UI welcomes displaced professor

URBANA – When physics Professor Zhiqiang Mao left his home in Metairie, La., and his lab at Tulane University the day before Hurricane Katrina hit, he faced losing valuable research time.

Now he's at the University of Illinois and ready to start work again.

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