2019-09-06
- Mei-Po Kwan had spent years using research methods that some believed to be incompatible before she stood on a sidewalk in Humboldt Park, Illinois, arming people with daily activity diaries, sound level monitors, and pollutant sensors—tools to map the patterns of their lives and what they were...
LAS News Archive
2019-09-05 - You might call it Quad Day for the humanities. The first ever Humanities Expo was conducted last week at the Foreign Language Building, where almost 50 registered student organizations and academic units set up booths and tables for students to learn about majors, careers, and other...
2019-09-04 - The University of Illinois has created a new institute within the College of LAS to strengthen research, teaching, and outreach that deepens understanding of cultures and societies around the world. The Illinois Global Institute (IGI), which launched in...
2019-08-30 - One of the region’s most prestigious honors for a life sciences researcher has been awarded to Martin Burke, a professor of chemistry and associate dean for research at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine...
2019-08-30 - Fifteen faculty members have taken new leadership positions in departments and other academic units within the College of LAS this fall. Feng Sheng Hu, the Harry E. Preble Dean of the College of LAS, said that the leadership changes are a normal and healthy transition as the new school year...
2019-08-23 - Sept. 1 marks the 80th anniversary of Germany’s invasion of Poland and the start of World War II in Europe, and world leaders will gather to mark the event. But what led Germans to embrace Nazi rule more than six years earlier, which would lead them into the war? University of Illinois...
2019-08-20 - Anyone who thinks space is the final frontier should familiarize themselves with the research of Lijun Liu, professor of geology and a GeoThrust Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois. He knows that there’s a lot we don’t understand right...
2019-08-16 - When Aida Guhlincozzi and Julia Cisneros were younger, they each attended science camps that helped spark their interest in the geosciences. As they moved up the academic ladder, however, and each finished their undergraduate degrees at Texas A&M before coming to graduate school at Illinois,...
2019-08-14 - The majority of brain activity is considered spontaneous because it does not occur in response to an external event. Researchers do not know how this inherent activity, whose spatial pattern is called the functional connectome, influences cognition. As a result, its role in mental disorders remains...
2019-08-12 - The Department of Energy has selected 73 scientists from across the nation, including University of Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor David Flaherty, to receive significant funding for research as part of its Early Career Research...
2019-08-09 - Editor's note: Anyone familiar with the research of Bruce Fouke would associate him with hot springs, kidneys, and coral reefs before they’d associate him with student-athletes. The geology and...
2019-07-30 - Last year, Jane Desmond, a professor of anthropology and director of the Summer Institute in Animal Studies at Illinois, wanted to publicize her concern and research findings about the plight of police dogs sniffing out opioids as they search for drugs....
2019-07-30 - Mathematics professor Bruce Reznick doesn’t drink much beer, though he does have a certain joke about it he likes to tell. “Every time you see me not drinking a can of beer, the beer I'm not drinking is Champagne Problems,” Reznick likes to say. That’s because Reznick, who has been at the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...