Monday night December 18 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 “The New York Philharmonic This Week” is pre-empted so that we can bring you two holiday specials: “Christmas with the Morehouse and Spelman Glee Clubs” and “An Afro-Blue Christmas”.

A new engineering research center was officially launched at the University of Illinois Thursday, with the goal of cramming more power into smaller spaces.  The Center for Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems - POETS for short - will take on the challenges of improving mobile electronics and vehicle design.