By Maggie Sullivan
September 29, 2015
Kathleen Harleman, acting dean of FAA, said if she did not decline within the two minutes of Interim Provost Edward Feser asking her to serve as dean, she knew she’d have to say yes.“I have too much respect for Ed to say no,” Harleman said. “But it was never something I intended.”Harleman, who i...
Tags: acting dean, Anne Sautman, arts, campus, centerpiece, Claudia Corlett-Stahl, dean, edward feser, Faa, Fine And Applied Arts, Kathleen Harleman, Krannert Art Museum, Leadership, nation, news, Provost, students, top stories, Topstories
By Abigale Svoboda
September 8, 2015
Provost designate Edward — or Ed as his colleagues call him — Feser isn’t going to pretend the University didn’t have a tough year. But he’s not going to harp on it either. “One of the things we need to do is make sure everybody understands what the record is and how we got to...
Tags: campus, Carle Illinois College Of Medicine, centerpiece, college of fine and applied arts, Daily Illini, edward feser, Faa, Ilesanmi Adesida, illini, interim chancellor barbara wilson, Katherine Galvin, Kathleen Harleman, Krannert Art Museum, Manchester Business School At The University Of Manchester., national science foundation, news, News Top Stories, Provost Designate, Richard Laugesen, top stories, Topstories, U Of I, ui, uiuc, University, university of illinois, university of illinois at urbana-champaign, university of north carolina, University of San Francisco, university_of_illinois, Uofi
By Sarah Foster
January 29, 2015
Jim Pugh has a variety of extraordinary experiences to share with his students.Throughout his half-century-long musicianship, the trombonist and professor of jazz studies has written and directed pieces for symphonies. He’s soloed on soundtracks for feature films, and he’s had his head smashed in a tr...
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October 30, 2014
Stretch your linguistic muscles and don’t be afraid to look like an idiom this Halloween — all you need is some craftiness, and you’ll be sew ready to show off your threads (and leave your friends in stitches).
For those of you who have yet to find your alter ego this Halloween, I have offered ...
Tags: Apps, aroundcampus, Baseball Cap, black dress, Bookwarm, Butterfly, caesar cardini, caesar salad, cartoon shark, Cat's Pajamas, cleocatra, Cloud Nine, cocoon, College Students, Costumes, Craftiness, Criminals, Faa, Fluttery Wings, gangsters, halloween, head in the clouds, Horror Stories, illinois, Italian Roots, italy, julius caesar, julius caesar salad, lifeandculture, Loan Shark, Main Ingredients, Makeup, mobsters, money, Not Managed, Outfit, Rome, Smartphone, social butterfly, spirit, Threads, Tijuana, u-s-, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, urbana_champaign, Without Their Permission: How The 21st Century Will Be Made, world war i
October 1, 2014
For artist Nathan Westerman, nothing about his colorful, latex-covered plywood pieces is complicated. He doesn’t want it that way.
None of his art is political either, nor does it have any underlying message woven deep into its artistic minutiae. For him, there’s a subtlety about how one color is...
Tags: Abc News, amara yoga & arts, ann rasmus, Art, Arts_entertainment, Boneyard Arts Festival, Color, community, country, Display, Display Designer, dump and run, Executive Director, Exhibit, Faa, Faculty, green street, illinois, indi go artist co-op gallery, Installation, Installations, Landfill, Latex Covered Plywood Piece, leadership skills, Leftover Material, lifeandculture, Local Artists, Local Venues, Mfa, mike doyle, nathan westerman, painting, photography, plywood, Political, program director, Prominent Figure, Provisions, Reclaim, Role, scrap, Sculpture, Service Projects, staff, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, University Ymca, Urban Outfitters, urbana_champaign, video, work, works, Y
By Peter Nickeas
September 26, 2014
CHICAGO _ A fire deliberately set at an Federal Aviation Administration radar center in Aurora, Ill., grounded more than a thousand planes across the country Friday morning.
The small fire in the basement of the Aurora facility was apparently set by a man who was found with self-inflicted wounds by em...
Tags: Airports, Chicago, Faa, illinois, Latin, midway, midway airport, national, O'hare, o'hare airport, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, urbana_champaign
By Annabeth Carlson
September 4, 2014
Exactly 100 years ago in the late summer of 1914, World War I had just begun. Countries either banded together or were against each other, creating innovations in industry, warfare, propaganda and entertainment, all while a deadly, tragic conflict consumed them all. Now in 2014, all of these occurrences ...
Tags: 1914 1919, alexander jesse, aroundcampus, Art, barbara wilson, centennial, conflict, Countries, director of the initiative in holocaust, edward feser, English, entertainment, Faa, film series, films, First Global Conflict: Contemporary Views Of The Great War, french, genocide and memory studies, Hist 258: World War I And The Making Of The Global Twentieth Century, illinois, Illinois Theatre, Industry, Innovations, Italian, Joyeux Noel, kinkhead pavilion, Krannert Art Museum, la grande guerre: french posters and photographs from world war i, las, Lectures, lifeandculture, Marcus Keller, michael rothberg, michelle salerno, Movies, Music, Oh, propaganda, st. louis symphony, Surehands Lift And Care Systems, the great war, The Great War Events, Theatre, ui, uiuc, united states, university of illinois, urbana_champaign, War, Warfare, What A Lovely War, what price glory?, world war i
By Stephanie Kim
May 1, 2014
To celebrate the end of the year, The Canopy Club will bring live music outdoors with its first ILLRock Block Party on Saturday. The party will take place on Oregon Street in Urbana near Manolo’s Pizza and Empanadas and the School of Music building. Gates will open at 1 p.m. and the show will end around...
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By Taylor Lucero
April 30, 2014
As graduation quickly approaches, students about to exit the doors of higher education may deal with the anxiety of life after college. This apprehension is embodied in the singing, dancing and acting of Illini Student Musicals’ upcoming show, “In Progress: A Broadway Revue.”
The performance is ...
Tags: aces, andrei strizek, Arts_entertainment, Avenue Q, Broadway, College, Director, Dramaturg, Faa, for good, graduation, Higher Education, i wish i could go back to college, Illini Student Musicals, illinois, in progress: a broadway revue, job market, Kelsey Mcgrath, legally blonde, lincoln hall theatre, media, Michael Courtney, music supervisor, musical performances, producer, Properties Coordinator, reporter, Sara Costello, Sara Virginia, Script, so much better, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, urbana_champaign, Wicked, Zach Moyer
