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Ken Suslick, Steve Sligar elected to National Academy of Sciences
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Lisa Olshansky selected a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
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The Spring 2018 travel award results are in! Thank you for your participation. Check your email next spring for information on the 2019 award. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Women...