A cup of coffee and a slice of science

Abigail Salyers
Abigail Salyers, a professor of microbiology, spoke about the relationship between humans and the microbial world recently at CU Caf Sci, a monthly forum at the Verde Caf in downtown Champaign. The event is based on the international concept called Caf Scientifique, informal gatherings where...

Campus welcomes new faculty/staff members

Rachel Whitaker
Among the newcomers to the Urbana campus are more than 6,700 freshmen and about 106 tenure/tenure track faculty members whose appointments began this summer or fall. On Aug. 22, while new and returning students checked out Quad Day, inside the Illini Union new faculty and staff members were...

Antibiotic research

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William W. Metcalf and collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin will receive a $7 million award from the National Institutes of Health 'to discover, engineer and produce a promising - yet little explored - class of antibiotic agents."