Smart Planet (CBS Interactive, Oct. 2) -- U. of I.’s entry in the Solar Decathlon, a competition in which 20 teams of college and university students from the United States and Canada are challenged with designing, building and operating the “most attractive, effective and energy efficient” solar homes, is called the Gable House.
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Illinois Times, September 24, 2009 - Marrisa Monson, Illinois graduate and journalist,  talks about Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and its ability to provide a broad spectrum of venues for all performing arts under one roof. more.

News Gazette, Champaign, September 30, 2009 - Kristine Chalifoux, local architect and Design Assistance Specialist for the Smart Energy Design Assistance Center (SEDAC) at Illinois, is findiing ways to bring 'green efforts to the community. As a member of the Champaign schools education board, Kristine has been instrumental in bringing about Champaign school district's "first green school." more.

News Bureau, University of Illinois, Sept 4 - A compilation of feminist health movements pieces are reaching notoriety in two new exhibitions on view Sept. 11 through Oct. 10 at I space, the Chicago art gallery of the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois.

“EveryBody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009,” is a gathering of work by Illinois Art and Design
graduate student Bonnie Fortune. more.

New York Tribune, Sept 14 - Art critic Holland Cotter observes changes in the art world that reflect the current state of the economy and a re-emergence of substance-over-flash in smaller spaces —places like I space. Says Cotter:

“If you want to find innovative models for small-scale shows with big ideas,
teaching institutions are still the place to look, particularly university art
museums. This is where spadework research is being done, and where young
curators are learning to create, experimentally, visions of history through
objects. Such places are also, increasingly and infuriatingly, a target of
budget cutbacks..... As it happens, university museums are among the few places
that still regularly produce exhibitions of unapologetically political art....
Timed to tap into the public’s obsession with health care, I Space Gallery in
Chicago, supported by the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champlain, has a show called “EveryBody: Visual Resistance in
Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009.”

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The
Daily Telegraph (London, Sept. 7) – A recording by artists-in-residence
Pacifica Quartet, “String Quartets One to Five,” composed by Elliott
Carter, was named among the 100 best classical CDs of all times. "The
Pacifica Quartet’s intense renditions, recorded last year, are already
a modern classic," the columnists wrote. more