the second Provost's Annual Lecture on Gender Equity.

  • Senate discusses search for new UI president, MAP funding

    The Urbana-Champaign Faculty Senate met Oct. 5 and discussed the process that will lead to the recommendation of three Urbana faculty members to serve on the search committee for selecting a new university president to succeed President B. Joseph White, who resigned effective Dec. 31.

  • UI launches fund drive to support University Library

    A campaign to raise at least $30 million in private gifts for the University Library was announced Oct. 10 during the UI Foundation’s 68th annual meeting on the Urbana-Champaign campus and during a dedication ceremony at the library to mark its 10 millionth volume.

  • UI, academy fund agree to part ways on study partnership

    The UI and the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund have mutually agreed, in principle, to discontinue the agreement reached a year ago that would provide funding for teaching and research focusing on the relationship of capitalism and government. Rather than partnering with the university, the fund will become a non-profit foundation, providing grants. "Despite the good intentions of the donors and the university, there were structural incompatibilities between the fund's operational mode and that of the university," Chancellor Richard Herman said. Fund officials decided an independent philanthropic foundation offering grants to support programs and research is "the best way to accommodate all parties," the group's advisory board said in a statement. "This academy will be an independent, off-campus corporation which will undertake its grant activities in the same fashion as the numerous other foundations which already provide support to the University of Illinois," the statement says. A committee appointed by Herman studied the agreement concluding that the fund, as set up, was not consistent with university policy. "The committee recommended a new agreement, and worked with fund officials for nearly a year to strike a deal that addressed the university's concerns," said Thomas Ulen, a law professor who chaired the committee. Those talks led to the fund's decision to offer funding through a separate foundation instead. "We wish them well," Ulen said. "It was a good faith effort on both sides and there were never any hard feelings. I don't doubt there will be interest on this campus in the grants and some of the other activities the academy will sponsor."

  • Israeli journalist to speak on peace, other topics, during campus visit

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Yossi Klein Halevi, a prominent Israeli journalist and author active in Middle East reconciliation efforts, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 in the auditorium at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana.

  • Initiative seeks to keep UI at forefront of information revolution

    Initiative seeks to keep UI at forefront of information revolution