A red-haired Duroc pig, a species widely used in pork production, is now on the list of domesticated animals that have had their genomes sequenced. These piglets are clones of the original pig.
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Starting next year, anyone can convert retirement savings into tax-advantaged Roth individual retirement accounts, but the much-touted switch isn’t for everyone, a UI expert on tax and elder law warns.
The current generation of college students and teachers need to be as culturally fluent with people from different cultures as they are with their own, a soft skill that has become an essential part of life in the 21st century, a UI expert on teacher education says.
The underlying similarities between teaching, research and music can be a powerful metaphor for education and qualitative inquiry, according to a UI professor of education.
Rats exposed to high doses of amphetamines at an age that corresponds to the later years of human adolescence display significant memory deficits as adults – long after the exposure ends, researchers report.
hoppers could see lower prices but less variety to choose from as more manufacturers sell directly to consumers through the Internet, according to new research led by a UI business professor.
Applying a small mechanical force to embryonic stem cells could be a new way of coaxing them into a specific direction of differentiation, researchers at the UI report. Applications for force-directed cell differentiation include therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine.
The civil rights movement was never as unified as it often has been portrayed, says UI professor Clarence Lang.
Richard Herman officially gave up his title as chancellor of the Urbana campus Oct. 26, following a turbulent summer that placed him at the epicenter of the controversy about student applicants on the “clout list.”
The annual summary of committee members on the Urbana-Champaign campus can be viewed online. In an effort to provide the most accurate information, Inside Illinois has compiled a list of URLs for units that appoint the committees.
University units are being asked to put 6 percent of their funds – a total of $45 million – aside to prepare for a possible budgetary rescission by the state, and they should prepare for even larger reductions next fiscal year, President B. Joseph White told members of the Urbana-Champaign Senate during the annual meeting with the faculty.
Over the next three years, the UI’s leaders plan to streamline administrative costs universitywide by $15 million as a long-term strategy for dealing with a downward trend in state support.
Recently retired and long-serving staff employees will be honored at the 2009 Staff Service Recognition Program Nov. 10 in the Illini Union.
The program will honor 187 employees who retired between Sept. 1, 2008, and Aug. 31, 2009. In addition, employees will be honored for service completed during that time: 90 employees who completed 25 years, 50 who completed 30 years, nine who completed 35 years, two who completed 40 years, and two who completed 45 years.
A Web site for the Staff Service Recognition Program is accessible through the Staff Human Resources home page. Retirees and service honorees are listed alphabetically by name, department or number of years served.
Meet two recent staff retirees, Jean Huddleston, who retired in April as the director of business and operations at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and Tim Wood, pipe fitter/ steamfitter in Facilities and Services.
Among the newcomers to the Urbana campus are faculty members whose appointments began this summer or fall. Inside Illinois continues its tradition of introducing some of the new faculty members on campus and will feature at least two new colleagues in each fall issue.
Taiji master Yang Yang, an adjunct professor of kinesiology at the UI, is featured in a new, permanent exhibit that opened Oct. 8 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
A team of students from the UI won second place Oct. 16)in the 2009 Solar Decathlon design competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
An online marketplace for employees and supervisors to bid on short-term, temporary projects has ambitions to become an eBay for employment at the university.
The University of Illinois Flash Index rose to 90.7 in October, an increase of 6/10 of a point from the previous month and the first substantial increase since the current recession began in November 2007.
Preliminary data in Illinois indicates the statewide average rainfall in October was 8.9 inches, 6 inches above normal.
