2018-09-14
- The National Academy of Engineering (NAE)’s 2019 nominating committee has recommended Illinois and LAS alumnus John L. Anderson to stand as the sole candidate for the NAE presidency. Academy members will vote in March 2019 to elect a new NAE president to a six-...
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2018-09-13 - Charee Thompson’s research can delve into some sensitive topics. For example, the assistant professor of communication recently studied how people doubted a family member’s illness, particularly in cases of illnesses that are hard to trace and...
2018-09-13 - A geologist, a microscopist and a doctor walk into a lab and, with their colleagues from across the nation, make a discovery that overturns centuries of thought about the nature and composition of kidney stones. The team’s key insight, reported in the journal Scientific Reports, is that kidney...
2018-09-11 - Just two days before Marianne Kalinke was supposed to attend the International Saga Conference in Iceland, the professor emerita received a phone call from Guðrún Nordal, director of the Árni Magnússon Institute — the manuscript institute at the University of Iceland.Nordal was calling to tell...
2018-09-05 - That winky-face emoji that you use at the end of a text isn’t just a fun picture added to your sentence. It can convey linguistic meaning that changes the interpretation of the sentence, a new study finds. University of Illinois researchers studied the brain wave patterns of...
2018-09-01 - “What think you of books?” Mr. Darcy asks Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s immortal novel, “Pride and Prejudice.”“Books—Oh! no.—I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings,” answers Elizabeth.Today, more than 200 years since “Pride and Prejudice” was published, the digital...
2018-09-01 - For most of history, the 70 percent of our planet’s surface that hides below the ocean surface have been a mystery, too deep for humans to observe and understand. A century ago scientists knew more about the surface of the Moon than the bottom of the ocean. Modern science has...
2018-08-31 - College of LAS alumna Candace Penn Frame (BS, ’72, geography) always assumed she would go into teaching. The central Illinois native even went on to get her teaching certificate from Illinois State University following her bachelor’s...
2018-08-30 - Plans for a new statewide innovation network to accelerate job creation and economic growth include building a world-class center devoted to the fast-growing field of data science, U of I System officials announced yesterday. The data science center will be created by razing and...
2018-08-29 - Seventeen faculty members have taken new leadership positions in departments and other academic units across the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences this fall semester. Leadership changes among the more than 60 academic units that make up the college are a normal and healthy...
2018-08-27 - A new financial-aid program aims to make attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign more affordable for qualifying families in the state of Illinois.Illinois Commitment will provide financial awards to cover the tuition and...
2018-08-22 - Natural selection—that merciless weeder-outer of biological designs that are out of step with the times—also is a wily shaper of traits. Exhibit A is the pointy murre egg, according to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Common murres and...
2018-08-20 - During her undergraduate days at Illinois, Meirav Malter had a common problem faced by curious people: She wanted to study pretty much everything. That’s how she wound up double majoring in global studies and Jewish studies with a minor in history—including courses on Hebrew,...
2018-08-17 - It was an event that seemed to encapsulate the tumult of the 1960s. Police clashed violently with anti-war protesters in Chicago’s streets. Party factions waged political battle within the hall. What was happening in the 1968 Democratic Convention 50 years ago, and why?...
2018-08-13 - Latinos are still a rarity on American television, especially in proportion to their population. That makes the study of Latino characters and how they’re represented even more important, said Isabel Molina-Guzmán, a professor of media and cinema studies and of...
2018-08-10 - The effects of global climate change taking place in the Arctic may influence weather much closer to home for millions of Americans, researchers report.The United States has experienced many changes in severe-weather behavior over the past decade, including fewer tornado touchdowns than in the past...
2018-08-09 - Scholars from across the world came to Illinois for the Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute to delve deeper into the implications and discoveries from their studies of human-animal relations. This is the second year the university hosted the week-long institute, which is a...
2018-08-08 - On a typical day, you can find Sampson hard at work alongside researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Instead of taking samples and calculating results, however, Sampson is ever watchful of Joey Ramp, a senior molecular and cellular biology major...
2018-08-07 - Each day as she enters her office, the lessons that Pamela Greer learned from Robert Copeland come to mind as she sits in his old chair and waters the plant he left behind when he retired in 2001. In 1989, Copeland took a chance on Greer (BA, '89, speech communication) when she...
2018-08-06 - After a primary tumor is treated, cancer stem cells may still lurk in the body, ready to metastasize and cause a recurrence of the cancer in a form that’s more aggressive and resistant to treatment. University of Illinois researchers have developed a molecular probe that seeks out...
2018-08-03 - As a rising businesswoman in the 1970s and 1980s, Evelyn Ebbert (BS, ’63, science and letters) advocated tirelessly for other women as they worked their way up the ranks in the corporate world. Now, her nephew, John Ebbert, has set up a scholarship through the College of LAS to...
2018-08-02 - Seismic waves are helping researchers uncover the mysterious subsurface history of the Tibetan Plateau, possibly lending insight to future earthquake activity in the region. The specifics of the deep geologic processes that occurred roughly 50 million years ago, when the Indian...
2018-08-01 - A College of LAS alumnus has been selected to direct the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). If his appointment is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he will serve as President Donald Trump’s top science adviser. The selection of Kelvin Droegemeier (MS, ’82; PhD, ’85;...
2018-07-30 - As online programs allow for almost limitless connection across the world, the University of Illinois recently served as host to an international conference that discussed the future of learning language. The annual Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium 2018 Conference (CALICO) took...
2018-07-27 - Even several years after retiring from the University of Illinois, Elaine Johnson Copeland continues to help students. Copeland, an associate professor emerita of counseling psychology at Illinois, spent much of her time in Champaign-Urbana trying to recruit underrepresented students and help...