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Altgeld Hall
Timeline set for Altgeld Hall and Illini Hall project
Architect negotiations are ongoing for renovation and construction plan
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Sediment mining in the Surma River valley in northern Bangladesh
Troubled waters
Professor publishes a summary of dangers facing the world's major rivers
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A nuclear test in the Nevada desert in the early 1950s.
New book tells story of secret Hollywood studio
Lookout Mountain Laboratory shaped impressions of the nuclear age
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Larry Harris in Washington, D.C.
Practicing diplomacy
Larry Harris is bringing a little bit of Chicago to Cameroon
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From left: Graduate students Yo-Chuen Lin and Rosaline Hsu, Mariam Komal Harif, and professor Supriya Prasanth.
Researchers discover another role for cell protein
Discovery provides deeper insight into DNA and the fight against cancer
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Researchers in a field
Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch
Research potentially boosts crop growth by 40 percent
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