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• I-TICK program

  by news@illinois.eduMay 16, 2019 11:15 am1 View

  The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill., May 16) – You can be a citizen scientist and fight diseases spread by mosquitoes and ticks by taking part in the Illinois Tick Inventory Collaboration Network, called I-TICK, a project involving the Illinois Natural History Survey and the College of Veterinary Medicine, both at Illinois, and the Illinois Department of Public Health and Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease.

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• Trade wars hurting farmers

  by news@illinois.eduMay 14, 2019 11:45 am1 View

  Bloomberg (New York City, May 14) – American farmers, among Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters, face mounting financial pain from the president’s trade war with China and the growing risk that the damage will outlast the conflict. Jonathan Coppess, a professor of agricultural policy at Illinois and former head of the U.S. Farm Service Agency, says that U.S. farmers’ overseas competitors will gain more advantage as the dispute persists.

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• Suburban Express shuts down

  by news@illinois.eduMay 9, 2019 3:45 pm1 View

  Chicago Tribune (May 8) – Suburban Express, a bus company in Urbana-Champaign that served U. of I. students, is shutting down. The company was sanctioned recently by the Illinois attorney general for discriminatory and harassing business practices.

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• Education

  by news@illinois.eduMay 7, 2019 11:30 am1 View

  Daily Chronicle (Opinion; DeKalb, Ill., May 7) – Elizabeth T. Powers, a professor of economics at Illinois and a member of the Education group at the University of Illinois System’s Institute of Government and Public Affairs, favors the passage of Illinois Senate Bill 2075 by the Illinois House. The legislation would require all children who turn age 5 by May 31 in the 2020-21 school year and subsequent years to enter kindergarten in the fall.

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• Storing carbon

  by news@illinois.eduMay 6, 2019 12:15 pm1 View

  Tribune-Star (Terre Haute, Ind., May 4) – Legislation passed in the just-completed Indiana General Assembly will allow a pilot project in Vigo County for underground storage of carbon dioxide. The $450 million project by Wabash Valley Resources LLC would store 50 million metric tons of carbon byproducts created by the production of anhydrous ammonia. In conjunction with the project, the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $10.2 million grant to the U. of I., with an eye toward later recovering stored carbon to help boost crude oil production.

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• NCAA transfer rules

  by news@illinois.eduApr 29, 2019 11:30 am1 View

  Chicago Tribune (April 28) – Illinois tight end Luke Ford’s family said they have hired attorney Tom Mars, who has helped other college athletes earn NCAA transfer waivers to play immediately. Ford learned last week that the NCAA denied his request of a family hardship waiver that would allow him to play football immediately at Illinois in the fall after transferring from the University of Georgia.

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• Meteotsunami warning system

  by news@illinois.eduApr 25, 2019 12:15 pm1 View

  Chicago Tribune (April 25) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin, the U. of I. and the University of Michigan, is working to create a forecast and warning system to alert boaters and beachgoers about meteotsunamis as they develop across the Great Lakes.

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• Corn crop planting speed

  by news@illinois.eduApr 24, 2019 10:00 am1 View

  Hoosier Ag Today (Zionsville, Ind., April 23) – While it is true today’s equipment can plant a single acre of corn much faster, it still takes about the same amount of time to plant the whole crop, says Scott Irwin, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois. It takes about the same time to plant the whole U.S. corn crop today as it did 40 years ago.

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• HathiTrust Digital Library

  by news@illinois.eduApr 23, 2019 12:45 pm1 View

  EdTech (Vernon Hills, Ill., April 22) – “If there’s a book sitting on the shelf at the University of Michigan library, University of California, Illinois, Virginia or Harvard, there’s a very good chance we have a copy of it,” says J. Stephen Downie, the associate dean for research at the School of Information Sciences at Illinois and the co-director of the HathiTrust Research Center.

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• Faculty-grad student relationships

  by news@illinois.eduApr 22, 2019 12:15 pm1 View

  The Scientist (Philadelphia, April 19) – Princeton University is the first school to ban relationships between faculty and graduate students campuswide, but others will follow, says Jamelle Sharpe, a professor of law at Illinois who has surveyed academic policies in this area. “In the last couple of years, universities have essentially gone in one direction, which is to make their policies more restrictive,” Sharpe says.

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