John Schuller returned home after graduating from Illinois State University in December in order to save money.

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Institutions involved include Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, SRI International, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Boston University, Burnham Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Chicago, and the Institute for Systems Biology.

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Companies love these qualities when seeking a product endorser, and will pounce on such athletes as quickly as the University of Illinois football coaching staff recruited Penn State football players earlier in the week.

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But the machine best suited for doing this work, the proposed rare-isotope accelerator that could be built either at Michigan State University or at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, has been delayed by lack of funds.

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Academic authorities, first at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and then at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, were aware of his low boredom threshold and let him rove between his native chemistry, physics and medicine, knowing that if this professor was left to himself he might well produce something extraordinary.

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After the shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007, in which 33 people died, and at Northern Illinois University, where 6 were killed in 2008, debates on campus gun policies in state legislatures soared.

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In Champaign, at the University of Illinois, Clinton repeated many of the themes that he addressed in his State of the Union: the importance of education, the need to shore up Social Security, the need to increase medical and scientific funding.

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For example, at the University of Illinois last year, fully 27% of its freshman came from out-of-state.

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