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Recent news stories have noted that those enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, have a higher rate of obesity than the general population. Does that mean the program causes obesity?
After the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, many Muslims in the United States find themselves confronting stereotypes about their culture and religion. That includes Muslim students at the University of Illinois.
Illinois' high school juniors will likely be taking a different college entrance exam in the year ahead, but it's unclear whether the change will involve a different test, or simply a revised one to accomodate new learning standards.
University of Illinois students and Roger Ebert Fellows Ashish Valentine, Riane Lenzner-White and Shalayne Pulia reviewed the opening-night screening of The Force Awakens and convened in the studios of Chicago Public Radio to discuss what the Star Wars phenomenon meant (or didn’t mean) to them, going into the film.
University of Illinois Professor Stephen Long discusses his talk at the recent U.N. Climate Summit in Paris about the need to improve agricultural productivity, and his own work to develop more plants with more efficient photosynthesis.
