Education contingent from South Korea visits Lab Schools

University High School exterior

Seungho Maeng and Keunsoo Kim visited Metcalf School and University High School to gather information regarding how the Lab Schools are administered in collaboration with the College of Education and how they are coherently managed.

School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series, October 30

Viktor Kirik

Viktor Kirik, assistant professor of the School of Biological Science, will present “Regulation of cell growth and division by the microtubule cytoskeleton” as part of the School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series.

Grand opening for University Galleries in Uptown Normal

University Galleries had the grand opening at its new location on the corner of Beaufort and Broadway streets in Normal October 17, with the unveiling of an exhibition of 80 paintings by Walter Robinson. Photos of the event are by Peter Guither.

Health Sciences to host Nolte Scholar, November 4

Victor Strecher

The Department of Health Sciences, in cooperation with Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Nolte Funds, will present the 2014 Nolte Scholar at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 4, in the Old Main Room at Bone Student Center.

Music professor to premiere ‘Walking With My Ancestors,’ November 6

Person in doorway

In spring 2009 and summer 2013, Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum, a professor in the School of Music at Illinois State University, walked through several slaveholding dungeons—the wombs in which enslaved Africans were born—on Gorée Island, Senegal, and Elmina and Cape Coast, Ghana. She sat in those cells, and listened to and reflected on the past and