2022-05-12
- A team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers led by physics and astronomy professor Charles Gammie is part of a large international collaboration that unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center...
2022-05-11 - Russia, under President Vladimir Putin’s administration, is perhaps the most dangerous country for racial violence in the world, according to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Eugene Avrutin. That wasn’t always the case. In his new book, “Racism in...
2022-05-10 - Love for language and family have been the driving forces behind Dalya Qualls White’s (BA, ’00, English) career moves from human resources to communications. As senior vice president and chief communications officer for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Qualls White leans on her roots at Illinois where she discovered words connect people. ...
2022-05-10 - Known for ground-breaking research blending chemical and biological approaches to address antibiotic resistance, professor Douglas Mitchell was celebrated as the John and Margaret Witt Professor of Chemistry during an Investiture ceremony on the Illinois campus. During their individual remarks, Mitchell and alumnus John Witt (PhD, ’61) both...
2022-05-05 - Brendan A. C. Harley—a leader in the fields of biomaterials, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine—has been named the Robert W. Schaefer Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The awarded position is named after an Illinois alumnus who graduated with a degree in chemical engineering in 1956 and was a great supporter of the...
2022-05-05 - Graduating from U of I with three degrees, Grace Maloney (BS, ’21, molecular and cellular biology and chemistry; BA, ’21, Spanish) had a lot of options. She decided against going to medical school for a...
2022-05-04 - College of LAS students Caleb Apperson and Dahlia Davis have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships to study foreign languages this summer. Apperson, of Champaign, a graduate of Centennial High School, was offered a Critical Language Scholarship to study Chinese. Apperson is a junior majoring in...
2022-05-03 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Maria Todorova has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honor societies in the nation. She is among 261 new members elected to the academy this year in recognition of their accomplishments and leadership in academia,...
2022-04-28 - As educators and industry mull strategies for attracting more young adults to math-oriented professions, a new study in the journal Child Development suggests that children’s early experiences doing math homework and activities with their parents shape their motivation and achievement. Cultivating a love of mathematics in young people – and inspiring the next generation of scientists,...
2022-04-27 - Post-starburst galaxies were previously thought to scatter all of their gas and dust—the fuel required for creating new stars—in violent bursts of energy, and with extraordinary speed. Now, a study co-authored by a U of I astronomer reveals that these galaxies don’t scatter all of their star-forming fuel after all. New data from the Atacama Large...
2022-04-27 - The National Science Foundation awarded a 7-year, $15 million project to a multi-university team led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including at least two researchers in the College of LAS. The resulting groundbreaking and path-finding research, entitled “Mind in vitro - Computing with Living Neurons,” will imagine computers and...
2022-04-20 - Going to college can be intimidating—and even more so for international students, who also must adjust to life in a new country. A course in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, LAS 100, is designed to help first-year international students adjust to studying at the University of Illinois. Similar to LAS 101, the...
2022-04-19 - Mariama Mwilambwe, a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was awarded a $30,000 Truman Scholarship. Mwilambwe was one of 58 Truman Scholars selected from a pool of 705 nominees from colleges and universities across the country. Mwilambwe, from Bloomington, Illinois, and a graduate of Normal Community High School, was selected by the Truman...
2022-04-15 - At a hospital on Chicago’s Northside, Jason Robin (BS, ‘98, biology) is the director of cardio oncology, managing the full spectrum of cardiovascular disease. Current occupation: Cardiologist, director of cardio oncology at NorthShore University Health System. I am a Clinical Associate Professor of...
2022-04-15 - Two professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships. This year’s fellows are chemistry professors So Hirata and Prashant Jain. They are among 180 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists who were chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from almost 2,500 applicants, according to...
2022-04-15 - A research team from the Department of Chemistry has discovered a way to produce a special class of molecule that could open the door for new drugs to treat currently untreatable diseases. Open the household medicine cabinet and you will likely find organic derivatives of ammonia, called amines. They are one of the most prevalent structures found in...
2022-04-12 - We rely on scientists to understand the structure and behavior of our world. What happens when a scientist’s ability to separate science from ideology comes into question—and they happen to be one of the most renowned scientists in their field? David Sepkoski, the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science at U of I, has co-written an essay,...
2022-04-07 - Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers are developing resources for studying the Deseret Alphabet, which was created by the Mormons and used briefly in the 19th century. Linguistics professor Ryan Shosted and computer science professor Neal Davis created the Illinois Deseret Consortium to make...
2022-04-04 - A typical day for Matthew Doppelt (BA, ’11, economics) is hard to come by as assistant director for international scouting for the Los Angeles Dodgers. His home base is in Pheonix, Ariz., where he lives with his wife Anne and 6-month-old daughter Moonie; however, scouting the next MLB star takes him on the road, covering every country where baseball...
2022-04-01 - Cynthia Buckley is an Illinois sociology professor and demographer, and a co-leader of a U.S. Department of Defense-funded project looking for keys to stability and security in Ukraine and two other former Soviet republics, Estonia and Georgia. She spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about Ukraine’s humanitarian and...
2022-03-30 - To many of us, the idea of testing brings to mind bright lights, biting pencils, filling ovals, and (hopefully) the sweet relief of proving that you know the material. Xun Yan, a professor of linguistics at U of I, however, wants to know more about testing and what they tell us about test-takers. In 2021, he received the ...
2022-03-29 - Past instances of racism in medical care and the resulting distrust among Black Americans have been cited as factors in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Rana Hogarth is a medical historian and a history professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who teaches the history of Western medicine and African American history, and the author of “...
2022-03-29 - Researchers studying epileptic seizures of the temporal lobe – the most common type of epilepsy – discovered a compound that reduces seizures in the hippocampus, a brain region where many such seizures originate. The compound, known as TC-2153, lessened the severity of seizures in mice. The scientists report their findings in the journal Epilepsia. “We found that TC-2153 ultimately reduces...
2022-03-28 - Navigating the pandemic hasn’t been an easy task for anyone. Along with health concerns, it’s brought about worries about jobs, finances, housing, and more. But some communities have people like Anthony Erlinger and Kathleen Flores standing behind them. “It’s been a really hard time for everyone but especially for the immigrant community in Champaign-Urbana,” said Erlinger. That’s why Erlinger...
2022-03-25 - What does it mean to make a rational decision? As defined by centuries of philosophical thought, a rational decision is the action you choose that can be expected to result in better outcomes than any alternatives. This is how humans define it, anyway. What about artificial intelligence? Ben Levinstein, a professor of philosophy at U of I,...