2020-10-14
- For many U of I students, pastries and coffee are one way to soothe the mind after hours of studying. That, along with their own fond memories of coffee-making college days, is what prompted a pair of former students to revive several Espresso Royale locations in Champaign-Urbana when COVID-19...
LAS News Archive
2020-10-12 - Baseball is America’s game. But for more than a century it’s also been the game of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and many others in Latin America. It’s also been the game of immigrants who came to the U.S. from those places and their descendants. “They brought baseball with them. It was not...
2020-10-08 - Socialism has become a divisive word in American politics. Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders brought its tenets into mainstream discussion, and polls indicate that younger Americans are becoming more open to the concept, but polls also indicate that older Americans remain staunchly...
2020-10-07 - As a way to amplify voices of expertise on pressing issues, a national program called the Public Voices Fellowship will allow professors from across the country to pair up with journalists and learn more...
2020-10-02 - How do you find the words to describe the moments and perceptions that shape your life? This is what Janice Harrington helps others do. The award-winning poet, author, and professor of English talks about teaching poetry, shares one of her own poems, and...
2020-09-30 - Daily life in Beirut is subject to violence and an ever-changing series of disruptions – a reality that residents refer to as “al-wad” or “the situation.” Ghassan Moussawi – an ethnographer and a professor of...
2020-09-23 - In breast cancer tumors, a molecule produced when the body breaks down cholesterol hijacks the myeloid immune cells that normally arm T cells to fight cancer, a new study in mice found. Instead, the hijacked myeloid cells disarm the T cells and even tell them to self-destruct. By inhibiting the...
2020-09-22 - With research interests ranging from migration to hip hop, and personal backgrounds ranging from Texas to Tajikistan, more than 40 new faculty members in almost 25 departments joined the College of LAS this fall. Their experiences as new faculty members have been different than any before them....
2020-09-21 - As a national correspondent for ESPN, Michele Steele is at home whether she is on the sidelines during a Monday night NFL game or behind the anchor desk on SportsCenter. Based in Chicago, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences alumna has covered some of the...
2020-09-21 - Editor's note: This commentary by Don Wuebbles, the Harry E. Preble Professor of Atmospheric Science, originally appeared in the...
2020-09-18 - David Wright wrote the real-life story of Richard Etheridge, the only Black man to lead a lifesaving crew along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the late 19th century, and his crew’s heroic rescue efforts during a hurricane. In his latest work, Wright – an...
2020-09-14 - Since July, the University of Illinois has conducted more than 300,000 COVID-19 tests on students, faculty, and staff to provide a safe environment for a mix of online and in-person classes on campus. The rapid, saliva-based tests, which are being administered at 17 sites across campus, were...
2020-09-14 - Ten alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have named recipients of the college’s 2020 annual alumni awards. Their professions range from novel-writing to pharmaceutical development, overseeing national science policy, emergency medicine, and managing the central bank of China. The...
2020-09-11 - Editor's note: Samantha Boyle is a student writer for the College of LAS Office of Communications and Marketing. She is taking a mix of online and in-person classes. Like many other students at the University of Illinois, I was not expecting to start my senior year of undergrad partially...
2020-09-11 - Twelve faculty members have taken new leadership positions in departments and other academic units within the College of LAS. Leadership changes within academic units are normal during the start of the new school year. The College of LAS has more than 600 faculty in almost 70 departments,...
2020-09-10 - The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign’s 2020 enrollment is 52,331, surpassing last year’s record of 51,196, a status administration officials attribute to greater demand for the university’s online graduate programs. In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, fall semester instruction is a...
2020-09-09 - Public monuments are built to represent an idea—and this year, in particular, the ideas of the past have been put under the microscope. Following the killing of George Floyd, protesters in the United States and around the world have toppled or defaced many statues of controversial historical...
2020-09-01 - We're living during a tense, divisive, and dangerous time. How do we get to a brighter future? A. Naomi Paik sees a path, and it’s lit by clear-sighted analysis of how we got here. She studies immigration, imprisonment, and how some of our most hotly debated problems reach back to...
2020-09-01 - There’s nothing new about political protest in sports, but the recent athlete-led game boycotts or strikes following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, seemed to set a new standard. Historian Adrian Burgos Jr. specializes in the history of minority participation in sports as a...
2020-08-28 - Ramona (Russell) Pogue Borders graduated from the University of Illinois in 1948 while her dear friend Peggy (Young) Ruff earned her degree from the Department of Mathematics in 1975. However, no matter the years, the two have a loyal friendship that is based on honesty and giving – two priorities...
2020-08-28 - To some, an invasion of insects that come crawling out of the earth is just another disturbing chapter of the year 2020, but entomology professor Marianne Alleyne knows that there’s a lot to learn from cicadas. She even looks forward to seeing—and...
2020-08-27 - The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture are announcing an investment of more than $140 million to establish seven artificial intelligence institutes in the U.S. Two of the seven will be led by teams at the University of...
2020-08-25 - Crops grow dense canopies that consist of several layers of leaves—the upper layers with younger sun leaves and the lower layers with older shaded leaves that may have difficulty intercepting sunlight trickling down from the top layers. In a recent study published in Food and Energy Security...
2020-08-21 - The 2020 U.S. election will be unlike any other in history. The results are hard to predict—there’s nothing unusual about that—but questions also remain about safety, how COVID-19 will affect attitudes and turnout, and even how people will vote. We asked Brian Gaines, professor of...
2020-08-20 - To most people the term “shoot for the moon” is a figurative term for high ambition, but Rishi Chandra would, in fact, like to get to the moon. The physics major is following an individual plan of study in planetary science. “There’s something romantic...