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A Book of Prefaces

Response to Mencken's book was generally poor, but certain defenders of American culture were particularly outspoken in their criticism of the book—most notably Stuart Sherman, a professor at the University of Illinois (Sherman was personally attacked in Prefaces).

Accent reduction

According to Dennis Baron, a linguistics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, eliminating an accent is difficult.

Andrew Conway Ivy

Ivy trained in medicine and physiology in Chicago and taught at Northwestern University before becoming vice president of the University of Illinois, being responsible for the medicine, dentistry and pharmacy schools.

Andrew S. Draper

He then served as a member of the Albany School-board, superintendent of the public instruction at New York City, and superintendent of schools at Cleveland, Ohio before becoming the President and Regent of the University of Illinois in 1894.

Asuncion Raymundo

Later on she got her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and became a post-doctor in the molecular genetics field at the International Rice Research Institute.

Bayleyite

It was first described in 1948 for an occurrence in the Hillside mine, north of Bagdad, Yavapai County, Arizona and named for mineralogist William Shirley Bayley (1861–1943) of the University of Illinois.

Brian Marick

Brian Marick, a graduate of the University of Illinois, was a software testing specialist in the 1990s, an Agile software development specialist in the 2000s, and concentrates on programming in Ruby and Clojure in the 2010s.

Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is an interdisciplinary unit within the UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois focusing on the cultures, societies and countries of the Middle East and South Asia.

Charles Fehr Round Barn

This roof style set the structure's design apart from the typical round barn designed based on recommendations from the University of Illinois' and the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Agricultural Experiment Stations.

Chester Starr

Between 1940 and 1953 was lecturer in history at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Chris Başak

He attended Minooka High School in Minooka, Illinois, then went to college at the University of Illinois, where he played shortstop.

Daniel Simons

Daniel James Simons (born 1969) is a prominent experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois.

Dwight Isbell

Dwight Isbell was a radio engineer, I.E.E.E antennas and propagation fellow, and co-inventor of the Log-periodic antenna while a student at the University of Illinois under Raymond DuHamel.

Eileen Favorite

She received a B.A. in English with a French concentration from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Frasca International

Frasca manufactured training devices are used in all segments of the aviation industry, but are perhaps best known for their extensive use in many prominent college aviation programs, including Purdue University, Indiana State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of North Dakota, Louisiana Tech University, University of Illinois, and Western Michigan University.

Geoffrey Bruun

After retiring as a professor of history from N.Y.U., he was a visiting professor at Cornell, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, the University of Illinois, and Georgetown University.

George Bon Salle

A 6'8" forward, he starred at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, before playing at the University of Illinois.

Hal Pereira

Pereira was educated at the University of Illinois and is brother of architect (and occasional film art director) William L. Pereira.

Herman C. Krannert

In 1964, Herman and Ellnora Krannert announced the plans for Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois.

ILLIAC I

1957 – Mathematician Donald B. Gillies, physicist James E. Snyder, and astronomers George C. McVittie, S. P. Wyatt, Ivan R. King and George W. Swenson of the University of Illinois used the ILLIAC I computer to calculate the orbit of the Sputnik I satellite within two days of its launch.

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

Over the next year, similar conferences were held with various names, including the ITASA/TASC Cultural Conference at the University of Illinois, the ITASA Taiwanese Cultural Celebration at Brown University, and TASCon at the University of Illinois again.

Iris Associates

Tim Halvorsen and Len Kawell, who joined Iris shortly afterwards in January 1985, met Ray Ozzie years before when all of them were working on the University of Illinois PLATO system.

James F. O'Gorman

from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1961.

Jeremy Leman

Leman graduated from the University of Illinois with a speech communication degree and a master's degree in Human Resource Education.

John Sampen

Michael Holmes, Enrollment Management Director and Clinical Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Illinois

Kenneth R. Mladenka

Mladenka contributed "The Political Machine, the Urban Bureaucracy, and the Distribution of Public Services" to Chicago Politics Papers, a joint effort of the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, to study the period between the two Chicago mayors named Daley.

Kevin Alfred Strom

Strom was a close associate of University of Illinois Classics professor and nationalist writer Revilo P. Oliver, who has been described as "one of America's most notorious fascists" and, according to B'nai Brith Canada, was "a long time proponent of antisemitism".

Martin A. Lee

He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, and the American University of Paris.

Michael Colgrass

He graduated from the University of Illinois (1954) with a degree in percussion performance and composition, including studies with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Festival and Lukas Foss at Tanglewood.

Miscanthus giganteus

Large colleges, such as the University of Illinois, Mississippi State University and University of Georgia have committed several years and large portions of money to studying ethanol production in general.

Morgan Sparks

Sparks was born in Pagosa Springs, Colorado and became an undergraduate at Rice University and then did his PhD work in physical chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

National Educational Radio Network

In 1951 a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation enabled the network to become the "(NAEB) Tape Network", based at the University of Illinois.

Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator was based on the Mosaic web browser, which was co-written by Marc Andreessen, a part-time employee of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and a student at the University of Illinois.

North American Saxophone Alliance

The 2014 conference will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 20-24, 2014 featuring classical saxophone artists Fred Hemke, Eugene Rousseau, and Don Sinta, as-well-as jazz saxophonists Jeff Coffin, Brad Leali, and Chip McNeil.

Ollie Voigt

He was born in Wheaton, Illinois, and played baseball at Wheaton High School and the University of Illinois.

Oscar Sala

In 1946 Oscar Sala received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation and went to study in the U.S., first at the University of Illinois, and subsequently, in 1948, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Paulo Costa Lima

After studying composition with Jamary Oliveira and Ernst Widmer in Brazil, and Ben Johnston and Herbert Brün at the University of Illinois, USA, he became a professor at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, and held several positions such as Director of the Music School (1988–1992) and Assistant Vice-President for Community Affairs (1996–2002).

Phyllis Crawford

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, she graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1920 and then from library school at the University of Illinois in 1924 and became an editorial assistant for H.W. Wilson.

R. Eden Martin

He has also served on the boards of the University of Illinois Foundation, the Chicago History Museum, and the Ravinia Festival.

Raymond Cattell

One reason that Cattell moved to the University of Illinois was that they were developing the first electronic computer, the Illiac I there, which made it possible for him to complete large-scale factor analyses, which had here-to-fore been impossible to conduct.

Robert M. Hayes

He was visiting professor at Loughborough University, Strossmayer University, University of New South Wales, Khazar University, Keio University, University of LIS in Tsukuba Science City (Japan), Nankai University, University of Illinois, and University of Washington.

Sergio McClain

McClain later played for Lon Kruger and Bill Self at the University of Illinois, along with his high school teammates Marcus Griffin and Frank Williams.

Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

The foundation of the Society was prompted in 1955 by Turpin Bannister in discussion with Frank Jenkins, a British architect and scholar who worked with Bannister at the University of Illinois in the United States.

Takanyi Garanganga

After a career on the junior circuit and graduating from high school at Keystone National High School in 2008, Garanganga turned down offers to play collegiate tennis at the University of Georgia and the University of Illinois to focus on a professional career.

Tweed Water Spaniel

Linda P. Case, of the University of Illinois, speculated that the Tweed Water Spaniel was so named because it was developed on the estate of Lord Tweedmouth, and in fact was simply the original name for a breed of dog that later became the Golden Retriever.

UAB Blazers

Setting the standards high from the start, UAB hired former UCLA, University of Illinois and Memphis head coach Gene Bartow.

Vincent du Vigneaud

He joined Alpha Chi Sigma while at the University of Illinois in 1930.


see also

Animate Objects

CZAR Absolute was asked to participate in the 2003 Triangle Fraternity Battle of the Bands at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Arthur Hall

Arthur R. Hall, head football coach at the University of Illinois, 1907–1912

Bernard White

B. Joseph White (born 1947), president of the University of Illinois system

Bibliography on American Communism

Naison, Mark, Communists in Harlem During the Depression. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

Bob Gilmore

He is best known for his books on American music - Harry Partch: a biography (Yale University Press, 1998) and Ben Johnston: Maximum Clarity and other writings on music (University of Illinois Press, 2006), both of which were recipients of the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP.

Clinton, Illinois

Gene Vance, a member of the 1942-43 University of Illinois Basketball team known as the Whiz Kids

Craig MacIntosh

He graduated from Radford High School in 1962 and went to University of Illinois, graduating in 1966 with degree in Fine Arts.

Dark fibre

Starting in 1999, Larry Smarr, a technology director from the University of Illinois, connected the Urbana-Champaign campus to major academic, research, and telecommunications facilities in the Chicago area.

David Goldberg

David E. Goldberg (born 1953), professor of engineering and computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David Grandis

After receiving a B.M. in Musicology in France, he completed a M.M. in orchestral conducting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Donald Schleicher and a G.P.D. at the Peabody Conservatory with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar.

Delbert Philpott

At the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago he established the first electron microscope facility, before moving to the Marine Biological Lab and Institute for Muscle Research in Woods Hole, MA in 1952, where he was Head of Electron Microscopy, directing research projects under Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi in the winter and for the Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole during the summer.

Douglas R. Mills

Mills served as Athletic Director for the University of Illinois from 1941 to 1966, responsible for football coaches Ray Eliot and Pete Elliott and basketball coach Harry Combes.

Duluth model

A 2005 study led by Larry Bennett, a professor of social work at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an expert on batterer intervention programs, found that of the 30 batterer intervention programs in Cook County, Illinois, 15 percent of batterers who completed the programs were rearrested for domestic violence, compared with 37 percent of those who dropped out of the programs.

Eric Meyer

Eric K. Meyer (born 1953), University of Illinois journalism professor

EVL

Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, United States

George Miley

George H. Miley, physicist, professor emeritus at University of Illinois

Herbert Blau

The two books that emerged from that work—Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point (University of Illinois Press, 1982) and Blooded Thought: Occasions of Theater (Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982)—received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.

IGB

Institute for Genomic Biology, a genomics research facility at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign

ILLIAC IV

When Solomon ended, the principal investigator, Daniel Slotnick, joined the Illiac design team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Illini

Illinois Fighting Illini, the intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

INHS

Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J. Lynn Helms

Mr. Helms was a Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a trustee of the USAF Flight Test Museum, a Life Member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Society, an Honorary in the Air Traffic Control Association, Co-Founder of The J. Lynn Helms Aviation Science Scholarship Fund, University of Illinois, and a retired member of the Wings Club of New York City.

Jean-Antoine Gleizes

Howard Williams and Carol J. Adams, The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating, University of Illinois Press, 2003, pp.

Katherine Prescott Wormeley

George M. Fredrickson (1965/1993), The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union, reprint with new preface, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Kathleen Willis

She also earned a bachelor’s in Human Service Administration from Elmhurst College and a master’s degree in Library and Information Services from the University of Illinois during her school board tenure.

LEEP

LEEP Online Education, a distance learning program at the University of Illinois

Leopoldo Cicognara

Philipp Fehl and Raina Fehl were the directors of The Leopoldo Cicognara Program at the University of Illinois Library, dedicated to the study and promulgation of literary sources in the history of art, 1987-2007.

Lindsey Durlacher

Durlacher was also assistant coach at the University of Illinois, Northwestern, Northern Illinois University, and the U.S. Naval Academy.

Lorado Taft

His papers reside in collections at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the University of Illinois, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mark Sauer

He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Illinois Hospital in 1984 and then obtained sub-specialty training in reproductive endocrinology at the University of California in Los Angeles, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, under the mentorship of John Buster, M.D. Dr. Sauer has been married since 1979 to Lynda Marie (Treppa) Sauer and has 4 children: Julie, Chris, Jeffery, and Emily.

May Berenbaum

She has also gained some measure of fame as the organizer of the Insect Fear Film Festival at the University of Illinois, an annual celebration of Hollywood's entomological excesses.

Michael S. Hart

During Hart's time there, the University of Illinois computer center gave Hart a user's account on its computer system: Hart's brother's best friend was the mainframe operator.

Mike Tisdale

Tisdale grew up in Riverton, Illinois and attended the University of Illinois from 2007-2011.

ORDVAC

J. P. Nash of the University of Illinois was a developer of both the ORDVAC and of the university's own identical copy, the ILLIAC, which was later renamed the ILLIAC I. Donald B. Gillies assisted in the checkout of ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Polyvagal Theory

The Polyvagal Theory (gr. 'polus', “‘many’” + 'vagal', "'Vagus Nerve'") was proposed and developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, Director of the Brain-Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Porges

Stephen Porges (born 1945, New Brunswick, New Jersey), US Professor in the University of Illinois at Chicago

Preetha Ram

She first enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she met her soon-to-be husband, Ashwin Ram, whom she married in 1984.

Robert McChesney

Robert W. McChesney, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, media critic, founder Free Press and Media Matters radio program host

Robert Zuppke

Prior to coaching at the University of Illinois, Zuppke coached at Muskegon High School in Muskegon, Michigan and Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois, where he tutored future Pro Football Hall of Famer George Trafton.

Slavic Review

Mark D. Steinberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) served as editor from 2006 to 2013.

Stephen Albair

While in the military, he gained a GED certificate attending the University of Illinois before being discharged from the Air Force in 1965.

Tarahumara people

Jeff Biggers: In the Sierra Madre, (University of Illinois Press, 2006)

Thomas Kearns

Alexander, Thomas G. Mormonism in Transition. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Tylman

Stanley D. Tylman (1893–1982), professor of dentistry (1920–1962), University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry

War on Gangs

In addition, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign criminologist, Jun Sung Hong in his 2010 study about the Bronfenbrenner ecological approach to understanding Vietnamese gangs in America states that “after-school programs and activities for youths, such as sports or job training opportunities might enhance pro-social behavior and reduce motivation to join a gang.”

Wenz

Peter Wenz (born 1945), an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Springfield

William Albrecht

After attending the local school he progressed via preparatory school to the University of Illinois where he obtained a B.A. degree in liberal arts.This led to a position teaching Latin and other subjects at Bluffton University, Ohio.