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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Several University of Illinois students have received recognition for their achievements from the National Security Education Program.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Two University of Illinois students have won 2008-2009 Paul D. Doolen graduate scholarships for the study of aging. Each will receive $5,000 to continue their research.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Each of 10 University of Illinois graduate students - including four from the Urbana campus - has been awarded a $9,000 FMC Technologies Inc. Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Nineteen University of Illinois students from the Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield campuses have won Avery Brundage Scholarships for excellence in academics and athletics. Each student will receive $2,500 for the 2008-2009 academic year.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The College of Business at the University of Illinois honored its students in April at its annual awards banquet.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Two University of Illinois researchers, Phillip A. Newmark, a professor of cell and developmental biology, and Wilfred A. van der Donk, the William H. and Janet Lycan professor of chemistry, have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A senior at the University of Illinois has received a Whitaker International Fellow Grant for study in England during the 2008-09 academic year.

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Eight staff employees will be honored with the Chancellor's Distinguished Staff Award at a banquet May 1. The award recognizes exceptional performance; each recipient receives $2,000 and a plaque. Recipients' names also are inscribed on a plaque displayed in the Staff Human Resources Office.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Two University of Illinois undergraduate students have won prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Richard Herman, the chancellor of the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, and Jeffrey Moore, the Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry at Illinois, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced today.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Sixteen professors, three academic professionals and five teaching assistants at the University of Illinois will be honored Tuesday (April 29) for excellence in teaching and advising. The recipients will be recognized during a reception at Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The University of Illinois Moms Association has named Jamil Johnson and Nisa Agrawal as the graduate and undergraduate recipients, respectively, of its 2008 Humanitarian Awards.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The mother of a Wisconsin senior has been crowned the inaugural Amelia Alpiner Stern Mom of the Year at the University of Illinois.

The UI fares well in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of America's best graduate schools. The 2009 edition of the magazine's ratings of graduate programs is scheduled for publication April 7-14.

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.

The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to six faculty members and eight graduate students from the UI campus for the academic year 2008-09. The theme for the year is "disciplinarity," and the new fellows will spend the year engaged in research on projects that will consider the term in all its varied meanings. The fellows will participate in the year-long Fellows' Seminar, and will present their research at the IPRH annual conference in late spring 2009.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A University of Illinois professor has been named a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research fellowship. ChengXiang Zhai, a professor of computer science, was among 118 early career researchers from 64 colleges and universities who will receive grants of $50,000 for a two-year period.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Six Urbana campus faculty members have been recognized as University Scholars. The program recognizes excellence while helping to identify and retain the university's most talented teachers, scholars and researchers.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected to receive the 2008 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization.

Robert H. Dodds Jr., the M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Chair of Civil Engineering and head of the department of civil and environmental engineering, is among 65 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - University of Illinois microbiology professors Jeffrey F. Gardner and James A. Imlay have been elected fellows in the American Academy of Microbiology.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Robin Kaler, the associate chancellor for public affairs, is the winner of the 2008 Medallion of Honor Award, the most prestigious annual award given by the Moms Association at the University of Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - University of Illinois student athlete Jessica Galli has been named the 2007 Paralympian of the Year by the United States Olympic Committee.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Nadya Mason, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois, has been named a Standout Scholar for 2008 by the publication Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Robert Ghrist, a professor of mathematics, and Nancy Sottos and Scott White, professors of engineering at the University of Illinois, are among Scientific American magazine's Top Fifty Innovators of the year. The SciAm 50 awardees are chosen on the basis of their contributions to technology and human health.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Ten members of the University of Illinois faculty and administration have been awarded 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar grants.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A group of students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been honored with Dads Association Library Awards. Chosen from among students who have completed their sophomore year, the award winners were among the top three students in their respective colleges or had maintained a 4.0 (out of 4.0) grade-point average.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The Dads Association at the University of Illinois recently presented its annual Certificate of Merit Awards - one each to an outstanding faculty member, staff member, student and student organization.

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Four faculty members and three research scientists in the department of atmospheric sciences share in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize that the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded jointly to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - "60 Minutes" newsman Mike Wallace will be the first recipient of the Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism, to be awarded Saturday (Oct. 13) in New York.

Cheryl Sullivan and Marilyn Nash, with Illinois Center for Soy Foods and the National Soybean Research Laboratory, won top honors for the UI with their Game Day Chili at the Sixth Annual International Beer and Chili Cook-Off in Urbana last month.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Four professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named Swanlund Chairs, the highest endowed titles at the university.

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The Distinguished Teacher/Scholar program recognizes outstanding faculty members who actively enhance teaching and learning on campus and supports innovative projects that recipients develop as part of the selection process. Award recipients serve as consultants and mentors to other faculty members and departments seeking to explore new instructional methods and revitalize their teaching programs.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - One hundred and thirty-six freshmen and sophomores at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been designated Chancellor's Scholars, chosen for their academic excellence and leadership potential, in the Campus Honors Program this fall.

A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members.

A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members.

A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members.