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Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
A better (and broader) understanding of the big screen
Rini Bhattacharya Mehta uses data to study the increasingly popular art of Indian cinema
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Erika Jones
Erika Jones to serve as winter convocation speaker
Humanities alumna facilitates leadership training at United
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Lori Montana
Transforming data into knowledge
Alumna's support of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research helps improve access to 75 years of worldwide news reports
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Cuneiform symbols on a clay tablet
New class offers glimpse of Bronze Age language and technology
A linguistics course in Hittite launched this fall
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Charles Gammie
Illinois' Charles Gammie named on Bloomberg 50 list
Professor recognized for his leadership in unveiling the first image of a black hole
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Orangethroat darter
Study tracks why closely related fish avoid each other
Researchers compare genomes of orangethroat and rainbow darters
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