2024-11-08
- A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study is the first to describe an electrochemical strategy to capture, concentrate and destroy mixtures of diverse chemicals known as PFAS — including the increasingly prevalent ultra-short-chain PFAS — from water in a single process. This new development...
LAS News Archive
2024-11-08 - The largest and longest-lasting society formed by people who escaped slavery and their descendants endured for a century in northeastern Brazil, and it continues to be a potent political symbol of Black pride today. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
2024-11-06 - Creating and nurturing beauty in dark times helps us endure another day. Beauty can help us appraise how we live and how we can build better lives. Its presence or absence is a critique of the social and political structures that are necessary to allow it to flourish, said Mimi Thi Nguyen, a...
2024-11-05 - Chronic pain — defined as daily or significant pain that lasts more than three months — can be complicated to diagnose and treat. Because chronic pain conditions are clouded with uncertainties, patients often struggle with anxiety and depression, and they and their doctors often find these...
2024-11-05 - Elizabeth Powers is a professor of economics at Illinois and serves as the associate director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA). Prior to her position with the University of Illinois,...
2024-11-04 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has announced that Jon Solomon, a professor of classics and the Robert D. Novak Chair of Western Civilization & Culture, will give the 2025 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on March 4....
2024-11-04 - Inspired by his experience as an international athlete, LAS senior Mitchell Leshchiner created ElectroKare, a start-up company that tracks electrolyte levels through smartwatches. ElectroKare is one of several startups coming out of the...
2024-10-31 - Two newly minted PhD scholars have been selected to be part of the College of LAS Public Humanities Fellow program, which gives post-doctoral researchers the opportunity to pursue a public engagement project with the Humanities Research Institute....
2024-10-30 - Thin, stretchy skin — like that of a pig or human — significantly lessens the underlying damage that occurs when it’s punctured. Pig skin even outperforms synthetic materials that are designed to mimic skin, a new study finds. Its special qualities, in particular its ability to dissipate the energy...
2024-10-30 - Editor's note: This is an installment from the U of I's Behind the Scenes series, which features blog posts, photos, and videos from Illinois faculty, researchers, students, and staff about their work and lives. Tamira K. Brennan is a graduate of the College of LAS (BA, '02,...
2024-10-25 - New vaccinations against influenza and the virus that causes COVID-19 are available and arriving at physician offices and pharmacies. Microbiology professor Chris Brooke is a virologist who studies respiratory viruses. He sat down...
2024-10-25 - A new mouse model mimicking the liver symptoms of myotonic dystrophy type 1 — the most prevalent form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy — provides insight into why patients develop fatty liver disease and display hypersensitivity to medications, making treatment difficult. The new model opens...
2024-10-25 - It’s a blazingly sunny September Saturday afternoon at Riggs Beer Company, a family-friendly brewery located on the edge of Urbana. It’s not surprising to see crowds of families basking in the dog days of summer with their food truck lunches and locally brewed pints of beer. Unexpected, however,...
2024-10-22 - Greg Dobbins (MA, ’73, mathematics) fondly recalls his time studying at the University of Illinois. His memories have led him to support the future of mathematics and other disciplines on campus. Dobbins has pledged $1 million to the...
2024-10-18 - By combining visible light and electrochemistry, researchers have enhanced the conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable products and stumbled upon a surprising discovery. The team found that visible light significantly improved an important chemical attribute called selectivity, opening new...
2024-10-18 - In a ceremony hosted by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, communication professor Travis Dixon was honored as the new David L. Swanson Professor of Communication. Dixon, whose research focuses on the prevalence and impact of stereotypes...
2024-10-17 - Editor's note: This story first appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of LAS News magazine. We're resharing it in advance of the...
2024-10-16 - In 1898, two male lions terrorized an encampment of bridge builders on the Tsavo River in Kenya. The lions, which were massive and maneless, crept into the camp at night, raided the tents and dragged off their victims. The infamous Tsavo “man-eaters” killed at least 28 people before Lt. Col. John...
2024-10-11 - After making landfall, Hurricane Helene moved north and dumped an enormous amount of rainfall onto the mountainous regions of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, leading to catastrophic flooding hundreds of miles away from the storm's initial landfall location. Professor Jim Best, an...
2024-10-07 - John Kelly (BS, ’86, economics) spends his office hours as an economist with the US Department of Labor in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, it’s his work with his non-profit that feeds his soul. Kelly founded A Meal to Heal following the death...
2024-10-04 - Violeta J. Rodriguez, professor of psychology in the department’s clinical/community division, recently received the National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence...
2024-10-02 - More than 50 new tenure-track faculty members arrived in the College of LAS this fall, in departments from history to political science, statistics, Asian American studies, biochemistry, sociology, and many more. Some come with faculty experience from other universities and institutions, and others...
2024-10-02 - Now in his 10th year at the University of Illinois, Simon Rogers studies rheology, the science of how materials flow and deform. The professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and native of New Zealand is highly respected in his field, being awarded...
2024-09-30 - When it comes to understanding language acquisition, there are few scholars as renowned as Silvina Montrul.“In her field of second language acquisition, it’s not a stretch to say that (Montrul is) the single most impactful scholar of her generation worldwide,” said Colin Phillips,...
2024-09-27 - Every text from Jazmin Olivas’ parents end with the words “Echale ganas,” which, translated from Spanish to English, mean “keep giving it your all” and serve as a constant reminder of both her support system and her future. Now, after receiving an award for her work with immigrants, Olivas is...