PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 21, No. 22, June 20, 2002

brief notes

Vet Med hosts community forum
West Nile Virus forum to be June 26
The public can learn the latest information on West Nile virus, the cause of a potentially fatal encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) that affects humans, horses and other animals, at a forum at 7 p.m. June 26 in the auditorium at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

According to John R. Lumpkin, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, West Nile virus, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, is likely to be in all 102 Illinois counties, although it has been detected in only three. Information to be presented includes the cause of West Nile encephalitis, signs and symptoms of the disease, the means of transmission, spread of the disease in Illinois and measures for control.

For more information about the forum, call the college’s Office of Continuing Education-Public Service/Extension at 333-2907.

The College of Veterinary Medicine Web site — www.cvm.uiuc.edu/news/wnvforum.html — has a fact sheet and frequently asked questions about West Nile virus.

Want to park closer to where you work this summer?
Temporary parking available
The Division of Campus Parking and Transportation is offering temporary parking in a few facilities through Aug. 16.

Because of the absence of many students and faculty and staff members during the summer months, some lots have been identified as having some space available for rental customers. A fee of $15 will allow faculty or staff members, who are current renters, to park in a temporary facility through Aug. 16.

The list of available facilities can be found at the division’s Web site at www.parking.uiuc.edu. All temporary parking will be issued on a first come, first served basis. Space is limited.

To request temporary parking, go to the Division of Campus Parking and Transportation or call Linda Harms at 333-3530.

Annual scientific meetings include public events
Talk, film festival open to public
An evening film festival and talk by a world-renowned marine biologist will be free to the public when more than 1,000 scientists come to the Urbana campus June 28-
July 2 for the joint annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society for Systematic Biology.

While the professional sessions of the "Evolution 2002" conference are open only to registered scientists, the public is encouraged to attend the public-oriented events, said co-organizer May Berenbaum, the head of the department of entomology.

Stephen R. Palumbi, a professor of evolutionary biology at Harvard University, will speak publicly at 6 p.m. June 29 in Foellinger Auditorium. He will speak on "The Importance of Rapid Evolution in Health, Agriculture and Biotechnology." Palumbi is best known for his work on marine mammal conservation.

The Evolution Film Festival will be hosted by Berenbaum, founder of the popular Insect Fear Film Festival, and Richard Leskosky, a professor of cinema studies and former president of the Society for Animation Studies. The festival will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. July 1 also in Foellinger Auditorium. Award-winning animated shorts centering on the theme of evolutionary change will be shown.

Center for Children's Books
Storytelling for adults is June 21
The Center for Children’s Books celebrates the summer solstice with "Eros & Psyche: A Storytelling Concert for Adults" at 8 p.m. June 21 at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (enter through east wing entrance).

This benefit for the center’s endowment fund features award-winning director, actress, author and storyteller Megan Wells in a one-woman show. It is a re-imagination of the ancient tale that evokes "the deep journey of the soul on the path of love."

Benefit tickets are being sold for donations of $5 or more. Call 244-9331 or e-mail ccb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu for more information.

Construction continues
Campus traffic changes announced
Several significant traffic changes have occurred on the UI campus to accommodate utility and road-work projects.

Goodwin Avenue between Gregory Drive and Nevada Street in Urbana is closed to traffic until Aug. 20 for the installation of underground utilities. The circle-drive entrance for Freer Hall will be inaccessible during the closure.

Dorner Drive in Urbana will be reduced to one lane, southbound, through July 1 for road-surface restoration. Access to the F-29 parking garage on the corner of Dorner and Gregory drives will be from Gregory eastbound until July 1.

Gregory Drive, normally restricted to bus and service-vehicle traffic, will be the detour route for public traffic while Dorner Drive is being worked on.

On July 1, Dorner Drive will reopen to two-way traffic, and all traffic to and from the F-29 parking garage will use Dorner Drive. At the same time, Gregory Drive again will be restricted to bus and service vehicles.

As the work progresses north on Goodwin Avenue, access to the Freer Hall circle drive and related parking will be opened as soon as possible. However, no access to Freer Hall from the north will occur until after Aug. 20.

Descriptions and drawings of traffic routes associated with this and other projects on campus are on the Web at www.pdc.uiuc.edu/Street_Closures/index.htm.

Office of Publications and Marketing
F/S Directory updates wanted
In preparing for the new Student/Staff Directory to be distributed in the fall, the Office of Publications and Marketing offers the following suggestions to ensure that information is correct.

Campus units will receive a request for updates to the units section of the directory by e-mail in July. Updated entries will be due about four weeks later.

Faculty and staff members should check their listings in the faculty/staff section (pages 363-616) of the current directory to ensure it is correct. Listings are based on payroll records; therefore, any faculty/staff member who wants to change a listing must update his/her payroll file well before Sept. 21. See page 3 of the current directory for instructions. E-mail address listings may be changed on the Web at https://www-s.uiuc.edu/ede or by going to Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES — formerly CCSO) at 1420 Digital Computer Laboratory. (See page 10 of the current directory.)

Do not contact the Office of Publications and Marketing to change an individual listing.

For all of the following, forms are now available. Completed forms must be received by Publications and Marketing by Sept. 3 and all changes to payroll records must be made well before Sept. 21 in order to appear in the printed directory.

Listings for nonsalaried employees and for personnel at allied agencies are derived from forms available from your departmental business office and the Office of Publications and Marketing (333-9200). A new form must be submitted each year.

If your payroll record does not contain all of your titles or if you filled out a joint appointment form last year and your appointment has changed, contact your departmental business office or call 333-9200 to request a form.

University employees who will be retiring or going on permanent disability between June 1 and Sept. 30, 2002, should request a Retired/Disability form from the Office of Publications and Marketing (333-9200) to include their listing in the next directory. Those who retired or were on permanent disability prior to June 1 will automatically receive a form in the mail after June 1; the form will be sent to the address on file with the Annuitants Association. Call 333-9200 if you have not received a form by June 30. Participation is voluntary and you must file a new form every year to be listed in the directory.

WILL-TV/Project CHOICES
Autism discussion, film preview
WILL-TV and the Illinois State Board of Education’s Project CHOICES will sponsor a two-part program on autism from 6:30-9:30 p.m. June 25, including a screening of the public television documentary "Refrigerator Mothers" and a panel discussion with audience participation about the myths and facts of autism.

The program is open to the public. Call 244-5074 to register for the event, which will take place in the WILL-TV studio in Urbana. WILL-AM 580 will air the discussion portion of the program live at 8 p.m. June 25, and the audio also will be available online at will.uiuc.edu. Listeners will be invited to call in with questions or comments.

The documentary "Refrigerator Mothers" will air on WILL-TV at 9 p.m. July 16, as part of "P.O.V.," the acclaimed non-fiction film series on PBS. It looks at the period from the 1950s through the ’70s when the medical establishment thought it had found the root cause of autism: poor mothering. Doctors now know that autism is a brain disorder. But for a generation of women, branded as cold "refrigerator mothers," the damage had been done.

School of Art and Design
Ceramics class announced for fall
The School of Art and Design will offer a ceramics class this fall for people who have experience working with clay and know hand-building techniques such as coil, slab and modeling. The program will not offer training for wheel throwing.

Participants will complete four to five projects during the class that will be finished by electric low fire and raku-fire.

The class, limited to 10 people, will meet from 7 to
10 p.m. Tuesdays from Sept. 3 through Nov. 12. Cost for the course is $135. For more information, contact Carole Smith at 333-1652 or cssmith2@illinois.edu.

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