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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The University of Illinois is one of 12 institutions in Illinois to receive funding from the Federal Communications Commission Rural Health Care Pilot Program, an initiative to improve health-related communications infrastructure nationwide. The university will share in the $21 million grant to the state of Illinois. The money will be used to enhance the state's cyber-infrastructure, improving the communications capabilities of health providers all over the state.

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees on March 16 approved the state’s first contracts under a new Illinois purchasing initiative enacted to attract more minority- and female-owned businesses as vendors for state agencies and universities.

Program to support collaborations in complex systems, data science, digital manufacturing and on-demand power

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Five recent graduates of the master of fine arts program in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a "Monster."

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A front-row, personal perspective on local events during the anti-communist McCarthy era of the early 1950s will be the subject of a lecture April 17 at the University of Illinois.

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On Friday, March 4, many students and visitors will participate in an event known as Unofficial St. Patrick's Day. The university does not support or condone this event. Steps are being taken to ensure safety and to minimize disruption to classes and campus operations.

It's back. On Friday, March 2, many students and visitors will participate in an event known as Unofficial St. Patrick's Day. The university does not support or condone this event. Steps are being taken to ensure safety and to minimize disruption to classes and campus operations.

A panel on local social justice efforts pointed out myriad challenges – and active efforts to meet them – during a Friday Forum discussion Feb. 12 at the University YMCA.

University Women's Club celebrates 100 years

Gifts to the UI and the UI Foundation for the fiscal year that ended June 30, totaled $190.5 million, according to Walter K. Knorr, UI chief financial officer and treasurer of the UI Foundation. Of the $190.5 million received, $54 million was designated to the UI directly and $136.5 million was contributed through the foundation. Total private giving increased 3 percent over the previous year.

The U. of I. will further expand its global presence by establishing an office in India.

With the university’s capital budget for the current fiscal year unfunded – and the governor’s proposed appropriations for FY06 falling short of the UI’s request – the UI is planning to borrow money to begin making critically needed repairs to deteriorating facilities across its three campuses.

The U. of I. does have $1.8 billion in available unrestricted cash, but it also has a long list of unescapable expenses that make that cushion short-lived.

University shows Tulane physicist 'the silver lining'

The UI launched the public phase of the largest fundraising campaign in its history on June 1 with a dinner and reception at Chicago’s Navy Pier. The event was attended by more than 1,100 alumni and supporters of the UI and kicked off the public phase of the UI’s capital campaign, “Brilliant Futures: The Campaign for the University of Illinois.”

The seven professors attending a special meeting of the U. of I. Board of Trustees on April 18 represented different campuses and disciplines, but they all came with the same message: They are not ready to leave the university, but a provision of the state's new pension law means if they don't retire by June 30, they will face a substantial loss in monthly benefits.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Graduate Employees Organization, IFT-AFT Local 6300, reached a tentative contract agreement today.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Wynne Sandra Korr, a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh and the interim director of the doctoral program, has been proposed as the next dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Barbara R. O'Connor, the chief of police and director of public safety at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has been named police chief at the University of Illinois, pending approval by the U. of I. Board of Trustees at its Nov. 13 meeting at the U. of I. at Springfield.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Africa and Asia were the spiritual compass points for the first two parts of Ralph Lemon's monumental multimedia work "The Geography Trilogy." And now, for the last leg of the journey - and the final installment of his trilogy - Lemon puts his American homeland on the map with the world premiere of "Come home Charley Patton" Sept. 21-22 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

The settlement agreement between the University of Illinois and Steven Salaita was approved by the U. of I. Board of Trustees at its Nov. 12 meeting in Chicago.

A graphic illustration of academic and civil service retirement by the numbers, from 2009 to 2015.

The University of Illinois is among the top-five public universities in the nation for 2015-16 Fulbright U.S. Students, according to information recently released from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

As the university settles into the second month of the fiscal year, faculty and staff members on the Urbana campus face difficult choices about how to sustain quality instruction and services with fewer people and economic resources.

Champaign Senate Executive Committee's Jan. 31 meeting with UI President Michael Hogan, members took the opportunity to ask questions concerning changes in the university's leadership structure.

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

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The University of Illinois today filed its written argument with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board in Chicago regarding the issue of graduate assistant unionization at the Urbana campus.

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

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.

The U. of I.'s operating budget for fiscal year 2014 will increase 1.2 percent, which is below the national inflation-rate average and the smallest increase in more than two decades.

The UI has appealed the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy that labels the Urbana-Champaign campus’s use of the names Illini and Fighting Illini and the Chief Illiniwek tradition “hostile and abusive.”

Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise said the issues highlighted in a recommendation by an American Association of University Professors committee to censure the U. of I. already have been or currently are being addressed by campus and faculty leaders.

Public universities in Illinois will retain the authority to exempt certain skilled jobs from the civil service system as a result of a nearly unanimous decision Jan. 30 by the University Civil Service Merit Board.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A variety of educational and entertainment events will be held on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in September to commemorate Unity Month, a communitywide celebration to foster diversity and heighten sensitivity to issues of gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation and ability/disability.

After a pilot test involving a dozen colleges and units, the illinois.edu domain was opened to the general campus community Nov. 1 to begin moving Web site addresses from uiuc.edu to illinois.edu.

Faculty and staff members at the Urbana campus are pursuing a variety of eco-friendly initiatives aimed at protecting the environment and helping the campus pare its utility bills.

Units' goals will include how to measure progress

Students and faculty and staff members are requested to log on to the emergency system Web site at emergency.illinois.edu and enter their contact information. Each person can enter up to three e-mail addresses and two text-message addresses. Users can change, add to or delete their contact information at any time.

Unique gifts showcase UI talent, honor Zapf and Bourgeois

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The 2001 graduating class of University Laboratory High School, the laboratory school of the University of Illinois, achieved the highest average composite score in the nation on the ACT exam, among U.S. high schools with 30 or more students from that class taking the exam.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The recipient of the University of Illinois' 2007 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement will return to the campus April 2 to receive the award and deliver a lecture on global efforts to end poverty and hunger in the world's poorest countries.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Many people know that if you bite or break a Wint-O-Green Lifesaver in the dark, you will see a spark of green light. That light is called mechanoluminescence, also known as triboluminescence.

University and city officials are looking at ways to keep pedestrians safer on campus following the death of freshman Sarah Channick of Deerfield, who was struck and killed by an MTD bus while crossing Sixth Street at Chalmers on Sept. 29.

The Class of 2009, a record-setting class of 7,650 freshmen, will be welcomed to the UI’s Urbana campus with a variety of activities and programs known as Illinois Celebration 2005.

A hit CBS TV show is benefiting from UI research and expertise. Amy Young, a Web and database developer at the Materials Computation Center, also is a script consultant for the show "Numb3rs," which draws about 11 million viewers each week.

Private gifts received for the UI and the UI Foundation in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, totaled $216.6 million - the third highest gift total ever, according to Walter Knorr, chief financial officer and treasurer of the foundation. FY11 was the fourth consecutive year - and only the fifth year ever - that the university and foundation eclipsed the $200 million mark in gifts received.

The UI and the UI Foundation recorded $210.6 million in outright cash gifts, pledge payments, annuities/ life income gifts and estate distributions for the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to Walter Knorr, UI chief financial officer and treasurer of the UI Foundation. It marks the fifth consecutive year that cash gifts exceeded $210 million.

The UI closed out its most ambitious fundraising campaign with gifts, commitments and pledges of nearly $2.43 billion. That is $179.6 million (8 percent) more than the announced goal of $2.25 billion. The Brilliant Futures campaign ran from July 1, 2003, through Dec. 31, 2011.

As of Aug. 31, 2009, the UI's Brilliant Futures campaign, the largest in the school's 142-year history, had passed the $1.707 billion mark toward its $2.25 billion goal.