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...
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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...
2004-10-01 - It all started with a hiking trip to Burma. Scott Eggener (BS, '94, biology) was in medical school in 1999 when he and his wife first traveled to remote villages in the Burmese hills, carrying medical supplies with them. The villages were so isolated, Eggener said, that children asked their...
2004-10-01 - Arthur Galston's (MS, '42; PhD, '43, plant biology) life has been all about light. Galston is one of the country's premier plant biologists, spending much of his career studying the relationship between light and plant development. But he has also spent considerable energy shedding light on some...
2004-10-01 - Fortune magazine described Richard Heckert (AM, '47; PhD, '49, chemistry) in 1987 as "gregarious, relaxed and unflappable….a 6-foot-3, friendly bear of a boss." With his people-person skills, plus an understanding of the power of market-oriented research and manufacturing,...
2004-09-01 - Carla E. Cáceres, a professor of animal biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is among 57 young researchers named this fall as recipients of the ...
2004-09-01 - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor 7:00 p.m., Reception followsJames D. Wallace Professor of Philosophy Philosophers are deeply divided as to the subject matter of ethics. At the core of the disagreement is this commonly-held assumption: If ethical norms are to serve as...
2004-08-01 - Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, head of the department of psychology and a recent associate provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been appointed as acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.Mangelsdorf succeeds Jesse G. Delia, who has held the position since 1994. Delia...
2004-07-01 - What can parents do to help children doing poorly in school? Two new studies from the Department of Psychology suggest that supporting their children's autonomy and refraining from being controlling will help kids do better on their homework and raise their grades.The findings, published in the May...
2004-07-01 - A student who hopes to someday explore the solar system is one of 31 U.S. students to receive a Gates Cambridge Scholarship funded by an endowment from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Senior Joannah Metz from Champaign will receive approximately $38,000 to cover the full cost of studies at...-
2004-07-01 - While researching the life and career of Jamaican-born poet Claude McKay (1889-1948), LAS English professor William Maxwell found startling evidence of this country's investigation into black radicalism. The "canonically bold poet" who against all odds and his own deleterious tendencies came to...
2004-07-01 - Chemists in LAS have produced a molecule that selectively kills cancerous cells in a desired way and leaves healthy cells virtually untouched.While encouraging, the findings don't mean a new treatment is imminent. The basic laboratory experiments were done in microtiter dishes, where the compound...
2004-07-01 - Refocusing the attention of errant students was only one of Robert Copeland's roles during his 27 years as advisor and, eventually, as dean in LAS's Student Academic Affairs Office. When he died this past June, students also said good-bye to a father figure, a therapist, and a friend who kept their...-
2004-07-01 - Your parents did it. Even your great-great grandparents did it. The urge to dig at your teeth to dislodge a wedged slivver of food is, researchers say, older than written history. LAS anthropologist Dr Leslea Hlusko claims that ancient man used rudimentary...
2004-07-01 - For those who think that life changes much too quickly, consider the intrepid cicada. In fact, at this time of year it would be hard to ignore it. This 100 percent green-blooded American insect has survived glaciers, predators, farms, and subdivisions. The periodic appearance of the cicada is a...-
2004-04-01 - Academic Advising Award Kathryn A. Martensen LAS General Curriculum Center Kathryn Martensen alleviates incoming freshmen's fears by offering a welcoming smile, excellent advice, and genuine concern for their academic career. . She helps make this large university feel welcoming and accessible to...
2004-03-01 - Just like humans, certain flies need to be "in the mood" before they mate. And nothing creates a better mood for apple flies than the scent of a nice apple tree, while hawthorn flies prefer an essence of hawthorn in the air before finding a mate. These mating preferences are strange because...
2004-03-01 - April 1-2, 2004 Illini Union Leaders shape history by transforming followers into leaders. This controversial claim by Pulitzer Prize-winning political scientist James MacGregor Burns will be the subject of debate this April when Burns visits U of I as this year's Cline Symposium keynote...
2004-03-01 - A white dress, gold bands, lace veil, and white frosted cake are all elements you might see at an American wedding, but this "standard" is not an American tradition. One hundred and sixty years ago, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert wearing a white satin gown, abandoning the velvet robes of her...
2004-03-01 - J. Fred Giertz keeps an eye on the ups and downs in the Illinois economy, and you can, too. Since 1981, this economist in LAS and the staff at U of I's Institute of Government and Public Affairs have generated monthly economic indices, which they now regularly posts to the Web. By logging...
2004-03-01 - A pioneering interdisciplinary research initiative that will combine neuroscience, chemistry, and materials science in an effort to find new treatments for brain diseases and damage is being launched in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a $1.2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation...
2004-03-01 - By identifying the structure of a molecule, scientists are able to predict its properties and behavior, information that is important for understanding chemical reactions and conducting research experiments. Now, researchers in LAS have developed a way to identify these structures faster and with...-
2004-03-01 - Plenty of students at University of Illinois have legacies, but this LAS graduate's family history extends to before the campus was built. "I like to tell people I'm a sixth generation Illini," says Angela Schriver (BS '03, psychology) with pride. In 1864, her great-great-great-grandfather Graham...
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2004-03-01 - Picture this lunch scene: 40 college seniors are sitting with their shoulders straight, napkins neatly draped across their laps, slurplessly sipping their soup. It's only the first course out of four they will consume over the next two hours as they get tips on everything from proper...