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Posted: December 5, 2019
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — From mid-November 2015 through February 2016, scientists used GPS transmitters to track the movements of Canada geese near Midway International Airport in Chicago. They discovered that – in the colder months, at least – some geese are hanging out on rooftops, in a rail yard and in a canal close to Midway’s runways. This behavior...
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Posted: December 3, 2019
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New research by engineers at the University of Illinois combines atomic-scale experimentation with computer modeling to determine how much energy it takes to bend multilayer graphene – a question that has eluded scientists since graphene was first isolated. The findings are reported in the journal Nature Materials.
Graphene – a...
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Posted: November 8, 2019
Established in 2018 a cross-campus program is attracting doctoral candidates in the humanities and arts.
By the time Jonathan Gonzalez received his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas-El Paso, he’d mastered four languages: French, Italian, Russian, and English. By spending more than four hours a day studying language and literature, he’...
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Posted: November 8, 2019
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Consuming potato puree during prolonged exercise works just as well as a commercial carbohydrate gel in sustaining blood glucose levels and boosting performance in trained athletes, scientists report.
“Research has shown that ingesting concentrated carbohydrate gels during prolonged exercise promotes carbohydrate availability...
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Posted: October 30, 2019
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities announced they have been awarded a $2,000,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support Interseminars, an initiative designed to build communities of inquiry among graduate students and faculty at the University of Illinois around emerging research directions in the interdisciplinary...