A nearly two-decade trend that is stripping away employer-provided health-care benefits for retirees in private business will likely continue and could soon hit an even deeper pool of government retirees, new research by University of Illinois elder law expert Richard Kaplan warns.
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Fifty thousand dry casks of spent nuclear fuel have nowhere to go for long-term storage. Yucca Mountain in Nevada appears to be all but dead as an option. So now is the time to create specific institutions, funds and financial incentives to manage the spent fuel at the power plants where it was produced, according to a recent report produced from a consensus of nuclear experts from seven Midwestern universities.
The Latino/a population in the United States is expected to triple by 2050, according to projections from the U.S. Census Bureau. And along with that growth, says UI professor Lydia Buki, will come a rise in the number of individuals from that population who are diagnosed with cancer.
A soil microbe that uses chemical warfare to fight off competitors employs an unusual chemical pathway in the manufacture of its arsenal, researchers report, making use of an enzyme that can do what no other enzyme is known to do: break a non-activated carbon-carbon bond in a single step.
Mothers and fathers play different roles and make different contributions to a child’s upbringing, but a father’s influence upon a child’s academic success later in life is felt the most when he’s involved from the very beginning, says a UI expert in early childhood education.
Better tools for manipulating DNA in the laboratory may soon be possible with newly discovered deoxyribozymes (catalytic DNA) capable of cleaving single-stranded DNA, researchers at the University of Illinois say.
Along with their computers, iPods and school supplies, a few university students may be bringing along the Novel H1N1 Influenza A virus, also known as the swine flu, when they come to Champaign-Urbana for the fall semester, and campus officials are urging faculty and staff members to prepare for a possible flu outbreak early in the semester.
The UI has put an end to the “Category I” admissions tracking system and is implementing new admissions related processes that are intended to make the UI’s embattled admissions system “a model for the nation.”
Despite a bad U.S. and global economy, private gifts to the UI and to the UI Foundation unofficially totaled $220 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2009.
