By Becky Nguyen
March 16, 2015
Lining the walls in Murphy Gallery, Art @ the Y is presenting its newest exhibition, HERstory, at the University YMCA. The show is free and open to the public Mondays through Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
HERstory, which is on view through April 10, seeks to engage ...
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By Stephanie Kim
March 16, 2015
Resting on the shelves in the basement of the Undergraduate Library is a collection unique to the country: the largest collection of Indian comics in North America.
“Nobody else in the country has a collection like this,” said Mara Thacker, librarian and professor in South Asian studies. “People mig...
Tags: aroundcampus, bengali, Catalogue, Collection, committee on south asian libraries, David Ward, documentation, foreign language cataloging specialist, hindi, illinois, indian comics, international and area studies library, librarian, lifeandculture, mara thacker, mythology, New Delhi, Nicole Ream Sotomayor, North America, Plots, Professor, publishers, religion, Scripts, south asian studies, Ugl, ui, uiuc, Umama Mahmud, undergraduate library, university of illinois, urbana_champaign
By Declan Harty
January 20, 2015
At 63 years old, Michael Chrzastowski was much different from the other graduate students last fall. After working as a University employee for 25 years at the Illinois State Geological Survey, Chrzastowski graduated on Dec. 20 with a master’s degree in religion with a focus on Islam, achieving ...
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September 3, 2014
When walking into the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., the sight of nearly 145 congressional leaders, staffers and the surrounding community sitting on the floor eating a vegetarian meal would seem out of the ordinary.
But for the first time on Capitol Hill, the building played host...
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By Ariana Conner
April 24, 2014
An evening of poetry, song and celebration will spice up Lincoln Hall Theater on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. to honor the papers of poet and writer Gwendolyn Brooks which are now residing in the University Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
The event, which is titled “Full of Pepper and Light: Welcoming the Gwendolyn Brooks...
Tags: aroundcampus, Black Literature And Creative Writing, carl sandburg, celebration, center for advanced study, Chicago State University, civil rights movement, Departments Of African American Studies, director emeritus, English, Full Of Pepper And Light: Welcoming The Gwendolyn Brooks Papers To The University Of Illinois, Gregory Stewart, gwendolyn brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks Center, gwendolyn mitchell, haki madhubuti, illinois, janice harrington, krannert center for the performing arts, Laurence Lieberman, lincoln hall theater, Nora Brooks Blakely, Office Of Public Engagement, Parkland College, Poetry, public libraries, Publisher, rare book & manuscript library, religion, school of music, Scott Freidlein, Song, Thank You, Theatre, Thomas Mitchell, ui, uiuc, university black chorus, university library, university of illinois, urbana_champaign, Valerie Hotchkiss, W.s. Merwin
November 12, 2013
Despite what many, including the editorial of this paper, may tell you, Illinois’ same-sex marriage bill is not about equality, but desperation.
There was no interest in pursuing equality with this redefinition. That may seem absurd to common viewers of media, especially social media, because equ...
Tags: desperation, equality, Homosexuality, illinois, Inequality, letters_to_editor, religion, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, urbana_champaign, Zuri
