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PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 23, No. 20, May 20, 2004
Research | Campus | Honors | Achievements |Briefs | Calendar | Job Market | Deaths|
IllinoisVENTURES provides support for startup companies
Since IllinoisVENTURES' launch in October 2002, it has reviewed more than 200 early stage technologies or potential companies, engaged with at least 70 of those consultatively and provided some level of funding to 25 of them.
RESEARCH
If you want to help your children with homework, take it easy, studies suggest
What can parents do to help children doing poorly in school? Two new studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign suggest that supporting children’s autonomy and refraining from being controlling will help kids do better on their homework and raise their grades.
Scholar questions sanctioning of gambling on U.S. military bases
The four branches of the armed services operate about 8,000 slot machines located in 94 facilities overseas, and a UI scholar wonders about the wisdom of sanctioning gambling among military personnel.
 

Airport baggage screeners may need continuing education, study indicates
Baggage screeners have just seconds amid loud airport noises and the pressure of rushed airline travelers to scan X-rays of carry-on items for weapons. How good they are at finding one may depend on the specificity of their training, say UI researchers..

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Food displays, food colors affect how much people eat, researcher concludes
IResearch by a UI professor challenges the conventional notion that a person’s ability to control eating and stick to a successful diet has solely to do with willpower.
CAMPUS
Renovation continues
Construction at Campus Recreation Center East (CRCE) and at the Intramural Physical Education building continues.
Writing program at Illinois publishes inaugural issue of literary magazine
 In the trade, they’re often called “little” literary magazines. But there is nothing even remotely little about the new literary magazine just published by the Masters in Fine Arts creative writing program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
HONORS
 
Chemist, entomologist among new fellows of arts and sciences academy
Chemist Peter Beak and entomologist Gene E. Robinson of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are among the 202 newly elected fellows and foreign honorary members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
DEPARTMENTS
achievements A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members.  More

brief notes YMCA still accepting 'Dump and Run' donations … 'Share A Story Day' is this weekend… Brain Awareness Day is May 23 …Latest on PCBs to be focus of workshop … More

Benefits - No updates have been announced since the May 10 letter from UI Human Resources. For the latest developments for this year's Benefit Choice period, go to NESSIE.
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deaths

George E. Anner, 86, died May 11 at Meadowbrook Health Care, Urbana. Anner held a joint appointment as professor of electrical engineering and in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He worked at the UI for 19 years and was active in curriculum development and the initiation of courses, particularly in the microelectronics field.

Carol S. Bailey, 67, died May 3 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Bailey was a secretary in the Division of Operation and Maintenance for 37 years, retiring as a secretary IV in 1993. Memorials: Appalachian Mountain Ministry.

Harriett Louise Cuppernell, 70, died May 11 at her Urbana home. Cuppernell worked at the UI for almost 11 years, retiring in 2001 as a clerical assistant in the Accounting Division. Memorials: Carle Hospice or the American Cancer Society.

William Phillips, 81, died April 29 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Phillips was a UI physicist.

Millie M. Schaefer, 72, died May 12 at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, Coles County. Schaefer was a maid with the Housing Division, retiring in 1986.

Steven Alan Stahl, 52, died May 6 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Stahl, a UI professor of curriculum and instruction, joined the faculty in 2002. Memorials: Steven A. Stahl Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the International Reading Association, the American Cancer Society or the Entertainment Industry Foundation's National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance.

Donald R. Walker, 71, died May 11 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Walker was a building service worker for the Division of Operation and Maintenance for almost 10 years, retiring in 1995. Memorials: Adam Wagner Scholarship Fund at Danville High School or St. Judes Children's Hospital.

Clifford E. Waller, 86, died May 2 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Waller worked at the UI for 28 years, retiring in 1978 as a storekeeper for O&M. He also worked as a groundsworker and building service worker for O&M. Memorials: Carle Hospice or St. John's Lutheran Church, 509 S. Mattis, Champaign, IL 61821.

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