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  • Seniors Liz Reynolds, left, and Colleen Koehler staff the Nutrition Peers booth at the Runners Clinic in the Wellness Center at the Activities and Recreation Center. Their goal is to help studets prepare for the Illinois Marathon.  '

    Peer educators spill the beans on good nutrition

    Whether people are crunched for time or for cash, or they’re overwhelmed by having to grocery shop and cook for themselves for the first time, eating healthy can be a challenge for college students. However, a team of aspiring registered dietitians at Illinois is sharing its expertise to help everyone get passing grades in good nutrition and healthful living.

  • Two students and professor Nancy Benson appeared on WTTW, Chicago's public TV station, to talk about their work in Turkey.

    IN THE TRENCHES: Student journalists report from Turkey

    They left for Turkey last May as a group of student reporters. They returned two weeks later as novice foreign correspondents.

  • The refurbished Lincoln's bust has been returned, ready for students to start rubbing his nose for luck once again.

    Lincoln Hall re-created as state-of-the-art instructional facility

    The refurbished Lincoln's bust has been returned, ready for students to start rubbing his nose for luck once again.

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  • UI Board of Trustees votes to close Institute of Aviation

    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. The institute, which opened in 1945, will likely close its doors at the end of the 2013-14 school year, after all current students have completed the program.

  • Kayla Keehn of Algonquin, Illinois, a senior in business, was one of the students in business professor Eric Neumans human resource management course. She worked with the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District on recruiting a new dentist as part of the Community Learning Lab.

    New program puts knowledge to work solving community needs

    When Morgan Tarter was an undergraduate in the bachelor of social work program, she wanted to work in the addiction and recovery field. But her career aspirations changed after she gained some “real world” experience through service learning.

  • Sophomores in bioengineering Maggie Barbero, left, and Rachel Walker, both members of the World Champion iGEM team, at work in a laboratory in the Institute for Genomic Biology. Their team was the lone undergraduate winner at the international competititon.

    World champions genetically engineer winning design

    Last summer, as most undergraduates spent their vacation traveling to exotic locales or lounging by the pool, one group of students spent their time on campus in an Institute for Genomic Biology lab, reading papers and creating a probiotic pill that could help prevent heart disease."

  • "Africa is a very different environment. Each student will take away something different from that experience, but they all take away something that will in a way change them or enrich their lives."  Alan Hansen, professor of agricultural and biological engineering

    Out of Illinois and into Africa: Study Abroad program takes engineering students out of their element

    Life – and career – lessons can take many forms. For seven UI undergraduates, a hands-on engineering collaboration with peers in South Africa – with weekend excursions to some of the most exotic locales on the planet – offered just about all of them.

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  • Paul Diehl, the Henning Larsen Professor of political science, says the new office for undergraduate research that he leads is already seeing tangible results in just a year.

    Undergraduate research office off to good start

    It’s been just a year since the Office of the Provost created the Office of Undergraduate Research and students this fall are already seeing tangible results.

  • Graphic designers branch out to help develop identity for garden

    Students majoring in graphic design took their skills out of the classroom and into the real world during the spring 2013 semester, when they offered their services to Prosperity Gardens – a community garden in Champaign.

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  • There is nothing quite like living, learning and studying a historical event in the place where it occurred, said John Vasquez, an expert on war and peace and crisis diplomacy. Its ghosts still walk the streets.

    The Great War: Two courses make conflict meaningful through study abroad and campus expertise

    World War I began in 1914 n the age of biplanes and the Model T – before even radio, much less the Internet. Yet its effects were massive and are still being felt today.

  • Boneyard Yacht Club members and U. of I. students Robert Butler, left, and Min Yin power their vessel, christened Vincere, during the races at Homer Lake on June 22.

    Heavy competition

    What began 40 years ago as a civil engineering class project at the U. of I. has grown into an organized annual tradition for engineering students worldwide. 

  • Coursera student Kunwar Apoorva Singh is surrounded by tribal children he taught in rural Maharashtra, a state in western India, as part of an outreach campaign supported by the NGO Don Bosco.

    Coursera shares U. of I. courses far beyond campus

    As Illinois students took their seats last fall in lecture halls across campus, half a world and several time zones away in New Delhi, Kunwar Apoorva Singh booted up his computer and logged into the Illinois portion of Coursera, the consortium of more than 80 global universities offering free online courses to anyone in the world with access to the Internet.

  • Dear Parents: Letter from the Chancellor

    As you read this issue of Postmarks, we will be near the mid-point of the fall semester. Whether this is your first semester with a son or daughter at Illinois or it is a year of return for your child, we are proud to count them among our students.

  • Former Sustainable Student Farm manager Zack Grant harvests the fruits of student labor.

    Students put sustainability on U. of I. map

    The year 2015 will mark a milestone for sustainability at Illinois. This fall, a 5.87-megawatt, 20.8-acre solar farm – now under construction on university farmland – will supply about two percent of the campus’s total electricity needs. This project is the result of a dream and a lot of hard work by many stakeholders – not least among them the Illinois students.

  • The work of undergraduate animators, from left, Pakpoom Buabthong, Annie Lin and Benjamin Blalock brings development education to people around the world on their cellphones.

    Animators help fight disease, preserve crops, feed the world

    A farmer in Burkina Faso learns how to safely store his crops. An entrepreneur in India learns how to truck her harvested grain to market. Thanks to student animators at the U. of I., these people and countless others around the world can also see and hear about the symptoms, transmission and treatment of tuberculosis, or how and when to wash their hands to avoid disease.

  • Undergraduate focus Charles Tucker III, shown here in a study lounge at the Illini Union, is the new vice provost for undergraduate education and innovation.

    Tucker named head of undergraduate education, innovation

    Charles Tucker III, the newly installed vice provost for undergraduate education and innovation, is well aware of the challenges of producing a high-quality undergraduate experience.

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  • Busey-Evans dining hall cook Willie Green, left, and Housing Division administrators serve new students.

    Cheers! Giant smoothie breaks record at Convocation

    Dining Services cooked up some excitement at the annual New Student Convocation and the Guinness Book of World Records certified their efforts. The world’ largest smoothie – a 330-gallon pink delight – was created from 960 pounds of yogurt, 600 pounds of strawberries and 105 gallons of pineapple juice.

  • Class crosses Larsbreen Glacier in Svalbard, Norway.

    Science, humanities lure 17 students to the Arctic for summer

    Imagine spending a summer in a place where the summer sun lights the sky for 24 hours, where you can take a long hike on a grand glacier, and where nature’s brilliance greets you at every turn.

  • Students push for smoke-free campus; planning under way

    The U. of I. student body has spoken, and it says it doesn’t want to inhale secondhand smoke anymore.

  • The five-day trip to the Minnesota Twins home base  Target Field  was the capstone experience for students taking a new online course titled Sport and Sustainability, which met during the summer term.

    New Online Course Hits a Home Run: Students pitch sustainability during All-Star Week

    A group of Illinois students joined the Green Team this past summer, volunteering with Major League Baseball and the Natural Resources Defense Council to promote environmental sustainability during MLB’s annual All-Star Week, held July 11-15 in Minneapolis.

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  • Dear Parents

    Much to my delight, in my first few months as chancellor I have discovered two common threads at this great university: Learning never rests and helping others is a way of life.

  • Crime alerts to include follow-up notices on arrests

    When there’s a serious crime within the campus district, the U. of I. police department sends an email to inform the campus community of the situation. Public Safety officials are planning to use the system to share good news as well.

  • Dear Parents

    On Oct.1 during Homecoming I assumed my new responsibilities as vice president of the University of Illinois and as chancellor of the Urbana campus. I want to share with you how excited and humbled I am to have the privilege to lead one of the greatest modern research universities in the world. 

  • Dear Parents: Letter from the Chancellor

    By the time you are reading this issue of Postmarks, we’ll be moving into the final months of our academic year. It’s hard to believe that another academic year is coming to a close so quickly. And just as those of us on campus find ourselves in a whirlwind of exams, final projects and preparation for graduation, many of you are considering whether Illinois is the right choice for your child next year. 

  • Dear Parents: Letter from the Chancellor

    By the time this fall issue of Postmarks is in your hands, we’ll be well into the fall semester at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Nearly 7,000 freshmen and more than 1,300 new transfer students joined the Illinois family in August, setting new records for academic achievement. Together with our returning students, they represent every state in the nation and nearly half the nations in the world. The campus is once again full of the energy, excitement and anticipation of what this year will bring us all.

  • Smoke-free campus initiative postponed

    The start date for the smoke-free campus initiative has been postponed from this fall to Jan. 1.

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  • Excellent student experience a priority for new chancellor

    To new Urbana Chancellor and UI Vice President Phyllis M. Wise, education and family are inextricable elements.

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  • Dear Parents

    There are outstanding universities in every state where a student can get an education. We want to ensure that at Illinois, students don’t just get an education – they have experiences that really prepare them for the challenges they’ll have when they leave this campus.