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Blakes to celebrate golden anniversary
Original at Winfield Daily Courier
• Tue, Dec 22
Their son-in-law, Lars R. Clausen, is the recipient of a doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is ...
A Quantum Leap in Battery Design - MIT Technology Review
Original at MIT Technology Review
• Sun, Dec 20
A Quantum Leap in Battery Design blog) A "digital quantum battery" concept proposed by a physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign could provide a dramatic boost ...
Collinsville area education news
Original at SuburbanJournals
• Tue, Dec 15
She plans to major in civil engineering at either the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or Purdue University. Sara Schleifer was named Senior of ...
U. of I. business instructional facility achieves top 'green' standard
Original at FirstScience
• Tue, Dec 8
By University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The state-of-the-art Business Instructional Facility at the University of Illinois has ... and more »
Eboo Patel Wins Grawemeyer Award
Original at server.com
• Sat, Dec 5
A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Rhodes Scholar received a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University. and more »
Obama's India-born adviser wins award
Original at Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Technology Blog
• Fri, Dec 4
A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Rhodes Scholar received a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University. and more »
Symposium marks century of discovery for U. of I. entomology department
Original at FirstScience
• Thu, Dec 3
By University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, lll. – The University of Illinois department of entomology celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009 ... and more »
Dean McGee Eye Institute Names Dr. Gregory L. Skuta New President/CEO
Original at Benzinga
• Thu, Dec 3
He earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois College of Medicine ... and more »
November dries out, warms up
Original at Morris Daily Herald
• Thu, Dec 3
The Illinois State Water Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, under the Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, is the primary ... and more »
Chicago basks in record warm November
Original at Examiner.com
• Wed, Dec 2
The Illinois State Water Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability is the primary ... and more »
University of Massachusetts Amherst and ADVENTUS recognize future ... - Environmental Expert
Original at environmental-expert.com
• Tue, Nov 24
University of Massachusetts Amherst and ADVENTUS recognize future ... Environmental Expert (press release) Ms. Kayleigh Dunnett, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, for her presentation on “Biodegradation of Tert-butyl Alcohol (TBA) using Biological ...
Vote yes, and keep organizing
Original at Socialist Worker Online
• Thu, Nov 19
NOW THAT University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) graduate employees have suspended our historic strike, we face an important decision: how to vote ... Grad employees' strike victorySocialist Worker Online all 2 news articles »
University of Illinois Caves After Two-Day Grad Strike
Original at Labor Notes
• Wed, Nov 18
Graduate employees wrapped up a two-day strike at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after the university agreed to the union's key demands. ... After Protests, A Win for Illinois Graduate StudentsIn These Times Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette -Inside Higher Ed -AFL-CIO
Indian students in US cross 100000 mark
Original at Economic Times
• Tue, Nov 17
Rounding out the top five 2008/09 host institutions are University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (6570 students) and Purdue University (6136 students). ... Korean student numbers increase at US collegesJoongAng Daily EDUCATION: Foreign Students Flock Back to USAustralia.TO
Mixed Outlook on Foreign Students
Original at Inside Higher Ed
• Mon, Nov 16
The Hindu The top five are: the University of Southern California, New York University, Columbia University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Purdue ... Purdue is No. 2 in number of international studentsJournal and Courier
Lemelson Student Prize Open for Entries
Original at illinois.edu
• Sun, Nov 15
ARE YOU A CREATIVE OR INNOVATIVE PERSON? FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN WIN $30,000! ENTRIES FOR LEMELSON STUDENT PRIZE OPEN 10/19/09-11/20/09. VISIT WWW.30KPRIZE.ILLINOIS.EDU TO ENTER Awarding outstanding innovation and invention: The Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize, administered by the Te...
Observation of the Role of Subcritical Nuclei in Crystallization of a Glassy Solid - Science Magazine
Original at Science Magazine
• Thu, Nov 12
Observation of the Role of Subcritical Nuclei in Crystallization of a Glassy Solid subscription) 1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, IL 61801, USA. ... and more »
Legacy of Learning banquet to honor five alumni of Decatur public schools
Original at Herald & Review
• Sat, Nov 7
Herald & Review She holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master's in dance from Smith College. ...
LEMELSON CALL FOR ENTRIES OPEN
Original at illinois.edu
• Mon, Oct 19
Awarding outstanding innovation and invention: The Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize, administered by the Technology Entrepreneur Center in the College of Engineering, is awarded on an annual basis to an undergraduate or graduate student who has created or improved a product or pro...
Omnidirectional Relay in Wireless Networks
Original at illinois.edu
• Fri, Oct 9
Abstract: For wireless networks with multiple sources, an omnidirectional relay scheme is developed, where each node can help relay multiple messages in different directions. This is accomplished by the decode-and- forward relay strategy, with each relay binning the multiple mess...
UPCRC Illinois Research Seminar - Wonsun Ahn
Original at illinois.edu
• Thu, Sep 24
Title:BulkCompiler: High-Performance Sequential Consistency through Cooperative Compiler and Hardware SupportAbstract:A platform that supported Sequential Consistency (SC) for all codes--- not only the well-synchronized ones --- would simplify the task of programmers. Rec...
iV10 Lecture Series: Amit Sudharshan
Original at illinois.edu
• Mon, Jun 15
iVentures10, part of IllinoisVENTURES, is a 10 week summer program in Champaign, where teams develop their idea into a working product. This program is designed to fuel the entrepreneurial energy and ingenuity of computer science & engineering students.We invite you to attend our...
Can the private sector make a breakthrough in space access?
Original at The Space Review
• Mon, Jun 8
He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BS in physics from the California Institute of Technology. ... and more »
Top university pay in coaching, medicine
Original at Chicago Daily Southtown
• Sun, Jun 7
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IL Louis Gornick can claim a title no one else can - highest-paid chef at a public university in Illinois. Last year, Gornick, the assistant director of catering and executive chef at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, made $83000. ...
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School Digest
Original at Pioneer Press Online
• Thu, May 21
IL Andrew Katz has been awarded an International Engineering Scholarship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Katz is a senior at Libertyville High School and will enter computer science at Illinois. Alicia Kelly of Mundelein was honored ...
Institute for Chemistry Literacy Through Computational Science ICLCS Fellows Summer Institute II
Original at illinois.edu
• Mon, May 18
This is the second year of participation in the Institute for Chemistry Literacy and Computational Science (ICLCS) for Cadre II Fellows. The vision of ICLCS is to provide rural Illinois chemistry teachers with content, computational tools and teaching methodology, and leadership de...
April among the wettest on record
Original at Morris Daily Herald
• Wed, May 6
IL The Illinois State Water Survey, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, under the Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, is the primary agency in Illinois concerned with water and atmospheric resources.
2009 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC'09)
Original at illinois.edu
• Mon, May 4
What do GPUs, FPGAs, vector processors and other exotic special-purpose chips have in common? They are advanced processor architectures that the scientific community is using to accelerate computationally demanding applications. While high-performance computing systems that u...
'Higher Learning, Greater Good'
Original at Inside Higher Ed
• Tue, Apr 21
DC McMahan, a professor emeritus of economics and education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, responded to questions about his new book. Q: College leaders regularly talk about the importance of higher education being seen as a societal ...
Univ. of Wyoming hires new vice president
Original at The Casper Star Tribune
• Fri, Apr 17
WY The University of Wyoming has hired an administrator from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to oversee financial, operational and administrative services. The university announced Friday that Douglas Vinzant (Vin-ZAHNT) will start as vice ...
Jeffrey Walkington '84 Named Principal of U of Illinois ...
Original at DePauw University News
• Fri, Apr 17
IN University Laboratory High School is a selective admission, public, laboratory school sanctioned by the State of Illinois and associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school serves academically talented students, ...
Midwest Tornadoes Destroy Homes
Original at Wall Street Journal
• Mon, Mar 9
And thousands of people lost power Sunday across central Illinois, including most of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. In northwest Ohio, high winds tore a roof off of one house, blew the windows out of another and damaged a barn ...
Repression of Political Speech and Activity Abounds on College Campuses in 2008
Original at FIRE
• Wed, Dec 24
By azhar@thefire.org (Azhar Majeed) Another memorable political speech case arose at the University of Oklahoma (OU). In September, an OU administrator sent a campus-wide e-mail to all students, faculty, and staff directing them not to use their university e-mail accounts to "endorse or oppose a candidate, including th...
Bacteria Forced to Mutate Into Oblivion
Original at Medgadget.com
• Fri, Dec 19
By Michael Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a technique to trick bacteria to mutate itself into suicide when presented with specific antimicrobials. Wong is corresponding author of a paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National...
Study: Today's youth think quite highly of themselves
Original at usatoday.com
• Tue, Nov 18
Today's teenagers and young adults are far more likely than their parents to believe they're great people, destined for maximum success as workers, spouses and parents, suggests a report comparing three decades of national surveys.And these so-called Millennials or Gen Y young peopl...
Professor Steve LaValle of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Original at illinois.edu
• Tue, Nov 4
Title:Cyber-Physical Systems: From Sensing and Actuation to Information SpacesAbstract:Over the past couple of years, the term cyber-physical systems has emerged and has been identified as a top national priority for research. The main observation is that as the interplay between...
Argonne and Three Area Universities Form Illinois Center for Advanced Tribology
Original at Green Car Congress
• Fri, Oct 31
By Mike Millikin The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has teamed with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Northwestern University to form the Illinois Center for Advanced Tribology (ICAT), which will dev...
Studies: Corn Ethanol Production Has Smaller Carbon Footprint than Gasoline and Will Continue to Improve; Room for Growth Without Affecting Food and Feed
Original at Green Car Congress
• Tue, Oct 28
By Mike Millikin The Global Warming and Land Use Impact of Corn Ethanol Produced at the Illinois River Energy Center was written by Dr. Steffen Mueller, principal research economist at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Energy Resources Center, with Ken Copenhaver, Institute for Technology Deve...
Could former Gov. George Ryan win the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize?
Original at Chicago Tribune
• Tue, Sep 30
By Eric Zorn University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign law professor Francis Boyle, who annually nominates Ryan for the Nobel in honor of his landmark decision to commute all death sentences in Illinois to life in prison shortly before he left office in 2003, says he has received word from Stockh...
New Light Sensor Mimicks Eye for Superior Camera Performance
Original at Medgadget.com
• Wed, Aug 6
This strategy opens up exciting, new engineering design possibilities by eliminating the two dimensional, planar constraints of conventional, semiconductor wafer-based optoelectronics," said John Rogers, Flory-Founder Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering a...
Call for Papers: Chicago Digital Humanities Colloquium
Original at abcs (WordPress)
• Wed, Apr 30
By mmacken Sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Computational Institute, NSIT Academic Technologies and the University Library at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Purdue international enrollment ranks among highest in the nation
Original at Purdue Student
• Mon, Nov 12
Purdue had 4,824 international students from 123 countries enrolled in 2006-07, only seven fewer than the previous year, said Michael Brzezinski, director of Purdue's Office of International Students and Scholars. Among all public and private universities, the University of South...
Study: Miscanthus More Than Twice as Productive as Switchgrass for Energy Crop
Original at Green Car Congress
• Wed, Jul 11
By Mike Millikin The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is working with the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in forming the new $500-million Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) funded by BP, with UC Berkeley taking the lead. (Earlier post.)
Studying One Molecule at a Time
Original at Medgadget.com
• Wed, May 30
By Michael Many scientists say that more can be learned about the dynamics of chemical reactions that power biological processes by studying the behavior of individual molecules rather than observing the collective behavior of many molecules, as scientists do now. But techniques for single-mo...
Wisconsin also adopts CIC author addendum
Original at Open Access News
• Wed, May 9
By Peter Suber Institutions and organizations around the world, including the CIC provosts, are leading initiatives to inform authors in all disciplines about their rights and how to retain them. When scholarship is published in journals or elsewhere, publishers typically ask authors to sign a tra...
U of Minnesota adopts the CIC author addendum
Original at Open Access News
• Sat, May 5
By Peter Suber Yesterday I noted that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had adopted the Author Addendum drafted by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). Today I can report that the University of Minnesota has done the same. (Thanks to Access Denied.) The May 3 vote in the Fa...
U of Illinois adopts an author addendum
Original at Open Access News
• Fri, May 4
By Peter Suber If you remember, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) created an Author Addendum back in February 2007. Now the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of 13 CIC member institutions, has adopted the addendum. Here's the announcement in full from the UIUC news bu...
Virtual world librarianship
Original at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
• Thu, Apr 19
By Quinn Anya Carey Librarians and book-lovers have a community going on Second Life, and real-world library science programs are taking notice. The Library Science program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be offering a course on Second Life librarianship, with class meetings hel...
Podcast: Bear in Mind: Energy BioSciences Institute
Original at webcast.berkeley
• Wed, Feb 28
By webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau) On February 1, global energy firm BP announced that it had selected UC Berkeley, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to lead an unprecedented $500 million research effort to develop new sources of ener...
UW signs onto satellite teaching program
Original at UW Badger Herald
• Mon, Dec 12
Other American universities involved include Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Purdue, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of California at Los Angeles; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Geo...