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...
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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 - 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...
2018-11-30 - 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...
2018-11-28 - 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...
2018-11-26 - Beware the jumping cholla, Cylindropuntia fulgida. This shrubby, branching cactus will – if provoked by touching – anchor its splayed spines in the flesh of the offender. The barbed spines grip so tightly that a segment of cactus often breaks off with them, leaving the...
2018-11-20 - Fresh out of college, Shakari Stroud landed a position coveted by many new graduates: She joined Teach for America, a nonprofit organization that places promising young teachers in K-12 schools in low-income communities to help improve the learning environment for...
2018-11-15 - Hong Yang, a chemical engineering professor at Illinois since 2012, has been named the Richard C. Alkire Chair in Chemical Engineering in a ceremony honoring his commitment and leadership within the field. Yang is recognized worldwide for his contribution to the fundamental...
2018-11-15 - Almost 150 students in the College of LAS receive more than $500,000 in scholarship awarded through 51 different college-level scholarship funds for the 2018-19 school year. The recipients and donors were...
2018-11-13 - Six assistant professors have been recognized as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their contributions and potential in teaching and research.The awardees are Mauro Nobili in the Department of History; Aleks Ksiazkiewicz in...
2018-11-13 - The gold nanoparticles created by Catherine Murphy, the Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, range in size from 5 to 100 nanometers. To get an idea how small that is, consider this: Your fingernails grow about 1 nanometer per...
2018-11-12 - You may know him from Peanuts as the German flying ace who always got the best of Snoopy. Perhaps you’ve seen him portrayed as an almost supernaturally skilled war pilot in movies and games reenacting the sky battles of World War I. Some 100 years after his bright-red triplane was...
2018-11-07 - Chad Rienstra, a chemistry professor at Illinois since 2002, was named the John Witt Professor of Chemistry in a ceremony lauding his work in research and teaching. Rienstra’s research into producing high-resolution structures of...
2018-11-01 - What do Asian American literature, the politics of hip hop, Latina and Latino families, and Mexican –American history have in common? They are just a few subjects among many spring in the College of LAS that will fulfill a new general education requirement at the University of...
2018-10-31 - Cassandra Osei and Billy Keniston, doctoral students in the Department of History at of Illinois, each applied for the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship knowing that the chances they would win the competitive fellowship were...
2018-10-31 - University of Illinois entomology professor and department head May Berenbaum, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and longtime editorial contributor to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and other journals, has been...
2018-10-29 - The outcome of the 2016 presidential contest was a big surprise to many, if not most, pollsters and pundits. With a much-anticipated midterm just a week away, what should we expect from polls and what assumptions should we question? Illinois ...
2018-10-25 - From one point of view, owning a trailer and renting a site in a mobile home park has the potential to be a place of opportunity and upward social mobility for low income families seeking to someday own a conventional home. A book by an LAS alumna and retired Illinois professor,...
2018-10-24 - David Franklin has been interested in film for as long as he can remember. Franklin recalls spending most of his time at college watching films for class and writing movie reviews on his own time for The Daily Illini.After graduating from Illinois, Franklin (BA, ’92, humanities) went on to film...