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Nicole McCurry is an administrative aide in the Facilities and Services Planning Department.

It is common knowledge that the U.S. economy has continued to thrive despite the loss of industry because of the booming information sector, with high-paying jobs for everything from wireless networks to video games. We are told we live in the Information Age, in which communications networks and media and information services drive the larger economy.

Four years after Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and UI officials broke ground at a muddy site on Gregory Drive in Urbana, the Institute for Genomic Biology will officially open its $75 million, 186,000-square-foot facility in March. Some 250 researchers already work in the institute’s offices and laboratories. Harris Lewin, the institute’s director, expects the facility to be fully populated with up to 450 faculty and staff members in the next two years.

Todd Creason is the program administrative assistant for the business office in the Office of Technology Management.

A former corporation counsel for the city of Chicago who heads the Chicago office of the nation’s largest personal injury law firm became the newest member of the UI Board of Trustees on Jan. 18 at its meeting on the UIC campus.

A former corporation counsel for the city of Chicago who heads the Chicago office of the nation’s largest personal injury law firm became the newest member of the UI Board of Trustees on Jan. 18 at its meeting on the UIC campus.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The stories of history-making African-Americans - both well-known and unsung, told through video interviews - will be the focus of a Feb. 21 program at the Douglass Branch of the Champaign Public Library, 504 E. Grove St., Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Crime decreased significantly in all categories, particularly the number of robberies, in the University of Illinois campus reporting district, according to statistics for the fall semester of 2006, the U. of I. Division of Public Safety reported.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Two hot topics, immigration and global warming, will get early attention this spring among a series of 14 talks and one symposium sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Free-hand architectural sketches and mixed media work will be featured in two new exhibitions on view Jan. 26 through Feb. 24 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

Chancellor's Diversity Initiatives Committee releases five-year plan

Faculty members encouraged to participate in NRC assessment Surveys on research-doctorate programs due Feb. 15

New chief financial officer selected UI President B. Joseph White has recommended Walter K. Knorr to serve as the university's vice president and chief financial officer. Pending approval by the UI Board of Trustees at its Jan. 18 meeting, Knorr will begin his duties Feb. 1. At that time, Steve Rugg will shift back to his duties as vice president for planning and administration. An experienced public finance expert currently serving as comptroller of Cook County, Knorr previously served as comptroller and chief financial officer of the city of Chicago, reporting to Mayor Richard M. Daley. "Well-known and well-regarded in the public finance sector as an innovator and a straight shooter, Walter emerged from a national search that fielded 118 candidates," White wrote in an e-mail message to the campuses. The search was assisted by the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. A search consultative committee was chaired by Urbana business professor David Ikenberry and comprised senior faculty members and administrators from the three campuses, including the chancellors. Also at the January meeting, the board will consider White's recommendation of Jim Weyhenmeyer as interim vice president for technology and economic development. As associate vice president, Weyhenmeyer has spent the last six years of his 26-year UI career involved in all aspects of the universitywide technology and economic development operations. As part of the transition to new leadership in this area, White initiated a review of the university's accomplishments and future challenges in technology and economic development. Leading the review will be Prith Banerjee, dean of the College of Engineering at the Chicago campus, and Avijit Ghosh, dean of the College of Business at the Urbana campus. At the conclusion of their work, which should last about three months, the university will begin a search for a permanent vice president.

Quality of Illinois dance program growing by leaps and bounds

Campus graphic standards established for print and Web

Cassie Yoder is the wedding coordinator at Allerton Park and Retreat Center, Monticello.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A screening of "After Innocence," including a discussion with the director of the 2006 film, will be the kick-off event of this year's University of Illinois commemoration of the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

UI chefs cook up traditional Thanksgiving meal in Biloxi

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Dorothy Kinard is an account technician at the Small Animal Clinic and decorates for Christmas in a big way.

At the Dec. 4 meeting of the Urbana-Champaign Senate, senators voted not to endorse the Global Campus online degree program in the form proposed by President B. Joseph White and Chester Gardner, special assistant to the president. The UIC Senate passed a similar resolution on Nov. 30, and the UIS Senate is expected to do so when it meets Dec. 8.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Board of Fraternity Affairs and Board of Sorority Affairs have imposed sanctions on two organizations involved in an incident Oct. 5 at a Campustown bar.

Study seeks to improve campus transportation

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Melissa Marriott is an interior designer for University Housing.

The UI is losing faculty members to other universities because its compensation packages – including salaries and discretionary funds – aren’t competitive, and the university plans to ask the state for the funding it needs to recruit, retain and develop faculty members, UI President B. Joseph White and staff members told the board of trustees at its Nov. 9 meeting in Springfield.

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.

AFSCME, UI agree on new contract

Public forums seek input on future of Orchard Downs

Staff members recognized for long service and retirement

UI Committees 2006-07

Glenda Fisher is a secretary to the head of urbana and regional planning.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill.- Six students at the University of Illinois are wearing white gloves in class this semester. They're learning to handle issues of age and fragility with aplomb and to make excellent first impressions.

Faculty members want to see detailed academic plans and other information about the possible structure and administration of the Global Campus before the Urbana-Champaign Senate decides whether to endorse President B. Joseph White’s proposal to create the online degree program.

Initiative seeks to keep UI at forefront of information revolution

Forum discusses Global Campus initiative

Faculty members, academic professionals retire

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Jim Donaldson is day subforeman for the garage in the Facilities and Service Division.

An informal, public forum on the North Korean nuclear crisis will take place next week at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The University of Illinois will use advanced videoconferencing technology to connect Illinois families with loved ones who are stationed in Iraq this December. On Dec. 5 and 6, individuals and families can visit one of 17 sites around Illinois for private, interactive 30-minute videoconferencing sessions in which they can see and talk with their soldiers stationed at either Camp Al Asad (Air Force) or Camp Taji/Cooke (Army) in Iraq.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The emphasis will be on architecture in three new shows on view Oct. 13 through Nov. 11 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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David Jones is an equipment service supervisor for Campus Recreation.

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.

At its first meeting of the 2006-2007 academic year, the Urbana-Champaign Senate unanimously passed a resolution asking President B. Joseph White to suspend the submission of the Global Campus proposal and the UI Board of Trustees to defer action on the proposed online degree program at least until the end of the fall semester. The senate, which met Sept. 25 at Levis Faculty Center, requested that the senates at the three UI campuses be allowed a reasonable period of time to consider the proposal and formulate recommendations.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Aggravated assaults and batteries in the University of Illinois reporting district declined during the 2005-2006 academic year to the lowest number since the 1999-2000 academic year, according to the annual crime report released by the Division of Public Safety.

The Teaching Advancement Board recently selected Bertram C. “Chip” Bruce and Kim C. Graber as its Distinguished Teacher/Scholars for the 2006-2007 academic year.