The Arnold O. and Mabel M. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is known for cross-disciplinary research done by some of the world’s greatest minds… but the place is recognized for its food, too. Ted’s Cafe, and the previously unnamed breakfast, snack, and lunch depot at Beckman has welcomed scientists from the building, nearby […]
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Connie Frank CARE Center
Original story written by BRIDGET K. MCCLANAHAN, M.A.EdAssistant Director of Marketing and CommunicationsStudent Affairs When students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign need assistance, they now have a one-of-a-kind campus hub designed to help Illinois students find their way. The Connie Frank CARE (Coordination, Assistance, Response, and Education) Center, located on the fourth floor of the Turner […]
Shop Spotlight: Sheet Metal Works for the President As Well As You
By Emma WestrayF&S Communications Working for the President of the University of Illinois System requires a lot of skill and hard work. That’s why President Tim Killeen called the F&S sheet metal shop. Killeen and his family have worked with F&S on many projects. F&S helped the first family build a she-shed and vegetable patch […]
Mike Larson awarded for emergency planning by Division of Public Safety
Mike Larson, interim director of F&S Utilities & Energy Services (UES), was awarded and recognized for strategic campus contingency planning by Brian Brauer from the U. of I. Division of Public Safety (DPS). Larson saw how strong communication between the City of Champaign and Urbana Fire Departments, DPS, and crafts, trades, and utilities at F&S, […]
For Football: Putting Butkus Where He Belongs
Dick Butkus, one of college football’s greatest and most famous players is honored with a statue outside of Gies Memorial Stadium and the Henry Dale and Betty Smith Football Center. The Fighting Illini linebacker and college and pro football hall-of-fame member came back to campus in 2019 for the unveiling of the statue, depicting him […]
Shop Spotlight: Stopping for the Summer
… Summer arrives, one red blink at a time … Vince Lara-Cinisomo This U. of I. truth goes out to the year-round faculty and staff, and students who stay for the summer: you just love getting around campus when there’s way fewer drivers, pedestrians, and bikers to demand your life safety-attention, and blinking red stop […]
Protected: Shop Spotlight: Machining for the Road
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Shop Spotlight: Milling A Mighty Pine Podium
A small row of four trees outside the west-facing entrance of Siebel Center for Design (SCD) tell a little-known story from long ago. Now, visitors to SCD will have a new way to recognize the history and purpose of the trees, planted there by the third President of the University of Illinois, Thomas Jonathan Burrill.
Shop Spotlight: Steam and Gas
Steam distribution operators maintain the utility connections that connect the university district on centralized systems. For an example of that, you may think of Abbott Power Plant, the campus cogeneration facility that makes both steam and electricity with massive boilers that power gigantic turbines – see for yourself! From Abbott, steam and electricity go through […]
Ice Cold Players
Refrigeration mechanics had to call an audible. With the clock ticking down before Illini football recruiting visits, someone had to “figure it out” at the Henry Dale and Betty Smith Football Center. The need was a real puzzler: how do you build and install two 8-foot-tall cryo freeze chambers, outfitted with neon striping glowing lights […]