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students choose Illinois, producing largest incoming class
With
a dramatic jump over last year in the percentage of those accepting
admission, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is
expecting its largest incoming freshman class ever, according
to Keith Marshall, the associate provost who oversees admissions.
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Logging
changed ecological balance for monkeys, damaged health
Twenty-eight years after intense selective logging stopped in
the region now known as Uganda’s Kibale National Park, the
red-tailed guenon (Cercophithecus ascanius) is a primate still
in decline.
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Thin
films of silicon nanoparticles roll into flexible nanotubes
By depositing nanoparticles onto a charged surface, UI researchers
have crafted nanotubes from silicon that are flexible and nearly
as soft as rubber.
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Property-tax relief
for elderly now freighted with political baggage
Are property-tax relief programs for the elderly justified in
an age of shrinking government revenues and scaled-back public
services?
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UI
to receive flat funding from state
The
UI will receive the same level of state funding next fiscal
year, which begins July 1, as it did this year, under the
appropriations bill passed recently by the Illinois General
Assembly.
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Journalism
professor outlines wrong conclusion on Deep Throat
The
identity of “Deep Throat” is no longer a mystery.
As the news broke, UI journalism professor Bill Gaines received
dozens of calls from reporters, since he had led four years of
investigative journalism classes in a project to identify Deep
Throat.
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Silicon prairie
Illinois Gov.
Rod Blagojevich visited the UI Research Park on June 10.
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Physics
staff member leads double life on stage
Steve Keen is a storekeeper. But he’s also a homicide detective.
And in the past he’s been a brilliant physicist, a self-made
millionaire and a power-wielding lawyer who influenced a judge
to execute convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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Aggravated
assaults and batteries rose on UI Campus
Aggravated assaults and batteries increased by more than 34 percent
in the UI reporting district during the Sept. 1, 2004 –
May 15, 2005 reporting period, according to statistics released
this week by the UI Division of Public Safety.
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Middle school teachers
take part in science program at Illinois
Advancements in science education will bloom on the prairie
as middle school teachers from mostly rural Illinois school
districts met at the UI this week to participate in the two-week
Prairie Flowers Program.
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Eleven chosen as
NCSA Faculty Fellows
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has chosen
11 UI faculty members as Faculty Fellows for 2005-2006.
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Summer
jazz festival begins June 16 … Exhibition focuses on body-image
issues … BioBlitz to take place June 24-25 …More |
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Joann Auble, 72,
died May 29, in Jackson, Miss. Auble worked in the department
of natural resources for more than 25 years.
Nicholas Britsky, 91,
died June 7 at The Carle Arbours, Savoy. Britsky was a professor
of art at the UI for 39 years, retiring in 1976. Memorials: St.
Patrick’s Catholic Church, Urbana, for preservation of artwork.
Louis Lyle Downing,
62, died June 5 in Canton, Mo. Downing worked for the Division
of Operation and Maintenance for 20 years, retiring in 1997 as
a roofer foreman.
Jeffrey Wayne Moss, 53,
died June 8 at his Champaign home. Moss was program director of
the Illinois Leadership Center in the Office of the Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs with a joint appointment as a visiting professor
in the department of human and community development. He had worked
at the UI since 1989. Memorials: Illinois FFA Foundation’s
Outstanding Young Teachers Award or to the Indiana FFA Leadership
Center.
Barbara A. Reuter, 74,
died June 6 at Champaign County Nursing Home, Urbana. Reuter worked
at the UI for 21 years, retiring in 1987 as secretary in the UI
department of civil engineering. Memorials: Juvenile Diabetes
Association or Project Linus.
memorial service
Kenneth
L. Rinehart, 76, died June 13 at his Champaign
home. Rinehart, professor emeritus of chemistry, was internationally
known for his research on organic compounds involved in biological
activity. He joined the Illinois faculty as an instructor in organic
chemistry in 1954 and retired in August 2000.
A public visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Mount
Hope Mausoleum, 611 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Champaign. A memorial
service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at the McKinley Presbyterian
Church, 809 S. Fifth St., Champaign, with a reception to follow
on the main floor of the McKinley Foundation next door.
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