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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
2022-10-19 - Martin D. Burke, a professor of chemistry and of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, has been elected to the National...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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,...
2022-09-30 - Editor's note: The following is a Behind the Scenes account by Rachel Gill and Yifan Wang, graduate students in the Department of Anthropology. CENTRAL BELIZE – We stand in the open fields of Spanish Lookout, a modernized Mennonite farming...
2022-09-23 - New COVID-19 vaccine boosters that target omicron variants are being distributed following emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration and recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Microbiology...
2022-09-20 - Political science professor Nicholas Grossman is the author of “Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security” and specializes in international relations. Grossman spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about the implications of the U.S. killing...
2022-09-19 - Tamara Chaplin’s journey to uncover untold stories about French women’s lives began with a challenging tale of her own. She was a professional ballet dancer in New York and Canada until age 30 when she was injured and could no longer perform. Having focused her entire life on dancing, suddenly her...
2022-09-15 - As society continues to transform through the rise of digital technology, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign continues to provide the innovative and inclusive education necessary to meet this moment. A new series of interdisciplinary undergraduate degrees in data science (DS) are now...