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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Lynn Sweet, Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times, will talk about covering the capital, state and national politics, and recent war-related stories at a brown-bag lunch on Monday (Oct. 15) at the University of Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A day of family fun will take place Saturday (Oct. 13) during the Family Fall Festival at the University of Illinois Arboretum. Children and adults can enjoy a variety of activities, contests and exhibits while learning more about horticulture.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Fifty-five high school bands from across the state will compete in the 31st annual Illini Marching Band Festival on Saturday (Oct. 13) at the University of Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Guest artist Isao Takahashi will exhibit the art of hanga woodblock print-making at the annual fall open house at the University of Illinois Japan House on Oct. 20.

Shirley Panepinto is an inventory specialist in the Redistribution Warehouse operated by the UI's Accounting Division.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Several scholars from the Democratic Republic of Congo will be among the participants discussing Congos future during a colloquium at the University of Illinois Oct. 11-13.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A Community Help Line will be available beginning Tuesday (Sept. 25) to help people in East Central Illinois process their reactions to the recent terrorist attacks and their aftermath.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The editors of a new UI Press poetry anthology will read selections from it Tuesday during a night of poetry and then turn the microphone over to others who want to read their own or someone elses poetry.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Donald C. Sweeney, the man who blew the whistle on a 1998-1999 $50 million study of the expansion of dams on the upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, will talk about his experience Oct. 12 at the University of Illinois.

Peter Kimble has been a high school teacher and a sound technician for several 1970s rock bands. For the past five years, he has been a computer-assisted instruction specialist, helping hundreds of UI faculty and staff members and alumni master various software programs.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Ira Solomon has been appointed head of the department of accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, effective Jan. 6, 2002.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. College students preparing to apply to law school are invited to attend Law School Day at the University of Illinois on Oct. 3.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A community forum, "Responding to the Attack on New York and Washington: Security, Retaliation and Diplomacy," is scheduled to take place at the University of Illinois on Sept. 19.

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.

As costume rental manager at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Nicole Faurant helps outfit performers in local community theaters in Champaign and Urbana and in theater productions around the country.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. What are the implications now that the human genome has been sequenced? How will that scientific breakthrough, along with others in the field of biology, affect various areas of human life, from health and medicine to food production?

The Campus Curriculum for Instructional Excellence, being initiated this fall on the Urbana campus, will give instructors the opportunity to enhance their teaching skills by learning from three of the university’s Distinguished Teacher/Scholars.

Members of the news media can see the worlds fastest Linux cluster supercomputers, tour the 18,000 square-foot addition to the UIs Advanced Computation Building (ACB) and talk to experts who will create the most powerful computing infrastructure ever deployed for open scientific research Wednesday (Sept. 5).

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. History, the Holocaust, religion, art, and the environment are among the topics to be discussed this fall in the Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm lecture series at the University of Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Someone poking under the hood of the motor pool's newly acquired blue Ford Escort could be in for a surprise. Instead of a gasoline engine, the vehicle has an electric motor connected to a bank of batteries.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. African masks, woodcarvings, beadwork, and bronze and terra cotta pieces are among the art and artifacts on view through Nov. 4 in a new exhibition at the University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Pierre Wiltzius, the director of semiconductor physics research at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, has been named director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, pending approval of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees at its meeting Sept. 12-13 in Chicago.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. This years Computer Fear Film Festival at the University of Illinois not only promises to be bigger than last years inaugural event, its guaranteed, thanks to the marquee lineup.

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.

Margaret "Polly" Clabaugh is a research technologist II in the Division of Animal Resources, a job she’s held for the past 12 years.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Because of campus policy and changes in the campus calendar, the first day of class Wednesday, Aug. 22 will be treated as if it were a Monday.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Robert A. Easter was named today to be acting dean of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois. He will become interim dean, pending approval of the Board of Trustees at its meeting Sept. 13 in Chicago.

Hired by the UI as a cement finisher in May 1993, Eric Knisley has been foreman of the crew since April 1999.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Two guides that help students choose a college have named the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a top value.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Visitors to the Illinois State Fair who stop by the University of Illinois tent can get free Dreamsicles or temporary Illini tattoos and learn how to use the Library Gateway to access materials from the UIs collections.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Twelve new department and unit heads on the University of Illinois campus were approved by the UI Board of Trustees at its July 12 meeting.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Elaine McCoy, the chair of the department of aviation at Ohio University, will become the director of the University of Illinois Institute of Aviation Aug. 21.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The UI plans to make and mark history today when Chancellor Michael Aiken unveils the first campus historical marker outside the Architecture Building on the University of Illinois campus.

When he doesn’t have his head in the clouds teaching Institute of Aviation students to fly, Bill Jones, assistant aviation education specialist, writes action-adventure novels, as William M. Jones.

As UI's two-man 'flower crew' this summer, Al Rasmussen and chuck Burdick are responsible for the flowers on campus.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The south entrance bridge to the University of Illinois Allerton Park in rural Monticello will be closed today to all traffic because the bridge has deteriorated to the point where it is no longer safe.

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.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The University of Illinois School of Architecture honored 109 undergraduate and graduate students for scholastic excellence during the 2001 spring semester. A total of $235,900 in prizes was awarded.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Chancellor Michael Aiken has issued a memo to faculty, staff and students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign rescinding the part of his March 2 memo requiring prior authorization before they contact prospective student athletes. This action does not lessen the universitys commitment to complying with NCAA rules.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. How to fight a fire its still a key part of the curriculum for this years 77th annual Illinois Fire College at the University of Illinois. But given the statistics of what it is todays firefighters do most often, the curriculum this year also will include classes on how to remove someone trapped in a car, how to rescue a person in a grain bin, and what firefighters need to know about the potential for a structure to collapse.

HiDee Ekstrom has worked at the UI for 14 years, most of that time in her current job as secretary IV in the animal science lab.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The University of Illinois chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, a national scholastic honorary society for freshmen, initiated 942 members at a campus ceremony this spring.

Richard Keen is an animal imaging technoligist in thelarge animal hospital. Keen started his career with the university Jan. 2, 1970.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Daniel J. Perrino, professor emeritus of music at the University of Illinois, has been awarded the Chancellor's Medallion, bestowed upon exceptional individuals whose services to the university have exceeded all expectations and precedents.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The Illinois State Championship Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for High Schools will be held in the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 12.

Janet Rudicil started at the university in July 1997 on the construction crew in the temperature control shop in the Division of Operation and Maintenance. She was promoted to become the shop’s first female foreman Jan. 22 of this year.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Civil engineering students from 11 schools in the Midwest and Montreal will be at the University of Illinois April 27-28 to compete in concrete canoe races, a steel bridge-building contest and judged presentations of papers on any topic in the field.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Disability Awareness Week takes place Sunday through Saturday (April 22-28), and the University of Illinois has scheduled a number of activities in recognition of the event:

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. People who have dealt with addiction, or the family disorder that often surrounds it, may find assistance in a workshop April 27 in Urbana.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Roger Ebert will kick off his 2001 film festival, fittingly, with a special screening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" and the U.S. premiere of "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures."