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...
LAS News Archive
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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...
2019-10-15 - 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 - 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 - 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...
2019-10-14 - 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...
2019-09-30 - As he was transitioning out of his position as head of the Department of Political Science, Robert Pahre had no idea that his term would end with a surprise gift that would allow him to quite literally “pay it forward.” At the department’s first ever alumni...
2019-09-27 - I am in Govindjee’s office suite and I don’t know where to look. Govindjee, a professor emeritus of plant biology who goes by the one name only, is a collector. There are layers of history here: artifacts and papers, books and photographs. There also...
2019-09-23 - Three departments in the College of LAS are part of a new nationwide initiative to change the culture surrounding doctoral education and career pathways. Led by the Association of American Universities (AAU), the PhD Education Initiative promotes student-centered...
2019-09-20 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is generating new sources of revenue while continuing to invest in education, research, and public engagement. Through the Investment for Growth initiative, 18...
2019-09-17 - Earlier this year, Erin Joe, after serving for more than two decades in the FBI, was named the director of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, where she leads efforts to analyze and understand cyber threats to the United States. Making...
2019-09-13 - Two professors in the College of LAS have been named University Scholars in recognition of their excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. Brian Allan, a professor of...
2019-09-12 - With more than 50,000 total students for the first time in university history, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has welcomed a record-breaking freshman class for the start of the 2019 academic year. The new freshman class is also the largest, most academically talented and most...
2019-09-11 - For many students, Altgeld Hall is just a place to learn mathematics, observe historic architecture, and listen to the chimes, but for two alumni it symbolizes the beginning of their very own love story. Betsy Alderman (BS, ’12, mathematics) and Nathan...
2019-09-06 - It’s tempting to think of professors of days gone by as stiff as the stone from which their busts are often hewn. But William Abbot Oldfather was not—as comedian Tom Lehrer once famously lampooned college elites—an “ivy covered professor in ivy covered halls.” He was adventurous, opinionated,...
2019-09-06 - One morning last summer, a half dozen Illinois students climbed into cars and drove east of campus. They passed a few miles of houses and farmland before they turned onto a country road and parked near something unusual, at least for these parts. It was a forest. They put on their boots. They had...