2018-11-26
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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...
LAS News Archive
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 - 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...
2018-11-15 - 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...
2018-11-13 - 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 - 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...
2018-10-31 - 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...
2018-10-29 - 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...
2018-10-23 - Atmospheric scientists at Illinois are headed to Argentina this November to lead an international team of researchers in a $30 million field campaign to research the most intense thunderstorms in the world. As springtime rolls into Pampas, a vast plains region spreading from the...
2018-10-22 - Six professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named Conrad Humanities Scholars. They are taking advantage of the new designation to pursue a variety of projects, from studying second language acquisition and black girlhood to researching immigration...
2018-10-18 - A chemistry professor and a mathematics alumnus from the University of Illinois have received highly touted Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering for 2018. Renske van der Veen, a...
2018-10-15 - Genna Roth, a high school sophomore, dreams of following the career path of her favorite director, Wes Anderson, and weaving together math and art to create films. Two thousand miles away from the sound stages and shooting scripts in Hollywood, however, she...
2018-10-15 - Entomology professor Gene Robinson, an international leader in honey bee research, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine “for pioneering contributions to understanding the roles of genes in social behavior.” Robinson directs the...
2018-10-12 - Organizers of the ACES + LAS Career Fair at Illinois, held earlier this month, wanted to try something new: An LAS career fair devoted to connecting students in the liberal arts and sciences with potential employers. The result? It brought together more LAS students and companies than any other...
2018-10-10 - What was Brad Evans, aka “The Big Noise” on Yahoo! Sports, doing prior to becoming a must-read analyst for fantasy football and college basketball fans? He was a history teacher in Champaign, Illinois. Read...
2018-10-08 - It was Valentine’s Day, 2005, and for the first time since she could remember, Sarah was safe. Sarah had taken her two young boys and fled an abusive relationship, becoming one of the first people to find shelter in a new WINGS safe house in the Chicago suburb of Rolling Meadows...
2018-10-08 - John Witt credits his passion for the University of Illinois to both the Big Four and the Big Ten. In 1957, Witt (PhD, ’61, chemistry) was trying to decide where to pursue his PhD studies, and his academic adviser recommended three...
2018-10-08 - Richard Clarida was strolling across the University of Illinois campus in the winter of 1979, his senior year, when he suddenly heard a song he wrote, wafting through the open window of an apartment building. He was also thrilled to hear his song being played at a keg party,...