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Talking Points


Campus highlights for 2002


  • University of Illinois archeologists, led by Timothy Pauketat, unearth a 900-year-old square hilltop village once inhabited by large Cahokian populations
  • The College of Veterinary Medicine lab confirmed the nation's first documented cases of domestic canine and squirrel deaths attributed to the West Nile virus
  • The Theoretical Biophysics Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology developed BioCoRE, a virtual science laboratory and classroom redefining long-range collaboration and linking far-away labs to supercomputers
  • Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work opens at Illinois' art museum featuring sculptures, paintings, drawings and prints created in the 1940s and '50s. The exhibit also includes works not shown before publicly
  • University of Illinois alum, Roger Ebert, hosts the fourth annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival
  • Kenneth Klinkner, professor of political science in the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and music professor Isabel Wong, organized the China Pop Culture Conference to provide an up-to-date view of Chinese pop culture
  • Industrial design professor William Bullock and advanced industrial design students team with engineers, technologists and other specialists campus wide in efforts aimed at providing corporate partners with solutions to product-development challenges
  • Scientists Nick Holonyak Jr. and Susan E. Fahrbach of the U of I are among 291 people selected as 2002 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Robert B. Hill, a nationally known authority on African-American families, speaks at the Children and Family Research Center (CFRC), a unit of the School of Social Work on "Understanding Black Families: Strengths and Challenges"
  • Neil L. Kelleher, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is among 20 U.S. researchers named 2002 Packard Fellows in natural sciences by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation

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