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...
LAS News Archive
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,...
2019-10-17 - A new book by a University of Illinois anthropologist studies the culture of contemporary business education – in particular, the MBA degree – and how it’s been shaped by the modern global economy. The book – “Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture” – is a study of...
2019-10-16 - Kristin Lee Hoganson, a professor of history who has been at Illinois since 2000, has been named the Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History. The position is named after Stanley Stroup, an Illinois alumnus who obtained his bachelor’s degree in ...
2019-10-15 - Pediatrician Alison Kirby (BS ’84, biology) was part of a 35-doctor practice in Walla Walla, Washington, when the principal of an alternative school first asked her to do free physicals for the kids joining their basketball team. Lincoln High School in Walla...
2019-10-15 - Jerrod Henderson (PhD ’10, chemical engineering) was a boy in Kinston, North Carolina, when he took a field trip that changed his life. Henderson went to the Black Engineer of the Year Awards and Conference in Baltimore as a sixth grader, and at first “I...
2019-10-15 - The year 1980 was a turning point for LAS alum Peixin He (PhD ’85, chemistry). By 1980, China had been opening up to the world, and Peixin He was coming to the University of Illinois as a visiting scholar through an exchange program between Fudan...
2019-10-15 - Hariklia Deligianni has applied her wits and education to finding solutions in everything from computing technology to solar energy, but one problem that hit too close to home came when her daughter, then 16, suffered a severe lower back injury while doing gymnastics. When Deligianni (MS, ’86; PhD...
2019-10-15 - Billy Dec knows what it’s like to be on the receiving end of help. When he wanted to come to the University of Illinois in 1991, he couldn’t afford it, so he drove down from Chicago and showed up at the financial aid office. A staff member noticed him looking distraught, and over the next few days...
2019-10-15 - Billy Dec (BA, ’95, economics) was devastated when two of his family’s elders passed away on the same day—December 9, 2018. One of them, his grandmother’s sister, passed away in the Philippines, while his godfather died a world away in Chicago, with Dec...
2019-10-15 - When John Coady (BA ’74, political science) was a junior at Illinois in 1973, he ran for the newly created student seat on the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, but he said he lost to an opponent who outworked him. “After that, I vowed that I would...
2019-10-15 - In 1906, the German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer first identified amyloid plaque and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain samples of a deceased woman who had suffered severe memory loss. Today, amyloid plaque and tangles are still indicators of what is now called Alzheimer’s disease—the most common...
2019-10-14 - For students studying everything from Shakespeare to social issues facing minority populations, an underlying question is this: How will the things I’m learning in class help me in the future? A new center, established by the College of LAS, is designed to help humanities students realize their...
2019-10-09 - Inside certain classrooms at the University of Illinois, it's possible to go deep-sea diving to a sunken ship and witness a 100-foot blue whale—all without leaving Champaign County. With virtual reality equipment playing a growing role in classrooms, more and more students are seeing their learning...
2019-10-08 - It’s a vivid memory: At an open-air taverna in a small coastal town in Greece last summer, Alex Augustynski, junior in classics, made his acquaintance with a friendly black and white cat with green eyes and a deformed leg. Alex had spotted the female...
2019-10-03 - Kohei Kishida works at the intersection of two fields that may appear to be unlikely partners — computer science and philosophy. The humanities and STEM are two academic paths that typically lead to very different outcomes, but the professor of ...
2019-10-02 - From growing up on a farm in northern Iowa without indoor plumbing to graduating debt free with a doctoral degree at age 27, Ken Andersen knows the financial struggles endured by many college students who pursue higher education. That’s why the professor emeritus at the University of Illinois has...