The severely shrunken glacier B30, as photographed in 1991. The light-colored material around the glacier marks its former size.
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Although the recurrence of child abuse and neglect declined in Illinois during 2008, the state is failing to meet federal guidelines in these areas and could lose millions of dollars in federal funding as a result.
Interactive Web-based science tutorials can be effective tools for helping elementary school teachers construct powerful explanatory models of difficult scientific concepts, and research shows the interactive tutorials are just as effective online as they are in face-to-face settings, says a UI expert in science education.
A UI professor, who also watches and studies bird-watchers, suggests that the popular pastime known as competitive birding – that is, participation in various types of activities based around the goal of identifying and/or listing the greatest number of avian species – may not be as eco-friendly as it purports to be.
Bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in plastics and known to cause reproductive problems in the offspring of pregnant mice exposed to it, also has been found to retard the growth of follicles of adult mice and hinder their production of steroid hormones, researchers report.
A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting properties, such as see-through construction and mechanical flexibility, that would be impossible to achieve with existing technologies.
Like most invasive plants introduced to the U.S. from Europe and other places, garlic mustard first found it easy to dominate the natives. A new study indicates that eventually, however, its primary weapon – a fungus-killing toxin injected into the soil – becomes less potent.
Older workers who get a jolt of cash out of the blue are more likely to cash in on early retirement, according to new research led by two UI finance professors.
The first meeting of the Urbana-Champaign Senate for the academic year attracted a standing-room only crowd to Levis Faculty Center on Aug. 31, but senators decided to postpone voting on the recommendations from the Senate Executive Committee that had sparked everyone’s interest – whether the university should retain Chancellor Richard Herman and President B. Joseph White following the Admissions Review Commission’s investigation into admissions practices at the Urbana campus.
Gov. Pat Quinn announced two appointments to the UI Board of Trustees on Aug. 26, the first replacements of seven trustees who voluntarily resigned at the conclusion of a state commission’s investigation into influence-based admissions practices at the Urbana campus.
Members of the public are invited to submit comments by Sept. 12 regarding the quality of the UI and its academic programs as part of a comprehensive evaluation that Illinois will undergo by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
The UI moved up slightly in the latest national rankings from U.S. News & World Report, published Aug. 20.
Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who are interested in studying environmental subjects – whether their academic background is in science, the social sciences or the humanities – now have the opportunity to do that in the School of Earth, Society and Environment.
Energy conservation efforts, and cheaper fuel prices, saved $7.5 million at the Urbana campus for Fiscal Year 2009, about $2.5 million more than had been projected shortly before the fiscal year ended on June 30, according to information released recently by Facilities and Services Division.
Aspiring writers around campus who are yearning to share their thoughts or expertise with the online world now have a quick and easy way to start with the new blog service offered by Web Services.
The Illinois State Geological Survey has been awarded nearly $995,000 over the next three years by the U.S. Department of Energy to create the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium Technology Training Center at the Urbana campus of the UI.
A UI environmental policy expert will outline the economic impact of pollution regulations at a meeting of European Union finance ministers that will be a springboard for upcoming negotiations on a new international treaty to combat global warming.
Two years shy of its centennial celebration, the Spurlock Museum at the UI has been declared among the best. It has received accreditation from the American Association of Museums the highest national recognition for a museum.
