Anwhere is ‘walking distance’

Anywhere is ‘walking distance’ Hundreds of people of all ages joined grand marshals Chancellor Richard Herman and his wife, Susan, for a 2,650-step stroll around campus on Oct. 14 as part of the “2005 Walk Toward Wellness.” Modeled on the “10,000 Steps a Day” program originated by Yashiro Hatano, who also attended (photo at right), the event kicked off a campuswide initiative promoting the health benefits of walking and was part of a three-day national conference on walking hosted by the UI and the American College of Sports Medicine.

Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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Architecture professors design structures with community organizations for Chicago design festival

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival is an architectural design festival in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale that brings together architects and community organizations to create gathering spaces to connect residents. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign architecture professors participating in this year’s festival built a bicycle kiosk and a pop-up theater, which will […]

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Atom-scale stencil patterns help nanoparticles take new shapes and learn new tricks

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Inspired by an artist’s stencils, researchers have developed atomic-level precision patterning on nanoparticle surfaces, allowing them to “paint” gold nanoparticles with polymers to give them an array of new shapes and functions. The “patchy nanoparticles” developed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers and collaborators at the University of Michigan and Penn State […]

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Illinois chemist named 2025 Packard Fellow

Benjamin Snyder, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named a 2025 Packard Fellow by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Photo by Holly Birch Photography

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Architecture professors design structures with community organizations for Chicago design festival

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