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• AgFeed Industries Appoints Edward McMillan, Former Chairman of American Feed Industry Association and Former CEO of Purina Mills, the Largest Animal Nutrition Product Company in the US, as a Strategic M&A Advisor

  - 2007-12-17

  AgFeed Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEED) (website: www.agfeedinc.com ), a market leader in China's premix animal nutrition industry, today announced that Mr. Edward McMillan, a leader in the U.S. animal nutrition industry, has joined AgFeed as a strategic advisor on M&A and corporate development. Mr. McMillan commented: "China represents...

  Tags: board, China, FINANCE, Investment, M&A, nutrition, Strategy, University of Illinois

• Katz, Joy & Prufer, Kevin, eds. Dark horses; poets on overlooked poems

  - 2007-05-01

  KATZ, Joy & Prufer, Kevin, eds. Dark horses; poets on overlooked poems. University of Illinois Press. 216p. index. c2007. 0-252-07287-1. $19.95. SA This substantial collection is commendable on at least three levels, the most apparent being the ingenuity of its unifying element. Over 60 established poets, from Billy Collins...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, teacher, University of Illinois

• An Architect Collects.

  - 2007-04-01

  by Stanley Abercrombie Art meets design at a University of Illinois exhibition honoring Robert Kleinschmidt It is commonplace for interiors to incorporate art, but seldom is art as conceptually intrinsic to interiors as it is in the work...

  Tags: exhibition, FINANCE, Insurance, Investment, Robert, University of Illinois

• Registration of 'LD00-3309' soybean.(REGISTRATIONS OF CULTIVARS)

  - 2006-05-01

  LD00-3309 soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] Reg. no. CV-480, PI 639740) was developed by the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Illinois. It was released as a midgroup IV maturity cultivar because of its high yield, resistance to soybean cyst nematode (SCN; Heterodera glycines...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, Sanmina-SCI Corp., University of Illinois

• Dawn K.B. Williams.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

  - 2005-12-11

  Dawn K.B. Williams Family and friends Dawn K.B. Williams are to gather and eulogize, if desired, at a memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, at Alpine Chapel, 23153 W. Miller Road, Lake Zurich. Dawn was born May 9, 1958, in Chicago. On...

  Tags: Chicago, Dawn, FINANCE, husband, Investment, Leadership, University of Illinois

• Book Guides Urban Universities in Neighborhood Development.

  - 2005-10-13

  Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 13 AScribe Newswire -- Many urban universities must develop their neighborhoods as well as their campuses to create good environments for learning, working and living, according to a book co-edited by University of Illinois at Chicago...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, Investment, University of Illinois

• Turbulent times for US soybean traders, producers.(Markets)

  - 2005-08-12

  Soybean crop production could be down in the US in 2005, possibly prompting a reduction in the use of the crop in 2005/06, according to reports from the University of Illinois. Annual US consumption of soybeans at 80.8mt, added to the amount expected for...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, stock, trader, U.S. Department of Agriculture, University of Illinois

• Inventor of the ultimate blue chip investment dies.

  - 2005-06-23

  Jun 23, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Jack Kilby, the man who invented the integrated circuit, died of cancer in late June 2005, aged 81 years. Kilby was born in Missouri, in the US, in 1924. During World War II he repaired radios...

  Tags: chip, HARDWARE, investment, Semiconductors, University of Illinois

• Corrections.(Correction Notice)

  - 2004-12-13

  * Rush University Medical Center plans to cut expenses or increase revenue by $87 million by June 30, 2008, to help carry out expansion plans. A Nov. 29 story overstated that total. * A map in the Dec. 6 issue incorrectly labeled Interstate 55 as...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, University of Illinois

• Rail access to grow at intermodal hub; Tenants at CenterPoint park near Joliet soon to have another option.(News)(Correction Notice)

  - 2004-12-06

  Byline: BOB TITA ***** Correction: Plans to increase private equity investments for University of Illinois endowment funds pertain only to about $767.4 million in assets managed by the University of Illinois Foundation. A Dec. 6 story incorrectly stated that there is...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, railroad, tenant, University of Illinois