The University of Illinois Springfield’s Therkildsen Field Station at Emiquon, in cooperation with The Nature Conservancy, Dickson Mounds Museum, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is sponsoring the fifth annual Emiquon Science Symposium to be held Thursday, March 8, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Dickson Mounds Museum in Lewistown.
Scientists, students, and managers involved with restoration ecology, scientific investigations, and management at the Emiquon Complex and the LaGrange Reach of the Illinois River System will share their research through oral and poster presentations.
The day will conclude with a tour of the Emiquon Preserve, UIS Therkildsen Field Station at Emiquon and a “Behind the Scenes” look at the Dickson Mounds Museum.
The symposium was featured in a March 5, 2012, article in the Canton Daily Ledger.
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Monday, March 5, 2012
UIS program adds Lincoln web site, blog
The Wepner Program on the Lincoln Legacy, an offering from the University of Illinois Springfield, has a new web presence, which it promises will be "dedicated to the mission of connecting the academy and the public in the study of Abraham Lincoln and his legacy for today's world."
Matthew Holden is the Wepner Distinguished Professor in Political Science at UIS. Holden's assistant, Gene Giannotta, will maintain the blog and Twitter sites.
The website was featured in The State Journal-Register's "The Abraham Lincoln Observer" blog on March 5, 2012.
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Matthew Holden is the Wepner Distinguished Professor in Political Science at UIS. Holden's assistant, Gene Giannotta, will maintain the blog and Twitter sites.
The website was featured in The State Journal-Register's "The Abraham Lincoln Observer" blog on March 5, 2012.
Read the full blog online
Friday, March 2, 2012
UIS families get extension for housing move
The University of Illinois Springfield will be moving some students and their families out of their apartments as part of a $7.5 million plan to renovate 110 UIS housing units.
Officials told the students Thursday night about the plans to move them into other on-campus housing this fall, when work starts at their buildings.
John Ringle, director of housing for UIS, said plans initially called for family units in Sunflower Court to be renovated first, but the university decided to give the Sunflower Court families more time to prepare for the change.
“We had meetings with the students this time last year and told them they were going to be at the front end of the process. But there were so many people who hadn’t graduated yet and were still going to be here, we elected to put them on the back end and impact far fewer people,” Ringle said.
Of the 30 family units, 24 are occupied, including three where visiting or exchange faculty members live with their families.
The housing renovations were featured in an March 2, 2012, article in The State Journal-Register.
Read the article online
Officials told the students Thursday night about the plans to move them into other on-campus housing this fall, when work starts at their buildings.
John Ringle, director of housing for UIS, said plans initially called for family units in Sunflower Court to be renovated first, but the university decided to give the Sunflower Court families more time to prepare for the change.
“We had meetings with the students this time last year and told them they were going to be at the front end of the process. But there were so many people who hadn’t graduated yet and were still going to be here, we elected to put them on the back end and impact far fewer people,” Ringle said.
Of the 30 family units, 24 are occupied, including three where visiting or exchange faculty members live with their families.
The housing renovations were featured in an March 2, 2012, article in The State Journal-Register.
Read the article online
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