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- CLASSICS - AIA Lecture, Professor Steven Tuck, Miami University of Ohio: "Death, Mythology and Ideology in the Arena: Sculpture from the Amphitheater at Capua"
- 2/12/2012, 3:00 pm
- Seminar of Special Interest, Dr. Nazish Hoda, Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Co., "Multiscale Modeling in Polymeric Systems"
- 2/13/2012, 10:00 am
- Comparative Politics Workshop - Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
- 2/13/2012, 12:00 pm
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Deadline: July 1 for placement by Homecoming Open House
Living in His Car
Storyography“It would be fine for maybe a week at a time. But then my joints would just start to ache like crazy, like I was already old.” —Brian Kung (AB ’11, East Asian languages and cultures) describes his decision to live part of a school year in his car.
News
Hearth and Home
Students in LAS Global Studies 298 spent 2.5 weeks in Nicaragua deploying low-cost alternatives to scarce wood for cooking and heating. Here they are learning to make charcoal briquettes by pyrolizing left-over corn husks. The carbonized husks are mashed and mixed with cassava into a paste that is then pressed into forms to produce the briquettes. The students also built solar ovens.
Now You See It—No, You Don’t
Psychology Professor Takes Startling Demo to the Ellen Show and National Geographic
Sea Slugs and Vegas Gamblers
Cannibalistic Creatures Shed Light on Decision-Making Process
Poetry & Prose Podcasts
The Problem Solver
Top Mathematician Honored as She Reaches an Important Number
Other Features
Lincoln Hall Update
Trekking Campus by Bike
Trekking Campus by Bike Storyography Essay Recalls When Bicyclists Ruled Campus
A Global Reach
Latitudes LAS Launches a New Website Dedicated to International and Global Programs in Research and Education
Faculty Honors
U of I Professor Wins One of Science’s Biggest Prizes
Test Your U of IQ
rotundaIn 1907, this structure was built in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda. Which building is it?
