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....
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
2021-08-06 - Most of us have, at some point, experienced workplace incivility – small, rude behaviors of ambiguous intent. Recent work from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and collaborators has theorized on the biological consequences of...
2021-08-06 - Social isolation is not a good situation for anybody, but for teenagers it’s particularly hard. Studies have long indicated that teens who are socially isolated are at higher risk for mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression. Then the COVID-19 pandemic arrived and showed that, sadly, the...
2021-07-30 - Dozens of online videos document an unusual behavior among tufted titmice and their closest bird kin. A bird will land on an unsuspecting mammal and, cautiously and stealthily, pluck out some of its hair. A new paper in the journal Ecology documents this phenomenon, which the authors call “...
2021-07-29 - Four professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named 2021 Conrad Humanities Scholars. They will use the award, funded by a gift from the late Arlys Conrad (AB, ’44, education), for research ranging from classical Judaism to the U.S. expansion in the Pacific Ocean. The...
2021-07-28 - Venetria K. Patton, head of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University, has been named the Harry E. Preble Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, pending approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. Patton, who has served in faculty and administrative...