2018-06-01
- Susan Brennan grew up in Granite City, Illinois, and remembers crossing the Mississippi River to go from her grandmother’s house to St. Louis, pinching her nose shut with her two fingers the entire time.“It was a steel town and a wonderful place to grow up. The people and the values. The great parks, great schools, and the hard, hard working people,” she said. “But it smells like hydrogen sulfide...
2018-05-31 - A new program in the Department of History is designed to create wider awareness of the careers and opportunities available to doctoral students while highlighting the diverse skills developed through graduate study.Mark Steinberg, a professor of history and director of graduate studies for the department, said that a new grant from the American...
2018-05-30 - A lover of both math and education, Daniel Zaharopol (MS, ’08, teaching of mathematics; MS, ’08, mathematics) was a graduate student at Illinois when he decided that he wanted to find a way to merge those two passions and help underserved youth. He spent a semester networking to see what his options were. Eventually, he decided the best course of action...
2018-05-29 - Graduate student Jacob Daniel Bryan knows that the senior design course in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE ILLINOIS) can be a pressure cooker for undergraduates. As former head TA, he has helped guide students in ECE 445: Senior Design as they envision and build a working prototype that demonstrates their design skills in a matter...
2018-05-25 - The call came on Good Friday, two months ago. They had found the plane, a B-24 bomber shot down over a remote Pacific Ocean bay during World War II. One of the 11 crew members on board was my relative. Through five years of research, our extended family had pieced together details of his last mission. Now we knew for certain where it ended, and the location of that loss could begin closing a...
2018-05-22 - Biochemists at the University of Illinois have isolated a protein supercomplex from a bacterial membrane that, like a battery, generates a voltage across the bacterial membrane. The voltage is used to make ATP, a key energy currency of life. The new findings, reported in the journal Nature, will inform future efforts to obtain the atomic structures of large membrane protein...
2018-05-21 - In his many years as a chemical engineer, Joseph Sant’Angelo has learned that a little drama can help sell an idea. In 1986, he and his partner, Christian Lambertsen, a doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, arranged tiny fires around a potential licensee’s conference room in Denmark to prove that Sant’Angelo’s latest patent, a breathable fire extinguishing gas mixture,...
2018-05-18 - College of LAS senior Gabriel Wacks is among 221 nationwide recipients of David L. Boren Scholarships awarded by the National Security Education Program. The program enables undergraduate students to add important international and language components to their...
2018-05-17 - Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, a professor of history, has been appointed by the College of LAS to direct the American Indian Studies Program at Illinois. He will be the second permanent director appointed to the position since the program’s inception in the late 1980s.Gilbert’s appointment is set to begin on...
2018-05-16 - Mei-Po Kwan, a professor of geography and geographic information science, has received the American Association of Geographers (AAG)’s Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography. This award honors individuals who establish new methods and vocabulary for geographic research, and cultivate a deeper understanding of human/...
2018-05-14 - It’s not often that undergraduate students can make a real, scholarly impact in their field of study. But students working with Scott Althaus, director of The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research and professor of political science and communication, helped...
2018-05-11 - Twenty-four graduating seniors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been selected to the Senior 100 Honorary for their notable achievements. LAS students from 13 majors, ranging from molecular and cellular biology to psychology, communication, history, Spanish and others, are among 100 seniors selected from across campus for the honor. Senior 100, which is...
2018-05-11 - Mara Wade, a University of Illinois professor of Germanic languages and literatures, has been awarded a Getty Residential Scholar Grant. The scholarship allows Wade to spend the 2018 fall semester at the Getty Research Institute...
2018-05-10 - Through almost 19 years of research at Illinois, Silvina Montrul, professor of Spanish and Portuguese and linguistics, and an affiliate at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, has become a leader in understanding bilingualism and second language...
2018-05-08 - Jeffrey Moore, a Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair, professor of chemistry, and director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, has been named the 2018 recipient of the Stephanie L. Kwolek Award for exceptional contributions to the field of materials chemistry. He is also a professor of materials science and engineering at...
2018-05-07 - A brain-imaging study offers new support for the idea that infants can accurately track other people’s beliefs. When 7-month-old infants in the study viewed videos of an actor who saw – or failed to see – an object being moved to a new location, activity in a brain region known to play a role in processing others’ beliefs changed in the infants, just as it did in adults watching the same videos...
2018-05-03 - Mark E. Hauber, a professor of animal biology, has been named the Harley Jones Van Cleave Professor in the School of Integrative Biology. The endowed position is named for the late Harley Jones Van Cleave, a prominent professor of zoology and Illinois alumnus who served at the...
2018-05-02 - Concern over the potential imminent eruptions of Earth’s supervolcanoes, like Taupo in New Zealand or Yellowstone in the United States, may be quelled by the results of a new study suggesting that geological signs pointing to a catastrophic eruption would be clear far in advance. To help forecast supervolcano eruptions, the study led by the University of Illinois has quantified...
2018-05-01 - Scott E. Denmark, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest professional honors a scientist can receive. Denmark is one of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates recognized for distinguished and continuing achievements...
2018-04-30 - Two alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have received the 2018 Chicago Illini of the Year Award. Elizabeth Pieroth, (BS, ’88, psychology) and Steven Thayer (BA, ’88, economics), earned the prestigious distinction for their accomplishments in medicine and law,...
2018-04-27 - Ten students in the College of LAS were recently named recipients of the 2018 Beckman Institute student awards. The awards, which are presented to undergraduate and graduate students, were presented to students in a recent reception and will allow them to pursue a variety of research opportunities.The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is an interdisciplinary research institute...
2018-04-25 - Marisa Cullnan, an intern for LAS 101, a course dedicated to acclimating first-year students to campus life, recalls one particular student in the seminar course who was particularly quiet. The student was having trouble actively participating in conversations and activities intended to help newcomers feel comfortable in their new surroundings.“I wanted to figure out ways to encourage them to...
2018-04-24 - A professor of Latina/Latino studies and media and cinema studies has been appointed as the first faculty director for diversity and inclusion in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Isabel Molina-Guzmán will begin the new position on Aug. 16. She is currently associate dean of assessment and diversity, equity,...
2018-04-24 - A new study of trial court judges suggests these arbiters of the law sometimes let their personal ideas about gender roles influence their decision-making. The findings, which are part of a broader study of judicial behavior, revealed that the judges were just as likely as laypeople to discriminate – in ways that harmed both men and women – in decisions involving child custody...
2018-04-18 - Professor Kenneth Suslick has been named a recipient of this year’s American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Chemical Pioneer Award for his research at the University of Illinois. Suslick is the Marvin T. Schmidt Research Professor of Chemistry and has been at U of I for 40 years, coming to Urbana directly after earning his PhD at...