2005-04-01
- The orange (and blue) that appeared to be everywhere during basketball season only seem as if they have been Illinois' colors forever. During the University's first quarter-century, a loyal Illini may have donned gold and black or green and white.Patrick Hayes, a development officer in LAS who once...
LAS News Archive
2005-04-01 - Spend an hour with the first five students designated as Civic Leadership Fellows at Illinois and any fears about the future-who's taking us into it and how-are doused. For example, Kasey Umland, a graduate student from Monee, Illinois, wants to have a hand in restructuring the International...
2005-04-01 - They're just the stuff to wire tomorrow's molecule-sized computer chips, make fibers tougher than Kevlar, even create cables for an elevator to space. Now LAS researchers have taken a giant step toward those ambitions by developing a method to separate different types of carbon nanotubes. Just one...
2005-04-01 - When Marc Perry was growing up in New York City in the 1970s, he remembers his babysitter taking him to outdoor street jams where people plugged turntables into outlets at the base of streetlamps. What he witnessed was the beginning of the hip-hop phenomenon, which has now spread across the globe,...
2005-02-01 - Adolescents who think little of themselves tend to shy away from interactions with peers. This uncertainty and withdrawal then draws negative feedback from other students, prompting even more withdrawal and leaving them as targets for teasing or bullying and with few chances to have close friends....-
2005-02-01 - Chemists in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have found a new way to outwit resistance to antibiotics.By inserting a naturally occurring molecule into an antibiotic-resistant bacterium, the team was able to gradually destroy the machinery responsible for the resistance."Multidrug-resistant...
2005-02-01 - On the first days of the Iraq War, as Marines battled to secure their position in an-Nasiriyah, U.S. Marine Corporal Daniel Rhodes, 23, spotted a live landmine lodged below a pipeline in the desert dirt. The pipeline carried essential fuel to frontline troops, and an explosion threatened the entire...-
2005-02-01 - As computers get faster, chips get smaller, and the transistors that make up chips get harder and harder to build. But a new chemical trick developed by LAS chemical and biomolecular engineers could allow manufacturers to build next-generation transistors without resorting to costly and unproven...
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2005-02-01 - The cliché, "it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks," applies to humans, too. A recent study conducted in part by LAS psychology graduate research assistant Alex Konkel explains how behaviors developed over a lifetime remain automatic while newly learning behaviors require the kind of...
2005-02-01 - Feminism needs to end its 150-year obsession with the politics of personal appearance, and get past its dim view of beauty, says Linda Scott, an associate professor of gender and women's studies and advertising. She says beauty is an issue that has divided women much more than it has aided their...-
2005-02-01 - When it comes to making calls from a moving vehicle, the hands-off technique of operating cell phones is just as distracting as the hands-on approach. Experiments conducted in a virtual reality suite at U of I's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and...
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2005-01-01 - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their outstanding service to the institution. Their contributions are vital to maintaining LAS as a great college.LAS Staff Awards Shari L. French, Anthropology Bob Taylor, School of Chemical Sciences...
2004-12-01 - Sulfate-reducing bacteria may be the answer to detecting and reducing hazardous levels of arsenic in groundwater, according to researchers in the Department of Geology. "The threat extends to central Illinois, where there are very high levels of arsenic contamination in a number of wells," says...
2004-12-01 - A modest five-cent tax on a gallon of gasoline paid today could mitigate long-term climate change in the future. The idea is the work of two U of I scientists and an economist from Wesleyan University, with funds from the National Science Foundation."You can think of the tax as a low-cost insurance...
2004-12-01 - Bigger is better when it comes to computer simulations. So say the editors of Science magazine who chose a computer simulation of a cell membrane by U of I researchers as their visualization challenge winner for 2004. The simulation was recognized for its record-setting size and scientific...
2004-12-01 - Time spent in the great outdoors, or 'green time,' may be a valuable supplement for children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), say two researchers in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "The advantage of green outdoor activities was observed among children living in...-
2004-12-01 - When LAS English assistant professor Audrey Petty was asked to prepare a paper for a panel titled "Edible Icons in Black (and White)" she knew she had to write about chitlins. The result of her efforts is the essay "The Sacred and The Profane: Late Night Chitlins With Momma." "Chitlins' are a...
2004-12-01 - The first formal study to investigate U.S. public opinion about who was to blame for the 9-11 attacks challenges a popular theory. The story of widespread misconceptions about Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's role in the September 2001 attacks grabbed headlines around the first anniversary of the...
2004-12-01 - A creature that "resembles a wet brown paper bag with the appetite and table manners of a hyena" is helping researchers blaze a trail toward future pharmaceutical treatments for depression and other disorders. Researchers at Illinois are studying two species of marine mollusks to learn more about...
2004-12-01 - Considering the overwhelming amount of time South Korean mothers devote to their children's academic endeavors, for some, it is as though they have never left school.Education traditionally has been valued by South Koreans, but a new generation of mothers have taken this dedication to a whole new...
2004-10-01 - Early in Nina Baym's distinguished career she read a quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne that would guide the arc of her writing and research. The 19th-century Massachusetts novelist known for such classics as The Scarlet Letter and Twice-Told Tales, dismissed fiction by women as trivial...
2004-10-01 - Independence Day has taken on new layers of meaning for a team of archaeologists who've been digging in western Illinois this summer. In fact, nearly everything about the excavation in the rolling farmland near Barry speaks volumes about freedom and liberty, nearly everything adds a chapter to the...
2004-10-01 - Recent images of a star-forming "nursery" in a neighboring galaxy are helping scientists better understand how stars came to populate our own Milky Way. You-Hua Chu, an astronomer in LAS, and Yäel Nazé, from the Universite de Liège, Belgium, are analyzing...
2004-10-01 - Negotiating the complex paths of health care is difficult enough under the best circumstances, but it becomes progressively more confusing as we age and our memories become less reliable. Vital daily tasks such as taking required medicine can be simply forgotten. The National Institute on Aging...