No boundaries : University of Illinois vignettes / edited by Lillian Hoddeson ; preface by Righard H. Herman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoddeson, Lillian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Physical Description:

xx, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]

Summary:

Like any great university, the University of Illinois owes its prominence to the excellence of its faculty. In Lillian Hoddeson's No Boundaries, twenty-three scholars provide easily accessible vignettes about University of Illinois faculty who have made major contributions to their fields, to knowledge, and to the world. Here are many of the most inspiring--and often most amusing--people whose work elevated the University of Illinois into a world leader in a variety of areas. Their lives demonstrate again and again that the work of the University takes place as much away from campus as on it: Oscar Lewis's pioneering studies of poverty in Mexico, for example, Ralph Grim's geological work in Africa, and Nathan Newmark's architectural work in Mexico City. Here also are insights into the remarkable careers of classicist William Oldfather, chemist Roger Adams, the amazing double Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen, and accounts of Katharine Sharp's work that made the University of Illinois Library into a national treasure. Also included are the legendary contributions of the University of Illinois to computer science, biochemistry, history, literary study, and electronic music.

Contents:

Introduction : work, place, and workplaces at the University of Illinois / Lillian Hoddeson

Nathan Clifford Ricker : establishing architecture at the University of Illinois / Paul Kruty

Katharine L. Sharp and the creation of the University library / Donald Krummel

Isabel Bevier and home economics / Paula A. Treichler

Stephen A. Forbes : the intricate interrelations of living things / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., and Daniel W. Schneider

William Abbott Oldfather : making the classics relevant to modern life / Winton U. Solberg

American literature in the cornfields : Stuart Pratt Sherman and J. Kerker Quinn / Bruce Michelson

Lincoln, the Civil War, and Professor James G. Randall / Robert W. Johannsen

Florence Bell Robinson and Stanley Hart White : creating a pioneering school of landscape architecture / Natalie Alpert and Gary Kesler ; edited by Dianne Harris

Roger Adams : linking university science with policy on the world stage / Ronald E. Doel

Nathan M. Newmark : a model of engineering creativity / William J. Hall

Robert C. Zuppke : the performing art of football coaching / Maynard Brichford

Robert Emerson and Eugene Rabinowitch : understanding photosynthesis / Govindjee

Oscar Lewis and the anthropology of poverty / Susan M. Rigdon

Charles Osgood : the psychology of language / William F. Brewer

The ILLIACs and the rise to prominence in computer science / Sylvian R. Ray

John Bardeen : a place to win two Nobel prizes and make a hole in one / Lillian Hoddeson

Julian Simon : the economics of population / Rita J. Simon

Ralph Early Grim : the search for industrial minerals in the Ivory Coast / Albert V. Carozzi

Lejaren Hiller : early experiments in computer and electronic music / James Bohn

Celebrating art : from plaster casts to contemporary American art festivals / Muriel Scheinman

William Warfield : creating home for students at Illinois / Ollie Watts Davis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252029577

0252072030

OCLC:

53896618