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A group of University of Illinois students hope to mend relations between police and marginalized communities through the use of virtual reality technology. The students are part of a start-up, called YouMatter Studios, that receive funding and other support from the Gies School of Business’ iVenture Accelerator program.
The Project READ adult literacy program serving Champaign and surrounding counties wants to serve more people in 2019. And to do that, they need more people to volunteer as tutors.
On this encore edition of The 21st: We revisit our conversation with Parker Palmer. He joined us to discuss his book about looking at age as something entirely different, called "On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old." Plus, a new report finds that the Great Lakes are warming. Higher temperatures could have a disastrous effect on Lake Michigan’s game fish which depend on cold water.
Minnesota-based poultry producer Jennie-O is recalling more than 164,000 pounds of raw ground turkey products that may be contaminated with salmonella.
Missouri basketball coach Cuonzo Martin is from Illinois, and he has stocked his roster with five scholarship players from his home state. They will enjoy their trips home for Christmas a little more after the Tigers beat Illinois 79-63 Saturday night.
