University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Serena Williams in another final; Federer and Nadal to face off

2013-05-18 20:38:00

A week out from the French Open, Serena Williams is one victory away from winning her fourth straight tournament. The top-ranked American overcame an early break of her serve to ease past Romanian qualifier Simona Halep, 6-3, 6-0, Saturday and reach the...

Will robots see with fly eyes? Bugs inspire new high-tech camera

2013-05-01 14:37:00

Flies' multifaceted eyes have long allowed them to elude frustrated swatters from all directions. Now, inspired by insects' vision, researchers have built a digital camera with an array of tiny lenses lining a bulging eyeball, allowing an undistorted,...

PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel

2013-04-30 00:00:00

Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....

Remembrance: Roger Ebert, film's hero to the end

2013-04-04 16:20:00

This post has been corrected. See below for details. It seems like only yesterday — in fact, it was only yesterday — that I read that Roger Ebert was taking what he called, with typical verbal skill, "a leave of presence" to fight the cancer...

Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic

2013-04-04 17:46:00

Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to...

Carl Woese dies at 84; evolutionary biologist

2013-01-22 00:00:00

Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that microbes now called archaea look like bacteria but...

Kerosene wick lamps produce both light and hazardous soot

2012-11-30 11:54:00

The bright orange flames of kerosene wick lamps used in millions of impoverished households around the world are significant sources of global warming and pollutants linked to respiratory diseases, according to a new study. Lab and field work led by...

Roger Ebert's Ebertfest gets $20,000 academy grant

2012-12-20 13:22:00

Roger Ebert may already be on the mend from a hairline fracture in his left leg, but there's news Thursday that may be enough to get him out of bed and dancing: His annual film festival, Ebertfest, received a $20,000 grant from the Academy of Motion...

Stress in trauma's wake: Genes play a major role

2011-09-06 11:35:00

Ten years after terrorists�hijacked four American jetliners and killed nearly 3,000 people, there's�growing evidence that�people with a previous history of depression, or who have been traumatized before, are far more vulnerable to developing post-...

The Unreal World: 'Carnage' and child bullying

2012-01-02 00:00:00

"Carnage" SBS Productions U.S. release: Dec. 16 The premise Ethan Longstreet (Eliot Berger), age 11, has formed a gang at his Brooklyn school but has excluded classmate Zachary Cowan (Elvis Polanski), also age 11. When Zachary confronts him, Ethan...

Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive

2012-03-22 16:34:01

PASSINGS: Bernard G. Sarnat

2011-11-06 00:00:00

Bernard G. Sarnat Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, research scientist Dr. Bernard G. Sarnat, 99, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon and research scientist who advanced the study of facial deformities, died of respiratory failure Oct. 21 in Los Angeles, his...

Anita Puri has joined the Ounce of Prevention Fund as its new chief marketing officer. She previously worked at Digitas, Inc., as the senior vice president, marketing client relationship lead.

2013-05-07 11:25:00

Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have solved the technical issues behind developing high-resolution cameras that mimick an insect's compound eye.

2013-04-30 16:58:00

Ameer I. Ahmad has joined the Chicago office of Greenberg Traurig LLP as a shareholder in the Corporate & Securities Practice. Ahmad will continue concentrate on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, restructuring and general corporate governance.

2013-04-25 00:00:00