This episode introduces listeners to Champaign-Urbana residents’ experiences with the emerging field of artificial intelligence. Included in the episode are the perspectives of two University of Illinois School of Information Science professors whose research focuses on the ever evolving field of human-computer interactions.

As schools around the country learn about 9/11, one Central Illinois High school is having students ask local residents who experienced the events themselves. The collection of interviews has been produced as a podcast, "800 Miles from Ground Zero: 9/11's Impact on Central Illinois". 

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As schools around the country learn about 9/11, one Central Illinois High school is having students ask local residents who experienced the events themselves. The collection of interviews has been produced as a podcast, "800 Miles from Ground Zero: 9/11's Impact on Central Illinois". 

For over twenty years, students at University Laboratory High School have worked with Illinois Public Media to produce audio documentaries covering a wide range of issues. Their latest project has taken them further afield than usual:  to Clarksdale, Mississippi and other Delta communities, to see how Habitat for Humanity and other organizations are bringing greater opportunity and renewed purpose to people's lives.  

Some east-central Illinois students have the chance this week to learn about clean water and keeping area waterways trash free.