2025-08-29
- English and African American studies professor Irvin Hunt thought twice before he answered a phone call from an unknown caller, but little did he know that it was about to change everything. It came from film...
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2025-08-27 - It’s not easy for students to stay on campus during the summer to do research, but it can also be a prime opportunity for them to develop their interests. The 2025 Student Research Showcase, hosted in August by the Department of Chemistry,...
2025-08-21 - In a new study, scientists used nearly every tool in their toolkit — genomics, transcriptomics, greenhouse experiments and advanced statistical methods — to gain new insight into the complex chemical interactions that take place in underground root nodules, where legumes like soybeans...
2025-08-21 - Professor Stephanie Hilger is looking at how 18th century European medical doctors shaped perceptions of “hermaphrodites”—people who were deemed to have non-normative sexual genitalia—through case histories. Hilger’s new book, “...
2025-08-19 - Alumna Stacy Lynn (PhD, history, ’07) has spent nearly 30 years studying Abraham Lincoln and shares the story of the women who helped shape the 16th president into the person we know from history.“...
2025-08-19 - When history graduate student Daniel Rodriguez applied for the Summer Bridge Program, created by the ...
2025-08-12 - With a new five-year, $15 million award, the U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed its support of the Molecule Maker Lab Institute, a research collaboration focused on developing artificial intelligence tools for quick, accessible discovery and...
2025-08-07 - A group of students with a shared passion for neuroscience are writing about it for the greater good—and they’re getting noticed.Brain Matters is a student-run neuroscience journal created in 2018 by student Thomas...
2025-08-07 - “Kids need this project now more than ever,” said history graduate student Alex Jacobs as she reflected on her summer working with a Champaign group that is developing a new private middle school for boys.Jacobs studies queer history and the British...
2025-07-25 - The number of police-involved lethal force incidents in the U.S. dropped 24% from 2021 to 2023, according to research from the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The Cline Center’s...
2025-07-24 - Benign and cancerous calcium phosphate deposits that may look identical on a mammogram have distinct differences in their structures and formation processes, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Texas at Austin...
2025-07-23 - For researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a new avenue for reducing carbon emissions can be found on the side.A side of salad dressing, that is.In 2020, the United States federal government committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. An important...
2025-07-23 - Aaron Ammons clearly remembers the first time he saw discriminatory property covenants in Champaign County. For certain neighborhoods, the detailed, legally binding documents that governed everything from building materials to curb cuts also included this: No non-Caucasians could live there....
2025-07-22 - Inspired by their own recent chemical discoveries for solar energy development using machine learning, a research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was curious what other data-driven chemical discoveries could be possible if they could access a broader machine learning...
2025-07-15 - The Actuarial Sciences and Risk Management Program (ASRM) recently honored scholarship winners, supporters, and scholarships that help students complete their degrees.Ten students received the State Farm Actuarial Science Scholarship. Eight students...
2025-07-11 - Three recent College of LAS recent graduates were offered Fulbright grants to pursue international education, research and teaching experiences around the globe this coming year.They accepted grants from the Fulbright...
2025-07-10 - It began with a problem of scale.Modern telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, set to begin operations in October 2025, are poised to revolutionize astronomy by capturing unprecedented volumes of data—millions of time-variable astrophysical events across the sky each night. But with...
2025-07-10 - University of Illinois researchers have successfully treated a common type of colorectal cancer tumor with a cholesterol inhibitor drug, demonstrating a promising treatment for the disease in animal experiments.The study,...
2025-07-10 - By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance of two important industrial enzymes — and created a user-friendly, fast process to improve many more.Led by...
2025-07-09 - Flightpath Biosciences, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of precision therapeutics targeting bacterial pathogens, has licensed a class of antibiotics developed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The original antibiotic agent, lolamicin,...- 2025-06-27 - Angelina Correa became a believer in peer court in high school when she served as a juror in the justice program meant to give juvenile criminal offenders a second chance at reform. When Correa, a rising sophomore double majoring in political science...
- 2025-06-27 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students recreated some of the historical mathematical models owned by the U of I math department using a 3D printer.The Illinois math department has nearly 400...
- 2025-06-27 - Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered important new clues in the mystery of how an ancient enzyme can turn atmospheric carbon into biomolecules, a natural process that could be helpful in developing new methods for converting greenhouse gases like carbon...
- 2025-06-27 - Black women’s beauty and fashion are complex, meaningful acts, deliberate strategies for engaging with the world that make bold statements about identity, political resistance, and empowerment, Black women said in a recent study.Researcher Brittney Miles, a...
- 2025-06-27 - Most people who separate their plastic waste for recycling assume the bulk of it will in fact be recycled. But current recycling methods, which “require sorting, grinding, cleaning, remelting and extrusion to obtain plastic pellets, usually lead to lower value materials because of...