Science & Technology
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Illinois storytellers: Vilas Dhar
Vilas Dhar (GRAINGER ’04), president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, believes in investing in technology that can create lasting social change.
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Expedition: OASIS
Volcanologist and geology professor Patricia Gregg takes us with her on the deep ocean sub, Alvin, to investigate a volcanic ridge on the bottom of the sea floor.
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Translating the science of climate change into solutions
Donald J. Wuebbles, the Harry E. Preble Endowed Professor of Atmospheric Science, answers the Proust Questionnaire.
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Inside nature’s fury
Sometimes the only way to understand the storm is to get inside it.
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Illinois storytellers: Andy Sima
Andy Sima (LAS ’21) takes us to a burn zone in New Mexico, scarred land created by the 2019 Ute Park Wildfire.
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Land of wondrous cold
In his newest book of environmental history, English professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood explores the race to Antarctica, the continent’s influence on climate change, and. . . Alice in Wonderland.
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12 days
How Grainger engineers—and medical professionals, manufacturing experts, animal scientists, and designers from around Champaign-Urbana—brought a COVID-stricken world an emergency ventilator in less than two weeks.
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Center of the universe
Colleen Bushell (FAA ’85, ’95) recalls Mosaic and margaritas at the Center of the Universe.
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Sharing the beauty and wonder of physics
Physics professor Nadya Mason answers the Proust Questionnaire.