2022-12-14
- The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology has created the Center for Indigenous Science for cutting-edge research and training in Indigenous science. The center will be headed by Jenny L. Davis, professor of ...
LAS News Archive
2022-12-14 - If you’ve ever stood in front of a room full of people to take part in a debate, you know what a nerve-wracking experience it can be. Now, imagine doing it in another language. That’s the challenge some students are tackling – and surmounting – as part of the Arabic Debate Team at the University...
2022-12-06 - Less than 20 percent of diagnosed breast cancers are designated “triple-negative,” meaning that the affected tissues lack three types of receptors often found in other breast cancer types, but TNBCs are often aggressive with ...
2022-12-05 - After the onset of COVID-19, policymakers were dismayed by many people who avoided personal and public safety measures designed to curb the spread of the virus. Many social scientists mobilized to better understand this behavior, including Jake Bowers, a professor of...
2022-11-30 - The Native American tribes that once called Illinois home painted deer and bison hides with stories and symbols that were important to their culture. Some of the best examples of this artistic tradition – four painted hide robes made sometime between 1680 and 1750 – are now in the collection of the...
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...
2022-11-28 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is recognizing seven staff members and academic professionals for their outstanding contributions in 2022-2023.
2022-11-18 - 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 - 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...
2022-10-19 - Martin D. Burke, a professor of chemistry and of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, has been elected to the National...
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 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...
2022-10-14 - 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...
2022-10-13 - 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 - 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...