2025-10-06
- More than 40 tenure track professors are launching new careers this fall at the College of LAS, in fields from communication to astronomy and history, chemistry, economics, political science, linguistics, and many more. We caught up with a few of them to help capture the new angles of teaching and...
LAS News Archive
2025-09-26 - Scientists, government officials and participants from around the world gathered on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for the grand opening of the National Science Foundation’s Illinois BioFoundry, or iBioFoundry, and the...
2025-09-22 - One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers detail their development of a new model that — using a tree census and genomic data collected...
2025-09-18 - Cycles of deployment and reintegration can be stressful, disruptive times for military spouses and their families. Although the Department of Defense and its military communities offer a number of formal resources to help military spouses cope during these challenging periods, very few of...
2025-09-17 - Excessive alcohol consumption can disrupt the liver’s unique regenerative abilities by trapping cells in limbo between their functional and regenerative states, even after a patient stops drinking, researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at Duke University and...
2025-09-11 - Some urban nightclubs in Chicago may charge Black patrons more for drinks compared with white patrons or use other tactics to discourage their patronage, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Illinois ...
2025-09-10 - Antibodies are the critical targeting agents of the immune system and the crux of immune therapy and vaccine development, but studying them is slow, expensive, and labor-intensive. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new high-volume method that can...
2025-09-10 - President Donald Trump met recently with Russian president Vladimir Putin and with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an attempt to negotiate a settlement to the Russia-Ukraine war. The three leaders are all charismatic figures who know how to use their appeal to mobilize public...
2025-09-10 - Two professors in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named University Scholars in recognition of their achievements in teaching, scholarship and service.The program honors faculty excellence and provides $15,000 to each scholar for three years to enhance their academic...
2025-09-08 - Christian Hasler (BA, ’22, anthropology) had dreams of working abroad in an archaeological field. Egypt, maybe. Certainly international. Somewhere with a storied history. However, she found that her own home state has a rich history...
2025-09-04 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is launching an ambitious new Strategic Investment Program to accelerate innovation, elevate academic excellence, and modernize infrastructure across LAS.
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...
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...