No Boundaries

by Hoddeson, Lillian; Herman, Richard H.

• ISBN13: 9780252029578
• ISBN10: 0252029577
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-11
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Like any great university, the University of Illinois owes its prominence to the excellence of its faculty. In Lillian Hoddeson's No Boundaries, twenty-three scholars provide easily accessible vignettes about University of Illinois faculty who have made major contributions to their fields, to knowledge, and to the world. Here are many of the most inspiring--and often most amusing--people whose work elevated the University of Illinois into a world leader in a variety of areas. Their lives demonstrate again and again that the work of the University takes place as much away from campus as on it: Oscar Lewis's pioneering studies of poverty in Mexico, for example, Ralph Grim's geological work in Africa, and Nathan Newmark's architectural work in Mexico City. Here also are insights into the remarkable careers of classicist William Oldfather, chemist Roger Adams, the amazing double Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen, and accounts of Katharine Sharp's work that made the University of Illinois Library into a national treasure. Also included are the legendary contributions of the University of Illinois to computer science, biochemistry, history, literary study, and electronic music.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
RICHARD H. HERMAN
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction: Work, Place, and Workplaces at the University of Illinois	xv
LILLIAN HODDESON
PART I. THE UNIVERSITY PLACE
1. Nathan Clifford Ricker: Establishing Architecture at the University of Illinois	3	(12)
PAUL KRUTY
2. Katharine L. Sharp and the Creation of the University Library	15	(16)
DONALD KRUMMEL
PART II. ACADEMICS AND ATHLETICS
3. Isabel Bevier and Home Economics	31	(24)
PAULA A. TREICHLER
4. Stephen A. Forbes: The Intricate Interrelations of Living Things	55	(14)
RICHARD W. BURKHARDT JR. AND DANIEL W. SCHNEIDER
5. William Abbott Oldfather: Making the Classics Relevant to Modern Life	69	(19)
WINTON U. SOLBERG
6. American Literature in the Cornfields: Stuart Pratt Sherman and J. Kerker Quinn	88	(14)
BRUCE MICHELSON
7. Lincoln, the Civil War, and Professor James G. Randall	102	(11)
ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN
8. Florence Bell Robinson and Stanley Hart 'White: Creating a Pioneering School of Landscape Architecture	113	(11)
NATALIE ALPERT (EDITED BY DIANNE HARRIS) AND GARY KESLER
9. Roger Adams: Linking University Science with Policy on the World Stage	124	(21)
RONALD E. DOEL
10. Nathan M. Newmark: A Model of Engineering Creativity	145	(13)
WILLIAM J. HALL
11. Robert C. Zuppke: The Performing Art of Football Coaching	158	(23)
MAYNARD BRICHFORD
PART III. THE POSTWAR RISE TO PROMINENCE
12. Robert Emerson and Eugene Rabinowitch: Understanding Photosynthesis	181	(14)
GOVINDJEE
13. Oscar Lewis and the Anthropology of Poverty	195	(15)
SUSAN M. RIGDON
14. Charles Osgood: The Psychology of Language	210	(16)
WILLIAM F. BREWER
15. The ILLIACs and the Rise to Prominence in Computer Science	226	(15)
SYLVIAN R. RAY
16. John Bardeen: A Place to Win Two Nobel Prizes and Make a Hole in One	241	(18)
LILLIAN HODDESON
17. Julian Simon: The Economics of Population	259	(16)
RITA J. SIMON
18. Ralph Early Grim: The Search for Industrial Minerals in the Ivory Coast	275	(18)
ALBERT V. CAROZZI
PART IV. FINE ARTS
19. Lejaren Hiller: Early Experiments in Computer and Electronic Music	293	(11)
JAMES BOHN
20. Celebrating Art: From Plaster Casts to Contemporary American Art Festivals	304	(10)
MURIEL SCHEINMAN
21. William Warfield: Creating Home for Students at Illinois	314	(11)
OLLIE WATTS DAVIS
Contributors	325	(6)
Photo Credits	331	(2)
Index	333