2019-07-30
- Infants 17 months of age expect leaders – but not others – to intervene when one member of their group transgresses against another, a new study reveals.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, add to growing evidence that children in their second year of life have a well-developed understanding of social hierarchies and power dynamics, said University of...
2019-07-29 - Seven alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have named recipients of the college’s 2019 annual alumni awards. The alumni represent a variety of backgrounds and degrees, and their achievements have clear links to their experiences at the University of Illinois. The recipients will be honored during Homecoming weekend on campus. The recipients are as follows: Howard...
2019-07-24 - The anemonefish is a gender-bending marvel. It starts out as a male, but can switch to female when circumstances allow, for example, when the only female present dies or disappears. In a new study, researchers found that the male-to-female sex-change occurs first in the fish’s brain and only later involves the gonads – sometimes after a delay of months or years. “We discovered that when you pair...
2019-07-23 - Sand is an important natural resource that is being critically mismanaged, according to a piece featured in Nature magazine this month by Jim Best, the Jack and Richard Threet Professor of Sedimentary Geology and professor of geography and geographic information scienc...
2019-07-19 - Students in any field of study, from molecular and cellular biology to history or psychology, wonder how their degrees will help them after graduation. Finding the right person for advice may be an additional struggle. That’s why the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and The Career Center have developed a career coaching program aimed at helping academic advisors impart career advice to...
2019-07-18 - Technological advancements in recent years has brought rapid innovation to many fields, including the ways that risk is calculated. That’s why members of the Actuarial Science Club (ASC) at Illinois decided to conduct the InsureTech and Actuarial Modernization Symposium, an event on campus modeled after the InsureTech Connect conference, a popular industry event in Las Vegas that CEOs and...
2019-07-16 - Sandra Ruiz has been compelled by Puerto Rican artists and politics for years. Her new book, “Ricanness: Enduring time in anticolonial performance,” is a reflection of that, focusing on the colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico by analyzing theater, performance photography, and political protest. The term Ricanness was developed by Ruiz, a professor of...
2019-07-16 - A longstanding partnership between OSF HealthCare and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering for joint research to revolutionize clinical simulation, health care systems, and medical education will expand dramatically through additional endowments. This will fuel a...
2019-07-15 - Jane Bergman has always held a special spot in her heart for the brilliance of stained glass. “My very first memory is being held by my mother (in St. Patrick’s Church in Urbana) while people were singing,” Bergman said. “I was gazing at the enchanting brilliance of the sunlight streaming through the beautiful stained glass windows of the church. That memory still warms my soul.” That’s why...
2019-07-12 - Two researchers in the College of LAS were named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. The winners this year are chemistry professor Prashant Jain and...
2019-07-10 - A new paper co-written by a University of Illinois expert who studies labor economics says the minimum wage is an effective tool to increase the incomes of older workers who are at or near retirement and – contrary to the notion that higher minimum wages force earlier retirements – has no discernible “disemployment” effects. In an era of rising inequality and aging populations, the effect of the...
2019-07-03 - When several LAS students crossed paths at 3 Day Startup, a workshop put on at the Business Instructional Facility at Illinois to teach entrepreneurial skills, none of them expected to become business partners. Each of the students had an interest in coming up with solutions to address food insecurity, however, and after the event, as everyone else split up, they stayed together and their...
2019-07-02 - Baron Peters, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois, arrived on campus in January 2019 with plans to organize a summer course on reaction rate theory and rare events. He requested startup funds to support the course, and things worked out. This July, 40 doctoral students and seven professors from around the world...
2019-07-02 - Several departments, colleges, and schools at Illinois, including 11 in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, are combining with the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to purchase a Bruker 9.4 Tesla preclinical animal MRI system. Construction is expected to begin in the fall for the system, which will cost about $6 million in total. The Carver Trust’s gift amounts to just over $831,000....
2019-07-01 - A citizenship question on the 2020 census appears unlikely after a Supreme Court ruling June 27. Many researchers involved with the census have strongly opposed adding the question, among them Julie Dowling, a professor of Latina/Latino studies at Illinois and vice chair of the U.S. Census Bureau’s ...
2019-06-26 - For most of us, tornado sirens and severe thunderstorm warnings mean that it’s time to hunker down and hope that the damage is minimal. Fortunately, there are people such as (Robert) Jeff Trapp, head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, who are trying to learn as much as possible about these intense weather events. Trapp’s research is being used by scientists, policy makers, and forecasters...
2019-06-22 - Editor’s note: Experts have ranked May 2019 as one of the wettest Mays on record in central Illinois. Is it possible that the incidence of mosquito-borne illnesses increases with the amount of rainfall? To find out, News Bureau science writer Ananya Sen asked Brian F. Allan, an...
2019-06-20 - University of Illinois undergraduates Enddy Almonord and Barghav Sivaguru are among 244 students nationwide awarded David L. Boren Scholarships, with a third Illinois student named an alternate. The National Security Education Program selects undergraduate students to add international and language...
2019-06-18 - Nine College of LAS young alumni and a student were offered student Fulbright grants to pursue international educational, research, and teaching experiences across the globe this coming year. They were among 13 Illinois students and alumni chosen this year, and another seven Illinois students were named Fulbright alternates. As the flagship international educational exchange program of the U.S....
2019-06-13 - Helaine Silverman, professor of anthropology, is leading a project in downstate Illinois to promote new heritage tourism as well as social and economic development in that region. The project, titled “The Mythic Mississippi: I-Heritage as Public Engagement and Economic and Social Development”, was awarded funding as part of a...
2019-06-12 - When Fred Stahl stepped off the plane to attend the University of Illinois in 1962, he wondered if he had made the right decision. Hailing from a suburb just outside of New York City, Champaign-Urbana struck him as quite different, to put it lightly. “It was like going to a foreign country for me,” Stahl (BS, ’66; MS, ’68, mathematics; PhD, ’74,...
2019-06-11 - Dolores Albarracin has been studying HIV for more than two decades, but, during the last decade, the digital age has ushered in a new aspect of her work. The professor of psychology and business is looking to social media and technology to find new ways to fight and prevent outbreaks of HIV and Hepatitis C. Government institutions, community groups...
2019-06-07 - Jewel Ifeguni understands that college is about more than completing assignments. In a way, the senior in communication and computer science created her own assignment, and completed it, as she co-founded her own company to advocate diversity and inclusion. Her company, YouMatter Studios, which she...
2019-06-05 - University of Illinois freshman Ari Kelo, an LAS student and a graduate of Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago, will join a three-week summer program at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London as part of the Fulbright Summer Institute, an initiative of the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission. Kelo will work alongside theater practitioners at the Globe, participate in scene rehearsals...
2019-06-04 - Two University of Illinois undergraduates, including one in the College of LAS, have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) to study critical languages during the summer of 2019. The CLS program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. CLS scholars gain language and cultural...