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This smartphone for older users sports a huge 5.5-inch screen. Its unique software offers simple menus with large text, plus GreatCall's extensive suite of services for older users. It also offers full Android functionality at a low price. Other features include 3.5mm audio jack and front and rear cameras.

This phone is not currently available from any major U.S. carrier. It is compatible with some U.S. networks, and may be available from third-party dealers or smaller, regional carriers.

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This phone aimed at older users defaults to a simplified interface with large text, on a large screen, but is also a smartphone that can run Android apps. Key features include 13-megapixel main camera, front camera for video chat, voice dictation, maps and navigation, and access to unique operator-assisted services.

This phone is not currently available from any major U.S. carrier. It is compatible with some U.S. networks, and may be available from third-party dealers or smaller, regional carriers.

Gov. George Ryan's latest trade mission pointed out several reasons for doing business in South Africa: It's one of the world's leading emerging economies, there are no language barriers and it's the gateway to a continent of nearly 1 billion people. For Gary Burns, an expatriate Southwest Sider, it was the challenge and opportunity that drew him to South Africa 10 years ago, three weeks after Nelson Mandela was released from prison. "I knew it would be a dynamic time," says the 42-year-old packaging salesman, who sold souvenirs at Comiskey Park for 10 years and still follows the Sox on the Internet. "It's the only English-speaking country in the world where everything hasn't been done and redone and well done." He had more basic reasons for liking the country after his first visit with a rugby tour in 1985: "The weather was warm, the beer was cold and the women were pretty." Now, that beer will be sold in cups made by Urbana-based Solo Cup Co., a deal that, at Mr. Burns' suggestion, was announced by Gov. Ryan during the trade mission. After three years of trying, Mr. Burns' Parklands-based Lucent Packaging CC brokered the $1-million

Dr. Lucent is a Biophysics Researcher, who recently joined the Division of Engineering and Physics, as an Assistant Professor in Physics and Bioengineering. He specializes in the rational design of enzymes using computational techniques. He has used these enzymes for bioremediation efforts including detoxification of pesticides believed to be responsible for bee colony collapse. He conducted his research in Australia’s national laboratory, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization) in Melbourne, Australia, for the past three years prior to joining our Division.

Wilkes students will benefit from Dr. Lucent’s other excellent research experience stemming from his Ph.D. studies at Stanford University analyzing the forces and mechanisms activating the self-assembly process of protein folding. His research is critical for opening pathways to the understanding, preventing, and curing of Alzheimer’s disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Parkinson’s and other diseases caused by faulty protein folding.

Dr. Lucent’s addition to our Division brings our students access to Stanford University’s “folding at home” computer network, (folding.stanford.edu), allowing students to engage in hands-on, computational-simulations and cutting-edge research with other scientists worldwide, a capability unavailable at most other engineering schools, especially at an undergraduate level.

Dr. Lucent will be joining Wilkes’ physics professor, Dr. Walter Placek, to spearhead the Division’s new B.A. in Physics degree, launching this semester. The degree will be offered along with a minor in education in order to fill the need for high school physics teachers. His goal is to implement a program that has the flexibility to allow students to pursue interdisciplinary physics research at the undergraduate level. He will also be an instructor in the M.A. Bioengineering program.