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Dress rehearsal Ronald Romm (left) and Michael Ewald, professors in the School of Music, practice a number for the “Stars, Stripes, Sousa” halftime show during the UI vs. Indiana football game on Nov. 6. Romm and Ewald are playing e-flat cornets, also called over-the-shoulder horns, from the 1850s, which are part of the university’s collection. The concert was one of many events held on campus during November as part of a monthlong sesquicentennial celebration of John Philip Sousa’s birth.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Four faculty members from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States. Materials science professor Paul Braun, history professor Antoinette Burton, physics professor Aida El-Khadra and chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler are […]
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Educators and researchers have had longstanding concerns about the quality of computer science instruction in U.S. schools. A recent study exploring student learning and computer science teachers’ qualifications in one state suggests that these teachers may be better qualified than those teaching other subjects, even within the same schools. Paul Bruno, a […]
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A novel research project has shown that areas with greater amounts of green space have a lower prevalence of police violence. The study is the first to find a significant relationship between greenness levels and fatal police shootings, and it showed that the most socially and economically disadvantaged areas seemed to benefit […]
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