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• Watchfire Signs Expands With New Offices at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Park

  - 2008-02-20

  Watchfire Signs by Time-O-Matic, Inc. ( http://www.watchfiresigns.com ), the most reliable LED sign manufacturer in the on-premise and digital billboard markets, announced that it has opened a new office for its software development group at The Research Park at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC. The new office...

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• The top 100 interpreting the data

  - 2006-07-13

  Substantial growth continues in both the number and percentage of students of color obtaining master's, doctoral and first professional degrees, but there is still notable under-representation among African-Americans, Hispanics and American Indians at the doctoral and first professional ranks. The overall numbers also mask important representational differences across disciplines among...

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• MEMBER NEWS

  - 2006-03-01

  Prasanta K. Kalita, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering at the University of Illinois, recently won a National Teaching Award in the USDA and National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges Food and Agriculture Sciences Excellence in College and University Teaching Awards program. The award is one of...

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• Herbert J. Zeller of Dundee.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

  - 2005-11-12

  Herbert J. Zeller of Dundee A Mass for Herbert J. Zeller, 85, will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, 845 W. Main St., West Dundee. Interment will be in St. Mary Cemetery, Gilberts. Visitation will be from 3 to 9...

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• Meeting the Future At a Younger Age

  - 2004-11-01

  HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN technology education courses will start thinking more like engineers if a new $10 million National Science Foundation grant has the desired effect. High school vocational education programs aren't doing what they could to introduce knowledge and skills associated with engineering, according to Scott Johnson, the head...

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• Meeting the future at a younger age.(education grants)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-11-01

  HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN technology education courses will start thinking 1note like engineers if a new $10 million National Science Foundation grant has the desired effect. High school vocational education programs aren't doing what they could to introduce knowledge and skills associated with ...

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• Master's degrees

  - 2004-07-29

  MASTER'S DEGREES All Disciplines Combined AFRICAN AMERICAN MASTER'S - HBCUs VS. TWIs ...

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• Honorable mention.(Neighbor)

  - 2004-05-26

  Michael Mack School: Montini Catholic High School Hometown: Darien Parents: Ed and Pam Mack School sponsor: Christine A. O'Neill-McManus, AP math teacher and varsity math team coach Grade point average/point system: 4.46/weighted 4 point...

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• Illinois Native to Be Honored for Creating Practical Light Emitting Diode.

  - 2004-04-22

  By Jon Van, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 22--A bright idea that Nick Holonyak Jr. had more than 40 years ago keeps paying dividends for the University of Illinois professor. The latest is the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest...

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• IN MEMORIAM

  - 2004-03-01

  ASAE Fellow George Wallace Giles, 93, died on July 21, 2003 in Raleigh, N.C. Giles received a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska and a master's degree from the University of Missouri, both in agricultural engineering. He joined the faculty at North Carolina State College (now North Carolina State...

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