Month: February 2017

2017-02-14

William Mischo has been appointed as acting dean of libraries and university librarian designate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mischo, currently the head of the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center , will begin in the new role Feb. 18. The appointment is pending the review and approval of the Board of Trustees.

Mischo will serve as acting university librarian while the Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Dean of Libraries and University Librarian John Wilkin serves as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost designate at Illinois.

Professor Mischo brings over thirty years of experience at the University of Illinois and an extraordinary track record of leadership and innovation. Bill was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow in 2015 and received the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Science from the American Library Association in 2009. He was invested as The Berthold Family Professor in Information Access and Discovery in 2016.

Mischo earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Carthage College in 1971 and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974.

Mischo will serve as acting university librarian until Wilkin concludes his service as interim provost.

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2017-02-13

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Robert Jones has named John Wilkin as the interim vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost designate. Wilkin, currently the Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Dean of Libraries and university librarian and a professor of library administration at the Urbana campus, will begin in the new role Feb. 18. The appointment is pending the review and approval of the Board of Trustees. Read more…

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2017-02-06

The Image of Research – UR Edition is now taking submissions.
Deadline: March 1, 2017 –> DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 17, 2017

The Image of Research is a multidisciplinary competition celebrating the diversity and breadth of undergraduate student research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. All undergraduate students are invited to submit entries consisting of an image and brief text that articulates how the image relates to the research. Entries will be judged by a multidisciplinary panel for:

• Connection between image, text, and research
• Originality
• Visual Impact

All images submitted will be included in IDEALS , hosted and archived by the University Library for long term preservation.

The Image of Research is organized by the Scholarly Commons of the University Library and the Office of Undergraduate Research and is supported by a generous gift to the Scholarly Commons from the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics . Image of Research at Illinois was inspired by the Image of Research competition at the University of Illinois at Chicago .

To enter, see the competition details page .

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