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Are President Biden's vaccine mandates lawful?
The expansive new set of vaccination requirements issued by the Biden administration affecting the federal workforce will likely be upheld by the courts, but the mandate emanating from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is on shakier legal ground, says Michael LeRoy, an expert in labor law and labor relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Krannert Art Museum hosts retrospective of photographer Hal Fischer
“Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics” features his well-known photographic series focused on gay life in 1970s San Francisco, as well as his early work as an Illinois student.
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CAS, McKinley Foundation hosting art exhibit, presentation about transgender older adults
“To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults” documents the life stories of transgender older adults through photographs and interviews.
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Is the future of agriculture digital?
With colleagues at several institutions, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign crop sciences professor Stephen Moose will lead the development of a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems.
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New tool maps future climate costs for airlines, passengers
Researchers built a mathematical model to calculate how much it will cost airlines to cope with rising temperatures in a changing climate.
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Less salt, more protein: Researchers address dairy processing's environmental, sustainability issues
Researchers say the high salt content of whey – the watery part of milk left behind after cheesemaking – helps make it one of the most polluting byproducts in the food processing industry.
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U. of I. News: Krannert Art Museum retrospective of Louise Fishman's drawings an unexpected memorial
“A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing” is the first retrospective of Fishman’s works on paper, and features many works of art that have never been shown.
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Merit-based employment practices contribute to gender pay gap, study says
Meritocratic employment practices such as performance bonuses often fail to reduce gender-based pay inequality and may actually exacerbate it by allowing the status quo to remain intact at firms, says new research co-written by Eunmi Mun, a professor of labor and employment relations at Illinois.
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U. of I. News: Illinois artist Ben Grosser's solo show imagines 'Software for Less'
Illinois artist Ben Grosser's solo show imagines 'Software for Less'
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Illinois artist Ben Grosser's solo show imagines 'Software for Less'
An exhibition of work by Ben Grosser, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of new media, considers what software might look like if its underlying philosophy was not the creation of more, but less.
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Nutrient-rich human waste poised to sustain agriculture, improve economies
The future connection between human waste, sanitation technology and sustainable agriculture is becoming more evident.
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Ebertfest announces first films and guests, COVID-19 protocols
The 22nd Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, co-founded and hosted by Chaz Ebert and also known as “Ebertfest,” announced some of its films and guests for the 2021 event and shared updated COVID-19 safety protocols for the festival.
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Illinois history professor examines Japan's relationships with its rivers
History professor Roderick Wilson looks at how the interactions between rivers, society and government helped shape Japan’s modern transformation.
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Illinois history professor examines Japan's relationships with its rivers
History professor Roderick Wilson looks at how the interactions between rivers, society and government helped shape Japan’s modern transformation.
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Light can trigger key signaling pathway for embryonic development, cancer
U.Blue light is illuminating new understanding of a key signaling pathway in embryo development, tissue maintenance and cancer genesis.
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U. of I. News: Black hole size revealed by its eating pattern
The feeding patterns of black holes offer insight into their size, researchers report. A new study revealed that the flickering in the brightness observed in actively feeding supermassive black holes is related to their mass.
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA -CHAMPAIGN: U. of I. News: University of Illinois receives APLU award for COVID-19 testing program
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received the inaugural Research Response to Community Crisis Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities for its COVID-19 testing program.
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U. of I. News: Beneficial arthropods find winter sanctuary in uncultivated field edges, study finds
Many species of ground-dwelling beetles, ladybugs, hoverflies, damsel bugs, spiders and parasitic wasps kill and eat pest species that routinely plague farmers, including aphids and corn rootworm larvae and adults.
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U. of I. News: Study examines how pandemic-related changes affect college students’ motivation
When the worsening COVID-19 pandemic prompted colleges to shutter their campuses and shift to remote learning in spring 2020, concerns arose that many underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines would be demotivated and drop out in even greater numbers.
