Every time it encounters another animal, the blind sea slug Pleurobranchaea must decide whether to risk trying to eat it. Rhanor Gillette, a UI molecular and integrative physiology professor, and graduate student Keiko Hirayama found a simple circuit in the sea slug brain that integrates hunger, sensory information and memory to drive the animal’s response to the smell of food. Full story
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The campus will conduct a test of the Illini Alert system at 10 a.m. Feb. 21. The system will send email and text messages in the event of a campus emergency. If you are not registered, go to:
emergency.illinois.edu
Urbana academic senators acted unanimously Jan. 30 in support of three measures addressing recent alleged unethical conduct in UI President Michael J. Hogan’s administration.
University trustees approved a 4.8 percent increase in the guaranteed, four-year tuition rate — which equates to a 1.9 percent increase per year — for incoming students in fall 2012.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a grant of $3.5 million to a multi-university consortium led by the UI’s Urbana campus to establish a rail transportation and engineering research center.
There is a multipurpose tool that Evelyn Grady, an office support specialist for the College of Education’s Student Academic Affairs Office, brings with her everywhere.
An Illinois Board of Higher Education steering committee is expected to deliver final recommendations Feb. 7 for a performance-based funding system likely to be implemented with the state’s 2013 budget.
The people who have been taking care of the injured snowy owl that was brought to the UI Wildlife Medical Clinic in January are hoping he lives up to his name, Qigiq – Inuit for “white hawk that flies in the sky.”
Yoga classes in an art museum? The mixture makes sense – stretching and sculpture, posing and paintings, art and asanas seem to go together.
Three exhibitions opened last week at Krannert Art Museum at the UI.
With mounting concerns over childhood obesity and its associated health risks in the U.S., would a ban on junk-food advertising aimed at children be more effective than the current voluntary, industry-led ban? According to published research from a University of Illinois economist, advertising bans do work, but an outright ban covering the entire U.S. media market would be the most effective policy tool for reducing fast-food consumption in children.
Families that have high amounts of unsecured debt, such as outstanding credit card balances and payday loans, diminish their children’s prospects of attending or graduating from college, according to a new study by social work professors Min Zhan at the UI and Michael Sherraden, the founder of the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis.
Land and marine iguanas and giant tortoises living close to human settlements or tourist sites in the Galápagos Islands were more likely to harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria than those living in more remote or protected sites on the islands, researchers report in a new study.
UI materials scientists have developed a new reactive silver ink for printing high-performance electronics on ubiquitous, low-cost materials such as flexible plastic, paper or fabric substrates.
Those making land use decisions to reduce the harmful effects of climate change have focused almost exclusively on greenhouse gases – analyzing, for example, how much carbon dioxide is released when a forest is cleared to grow crops. A new study in Nature Climate Change aims to present a more complete picture – to incorporate other characteristics of ecosystems that also influence climate.
A program designed to boost cognition in older adults also increased their openness to new experiences, researchers report, demonstrating for the first time that a non-drug intervention in older adults can change a personality trait once thought to be fixed throughout the lifespan.
Creating semiconductor structures for high-end optoelectronic devices just got easier, thanks to University of Illinois researchers.
Anyone who has flown on a commercial airline since 2001 is well aware of increasingly strict measures at airport security checkpoints. A study by Illinois researchers demonstrates that intensive screening of all passengers actually makes the system less secure by overtaxing security resources.
A new study of more than 346 middle-school children indicates that boys are less likely than girls to intervene to protect a bullying victim, especially if the boy is a member of a peer group in which bullying is the norm. The study also suggests that anti-bullying programs that focus on bystander intervention and empathy training aren’t likely to have much impact unless attention is given to reducing bullying perpetration within children’s peer groups.
Linguist Dennis Baron analyzes the State of the Union address.
Sundiata Cha-Jua, an expert on African-American history, explains why the story of the Tuskegee Airmen is still important and talks about how they are represented in the movie "Red Tails."
It's been a year since the state of Illinois raised both the state income tax and the corporate tax. Was it necessary and is it helping?
