2019-07-02
- Several departments, colleges, and schools at Illinois, including 11 in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, are combining with the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to purchase a Bruker 9.4 Tesla preclinical animal MRI system.
Construction is expected to begin in the fall for the system,...
LAS News Archive
2019-07-02 - Baron Peters, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois, arrived on campus in January 2019 with plans to organize a summer course on reaction rate theory and rare events. He requested startup funds to support the...
2019-07-01 - A citizenship question on the 2020 census appears unlikely after a Supreme Court ruling June 27. Many researchers involved with the census have strongly opposed adding the question, among them Julie Dowling, a professor of Latina/Latino studies at Illinois...
2019-06-26 - For most of us, tornado sirens and severe thunderstorm warnings mean that it’s time to hunker down and hope that the damage is minimal. Fortunately, there are people such as (Robert) Jeff Trapp, head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, who are trying to learn as much as possible about these...
2019-06-22 - Editor’s note: Experts have ranked May 2019 as one of the wettest Mays on record in central Illinois. Is it possible that the incidence of mosquito-borne illnesses increases with the amount of rainfall? To find out,...
2019-06-20 - University of Illinois undergraduates Enddy Almonord and Barghav Sivaguru are among 244 students nationwide awarded David L. Boren Scholarships, with a third Illinois student named an alternate. The...
2019-06-18 - Nine College of LAS young alumni and a student were offered student Fulbright grants to pursue international educational, research, and teaching experiences across the globe this coming year. They were among 13 Illinois students and alumni chosen this year, and another seven Illinois students were...
2019-06-13 - Helaine Silverman, professor of anthropology, is leading a project in downstate Illinois to promote new heritage tourism as well as social and economic development in that region. The project, titled “The Mythic Mississippi: I-Heritage as Public...
2019-06-12 - When Fred Stahl stepped off the plane to attend the University of Illinois in 1962, he wondered if he had made the right decision. Hailing from a suburb just outside of New York City, Champaign-Urbana struck him as quite different, to put it lightly. “It was like going to a foreign country for me...
2019-06-11 - Dolores Albarracin has been studying HIV for more than two decades, but, during the last decade, the digital age has ushered in a new aspect of her work. The professor of psychology and business is looking to social media and technology to find new...
2019-06-07 - Jewel Ifeguni understands that college is about more than completing assignments. In a way, the senior in communication and computer science created her own assignment, and completed it, as she co-founded her own company to advocate diversity and...
2019-06-05 - University of Illinois freshman Ari Kelo, an LAS student and a graduate of Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago, will join a three-week summer program at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London as part of the Fulbright Summer Institute, an initiative of the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright...
2019-06-04 - Katherine Powers knew that joining Ninth Letter as an undergraduate would be a challenge, but she took the plunge in hopes that the skills she gains working for the highly touted literary journal will be valuable in her future...
2019-06-04 - Two University of Illinois undergraduates, including one in the College of LAS, have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) to study critical languages during the summer of 2019. The CLS program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand the number of...
2019-05-31 - What happens in the tropical Pacific Ocean doesn’t stay in the tropical Pacific. That’s how Jessica Conroy, professor in the Department of Geology and Department of Plant Biology, explains the...
2019-05-29 - It was 2017 when Eric P. Whitaker first met Hassana Alidou. They came from opposite sides of the world, but they had common ground: Whitaker, then acting deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs with 27 years of experience in the U.S. Foreign Service, was about to take on a new role...
2019-05-28 - Projects looking at the music of Jay-Z and the impact of place in the short fiction of Edward P. Jones are among the first works from a digital publishing initiative at the University of Illinois. The open-access digital publications incorporate multimedia tools such as interactive visualizations,...
2019-05-24 - The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has announced seven new faculty fellows for the 2019-2020 school year, including three professors in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Rina Mehta, professor of comparative and world literature...
2019-05-23 - Chemists at the University of Illinois have successfully produced fuels using water, carbon dioxide, and visible light through artificial photosynthesis. By converting carbon dioxide into more complex molecules like propane, green energy technology is now one step closer to using excess carbon...
2019-05-22 - University of Illinois senior Gabriel Wacks, of Skokie, Illinois, and a graduate of Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in Deerfield, Illinois, has been selected as a Yenching Scholar at Peking University’s Yenching Academy. David Schug, the director of the National and International Scholarships...
2019-05-21 - This year’s additions to the nearly century-old Bronze Tablet at Illinois include 102 graduates from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Each year, the Bronze Tablet is inscribed with the names of new graduates and placed in the Main Library. To achieve this honor, undergraduate students...
2019-05-21 - At 89 years old, Merrill Thompson makes it a point to return to the University of Illinois campus whenever he can. It is, after all, a family place—a place where one goes to reflect and help out. His adoptive father was a graduate of the business school (now Gies College of Business) at Illinois...
2019-05-16 - University of Illinois chemistry student Philip Kocheril was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years in recognition for his potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences,...
2019-05-14 - Tara Stewart Merrill was studying dance at the University of California—Santa Barbara when one day she helped her friend study for an exam on parasitology. The topic fascinated her, and, to make a long story short, today she is a doctoral student in the Program...
2019-05-09 - How do you achieve success? One way is to go to college, get a degree, get a job, work hard, and get promoted. Another way is to go to college, get a degree, become a professional sports bettor, and read children’s books until you know the basics about, well, as far as anyone can tell, everything...