WHAT: The University of Illinois Springfield Astronomy-Physics Program, Lincoln Memorial Garden and the Sangamon Astronomical Society will host a special Star Party to view the annual Perseid meteor shower.

WHEN: 8:30-10 p.m. Friday, August 12, 2022

WHERE: Lincoln Memorial Garden, 2301 E. Lake Shore Drive, Springfield

UIS Theatre Announces the '23-'24 Season

Nathan Oba-Okusanya of Radlett, England, a 2022 graduate of Haberdashers Askes Boys School, has been admitted to the University of Illinois Springfield for Fall Semester 2022 and awarded a $24,000 Lincoln Merit Scholarship for tuition over four years. At UIS, he will major in exercise science and play on the UIS men’s soccer team.

The scholarship is awarded based on high school GPA and can be renewed for a total of four years if the student maintains college GPA requirements.

He played football (U.S. soccer) at Haberdashers Askes Boys School.

This is an excerpt of a story published by the State Journal-Register on July 22, 2022.

Trustees for the University of Illinois have approved the purchase of a downtown building to house the planned UIS Innovation Center, designed to provide a hub for technology, business, policy and workforce development.

Sangamon Experience at the University of Illinois Springfield presents a new exhibit, “Susan Lawrence Dana: A Woman of Progress,” opening Aug. 1, 2022, on the lower level of the Public Affairs Center at UIS. The exhibit was created by recent UIS public history graduate Katie Brethorst-Stockwell.