2020-06-23
- The CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies (CyberGIS Center) at U of I has teamed with the state of Illinois to produce a system of interactive maps, charts, and animations to better help understand and prevent the spread of COVID-19....
LAS News Archive
2020-06-19 - It’s an idea that sounds radical and impractical to many who hear it: We should defund, dismantle or even abolish the police. But it quickly entered mainstream discussion following the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police. A. Naomi Paik is a professor of...
2020-06-16 - Gene Robinson, a professor of entomology and director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, has been named interim dean designate of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Starting...
2020-06-15 - Many Christian and political conservatives in the U.S. support legislation to deny sexual and gender minorities the rights most Americans enjoy: unfettered access to jobs, housing, services and public facilities; the opportunity to marry as they choose; and the right to adopt a child. A new study...
2020-06-11 - For four years, Jane Sullivan and Amy Snyder relied on the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District to get to class. Little did they know that someday they’d be helping to lead the transportation service—including doing what’s necessary to help MTD weather one of the most challenging times in history...
2020-06-10 - Six recent alumni from the College of LAS were offered Fulbright grants to pursue international education, research, and teaching experiences across the globe this coming year. The goal of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is to build international relationships to help solve global challenges....
2020-06-09 - As the executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Julie Morita leads a team of medical professionals at the nation’s largest foundation focused solely on health. Hometown: Chicago Degree: BS, ‘86,...
2020-06-09 - Kevin Mumford, professor of history at the University of Illinois and author of the book, “Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America,” has studied racial unrest in the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. Protests like those we are...
2020-06-05 - The images in the media have been strong and often disturbing in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. We process them through our biases, both conscious and unconscious. That’s the domain of Travis Dixon, who studies media stereotypes and their impact as a professor...
2020-06-02 - A student from the College of LAS is one of two University of Illinois students who have been named Udall Scholars in the same year. Junior Joseph Kreiling, of Durham, North Carolina, is among the 55 students selected for...
2020-06-01 - Political theory is seldom light reading. No one has ever curled up with a copy of “Das Kapital" to escape the cares of the day. So how do you get students to engage with the weighty ideas of past thinkers and apply them to the problems of today? That was the question for Jake Bowers, professor of...
2020-05-27 - Since 2012, the LAS Lincoln Scholars Initiative has been opening doors to this college experience through a program that provides significant renewable scholarships to academically-gifted Illinois students in need of financial support.
2020-05-27 - Avital Livny, professor of political science, says that her research sits at the intersection of Middle Eastern politics and the politics of identity. She has conducted extensive field research in Turkey, leading to her development of a new...
2020-05-26 - The Board of Trustees has approved schematic designs for the expansive Altgeld and Illini Hall Project, bringing closer to reality the $192 million plan to modernize and grow spaces devoted to data science and other mathematical sciences. The...
2020-05-22 - When tested in brain cells and in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, a new compound significantly reduced the number of amyloid plaques in the brain, lessened brain inflammation, and diminished other molecular markers of the disease. The researchers who developed the compound report their...
2020-05-21 - How do you have a constructive political debate in a politically divided landscape? In the video below, Scott Althaus, professor of political science and communication and director of the...
2020-05-20 - Where did COVID-19 come from? Why is testing so complicated? What is antibody testing—and what do we know about immunity from survivors of the Spanish flu who still had antibodies to the virus almost 90 years after the pandemic? A pair of scientists from the ...
Faculty members, staff, teaching assistants honored with Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction2020-05-19 - Faculty and staff members and graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this spring were honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising, collectively known as Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction. The Campus Award for Excellence in...
2020-05-13 - Lindsey Dunn Burgstahler is the vice president for the American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation where her team works with 5,000 health systems across the country that are serving on the front lines against COVID-19.
2020-05-12 - Entomologists, agriculture biologists, and beekeepers in Washington state and British Columbia have been working to stop an invasive insect pest, the Asian giant hornet (AGH) ever since it was spotted late last year. Also known as Vespa mandarinia—or, more commonly, murder hornets—the...
2020-05-11 - Several weeks ago, as the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading, Ying Diao, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and her research group, including several graduate students, began thinking about how they could help fight the outbreak. Through an...
2020-05-07 - One day in 1665, a tailor’s assistant in the English village of Eyam received a shipment of cloth from London and hung it out to dry. Unbeknownst to him, the bale of cloth was home to a colony of fleas infected with plague. Soon, that man and one-third of the population of Eyam were dead. The...
2020-05-04 - Every five years, Spurlock Museum inventories its emergency supplies. Coincidentally, this year’s count was occurring during the outbreak of COVID-19, which is why staff members realized that they possessed material that could help healthcare...
2020-04-29 - Two recipients within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been awarded the 2020 Heritage Award from the Preservation and Conservation Association of Champaign (PACA). Jane Bergman, office manager for the Department of Mathematics,...
2020-04-28 - Lisa Ainsworth, a research plant physiologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service and affiliate professor of plant biology and crop sciences at the University of Illinois, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences — largely...