By Brittney Nadler
April 29, 2015
They end at the Golden Gate Bridge, weave past accident-prone casual bikers, and glide down one final hill before reuniting with their families on a beach after 73 days apart.
They are Illini 4000, a registered nonprofit and Registered Student Organization that raises money for cancer research, patient supp...
Tags: aroundcampus, Bike Across Country, Bike America, bike tour, California, colorado, Dish_of_the_week, front_lead, golden gate bridge, Illini 4000, illinois, kenny shaevel, lifeandculture, minnesota, new york city, San Francisco, Sarah Haiko, tory cross, Tracy Shaw, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, urbana_champaign, Weisberg
By Brittney Nadler
September 10, 2014
Abdoul Gassim Toure had never been to the United States before applying to take part in Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) 2014. The course boldly stated it would give educators from around the world the opportunity to experience the tantalizing American Dream.
“My friends and family thought it was a...
Tags: Abdoul Gassim Toure, Academic Director, Airplane, American Dream, American Society, amish country, aroundcampus, balloon, Barbeque, Boston, Brownies, Cake, car traffic, Chicago, Chief Information Officer, community, Conakry, Consulate, Course, department of state, Economic, Educators, English As A Foreign Language, Fallon Family, Faranah, Fourth Of July, front_lead, Fruit, global institute for secondary educators, Guinea, ice cream pie, iceland, illinois, Ivory Coast, Jeffrey Friedman, John St., Kazakhstan, Lecturers, Len Lopez, lifeandculture, lightning, Nepal, New Zealand, Noni Hartanto Ledford, Penny Lopez, political ideologies, pool, presby hall, relgious, San Francisco, Social, springfield, Study Of The U.s. Insitute (susi) 2014, Teacher, Teacher Trainers, thunder, U.s. Embassy, U.s. Independence Day, ui, uiuc, united states, university administration, university of illinois, Urbana, urbana_champaign, uruguay, Village, Washington D.C., west africa
May 6, 2014
He just might have the coolest pair of glasses on campus.
Josh Doil, senior in LAS, has fitted his prescription lenses to Google Glass, a hands-free technology device that allows many of the same functions as a smartphone, including a camera, to be displayed in a tiny glass prism above the right eye.
Tho...
Tags: #ifihadglass, Advanced Multimedia Reporting Journalism Course, Auditory Disabilities, Beckman Institute, biking, Bioengineering, business_technology, Camera, Cole Gleason, engineering, front_lead, General Public, glass devices, Glass Explorer Program, glasses, google, Google Glass, Guillermo Monroy, handsfree technology device, illinois, Illinois Marathon, Iowa Hawkeyes, Josh Doil, journalism, las, Matthew Dierker, Monitor, nancy benson, Office Hours, Optical Coherence Tomography, prescription lenses, Prism, Relay Team, San Francisco, Smartphone, text, Tv Video Camera, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, urbana_champaign
