No Boundaries

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VIGNETTES

By: Lillian Hoddeson (Editor)

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Paperback | 14 May 2004

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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.

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''The essays in this volume tell the stories of remarkable individuals, all of whom came to play leading roles in their fields and make contributions of lasting importance. Reading them, we learn about the many motivations that drive such people, about what led them to make their careers at Illinois, about the challenges they faced, and about what they accomplished. Some of these people are well known; others are less so. They exemplify, in different ways, the rare joining of determination, ability, commitment to excellence, and, sometimes, genius that marks the academy at its best.... The story is appropriately and best told in personal terms, for a university is a magnificently human institution.''

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Preface
Introduction : work, place, and workplaces at the University of Illinois
The university place
Nathan Clifford Ricker : establishing architecture at the University of Illinois	p. 3
Katharine L. Sharp and the creation of the university library	p. 15
Academics and athletics
Isabel Bevier and home economics	p. 31
Stephen A. Forbes : the intricate interrelations of living things	p. 55
William Abbott oldfather : making the classics relevant to modern life	p. 69
American literature in the Cornfields : Stuart Pratt Sherman and J. Kerker Quinn	p. 88
Lincoln, the Civil War, and Professor James G. Randall	p. 102
Florence Bell Robinson and Stanley Hart White : creating a pioneering school of landscape architecture	p. 113
Roger Adams : linking university science with policy on the world stage	p. 124
Nathan M. Newmark : a model of engineering creativity	p. 145
Robert C. Zuppke : the performing art of football coaching	p. 158
The postwar rise to prominence
Robert Emerson and Eugene Rabinowitch : understanding photosynthesis	p. 181
Oscar Lewis and the anthropology of poverty	p. 195
Charles Osgood : the psychology of language	p. 210
The ILLIACs and the rise to prominence in computer science	p. 226
John Bardeen : a place to win two Nobel prizes and make a hole in one	p. 241
Julian Simon : the economics of population	p. 259
Ralph Early Grim : the search for industrial minerals in the Ivory Coast	p. 275
Fine arts
Lejaren Hiller : early experiments in computer and electronic music	p. 293
Celebrating art : from plaster casts to contemporary American art festivals	p. 304
William Warfield : creating home for students at Illinois	p. 314
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