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11 unusual facts about Urbana


2011 JSM Challenger of Champaign–Urbana

It was the tenth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour.

2012 JSM Challenger of Champaign–Urbana

It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour.

2013 JSM Challenger of Champaign–Urbana

It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour.

Chester Starr

Between 1940 and 1953 was lecturer in history at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Domasi

The Shallow Well Project funded by the First Presbyterian Church of Urbana in Urbana, Illinois, United States is providing safe drinking water for the villages around Domasi.

Eileen Favorite

She received a B.A. in English with a French concentration from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Herman C. Krannert

In 1964, Herman and Ellnora Krannert announced the plans for Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois.

My Ántonia

The Celebration Company at The Station Theatre in Urbana, Illinois, performed a stage adaptation of My Ántonia in December 2011.

Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

The Nathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, or Newmark Lab, located at 205 N. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, houses the university's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Piet Van Waeyenberge

In 1962 he obtained a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois Champaign (Urbana, IL USA) and in 1963 a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France).

Urbana, New York

The town and its village, Hammondsport, is one of the cradles of aviation, due to the inventions of Glenn Curtiss.


Accent reduction

According to Dennis Baron, a linguistics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, eliminating an accent is difficult.

Animate Objects

CZAR Absolute was asked to participate in the 2003 Triangle Fraternity Battle of the Bands at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Bibliography on American Communism

Naison, Mark, Communists in Harlem During the Depression. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

Brendan Gamble

A native of Urbana, Illinois, Gamble was the formative figure behind, and second drummer of the post-wave group Poster Children.

C. C. Swiney

As an actor, Swiney has been in over 100 live theater productions and was a principal character in a movie with Wet City Productions titled, "Urbana", written and directed by Joshua Aaron Weinstein.

Champaign Township, Champaign County, Illinois

Numerous township residents are also employed by Parkland College, Kirby Foods, Christie Clinic, Devonshire Group LLC, Amdocs, Hobbico and Horizon Hobby, all of which are in the adjacent city of Champaign, Illinois, as well as by Carle Clinic Association and Provena Health, located in nearby Urbana, Illinois.

Dai Morgan Evans

The "villa urbana" erected at Wroxeter during the Channel 4 series Rome Wasn't Built in a Day was designed by Morgan Evans and is based on one of the villas excavated on the Wroxeter site.

Dark fibre

Starting in 1999, Larry Smarr, a technology director from the University of Illinois, connected the Urbana-Champaign campus to major academic, research, and telecommunications facilities in the Chicago area.

David Goldberg

David E. Goldberg (born 1953), professor of engineering and computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David Grandis

After receiving a B.M. in Musicology in France, he completed a M.M. in orchestral conducting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Donald Schleicher and a G.P.D. at the Peabody Conservatory with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar.

Dr. Adam Mosgrove House

A native of Enniskillen in Ireland, Mosgrove immigrated to the United States in 1816; he moved to Urbana after living in Elizabethtown and Lancaster, Ohio.

Gustavo Gómez Córdoba

He also was writer of the T.V. Shows "Yo, José Gabriel" and "Crónica Urbana" for the Bogotá Mayorship.

IGB

Institute for Genomic Biology, a genomics research facility at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign

ILLIAC IV

When Solomon ended, the principal investigator, Daniel Slotnick, joined the Illiac design team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Illini

Illinois Fighting Illini, the intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

INHS

Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Islam A. Siddiqui

He received a B.S. degree in plant protection from Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University (now renamed as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology) in Pantnagar, India, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in plant pathology, both from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Jon Ginoli

While in college, Ginoli served a short stint as a DJ at Urbana radio station WPGU.

Joseph Burrows

He was held for nearly five years on death row before being released after his attorney Kathleen Zellner persuaded the real killer to confess at the post-conviction hearing, and Peter Rooney, a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, obtained a recantation from a key witness.

Katherine Prescott Wormeley

George M. Fredrickson (1965/1993), The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union, reprint with new preface, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Kenneth P. Williams

Kenneth Powers Williams (August 25, 1887, Urbana, Ohio - September 25, 1958) was a professor of mathematics at Indiana University, where he was also a commander of the ROTC there.

Marques Sullivan

He was named all-state by the Chicago Sun-Times and the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, and a high school All-American by Parade.

North American Saxophone Alliance

The 2014 conference will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 20-24, 2014 featuring classical saxophone artists Fred Hemke, Eugene Rousseau, and Don Sinta, as-well-as jazz saxophonists Jeff Coffin, Brad Leali, and Chip McNeil.

Orestes Brownson

George M. Fredrickson (1965/1993), The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union, reprint, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Paolo Longo

He has also earned second prizes and special mentions in Rome (Premio Valentino Bucchi), Piacenza (Egidio Carella Competition), Geneva (Prix Reine Marie José), Urbana-Champaign (Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award), Angoulême, Cuneo, Auckland and many others.

Preetha Ram

She first enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she met her soon-to-be husband, Ashwin Ram, whom she married in 1984.

Robert McChesney

Robert W. McChesney, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, media critic, founder Free Press and Media Matters radio program host

Shahid Khan

In May 2012, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Flex-N-Gate $57,000 for health violations at its Urbana plant.

Slavic Review

Mark D. Steinberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) served as editor from 2006 to 2013.

Thomas Kearns

Alexander, Thomas G. Mormonism in Transition. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

UIUC Engineering Hall

It is located in the south end of the Bardeen Quadrangle on Green Street in Urbana, Illinois, facing the Illini Union.

Uma Outra Estação

Only three tracks of the album had not their melody composed by Legião Urbana: "Schubert Ländler" (a cover of a Franz Schubert piece), "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" (an instrumental cover of Ned Washington's and Dimitri Tiomkin's "The Ballad of High Noon") and "Travessia do Eixão".

Urbana Gerila

Urbana Gerila various lineups included Uroš Đurić, later painter and occasional actor, Slobodan "Loka" Nešović, later founder of Automatik Records company, Branislav "Kebra" Babić, later frontman of Obojeni Program, Nenad "Kele" Krasavac, later the founding member of Disciplina Kičme, and Dragoslav "Draža" Radojković, later member of Laibach and Kazimirov Kazneni Korpus.

War on Gangs

In addition, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign criminologist, Jun Sung Hong in his 2010 study about the Bronfenbrenner ecological approach to understanding Vietnamese gangs in America states that “after-school programs and activities for youths, such as sports or job training opportunities might enhance pro-social behavior and reduce motivation to join a gang.”

WFMG

However, this may change as another pending frequency move -- WKSW Urbana into the Dayton metro -- may have further impact on the station's reception to the east of Richmond if approved.

William Hull

They marched to Staunton and then to Urbana, where they were joined by the 300-man 4th Infantry Regiment.

WIUM

In 1954, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosted the National Association of Educational Broadcasters for the establishment of broadcast allocations (AM/FM radio and TV channels) for non-commercial education programming.

WRFU

WRFU-LP, a low-power radio station (104.5 FM) licensed to Urbana, Illinois, United States

WRSP-TV

On February 19, 1986, full-time satellite WCCU in Urbana was added with an analog signal on UHF channel 27.