2022-11-28
- The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is recognizing seven staff members and academic professionals for their outstanding contributions in 2022-2023.
2022-11-28 - Five researchers in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named to the 2022 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list. The list recognizes research scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated exceptional influence – reflected through their publication of multiple papers frequently cited by their peers during the last decade. This year’s list includes 6,938...
2022-11-18 - Brian Gaines is a professor of political science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a senior scholar at the U of I System’s Institute of Government and Public Affairs. Gaines, who studies elections and public opinion, spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about the results of...
2022-11-15 - Campus has changed a lot in 80 years. In 1942, the Illini Union was just 1 year old, the State Farm Center was an empty lot, and Willard Airport was just a few hundred acres of farmland. Something else took root in 1942 that has only kept growing, however, and that’s the love shared by Solomon and Una Ellman. The Ellmans recently celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary. They met as students at...
2022-11-14 - The College of LAS is welcoming 38 new professors for the 2022-23 academic year. Their new positions range from clinical professors to assistant professors and an endowed position in more than 20 academic units, ranging from African American studies to economics, philosophy, statistics, and several others. Most of the new faculty members started their new roles at the beginning of the fall...
2022-11-09 - Christopher Freeburg, a professor in the Department of English whose studies have deepened understanding of African American life, was named the John A. and Grace W. Nicholson Professor in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences during a recent ceremony on campus. Freeburg, who joined the Department of English in 2006, is known for his teaching,...
2022-11-03 - With site work pending for the Altgeld and Illini Hall Project, planners have formed a clear view of the new opportunities and spaces that will become available through the $192 million project. Builders will renovate Altgeld Hall and replace Illini Hall with a new facility. Along with new classrooms in both buildings, the...
2022-10-27 - New research indicates that the Black Death pandemic was already affecting Central Asia and East Asia a century earlier than its well-documented arrival in Europe. A special open-access issue of “The Medieval Globe,” a journal based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is devoted to the new evidence of when and...
2022-10-25 - October brings another onscreen killing spree by the knife-wielding Michael Myers in “Halloween Ends,” purportedly the final movie in the “Halloween” film franchise that began 44 years ago and includes more than a dozen films. Jim Hansen is an English professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies 20th century literature and film,...
2022-10-20 - Researchers have created a model that can calculate the energetics involved when one organism stabs another with its fangs, thorns, spines or other puncturing parts. Because the model can be applied to a variety of organisms, it will help scientists study and compare many types of biological puncturing tools, researchers said. It also will help engineers develop new systems to efficiently pierce...
2022-10-19 - NEW YORK CITY – As we climb the mountain of stairs that leads to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and step inside, I’m struck by the scale and grandeur of what lies before me and the complexity, beauty, and discourse it offers. My family and I are entering one of the pinnacles of American artistic and historic curation. All around us, we see archaeologically recovered materials from ancient Egypt,...
2022-10-19 - Martin D. Burke, a professor of chemistry and of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Election to NAM “is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health...
2022-10-18 - Four professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named 2022 Conrad Humanities Scholars. Lucinda Cole, professor of English; Jenny Davis, professor of American Indian studies and anthropology; Mauro Nobili, professor of...
2022-10-14 - The Global Classrooms program in the College of LAS allows students to take courses with students and professors abroad to gain a better understanding of themselves and the world around them. The program, which started as an independent initiative in 2021, allows students and U of I faculty to collaborate virtually...
2022-10-14 - The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research and an interdisciplinary team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign experts have developed a statewide registry on the use of lethal force by police officers in Illinois to improve accountability and rebuild the public perception of law enforcement. The ...
2022-10-13 - When Carla Eva Cáceres was a sophomore studying biology at the University of Michigan, she heard of an internship that would put her on a boat in Lake Michigan doing research. She hesitated. Cáceres trusted the boat, but not her ability to swim. If not for her mother’s encouragement she wouldn’t have applied. But she did, and thus started a research career that so far has lasted more than...
2022-10-10 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has received funding from the University of Illinois Investment for Growth program to explore development of an online bachelor’s degree completion program and a master’s degree in data science. The two projects are...
2022-10-05 - Pristine spaces with nice views and room to meet and study are a hot commodity on campus. From the fourth floor of Grainger Library you can see the swooping sidewalks that cut through the Bardeen Quad, and, with its walls of glass windows, the newly constructed Campus Instructional Facility has become a popular destination. But where better to get in the right frame of mind than the Psychology...
2022-10-05 - Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Dow have developed a breakthrough process to transform the most widely produced plastic — polyethylene (PE) — into the second-most widely produced plastic, polypropylene (PP), which could reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). “The world needs more and...
2022-10-04 - You can find anything on YouTube: how to fix your sink faucet, funny cat videos, 10-hour loops of your favorite song—you name it. This is where Bill Hammack has made his stand to make engineering a more understandable and accessible topic for everyone. Hammack, William H. and Janet L. Lycan Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular...
2022-10-04 - Even in high school, Steph Lepak knew that she wanted to study abroad in college. As a first-generation American born to Polish parents, she could see herself enjoying an amazing educational experience while living with relatives in her ancestorial homeland. And once she was accepted at the University of Illinois, she wasted no time making that vision a reality, deciding to spend...
2022-10-04 - Sometimes a good thing doesn’t start with a kickoff gala or groundbreaking ceremony; it starts with a lot of question marks, like the ones surrounding the study of religion at the U of I in the 1970s. Gary Porton, now a professor emeritus, was hired in 1973 as the first professor with a full appointment in religion at the U of I. Little did he know that someday his hire would be...
2022-10-04 - The story of Leo Koch is best understood in a 1960 frame of mind. That year, John F. Kennedy was running for president and Westerns such as Gunsmoke and Wagon Trail were the top shows on television. The eventual hit song “I’m sorry” was stalled in studios over concerns that the singer, Brenda Lee, was singing about love in a way unbecoming of a 15-year-old. On March 18, 1960, the presses rolled...
2022-10-04 - At some point in the not-too-distant future, campus will break ground for a new building for academic units in ethnic, gender, and women’s studies. The units that will be brought together under one roof include the Departments of African American Studies, Asian American Studies,...
2022-10-04 - Making the flip from Olympian to college student was a new journey for Nancy Thies Marshall. After competing as an Olympic gymnast in 1972 at age 15, Nancy returned home to Urbana, Illinois, and continued as a member of the U.S. national team until her graduation from Urbana High School in 1975. Instead of postponing college to train for the 1976 Olympics, however, she enrolled at the University...