2020-08-20
- While many academic institutions are searching for ways to prevent sexual assault and sexual coercion among their faculty members, staff, and students, they are failing to address the most common forms of gender-based harassment, said experts who study harassment and discrimination at work and in...
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2020-08-18 - Cosmic rays from nearby supernovae could be the culprit behind at least one mass extinction event on Earth, according to researchers at the University of Illinois. Finding certain radioactive isotopes in rock could confirm this scenario. A new study led by ...
2020-08-14 - Bill Hammack, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the Hoover Medal. The award is named for its first...
2020-08-13 - As the fall semester begins, there is a new name the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences community will want to note – Interim Dean Gene Robinson, Swanlund Chair in Entomology. Robinson began his new role in Lincoln Hall on July 1; although, he has spent his entire 30-year career at the...
2020-08-13 - It’s early evening as I follow the researchers to their work site on the Phillips Tract, just east of Urbana. When we get there, I immediately notice two things: We are standing in a vast grid of prairie plots with neatly mowed paths between them, and there are tents – dozens of dollhouse-sized...
2020-08-11 - A new initiative based in the University of Illinois Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies aims to develop more effective partnerships based in culturally and linguistically sensitive support and collaborations with the Champaign-Urbana Maya...
2020-08-06 - The Center for Advanced Study has appointed seven new members to its permanent faculty. CAS professors are selected based on their outstanding scholarship, and the appointments are one of the highest forms of campus recognition at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The new CAS members...
2020-08-05 - As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, scientists and health care providers are seeking ways to keep the coronavirus from infecting tissues once they’re exposed. A new study suggests luring the virus with a decoy – an engineered, free-floating receptor protein – that binds the virus and...
2020-08-04 - The fall semester is just weeks away, but preparations at the University of Illinois to create a meaningful, reliable, and safe learning experience during the COVID-19 pandemic have been progressing all summer long. While the onset of the pandemic forced faculty, students, and administrators to...
2020-07-31 - Big data has become a top resource in countless professions, although massive data sets are useless without a mechanism to efficiently organize patterns and develop real word applications. Statistics professor Naveen Narisetty hopes to contribute to this...
2020-07-28 - There’s a reason why people often forget to take a daily medication or respond to that email they’ve been meaning to send, and it can be chalked up to the gulf between intention and actually completing an action, according to new research co-written by a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
2020-07-24 - An experience consoling a World War II veteran in the last days of his life fostered a passion for advocating for mental health awareness in Benjamin Ray, a student in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and CEO of...
2020-07-23 - Prior to joining the University of Illinois in the 1990s, Scott Althaus was a soldier stationed in Germany during the tail end of the Cold War. He saw things in news reports from the United States that didn't align with events in Europe as he observed them in the mid-1980s. This piqued his...
2020-07-20 - Editor’s note: Daniel A. Gilbert is a labor and history professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of the 2013 book...
2020-07-17 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a $5 million grant renewal from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its Humanities Without Walls (HWW) initiative at the ...
2020-07-14 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $15.5 million to four universities in Illinois, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to create an institute to bring powerful mathematical ideas to bear on key contemporary scientific and technological challenges. Researchers...
2020-07-14 - Six professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named 2020 Conrad Humanities Scholars. The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award is funded by a gift from the late Arlys Conrad, whose estate gift recognizes mid-career scholars with potential for continued achievement in...
2020-07-14 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will open the fall semester with as much in-person instruction and residential occupancy as COVID-19 precautions and space availability allow. In announcing the decision reached after extensive consultation with faculty members, staff, students...
2020-07-09 - Researchers use a variety of modelling approaches to study form and function. By using a basic biomechanical model for studying body form and center of mass stability in ants, new research identifies the benefits of “simple models” and hope that it can be used for bio-inspired designs. “Most...
2020-07-08 - As COVID-19 hit communities around the world, two researchers connected to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences realized various countries could flatten the curve using a variety of policies to slow the virus transmission. However, successfully lowering transmission rates while preserving...
2020-07-07 - Researchers often study the genomes of individual organisms to try to tease out the relationship between genes and behavior. A new study of Africanized honey bees reveals, however, that the genetic inheritance of individual bees has little influence on their propensity for aggression. Instead, the...
2020-07-06 - A collaborative effort at the University of Illinois to support COVID-19 testing is winding down, but not before it produced enough materials to support some 200,000 coronavirus tests across the state. Chris Brooke, a professor of ...
2020-06-30 - Researchers have developed a method to spur the production of new antibiotic or antiparasitic compounds hiding in the genomes of actinobacteria, which are the source of drugs such as actinomycin and streptomycin and are known to harbor other untapped chemical riches. The scientists report their...
2020-06-23 - A professor in the College of LAS has been honored with the Campus Awards for Excellence in Faculty Leadership. Carla Cáceres, a professor of evolution, ecology and behavior and...