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...
LAS News Archive
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...
2020-04-23 - Going from teaching in front of an auditorium that seats 600 students to lecturing on a webcam at home requires patience and skill – and, for one professor, a lot of imagination. Martha Gillette, professor of cell and developmental biology...
2020-04-22 - Epidemics often bring a search for scapegoats, with anti-Asian harassment in the wake of COVID-19 the latest example. Likewise, ideas circulate that different races also differ in their susceptibility to the disease, evidenced by a myth that blacks were immune to the virus. Both are subjects...
2020-04-22 - Several professors in the College of LAS have received named scholar positions for their contributions in education and research at the University of Illinois. The named positions include the inaugural LAS Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholars, who are receiving $10,000 for teaching and...
2020-04-20 - Back in early March, when the COVID-19 pandemic began shuttering businesses and schools across the United States, Chris Brooke wondered how he’d teach his classes online. As the virus spread with astonishing speed, however, and it became frighteningly clear that COVID-19 threatened something far...
2020-04-17 - Two professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. This year’s fellows are Janice N. Harrington, a poet and professor of English; and David Sepkoski, a professor of...
2020-04-15 - State and local governments across the U.S. are asking people to isolate themselves at home and avoid all but the most essential trips to grocery stores, pharmacies and hospitals. This level of behavior change is unprecedented in most people’s lifetimes, and for many it represents a direct threat...
2020-04-14 - Editor’s note: Intelligence officials report that Russia is continuing its interference in the 2020 election by stirring controversy and spreading disinformation on social media, and it is becoming more creative and harder to track, according to intelligence officials. Richard...
2020-04-14 - What a difference a month makes. In early March, students at Illinois were attending class in places like Lincoln Hall and Natural History Building, visiting faculty during office hours, and bumping into each other on the Main Quad. Now, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the suspension of on-campus...
2020-04-13 - What's one way to pass time during the COVID-19 pandemic? You can do crossword puzzles, or you can make them, as is the case with University of Illinois freshman Adam Aaronson. Aaronson is using the crossword puzzle-making skills that got him published in two of the country’s leading newspapers to...
2020-04-09 - University of Illinois juniors Sriyankari Chitti and William Lyon were awarded Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for their potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences, mathematics, or...
2020-04-07 - A new class called Careers for Humanities Majors is helping students explore job opportunities and develop skills for starting a new career. As part of HUM 275, students work on resumes and cover letters, take field trips to local organizations and businesses, practice networking with...
2020-04-06 - Parents sheltering at home with their kids sometimes struggle to foster their children’s continued engagement with learning. Eva Pomerantz, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studies the factors that...
2020-04-02 - “I used to think immigrants were a problem.” When Ann Abbott read this introduction to a student’s final essay, she realized the Spanish in the Community curriculum may be one of the most unique and important experiences of which she’s been a part. “Those words, ‘I used to’—that’s really...
2020-04-02 - Although she never considered herself a “literary type,” the career of Carole Stivers (née Carole Reeve, PhD, ’81, biochemistry) has taken a distinctly literary angle: She recently wrote “The Mother Code,” a near-future science fiction...
2020-04-01 - Some buildings get all the glory. At U of I, Lincoln Hall has its presidential connection, Altgeld Hall has its chimes, English Building has its ghost. But what about the workhorses—the gritty brick behemoths whose claim to fame isn’t their name or design, but their practicality, and the fact that...