PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 20, No. 11, Dec. 7, 2000

Brief notes

Before leaving for the holiday
O&M offers holiday shutdown tips
UI’s Division of Operation and Maintenance is requesting that faculty and staff members follow these shutdown tips in preparation for the holiday season. If these guidelines are followed, the potential for damage to facilities from severe weather will be greatly reduced.

- Close and lock all windows and doors; close blinds and curtains.
- Turn off all unnecessary laboratory services, including gas, air, vacuum and water.
- Turn off fume hood fans that are not needed. Consider consolidating chemical storage in fewer hoods.
- Leave all radiator valves turned on to ensure adequate heating and avoid freeze damage.

O&M personnel will check all areas Dec. 18 for obvious problems such as open windows. However, these personnel cannot alter operation of fume hoods or lab services since they must presume the use is intentional.

Division of Campus Recreation
Holiday rec memberships on sale
The Division of Campus Recreation is offering a special holiday membership valid Dec. 17 through Jan. 15. Cost is $38 for faculty and staff members or their spouses or partners and $25 for children of faculty or staff members.

Membership benefits include use of all Campus Rec facilities, free lock and towel service where available, free group fitness classes, daily guest sponsorship and free admission to public ice skating sessions. All membership eligibility requirements and age restrictions apply.

Holiday memberships go on sale Dec. 9 in the Member Services office in Room 140 IMPE. For more information, visit the Campus Rec Web site at www.campusrec.uiuc.edu or e-mail Kristin Duitsman at kduitsma@illinois.edu.

Second Sunday concert
UI faculty musicians to perform
Ann Yeung, UI professor of harp, will perform for WILL-FM’s Dec. 10 Second Sunday Concert along with two other UI musicians, cellist Laurien Laufman and violinist Danwen Jiang.

The free concert begins at 2 p.m. at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion and will be broadcast live on WILL-FM (90.9/101.1 in Champaign-Urbana).

On the program are Johann Sebastian Bach’s "Aria" from "The Goldberg Variations," BWV 988; Henriette Renié’s "Ballade Fantastique"; Marcel Tournier’s "L’éternel rêveur"; Camille Saint-Saëns’ "Fantasie, Op. 124 for Violin and Harp"; Germaine Tailleferre’s "Sonate"; and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Sonata for Cello and Harp, Op. 208.

After your holiday party
O&M offers free holiday cleanups
The Division of Operation and Maintenance’s Building Operation Section will again provide cleanup following departmental holiday parties at no cost to the department.

Departments are asked to allow for sufficient notice of one to two weeks when requesting this service and also should complete an initial cleanup of major items prior to Building Operation Staff arrival. Requests may be sent to the superintendent of building services, Randy Kornegay, Garage and Car Pool Building, MC-821 or faxed to 333-3711.

The Chicago art gallery of the UI
Art of architecture featured
The art of architecture takes center stage in two new exhibitions at I space, the Chicago gallery of the UI.

"Vivere l’Architettura/Living Architecture: The Architecture of Durisch + Nolli" is on view through Jan. 20. The exhibit features new works by the husband-and-wife architectural team Pia Durisch and Aldo Nolli. They are from Switzerland’s Ticino region, which produced a number of innovative modernist architects who captured the imagination of international critics during the second half of the 20th century.

The I space exhibition, curated by UI architecture professor Rebecca Williamson, was designed to explore continuities and discontinuities in recent Ticino architecture. It includes a new installation of eight "luminous bodies" – floating walls of translucent materials lit from within; models; large-format images; and the architects’ sketchbooks.

A catalog, with essays by Williamson, Durisch and Nolli, and architectural historian Mercedes Daguerre, accompanies the exhibition. For information about its availability, contact Williamson at rwillmsn@illinois.edu, or the UI Building Research Council at 333-1801.

Also at I space is "Tall Buildings Case Studies: UI School of Architecture," on view through Dec. 30. The show will feature a selection of drawings and models by students in architecture professor Paul Armstrong’s design studio.

I space gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Christmas concert
UI German Choir performs Dec. 10
The UI German Choir will perform its annual Christmas concert at 3 p.m Dec. 10 at the Chapel of St. John the Divine, 1011 S. Wright St., Champaign. A Magnificat of Michael Praetorius will be featured. The concert is co-sponsored by the Spurlock Museum.

Office of Continuing Education
Brochure deadline is Dec. 22
The Office of Continuing Education’s Division of Summer Session and Special Programs distributes its Summer Programs brochure each March. In order to make the brochure as comprehensive as possible, the Office of Continuing Education is requesting all departments complete a Summer Special Programs form. Forms may be submitted in three ways. Forms are online at www.conted.uiuc.edu/ss/specProg/form.html. They also may be requested by e-mailing chillman@illinois.edu. For a paper form, or for more information, call 333-6883. The deadline for submitting forms is Dec. 22.

The Mothers Association
Nominations sought of UI women
The Mothers Association is accepting nominations through Dec. 18 for its 2001 Medallion of Honor award. Nominations should be of women who are or have been associated with the UI and who have used their talents to enrich the lives of others. The award will be presented in April during Moms Day Weekend.

For more information and nomination procedures, contact Nancy Rotzoll, 333-7063 or rotzoll@illinois.edu.

Faculty/Staff Emergency Fund seeks donations
Fund keeps giving throughout the year
Financial problems are always hard, but the burden of not being able to make ends meet is always worse during the holiday season.

Faculty and staff members can help fellow employees who are facing difficult times by donating to the Faculty/Staff Emergency Fund.

Established in 1992 by Deloris Holiman, a business manager in the library who wanted to help some of her co-workers, the program is totally funded by donations from UI employees, friends and family and has disbursed more than $80,000 to more than 200 UI employees since its inception.

Although the program’s annual fund drive is several months away, the holiday season is often a critical time of need for the fund. In the past, some departments have chosen to contribute to the fund rather than exchange gifts at the office holiday party. Their generosity has helped an employee pay an overdue utility bill or purchase needed medication.

Contributions of any amount may be made to the fund with checks made payable to UIF/UIUC Faculty-Staff Emergency Fund. Donations should be mailed to the UI Foundation, Harker Hall, MC-386. If you or someone you know might be eligible for assistance from the fund, contact the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program at 244-5312.

Share the gift of nature
Since 1992 the department of natural resources and environmental sciences in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences has presented breath-taking photographs of the flora and fauna of Illinois along with informative and thought-provoking articles in Illinois Steward magazine. It has sought to educate, entertain and inspire those who believe the Land of Lincoln and its natural resources are valuable. The magazine promotes stewardship of Illinois’ natural resources – from farm to forest – as everyone’s responsibility.

Contributors to the magazine have varied backgrounds and experiences and capture a true sense of respect and awe for the animals, plants and geography of Illinois that they share with readers in each issue. Readers are taken far from the beaten path through full-color photographs and descriptive stories and get up close and personal with bats, birds, bugs and other critters of Illinois and learn about their habits and histories from experts. They discover rock formations, swamps, prairies, farms, forests, sand dunes and wetlands all contained within Illinois.

A one-year subscription for the quarterly publication is $10 and makes a great inexpensive holiday gift for the nature lover or hard-to-buy-for person on your shopping list. If you give three one-year gift subscriptions, you can get a subscription for yourself for half-price. Give five or more one-year gift subscriptions and your subscription is free.

To subscribe, send in the subscription form available at http://ilsteward.nres.uiuc.edu or mail a check payable to the UI to: Illinois Steward, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Attn: Bianca Rios, W-503 Turner Hall, Dept. II, 1102 S. Goodwin Ave., MC-047.