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Fueling
change
Grant
to fund bioprocessing research lab
The UI will receive
a grant of $3.2 million from the state of Illinois to plan and design
the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory at the UI’s
Urbana campus. More |
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Historic Lincoln Hall
receives funding for planning much-needed renovations
Officials
from the UI, the Illinois Legislature and the state’s Capital
Development Board recently announced that the state was giving the
university $3 million to begin planning renovations to historic Lincoln
Hall on the Urbana campus. More |
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Food-crop
yields in future greenhouse-gas conditions lower than expected
Open-air
field trials involving five major food crops grown under carbon-dioxide
levels projected for the future are harvesting dramatically less
bounty than those raised in earlier greenhouse and other enclosed
test conditions – and
scientists warn that global food supplies could be at risk without
changes in production strategies. More |
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Software
tools detect bugs by inferring programmer's intentions
The task of debugging huge computer programs
can be made faster and easier by using new software tools developed
by programming experts at the UI. More |
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UI scientist
develops
enzyme inhibitor that may slow cancer
UI scientist
Tim Garrow, in collaboration with Jiri Jiracek of the Czech
Academy of Sciences, has applied for a provisional patent
on a class of chemicals that has future therapeutic uses
in medicine, specifically cancer treatment. More
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Music school gift includes
instruments, books, art, artifacts, property
The UI School
of Music has long been home to one of the nation’s top ethnomusicology
programs. Now, a major gift has increased the size and brilliance
of the school’s star on the world music map.The multifaceted
package originates from the estate of Robert E. Brown, the ethnomusicologist
credited with coining the phrase “world music. ” More |
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Krannert Center receives
major grant from Duke Foundation
The UI’s Krannert
Center for the Performing Arts is one of only three university-based
performing arts presenters in the nation selected to receive major funding
through a new initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. More |
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Trustees propose program,
discuss rehiring of retirees
A
one-year pilot program proposed at the UI Board of Trustees
meeting July 13 in Chicago would allow employees to voice
their opinions of policies and procedures – and suggest
ways that they could be changed for the better – through
a Web site. More
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Grant will improve access to UI Rare Book
and Manuscript Library
A new grant
of more than $600,000 from the Mellon Foundation will give the
UI Rare Book & Manuscript Library the opportunity to begin “dramatically
improving” access
to its entire collection, a collection Hotchkiss described as “one
of the largest and most remarkable in the country." More |
| DEPARTMENTS |
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book
corner
- "Globalization
and Empire: The U.S. Invasion of Irqa, Free Markets, and
the Twilight of Democracy," by
Stephen Hartnett and Laura Ann Stengrim (University of
Alabama Press). More
- "Advertising
on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations
in the 1930s," by
Inger Stole (UI Press). More
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notes
Take an outdoor
adventure to Utah
…Alumni now have library access online … Library now
offers 'Buy a Book Service' …Spice Box offers meal prepared
with locally grown foods
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On the Job: Brenda
Stevenson
Brenda
Stevenson is a registrar at the College of Law. More |
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found |
If
you’ve lost or found something on campus, send a description
of the item, where and when it was found or lost and an e-mail address
and phone number to dkdahl@uiuc.edu.
E-mail addresses will be published. Current
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| job
market |
Academic
Human Resources maintains listings for academic
professional and faculty
positions
Prospective
employees also may subscribe to the academic
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Personnel Services maintains
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| deaths
Alan William Baird, 69, died July 11 at Provena Covenant Medical
Center, Urbana. Baird was a clinical instructor in the UI College
of Medicine from 1982 to 1986. Memorials: Provena Covenant Foundation,
1400 W. Park St., Urbana, IL 61801.
Sue “Chi” Thi Nguyen
Haigh, 66, died July 4 at her Champaign home.
Haigh worked at the UI for eight years, retiring in 1991 as a kitchen supervisor
in the Housing Division. Memorials: Refugee Center, 302 Birch, Urbana, IL 61801.
Paul Raymond Hesselmann, 78, died July 4 at his home in Tolono. Hesselmann worked
at the UI from 1958 to 1977, first as an assistant health physicist in the Graduate
College and then in the Division of Environmental Health and Safety. Memorials:
Champaign Catholic Charities, Provena Covenant Hospice Program or St. Patrick’s
Building Fund in Tolono.
Lloyd J. Sprinkle, 83, died July 6 at the Bement Health Care Center, Bement,
Ill. Sprinkle worked at the UI for 20 years, retiring in 1987 as a building service
worker for the Division of Operation and Maintenance (now Facilities and Services).
Memorials: Centerville United Methodist Church.
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