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Krannert Center Promotes "Micro-Urban" C-U
The News-Gazette.com, Sunday, November 1, 2009 - Mike Ross, Director of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Associate Dean in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, is leading the charge - with the help of staff, technology and emerging media -Â to promote Champaign-Urbana as a "micro urban" mecca. moreÂ
Pacific Quartet Adds NY Venue
Chicago Classical Review (Nov. 2) -- The Pacifica Quartet, ensemble-in-residence at the University of Illinois, has just added a regular New York venue, succeeding the retired Guarneri String Quartet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Proclaimed one of Chicago's "civic musical treasures," click here to find out more.
Music Professor in Demand by Jazz Greats
All About Jazz (New York City, Oct. 28) -- Dana Hall, professor of music at the U. of I. and Chicago-based drummer and composer, has backed up jazz mavens such as Joe Henderson, Branford Marsalis, Maria Schneider, Benny Golson, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, and Kenny Barron for nearly twenty years. more
Tuba Toss Makes Big Splash for American Music Month
Daily Illini, Champaign, IL, October 26, 2009 - The College of Fine and Applied Arts' School of Music kicks off American Music Month (November) with a Tuba Toss in Freer Pool. This year's theme is women in music. more
Industrial Design Student Shares Grand Prize in Inventor's Competition
| News Gazette, Champaign - Thurs, October 22 Stephen Diebold, senior in Industrial Design in School of Art & Design, shared the grand prize – his take: $27,000 – in the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition.
Diebold, 21, of Rolling Meadows, is the only undergraduate student ever to win this prize, which he shared with a graduate student at the Harvard Medical School. Diebold was also the only fine arts student to win any prize in the competition. He was cited for his invention of the "Drop Point," a device that helps quadriplegics with everyday tasks. Reuters.com, Wed, October 23, 2009Â Press release
University of Illinois News Bureau, May 1, 2008
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