Word: urbana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take in carbon dioxide and hydrogen, give off methane gas, and have been known to scientists for years. But it took the efforts of a team led by Geneticist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois in Urbana to demonstrate that the archaebacteria had an extraordinary characteristic. Using enzymes, or chemical catalysts, they broke down and then analyzed the RNA in the archaebacteria's ribosomes, the structures that "read" the message of the master molecule DNA and produce the protein necessary for life. They found that the RNA molecular sequences were distinctly different from those of other bacteria...
...cliche. Forced to endure a college education at the insistence of his father, Gene floats from one campus to another, accumulating credits, and a paucity of genuine academic knowledge. His list of truncated enrollments growing, he dauntlessly pursues the elusive college degree at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. There, in a gut history course called George Washington One, Gene meets Louise Fern, teacher and future room/bed mate...
...Senior Steve Ryckman lost interest in joining the Delta Sigma Phi house last year after he developed a burn on his nose from being forced to rub it along a carpet. "They wanted to see how much they could humiliate you," he recalls. "It was degrading." On the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, nearly two-thirds of the 54 fraternity chapters still haze. The more extreme initiation rites range from paddling and "chugalug" contests to sticking fingers up rectums or inserting penises in light sockets...
...other places Slichter is concerned about is the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he has taught physics since 1949, after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard...