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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - College students in Illinois preparing to apply to law school are invited to attend Law School Day at the University of Illinois on Oct. 21.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Festival passes will go on sale Nov. 1 for the seventh annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, to be held April 20-24 at the Virginia Theater in Champaign, Ill., and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Final plans are in place for the eighth annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, or "Ebertfest," coming April 26-30 to Champaign-Urbana.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A new University of Illinois seminar series starting in May is designed to show educators how higher education is evolving to address society's changing needs.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Children ages 3-10 are invited to celebrate Children's Day, a traditional Japanese holiday, on May 2 at Japan House on the University of Illinois campus.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A panel of government and academic experts will discuss the future of education in Illinois during an Oct. 7 forum at the University of Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Festival passes will go on sale Nov. 1 for the 12th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival, or "Ebertfest," to be held April 21-25 at the Virginia Theater in Champaign, Ill., and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Festival passes will go on sale Nov. 1 for the 11th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival, to be held April 22-26 at the Virginia Theater in Champaign, Ill., and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The Dads Association at the University of Illinois will recognize the 2009 Certificate of Merit Award recipients at the Dads Association Annual Banquet on Nov. 13.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Festival passes now are on sale for the fifth annual Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival, to be held April 23-27 at the Virginia Theater in Champaign, Ill., and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The incidence of aggravated assaults and batteries increased while the number of robberies and criminal sexual assaults declined from Sept. 1, 2008, to May 17, 2009, in the University of Illinois district, according to the latest crime statistics released by the Division of Public Safety.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Two University of Illinois professors are among 100 young researchers named today (July 9) as recipients of 2008 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Judy Erwin, the executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, will speak about the future of public education in Illinois as part of the Forum on the Future of Public Education, a seminar created by the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to address controversial and critical issues facing education and its future.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Additional events have been announced in connection with the 11th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival, or "Ebertfest," coming April 22-26 to Champaign-Urbana and the University of Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - One of the nation's leading scholars of modern Greek will be on the University of Illinois campus April 22 to present a free lecture at 7 p.m. in the Levis Faculty Center.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Festival passes will go on sale Nov. 1 for the eighth annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, to be held April 26-30 at the Virginia Theater in Champaign, Ill., and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The Dads Association at the University of Illinois presented its 2010 Certificate of Merit Award recipient for Outstanding Registered Student Organization to Chi Omega at the association's annual banquet on Friday (Nov. 12).

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The Dads Association at the University of Illinois announced its 2011 Certificate of Merit award recipients at its annual banquet Nov. 11.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - "Frogs," written and illustrated by Nic Bishop, has won the 2009 Gryphon Award for Children's Literature.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The incidence of robberies and aggravated assaults and batteries declined from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 2008, in the University of Illinois district, according to the latest crime statistics released by the Division of Public Safety.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Additional events have been announced in connection with the 12th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival, or "Ebertfest," coming April 21-25 to Champaign-Urbana and the University of Illinois.

Champaign. For more information and to register, visit http://publicaffairs.illinois.edu/communicators/workshopseries.html. Public Affairs.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - How to find where you are and how your friends influence how you got there are the topics of two upcoming Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm lectures. The lecture series - a tradition since 1973 at the University of Illinois - is supported by the George A. Miller Endowment, along with many other campus units.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The 102nd Homecoming celebration at the University of Illinois will be Saturday (Oct. 20) through Oct. 27 (Saturday).

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Animals are food, but they are also companions. They are beasts of burden but they also inspire poets and painters. We use them as metaphors for everything from faithfulness (the loyal dog) to the ridiculous (silly goose), the industrious (busy bee), the outcast (black sheep) and the impotent (lame duck). They are property and yet they are worthy of societal protection from abuse.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The Illinois Program for the Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois has been awarded a six-year, $1.25 million grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Historian James Oakes will speak on the topic "Becoming Lincoln: From Conservative to Radical," in a lecture Feb. 11 on the University of Illinois campus.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - New teacher induction and mentoring will be the focus of a statewide conference Feb. 24-25 in Springfield, Ill., the fourth annual conference organized by the Illinois New Teacher Collaborative.

U. of I. employees are being asked to apply full-court advocacy to state legislators grappling with the myriad issues involved in the annual appropriations process.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Film-related panel discussions have been announced for the 17th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival, coming April 15-19 to Champaign-Urbana, along with an added guest and a special event on the final day.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Six University of Illinois employees were honored at a reception April 1 as the newest recipients of the Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence awards.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Two University of Illinois students have won prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year, and a third student at Illinois received honorable mention. Anthony Mazzotti, of Taylorville, Ill., and Derek Vardon, of Bolingbrook, Ill., will receive scholarships to help them finish their undergraduate studies at Illinois before attending graduate school.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Four University of Illinois doctoral students - three of them from the Urbana campus - will each receive a $20,000 FMC Technologies Inc. Fellowship for the 2012-13 academic year. Three master's students will each receive $12,000.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Members of the public are invited to submit comments regarding the quality of the University of Illinois and its academic programs as part of a comprehensive evaluation that Illinois will undergo by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. A team representing the commission will visit the Urbana campus Oct. 12-14 as part of the evaluation process.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Two years shy of its centennial celebration, the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois has been declared among the best. It has received accreditation from the American Association of Museums the highest national recognition for a museum.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Lalo Ponce of St. Charles, Ill., has been elected president of the Dads Association at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 2008-2009.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The second annual Midwest conference for undergraduate women in physics, sponsored by the physics department at the University of Illinois, will be held on the Urbana campus from Friday (Jan. 16) through Sunday (Jan. 18) at Loomis Laboratory, 1110 W. Green St., Urbana.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will receive $1.25 million over four years from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund an initiative to transform teaching and research in four departments in the humanities.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The Moms Association of the University of Illinois has selected Karen Chapman-Novakofski, a professor of food science and human nutrition, as the recipient of the 2010 Medallion of Honor Award.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Alex Filippenko, a professor of astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley, will discuss the mysterious "dark energy" that permeates all of space and increases the rate of cosmic expansion, during a talk March 16 at the University of Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Two people have been chosen to receive honorary degrees during the 138th commencement of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on May 17 at the Assembly Hall, 1800 S. First St., Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Sixteen University of Illinois students from the Chicago, Springfield and Urbana-Champaign campuses have been awarded Avery Brundage Scholarships for excellence in academics and athletics. Each winner will receive a $2,250 award for the 2010-2011 academic year.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The Urbana campus of the University of Illinois will become smoke free late next year, Urbana Chancellor Phyllis Wise said Wednesday.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Years ago, when Jeannette Garinger Beck was a single parent raising four children, she knew the frustrations and stress of struggling to make ends meet. Although educational and professional achievement enabled Beck to put those days behind her, she's sharing some of what she has learned about financial wellness by volunteering as a Money Mentor.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - University of Illinois electrical and computer engineering professor Kanti Jain has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, the academy announced today.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Robert J. Birgeneau, the chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley for the past nine years, will speak on the University of Illinois Urbana campus at 3 p.m. March 6.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Award-winning translator Dalya Bilu will deliver a lecture titled "Women's Writing in Israel" on April 19 at the Levis Faculty Center on the University of Illinois campus.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Final plans are in place for the sixth annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, or "Ebertfest," coming April 21-25 to Champaign-Urbana.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Organizers of the fifth annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, set for April 23-27 in Champaign-Urbana, have announced several recent changes since an April 7 news release: