2025-07-22
- Inspired by their own recent chemical discoveries for solar energy development using machine learning, a research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was curious what other data-driven chemical discoveries could be possible if they could access a broader machine learning approach.The team, which included chemistry professors...
2025-07-15 - The Actuarial Sciences and Risk Management Program (ASRM) recently honored scholarship winners, supporters, and scholarships that help students complete their degrees.Ten students received the State Farm Actuarial Science Scholarship. Eight students received other scholarships and awards, including the Most Outstanding Major Award in Actuarial...
2025-07-11 - Three recent College of LAS recent graduates were offered Fulbright grants to pursue international education, research and teaching experiences around the globe this coming year.They accepted grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which builds international relationships to help solve global...
2025-07-10 - It began with a problem of scale.Modern telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, set to begin operations in October 2025, are poised to revolutionize astronomy by capturing unprecedented volumes of data—millions of time-variable astrophysical events across the sky each night. But with this scale comes a new challenge: How do you process, classify, and interpret this firehose of...
2025-07-10 - University of Illinois researchers have successfully treated a common type of colorectal cancer tumor with a cholesterol inhibitor drug, demonstrating a promising treatment for the disease in animal experiments.The study, published in Nature Chemical Biology, found that cells that have a mutation in the APCgene, which is...
2025-07-10 - By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance of two important industrial enzymes — and created a user-friendly, fast process to improve many more.Led by Huimin Zhao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering...
2025-07-09 - Flightpath Biosciences, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of precision therapeutics targeting bacterial pathogens, has licensed a class of antibiotics developed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The original antibiotic agent, lolamicin, effectively treated bacterial infections in animal models of disease — without wiping out beneficial...- 2025-06-27 - Angelina Correa became a believer in peer court in high school when she served as a juror in the justice program meant to give juvenile criminal offenders a second chance at reform. When Correa, a rising sophomore double majoring in political science and psychology, came to U of I she decided to create...
- 2025-06-27 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students recreated some of the historical mathematical models owned by the U of I math department using a 3D printer.The Illinois math department has nearly 400 mathematical models — one of the world’s largest collections — from the late 19th...
- 2025-06-27 - Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered important new clues in the mystery of how an ancient enzyme can turn atmospheric carbon into biomolecules, a natural process that could be helpful in developing new methods for converting greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into useful chemicals. As deforestation and the use of fossil fuels cause atmospheric...
- 2025-06-27 - Black women’s beauty and fashion are complex, meaningful acts, deliberate strategies for engaging with the world that make bold statements about identity, political resistance, and empowerment, Black women said in a recent study.Researcher Brittney Miles, a sociology professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, interviewed 39 Black...
- 2025-06-27 - Most people who separate their plastic waste for recycling assume the bulk of it will in fact be recycled. But current recycling methods, which “require sorting, grinding, cleaning, remelting and extrusion to obtain plastic pellets, usually lead to lower value materials because of contamination and mechanochemical degradation,” the authors of a new study write. As a result, only about 10%...
2025-06-27 - Three programs within the College of LAS have received funding this year from the Chancellor’s Research Program. They include programs ranging from Indigenous language development to assistance for transfer students and studying the response to lethal police action.The Chancellor’s Research Program started in July...- 2025-06-24 - Individuals and teams from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences who have made a visible impact on society were recently recognized with the 2025 Campus Awards for Excellence in Public Engagement. Faculty, staff members, students and community members who engage the...
2025-06-24 - Individuals and teams from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences who have made a visible impact on society were recently recognized with the 2025 Campus Awards for Excellence in Public Engagement. Faculty, staff members, students and community members who engage the...
2025-06-17 - Laboratory and field experiments have repeatedly shown that modifying the process of photosynthesis or the physical characteristics of plants can make crops more resilient to hotter temperatures. Scientists can now alter the abundance or orientation of leaves, change leaf chemistry to improve heat tolerance and adjust key steps in the process of photosynthesis to overcome bottlenecks,...- 2025-06-10 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political science professor Nicholas Grossman is the author of “Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security” and specializes in international relations. Grossman spoke with News Bureau...
2025-06-03 - Enantiomers, or molecule pairs that are mirror images of each other, make up more than half of FDA-approved drugs in use today, including those used in treatments for cancer, neurologic diseases and arthritis. Separating enantiomers is critical for drug manufacturing because the effect of each molecule in the pair can be very different – for example, one enantiomer might cure a headache...
2025-06-03 - Editor's note: This is a first person account of Arctic research by Ellen Buckley, professor of Earth science and environmental change.UTQIAQGVIK, Alaska — My boots crunch into the snow as I step onto the frozen Arctic Ocean. It’s April in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, and I’m here to help run a sea ice field trip for eighth graders...
2025-06-03 - In a review in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, describes research efforts to “future-...
2025-06-03 - Ilaria Strocchia, a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese specializing in Spanish literatures and cultures, recently won first place in The Graduate College and the Media Common of the University Library 2025 Image of Research competition....
2025-06-03 - Anke Pinkert, professor and head of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, recently published “Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest” (University of Chicago Press). The book explores archives of untelevised protests, illegally printed...
2025-06-03 - Editor's note: This is a first person account of Arctic research by Ellen Buckley, professor of Earth science and environmental change. UTQIAQGVIK, Alaska — My boots crunch into the snow as I step onto the frozen Arctic Ocean. It’s April in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, and I’m here to help run a sea ice field trip for eighth graders and assist with some...
2025-06-03 - In a review in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, describes research efforts to “future-proof”...
2025-06-03 - Anke Pinkert, professor and head of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, recently published “Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest” (University of Chicago Press). The book explores archives of untelevised protests, illegally printed...