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Bijoy K. Ghosh, Ph.D., Eliot M. Fried, Ph.D., Kenneth J. Goldman, Ph.D., Jonathan B. Losos, Ph.D., Robert Pollak, Ph.D., and more…

Photo by Mary ButkusStudents, faculty and staff bought lunch and raffle tickets for prize baskets at GWB’s Cafe United Way and United Way Rally Raffle.

File photoLei Wang, Deanna Barch and John Csernansky review brain images at the Silvio Conte Center for Neuroscience Research.Researchers are working to identify changes as early as possible in an effort to halt Alzheimer’s progress before people become severely impaired.

Renowned critic Helen Vendler and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham will participate in a three-day discussion on poets and poetry Oct. 15-17 as part of the University’s Fall Reading Series 2003, sponsored by The Writing Program and the Department of English, both in Arts & Sciences. “Conversations About Poetry” will kick off at 8 p.m. […]

Researchers are working to identify these changes so that it might be possible to halt Alzheimer’s progress before people become severely impaired.

Terry Teachout, author of The New York Times Notable Book The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken, will read for the 2003-04 Center for the Humanities’ Writers Series Oct. 13-14. Teachout will host two events while at the University. He will read from his work at 8 p.m. Oct. 13 in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 204. […]

Photo by David KilperMilorad P. Dudukovic, associate director of the new multi-institutional center, works with graduate students at the Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory.The National Science Foundation has announced that the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis has been selected to receive $17 million.

The football team held off a late fourth-quarter rally and defeated Rhodes College, 28-21, Oct. 4 at Francis Field. The Bears had a 21-10 lead heading into the fourth quarter before Rhodes began the comeback. Midway through the fourth quarter, Rhodes tied the game at 21. But after the tying field goal, Bears senior Blake […]

The National Conference on Graduate Student Leadership will bring to campus 42 graduate student delegates from 14 universities.

Democratic Rep. Melvin Price (seated), who served Illinois from 1945-1988, visits the University’s computer center in November 1958. Some of the equipment in the center had been used to track orbits of the Russian Sputnik satellites. With Price are (from left) Edwin Roth, cartographer and astronomer; Robert Carty, technical supervisor; and Harvey Cohn, director of […]