No Boundaries: University of Illinois VignettesLillian Hoddeson 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
ACADEMICS AND ATHLETICS | 31 |
The Intricate Interrelations | 55 |
Lincoln the Civil War and Professor James G Randall | 102 |
Linking University Science with Policy | 124 |
A Model of Engineering Creativity | 145 |
The Performing Art | 158 |
THE POSTWAR RISE TO PROMINENCE | 179 |
The Psychology of Language | 210 |
The Economics of Population | 259 |
The Search for Industrial Minerals | 275 |
FINE ARTS | 291 |
From Plaster Casts to Contemporary | 304 |
Creating Home for Students | 314 |
Contributors | 325 |
Photo Credits | 331 |
The ILLIACs and the Rise to Prominence | 226 |
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