2019-02-05
- There’s plenty of sweet irony in a new partnership between Illinois and St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, LLC, that will raise money for bee research at the university.
Anheuser-Busch has pledged $5,000 to The Healthy Bee Fund at Illinois. In addition, the company will donate $1 to the fund for...
LAS News Archive
2019-02-04 - Mara Wade, a University of Illinois professor of Germanic languages and literatures, has received the Reimar Luest Prize for International Research Cultural Exchange, a competitive prize given to scholars whose research has shaped academic and cultural...
2019-01-31 - How do you make a difference? It’s not a simple question when you think about it, like George Reveliotis has. He’s in his mid-40s now, with a wife and four children, and he runs his own property tax and real estate law firm, Reveliotis Law, P.C. in Park Ridge, Illinois. He’s seen enough to know the...
2019-01-29 - The clock struck 12:50 p.m. and the Quad teemed with students during passing period. High above them, in Altgeld Hall, Jonathon Smith moved quickly, organizing his sheet music. He knew what many of them would think—that a machine was playing the chimes in the tower. They couldn’t be more wrong....
2019-01-24 - Telemarketing isn’t for everyone, but it was a great place to start for Chicago resident DJ Paoni (BA, ’93, speech communication), who used what he learned in college and on the job to connect with people and eventually become president of SAP North America, a software company....
2019-01-18 - The School of Chemical Sciences at Illinois hosted a celebration of diversity in the fields of chemical sciences and chemical engineering with two public events honoring an LAS alumnus who was the first African-...
2019-01-17 - The University of Illinois is moving forward with plans to expand its leadership in the mathematical sciences by constructing a new building west of the Main Quad by 2022 and renovating Altgeld Hall by 2024. Derek Fultz, director of facilities for the College of LAS, said the university is...
2019-01-16 - For thousands of years, large rivers and their floodplains have been essential to civilization. They still are—with billions of people living around the world’s major rivers—and an Illinois scientist has published the most up-to-date summary of the critical issues facing these vital regions. Jim...
2019-01-14 - Our images of mushroom clouds came from its cameras. So did many shots of missile tests, space missions and the Korean and Vietnam wars. At one point it was the largest self-contained film studio in Hollywood, enlisting such stars as Jimmy Stewart and Marilyn Monroe, as well as Disney animators...
2019-01-10 - Larry Harris is the type of man who you can practically hear smiling through the phone. He’s quick to joke and has an infectious laugh—you’re bound to hear it often. If you ask Larry (BA, ’15, political science), he’ll say that’s the Chicago in him. He grew...
2019-01-09 - A research group at Illinois has found that a protein previously thought to be active only in cell repair is required for DNA replication, a transformational discovery recently published in the...
2019-01-03 - Researchers from the University of Illinois and U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service report in the journal Science that crops engineered with a photorespiratory shortcut are 40 percent more productive in real-world agronomic conditions. Plants convert sunlight into energy...
2018-12-20 - Gillen D’Arcy Wood, English professor at the University of Illinois, wants to reveal to readers a wonderland — Antarctica. Wood’s upcoming book, “First Ice: The Antarctic Discovery Voyages and their Legacy,” delves into three expeditions to...
2018-12-19 - Back in 2011, in an era of outsourcing American jobs overseas, Ankur Gopal (BA, ’97, history) had an idea: Why couldn’t more tech jobs move inland from Silicon Valley and the coasts instead of leaving the country? As it turns out, they could. From his...
2018-12-17 - Six faculty members in the College of LAS have been named to the 2018 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list. They are among the 11 professors selected across campus for this year’s list. The list recognizes “leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world...
2018-12-14 - Paul Kenis has been named the Elio Eliakim Tarika Endowed Chair of Chemical Engineering in a ceremony honoring his success and leadership in the field. Kenis, head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, earned his undergraduate and...
2018-12-12 - Move over, trap-jaw ants and mantis shrimp: There’s a faster appendage in town. According to a new study, the Dracula ant, Mystrium camillae, can snap its mandibles at speeds of up to 90 meters per second (more than 200 mph), making it the fastest animal movement on record. “The high...
2018-12-10 - In the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, 16-year-old students in middle-track schools decide whether to stay in school to pursue an academic career or enroll in a vocational training program. A new study offers evidence that the path they choose influences their personality years later. The...
2018-12-07 - Thousands of letters written by Marcel Proust (1871-1922) will be available to scholars, Proust fans and the public on a website created by University of Illinois researchers and their partners in France to digitize Proust’s correspondence. The first phase of the...
2018-12-04 - When author Nafissa Thompson-Spires was growing up, she read historical fiction about black families in America, but she really wanted stories about contemporary living that she could relate to. “I didn’t have people burning crosses on my lawn or calling me (a racist slur), but I experienced a lot...
2018-12-03 - This fall, Martin Pomper gathered with others from across the world to be officially inducted the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in medicine for professional achievement and commitment to service. Today, Pomper (BS, '82,...
2018-11-30 - Three minutes or less. In the time it takes for your favorite song to play, University of Illinois graduate students recently showcased their remarkable research to a panel of judges at the fourth annual Research Live! competition at...
2018-11-30 - An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Departments of Chemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering have joined forces to develop a highly sensitive neural probe to monitor brain chemistry. The team received $3...
2018-11-28 - Diwakar Shukla, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and Blue Waters assistant professor, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The award will provide five years of support for Shukla’...
2018-11-27 - Two professors from the College of LAS have been elected 2018 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Plant biology professors Andrew Leakey and Ray Ming are among the 416 people to be awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow...