Stanley O. Ikenberry, right, and President B. Joseph White listen to a presentation during a special UI Board of Trustees meeting Oct. 3 at the Illini Union, during which Ikenberry was appointed interim president designate.
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Managers who dole out discipline by taking away privileges – without considering the implications of restoring them – are missing a key in their bid to improve performance and behavior, a new UI study says.
By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists at the UI have described a catalyst that acts like nature’s most pervasive hydrogen processor.
Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy savanna, as generations of scientists – going back to Charles Darwin – hypothesized, but in a wooded landscape.
Companies that plan as carefully for bad times as good not only can weather downturns, but also emerge ready to exploit recovery when the economy rebounds, says a UIexpert who has studied recession-fueled business failures.
IIlinois Gov. Pat Quinn led a student rally on the plaza behind the Illini Union on Oct. 7 to demonstrate support for restoring state funding for the Monetary Award Program, Illinois’ primary need-based financial-aid program.
The Urbana-Champaign Faculty Senate met Oct. 5 and discussed the process that will lead to the recommendation of three Urbana faculty members to serve on the search committee for selecting a new university president to succeed President B. Joseph White, who resigned effective Dec. 31.
The search for a new provost will be suspended.
A new initiative at the UI will bring together scholars from many disciplines to explore the Holocaust and other genocides as well as racism, memory and trauma.
Unofficially sanctioned corporate malfeasance, pre-emptive wars, torture, misinformation, government-sponsored spying and other routine assaults on civil liberties. None of the above paints a pretty picture of life in the 21st century. And yet, curators of the exhibition “Under Control,” which opens Oct. 23 at Krannert Art Museum, believe these activities and practices have inspired and spawned some provocative art-making over the course of the past decade.
Among the newcomers to the Urbana campus are faculty members whose appointments began this summer or fall. Inside Illinois continues its tradition of introducing some of the new faculty members on campus and will feature at least two new colleagues in each fall issue.
Seven new Teaching Academies Faculty Fellows were recently announced. The Faculty Fellows Program, new this fall, supports the teaching academies, which seek to enhance the campus’ teaching and learning environment.
