2023-10-20
- After 16 years on campus, Don Marrow, associate director of budget & resource planning for the School of Chemical Sciences, said he’s been a part of great projects, opportunities, and professional growth.
LAS News Archive
2023-10-20 - Graduate students in the humanities and social and behavioral sciences spent part of last summer supporting worthwhile causes: They worked with community organizations in the Urbana-Champaign area to help them achieve everything from running shelters to preparing incarcerated individuals for...
2023-10-18 - Charles S. Parker was a pioneering Black botanist who traveled all over the country collecting plants. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English professor Janice Harrington wrote a children’s biography of Parker, “...
2023-10-17 - According to a new paper, ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water, “can serve as archetypes for natural, sustainable water systems to address future water needs.” The Maya built and maintained reservoirs that were in use for more than 1,000 years,...
2023-10-10 - Xinzhu Yu, a professor of molecular and integrative physiology, is a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award from the NIH Common Fund’s ...
2023-10-05 - When she arrived at the U of I as an undergraduate student, Cydnee Weber had not yet considered what her role could be as a descendant of the Cherokee and Pamunkey tribes. After she experienced some of the tension over the university mascot and other matters, however, she began to explore her own...
2023-10-04 - From LAS Liftoff to seminar courses throughout the academic year, Darrell Hunter II helps incoming students adjust to campus life through community building events and programs. He is the director of first-year experience with the Student Academic Affairs Office and has played an instrumental role...
2023-10-04 - When Eryn Schneider joined the LAS Leaders organization as a student, she had no idea how it would lead to a decade-long (and counting) successful career at one of the largest energy companies in the world. Schneider (BS, ’09, chemical engineering), a...
2023-10-02 - Intelligence can mean many things. For most people, it describes the general ability to learn and use knowledge in different areas, such as technology, science, and even personal relationships. At the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology...
2023-09-28 - Ruby Mendenhall’s unwavering energy toward her work and community outreach has become a hallmark of her highly successful academic career. She was recently named the Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences. Mendenhall is a professor of...
2023-09-27 - Joe Bonomo (BS, ‘12, statistics) has a number of skills listed on his resume. However, he’s built his career on being a creative problem solver, a skill...
2023-09-27 - When huge herds of bison roamed the Great Plains, the animals were not only a source of livelihood for Native Americans. They also were a vital part of the ecology and a religious icon. History professor Rosalyn LaPier is featured in the forthcoming Ken...
2023-09-21 - The College of LAS has named six faculty members as recipients of the Marjorie Roberts Professorships in Liberal Arts & Sciences and the Robert W. Schaefer Professorships in Liberal Arts & Sciences. Professors Wendy Heller, Bo Li, Silvina Montrul, and Harriet Murav have received Marjorie...
2023-09-20 - Christiana Lewis, a junior in psychology, has received the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service. Known as the Voyager Scholarship, the award was created by former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama along with...
2023-09-19 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign welcomed a record-breaking freshman class for the 2023-24 academic year, with 8,325 new freshmen (up from last record of 8,303 in 2021) enrolling this fall. They help boost undergraduate student enrollment to 35,467, the largest ever in university history...
2023-09-11 - Bobby J. Smith II remembers the day that changed his professional life. He was a graduate student at Cornell University when he began to read “I’ve Got the Light of Freedom,” a seminal study of the community organizing tradition in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and across the South, by...
2023-09-08 - New research led by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expert who studies personnel psychology shows a better way to assess noncognitive abilities such as a job candidate’s personality and vocational interests using the “graded forced-choice format.” The scientific study of a person’s soft...
2023-09-07 - Artificial roosts for bats come in many forms — bat boxes, condos, bark mimics, clay roosts, and cinder block structures, to name a few — but a new conservation practice and policy article from researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign suggests the structures haven’t been studied...
2023-09-07 - Director of graduate studies doesn’t necessarily sound like a show-stopping role. At Illinois, it’s an essential job reserved for faculty members who are ready for the challenges that come with largely unnoticed tasks. It’s a job that, if done correctly, is noted very little by those who benefit...
2023-09-06 - By the turn of the 20th century the residents of east-central Illinois had learned a few hard facts about the environment, and one of them was this: Once you chase away the squirrels they almost never come back. Nevertheless, in 1901, the University of Illinois launched a plan to return the long-...
2023-09-06 - The first thing professor Scott Althaus shows you when you enter the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research is a painting by the artist Brian Alfred. It shows seven giant letters arranged on a hill, evoking the landmark “Hollywood” sign that stands...
2023-09-01 - Note: Watch a video about how researchers are examining coal balls to learn about the ancient past. Paleobotanists at the University of Illinois understand one thing better than perhaps anyone in the world: Studying coal balls is a long-term...
2023-09-01 - Brian Rosten was supposed to be an engineer. It’s what his parents wanted. And he was on board with the plan, until an internship at a plastics plant made him realize it was not the path for him. “It was soul-crushing,” said Rosten (BS, ’12, chemistry;...
2023-09-01 - On Feb. 22, 1998, the U of I women’s basketball team fell to Purdue, dropping their record to 18-8. With her fifth point that day, however, future Illinois Athletics Hall of Famer Ashley Berggren became the all-time women’s leading scorer in school history. Berggren (BS, ’98,...
2023-08-31 - The College of LAS has announced 33 faculty promotions to take effect during the fall semester. The promotions include 15 faculty members who were promoted from associate professor to professor; 13 who were promoted from assistant professor to associate professor; and five who received specialized...