The Corn Breeders' School mission and outreach adjusts to keep up with the times. The first School was held in 1964 under the leadership of John Dudley, Bob Lambert, and the late Drs. D.E. Alexander, John Laughnan, Earl Patterson, and others. The School was first formed as an educational outreach to commercial corn breeders in the state of Illinois, though national and international attendance soon grew. At the outset of the School, the hybrid seed corn industry was comprised of many independent, privately-owned companies, and corn breeding was considered, perhaps, just as much an art as it was a science. This is no longer the case. The industry today is dominated by a relatively few, large, publically-owned, international corporations, and corn breeding is an industrialized and highly technical process. Today, each breeder is supported by an army of scientists working in biotechnology, genomics, statistics, data analysis, information management, and other highly specialized disciplines. Contributions from all are essential for launch of successful products.
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The symposium will feature plenary and poster sessions on community engagement. The keynote plenary session will focus on Champaign-Urbana as a Micro-Urban Community, emphasizing the opportunities and challenges for engagement. The panel for this session will be led by Mike Ross, director of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Other plenary sessions will focus on engagement opportunities related to STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and math) and sustainability.
All symposium activities will focus on the theme: Serving our community. Through these vehicles, we hope that you will gain insight into successful community engagement theories and practices and how they can best support your public engagement project. All symposium events are free and open to the public. Members of the local community are strongly encouraged to attend and participate in this symposium.
Sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement and Office of Continuing Education, it is our hope to enlighten, educate, and inspire; to strengthen relationships, and to develop a culture of engagement across the campus and local communities.
Here is your opportunity to interact with a variety of film professionals at the 12th annual Ebertfest Film Festival hosted by Roger and Chaz Ebert and held at Champaign's historic Virginia Theater. The film festival, open to the public, draws hundreds of film fans from across the nation and dozens of film/industry professionals: actors, directors, producers and writers. Participants attend morning academic panel discussions as well as view 12 to 14 films, each hand-picked by Roger Ebert and Festival staff
Join leading University scholars and distinguished faculty members for an in-depth exploration of issues facing our nation during one of the most exciting and challenging times in our countrys history. Each day participate in informative lectures and lively discussions about topics of national and international importance, and learn how past policy has had a significant impact on current events. Engage in thoughtful dialogue on the tough choices in domestic and international relations. Whether you are conservative or liberal or somewhere in between, you are sure to come away from this investigation of timely topics with a greater understanding of what it means to live in our ever-shrinking global society.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign warmly welcomes the students, teachers, coaches, and parents of the 2010 Science Olympiad National Tournament.
As an aspiring young scientist, you will find that the university is a perfect place to imagine, illuminate, and integrate what you learn as you celebrate the mysteries of science.
The Society for Research on Biological Rhythms was formed in 1987 to promote the advancement of basic and applied research in all aspects of biological rhythms, to disseminate the important results of that research among scientists, to the agencies that fund research and to the general public, to enhance the education and training of students and researchers in the field and to foster interdisciplinary communication. Biennial meetings provide an environment for the exchange of ideas during scheduled scientific sessions, as well as during informal gatherings.
The Sixth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from May 26-29, 2010. The theme of the 2010 Congress is "Qualitative Inquiry for a Global Community in Crisis." It is clear that in these troubling political times qualitative researchers are called upon to become human rights advocates, to honor the sanctity of life, and the core values of privacy, human dignity, peace, justice, freedom from fear and violence.
The 2010 Congress will offer scholars the opportunity to form coalitions, to engage in debate, and dialogue on how qualitative research can be used to can advance the causes of social justice, while addressing racial, ethnic, gender and environmental disparities in education, welfare and healthcare. Delegates will show how critical inquiry can be used to bridge gaps in cultural and linguistic understandings.
Sessions will take up such topics as: the politics of evidence; alternatives to evidence-based models; mixed-methods; public policy discourse; social justice; human subject research; indigenous research ethics; decolonizing inquiry; standpoint epistemologies. Contributors are invited to experiment with traditional and new methodologies, with new presentational formats (drama, performance, poetry, autoethnography, fiction). Such work will offer guidelines and exemplars showing how qualitative research can be used in the human rights and policy-making arenas.
On May 26 there will be pre-conference language events and on May 27, morning and afternoon professional workshops. The Congress will consist of keynote, plenary, featured, regular, and poster sessions. There will be an opening reception and barbeque as well as a closing old fashioned Midwest cook-out.
We invite your submission of paper, poster and session proposals. Submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1 2009. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, 2009. To learn more about the Sixth International Congress and how to participate, please visit our website.
Spend a music-filled week with three gifted musicians and educators. The director will polish your vocal technique and expand your love of singing. Between rehearsals, attend two musical study courses. By day explore the musical genius of Kurt Weill and the rich heritage of music that he composed for both the German and American musical theatres. By evening, survey the fascinating variety of singular voices in American Jazz over the past century in a multimedia short-course.
Join instructors Lilian G. Katz and Sylvia C. Chard, co-authors of Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach, who will offer a summer institute on their signature strategy for early childhood education enhancement. The session offers a comprehensive and hands-on introduction to the Project Approach.
The institute is 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.
Join us for the 2010 AERGC Annual Meeting on the campus of the University of Illinois where it all began. Help us celebrate 25 years of sharing information, sharing resources and networking. Meet colleagues while attending seminars and workshops on plant production for research and teaching. Learn about going green in the greenhouse. Tour teaching and research plant growth facilities at UIUC and in the area.
The Illinois High School Theatre Festival is the largest & oldest non-competitive high school theatre festival in the world. The three-day Festival takes place every year in early January, and switches locations annually between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois State University. Each year, over 4,000 students, teachers, university representatives, exhibitors, and volunteers come together for three days to put on over 25 different high school productions and over 150 workshops. Other highlights include college/university auditions for high school seniors, professional development for teachers, a student film festival, and the annual All-State Production, featuring student cast, crew, and orchestra members from across the state.
