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• Outdoor golf facility

  by news@illinois.eduFeb 15, 2019 12:45 pm1 View

  Golf Magazine (New York City, Feb. 14) – If the U. of I. is not your top choice among golf schools, wait until you see their incredible Augusta National-inspired practice facility. Dedicated in 2015, the Lauritsen/Wohlers Outdoor Golf Facility is a 24-acre, fully irrigated, 360-degree practice center open exclusively to Illini golf student-athletes.

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• Law

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

  The New York Times (Feb. 13) – Rebecca Sandefur, a sociologist and researcher at Illinois, has spent years considering a question that’s central to the American legal system: Does everyone facing legal issues need a lawyer? She has found that, especially for everyday matters, many people would benefit more from what she likes to call the “just resolution” of legal problems.

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• Agriculture

  by news@illinois.eduJan 30, 2019 11:00 am1 View

  Bloomberg (Jan. 29) – Corn could prove a bottom-line bulwark this year for U.S. farmers. The potential for greater profit from the cereal compared with soybeans in key regions such as central Illinois may lead U.S. farmers to shift some acres to the yellow kernels. “Farmers are going to really take a hard look at corn this year as an alternative to soybeans,” says Gary Schnitkey, a professor of agriculture and consumer economics at Illinois.

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• Trolls in the classroom

  by news@illinois.eduJan 29, 2019 2:15 pm1 View

  Inside Higher Ed (Jan. 29) – Faculty leaders at Illinois are weighing a proposal to protect faculty members from students who enroll in their classes to disrupt, or troll, them.

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• Microplastic groundwater contamination

  by news@illinois.eduJan 28, 2019 4:15 pm1 View

  Earth.com (Reno, Nev., Jan. 28) – A new study from the U. of I. is the first to reveal the discovery of microplastics in fractured limestone aquifers, an underground freshwater source that supplies 25 percent of drinking water worldwide.

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• Illinois bald eagle numbers rise

  by news@illinois.eduJan 25, 2019 11:45 am1 View

  The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill., Jan. 24) – Steve Bailey, an ornithologist with the Prairie Research Institute at Illinois, says the state is home to an increasing number of nesting bald eagles, with one or two dozen new nests found each year.

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• Hagfish slime

  by news@illinois.eduJan 16, 2019 11:30 am1 View

  Newsweek (New York City, Jan. 15) – Hagfish are deep-sea eel-like creatures that, when attacked, produce a slime that explodes out to choke their assailant. The slime forms from a small amount of mucus that is ejected from the creature’s glands. As it enters the water, it expands by a factor of around 10,000 and turns into a mass that clogs up the gills of its predators. In a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, researchers led by Gaurav Chaudhary, a graduate student in mechanical science and engineering at Illinois, have now started to figure out how the slime unravels.

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• Attorney general nominee

  by news@illinois.eduJan 15, 2019 12:00 pm1 View

  The Daily Beast (New York City, Jan. 15) – Under Attorney General nominee William Barr, 310 Haitian immigrants became prisoners of the world’s first detention camp for refugees with HIV. “We have had a massive increase in the criminalization of immigration and immigrants, and a massive expansion of immigrant detention,” says A. Naomi Paik, a professor of Asian American studies at Illinois whose book, "Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II," detailed the conditions in the camps.

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• Butterfly population decrease

  by news@illinois.eduJan 10, 2019 12:15 pm1 View

  WSIL-TV (Carterville, Ill., Jan. 9) – Each year, eastern monarch butterflies migrate from southern Canada, through the Midwest and the East Coast to Mexico, where they hibernate. Richard Little, a horticulture educator for the U. of I., says populations are counted during hibernation and there’s been a sharp decrease. “Southern Mexico, they’ve seen a 90 percent decrease from the peak of the recorded population in the mid-to-late 1990s,” Little says.

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• Climatology

  by news@illinois.eduJan 8, 2019 10:45 am1 View

  The Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale, Ill., Jan. 7) – Even with 34 years of experience in climatology with the U. of I. – 21 of those as the Illinois state climatologist – Jim Angel, who is retiring, says he wishes he could tell farmers more precisely what the weather will be like during spring planting season this year.

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