Talking Points

Campus highlights for 2004

James B. Kaler, professor emeritus of astronomy has asteroid named after him. (Asteroid 17851 Kaler)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign receives $5 million, five-year grant from National Science Foundation and will create the BeeSpace System
Carla E. Caceres, professor of animal biology receives 2003 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientist & Engineers
Nick Holonyak Jr., a John Bardeen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, is selected as the 2004 recipient of the Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research Society
Arthur F. Kramer, a professor of psychology and researcher at the Beckman Institute, discovered significant findings related to regular aerobic exercise and the improving aging adults' abilities to concentrate and filter out distractions
The University of Illinois becomes the new editorial home of the prestigious Journal of Women's History
International library experts at Illinois were awarded a grant that allows them to work with seven African university libraries
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, gives his papers to his alma mater, the U of I
University of Illinois researchers found significant evidence that the PKG-II enzyme triggers our biological clocks