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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - John Geanakoplos, an economist at Yale University, will deliver the second 2005 David Kinley Lecture in Economics at 4 p.m. May 2 (Monday) at 141 Wohlers Hall, 1206 S. Sixth St., Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Illinois state senators and representatives will have the chance to don emergency suits and gear during demonstrations Friday (April 25) at the Illinois Fire Service Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Champaign is looking forward to participating in the Ready to Respond Campus pilot program," said Lt. Todd Short, of the U. of I. Police Department. "We are strong advocates of this initiative and are encouraged by the number of higher education institutions in Illinois who are also participating. This program will undoubtedly help campuses throughout Illinois respond more effectively during emergency situations."

Hearing encourages discussion of creation of school in LAS

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - There is a future for the College of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - and potentially a very bright one, according to its interim dean, Ron Yates.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - More than 1,000 Illinois firefighters and emergency personnel will be in Champaign-Urbana this week for the 80th annual Illinois Fire College, hosted by the University of Illinois Fire Service Institute.

The UI Board of Trustees unanimously approved Michael J. Hogan, the president of the University of Connecticut, as the 18th president of the UI at its May 20 meeting in Chicago.

University trustees approved an additional $3.4 million for Global Campus as administrators said they expect a marketing campaign and partnerships with community colleges to put the online degree program in “fast growth mode.”

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Champaign County residents interested in getting an inside look at how local law enforcement works are invited to participate in the Champaign County Citizen Police Academy.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The number of reported burglaries and robberies declined in the University of Illinois Police Departments statistical reporting area during the academic year that ended May 13, figures released this week indicate. The number of reported aggravated assaults and batteries, as well as the number of criminal sexual assaults, increased during that eight-month period.

Under the guidelines for Identity Standards, which are available on the Web at www.identitystandards.illinois.edu, the I Mark must appear on the cover of all publications, and a campus logo must appear inside. Print and durable goods such as brochures, newsletters, signage and imprinted items that are developed, printed or created after Sept. 8, 2008 must comply with the standards. Items currently in production that are scheduled to be printed or created before Sept. 8 do not need to be updated. All existing materials should be used until the supply is exhausted, but all print products and durable goods must comply by Jan. 1, 2010. Web pages developed after Sept. 8 must comply with the standards, and home pages for all campus units must comply by Jan. 1, 2009. The I Mark and the text "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign" should appear prominently on the first page of PowerPoint presentations; new templates - as well as more information about the branding initiative - are available on the identity standards Web site, www.identitystandards.illinois.edu.

A one-year pilot program proposed at the UI Board of Trustees meeting July 13 in Chicago would allow employees to voice their opinions of policies and procedures – and suggest ways that they could be changed for the better – through a Web site.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - At the July 21 meeting of the UI Board of Trustees on the UIC campus, university trustees voted 6-2 to close the Institute of Aviation and end the undergraduate degree program.

Allerton open for bow hunt to help control deer population

The UI Board of Trustees unanimously approved the appointment of a new chancellor at the Chicago campus when the Trustees met July 24 at UIC.

The U. of I. and the U. of I. Foundation had another record-setting year in fundraising for the fiscal year that ended June 30.

Illinois was founded by a brilliant idea almost 150 years ago. Our foundations were laid with the promise of establishing a beacon of knowledge and service for our state and nation. Today, together, we stand as a university that not only delivered on that promise, but that has redefined the very idea of what a great public research university should be and do.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Fears about monsters and artificial life, the struggles of China's rural-urban migrants, and what we can trust and not trust about our memories will all be among the topics early this fall in lectures sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Food writer and commentator John T. Edge will dish out a heaping helping of his work on Sept. 16 as the lead author in the Fall 2009 Carr Reading Series at the University of Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Disasters and biological issues will get special attention this fall among 13 lectures sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - along with topics as varied as Mexican politics, Caspian oil, Senegalese art, indigenous rights and the nature of thinking.

Special events are planned on campus to observe the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. University of Illinois professor Benita Katzenellenbogen will discuss "Estrogen in Human Health and Disease" during the Center for Advanced Study Professors' 11th Annual Lecture, on Sept. 19 at the UI.

Champaign campus, and Bo Fernhall as dean of the Chicago campus's College of Applied Health Sciences.

Champaign Senate voted to recommend that UI President B. Joseph White and Chancellor Richard Herman be replaced, and UI Board of Trustees chair Christopher Kennedy announced that an ad hoc committee of the board would review the performance of university personnel in relation to the Category I admissions controversy.

In the same hall where campus and community members had convened one year before seeking solace in tragedy’s wake, people gathered again at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts to commemorate the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

CITES personnel kept busy protecting campus networks, machines

As program manager of the Prairie Flowers Program, Shirley Splitstoesser helps enliven science and mathematics lessons for fourth-grade through eighth-grade pupils by providing hands-on project kits to Illinois teachers. Splitstoesser holds a bachelors degree in elementary education from Mankato State College (now the University of Minnesota, Mankato), and a masters degree in library science from Purdue University.

Champaign on Oct. 27 (Sunday) with Shozo Sato and his wife, Alice. Shozo Sato is the founder of Japan House and a professor emeritus of art and design.

In December, the Obama administration announced that increasing the number of U.S. college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by one million over the next decade is a top priority that will be bolstered by several federal agencies.

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."

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A variety of topics will be explored in a series of November lectures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - among them a journalist's take on America at home and abroad, Homer's lessons for the modern military, diploma mills, naturalists and their letters, and what bees can teach us about brains and behavior.

By Sharita Forrest, Assistant Editor 217-244-1072; slforres@illinois.edu

The 76-year-old author of a provocative new novel about 1950s racism in the American South says his concern for "better understanding" among those of the younger generations made him feel obligated to write the book.

Faculty members and students have numerous concerns about changes being proposed by the UI Board of Trustees to the university administration and to key university governing documents.

Security cameras inside and outside UI buildings, and inside Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District buses are among the newest campus police tools.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Is access to fresh water an inalienable human right? Or is water merely another marketable commodity?

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The Asian American Studies Committee House at 1003 W. Nevada, Urbana, will be moved two blocks to the west on Nevada, closer to the Quad, David Dressel, associate vice chancellor for administration, said today.

Faculty members display art through Jan. 4

Faculty members display art through Jan. 5

A soon-to-be-released report on the strategic use of massive open online courses suggests there is a value to the free courses and that the campus should continue to experiment with them.

One night last summer Lois "Jeannie" Carter, of the UI Extension office in Macon County, started feeling chest pains. She already had an appointment with her doctor scheduled for the next day, so she waited and reported the pain when she met with the doctor.

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Stephen Rugg, vice president for administration, presented a draft update to the Urbana Campus Master Plan at the Dec. 6 meeting of the Urbana-Champaign Senate. Rugg told senators that the plan is being updated to integrate a variety of facility-related planning efforts that have been under way on campus during the past year.

Champaign County residents now have a place to focus on poverty and related issues year-round.

A new state law that affects university employee pensions was the center of discussion at the Dec. 9 meeting of the Urbana Academic Senate.

By Sharita Forrest, Assistant Editor 217-244-1072; slforres@illinois.edu

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The dramatic growth of the prison population in the United States and its connection with education will be the subject of a three-day interdisciplinary conference this week at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.