PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 21, No. 6, Sept. 20, 2001

briefnotes

Division of Campus Parking
Cashkey offers parking convenience
The Division of Campus Parking announces Cashkey, a cashless way to use campus parking meters. CashKey is a programmable key that can be carried on a key chain and allows you to pay the meter without coins. More information is available at Campus Parking, second floor of the Public Safety Building, or by calling 333-3530.

Campus Honors Program
Faculty mentors needed
The Campus Honors Program is seeking faculty members who want to mentor high-achieving undergraduate students. Some of the top undergraduates are eager to learn more about intellectual and professional life during and after college. Many of them already are interested in research and the possibility of becoming professors. For those decisions and explorations, they need expert guidance.

If you are interested in talking or working with one of these students or would like more information, contact Matt Tittle, assistant director of the Campus Honors Program, at tittle@illinois.edu or call 244-0922.

University YMCA
Artist to speak on ‘Art and Space’
Artist Steve Gildea will give the Vogel Lecture on "Art and Space" at the University YMCA at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3.

Gildea teaches Internet art at the Museum School in Boston, and painting and Web page design, painting and multimedia at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. He has a special interest is astronomy and space travel. The titles of some of his works are "Things I’d Miss on the Way to Mars," "Planetary Suite" and "Aerospace’s."

Gildea, a 1981 MFA graduate of the UI, has been honored with 16 one-person shows in the last 25 years. His work has been collected by seven art museums.

This event is part of Renaissance Events on Science, the Arts and Ecology, sponsored by the Raymond S. Vogel Memorial Fund of the University YMCA.

Armory Free Theater
African performance Sept. 28, 29
"Gelede," a play that combines African percussion, dance, song and spoken word, will be performed at the Armory Free Theater at midnight Sept. 28 and at 3 and 8 p.m. Sept. 29. Amira Nuha, who wrote and directed the play, said that the play comments on the plight of the African-American female to provide support and healing to this group. The cast ranges in age from 11 to 50, bringing together UI students and community members.

Volunteers needed
Exercise program for older adults
Volunteers are needed to participate in Illinois Active Aging II, a research study examining the effects of physical activity and fitness on neurocognitive function. All participants will be paid for fitness and cognitive testing. The cognitive testing will take place in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility. After testing, participants will be offered a free six-month exercise program conducted on the UI campus. The study is being conducted by members of the departments of kinesiology, psychology and the Beckman Institute and is funded by a grant from the Institute for the Study of Aging. All interested individuals between the ages of 60 and 79 should contact the Illinois Active Aging program at 265-5425 or e-mail expsych@kines.uiuc.edu for further information and entry requirements.

Follow-up to PBS series
‘Evolution’ discussion is Sept. 27
As a follow up to the PBS series "Evolution," WILL-TV will present "Evolution, A Talking Point Special" at 8:55 p.m. Sept. 27. The local discussion will be hosted by WILL-TV’s John Paul and will feature a panel discussion about evolution and creationism.

Panelists will include Monsignor Stuart Swetland, a theologian who is director and head chaplain of the Newman Catholic Student Center on the UI campus; Richard Aulie, former high school science teacher in Chicago who has published articles about evolutionary theory; Kevin Seymour, a curriculum developer in the state Regional Office of Education; and George Kieffer, UI professor emeritus of integrative biology.

Viewers will be invited to participate in the discussion by calling in with questions and comments. The panel will discuss how evolution is taught in Illinois schools, what state education officials recommend and what questions students ask about issues of evolution and creationism. Panelists also will talk about the conflict between creationism and evolution theology.

The PBS "Evolution" series, which airs 7 p.m. Sept. 24-27, presents evolution from the perspective of science journalism, bringing to life Charles Darwin’s simple theory that forms the bedrock of biology. Darwin altered the scientific landscape 142 years ago when he proposed that all life evolved from a single organism over hundreds of millions of years.

Licensing Advisory Committee
Discussion series will begin Oct. 3
A series of free, brown-bag seminars on collegiate licensing, the apparel industry and "sweat shop" issues will begin Oct. 3, with a discussion from noon to 1:30 p.m. in 209 Illini Union. The event is sponsored by the UI Licensing Advisory Committee.

Maureen Murtha of the Fair Labor Association and Scott Nova of the Worker Rights Consortium will discuss the UI’s affiliation with their organizations and the monitoring systems they advocate to ensure fair labor practices. The FLA and the WRC are nonprofit groups trying to protect workers’ rights in the manufacturing industry.

The Licensing Advisory Committee, established in April 1999 by former Chancellor Michael Aiken, makes policy recommendations to the chancellor about use of the UI’s name, symbols and insignia on manufactured products and related issues. The LAC is composed of 14 members, appointed by the chancellor: six faculty members, four students and four members of the administration.

The Oct. 3 seminar will be the first of four seminars scheduled for fall. The seminar series will continue during the spring semester; meeting dates, times and locations have yet to be determined.

Remaining seminars for fall:

• "Eliminating Abusive and Exploitative Labor Conditions around the World."
  Noon-1:30 p.m., Oct. 17, 209 Illini Union
  Speaker: Lary Brown of Verite (an independent monitoring organization): Sponsored by the LAC
• "Student Perspectives on Collegiate Licensing and Sweat Shop Issues."
  7:30-9 p.m. Nov. 7, Allen Hall auditorium
  Panel will include Jonathan Dollee, UI, and Daniel Long, Wisconsin, and the United Students Against Sweat Shops (USAS).
  Sponsored by Unit One, Global Crossroads Living and Learning Communities and the LAC
• "Corporate Approaches to Supplier Compliance in 2001-2002."
  Noon-1:30 p.m., Nov. 28, 210 Illini Union
  Speakers include representatives from the Fair Labor Association, Nike and Adidas
  Sponsored by the LAC
  
  

Alumni Association
Confidentiality training sessions
Confidentiality workshops are scheduled from 11 to noon in Room 300 Harker Hall on Oct. 17 and Nov. 28.

Confidentiality training sessions are conducted periodically for the Alumni Association, the UI Foundation and university employees. The primary focus is accessing, safeguarding and distributing donor information; however, the principles apply for all other operations where confidential or sensitive data are present. The session begins with an introduction to the topic and a review of the institutional confidentiality protocol statement and confidentiality agreement and then moves on to the presentation examples and discussion of specific situations.

To attend, e-mail wayne@uif.uillinois.edu, call 244-0471 or register online at www.oba.

Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Conferences are Oct. 11-14
The department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese is sponsoring the fourth Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages and the fifth Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. The conferences will open Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. with registration starting at 5 p.m.

These meetings will bring together scholars from Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. Topics will include phonology, syntax and pragmatics of Spanish and related languages, as well as acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese by children, bilingual children and adults. Seven invited speakers will discuss their area of concentration. The conferences will be held in Illini Room A, of the Illini Union.

The conferences will be open to the public and the UI community. For more information, contact Silvina Montrul at Montrul@illinois.edu or Francisco Ordóñez at fordonez@illinois.edu, or visit www.sip.uiuc.edu/conf2001.

The conferences have been funded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences "State-of-the-Art" conference fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant from International Programs and Studies, the Foreign Languages Building Executive Committee Grant and a grant from International Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities. Other sponsors are the department of linguistics, the Program for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education) program.

WILL-TV
Antiques appraisal fair and sale
The second WILL-TV Antiques Appraisal Fair and Sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 29 at Country Fair Shopping Center, 125 S. Mattis Ave., Champaign, inside the Office Furniture Express store. Tickets are $10 per item appraised or $25 for three items appraised.

Area dealers and collectors also will have booths with collectibles and antiques for sale. There is no charge for browsing.

Twenty-one area appraisers, with years of experience in collecting, selling and appraising antiques, have volunteered their time to appraise items for the WILL-TV fund-raising event.

Some of the appraisals will be videotaped for use on a WILL-TV antiques appraisal special. WILL-TV production crews will ask permission before filming an appraisal.

The appraisal fair is being held in cooperation with Office Furniture Express.

For more information about the event, call Kimberlie Kranich, WILL-TV promotion coordinator, 333-1070, or visit www.will.uiuc.edu.

Government Documents Library
Info on Sept. 11 tragedy on the Web
The Government Documents Library now has a Web resource on the Sept. 11 tragedy. The URL is www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/terrorism.htm. It contains links to many news sources as well as government (including the White House, State Department, and Department of Defense), international (United Nations), and state (state of Illinois) and local sources (WILL-AM). There also is a link to this resource from the library’s main page, www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/.

Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
Fellowship program announced
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities is announcing its fellowship program for the 2002-03 academic year. The theme of next year’s program will be "The South." All applications of potential relevance to this broad theme will be given full consideration.

IPRH was founded in 1997 to promote interdisciplinary study in the humanities, arts and social sciences at the UI. Faculty and graduate student fellowship awards are the centerpiece of the IPRH. Their goal is to bring prominence to the arts and humanities by making the groundbreaking work of UI faculty and graduate students more widely available and intelligible to diverse constituencies both locally and nationally.

All IPRH fellows are expected to maintain residency on campus during the award year, to participate in the monthly interdisciplinary fellows’ seminar and to present their research at the program’s annual conference. Faculty fellows will be asked to teach a course during the 2002-03 or 2003-04 academic year on a subject related to their fellowship.

Applications and supporting materials for these awards are due in the IPRH office by Nov. 30. Joint applications are welcome. For further information, contact Christine Catanzarite, IPRH associate director, at 244-7913 or catanzar@illinois.edu.

Human Resource Development
Fall, spring workshops announced
The Office of Human Resource Development announces 47 professional development workshops for fall and spring. A partial list of topics includes customer service in a university setting, multiple generations in the workplace, expanding memory capacity, business etiquette, business writing and supervisory skills.

A new series of certificate programs will begin during the fall. The PRO Series has three certificate programs targeted at office professionals. Office technology is the focus of the TechPRO certificate. Workshops within this program include "Using Microsoft Word More Efficiently," "Researching the Internet" and "Managing Information Overload and Technostress." Current supervisory certificate programs will continue with the addition of new workshops.

See www.hrd.uiuc.edu for information on content, dates, times, locations and price, or call 333-8342.