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 PUBLICATIONS
Inside Illinois
Vol. 21, No.16, March 21, 2002
Campus
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Honors
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the Job
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Briefs
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'No compromise'
Plummer's report: options are to retain
or retire the Chief
Retain Chief Illiniwek or retire him with dignity Ð there is no
compromise, Trustee Roger Plummer told the UI Board of Trustees
at its March 13 meeting in Urbana. Full
story
Plummer's
Full Report |
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CAMPUS |
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UI administration agrees to
meetings to discuss grad-student unionization
University
administrators and representatives of the Graduate Employees Organization
(GEO) have agreed to a series of meetings to discuss which, if
any, graduate student assistants should be added to the potential
bargaining unit defined by the Illinois Educational Labor Relations
Board. Full story
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Trustees discuss
budgetary shortfall, tuition increase
Given the state’s decision to reduce higher education funding,
a special tuition increase is needed to preserve staffing and quality
programs during the coming fiscal year, Chester Gardner, vice president
for academic affairs, told the UI Board of Trustees at its March
14 meeting in Urbana. Full story |
Senators discuss
free speech, courtesy, budget
New resolutions governing discourse in its meetings and communications
between the Senate Executive Committee and other entities sparked
debate in the March 11 Urbana-Champaign Senate meeting.
Full story |
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Warehouse Store
allows shoppers to browse discounted office supplies
Just like many retailers, Campus Stores, Mail and Receiving’s
customers can shop over the Internet and in the store. Full
story |
| HONORS |
CAS
faculty fellows and associates announced
Thirty UI faculty members were selected as associates or fellows
of the Center for Advanced Study for the 2002-2003 academic year.
Full story |
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Shelley honored
with Chancellor’s Medallion
Clarence Shelley, a former dean of students and associate vice chancellor,
will receive the Chancellor’s Medallion March 22 for his 33
years of exemplary service to the UI and the Champaign-Urbana community.
Full story |
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Six academic professionals
recognized with CAPE Award
In recognition of the growing numbers of academic professionals
on the Urbana campus and the variety of their contributions, six
people are being honored with the Chancellor’s Academic Professional
Excellence Award this year. Full story |
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Long-standing mystery
of Earth’s inner core may be solved
New evidence from short-period earthquake waves may solve a long-standing
mystery of Earth’s inner core, and offers additional support
for a layered inner core model, say seismologists at the UI. Full
story |
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New beam-column
design method now part of steel-construction ‘bible’
Research by Abbas Aminmansour is cited prominently in the new Third
Edition LRFD Manual of Steel Construction, the 'bible' for civil
or architectural engineers working in structural steel design. Full
story |
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On
the Job: Eric Larson
Eric Larson is a pastry chef in the Housing Division. A seven-year
employee of the university, Larson began working in restaurants
as a teen-ager. Full story |
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notes
CAP to discuss new role April 4… Distinguished Teacher/Scholar
applications due March 27… Campus Rec spring memberships on
sale … Community Med School offered… 'Saturday Safari'
classes for kids… Teaching instructional technologies…
Lecture to focus on civil rights… Family resiliency featured
April 2… Ebert's film festival begins April 24… Tibetan
art on display… Harpist to perform in free concert April 1…
Sociologist to speak April 1… 'New Ontologies' workshop …Construction
begins in Campustown; MTD service re-routed…
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| job
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Academic
Human Resources maintains listings for academic
professional and
faculty positions. Prospective employees also may subscribe
to the academic
jobs listserve (look under Career Information) and receive e-mail
notification of open positions.
Personnel Services maintains listings for staff
openings |
deaths
Charlotte
Bossi,
81, died March 10 at ManorCare Health Services of Urbana. She worked
as a nurse at McKinley Health Center and then became the medical
record librarian in charge of the medical record department. She
retired in 1984 after 29 years of service.
R. Benjamin Garrison, 75, died
Feb. 24 in Lincoln, Neb. He was a visiting lecturer in the Program
for the Study of Religion in the fall of 1974. Memorials: R. Benjamin
Garrison Scholarship, Drew University, in care of Alumni House,
36 Madison Ave., Madison, NJ 07940.
Wilma Rochelle Grein, 82, died
March 2 at her Urbana home. She worked as a maid from 1959 until
1979. Memorials: Kingswood Christian School, Urbana or Crusaders
Church, Urbana.
James L. Lustig, 73, died March 7 at Heartland Christian Village,
Neoga. Lustig worked for the UI fire department from 1948 until
1952. Memorials: Salvation Army.
William P. McLure, 91, died
March 9 at Mercy Hospital, Iowa City. In 1948, he became a faculty
member of the College of Education. In 1951, he became director
of the Bureau of Education Research, a position he held until he
retired in 1979.
McKinley Rector, 83, died at
the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Jackson, Miss. He worked
as a kitchen laborer in the Housing Division from 1967 until he
retired in 1986.
Edward E. Wascher, 92, died
March 7 at ManorCare of Champaign. He was an electronics technician
at the UI physics lab from 1948 until he retired in 1975. Memorials:
Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum Foundation.
Robert F. Wolf, 76, died March
12 at Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. Wolf worked as an
agricultural gardener in the agronomy department from 1966 until
he retired in 1987. Memorials: St. Thomas School, Philo.
John W. "Bill" Yauk, 62,
died March 11 at the Carle Arbours, Savoy. He was an extra help
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