2021-10-07
- In the modern workplace, the mechanics of seeking help on the job aren’t clearly understood by managers or employees, especially regarding its interpersonal benefits and costs. A new paper co-written by a team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign experts who study occupational well-being says distinct types of help-seeking can be activated by different work demands and work-related...
2021-10-05 - A new grant will help reduce disparities in healthcare through a unique new training program led by Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s Ruby Mendenhall. The programming will create a culture of innovation that centers around the health and wellness of mostly Black and Latinx (a gender-neutral form of Latina/Latino) high school students and young...
2021-09-30 - Eye size likely plays a role in the contest between avian brood parasites – birds that lay their eggs in the nests of other species – and their hosts, who sometimes detect the foreign eggs and eject or abandon them, scientists report in the journal Biology Letters. Brood parasites succeed by offloading the job of parenting to other species. The hosts’ own young suffer as a result of competition...
2021-09-28 - A new national initiative to enable geospatial data-driven scientific discovery will create a $15-million institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to better understand the risks and impacts of climate change and disasters. The Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE) will receive the...
2021-09-24 - Student spaces and high traffic areas within the west wing of Davenport Hall have a fresh look as a renovation project concluded this semester.
2021-09-23 - A new sensor can detect not only whether a virus is present, but whether it’s infectious – an important distinction for containing viral spread. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators developed the sensor, which integrates specially designed DNA fragments and nanopore sensing, to target and detect infectious viruses in minutes without the need to pre-treat...
2021-09-23 - Backed by a multi-million-dollar federal grant, a research team from three major universities will soon start working on a pioneering supercomputing system that allows scientists and engineers to align its processors, accelerators, memory, and other hardware components to best serve their needs. Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Texas A&M University, and the...
2021-09-22 - A former Illinois football player and biology alumnus is winemaker for several Napa Valley and Southern Australia wineries, and when it comes down to the foundation of his craft, he finds the right notes using his background in science.
2021-09-21 - People infected with the original strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 early in the pandemic produced a consistent antibody response, making two main groups of antibodies to bind to the spike protein on the virus’s outer surface. However, those antibodies don’t bind well to newer variants, a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found. Characterizing what kinds of...
2021-09-15 - The University of Illinois is currently updating and evaluating its brand identity standards—the colors, logos, words, and other ways that the university presents itself. It’s a necessary process to stay in step with evolving times, and never was the subject more contentious than in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when campus debated the most prominent identifier of all: the university...
2021-09-15 - This past May, Abbigail Bugenske became one of the country’s latest million-dollar winners. But she didn’t get it from a scratch-off; she got it for taking a gamble on hope. Bugenske was the first winner in Ohio’s “Vaxx-a-Million” sweepstakes, a five-week contest designed to get more state residents to take a COVID-19 vaccine shot. From cash lotteries to free beer and amusement park tickets, the...
2021-09-15 - What is it about Altgeld Hall that endures so long in the imagination? We asked, and people who've spent time there replied: Love, friendship, learning, fiery protests, mysterious footsteps, and, of course, the ringing of the chimes. Read on for memories of this iconic intersection of mathematics and music. Fire, bravery, and protest The spring of 1970 was a tumultuous time...
2021-09-10 - A new Federal Statistical Research Data Center at the University of Illinois is giving researchers on campus a new opportunity to examine economic and other social issues with data that is not easily available. The UIUC Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) opened in the Department of Economics in July. FSRDCs, which provide data from...
2021-09-09 - With a first-year student enrollment of 8,303, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has welcomed a record-breaking incoming class for the 2021-22 academic year. The new class brings total student enrollment to 56,299, the largest in university history. The trend is mirrored in the College of LAS, where first-year enrollment this fall stands at 2,678. It’s the highest since 2008, when the...
2021-09-01 - If you’ve come here for analysis on upcoming elections or the prospects for your favorite political party, you’ve come to the wrong place. Samantha Frost is not that kind of political scientist. Her insight into politics began with the texts of 17th century English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes and has continued into the study of molecular and cellular biology. Today, Frost, professor of...
2021-08-26 - Three civil service employees in the College of LAS were recognized for exceptional performance by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For the second consecutive year, concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic precluded a banquet for employees honored with the Chancellor’s Distinguished Staff Award. Thomas Bedwell, Terri Gitler, and Lana Holben were among 16 employees across campus to...
2021-08-25 - Sixteen faculty members have accepted new leadership positions in departments and other academic units within the College of LAS for the 2021-22 academic year. The College of LAS has almost 70 departments, programs, schools, centers, and other academic units. Each unit is led by an executive officer. “This is an important time for our new executive officers in the College of LAS,” said...
2021-08-25 - COVID-19 has changed how—and how openly—we talk about health. This includes discussions that would have once seemed odd or intrusive: Is everyone in the car fully vaccinated? When did you get your second shot? Which shot was it? In fact, experts say the pandemic’s effect on how we communicate about disease may reach beyond the current crisis. Charee Thompson, professor of communication, studies...
2021-08-24 - University of Illinois President Tim Killeen on Monday honored 28 key leaders of the system’s COVID-19 response, including six faculty and staff members within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, with the...
2021-08-20 - Blue light is illuminating new understanding of a key signaling pathway in embryo development, tissue maintenance, and cancer genesis. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed an approach using blue light to activate the Wnt (pronounced “wint”) signaling pathway in frog embryos. The pathway plays a wide variety of roles in animal and human development, and the ability...
2021-08-19 - Japan is a country of rivers – more than 21,000 of them. A new book by Roderick Wilson, a history professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, examines the relationships between the rivers and the people living along them, and the vital role that rivers played in Japan’s modern transformation. Wilson also considers the larger question of...
2021-08-18 - The feeding patterns of black holes offer insight into their size, researchers report. A new study revealed that the flickering in the brightness observed in actively feeding supermassive black holes is related to their mass. Supermassive black holes are millions to billions of times more massive than the sun and usually reside at the center of massive galaxies. When dormant and not feeding on...
2021-08-17 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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 Illinois News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about the repercussions of the abrupt U.S. withdrawal...
2021-08-16 - LAS alumnus is leading a contingent of 15 Illinois wheelchair track student athletes and alumni as a coach of the 2020 Paralympics US track and field team at the Tokyo games.
2021-08-06 - The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research is well-recognized in academic circles, but many outside of campus learned of it for the first time earlier this year when the U of I social research and analysis organization classified the January 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol as an attempted coup. The...