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PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 24, No. 12, Dec. 16, 2004
Research | Campus | Achievements | Books | Briefs | On the Job | Calendar | Job Market | Deaths| PDF Format
Classrooms receiving ‘face lifts’ and new technology
The tuition that incoming freshmen and transfer students pay at the Urbana campus will do more than pay for these students’ education: It will benefit UI students for years to come by funding badly needed upgrades in classrooms around campus.
Library tunnel renovation under way thanks to students’ vision Full story
RESEARCH
Feminism has suffered because of its views on beauty and fashion, author says
Feminism needs to end its long obsession with the politics of personal appearance, and get past its dim view of beauty, says a UI author.
Selective coatings create biological sensors from carbon nanotubes
Protein-encapsulated single-walled carbon nanotubes that alter their fluorescence in the presence of specific biomolecules could generate many new types of implantable biological sensors, say researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who developed the encapsulation technique.
CAMPUS
 
Richard Herman unveils 'Illinois Promise,' program to aid low-income students
“The Illinois Promise,” a program announced Dec. 6 at the UI, will ensure that high-achieving in-state students from low-income families will be able to attend Illinois.
 

Senate discusses updated Campus Master Plan, building renovations
Stephen Rugg, vice president for administration, presented a draft update to the Urbana Campus Master Plan at the Dec. 6 meeting of the Urbana-Champaign Senate. Rugg told senators that the plan is being updated to integrate a variety of facility-related planning efforts that have been under way on campus during the past year.

 

Institute of Genomic Biology celebrates temporary home
The newly renovated lower level of the Animal Sciences Laboratory was home to an unusual open house Dec. 8 in which officials hailed the space as not just a research-ready basement but as “a staging space” for the beginning of a long journey for the university.
DEPARTMENTS
achievements A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members.  More

book corner

  • "Ninth Letter ," by the MFA in creative writing rogram. More

brief notes CDSA nominations sought … Shut down tips for campus facilities … Hobson, Sinfonia music featured on CD …Moonlight skate at the UI Ice Arena … More

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On the Job: Ruth Ann Grant
 Ruth Ann Grant is a lhousekeeper at Robert Allerton Park and Conference Center, Monticello. More
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Jesse Dale Bennett, 73, died Dec. 10 at ManorCare Health Services of Champaign. Bennett worked as a furniture restorer in what is now known as Facilities & Services for 17 years.

Kenneth Warren Knell, 83, died Nov. 28 at Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. Knell taught in the UI’s Citizens Advisory Council for two years. Memorials: Mahomet United Methodist Church; the Mahomet FFA; or the Champaign-Urbana Dialysis Center, 1405 W. Park St., Urbana, IL 61801.

C. George Parr, 59, died Nov. 29 at his home in Urbana. Parr was a cook and then kitchen helper at the UI for 10 years, leaving in 1997.

Gregory Michael “Peck” Reeves, 55, died Dec. 8 at his home in Danville. Reeves worked as a printer at the UI. Memorials: American Cancer Society or the American Diabetes Association.
Omer Dale “Barney” White, 79, died Nov. 28 at his home in Champaign. White retired from the UI Police Department. Memorials: Provena Covenant Hospice or Grace United Methodist Church.

Robert D. Reid, 64, died Dec. 15 at his home in Champaign. (Note: This notice did not appear in the print version of Inside Illinois.) More

Peter E. Yankwich, 81, died Dec. 1 at Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, Calif. Yankwich was a professor of chemistry at the UI for 40 years, retiring in 1988. He served as vice president of academic affairs from 1977 to 1982. Memorials: American Lung Association.

correction
Robert W. Leeper, 62, died Nov. 22 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Leeper worked at the UI for more than 25 years and was manager of the Poultry Research Farm at the time of his death. He started as an assistant animal scientist in the department of animal sciences in 1979 and became a senior research specialist in agriculture in 1990. Memorials: University Place Christian Church; Berea Christian Church, Mount Auburn; or to an educational scholarship fund to benefit his son, Andrew Leeper.

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