2019-03-27
- Military couples look forward to joyful celebrations and reunions after long deployments. Difficulties may lie ahead, though, and new research with more than 500 couples in the months after homecoming suggests how and when to help.
“Military couples are incredibly resilient,” says University of...
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2019-03-19 - When will workplaces across the United States have an equal split between men and women in their ranks? Twenty years? Maybe 40? According to a mathematical model created by a research assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, the answer to that...
2019-03-14 - The eruptions of the Mount Vesuvius volcano in the 1760s and 1770s set off a public fascination with volcanoes. Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples at the time, studied the volcano extensively and wrote one of the most celebrated and beautiful books on Mount Vesuvius. The Rare...
2019-03-13 - William Guenthner is in search of missing time—1.2 billion lost years, to be more precise. Geologists call it the Great Unconformity. Originally observed by John Wesley Powell in the Grand Canyon in 1869, the phenomenon describes two layers of rock that stretch across most of North America and...
2019-03-12 - Results from a new study suggest that bees might be exposed to pesticides in more ways than we thought, and it could impact their development significantly. The study, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, looks at the non-target effects of pesticides on ground-nesting bees, a group that...
2019-03-12 - There’s now a national park in Indiana at the southern tip of Lake Michigan, less than 50 miles from Chicago. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore just got an upgrade. Illinois political science professor Robert Pahre studies and teaches the politics around...
2019-03-08 - New graduates from the College of LAS continue to be successful at securing a first destination soon after graduation, according to an analysis of alumni at Illinois. Those who have landed jobs are also drawing larger salaries for their work. According to the Illini Success...
2019-03-08 - This year, Katie Frye, a teaching assistant for MCB 150, enjoys engaging, active learning classrooms and other advanced facilities for her students. That’s because Frye, a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology, conducts...
2019-03-05 - Some 27,000 years ago in central Belize, a giant sloth was thirsty. The region was arid, not like today’s steamy jungle. The Last Glacial Maximum had locked up much of Earth’s moisture in polar ice caps and glaciers. Water tables in the area were low. The sloth, a beast that stood up to 4 meters...
2019-03-01 - Thirteen individuals from units across the College of LAS are receiving teaching and advising awards for excellence in educating and mentoring students at Illinois. They will be honored at a ceremony in April. Professors Brian Allan, Manisha Basu, William Brieher, Philipp Hieronymi, and Sandra...
2019-03-01 - Almost 50 years after her death, Maudelle Tanner Brown Bousfield, the first African-American female student at Illinois, is known as a pioneer. During her lifetime, she learned that the title did not come easily. In 1926, Bousfield (AB, ’06, mathematics...
2019-03-01 - Sometimes an unusual comparison can bring big problems to light. Back in the late 1990s, when Rebecca Sandefur was working on her doctoral degree at the University of Chicago, she was troubled by a discrepancy she saw between the U.S. legal system and public schools. Both were large and publicly...
2019-03-01 - In 1995, Eduardo Ledesma graduated with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and became a bridge engineer. For 10 years, he got up every morning, went to work and did what he had trained to do. And then, something changed. “I had always been...
2019-02-27 - In many societies, teenagers are repeatedly told – by adults, peers and popular media – that teens are more likely than younger children to take risks, ignore their parents, skip schoolwork and succumb to bad influences. But stereotypes are not destiny, a new study of Chinese middle school students...
2019-02-26 - A scientist in the College of LAS is among 126 recipients of the 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. According to the foundation, the awards “honor early career scholars whose achievements mark them as among the most promising researchers in their fields.” This...
2019-02-22 - What do you get when you add mathematics and chalkboards? Grant Cole, a building service worker from Facilities & Services who worked in Altgeld Hall, can answer that question: Dust, and lots of it. As a cleaner in one of the busiest buildings on campus—a mathematics building to boot—Cole...
2019-02-21 - Termites are vilified as destroyers of all things wooden, but they are also misunderstood. “The one thing that everyone knows about these insects and seems to care about is they cause billions of dollars of damage by eating wood,” said May Berenbaum, a professor and head of the...
2019-02-19 - E-cigarettes get teenagers hooked on nicotine. Or they aid cigarette smokers seeking to quit. Or they may be harmful in other ways. Those competing messages make the devices a tricky subject for health communicators, says Cabral Bigman, a professor of ...
2019-02-15 - Philippe Tondeur, professor emeritus of mathematics, has worked and studied at universities around the world, but the University of Illinois holds a special place in his heart and mind. Tondeur has donated in support of the...
2019-02-13 - Six staff and academic professionals are being recognized for their particularly noteworthy efforts in advancing the mission of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 2018-19. Jenny Cox, Brad Petersen, and Jack Thomas have been selected by an awards committee to receive the LAS Academic...
2019-02-12 - Though separated by a world of ocean, and unrelated to each other, two fish groups – one in the Arctic, the other in the Antarctic – share a surprising survival strategy: They both have evolved the ability to produce the same special brand of antifreeze protein in their tissues. A new study...
2019-02-08 - What better way to represent college life than as a long, winding—sometimes bumpy—and colorful journey? In the spirit of enhancing an encouraging atmosphere where students go for assistance on academic matters, the U of I has installed an art piece, "Journey Into Possibilities," by Indira Freitas...
2019-02-08 - The Natural History Building has earned prominent distinction for energy efficiency and environmentally friendly construction practices in the wake of a recent $79 million renovation. The historic building received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED ®) Gold certification from the...
2019-02-07 - For the past six years, the Department of Astronomy and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois have been closely involved with one of the most sensitive and...
2019-02-06 - Ten professors and staff members in LAS are among the recipients of the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities. The $2 million initiative, launched by University...