2007-10-01
- LAS professors Arthur F. Kramer and Gene E. Robinson have been named Swanlund Chairs, the highest endowed titles at the University of Illinois.Kramer, a professor in the Department of Psychology, is part of the Beckman Institute's Human Perception and Performance Group and is co-...
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2007-10-01 - Simulated relationships offer insight into real ones. Is it me, or are you a less than ideal partner? For psychologists studying how people manage romantic relationships, that's not an easy question to answer. What if one of the partners is deeply afraid of intimacy? Could they be acting in ways...
2007-10-01 - Homecoming Weekend Octber 27-28, 2007 Come for the football or any of the dozens of activities happening on campus, from now through October 28. Homecoming Post-Game Reception For two hours following the Homecoming football game Alice Campbell Alumni Center 601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana ...
2007-10-01 - From the very beginning of her college career, Ellen Dwyer has been amazed at the beauty of the body's immune system in battling disease. But not long after her fascination began, Dwyer found herself in a battle of her own-a fight against the autoimmune disease known as Undifferentiated Connective...
2007-10-01 - The University of Illinois football team isn't the only program faring well in the rankings these days. When it comes to an undergraduate education, the U of I moved up two spots to being tied as the number eight public university in the country, according to the latest survey from U.S. News...-
2007-10-01 - A lot of ingredients go into the U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges undergraduate rankings. Here is a quick rundown on the key factors. Peer Assessment (25%) is the most controversial part of the survey, for it is the most subjective. A school's peer...
2007-10-01 - Hopes have been raised, and dimmed, several times in recent years as to whether Lincoln Hall would receive an overdue restoration. They were raised in spring 2006 when the state released the second, and final, installment of funds for architectural studies and other planning work—usually an...
2007-10-01 - More plants with less fertilizer? It's possible, according to University of Illinois researchers who have identified several proteins in plants that, if present in relatively higher concentrations, could almost double their growth efficiency.Their findings, which appeared in the October 2007 issue...
2007-10-01 - Eight LAS scientists share in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, recently awarded to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as to former vice president Al Gore.The IPCC was formed in 1988 with the task of probing the science of climate change. "For the University of...
2007-10-01 - When Margaret Kosal (PhD, '01, chemistry) isn't throwing herself out of airplanes, she's throwing herself into her job with an equal amount of passion. Kosal has made over 1,000 jumps since 1997 when she first parachuted as a chemistry graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-...
2007-10-01 - Whenever people talk about Dorothy Dilorio (BA, '49, Spanish), there is no shortage of adjectives. "Dorothy is gentle, open-minded, kind, and terribly bright," says Gail McClain, the former president of the College of LAS Alumni Board who recruited DiIorio to the board in 1997. "She is dependable...
2007-10-01 - Rachel Galun (PhD, '55, entomology) describes her work as "a bloody business." For more than 50 years, Galun has been one of the world's leading authorities on blood-feeding insects, which are behind some of the most devastating diseases on the globe. This research has taken her on more than 60...
2007-10-01 - In 1984, researchers first isolated the HIV virus, the culprit behind the AIDS epidemic that was spreading panic across the United States. It was also the year that a group of scientists formed a small start-up company known as Agouron Pharmaceuticals—a company that would go on to develop one of...
2007-09-01 - Richard Akresh, assistant professor of economics, returned from Burkina Faso with an unusual collection of "souvenirs." Six hundred pounds of paper, to be precise, which represents household survey data he collected over 18 months about social...
2007-09-01 - Call it another successful graduate of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The college's General Curriculum Center is moving on. It's not gone far. Relocated from its home on Fifth Street to a new Campus Center for Advising and Academic Services located in the Illini Union Bookstore Building...
2007-09-01 - The monastery Mont Saint-Michel rises out of the flat French landscape like something straight out of the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. It was, in fact, an inspiration for Minas Tirith, the massive fortified city in the third Lord of the Rings movie. During the Hundred Years War, England could never...
2007-09-01 - "No one tests the depth of a river with both feet," says an old African proverb.However, when it came to learning an African language on the University of Illinois campus this summer, students jumped in with both feet. It's called the total immersion teaching method.Using this approach, students...
2007-09-01 - Fourteen students joined economics professor Richard Akresh on a 20-day trip to Burkina Faso in West Africa over the winter break. They returned with an entirely new perspective on that country, Africa as a whole, and their own society as...
2007-09-01 - A research team, led by University of Illinois biochemistry professor John A. Gerlt, has developed a way to determine the function of some of the hundreds of thousands of proteins for which amino acid sequence data are available, but...
2007-06-01 - Politicians are known for their fancy footwork, whether it's sidestepping questions or dancing around touchy issues. But Ulric Shannon prefers to tackle political issues head-on and saved the fancy footwork for House Arrest 2, the nationally known hip-hop dance group in which he performed.Shannon,...-
2007-06-01 - Just finishing his senior year at the University of Illinois, Don Ferguson would have been happy doing odd jobs on the movie set of Welcome to Tolono. Little did he know that he would be promoted six times, finally winding up as a producer on this movie, which was directed by a top television...
2007-06-01 - The camera clicks a photograph of a boy's hand. Then the computer inserts the photo of the boy's hand into a long lineup of hands of many colors. The lineup shows exactly where his skin color falls among hands of different shades, ranging from light to dark.This interactive museum feature, known as...
2007-06-01 - For most organisms, survival comes down to a choice: energy either goes towards a longer life or the proliferation of their own genes. But the lucky queen bee enjoys both."The queen bee has her cake and eats it too," says entomologist Gene Robinson...
2007-06-01 - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences extends congratulations to Brian Heery, a past president of the LAS Alumni Association, who was named as one of the 2007 recipients of a University of Illinois Alumni Association Constituent Leadership Award on the Urbana campus. The award, which was...