The dead of winter, when the longest night of the year takes place, has also traditionally been celebrated as a time of renewal and reverence.
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The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States.
A land-grant university, it is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is the second oldest public university in the state (after Illinois State University), and is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference. It is a member of the Association of American Universities and is designated as a RU/VH Research University (very high research activities). The campus library system possesses the second-largest university library in the United States and the fifth-largest in the country overall, after the Library of Congress, the Boston Public Library, Harvard University Library, and New York Public Library.
The university comprises 17 colleges that offer more than 150 programs of study. Additionally, the university operates an extension that serves 2.7 million registrants per year around the state of Illinois and beyond. The campus holds 647 buildings on 4,552 acres (1,842 ha) in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana (together known as Champaign–Urbana).
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Native Hawaiians see Mauna Kea mountain as sacred. Scientists use its summit for research. A new policy called co-management may help resolve this land conflict and similar ones across the US.
La mayoría de las casas ‘Make It Right’ tienen problemas serios como moho, termitas, podredumbre e inundaciones. El constructor, a pesar de lo que su nombre pueda sugerir, no resuelve estos problemas.
Ground is collapsing and massive lakes are draining in a matter of days. Thawing permafrost is having profound effects on the region and its infrastructure.
Opening these libraries up promises to re-balance the continent’s place in world history when it comes to its intellectual life.
As temperatures warm, ski and snowboard resorts are investing more in snowmaking and seeing their seasons shrink. Those costs roll down to customers in an already expensive sport.
So much went wrong with the homes built by the Make It Right Foundation that its low-income homebuyers were deprived of the financial security they were promised.
The winter solstice is past, but bundle up – January is when winter really arrives in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
Rioters at the Capitol represented a ‘dagger against the throat’ of American democracy, President Biden said in an address laden with imagery.
Pembangunan PLTN dapat menjadi solusi untuk memenuhi target pemenuhan energi rendah karbon sebesar 57% pada 2035.
Some older patients forego the food provided at their health care facility because it isn’t aligned with their religious and cultural preferences.
Howard Fuller’s support for school choice is connected to the Black Power movement and a pursuit to provide Black students a quality education by any means necessary.
A new study provides a detailed way to calculate the climate impact of food production, which could lead to more sustainable farming policies and methods.
Every increase in one degree of global warming will increase losses of crops to insects from 10% to 25%.
Addressing American domestic radicalism will require new ways of thinking about the nation’s problems, and new ways of solving them.
How you respond to a risk depends on how you weigh the costs and benefits of an action. The problem is you’re not just a logical computer, and emotions bias your interpretation of the facts.
Student-athletes can now seek to make money from their name, image and likeness. But there are risks, a college sports expert warns.
China’s engagement with Ghana was solidified by its willingness to undertake an expensive project Western partners had run away from.
Rep. Liz Cheney may have been exiled from her party’s leadership, but she’s after a bigger thing: the restoration of politically conservative values in the GOP and its voters.
Plus, the discovery of the first known burial in Africa. Listen to episode 16 of The Conversation Weekly.
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Graduate Research Assistant at the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Graduate student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor in Plant Biology & Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of HIstory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Founder Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
