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According to Shea S. Riley, coordinator of Students for Braun at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, "A lot of [college students] tell me that they are voting only to vote for Carol Moseley Braun." Riley also noted that Braun's name recognition has reached an astonishing 90 percent in Illinois...
...that way? So far, none of the gender scientists have figured out whether nature or nurture is more important. "Nothing is ever equal, even in the beginning," observes Janice Juraska, a biopsychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She points out, for instance, that mother rats lick their male offspring more frequently than they do their daughters. However, Juraska has demonstrated that it is possible to reverse some inequities by manipulating environmental factors. Female rats have fewer nerve connections than males into the hippocampus, a brain region associated with spatial relations and memory. But when Juraska "enriched...
...behavior of ionized gases in a computer simulation, for example, than it is to build a full-scale nuclear- fusion reactor. "We've whetted an awful lot of scientific appetites," says Larry Smarr, director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
Heinrich Schliemann: The Myth and the Scandal--with William Calder, professor of classics with the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In the Boylston Hall auditorium...
...that more than one narrator has been at work here. But the sources are less important than the patterns and the possibilities of meaning hiding within them. The movement begins with Ressler in 1957, fresh from graduate school at age 25, arriving at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign to join Cyfer, a research team assembled to crack the genetic code of the DNA molecule. The infant field is electric with excitement; scarcely four years have passed since Crick and Watson proposed the double- helix model for DNA -- intertwining strings of four chemical bases -- and already the opportunity...