The University of Illinois : engine of innovation /
The University of Illinois : engine of innovation /
Engine of innovation
edited by Frederick E. Hoxie.
- 1 online resource
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Changing the world from a very small place -- 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 / Arthur Palmer: the chemistry of safe water / Austin Harding: inventor of the school band / Victor E. Shelford: environmental pioneer / Katharine Sharp: shattering the glass ceiling of library leadership / Ven Te Chow: hydrologist, educator, and rainmaker / Stuart Pratt Sherman: literary criticism comes to the university / Ruth Maslow Lewis and Oscar Lewis: giving voice to the voiceless / Thomas K. Cureton: the father of physical fitness / Timothy Nugent: "wheelchair students" and the creation of the most accessible campus in the world / Renée and Henry Kahane: exploring language's history and structure / Alta Gwinn Saunders: the invention of business English / Shozo Sato: reinventing Kabuki theater / John Bardeen: citizen of science / Carl Woese: the discovery of a third domain of life / Clarence Shelley: the campaign to diversify the university / Created and nurtured on the University of Illinois campus, then spread to the world. Affordable higher education / Sound on film / Inventing professional architecture / The Hillel Foundation: the invention of university diversity / Clarence W. Alvord: the Illinois historical survey and the invention of local history / Beyond women's studies / John Laughnan: sweet corn revolution / Remarkable animals: Illini Nellie and Big Al / "2 + 2 = green": innovation in experimental music at the University of Illinois / The beginning of public broadcasting / Joseph McVicker Hunt: the invention of early childhood education / Samuel Kirk: the birth of special education / The invention of MRI / Nick Holonyak Jr.: the development of LED lights / Mosaic: the first point-and-click Internet browser / Superfluidity / Bottled sunshine: discovering and harnessing the power of photosynthesis / Interdisciplinary scholarship at the College of Law / Where ideas and people meet to produce innovation. The Morrow Plots / Bringing innovation to the farm through the Farmers' Institutes / The story of the University of Illinois Library / Improvising an innovation: stadium terrace housing and the arrival of "nontraditional students" / Across the Pacific: the University of Illinois and China / The ILLIAC computers: product and source of innovation (and controversy) / The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts / Ebertfest: where Hollywood comes to the prairie / Innovation across disciplines: the Institute for Genomic Biology / The business instructional facility: designed for innovation / The Beckman Institute: imagining interdisciplinarity / Nevada Street: a center for the study of race and ethnicity / Elisa Miller -- Kelsey Reinker -- Tim Brown -- George O. Batzli and Jeffrey D. Brawn -- Nicholas Hopkins -- Marcelo H. Garcia -- Kelsey Reinker -- Susan M. Rigdon -- Rafal Ciolcosz -- Leslie J. Reagan -- Kelsey Reinker -- Carol Spindel -- Nicholas Hopkins -- Vicki McKinney and Lillian Hoddeson -- Steven Lenz and Nicholas Hopkins -- Joy Ann Williamson-Lott -- James R. Barrett -- Alexis Clinebell -- Bryan E. Norwood -- Nicholas Hopkins -- Robert Michael Morrissey -- Kristen Allen -- William F. Tracy -- Nicholas Hopkins -- David Rosenboom -- Kristen Allen -- Elizabeth H. Pleck -- Nicholas Hopkins -- Katherine Skwarczek -- Steven Lenz -- Jimena Canales -- Tim Brown -- Claire Benjamin and Claudia Lutz -- Michael Hughes -- Kathleen Mapes -- Kristen Allen -- Winton U. Solberg -- Lauren Tokarewich -- Poshek Fu -- Rafal Ciolcosz -- Harry Liebersohn -- Tim Brown -- Nicholas Hopkins -- Jonathan Binkley and Kelsey Reinker -- Stephanie A. Dick -- Frederick E. Hoxie and Michael Hughes. Preface: Introduction:
(hardcover) 9780252099328 (e-book) 025209932X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
22573/ctt1m2d23t JSTOR
2019720019
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)--History.
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)
EDUCATION--Higher.
HISTORY--State & Local--Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)--United States
Electronic books.
History.
LD2378
378.77366
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Changing the world from a very small place -- 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 / Arthur Palmer: the chemistry of safe water / Austin Harding: inventor of the school band / Victor E. Shelford: environmental pioneer / Katharine Sharp: shattering the glass ceiling of library leadership / Ven Te Chow: hydrologist, educator, and rainmaker / Stuart Pratt Sherman: literary criticism comes to the university / Ruth Maslow Lewis and Oscar Lewis: giving voice to the voiceless / Thomas K. Cureton: the father of physical fitness / Timothy Nugent: "wheelchair students" and the creation of the most accessible campus in the world / Renée and Henry Kahane: exploring language's history and structure / Alta Gwinn Saunders: the invention of business English / Shozo Sato: reinventing Kabuki theater / John Bardeen: citizen of science / Carl Woese: the discovery of a third domain of life / Clarence Shelley: the campaign to diversify the university / Created and nurtured on the University of Illinois campus, then spread to the world. Affordable higher education / Sound on film / Inventing professional architecture / The Hillel Foundation: the invention of university diversity / Clarence W. Alvord: the Illinois historical survey and the invention of local history / Beyond women's studies / John Laughnan: sweet corn revolution / Remarkable animals: Illini Nellie and Big Al / "2 + 2 = green": innovation in experimental music at the University of Illinois / The beginning of public broadcasting / Joseph McVicker Hunt: the invention of early childhood education / Samuel Kirk: the birth of special education / The invention of MRI / Nick Holonyak Jr.: the development of LED lights / Mosaic: the first point-and-click Internet browser / Superfluidity / Bottled sunshine: discovering and harnessing the power of photosynthesis / Interdisciplinary scholarship at the College of Law / Where ideas and people meet to produce innovation. The Morrow Plots / Bringing innovation to the farm through the Farmers' Institutes / The story of the University of Illinois Library / Improvising an innovation: stadium terrace housing and the arrival of "nontraditional students" / Across the Pacific: the University of Illinois and China / The ILLIAC computers: product and source of innovation (and controversy) / The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts / Ebertfest: where Hollywood comes to the prairie / Innovation across disciplines: the Institute for Genomic Biology / The business instructional facility: designed for innovation / The Beckman Institute: imagining interdisciplinarity / Nevada Street: a center for the study of race and ethnicity / Elisa Miller -- Kelsey Reinker -- Tim Brown -- George O. Batzli and Jeffrey D. Brawn -- Nicholas Hopkins -- Marcelo H. Garcia -- Kelsey Reinker -- Susan M. Rigdon -- Rafal Ciolcosz -- Leslie J. Reagan -- Kelsey Reinker -- Carol Spindel -- Nicholas Hopkins -- Vicki McKinney and Lillian Hoddeson -- Steven Lenz and Nicholas Hopkins -- Joy Ann Williamson-Lott -- James R. Barrett -- Alexis Clinebell -- Bryan E. Norwood -- Nicholas Hopkins -- Robert Michael Morrissey -- Kristen Allen -- William F. Tracy -- Nicholas Hopkins -- David Rosenboom -- Kristen Allen -- Elizabeth H. Pleck -- Nicholas Hopkins -- Katherine Skwarczek -- Steven Lenz -- Jimena Canales -- Tim Brown -- Claire Benjamin and Claudia Lutz -- Michael Hughes -- Kathleen Mapes -- Kristen Allen -- Winton U. Solberg -- Lauren Tokarewich -- Poshek Fu -- Rafal Ciolcosz -- Harry Liebersohn -- Tim Brown -- Nicholas Hopkins -- Jonathan Binkley and Kelsey Reinker -- Stephanie A. Dick -- Frederick E. Hoxie and Michael Hughes. Preface: Introduction:
(hardcover) 9780252099328 (e-book) 025209932X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
22573/ctt1m2d23t JSTOR
2019720019
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)--History.
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)
EDUCATION--Higher.
HISTORY--State & Local--Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)--United States
Electronic books.
History.
LD2378
378.77366