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Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
The University of Illinois Springfield’s Sangamon Auditorium and Springfield Public Schools (SPS) have joined together to form a team that was recently selected to participate in the national Partners in Education Institute, which will take place May 5 ...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
The Springfield Police Department donated six unclaimed bicycles to the University of Illinois Springfield’s Diversity Center Go-Green Bike Checkout Program during a ceremony on Thursday, April 22.The concept of the program is to loan bikes, free of cha...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
Hundreds of students, faculty and alumni members spent the day lobbying lawmakers for state funding during University of Illinois Day at the Capitol on Wednesday, April 21.The annual event is organized by the U of I Alumni Association as a way for people ...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
In honor of National Volunteer Week (April 18-24), the University of Illinois Springfield and the Junior League of Springfield hosted the Springfield Good as Gold Ceremony, a recognition event to acknowledge community members and organizations for their v...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
In honor of National Volunteer Week (April 18-24), the University of Illinois Springfield and the Junior League of Springfield hosted the Springfield Good as Gold Ceremony, a recognition event to acknowledge community members and organizations for their v...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
When The Prairie Star, the Internet based campus radio station of the University of Illinois Springfield signed on the air in February 2008 it was broadcasting from a small room in University Hall.Now two years later, the station has grown. It is complete...

Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
Members of the University of Illinois Springfield Model United Nations Club were honored with one of the group’s highest global awards during a week-long conference in New York City.Model United Nations is a conference that simulates an actual United Na...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
The president of the college Democrats and the chairman of the college Republicans at UIS are roommates.Ryan Melchin, a republican and Matt VanVossen, a democrat, met during freshman year. They hit it off and have been friends ever since. The pair say th...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
More than two dozen high school students and teachers from central Illinois spent a day as statehouse insiders at the capitol on Wednesday, March 24.The University of Illinois Springfield’s “Under the Dome” is the state’s premier immersion event f...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
More than two dozen high school students and teachers from central Illinois spent a day as statehouse insiders at the capitol on Wednesday, March 24.The University of Illinois Springfield’s “Under the Dome” is the state’s premier immersion event f...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
A record number of University of Illinois Springfield students, who participated in Alternative Spring Break returned home on Saturday, March 20 knowing they made a difference.The 45 students and 3 advisers spent a week in Galveston, Texas helping to clea...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
The American Political Science Association (APSA) has just announced that it is honoring University of Illinois Springfield political science professor Christopher Z. Mooney by naming a national Ph.D. dissertation award after him. Doctoral candidates wor...

Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
If you receive a Statement of Economic Interests form . . . Some University employees are required to file a Statement of Economic Interests form under the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. The Office of the Secretary of State will mail the forms to requ...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
Two professors from the Harbin University of Science and Technology in China, who are visiting the University of Illinois Springfield, in an educational partnership met with students at a Springfield elementary school on Tuesday, March 9.Yufeng Jiang, Dea...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
A record number of students from the University of Illinois Springfield will spend their spring break volunteering in Galveston, Texas helping with recovery efforts following Hurricane Ike.The 45 students and 3 advisers will leave Springfield on Friday, M...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
A record number of students from the University of Illinois Springfield will spend their spring break volunteering in Galveston, Texas helping with recovery efforts following Hurricane Ike.The 45 students and 3 advisers will leave Springfield on Friday, M...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
University of Illinois President Stanley Ikenberry spoke to UIS employees and answered their questions during a March 5, 2010 presentation in Brookens Auditorium.Watch portions of Ikenberry’s comments on state funding, furloughs and the search for the n...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
The University of Illinois Springfield has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civ...

Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
Led decade of transformation at campusSPRINGFIELD – University of Illinois Springfield Chancellor Richard D. Ringeisen, who led the campus through a decade of transformation to become ranked among the top universities of its size, announced today that h...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 1 year ago.
A total of 455 students have been named to the University of Illinois Springfield Deans’ List for the 2009 fall semester; 80 are students in the college of Business and Management, 68 are students in the College of Education and Human Services, 256 are ...

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