Download e-book for kindle: The University of Illinois: Engine of Innovation by Frederick E Hoxie

By Frederick E Hoxie

ISBN-10: 0252040821

ISBN-13: 9780252040825

The founding of the college in 1867 created a different group in what were a prairie. inside many years, this inventive mixture of academics and students produced ideas in agriculture, engineering and the humanities that challenged outdated principles and prompted dynamic new industries. tasks starting from the Mosaic internet browser to the invention of Archaea and pioneering triumphs in women's schooling and wheelchair accessibility have assisted in shaping the university's challenge right into a double helix of innovation and real-world swap. those essays discover the university's celebrated accomplishments and old legacy, candidly assessing either its successes and its setbacks. specialists and scholars inform the eye-opening tales of campus legends and missed game-changers, of amazing technical and social invention, of incubators of growth as diversified because the Beckman Institute and Ebertfest. participants: James R. Barrett, George O. Batzli, Claire Benjamin, Jeffrey D. Brawn, Jimena Canales, Stephanie A. Dick, Poshek Fu, Marcelo H. Garcia, Lillian Hoddeson, Harry Liebersohn, Claudia Lutz, Kathleen Mapes, Vicki McKinney, Elisa Miller, Robert Michael Morrissey, Bryan E. Norwood, Elizabeth H. Pleck, Leslie J. Reagan, Susan M. Rigdon, David Rosenboom, Katherine Skwarczek, Winton U. Solberg, Carol Spindel, William F. Tracy, and pleasure Ann Williamson-Lott.

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