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Facebook hairstylist scams edge out legitimate community stylists in C-U
For women using social media to find a hairstylist, fake accounts created by people posing as hairstylists can appear real, containing pictures of the purported stylist’s previous works. Some of these fake profiles use pictures stolen from other people.
‘Art changes the world’ – a UIUC initiative aims to embed the arts into all aspects of campus life
Cynthia Oliver, a dance professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is leading a new campus-wide initiative to amplify arts on campus and in the surrounding community.
U of I professor Ruby Mendenhall pours pain into writing as Urbana’s new poet laureate
Ruby Mendenhall is preparing to share a lifetime of writing as Urbana’s poet laureate.