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An apple juice shot a day keeps the doctor away
Carle, Presence Covenant renovating emergency rooms with grant funding expansion of the north exam room and the creation of a new Governor Quinn announced nurse’s station. The project will $4.7 million in investments for also include a remodeling of the central and eastern Illinois current nurse’s station and an hospitals on Aug. 8 . Presence existing area that will become Covenant Medical Center and a new procedure waiting room. Carle Founda“ T h i s tion Hospital grant fundin Urbana will ing makes it receive a total possible for of $641,307 as us to provide part of Quinn’s the very best “Illinois Jobs care to our Now!” capital Emergency construction D epa r t ment program. patients,” said Presence Mike Brown , MIKE BROWN president and Covenant CEO OF PRESENCE COVENANT CEO of PresMedical CenMEDICAL CENTER ence Coveter received nant Medical $217, 502 to Center in a remodel its emergency department, which press release. “We are workwill include updates like auto- ing hard to make today count mated entry doors, the combi- for our staff, patients and visination triage and emergency department exam rooms, an SEE HOSPITALS | 3A BY ELEANOR BLACK STAFF WRITER
“This grant funding makes it possible for us to provide the very best care to our Emergency Department patients.”
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Carly Froomkin, engagement coordinator at Illini Hillel, center, demonstrates to Adam Goldenberg and Andrew Ly, seniors in LAS, how to take an apple juice shot on the Quad on Tuesday. For Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, it is customary to eat apples dipped in honey in celebration of a “sweet new year.” Hosted by Illini Hillel, the table was meant to bring sweetness to the Quad and share the holiday with the University.
Study: Compounds in some fruits, veggies can kill cancer cells
UGL’s Media Commons to expand to meet demand
Two flavonoids can help combat 4th-deadliest cancer BY JACQUI OGRODNIK STAFF WRITER
Audio, video studios supply equipment for UI digital media
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The video production studio part of the UGL’s Media Commons has equipment aimed at students interested in production. Media Commons will be expanding to offer even more technology.
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Before the semester ends, University students will have access to an expansive technology collection and both audio and video studios. The Media Commons, located in the Undergraduate Library, will expand to offer staff and students the opportunity to create several types of digital media. “This is something that, over the years, we’ve had many requests for from students who needed assistance in media editing, and faculty as well,” said Lori Mestre, head of the
Undergraduate Library. “The service that we’re providing really has been a long-term process, and it’s great to see that it’s finally shaping up.” The Media Commons video studio, which has been in production since last spring, will include professional quality lights, camera and a green screen. The space has mostly been used by faculty and a few student organizations since it opened last semester, said Jake Metz,
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is created by merging the College of Literature and Arts and College of Sciences.
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With World War II in full force, more than 20,000 students, alumni and faculty joined the armed forces. With many professors involved in the war effort, many of the remaining professors take on double-duty by teaching multiple subjects. In addition to this, women fill the role of teaching at the University level for the first time. By May 1946, 850 of the more than 20,000 who joined the armed forces are confirmed dead or missing in action.
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1968 The first study abroad program is introduced to the University through LAS.
Carl Woese, University professor of microbiology, discovers the third domain of life: archaea. The discovery forces scientists to reevaluate the evolution of life on Earth.
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The World Heritage Museum is replaced with the Spurlock Museum, and opens on Sept. 26. Of the museum’s over 45,000 artifacts, 2,000 are exhibited at one time.
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LAS adopts the college’s first major of a world region: Latin American studies.
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Lincoln Hall reopens for classes in the fall with about 2,000 people visiting the building’s open house during Homecoming weekend. The building had been closed for renovations since March 2010. AUSTIN BAIRD THE DAILY ILLINI SOURCE: COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
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“If we can fi nd it when it is still small and in the pancreas itself, our best option is to take it out surgically,” he said. “Sometimes then that can be put together with some radiation treatments and chemotherapy treatments.” In their study, de Mejia and Jodee Johnson , a University graduate who co-authored the lab, exposed the pancreatic cells to both fl avonoids and chemotherapeutic drugs at the same time to see if that would enhance the role of the drug. “We discovered that when you apply the two compounds together at the same time ... that will negate the effect of the chemotherapeutic drug,” de Mejia said. However, when they applied the fl avonoids as a preventative mechanism 24 hours before the drug, they found a positive effect from both.
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great a Liberal Arts degree can be.” The College of LAS will celWith more than 70 major ebrate its 100th anniversary options and 13,000 students, with several events throughout LAS is the University’s largthe year in recognition of some est college. Executive assisof the achievements reached tant Dean Robert Steltman has throughout its first century. been connected to the UniverSue Johnson, director of com- sity since 1984 when he was a munications student. and market“I have seen “We are trying to create t r e me nd o u s ing for LAS, said the colawareness on the campus and r e o r g a n i z a tion,” he said. lege plans to (the) community about LAS “Since I have open a “galand all the great things that been (at the lery of excelhave come out of LAS” Un iversit y), lence” online, Lincoln Hall where they will showcase has been shut SUE JOHNSON some impordown and reDIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS tant events opened. New AND MARKETING FOR LAS and individudepartments have been creals that have been a part of the college. ated and some have been recon“The celebration will be year- vened,” he said. long,” she said. “We are trying Steltman said he believes to create awareness on the cam- many changes have occurred pus and (the) community about over the past hundred years, LAS and all the great things that have come out of LAS, and how SEE LAS | 3A BY BRYAN BOCCELLI
Media Commons tech support specialist, “It’s not for video projects for class,” Metz said. “It’s more for someone who has a professional goal in mind and for people who know they need professional quality, but don’t have access to that technology.” Metz said this is mostly because the studio is not yet user-friendly enough for people with minimal video
A recent study at the University discovered that two certain fl avonoids can kill pancreatic cancer cells. These flavonoids, organic compounds that have been found to have a positive impact on health, are found in fruits, vegetables and herbs, such as artichokes, celery, parsley and Mexican oregano. “We took human pancreatic cancer cells, and in the lab, we applied different compounds from food,” said Elvira de Mejia , principal investigator and associate professor of food science and human nutrition. “We found that two fl avonoids, especially ones called apigenin and luteolin, were the most powerful compounds to kill very aggressive pancreatic cancer cells.” Pancreatic cancer is the fourth-deadliest cancer in the United States. The American
Cancer Society estimates that about 45,000 people will be diagnosed this year and about 38,000 will die from the disease in America. Factors that determine how deadly cancers can be depend on how early the cancer is detected and treated, said Dr. David Graham, oncologist at the Carle Cancer Center, 509 W. University Ave., Urbana. “The trouble we have with pancreatic cancer is ... we don’t have a good screening tool,” Graham said. “We generally don’t fi nd it until it’s causing problems, and by that point, it tends to be more advanced.” Symptoms may only appear in the advanced stages, such as rapid weight loss and jaundice, which is caused by the cancer cells blocking the flow of bile from the liver. To fi nd this cancer in one of its beginning stages while it’s small and localized is unusual, Graham said.
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