The University of Illinois is going international by planning to open two offices in Shanghai, China, and New Delhi, India, as well as a possible office in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

If you want to understand just how patient the Salvadoran people are, get on a bus there, says LAS alumnus Andrew Piotrowski. Whenever he travels on buses in El Salvador, he is amazed by the number of people they can pack like sardines into the vehicle. But even more amazing, he says, are the attitudes of the passengers.

Evan DeLucia, a U. of I. plant biology professor, says results from a new experiment intended to assess the impact of increased carbon dioxide on the Amazon rainforest need to be considered in relation to the scale of the forest. At the end of the day, no experiment is representative of the totality of the biome, says DeLucia, who has conducted similar research in South Carolina.

The demand for language translators and interpreters is projected to expand for at least the next decade. That means the U of Is Center for Translation Studies is going to grow, too.

Through a $100,000 Sino-African Initiative grant given by Sister City International, Urbana partners with the city of Zomba and the Haizhu district in Guangzhou, China, to develop and support sanitary development and water health, said alderman Dennis Roberts, Ward 5.