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‘First-look’ results with spectro-radiometer: All systems ‘Go’
‘First-look’ results with spectro-radiometer: All systems ‘Go’ James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor (217) 244-1073; kloeppel@illinois.edu 12/19/2000 SAN FRANCISCO — Demonstrations of the unique, three-dimensional, cloud-imaging capabilities of the Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer — one of the instruments on the satellite Terra — will be among highlights presented at a special session devoted to the satellite […]
Illinois scientists’ discovery helps explain protein-synthesis machinery in cells
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois biologists have discovered that a protein that lives in the cytoplasmic world between a mammalian cell’s membrane and nucleus undergoes a “nuclear experience” that is necessary for regulating cell growth and division. Coupled with a similar finding involving a different protein in yeast cells, announced in the journal Cell […]
Strange quark contribution to proton structure yields surprising result
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists seeking to confirm earlier measurements of the strange quark’s contribution to the proton’s magnetic moment have found several surprises, instead. As reported in the Dec.15 issue of the journal Science, physicists who combined results from two measurements have calculated a lower strange quark contribution, and provided evidence for the existence of […]
Super-big superconducting magnet to be moved into laboratory Dec. 13
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A superconducting magnet 14 feet in diameter and weighing more than 80,000 pounds will be moved into the high-bay area of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory, 23 E. Stadium Drive, Champaign, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday (Dec. 13). The delicate operation of unloading and moving the magnet will require three heavy-lift cranes — […]
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, […]
Unified theory relates microbial metabolism to lab and field
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The ability to describe the rates at which microbial populations metabolize in the natural environment has been limited by the lack of a general theory of microbial kinetics. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois have found an approach that holds significant promise for extending the results of laboratory experiments to better […]
Microbial transport at Yellowstone: by land, sea or air?
Microbial transport at Yellowstone: by land, sea or air? James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor (217) 244-1073; kloeppel@illinois.edu 11/14/2000 Humans have a penchant for travel – driving, sailing and flying over the planet in search of new places to live. So do microbes, say researchers at the University of Illinois who have been studying microbial […]
Microbiologist Carl R. Woese named winner of National Medal of Science
Microbiologist Carl R. Woese named winner of National Medal of Science Jim Barlow, Life Sciences Editor (217) 333-5802; b-james3@illinois.edu 11/13/2000 Carl R. Woese, a University of Illinois microbiologist whose identification of the archaea changed the way life is classified on Earth, is among 12 U.S. scientists and engineers named today (Nov. 13) by President Clinton […]
Feng Sheng Hu named Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering
Feng Sheng Hu named Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering Jim Barlow, Life Sciences Editor (217) 333-5802; b-james3@illinois.edu 11/3/2000 Feng Sheng Hu, a professor of plant biology and of geology at the University of Illinois, is among 24 U.S. researchers named as 2000 Packard Fellows in science and engineering by the David and Lucile Packard […]
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 […]
Inaugural lecture of The Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Lecture Series to be Oct. 19
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The seemingly lost tradition of shared family meals will be the focus of the inaugural lecture of The Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Lecture Series to be held Oct. 19 (Thursday) at the Illini Center, 200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago. Doris Kelley Christopher, the founder and president of The Pampered Chef Ltd., and […]
‘Are We Alone?’ to be topic of astronomy’s Icko Iben Distinguished Lecture
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Steven Beckwith, the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, will present the third talk in the department of astronomy’s Icko Iben Jr. Distinguished Lectureship at 4 p.m. Oct. 4 in Foellinger Auditorium, 709 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana. The talk, “Are We Alone?,” is free and open to the public. […]