2001-10-01
- The central theme running through the achievements of Dr. Phillip Sharp (PhD, '69, chemistry) is their vast impact on the direction of research in molecular biology and biochemistry. From his revolutionary discovery that gene sequences may be interrupted by noncoding "nonsense" stretches of DNA...
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2001-10-01 - Native-born Illini Daniel R. Reedy (AM, '59; PhD, '62, Spanish) has come a long way since his childhood in Marshall, Illinois. An original academic protege of legendary College of Liberal Arts & Sciences' Spanish professor Luis Leal, he completed the second doctoral dissertation ever directed...
2000-10-01 - Unlike the candidates in the current presidential election, Steven Kulm (AB, '92, political science) was not born into politics, but by age 10 he knew that he was born for it. His blood was red, white, and blue, and now at 28, he is most obviously manifesting it. Kulm, a 1992 graduate in political...- 2000-10-01 - The 40-year career at Merck Research Laboratories of chemist Seemon H. Pines (MS, '49; PhD, '51, chemistry) has been in pursuit of therapeutic agents that fight infection, reduce inflammation, and make us healthier. This College of LAS Achievement Award winner has accomplished the seemingly...
2000-10-01 - Everything is made of chemicals, but sometimes, it is necessary to separate one chemical from another—for instance, to purify metal ores, to clean up contaminated wastes, even to combat disease. One of this year's College of LAS Achievement Award winners, E. Philip Horwitz (MS, '55; PhD, '57...
2000-10-01 - Juvenile delinquency, crime, and violence are the steady diet of the urban magistrate. As chief judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Eugene N. Hamilton (AB, '55, general curriculum) has seen his share. But witnessing the outcome of poverty and despair has not jaded him. Quite...
2000-10-01 - The career of Susan Nagele (BS, '78, biology) is decidedly uncharacteristic of our times. In an age when many pursue instant wealth and leisure, this year's College of LAS Humanitarian Award winner, who is a Maryknoll Catholic missionary, aspires to serve humanity and forsake worldly...- 1999-10-01 - Carol Stack (AM, '68; PhD, '72, anthropology) has been a force in cultural anthropology almost since the day she turned in her dissertation. All Our Kin, the book that sprang from her research, became an instant classic in ethnography and is still one of the most widely read examinations...
1999-10-01 - The life work of Jim Davis (BS, '54, psychology) has revolved around answering a single, deceptively simple question: How do small groups of people reach decisions? In the process of doing so, he has influenced business practices and Supreme Court decisions, reinvented the field of group decision...
1999-10-01 - Molly Melching (AB, '71; AM, '79, French) arrived in Senegal in 1974 as a graduate exchange student on a six-month visa. Twenty-five years later she is still there. She has found a home among its people and her destiny in promoting literacy and self-help among its rural poor. Upon her arrival in...- 1999-10-01 - Ed Cupp (PhD, '69, entomology) saw his first victims of river blindness during a field trip to Guatemala in 1969. He was a graduate student at Illinois at the time, but he never forgot the sight. Lesions and nodules covered the bodies of children and had spread to the eyes of many adults. Today,...