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...
LAS News Archive
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 - 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...
2021-08-06 - 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...
2021-07-30 - 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...
2021-07-26 - The Midwest offers many National Parks and monuments worth exploring.
2021-07-22 - A new approach to treating breast cancer kills 95-100% of cancer cells in mouse models of human estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancers and their metastases in bone, brain, liver and lungs. The newly developed drug, called ErSO, quickly shrinks even large tumors to undetectable levels.
2021-07-16 - The COVID-19 pandemic has been a disaster for the world, but efforts to control the disease have produced at least one silver lining in terms of the environment: a decrease in global emissions. Efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, such as lockdowns, social distancing, and closures,...
2021-07-14 - Heather Ana Hathaway Miranda (BA, ‘95, Spanish) knows the pain of being marginalized. In her life she has experienced racism and fear of differences, including during her time as an undergraduate at UIUC; however, in these...
2021-07-14 - Nikia Brown recalls the last year as a season of transition for LAS International Programs. “We were all hands on deck,” recounted Brown, associate director of intercultural and global learning, international student experience...
2021-07-13 - If you were to rank the people least likely to encounter an explosive device during their work shift, librarians might be near the top of your list. But on the evening of March 1, 1970, Linda Rogers (then Chapek) was approached by a man during her shift at the Altgeld Hall Library and told that...
2021-07-13 - With a graduate degree in economics, Carla Tighe Murray knows how hard school can be. With a family, she also knows how challenging caregiving can be. That’s why she’s giving support to graduate students who are trying to balance both responsibilities. Murray (PhD, ‘89,...
2021-07-13 - Late nights under deadline. Smoky rooms. Protesters. Eagerly awaiting the roll of the presses. This is part of the history of Illini Hall, which for many years housed the offices of The Daily Illini. Now a group of former reporters, editors, and photographers who worked at the student newspaper...
2021-07-09 - Many members of the LAS community find inspiration and pleasure in reading a good book. We asked a few of our own faculty to share the books that they’re excited to dig in to this summer! Leslie Looney (professor and chair of the Department of Astronomy) As an astronomer, it may not come as a...
2021-07-07 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received the inaugural Research Response to Community Crisis Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities for its COVID-19 testing program. The university’s SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell program...
2021-07-07 - Two University of Illinois professors have been awarded funding in the first year of an initiative to better understand the connections between the gastrointestinal tract and the nervous system. Professors Mei Shen, from the Department of Chemistry,...
2021-07-06 - Various economic and political forces are steering some young people away from studying for degrees in disciplines such as science, law and medicine, while some new graduates face a shrinking pool of entry-level jobs. Kevin Leicht, a professor of...
2021-07-01 - The chance of detecting the virus that causes COVID-19 increases with more frequent testing, no matter the type of test, a new study found. Both polymerase chain reaction and antigen tests, paired with rapid results reporting, can achieve 98 percent sensitivity if deployed at least every three days...
2021-07-01 - For decades, researchers have been working toward mitigating excess atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions. One promising approach captures atmospheric carbon dioxide and then, through carbon dioxide electrolysis, converts it into value-added chemicals and intermediates—such as ethanol,...
2021-06-25 - Initiatives within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences are being supported by the second round of funding through the Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities, announced by University of Illinois President Tim Killeen. The new round of funding will...