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...
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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,...
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...
2022-05-05 - Graduating from U of I with three degrees, Grace Maloney (BS, ’21, molecular and cellular biology and chemistry; BA, ’21,...
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...
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...
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...
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 “...
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-...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
2022-03-23 - Adrienne Harris has worked on campus for 20 years and in the Department of Communication since January 2018. Her primary role is to oversee the department's finances, and, in her office, a healthy work culture is a priority. “I am very proud to be a...
2022-03-11 - Regional economies are routinely subject to the whims of the business cycle that can lead to job losses and lower incomes for residents when a recession hits or an industry declines. But new research co-written by a team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign economists finds that counties that...