Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
The University of Illinois says two-time presidential candidate John Edwards plans to speak on its Urbana-Champaign campus in October.
Supercomputing Online (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Extending more than 50 years of supercomputing leadership, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) announced today that they have finalized their contract with IBM to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system dedicated to open scientific research. This leadership-class project, called Blue Waters, is supported...
TechNewsWorld (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Researchers have announced a technological development they say will improve the functionality of digital cameras and other imaging products. Yonggang Huang, a professor at Northwestern University, and John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a lens they said was inspired by the human eye.
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Materials scientists are developing an eye-shaped camera that uses a single lens to produce a distortion-free image. Most cameras require multiple lenses but the human eye does not. Now though, John Rogers and his colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used flexible electronic circuits to mimic our own single-lens eyes. From Nature News: The team's solution was to use a series...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
With the assistance of George Gollin, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Fermilab physicist, helped state and federal officials track and bust a ring accused of issuing phony diplomas worldwide . The investigation, appropriately called Operation Gold Seal, listed almost 10,000 people who had purchased the fake diplomas generated by Dixie and Steven Randock Sr. The couple...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
A professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign played an integral role in the collapse of an alleged illegal diploma ring, officials say.Professor George Gollin said he came across the scheme in 2004 after receiving spam e-mail regarding inexpensive college diplomas, the Chicago Tribune said Monday.He said after he began an independent investigation into the matter, his employer was...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) Researchers report this week that chronic exposure to estradiol, the main estrogen in the body, diminishes some cognitive functions. Rats exposed to a steady dose of estradiol were impaired on tasks involving working memory and response inhibition, the researchers found.
Supercomputing Online (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology lead the way as global centers of excellence: HP, Intel and Yahoo! today announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among...
Supercomputing Online (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Collaboration between NSF, University of Illinois, HP, Intel, Yahoo! provides template for research partnerships: The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate announces a grant award to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to help establish an experimental computing cluster at the UIUC campus. The NSF Cluster Exploratory...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers say that a sterile grass known as Miscanthus gianteus proved to be significantly more productive than other biofuel crops like corn in the making of ethanol.
OpenlineBlog.com (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
In a ranking by Princeton Review of "party schools" the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was ranked #16 in the nation. University of Florida topped the list with other Big Ten conference schools Penn State (#3), Iowa (#12) and Indiana (#14) also making the list ahead of Illinois. In the list of more "sober" schools, Wheaton College ranked #2. See inside for the Top 20 of each list...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
( National Science Foundation ) The National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate announces a grant award to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to help establish an experimental computing cluster at the UIUC campus.
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus outperforms current biofuels sources -- by a lot.
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
The cat’s out of the bag: HP, Intel, and Yahoo are teaming up to create a new testing center for cloud computing research. The three companies announced the news this morning. They’re working with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, along with research centers in Singapore and Germany, to create six “centers of excellence.” [...]
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) Detecting deadly fumes in subways, toxic gases in chemical spills, and hidden explosives in baggage is becoming easier and more efficient with a measurement technique called surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Researchers at the University of Illinois, led by chemistry professor Dana Dlott, have devised a method to evaluate substrate surfaces by using a...
