2026-06-11
- After two days and nine previous events of sprinting, jumping, throwing, and vaulting, the final race of the decathlon is less about speed than endurance — pushing forward even as the body begins to break down. By that point, Straus said, the hardest part isn’t just physical.“The worst part...
2026-06-11 - Psychology and neuroscience professor Kara Federmeier directs the Cognition and Brain Lab and co-leads the Illinois Language and Literacy...
2026-06-11 - World War II became a global war in 1942, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, drawing the U.S. into the war. All the world’s most powerful nations were at war with one another, and the fighting spanned the globe.But the war was global in other ways too — in the unifying idea of a fight for...
2026-06-11 - Who is a museum for? At the university’s Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, the answer is: All of us. Illinois undergraduate and graduate students and faculty and staff: of course. K-12 students and teachers: absolutely. Community members...
2026-06-11 - At 16 years old, Nina Cohn was navigating loss and a future she never expected to face. In 1970, Cohn lost both of her parents within months of each other, her mother after a prolonged battle with cancer and her father from a sudden heart attack. Still in high school, she was suddenly...
2026-06-11 - Entomology professor Esther Ngumbi became interested in the chemical communication between plants and insects when she was growing up on her family’s farm in Kenya.“Halfway through the growing season, I would actually watch a lot...
2026-06-11 - Marchoe Northern’s journey to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign began with two goals. She wanted to play Division I women’s basketball and pursue a world-class education. At Illinois, she found both. Her experience in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences became the...
2026-06-05 - Nearly 69 million people in the United States speak a language other than English at home, yet weather warnings have long been issued almost exclusively in English. A new study documents how the National Weather Service is using artificial intelligence to change that, developing a...
2026-05-28 - The College of LAS is where curiosity drives impact, and the new Curiosity to Impact (C2I) Fund helps faculty members to do exactly that.Announced in fall of 2025, the C2I Fund is part of the college’s Strategic Investment Program....
2026-05-28 - PURSUE LAS is a program at the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences with the goal of expanding access to transformative undergraduate research experiences. It supports both established programs and new initiatives that connect...
2026-05-26 - As humans, we rarely ponder life through the perspective of a non-human, but what happens if we try to see the world through the eyes of a bird, a squirrel, or an opossum? Anthropology professor Jane Desmond offers this question to her graduate...
2026-05-22 - Michelle Patiño-Flores, a sociocultural anthropology doctoral candidate at the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, works with Black (and) queer artists in Cuba to study their practices of freedom. One medium she uses to tell their stories is...
2026-05-15 - I asked Helaine Silverman, professor emerita in anthropology, if she remembered her first time crossing the Mississippi River. She said, “I remember exactly.” August of 1982. “We got to St. Louis and we started driving across the bridge over the...
2026-05-14 - The College of LAS has honored 20 professors, researchers, and research staff members with named scholar positions and research awards in recognition of their contributions to education and learning at the University of Illinois.The awards include the LAS Interdisciplinary Research Award and...
2026-05-13 - “There’s a thread you follow,” William Stafford wrote in the poem “The Way It Is,” and for Dipali V. Apte, that thread may be poetry, a quiet, persistent line running through childhood, through her years at U of I, through a career in ophthalmology, and back again in the form of the Dipali V...
2026-05-01 - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences undergraduate students have been awarded several prominent scholarships this spring.Sameer Abbasi and Lyndon Shi have received Boren Awards. Di Lan Johnson, Christine Nguyen, and Karel Pene were awarded U.S....
2026-04-28 - The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology is honored to announce that Auinash Kalsotra has been named the Phillip A. Sharp Professor in Biochemistry.Kalsotra is one of the world’s pre-...
2026-04-28 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign presents the Campus Awards for Excellence in Faculty Leadership each year to distinguished faculty who enrich the intellectual vitality of the university and the broader community.The awards were presented in three categories — faculty mentoring,...
2026-04-24 - A College of LAS faculty member has been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States. Kenneth Suslick is among the 252 inductees for 2026.Founded in 1780, the Academy recognizes...
2026-04-21 - Family, colleagues, students, and friends gathered to celebrate Tigga Kingston on Tuesday, March 31 at the Illini Union as she became the inaugural Shelford-Pitelka-Batzli Professor in Mammalian Ecology. This endowed position recognizes excellence in research, teaching, and global leadership...
2026-04-15 - English professor Christopher Kempf has been awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship.Kempf is among 223 individuals working across 55 disciplines chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from nearly 5,000...
2026-04-15 - At a calm trot, a horse’s hooves leave divots in the pale, rocky dirt. Under a brilliantly blue Arizona sky, one may wonder where the “tornado” from this artwork's title comes in. Then, the horse picks up speed, kicking up dust and pebbles in a chaotic storm. Some photos are entirely a blur. When...
2026-04-03 - By tagging neurons with molecular “barcodes,” researchers mapped connections among thousands of neurons in the mouse brain with unprecedented speed and resolution. The approach could expand understanding not only of the layout of elaborate networks in the brain, but also how the brain...
2026-04-03 - Some Arctic regions regain their “greenness” within a decade of a sudden permafrost collapse, while others can take a century or more to recover, researchers report in a new study. The difference is directly related to each site’s gross primary productivity, a measure of its photosynthetic...
2026-04-03 - A whiteboard outside a lab on the fourth floor of Morrill Hall is likely to catch the eyes of those passing by. “Welcome to the Ngumbi Lab,” it greets in blue marker, surrounded by colorful drawings of tomatoes, butterflies, caterpillars, and cicadas.Esther Ngumbi, professor of...