2021-02-10
- Mitigation measures such as stay-at-home mandates, lockdowns or shelter-in-place orders have been the major public health policies deployed by state governments to curb the spread of COVID-19.
But given the uncertain duration of such policies, questions have been raised about the potential...
LAS News Archive
2021-02-10 - Culture, civic-mindedness, and privacy concerns influence how willing people are to share personal location information to help stem the transmission of COVID-19 in their communities, a new study finds. Such sharing includes giving public health authorities access to their geographic information...
2021-02-08 - Dozens of professors in the College of LAS rank among the most-cited researchers in the world in a new, widely hailed analysis designed to provide a clearer view of scientific and scholarly impact. According to datasets...
2021-02-05 - Animals played a central role in the British Empire. Sources of food and labor, animals symbolized the power of the empire. They also hindered the efforts of the British to control colonized lands, and they destroyed ecosystems. A new book examines their relationships with imperial authorities and...
2021-02-04 - During the Super Bowl pregame ceremony, poet Amanda Gorman will recite an original poem paying tribute to the three honorary captains for the game who were selected for their work during the coronavirus pandemic. Gorman captured the attention of the nation last month as the youngest-ever inaugural...
2021-02-03 - The Center for Advanced Study has appointed nine faculty members from the College of LAS as associates or fellows for the 2021-22 academic year. They were among 20 faculty members chosen...
2021-02-02 - The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign has acquired a multi-million dollar “Doppler on Wheels” mobile radar and instrumentation facility that is expected to transform capabilities for research, offer hands-on...
2021-01-26 - Satellite imagery of Earth has been available for years, but it keeps getting better and better. That’s why several academic units across the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and the University Library have teamed up to acquire high-resolution satellite data from a private aerospace company...
2021-01-26 - Seven staff and academic professionals are being recognized for outstanding contributions to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 2020-21. Rayme Dorsey Ackerman, Carol Banks, and Summer Curry have been selected to receive an LAS Staff Award. The recognition comes with a $2,000 award...
2021-01-15 - A dramatic decline in bees and other pollinating insects presents a threat to the global food supply, yet it’s getting little attention in mainstream news. That’s the conclusion of a study from researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, published this week in a special issue of...
2021-01-13 - In 1533, the Bom Jesus – a Portuguese trading vessel carrying 40 tons of cargo including gold, silver, copper, and more than 100 elephant tusks – sank off the coast of Africa near present-day Namibia. The wreck was found in 2008, and scientists say they now have determined the source of much of the...
2021-01-12 - Just a few weeks ago the main question hanging over Inauguration Day was whether the outgoing president would attend the ceremonies. Now the question seems quaint, with many people concerned that January 20 will be marked by violence similar to that which occurred on January 6. The...
2021-01-11 - Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors – Eduardo Ledesma and Bobby Smith II – have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships. Ledesma is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Smith is a professor of...
2021-01-08 - For Bill and Linda Perry, Altgeld Hall is about mathematics—and so much more. The couple arrived at U of I in fall 1967; Bill had a graduate assistantship in mathematics and Linda had a teaching position at Urbana High School. The May 1967 mathematics graduates of 500-student Park College in...
2020-12-23 - Many members of the LAS community find inspiration and pleasure in reading a good book. As our faculty and staff head into winter break, we asked a few of them to share the books that they’re excited to dig into over the next month. For part one of this series, go...
2020-12-21 - Many members of the LAS community find inspiration and pleasure in reading a good book. As our faculty and staff head into winter break, we asked a few of them to share the books that they’re excited to dig into over the next month. For the second part of this series, go...
2020-12-18 - When in space, astronauts typically eat dehydrated, nutrient-dense food, but when it comes to longer space missions, that can become a problem as they’ll eventually lack nutrients from fresh vegetables. However, one chemical and biomolecular engineering...
2020-12-17 - The Global Carbon Project recently published the Global Carbon Budget 2020, giving world leaders access to data on atmospheric carbon concentrations, emissions and trends. Atul Jain, professor of ...
2020-12-14 - Three College of LAS professors at the Urbana-Champaign campus have been named University Scholars in recognition of their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. In consideration of COVID-19 precautions,...
2020-12-10 - When Eda Derhemi, a teaching professor in the Department of French & Italian, read the Albanian novel “Miele sul Coltello,” she thought that translating its complex linguistic stratification into Italian would be particularly challenging but stimulating...
2020-12-09 - About 160 million Americans voted during the past election, which represents the highest overall number in history and the highest percentage of eligible voters since 1900. Included in that number was a strong turnout by Black voters, many of whom voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and are...
2020-12-08 - No two days are the same for Larry Harris Jr. (BA, ’15, political science). He calls Chicago home, but the Foreign Service Officer (U.S. Diplomat) at the U.S. Department of State has worked in Austria, Ethiopia, Cameroon, and currently Canada. What...
2020-12-08 - In 2019, University of Illinois student Issy Marquez had an eye-opening experience. She traveled to Washington D.C. with several professors to lobby on behalf of the National Humanities Alliance. Marquez, a triple major in English,...
2020-12-02 - The brains of healthy adults recovered faster from a mild vascular challenge and performed better on complex tests if the participants consumed cocoa flavanols beforehand, researchers report in the journal Scientific Reports. In the study, 14 of 18 participants saw these improvements after...
2020-11-30 - Six professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been elected 2020 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Evolution, ecology and behavior professor Alison Bell; ...