2013-04-01
- Maybe life just isn’t fair, after all. Not only can elite athletes jump higher and move faster than most of us, but a new study suggests that in some ways they can think faster, too. A study of 87 top-ranked Brazilian volleyball players (some of them medalists in the Beijing and London Olympics)...
LAS News Archive
2013-04-01 - When you enter the Illinois Geometry Lab, situated in the lower level of Altgeld Hall, take any assumptions you have about mathematics and leave them at the door. This is where research teams of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members...
2013-04-01 - Sustainability has become a catch phrase in discussions over how to preserve the environment. But what does the concept really mean? Answering that question is one of the purposes of an ongoing series at Illinois that organizers hope will inspire fresh ideas on the issue. This is the third year of...
2013-03-01 - While the end of Saturday delivery will reduce costs for the U.S. Postal Service, the mail carrier must pursue more solutions if it wants to survive, according to a University of Illinois economics professor. It even remains to be seen whether...
2013-03-01 - The demand for language translators and interpreters is projected to expand for at least the next decade. That means the U of I’s Center for Translation Studies is going to grow, too. The center has begun accepting applications for a new master’s...
2013-03-01 - One needs to look no further than the TV listings to know that history looks great on screen. From the Civil War to the Titanic, today’s viewers have their pick of riveting historical documentaries to choose from. But history and television can be an uneasy mix, with accuracy sometimes at odds...
2013-03-01 - You might not have known it from the weather, but the U of I campus has been a little more, well, Brazilian this winter. Illinois was one of 18 U.S. universities to host English teachers from Brazil during a new six-week professional development program funded by Brazil’s Ministry of Education. The...
2013-02-01 - Some 40 years ago, Steve Miller was a chemistry doctoral student at the U of I studying DNA. He knew next to nothing about petroleum, and so it was with some dampened optimism one day that he introduced himself to a campus recruiter from Chevron, one...
2013-02-01 - Charles Schroeder, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, which will help Schroeder and his research team conduct new and cutting-edge molecular...
2013-02-01 - When the late microbiologist Carl Woese discovered a new domain of life, he touched lives that he didn’t even know. One of them was Mark Martin, a professor of biology at the University of Puget Sound who met Woese only once, in the...
2013-02-01 - If your weight has become an issue, think about driving to your next destination—driving less, that is. A new study by University of Illinois researchers indicates that curbing your driving habits can be just as effective as dieting.The study, led by computer...
2013-02-01 - A promising new stem cell study on mice has researchers at the University of Illinois hopeful that they have turned an important corner in the battle against Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Researchers transplanted stem cells derived from normal mouse blood vessels into the hearts of mice...
2013-01-01 - When polar bear drills are part of the class schedule, you know that studying abroad has just been taken to a new extreme. And it has—the University of Illinois is bringing students and faculty to the Arctic Circle. Faculty are organizing a second class in the land of ice and never-setting sun...
2013-01-01 - Want a happy retirement? You might start by getting in touch with your personality. Psychologists at the University of Illinois report that changes in social well-being are closely tied to one’s personality, with positive changes in one corresponding to similar changes in the other....
2013-01-01 - It’s funny the things you notice when you come to a new country for the first time. For Cathy (Copeland) Gryczan, it was laundry hung outside windows in southern France when she arrived as a U of I student for a study abroad program in the early 1980s. “That struck me as something that was like a...
2013-01-01 - Carl Woese, the microbiology professor credited with the discovery of a “third domain” of life, died Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, at his home in Urbana, Ill., after a nearly half-century career at the University of Illinois. He was 84. Woese...
2013-01-01 - Those pesky sulfur compounds in petroleum fuels have met their nano-match. University of Illinois researchers have developed mats of metal oxide nanofibers that scrub harmful sulfur from petroleum-based fuels much more effectively than traditional materials. Such efficiency could lower costs and...
2013-01-01 - For almost a century archaeologists have believed that a treasure-trove of 2,000-year-old Native American pipes unearthed in southern Ohio came from local stone. A new study at the University of Illinois, however, concludes that most stone for the pipes—and perhaps even the finished pipes...
2013-01-01 - The family of Carrie Klaus has been seen around Lincoln Hall for almost as long as the building has existed. Appropriately, her family is among the most frequently featured on memorial pavers in the courtyard of the restored Lincoln Hall. Carrie Klaus is just the most recent graduate from her...
2012-12-01 - Several departments within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are in the final planning stages of a classroom initiative that they believe could reform the way many college courses are taught on campus. Called the LAS Top Ten Innovation Initiative, the project is focused on bringing more...
2012-12-01 - You might say that Bill Taber was tailor-made for his role in what’s becoming humanity’s most significant deep space exploration yet. The first book he ever recalls reading was about the solar system. And then there was the connection he saw early on between math and life. “You could discover...
2012-12-01 - Since the early part of the 20th century, many scientists have pictured the first microbial life on Earth as a fully formed cell that emerged from a “primordial soup” of simple organic compounds. However, a more complete picture of the origin of life might be that of a “primordial Internet.”...
2012-12-01 - Four professors from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been named fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012. Neal Cohen, professor of psychology, So Hirata, professor of...
2012-12-01 - Who is Ana Peso? If you’re a fan of Jeopardy!, you’ll find out on December 31 when the U of I alum appears on the iconic television game show to match her knowledge—and buzzer speed—against other contestants in a moment she’s dreamed about for years.“I’ve always wanted to be on the show...
2012-12-01 - For most of us, ant control might be accomplished with the bottom of a shoe or maybe a few traps. Tasked with helping prevent infestations across an entire 2,000-mile national border, however, researchers at the U of I turned to the Internet. They created Antkey, an...