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Does the Hawaiian quake make volcanic eruptions more likely?

Amr Elnashai, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom, is the first recipient of the William J. & Elaine F. Hall Endowed Professorship at Illinois and is the director of both the Mid-America Earthquake Center and the George E. Brown Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Laboratory at Illinois. Was the […]

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What you need to know about the spike in Illinois electric rates

George Gross is a professor of electrical and computer engineering who specializes in electric power and utility regulatory policy. He called the massive power failure of Aug. 14, 2003, which left 50 million people in the dark in the U.S. and Canada, a wake-up call for the nation to upgrade its transmission grid system. He […]

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U. of I. Engineering Open House to take place March 10-11

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Wild and wacky Rube Goldberg machines, “robot wars,” and more than 160 fun-filled exhibits await visitors to “Beyond Imagination,” the 86th annual Engineering Open House at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “We are expecting well over 10,000 visitors, who will experience the myriad of engineering marvels and mysteries in this ever-changing […]

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U. of I. students to build solar home for contest in Washington, D. C.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of 20 universities selected to participate in the 2007 Solar Decathlon, a competition in which teams of students from colleges and universities in the United States, Europe and Canada compete to design, build and operate homes powered exclusively by solar energy. During the fall […]

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Tiny superconductors withstand stronger magnetic fields

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Ultrathin superconducting wires can withstand stronger magnetic fields than larger wires made from the same material, researchers now report. This finding may be useful for technologies that employ superconducting magnets, such as magnetic resonance imaging. As described in the Jan. 14 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters, researchers at the University […]

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Crackling noise in cereal and magnets aids study of earthquakes

BOSTON — When Karin Dahmen hears the crackling noise in a bowl of crisped-rice cereal, her thoughts turn to earthquakes. Thats because both the cereal and an earthquake fault zone have something in common: Each responds to an external force with a power law distribution of events of all sizes, independent of microscopic or macroscopic […]

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Five finalists selected for technology entrepreneurial competition

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Technology Entrepreneur Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the finalists in the first annual V. Dale Cozad Business Plan Competition. (Editors: See list.) The competition, which began Aug. 30, attracted 38 teams comprising a total of 97 students from eight colleges and 21 departments at the university, […]

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First-round winners of business-plan competition announced

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Technology Entrepreneur Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the first-round winners in the first annual V. Dale Cozad Business Plan Competition. (Editors: See list.) The competition, which began Aug. 30, attracted 38 teams comprising a total of 97 students from nine colleges and 21 departments at the […]

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Contest to give student teams chance to launch a business

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A contest at the University of Illinois that gets under way Aug. 30 will give student teams the opportunity to compete for $20,000 in prizes by drafting a plan for developing a technological idea into a viable commercial venture. The first annual V. Dale Cozad Business Plan Competition, named for the founder […]

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