2019-12-17
- Side effects are strange. In the computer world, they are known as an observable effect besides the returned value. In the world of medicine, they’re everything from life-threatening to hilarious (“David after Dentist” on YouTube has almost 140 million views). It turns out that they’re equally...
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2019-12-13 - What’s the scoop on John Lowe? He studied political science at Illinois, entered law school, and began practicing law for a premier corporation. Naturally, the next step was to accept an offer from his close friends to become CEO of Jeni’s...
2019-12-12 - Indian cinema has exploded in popularity in recent years, but few understand the phenomenon more than Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, who will publish a book on the topic in 2020. Whether it's through her popular course on Indian cinema (the largest of its kind in the U.S.) or her data-...
2019-12-12 - Erika Jones forged her connection with campus as an undergraduate working at the Illini Union. As a student worker in catering, Jones spent time maneuvering around tables where important people made significant decisions. When she took the job, she thought she would only be pouring coffee; however...
2019-12-11 - To some, one of the best ways to improve societies is the gathering of data. It’s a cause that Lori Montana (BA, ’79, political science) can relate to, as she’s been recognized for supporting the Cline Center for...
2019-12-10 - Daniel Stelzer used a stylus to carefully form symbols in a piece of clay. The University of Illinois student was practicing writing the symbols in a class on Hittite, an ancient language that uses cuneiform, one of the oldest human writing systems. The U of I offered the...
2019-12-05 - The Bloomberg 50 annual list includes innovators and leaders who have impacted and defined our world—and beyond—in 2019. So, it is no surprise to find the Event Horizon Telescope leadership team, including Charles Gammie, astronomy and physics professor at...
2019-12-02 - When they share habitat, orangethroat and rainbow darters tend to avoid one another, even though they are closely related and can produce “hybrid” offspring. The males compete with males of their own species and will almost always ignore females of the other species. A new study offers an analysis...
2019-11-26 - All gardens start with a vision, but even a backyard pepper patch requires a certain level of planning and grit that thwarts most from ever becoming more than a morning coffee musing. How powerful does the vision have to be, then, to design and build a full-blown Japanese garden in east-central...
2019-11-25 - Four faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named to the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, a global listing of scientists who produced the past decade’s most influential papers,...
2019-11-22 - The University of Illinois celebrated two stellar faculty members with recognitions as endowed chairs deemed to be among the most distinguished honors on campus. Antoinette Burton, professor of history, has been named the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed...
2019-11-15 - When she was in middle school, Elena Wilson would spend several weekends a year going around her hometown of Rockford, Ill., to help out at soup kitchens and other service organizations. In high school, Wilson’s circle of service grew and she traveled to different states around the Midwest to help...
2019-11-13 - More than 190 scholarships with a combined total of more than $675,000 were awarded to LAS students this academic year. This was commemorated during the LAS Scholarship Celebration at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, where recipients, their families and friends, LAS donors, and faculty...
2019-11-13 - When the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros closed Game 7 of the World Series, the connection between the two teams was secured in Major League Baseball history. The historic series gave the Nationals their first championship and dashed the hopes of the Astros securing two titles this decade...
2019-11-11 - The College of LAS is in the midst of fielding ideas and feedback for the college’s first strategic plan in more a decade. The plan will help guide the college’s decisions for the next five years, officials said. Kelly Ritter, associate dean for curricula and academic policy for LAS, said...
2019-11-08 - The University of Illinois has taken a significant step toward breaking ground on the Altgeld and Illini Hall Project, with architects recently submitting conceptual designs for the plan to modernize and expand spaces devoted to data science and other mathematical sciences. Campus officials are...
2019-11-07 - Susan Martinis, the former head of the Department of Biochemistry, has been named the vice chancellor for research and innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, pending approval by the Board of Trustees. Martinis...
2019-11-06 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has established the LAS Dean’s Distinguished Lecture to provide wider opportunity for people to hear from faculty who are leaders in their field. The inaugural lecture featured Gene Robinson, professor of ...
2019-11-05 - From an evolutionary perspective, memory and prediction seem to be closely related. Humans would need to remember dangerous situations they have encountered in order to be able to later predict the outcome when they are faced with a similar situation. Researchers in the Cognition and Brain Lab have...
2019-11-04 - In the academic world, the study of humanities and sciences are often separated, with the subjects taught by different professors in different buildings and even different colleges. However, David Sepkoski, the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in History of Science...
2019-10-31 - Jonathan Sweedler, the James R. Eizner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry and director of the School of Chemical Sciences at Illinois, has been named to the top spot on the Analytical Scientist’s 2019 Power List,...
2019-10-30 - Political disinformation campaigns on social media threaten to sway political outcomes, from U.S. elections to Hong Kong protests, yet are often hard to detect. A new study, however, has pulled back the curtain on one type of campaign called “astroturfing,” which fakes the appearance of organic...
2019-10-29 - Corinne Cantwell Heggie was recently installed as president of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. In addition to her duties as partner at a law firm in the northern suburbs of Chicago, she is spending her time addressing topics of interest to attorneys across the state, such...
2019-10-24 - By the time Jonathan Gonzalez received his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas-El Paso, he’d mastered four languages: French, Italian, Russian, and English. By spending more than four hours a day studying language and literature, he’s come to appreciate them more deeply than most. “I...
2019-10-23 - Urban commuters may be less likely to encounter automobile accidents if they are willing to increase trip time, researchers report. A new study from the University of Illinois introduces a tool that helps quantify the connection between traffic accidents and city road networks. The study,...