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Kierra Smith of Rome is participating in the Illinois Summer Neuroscience Institute which takes place annually on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ISNI is an intensive week of research lectures, lab experiences and team projects for visiting undergraduate students to be introduced to research and to receive information ... (more)

This is a phrase commonly used to describe different elements of art and how they reflect the issues, concerns, happiness, frustration, and other emotions and moods of a given moment in time.

The engagement of Erinn Rae Mitchell and Ryan Irwin Carlson is being announced. The future bride is the daughter of Bonnie P. Mitchell and Gary J. Mitchell of Park Ridge.

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a robot. Actually, it's a first-of-its-kind bird-like robot capable of perching on a human hand.

A 2009 national look at charitable giving by McClatchy Newspapers showed the poor give a higher percentage of their income to charity than rich people .

A controversial plan to close the Police Training Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been removed from next week's Board of Trustees agenda.

Vertical gardens, which date back to the hanging gardens of Babylon in 600 B.C., are all the rage these days.

The oldest official weather records ever found in Illinois, dating back to 1820, reveal temperature data that showed remarkable accuracy given the technology of the day, according to State Climatologist Jim Angel of the Illinois State Water Survey .

Hillary and Hanna Koh will have a unique, additional challenge when going to college this fall - getting used to life without a sister by their side.

It doesn't have four rotors, but this advanced-glider is every bit as impressive as the most complicated of quadrotor offerings.

We barely notice them, but they're one of the most important features buried in the everyday smartphone experience.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has selected T-Finity tape libraries from Boulder, CO-based Spectra Logic to provide hundreds of petabytes of data storage for its upcoming Blue Waters supercomputing system, one of the most powerful supercomputing systems in the world.

Despite being offered a renewed three-year contract, temporary faculty member Prof.

The first research projects to emerge from a tie-up between Abbott and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will advance our understanding of the relationship between diet and cognition - and help Abbott create the next generation of brain foods targeting consumers at every life stage - claims the healthcare giant.

Back in the old days before food and agricultural corporations consolidated into the behemoths we know them as today, agricultural institutions of higher learning were dedicated to conducting unbiased research into cutting-edge food production and crop systems that benefited society as a whole.

James Fletcher and fellow graduates throw their caps after the Jacobs High School commencement ceremony Saturday at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates.

The Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory, a collaboration between Abbott's nutrition businesses and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , announced today the inaugural funding recipients of the Center's annual research challenge.

The number of overseas education consulting companies in China is rising, driven by the surge in Chinese students studying abroad Naturelaw International Education LLC, an education consulting company for Chinese students studying overseas, expanded its office in March to one- and- half floors with a floor space of about 5,300 square meters.

E-mail: vddonk@illinois.edu . Phone: Prochlorosins make up a class of secondary metabolites produced by strains of Prochlorococcus , single-cell, planktonic marine cyanobacteria.

Newswise - WASHINGTON, DC, May 16, 2012 - Children in the United States and Great Britain share a number of common risk factors that increase the likelihood that they will have behavioral problems-and Britain's broader social welfare programs don't appear to mitigate those risks, according to a new study in the June issue of the Journal of Health ... (more)