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The University of Illinois : Engine of Innovation /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana, Illinois :
University of Illinois Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Changing the world from a very small place
- Introduction: A university for learning and labor
- Remarkable individuals who triggered innovation at the University of Illinois and beyond. Isabel Bevier: bringing science into the home / Elisa Miller
- Arthur Palmer: the chemistry of safe water / Kelsey Reinker
- Austin Harding: inventor of the school band / Tim Brown
- Victor E. Shelford: environmental pioneer / George O. Batzli and Jeffrey D. Brawn
- Katharine Sharp: shattering the glass ceiling of library leadership / Nicholas Hopkins
- Ven Te Chow: hydrologist, educator, and rainmaker / Marcelo H. Garcia
- Stuart Pratt Sherman: literary criticism comes to the university / Kelsey Reinker
- Ruth Maslow Lewis and Oscar Lewis: giving voice to the voiceless / Susan M. Rigdon
- Thomas K. Cureton: the father of physical fitness / Rafal Ciolcosz
- Timothy Nugent: "wheelchair students" and the creation of the most accessible campus in the world / Leslie J. Reagan
- Renee and Henry Kahane: exploring language's history and structure / Kelsey Reinker
- Alta Gwinn Saunders: the invention of business English / Carol Spindel
- Shozo Sato: reinventing Kabuki theater / Nicholas Hopkins
- John Bardeen: citizen of science / Vicki McKinney and Lillian Hoddeson
- Carl Woese: the discovery of a third domain of life / Steven Lenz and Nicholas Hopkins
- Clarence Shelley: the campaign to diversify the university / Joy Ann Williamson-Lott
- Created and nurtured on the University of Illinois campus, then spread to the world. Affordable higher education / James R. Barrett
- Sound on film / Alexis Clinebell
- Inventing professional architecture / Bryan E. Norwood
- The Hillel Foundation: the invention of university diversity / Nicholas Hopkins
- Clarence W. Alvord: the Illinois historical survey and the invention of local history / Robert Michael Morrissey
- Beyond women's studies / Kristen Allen
- John Laughnan: sweet corn revolution / William F. Tracy
- Remarkable animals: Illini Nellie and Big Al / Nicholas Hopkins
- "2 + 2 = green": innovation in experimental music at the University of Illinois / David Rosenboom
- The beginning of public broadcasting / Kristen Allen
- Joseph McVicker Hunt: the invention of early childhood education / Elizabeth H. Pleck
- Samuel Kirk: the birth of special education / Nicholas Hopkins
- The invention of MRI / Katherine Skwarczek
- Nick Holonyak Jr.: the development of LED lights / Steven Lenz
- Mosaic: the first point-and-click Internet browser / Jimena Canales
- Superfluidity / Tim Brown
- Bottled sunshine: discovering and harnessing the power of photosynthesis / Claire Benjamin and Claudia Lutz
- Interdisciplinary scholarship at the College of Law / Michael Hughes
- Where ideas and people meet to produce innovation. The Morrow Plots / Kathleen Mapes
- Bringing innovation to the farm through the Farmers' Institutes / Kristen Allen
- The story of the University of Illinois Library / Winton U. Solberg
- Improvising an innovation: stadium terrace housing and the arrival of "nontraditional students" / Lauren Tokarewich
- Across the Pacific: the University of Illinois and China / Poshek Fu
- The ILLIAC computers: product and source of innovation (and controversy) / Rafal Ciolcosz
- The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts / Harry Liebersohn
- Ebertfest: where Hollywood comes to the prairie / Tim Brown
- Innovation across disciplines: the Institute for Genomic Biology / Nicholas Hopkins
- The business instructional facility: designed for innovation / Jonathan Binkley and Kelsey Reinker
- The Beckman Institute: imagining interdisciplinarity / Stephanie A. Dick
- Nevada Street: a center for the study of race and ethnicity / Frederick E. Hoxie and Michael Hughes.