It's been a wonderful year for autumnal color at Illinois. Photo by Grady Rose.
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November 20, 2009
Several young men dressed in period costume for a scene in Larger Than Life: The Red Grange Story, being produced by Illinois for the Big Ten Network. The documentary will debut on Thanksgiving day. Photo by Michelle Carlson.
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November 11, 2009
Betul Acikgoz (center) a graduate student from Turkey. I am a graduate student at UIUC. I am studying Accounting. I went to Fighting Illini Football Game with her friends, Savas Onder (left) and Bulent Sevik (right). "Fighting Illini was playing against Illinois State and they won the game. It was very exciting. Everybody was wearing orange. It is unforgettable for me."
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November 11, 2009
A first grade class from Leal School went to the Urbana Free Library for bilingual (Spanish/English) storytelling, music and crafts, including the making of pumpkin masks.
School-to-Library Spanish Time is a program co-sponsored by the University of Illinois Extension and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
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October 26, 2009
This is a long exposure of the Quad on the evening of October 19th, during the celebration of the Indian festival of Diwali, aka the Festival of Lights. It was taken by Matthew Erickson, a research programmer in Atmospheric Sciences.
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October 22, 2009
Oskee “Boo” Wow, held at College of Veterinary Medicine on October 27, promises to be an evening of tricky costumes and yummy treats for people who love pets and pets who love parties. The fun celebrates the human-animal bond and benefits the Humane Connection Fund created for patients with owners of limited means. Check it out.
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October 21, 2009
International Illini Pumpkin Carving Night on October 13th was sponsored by International Illini, a student organization that works with the Study Abroad Office to provide opportunities for returned study abroad and international students to meet, socialize, and help make the campus a more international place.
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October 19, 2009
Apparently, it's a cake, prepared by Tara Gray for the Illinois vs. Missouri Arch Rivalry Game on September 05, 2009 at The Good Times and Good Friends Tailgate. Tara and about 20 of her fellow alumni and friends attend the game each year.
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October 16, 2009
Assembly Hall Marketing Interns Beth Littell and Paul Kim backstage with members of The Fray on September 15th, 2009.
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October 14, 2009
More than 700 people attended the Asian American Association's 23rd annual fashion show on March 7, 2009 at Foellinger Auditorium. The show featured 7 scenes and several cultural performances, including Wushu Club, Floor Lovers Illini, Illini Glowsticking Club, and the Korean Traditional Drum Club .
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September 28, 2009
The department of civil and environmental engineering has a record number of women in its 2009-2010 freshman class. An unprecedented 32 percent of matriculating civil and environmental engineering freshmen, 53 out of 164, are women. Here they are along the Boneyard Creek. Read the story.
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September 22, 2009
On September, 3, at 07:30 pm, members of the Turkish Students Association hosted the Turkish Coffee Hour at the Cosmopolitan Club, the oldest international organization on the University of Illinois campus. Over 200 attendees tasted the Turkish Cuisine and learned more about Turkey.
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September 22, 2009
Foellinger Auditorium glows blue at the Friday night pep rally during last year's Homecoming. Illinois Homecoming 2009 takes place the weekend of Oct. 9-11. For information, visit www.illinois.edu/homecoming.
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September 16, 2009
Atmospheric sciences grad student Dan Harnos (foreground left) and Assistant Professor Steve Nesbitt (foreground right) attract an audience of school children as they deploy rain gauges near Sirsi, Karnataka, India. The field work is part of an ongoing study of small-scale precipitation variability with topography in the South Asian Monsoon.
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September 10, 2009
University of Illinois Army ROTC cadets load into a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter in an open field just south of where Lincoln Ave ends on Windsor Rd. The UH-60 rides over campus capped off cadet orientation on August 17.
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September 1, 2009
Executive board members of the Black Greek Council and United Greek Council stand with Fraternity and Sorority Affairs advisors at the Mid-American Greek Council Association conference in St. Louis.
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September 1, 2009
Tori Frobish, a leader of the 1867 Society Council, gave away free pens to promote the 1867 Society and recruit students to join their effort. The 1867 Society Council enlists student leaders to help promote student philanthropy at Illinois, for Illinois. Quad Day was August 23.
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September 1, 2009
Lt. Erich Grawunder graduated from the University of Illinois in May 2005 and commissioned out of the Navy ROTC program here. Shown with an Iraqi soldier standing guard at Iraq's Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Lt. Grawunder says, "Fighting Illini like myself can work with a stronger Iraq for security and peace in the Middle East!"
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September 1, 2009
Left to right: Sam Sullivan, Ron Bowden Jr., and Sam Kearney jam for a photo, courtesy of the Assembly Hall. The stage was set up for Quad Day, 2009.
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August 25, 2009
Following New Student Convocation, students have a picnic lunch in Memorial Stadium while they are treated to the "Illini Sights and Sounds" programs, including the Marchin Illini.
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August 25, 2009
Civil and Environmental Engineering hosted the Asia-Pacific Summer School on Smart Structures July 3-25. Students from 30 Asian-Pacific universities came to Illinois for intensive instruction in the emerging field of smart structures technology (i.e., developing structures that are capable of self-sensing and monitoring; self-diagnosis and prognosis with intelligence; self-healing and repair; etc.) Of course, there was time for a lot of fun as well. Here, APSS participants enjoy a trip to the Douglas County fair.
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August 11, 2009
United States Marine Corps 2nd Lt Eric Hovey graduated this past May. "While at school I was a member of the NROTC program from 2005-2009, and this picture was taken as part of my commissioning ceremony into the United States Marine Corps on May 18, in front of the Alma Mater. Since graduating I have been stationed in Quantico, Virginia where I am enrolled in The Basic School (TBS) for six months of training."
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August 10, 2009
Photograph of a hypodermic needle tip releasing a single droplet of water. The image was captured by Darren Stevenson and Steve Eisenmann using the macro photography system in the Image Technology Group's Visualization Laboratory at Beckman Institute.
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June 18, 2009
The Illini Pullers are the winners of the 2009 ASABE International 1/4 Scale Tractor Student Design Competition. The Pullers are a student club associated with the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Illinois. The driver is Jacob Kesler in this photo by Jeff Ceglinsky. Read more here.
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June 9, 2009
A group of journalism students is spending three weeks in Romania, working as "international correspondents" to look at many aspects of life in that country. In this picture they're visiting the Vatican in Rome. Meet the students, read and watch their reports at the Revealing Romania website.
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June 8, 2009
Hsiang-Yee Lo celebrates graduation with her colleagues in front of Foellinger Auditorium. She writes, "We were "DEILers" (Division of English as an International Language) in the first year of my grad life, and were merged to Linguistics last summer. ...we experienced a transition of our department and (temporarily reported to) both DEIL and Linguistics. In this past 2 years, we learned from and helped each other. It was such a wonderful time in my memory..."
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June 1, 2009
Loc Bui, PhD, on the left, and Quang Nguyen, MS, both graduated with degrees in electrical and computer engineering on May 17, 2009. This image was taken by La Thu Dang on the lawn outside the Grainger Engineering Library.
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May 26, 2009
Illinois is home to the largest Greek system in the country. Posing here for a summer mailer, members from all four councils gather to display their Greek unity.
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May 26, 2009
Graduates celebrate in front of the Alma Mater on May 15, 2009. Pictured are Tania Reitz, Mary Kim, Rachel Glueck, Allison Butts, Linda Johnson, Lindsey Leach, Julia Leggett, and Kaitlin Gauen.
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May 18, 2009
These four roommates spent part of a recent sunny afternoon lying in the grass north of Foellinger Audiorium. Clockwise from the bottom left corner: Mary Beth Reddington, Chinomso Elvy Asonye, Jessica Diaz, and Vania Navalta.
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May 15, 2009
Brian (LAS '86) and Michele (COMM '87) with Nick (age 13) and Elizabeth (age 5) and Illini basketball coach Bruce Weber at the Peoria Chiefs Illini Night, August 15, 2008.
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May 8, 2009
Students Sakeb Kazi, Mamta Aggarwal, and Nikhil Aggarwal pause on their way to India Night to climb on and pose as the Alma Mater Statue. The India Student Association sponsored the event in Foellinger Hall.
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May 7, 2009
Graduates attend the 2008 GradFest at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. This year's fest is
Saturday, May 16, from noon to two. They'll be handing out food, beverages and USB thumbdrives while they last. Get more information from the Alumni Association.
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April 28, 2009
Graduate student Kelly Fugo explains her demonstration, "Food for Thought," at the 2008 Brain Day event. "Brains Rock!" is the theme of this year’s Brain Day, which will take place April 26 from 1-5 p.m. in the south hallway of Lincoln Square Village in Urbana, and literally touch the brains of other creatures.
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April 22, 2009
Illini Medical Screening Society members Kunal Patel (left) and Anirudh Reddy (right) use the fingerstick procedure to test a client. IMSS is a unique registered student organization at Illinois that provides all uninsured and low-income individuals free medical screening for diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. All screenings are established and operated by undergraduate pre-health students, funded by Provena Covenant Medical Center, and supervised by licensed healthcare professionals.
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April 22, 2009
Some 9,000 runners took part in the first Illinois Marathon on April 11, 2009. The route for the marathon wound through much of Champaign-Urbana, including the Illinois campus. This photo, looking east from Sixth and Green Streets, was taken by City of Champaign planner T.J. Blakeman.
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April 14, 2009
A Wildlife Medical Clinic team performs a nuclear medicine scintigraphy scan to assess blood flow to the severely injured leg of a whooping crane April 8. The scan was successful and surgery will be performed to repair multiple fractures (more than 10) to the leg. There were only 470 whooping cranes living wild and in captivity in the world in 2005-2006, according to the International Crane Foundation.
Author:
Chris Beuoy
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April 9, 2009
March 2009: A contingent of faculty members from the College of Veterinary Medicine presented training to veterinarians in Azerbaijan to "improve coordination between veterinarians and public health officials in identifying significant health threats in animal populations, including avian influenza."
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March 26, 2009
University of Illinois railroad engineering professors and six graduate students participated in the 14th Annual Association of American Railroads Research Review and the ASME Joint Rail Conference at Pueblo Convention Center, Pueblo, Colorado.
Front row from left: Mark Dingler, Bryan Schlake, and Xiang Liu. Back row from left: Prof. Christopher Barkan, Steven Sawadisavi, John Zeman, and Prof. Riley Edwards.
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March 23, 2009
One of the traditions of Engineering Open House is that the central committee pranks the director on the Saturday of EOH. This year they chose to gift wrap his car. It also smells very strongly of rosegarden. In back (left to right): Maurice Ng, Andrew Zwicky, Emily Carroll, Gavin Rehkemper, Kushal Sanghrajka, Matt Johnson. Front: Palak Doshi, Kelsey Erickson, Serena Liou
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March 19, 2009
Chris Walton, sophomore in engineering, as Albert Einstein. This picture was taken before he walked out amongst the visitors at Engineering Open House 2009.
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March 17, 2009
Students and faculty attend the German/Turkish movie night in the Lucy Ellis Lounge during International Education Week at Illinois. On March 12, the movie "In July" was screened as part of the Turkish Studies Symposium that was held by the European Union Center and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
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March 13, 2009
Lynford Goddard, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, teaches ECE 329A, Illinois' core introductory course in electromagnetic fields.
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March 5, 2009
Showcase night at the 2008 Summer Cooperative African Language Institute held at the University of Illinois. SCALI is hosted by the Center for Africal Studies at Illinois, where International Education Week, March 9 through 15, celebrates the breadth of internationalization across the campus.
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March 4, 2009
Students in the Physics Society and Physics Van perform many demonstrations using liquid nitrogen at the Engineering Open House. Crowd favorites include using a banana as a hammer, shattering raquetballs and the liquid nitrogen shower. This year's Engineering Open House is March 13 & 14.
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March 4, 2009
Nearly 6000 international students live and learn at Illinois, and part of the goal of International Education Week is to celebrate their many critical contributions to campus life. International Education Week 2009, March 9 through 15, recognizes the breadth of internationalization at Illinois.
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March 2, 2009
In the AMD Jerry Sanders Creative Design Contest, teams from universities across the United States compete in an objectives-based robotics competition. The objective at Engineering Open House 2007 (shown) was to take colored frisbees and hula-hoops and move them to alternating goals. Engineering Open House 2009 is March 13 & 14.
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March 2, 2009
Check out the WMC blog and get the latest scoop on the barred owl, fox squirrel and other recent cases. And show your support for the students who care for them by registering for the Eighth Annual Doodle for Wildlife Benefit, Saturday, March 7 at the I Hotel and Conference Center. Learn more here.
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February 23, 2009
Jonathan D. King, a 2005 Illinois alumnus, examines artistic photos of Turkey's abundant Greek and Roman ruins at a photo exhibit organized by the Turkish Students Association and the European Union Center at Illinois. The photo exhibit was intended to provide a glimpse of Turkey, and to inspire photographic artists locally.
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February 19, 2009
Illini Medical Screening Society member Jacquelin Brom takes a client's blood pressure.
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January 27, 2009
