Loading...
RSS feeds allow Web site content to be gathered via feed reader software. Click the subscribe link to obtain the feed URL for this page. The feed will update when new content appears on this page.
Highlights

A collection of news and information related to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign published by this site and its partners.

Sort By: Relevancy | Date | Type
Displaying items 1-12 of 891
» View latimes.com items only
    May 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times Exclusive

  1. Serena Williams in another final; Federer and Nadal to face off

    A week out from the French Open, <strong>Serena Williams</strong> is one victory away from winning her fourth straight tournament.
    A week out from the French Open, Serena Williams is one victory away from winning her fourth straight tournament. The top-ranked American overcame an early break of her serve to ease past Romanian qualifier Simona Halep, 6-3, 6-0, Saturday and reach the...

    Tags: Ryder Cup, Roger Federer, Open-Wheel Racing, Graeme McDowell, Marco Andretti

    2. May 1, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Will robots see with fly eyes? Bugs inspire new high-tech camera

    Flies' multifaceted eyes have long allowed them to elude frustrated swatters from all directions. Now, inspired by insects' vision, researchers have built a digital camera with an array of tiny lenses lining a bulging eyeball, allowing an undistorted, nearly 180-degree view.
    Flies' multifaceted eyes have long allowed them to elude frustrated swatters from all directions. Now, inspired by insects' vision, researchers have built a digital camera with an array of tiny lenses lining a bulging eyeball, allowing an undistorted,...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Procedures and Tests

    3. Apr 30, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel

    Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....

    Tags: Esophageal cancer, University of New Hampshire, Queens (New York City), Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Science and Technology

    4. Apr 4, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Remembrance: Roger Ebert, film's hero to the end

    <em>This post has been corrected. See below for details.</em>
    This post has been corrected. See below for details. It seems like only yesterday — in fact, it was only yesterday — that I read that Roger Ebert was taking what he called, with typical verbal skill, "a leave of presence" to fight the cancer...

    Tags: Roger Ebert, Entertainment, Citizen Kane (movie), Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards

    5. Apr 4, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic

    Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to moviegoers, has died. He was 70.
    Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to...

    Tags: Weight, Independent (Movie Genre), Television Industry, Entertainment, Entertainment Events

    6. Jan 22, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Carl Woese dies at 84; evolutionary biologist

    Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else.
    Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that microbes now called archaea look like bacteria but...

    Tags: Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Science and Technology, Education, Pancreatic Cancer, Entertainment Events

    7. Nov 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Kerosene wick lamps produce both light and hazardous soot

    The bright orange flames of kerosene wick lamps used in millions of impoverished households around the world are significant sources of global warming and pollutants linked to respiratory diseases, according to a new study.
    The bright orange flames of kerosene wick lamps used in millions of impoverished households around the world are significant sources of global warming and pollutants linked to respiratory diseases, according to a new study. Lab and field work led by...

    Tags: Weather, University of California, Berkeley, Global Change, Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School

    8. Dec 20, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Roger Ebert's Ebertfest gets $20,000 academy grant

    Roger Ebert may already be on the mend from a hairline fracture in his left leg, but there's news Thursday that may be enough to get him out of bed and dancing: His annual film festival, Ebertfest, received a $20,000 grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
    Roger Ebert may already be on the mend from a hairline fracture in his left leg, but there's news Thursday that may be enough to get him out of bed and dancing: His annual film festival, Ebertfest, received a $20,000 grant from the Academy of Motion...

    Tags: J.K. Rowling , Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Entertainment, Harry Potter (fictional character), Jack Reacher (movie)

    9. Sep 6, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Stress in trauma's wake: Genes play a major role

    Ten years after terrorists&nbsp;hijacked four American jetliners and killed nearly 3,000 people, there's&nbsp;growing evidence that&nbsp;people with a previous history of depression, or who have been traumatized before, are far more vulnerable to developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than those without such histories. A new study&nbsp;suggests why, and supplies yet more evidence&nbsp;that genes play a powerful role in influencing who develops post-traumatic stress disorder after a traumatic event and who doesn't.
    Ten years after terrorists hijacked four American jetliners and killed nearly 3,000 people, there's growing evidence that people with a previous history of depression, or who have been traumatized before, are far more vulnerable to developing post-...

    Tags: Psychiatry, Juvenile Delinquency, Mental Illness, Medical Specialization, History

    10. Jan 2, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. The Unreal World: 'Carnage' and child bullying

    "Carnage"
    "Carnage" SBS Productions U.S. release: Dec. 16 The premise Ethan Longstreet (Eliot Berger), age 11, has formed a gang at his Brooklyn school but has excluded classmate Zachary Cowan (Elvis Polanski), also age 11. When Zachary confronts him, Ethan...

    Tags: Entertainment, Medical Specialization, Christoph Waltz, Health and Safety at School, Health and Safety at School

    11. Mar 22, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive

    Culture Monster
    The Getty Research Institute has received a $230,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help it organize a huge archive on modern and contemporary art that it acquired last summer. The NEH announced $17 million in grants, including $1.4...
    12. Nov 6, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. PASSINGS: Bernard G. Sarnat

    <b>Bernard G. Sarnat</b>
    Bernard G. Sarnat Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, research scientist Dr. Bernard G. Sarnat, 99, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon and research scientist who advanced the study of facial deformities, died of respiratory failure Oct. 21 in Los Angeles, his...

    Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Entertainment, Music, Dentistry and Dental Health, Tammy Wynette

 1  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11-75 • Next >
Original site for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign topic gallery.
Advertisement
Loading...
 
 

Date:

Credit:

User-submitted

Tags:

Rate:
Sending...

E-mail this photo

Error: malformed email address(es)
Both "from" and "recipient" email fields are required.

Recipient E-mail Addresses

(up to 3, separated by commas) Send me a copy.

From:

e-mail | buy this photo | link to photo
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Photos
Anita Puri has joined the Ounce of Prevention Fund as i...
(May 7, 2013)
Anita Puri, chief marketing officer, Ounce of Prevention Fund
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham...
(April 30, 2013)
A bee perches on the first spherical bug's-eye-view camera
Ameer I. Ahmad has joined the Chicago office of Greenbe...
(April 25, 2013)
Ameer I. Ahmad, shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
 » All 174 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign photos