tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:02:20 +0000The latest news and informationhttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/noreply@blogger.com (UIS Web Services)Blogger1017125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-7999743311611275357Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:02:00 +00002010-04-28T14:02:20.587-05:00 This blog is now located at http://news.uis.edu/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://news.uis.edu/feeds/posts/default. http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/04/this-blog-has-moved.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UIS Web Services)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-8203299674189226261Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:00:00 +00002010-04-27T09:24:34.462-05:00Sangamon AuditoriumStaffEducationArtsThe University of Illinois Springfield’s Sangamon Auditorium and Springfield Public Schools (SPS) have joined together to form a team that was recently selected to participate in the national Partners in Education Institute, which will take place May 5 through May 8 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.Carly Shank, director of audience development and http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/04/uis-and-springfield-public-schools.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-8385660656789128431Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:17:00 +00002010-04-22T14:45:50.471-05:00UniversityUndergraduateVideoStudentsrecreationStudent LifeThe Springfield Police Department donated six unclaimed bicycles to the University of Illinois Springfield’s Diversity Center Go-Green Bike Checkout Program during a ceremony on Thursday, April 22.The concept of the program is to loan bikes, free of charge, to the University community. A user completes an agreement checkout form, agrees to the terms and conditions of use, and can borrow the bike http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/04/springfield-police-donate-bicycles-to.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-7437195094836162840Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:49:00 +00002010-04-21T17:58:32.711-05:00UniversityVideoAlumni Associationpublic policyStudentsAlumniFacultyHundreds of students, faculty and alumni members spent the day lobbying lawmakers for state funding during University of Illinois Day at the Capitol on Wednesday, April 21.The annual event was organized by the U of I Alumni Association as a way for people to demonstrate their support for all three University of Illinois campuses.“We are almost a half a billion dollars that the state is indebted http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/04/supporters-lobby-for-state-funding.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-3409967759239442221Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:54:00 +00002010-04-21T11:53:10.659-05:00AwardsVideoStudentsVolunteerStaffPublicIn honor of National Volunteer Week (April 18-24), the University of Illinois Springfield and the Junior League of Springfield hosted the Springfield Good as Gold Ceremony, a recognition event to acknowledge community members and organizations for their volunteer efforts.The ceremony took place on Tuesday evening, April 20, in the lobby of the Sangamon Auditorium on the UIS campus. More than 40 http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/04/good-as-gold-ceremony-honors-students.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-5201442312717603066Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:10:00 +00002010-04-15T11:06:51.668-05:00UndergraduateVideoCollege of Liberal Arts and SciencesStudentsEducationWhen The Prairie Star, the Internet based campus radio station of the University of Illinois Springfield signed on the air in February 2008 it was broadcasting from a small room in University Hall.Now two years later, the station has grown. It is complete with an audio lab, on-air and production studios in the Student Affairs Building (SAB). The station was designed to serve as a learning http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/04/campus-radio-station-grows-to-give.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-99278810196569369Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:34:00 +00002010-04-14T11:52:22.352-05:00AwardsUndergraduateVideoInternationalStudentsMembers of the University of Illinois Springfield Model United Nations Club were honored with one of the group’s highest global awards during a week-long conference in New York City.Model United Nations is a conference that simulates an actual United Nations meeting. The UIS delegation consisted of 14 students and one faculty member. UIS was one of 17 institutions to win the Outstanding http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/04/uis-students-win-award-at-national.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-1068586805911015709Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:07:00 +00002010-04-05T10:28:19.454-05:00UniversityUndergraduateVideopublic policyPublicEducationMore than two dozen high school students and teachers from central Illinois spent a day as statehouse insiders at the capitol on Wednesday, March 24.The University of Illinois Springfield’s “Under the Dome” is the state’s premier immersion event for high school juniors interested in government, politics, and public service.“Most students when they come here to the capitol only get to see what thehttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/03/under-dome-gives-dozens-of-high-school.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-3730014453290450752Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:39:00 +00002010-03-22T14:51:25.890-05:00StudentsVolunteerStudent LifeA record number of University of Illinois Springfield students, who participated in Alternative Spring Break returned home on Saturday, March 20 knowing they made a difference.The 45 students and 3 advisers spent a week in Galveston, Texas helping to clean up damage from Hurricane Ike, which struck in 2008.“Just having the opportunity to be down there was amazing,” said Jaleesa Earthely, http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/03/uis-students-return-home-from_22.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-3756557106687879942Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +00002010-03-17T09:29:10.784-05:00AwardsUniversitypublic policycollege of public affairs and administrationFacultyThe American Political Science Association (APSA) has just announced that it is honoring University of Illinois Springfield political science professor Christopher Z. Mooney by naming a national Ph.D. dissertation award after him. Doctoral candidates worldwide can be nominated for the prize in the category of Best Dissertation in State Politics and Policy.Beginning in 2010, the award will be http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/03/national-dissertation-award-named-after.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-7396108144747546733Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:00:00 +00002010-03-12T13:14:34.476-06:00VideoInternationalEducationFacultyTwo professors from the Harbin University of Science and Technology in China, who are visiting the University of Illinois Springfield, in an educational partnership met with students at a Springfield elementary school on Tuesday, March 9.Yufeng Jiang, Dean of the College of Foreign Languages at Harbin University and Fuming Chen, a faculty member in the College of Foreign Languages are spending http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/03/chinese-professors-visit-springfield.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-3402792653329985792Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:37:00 +00002010-03-09T13:34:28.969-06:00UndergraduateStudentsVolunteerStudent LifeA record number of students from the University of Illinois Springfield will spend their spring break volunteering in Galveston, Texas helping with recovery efforts following Hurricane Ike.The 45 students and 3 advisers will leave Springfield on Friday, March 12 and return to campus on Sunday, March 20. The group will stay at a local elementary school in Galveston with other students from acrosshttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/03/uis-students-to-spend-alternative.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-3637820563266960937Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:00:00 +00002010-03-15T09:11:36.824-05:00UniversityStaffFacultyIf you receive a Statement of Economic Interests form . . . Some University employees are required to file a Statement of Economic Interests form under the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. The Office of the Secretary of State will mail the forms to required filers on March 15. If you receive one of these forms in the mail:Submit the completed form to the University of Illinois Ethics Office byhttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/03/statement-of-economic-interests.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-3496740945817802752Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:53:00 +00002010-03-12T13:20:18.694-06:00UniversityVideoStudentsStaffPublicFacultyUniversity of Illinois President Stanley Ikenberry spoke to UIS employees and answered their questions during a March 5, 2010 presentation in Brookens Auditorium.Watch portions of Ikenberry’s comments on state funding, furloughs and the search for the next UIS chancellor in the video above.http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/03/president-ikenberry-discusses-budget.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-4242995400486187940Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +00002010-03-03T10:15:38.878-06:00AwardsUniversityStudentsVolunteerThe University of Illinois Springfield has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.The Corporation for National and Community Service, which administers the annual Honor Roll award, recognized more than 700 collegeshttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/03/uis-receives-national-recognition-for.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-4003852489292486467Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:29:00 +00002010-03-02T17:58:02.766-06:00UniversityChancellorPublicLed decade of transformation at campusSPRINGFIELD – University of Illinois Springfield Chancellor Richard D. Ringeisen, who led the campus through a decade of transformation to become ranked among the top universities of its size, announced today that he will retire as chancellor effective October 31.Ringeisen, 65, described his tenure at UIS since April of 2001 as the pinnacle of a long career http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/03/uis-chancellor-ringeisen-set-to-retire.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-4155341825359564058Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:24:00 +00002010-02-19T14:20:16.862-06:00UniversityUndergraduateStudentsStudent AffairsEducationA total of 455 students have been named to the University of Illinois Springfield Deans’ List for the 2009 fall semester; 80 are students in the college of Business and Management, 68 are students in the College of Education and Human Services, 256 are enrolled in programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 40 are enrolled in programs in the College of Public Affairs and Administration,http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/02/uis-announces-fall-semester-2009-deans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Derek Schnapp)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-4005756682318059062Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:04:00 +00002010-02-12T15:58:58.809-06:00AwardsCollege of Liberal Arts and ScienceshistoryFacultyA two-volume biography that was 30 years in the making, by one of the foremost living authorities on Abraham Lincoln, has won the 2010 Lincoln Prize.Michael Burlingame will receive the $50,000 Lincoln Prize for his book, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life” (Johns Hopkins University Press), as well as a bronze replica of Augustus Saint-Gaudens life-size bust, “Lincoln the Man.” Burlingame is the Chancellor http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/02/burlingames-biography-of-lincoln-wins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-3669094278973363386Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:07:00 +00002010-02-10T16:19:34.531-06:00UniversityVideotechnologyPublicTechnology within education has been growing by leaps and bounds, and now educators and institutions are even using social media tools within online learning and teaching.The latest and greatest of this innovative technology was showcased during the 10th annual Technology Day at UIS on Wednesday, February 10 in the Public Affairs Center. The theme for this year’s event was “What Are You Learning http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/02/technology-day-draws-crowds-to-learn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-7999288665758397507Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:38:00 +00002010-02-09T13:40:36.792-06:00AwardsUniversityStudentsrecreationUniversity of Illinois Springfield student Brett Walker has recently received the William N. Wasson Student Leadership & Academic Award, given by the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA).The award recognizes top undergraduate and graduate students who are participants of and/or employed by the Department of Recreational Sports at their university and honors outstanding http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/02/uis-student-receives-award-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-3510121662877049858Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:29:00 +00002010-02-03T10:40:31.763-06:00UniversityChancellorStudentsEnrollment at the University of Illinois Springfield has set a record for a spring semester with 4,862 students enrolled, an increase of 327 over last spring. Spring 2010 enrollment tops a record set in spring 2007 when 4,613 students were enrolled.The 7.2 percent increase is primarily due to a larger number of continuing students, according to both UIS Chancellor Richard Ringeisen and Dr. Tim http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/02/uis-sets-record-for-spring-semester.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Derek Schnapp)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-931392003209973328Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:43:00 +00002010-02-01T10:45:49.273-06:00UniversityrecreationPublicThe University of Illinois Springfield’s Global Experience program will be offering a short course on Japanese language and culture in Ashikaga, Japan during the second and third weeks of June. Members of the public community, in addition to degree-seeking students, are invited and welcome to participate.The daily schedule in Ashikaga will include instruction in Japanese language and culture on http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/02/public-invited-to-participate-in-uis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-1097718694402924814Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:31:00 +00002010-03-12T13:24:43.110-06:00AwardsUniversityVideoStaffBob Lael, assistant manager of Human Resources at the University of Illinois Springfield, was named 2009 Employee of the Year at the 27th annual Employee of the Year Recognition Ceremony, held January 28 on the UIS campus.Lael was selected from among 11 UIS staff members who had been employees of the month during the past year. He was employee of the month for May.Materials nominating him at thathttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/02/bob-lael-is-named-2009-employee-of-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-6311623768598190598Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:54:00 +00002010-01-27T09:54:22.744-06:00UniversityVideohistoryThe Rick and Dona McGraw family of Springfield has donated one of only 15 bronze cast of an original Abraham Lincoln life mask to the University of Illinois Springfield.The original plaster mold was taken of Lincoln’s face by sculptor Clark Mills on February 11, 1865, just two months before his assassination. The mask shows the great toll the Civil War had taken on Lincoln's health with his http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/01/lincoln-life-mask-donated-to-uis-by.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10012196.post-2612665400201896684Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:44:00 +00002010-01-19T15:10:29.885-06:00AwardsUniversityonlineFacultyDr. Burks Oakley II, visiting research professor for the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service (COLRS) at the University of Illinois Springfield, has been named director of the New Century Learning Consortium (NCLC).The consortium, which was established in 2007 and is funded by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, includes UIS, University of Southern Maine, Southern Oregon http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2010/01/professor-burks-oakley-is-named.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0