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...
LAS News Archive
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 - 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...
2023-03-10 - “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...
2023-03-09 - 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...
2023-03-09 - 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 - 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...
2023-03-08 - 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...
2023-03-08 - 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 - 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,...
2023-03-07 - 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...
2023-02-24 - It’s not easy to make sense of quantum-scale motion, but a new mathematical theory could help, providing insight into the various computing, electrochemical, and biological systems. Chenghao Zhang, a physics graduate student at the University of Illinois...
2023-02-23 - Longtime professor Bruce Fouke, whose work at the intersection of geology, biology, and medicine has widened our understanding of how life has evolved to control mineral growth in diverse natural environments and the human body, has been named the Ralph E. Grim Professor in Earth Sciences and...
2023-02-21 - A project led by information sciences and English professor Ryan Cordell will examine the way in which stories about racial violence circulated in late 19th century and early 20th century newspapers and how...
2023-02-21 - "I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life...
2023-02-20 - Valerie J. Hoffman, research professor emerita in the Department of Religion, has served at the University of Illinois for more than 39 years. She’s gone from convincing the university that a position in Islamic studies was necessary to being greeted as...
2023-02-15 - Eighteen U of I students enrolled in a fall introductory anthropology course have received Public Anthropology Awards from the Center for a Public Anthropology for their insights on racism and policing. Under the instruction of anthropology professor...
2023-02-10 - The HMS Challenger began a four-year voyage 150 years ago to explore the deep sea and the creatures that lived in it. The scientists aboard the ship discovered thousands of new species and recorded massive amounts of data about the oceans. The treasure trove of information they gathered is now...
2023-02-10 - The College of LAS has selected 14 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and an advisor as the recipients of the 2023 teaching and advising awards. “The LAS community is extremely proud of these outstanding educators and advisors,” said Venetria K. Patton, Harry E. Preble Dean of the College...
2023-02-08 - Demolition is underway at Illini Hall, marking a key stage in the $192 million Altgeld and Illini Hall Project to advance learning and research spaces in mathematics, statistics, and data sciences at the University of Illinois. Crews...
2023-02-01 - Three professors in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been elected 2022 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among seven professors selected at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ...