Spend a music-filled week with gifted musicians and educators. Now in its 14th year, this popular choral workshop will have you singing and performing music from classical and popular genres. Whether you love to sing on stage or just in the shower, the director will polish your vocal technique and expand your love of singing. Between rehearsals, attend a musical study course exploring the musical genius of the collaborative team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the great romantics who dominated the Broadway stage and American musical theater from 1947 into the 1960s and gave us Brigadoon, My Fair Lady and Camelot. Perform at a Friday public concert.
Ability to read music not required. Rehearsals and musical study courses held twice each day. Opportunity for participants to perform individually, as duets, or in groups in a Thursday evening variety/talent show.
Spend a music-filled week with two gifted musicians and educators. Now in its 14th year, this popular choral workshop will have you singing and performing music from classical and popular genres. Whether you love to sing on stage or just in the shower, the director will polish your vocal technique and expand your love of singing. Ability to read music is helpful but not required. End with a Friday concert. In between rehearsals, an enthusiastic music professor will guide you through a multimedia class to survey the fascinating variety of singular voices in American Jazz over the past century from early masters such as Bessie Smith, to mid-century divas including Ella Fitzgerald, to the modern voices of Dianne Reeves and Luciana Souza.
Ability to read music is very helpful for the choral singing workshop; however, it is not required. Program runs concurrently with Choral Singing Workshop And The World Of Musical Theater.
The Project Approach to early childhood education involves young children in investigations of significant events and phenomena in their own environments in ways that strengthen their intellectual dispositions and provide contexts for applying their developing social, literacy, and numeracy skills. In the course of their studies, children do field work, develop personal interests in different aspects of the topic and pursue a variety of investigations. The summer institutes are designed to introduce participants to the three phases of the Project Approach and to demonstrate how these phases can be implemented in the classroom. The institute program includes lectures, audiovisual presentations, group discussions, and practical fieldwork, providing a complete simulation of project work, as well as other classroom activities. Optional evening lectures on related topics are also offered.
In the Engaging Children's Minds summer institutes, educators acquire a thorough understanding of the Project Approach, and learn how to incorporate it into their own curriculum plans through a simulation of project work in a class for pre-primary and primary school children. The institutes are specially designed for classroom teachers and for those responsible for early childhood pre-service and in-service teacher education, as well as other teacher education faculty.
The purpose of this conference is to attract participants from diverse user groups (i.e., recreational users, commercial users, navigation, agriculture, etc.), researchers, and managers of our nation's largest river. In bringing together this diverse group of participants, we hope to derive new and useful solutions and insights into multiple use issues; we also hope that the solutions and insights we gain will be perceived as having been vetted through the multiple users of the river, thus carrying more weight when presented to politicians and other decision makers.
Conference topics will merge the techniques of scenario development with conference presentations, panel discussions, and workshops to derive solutions and insights on four specific topics:
* Topic 1 Ecosystem services/economic value of Mississippi River
* Topic 2 Floodplain connectivity, flood control, and hydrologic regime
* Topic 3 Ethanol production and the Mississippi River
* Topic 4 Clean water and the Mississippi River - uses and threats
The Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Earthquake Engineering Research (ANCER), a unique, professional consortium, was established in October 2001 to enhance research, education and technology transfer activities. Its vision is to broaden research and development impacts and mitigation practices through cooperative activities that can best be advanced on a center-to-center basis over a large geographical area.
ANCER's objectives are to coordinate limited resources in the respective countries to develop and implement, on a cooperative, center-to-center basis, innovative engineering methods and new enabling technologies. This conference will focus on efforts to design, construct, maintain, manage and renew the built environment to reduce seismic hazards.
All TAs and ITAs who have classroom responsibilities (those teaching a lecture, discussion, laboratory, or studio) must be registered for the Graduate Academy for College Teaching.
The Graduate Symposium on Grading & Office Hours is for those TAs and ITAs who do not have classroom appointments (those who are graders and/or hold office hours).
Please click here to register for the Grading Symposium.
The 2009 IFAC Bio-Robotics IV Workshop will bring together researchers and professionals interested in automation, robotics, information technology, and intelligent controls used in bioproduction systems. Attendees will be able to share ideas, theories, techniques, challenges, and concerns with peers and expand their professional networks worldwide. They will also have the opportunity to visit the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the worlds premier higher education institutions, where much research in cutting-edge technologies involving robotics is conducted.
The workshop is open to researchers and engineers from all over the world. The intent of the organizers is that participants will exchange information about trends in fundamental robotic technologies and highlight the use of robotic equipment for food, fiber, and fuel production on open-field farming, in environmentally controlled greenhouse facilities, postharvest processing plants, and space-based environments.
This date will feature a study of the Marshall Plan films and explore how they inform us about challenges facing our nation today. The Marshall Plan, launched by the US Government in 1948, endeavored to promote democracy and peace in post-war Europe. Experience Selling Democracy, a film festival showcasing the Marshall Plan films. Program will include screenings of the films and private discussions with University scholars and Marshall Plan film historian and curator, Sandra Schulberg.
* Quarterly Meeting of the Illinois River Coordinating Council, in conjunction with a Public Forum for Discussion
* Illinois River Watershed Conservation Tour on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
* Overview of outcomes from the Integrated Management Plan for the Illinois River Watershed and other collaborative efforts.
* Wednesday & Thursday Agenda will include concurrent sessions that will feature watershed successes & challenges related to:
o Improvements in the River Corridor
o Water & Sediment Management in the Watershed
o Agricultural Land-Use & Conservation
o Sustainable Economic Growth
o Citizen Involvement & Community Action
o Utilization of Ecosystem Services
* High-Profile Featured Speakers
* Technology Open House
* Informative & Educational Exhibits
* Networking with other Water Resource colleagues
If you are a municipal, county, airport, military, or state engineer/manager/planner, or are involved in pavement management, inspection, maintenance, rehabilitation, prioritization, or budget planning, then this course can show you the most effective ways to maintain your pavement life and utilize your pavement budget.
Participants do not need a background in computers or the application of computers for pavement management.
Level 1 is for those who want to learn how to:
o Define a pavement network
o Perform a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) inspection
o Create pavement inventory
o Analyze pavement condition
o Earn Continuing Education Units
Level 1 is recommended for participants without prior experience in pavement network definition and PCI.
Level 2 is for those who want to learn how to:
o Develop and use pavement condition prediction models
o Analyze the consequences of different budget scenarios on future pavement condition and deferred M&R
o View pavement data using GIS
o Earn Continuing Education Units
o Preview future MicroPAVER development
Level 2 is recommended for those with network definition and PCI experience or those who participated in an earlier course and want an update of the new pavement management capabilities.
