2023-04-11
- An ancient biological enzyme known as nickel-iron hydrogenase may play a key role in producing hydrogen for a renewables-based energy economy, researchers said. Careful study of the enzyme has led chemists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to design a synthetic molecule...
LAS News Archive
2023-04-04 - Venetria K. Patton, a professor of English and African American studies who has led the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences since August 2021, was commemorated as the Harry E. Preble Dean in a ceremony attended...
2023-04-03 - Chicago’s Joseph Frumkin (BS, ’13, integrative biology) is the guest engagement coordinator with Lincoln Park Zoo. From designing public education presentations to managing the fellowship program, Frumkin has found that informal education diving into...
2023-03-31 - In the decades following World War II, the intimate emotional life of families took on unprecedented social and political value in Western democracies. History professor Teri Chettiar looks at how the British government prioritized emotional well-being...
2023-03-31 - Five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors have been named University Scholars in recognition of their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Two College of LAS professors have been named University Scholars in recognition of their excellence in teaching, scholarship, and...
2023-03-30 - Justine Murison, professor of English, researches and teaches 19th century American literature. She’s fascinated by what she calls "the meeting place of the material and the immaterial: the boundaries between, for instance, psychological emotion and...
2023-03-29 - An annual study of recent alumni reports that 94 percent of LAS alumni who graduated during the 2021-2022 period secured a first destination within six months of commencement. The average salary for new LAS alumni is $74,705. The data comes from the recently released...
2023-03-28 - A series of eight videos available online highlights the research of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Craig Koslofsky on ways of marking and understanding skin in the early modern world. Koslofsky – who studies early modern...
2023-03-24 - As a scholar of Africa and the African diaspora, Merle Bowen’s professional life has largely been focused on Black freedom in the context of land and labor. In her most recent book, “For Land and...
2023-03-24 - The next, and past, big thing: The great woolly mammoth is back. This time it’s visible to all near the University of Illinois Main Quad. A new mammoth sculpture is rearing its head on the same ground where real mammoths wandered 30,000 years prior. That’s even older than the...
2023-03-22 - Aaron Thompson has worked as the administrative aide for the Department of Statistics since September 2016. Since then, he’s taken on new tasks and earned recognition for a job well done. Thompson even admits that opening his email each morning is almost as...
2023-03-13 - From 1914-1935, George Herman “Babe” Ruth consistently crushed the ball, breaking nearly every standing batting record and tallying a career 714 home runs. By many accounts, the Boston Red Sox star pitcher turned New York Yankee slugger is still considered the greatest baseball player of all time....
2023-03-10 - How cool is Dave Tewksbury? Very cool, and perhaps freezing, especially if it’s winter, because every day in any weather short of an ice storm the professor commutes to campus on his 15-year-old Trek 7000 bicycle. It’s not the transportation plan one might expect from a native Southern Californian...
2023-03-10 - “Exhausting, hard work, and muddy,” are the words atmospheric sciences graduate student Leanne Blind-Doskocil uses to describe the Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms (PERiLS) campaign. “But so worthwhile,” Blind-Doskocil added, recently...
2023-03-10 - Lockers slam. Backpacks swing over shoulders. Shoes slap as students cluster and close ranks, lone footfalls speeding up, slowing down, and falling in step. The need for belonging follows a distinct soundscape in school hallways. “We all feel the need to fit in socially, but teenagers feel this...
2023-03-09 - There are walks in the park and then there are walks that affect the course of university history for the next 128 years, and the campus tour that a botany professor named Thomas Burrill gave to Eugene Davenport in...
2023-03-09 - In 2022, the University of Illinois was named a First-gen Forward institution by the Center for First-generation Student Success, an initiative of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and The Suder Foundation, for its efforts to improve access to students...
2023-03-09 - On a typical day, thousands of students, faculty, and staff crisscross campus, hustling from one class, project, meeting, and building to another. During daylight hours, crowds flow in and out of major destinations like Lincoln Hall, the Union, and the Library. It’s only when the...
2023-03-08 - Dawn Riley Duval arrived on the University of Illinois campus in 1992, ready to begin a track career that, 30 years later, would lead to her induction into the Illinois Athletics Hall of Fame. But her story began far away from Champaign-Urbana. Riley Duval (BA, ’96,...
2023-03-08 - You may have heard the term “Balkanism.” It was coined by Maria Todorova, Edward William & Jane Marr Gutgsell Endowed Professor Emerita at Illinois, as a way to explain how the Balkan region in Southeastern Europe is perceived as...
2023-03-08 - Launching any new enterprise is difficult. Launching it in a pandemic is even harder. Just ask Kathryn Leskis, clinical director of the Illinois Neurobehavioral Assessment Laboratory. The lab, which offers a wide range of psychological...
2023-03-07 - From the College of LAS to "Survivor" to college campuses across the country, Lisa Hennessy (BA, ’91, speech communication) believes she found her passion at the crossroads of storytelling and traveling. As executive producer for “...
2023-03-03 - Editor’s note: Kevin Leicht is a professor of sociology and the science team lead at the U of I System's Discovery Partners Institute in Chicago. He is co-leading the development of a software...
2023-02-27 - For Rachel J. Whitaker, life tends to feel like it’s all hands on deck. Whitaker, a professor of microbiology, spends much of her time researching the evolution of archaea, bacteria, and viruses in the natural and clinical world—so...
2023-02-27 - For the past 40 years bug lovers at the University of Illinois have been working to ameliorate some of the negativity associated with insects by hosting the annual Insect Fear Film Festival (IFFF). This year’s event, with a theme of living...