Whole lot of shaking at UI

A new $3.5 million earthquake simulator at the University of Illinois should provide simulations with unprecedented realism and generate information to make structures like bridges better able to survive a quake.

The Multi-Axial Full-Scale Sub-Structures Testing and Simulation facility, or MUST-SIM, located in the UI's Newmark Civil Engineering Lab, was unveiled on Monday as part of the nationwide grand opening for the NEESgrid.

Also on this date

• Governor seeks to hold line on truck speed limits
• Firefighting grants come to the rescue
• Man doing Port-A-Potty fund-raiser assaulted
• Special C-U week aims to strengthen bonds
• Obituaries