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Sabbah's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
By David Green* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz hancellor Richard Herman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently resigned due to his cooperation with political influence-peddlers seeking to gain admission for less qualified but privileged applicants. But Herman also participated in a more acceptable form of political corruption — publicly displayed with the invocation of [...]...
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Terra Sigillata (Free subscription) | yesterday
I posed this question earlier today on Twitter and have already garnered a good number of responses. STEM - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - is the acronym used by educators, researchers, and funding agencies focused on fundamental science. The US National Science Foundation, the primarily US STEM funding agency, states : As described in our strategic plan, NSF is the only federal...
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Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joseph A. Clougherty, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has an interesting paper on Competition Policy Trends and Economic Growth: Cross-National Empirical Evidence. ABSTRACT: Motivated by the general lack of empirical scholarship concerning...
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Madville Times (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Mke Knutson expresses his sentiment that rural America hasn't enjoyed the same economic propserity as the rest of the country. He also notes some alarm over the possibility that rural America could lose out as states cut budgets for rural-oriented projects like extension programs . Economically speaking, maybe things aren't all bad here in rural South Dakota. A recent study by Professor Andrew Isserman...
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Tell-It-Like-It-Is (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Fitness may indeed boost immunity — but don’t overdo it.. By Jacqueline Stenson MSNBC contributor updated 8:39 a.m. ET Dec. 3, 2009 Jacqueline Stenson MSNBC contributor Unable to get the swine flu vaccine in her area, Demi Knight Clark has been hoping exercise will help to keep her healthy this winter. After working out on and off for several years, Clark, 32, of Fort Mill, S.C., decided...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) The University of Illinois department of entomology celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009 and will mark this milestone with a symposium Dec. 11 -- two days before the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Indianapolis. Lectures will include "Thinking Like a Mosquito," "The Status of the Status Quo Hormone," "The...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) Two new University of Illinois studies report that lunasin, a soy peptide often discarded in the waste streams of soy-processing plants, may have important health benefits that include fighting leukemia and blocking the inflammation that accompanies such chronic health conditions as diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
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DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
JISC has announced that eight projects have been selected for Digging into Data Challenge grants, which are sponsored by JISC, the NEH, the NSF, and SSHRC: Data Mining with Criminal Intent: George Mason University, University of Alberta, and University of Hertfordshire Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions: Michigan State University, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,...
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MultiCultClassics (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
From The Chicago Tribune… Being biracial in a mixed-up world By Tamara Kerrill Field Those of us born to a black parent and a white parent have the spotlight in Barack Obama’s America. Our president has openly discussed his biracialism in books and speeches, leading to a rich public discourse on what it means to be of mixed race in America. Popular culture is examining our struggles and...
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Aguanomics (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting of the International Water Resource Economics Consortium at Berkeley. Many big wheels were presenting (Dinar, Hanemann, Howitt, Libecap, Olmstead, Zilberman and others who are probably more famous than I know :) and others were in the audience, giving comments, questions and suggestions. (All the best stuff happened between talks, of course.) Here are a few notes:*...
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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
URBANA -- The University of Illinois plans to hold public forums on its three campuses in December to seek input on the search for a new president. The university says the committee is starting to build a pool of applicants. Forums will be held Dec. 2 at the Chicago campus, Dec. 3 at the flagship campus in Urbana-Champaign, and Dec. 8 in Springfield. The university wants to hire a replacement for...
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advanced nanotechnology (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Researchers at the University of Southern California have demonstrated large, functional arrays of transistors made using simple methods from batches of carbon nanotubes that are relatively impure. For the first time someone has shown solution-deposited, purified semiconducting tubes for high-quality transistors," says John Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at the University...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) Scaling back mail delivery from six days a week to five may be the best bet to stem mounting U.S. Postal Service losses, but could still be a gamble, says a University of Illinois economist who has studied the agency's persistent financial decline.
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Carbon nanotubes are exciting for fundamental physics, and for potential technological applications," Nadya Mason tells PhysOrg.com. "However, we are generally limited in the way that we can study them. Many of these limitations have to do with controlling tunneling, or the way electrons move on and off the nanotube." In order to overcome this limitation, Mason,...
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Center for Environment, Commerce & (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This study finds that a robust climate bill could boost the U.S. economy by about $111 billion by 2020 and create as many as 1.9 million jobs. The report, " Clean Energy and Climate Policy for U.S. Growth and Job Creation ," is by David Roland-Holst and Friedrich Kahrl of the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with Madhu Khanna of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,...
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Financial Aid | 07/14/2009
I am currently attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am paying my tuition costs with nothing but student loans, and with a cost of about ,000 a year, I am going to be poor when I graduate. Does anyone have any good advice on how I...
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