No boundaries
Subtitle: University of Illinois vignettes
By: edited by Lillian Hoddeson ; preface by Righard H. Herman.
Contributors: Hoddeson, Lillian.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : work, place, and workplaces at the University of Illinois / Lillian Hoddeson; title: Nathan Clifford Ricker : establishing architecture at the University of Illinois / Paul Kruty; title: Katharine L. Sharp and the creation of the University library / Donald Krummel; title: Isabel Bevier and home economics / Paula A. Treichler; title: Stephen A. Forbes : the intricate interrelations of living things / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., and Daniel W. Schneider; title: William Abbott Oldfather : making the classics relevant to modern life / Winton U. Solberg; title: American literature in the cornfields : Stuart Pratt Sherman and J. Kerker Quinn / Bruce Michelson; title: Lincoln, the Civil War, and Professor James G. Randall / Robert W. Johannsen; title: Florence Bell Robinson and Stanley Hart White : creating a pioneering school of landscape architecture / Natalie Alpert and Gary Kesler ; edited by Dianne Harris; title: Roger Adams : linking university science with policy on the world stage / Ronald E. Doel; title: Nathan M. Newmark : a model of engineering creativity / William J. Hall; title: Robert C. Zuppke : the performing art of football coaching / Maynard Brichford; title: Robert Emerson and Eugene Rabinowitch : understanding photosynthesis / Govindjee; title: Oscar Lewis and the anthropology of poverty / Susan M. Rigdon; title: Charles Osgood : the psychology of language / William F. Brewer; title: The ILLIACs and the rise to prominence in computer science / Sylvian R. Ray; title: John Bardeen : a place to win two Nobel prizes and make a hole in one / Lillian Hoddeson; title: Julian Simon : the economics of population / Rita J. Simon; title: Ralph Early Grim : the search for industrial minerals in the Ivory Coast / Albert V. Carozzi; title: Lejaren Hiller : early experiments in computer and electronic music / James Bohn; title: Celebrating art : from plaster casts to contemporary American art festivals / Muriel Scheinman; title: William Warfield : creating home for students at Illinois / Ollie Watts Davis.