University of Illinois News Bureau, Champaign, IL (19 Jan 2012) - Unlike most art exhibition receptions, the one kicking off the spring semester at Figure One
– the University of Illinois’ art exhibition space in downtown
Champaign – won’t involve wine and little cheese cubes speared on
colorful toothpicks. Instead, patrons will nosh on milk and cookies,
then skip over a bridge and watch TV in a fort.

The exhibition comprises a single installation by Samantha Persons, a first-year graduate student in the School of Art and Design, a unit in the U. of I. College of Fine and Applied Arts. more

Barry Houser, alum – acting director of bands and director of the Panther Marching & Basketball Bands at Eastern Illinois University – will take the baton from Pete Griffin, who stepped down in May.

Houser was appointed Friday as visiting assistant director of bands and conductor of athletic bands, a two-year appointment. more

University of Illinois News Bureau (May 9) - University of Illinois senior Alissa Norby did something completely different for her senior project in theater: She produced a sold-out concert in Chicago starring the Tony Award-winning actress Alice Ripley. more

The New York Times (May 9) -- Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Allison are among the actors coming together on June 1 at Alice Tully Hall in New York City to participate in a reading of a new play by Alan Alda about Marie Curie. The play was performed at a workshop in Seattle under the direction of U. of I. theater professor Daniel Sullivan.
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University of Illinois News Bureau, CHAMPAIGN, Ill (May 5, 2011) — Two University of Illinois professors – Anne Dawson Hedeman, in medieval studies and art history, and Kenneth Suslick, in chemistry – have received Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships. more