2018-05-11
- Mara Wade, a University of Illinois professor of Germanic languages and literatures, has been awarded a Getty Residential Scholar Grant. The scholarship allows Wade to spend the...
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2018-05-10 - Through almost 19 years of research at Illinois, Silvina Montrul, professor of Spanish and Portuguese and linguistics, and an affiliate at the Beckman Institute for...
2018-05-08 - Jeffrey Moore, a Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair, professor of chemistry, and director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, has been named the 2018 recipient of the Stephanie L. Kwolek Award for exceptional contributions to...
2018-05-07 - A brain-imaging study offers new support for the idea that infants can accurately track other people’s beliefs. When 7-month-old infants in the study viewed videos of an actor who saw – or failed to see – an object being moved to a new location, activity in a brain region known to play a role in...
2018-05-03 - Mark E. Hauber, a professor of animal biology, has been named the Harley Jones Van Cleave Professor in the School of Integrative Biology. The endowed position is named for the late...
2018-05-02 - Concern over the potential imminent eruptions of Earth’s supervolcanoes, like Taupo in New Zealand or Yellowstone in the United States, may be quelled by the results of a new study suggesting that geological signs pointing to a catastrophic eruption would be clear far in advance...
2018-05-01 - Scott E. Denmark, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest professional honors a scientist can receive. Denmark is one...
2018-04-30 - Two alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have received the 2018 Chicago Illini of the Year Award. Elizabeth Pieroth, (BS, ’88, psychology) and Steven Thayer (BA, ’88, ...
2018-04-27 - Ten students in the College of LAS were recently named recipients of the 2018 Beckman Institute student awards. The awards, which are presented to undergraduate and graduate students, were presented to students in a recent reception and will allow them to pursue a variety of research opportunities....
2018-04-25 - Marisa Cullnan, an intern for LAS 101, a course dedicated to acclimating first-year students to campus life, recalls one particular student in the seminar course who was particularly quiet. The student was having trouble actively participating in conversations and activities intended to help...
2018-04-24 - A professor of Latina/Latino studies and media and cinema studies has been appointed as the first faculty director for diversity and inclusion in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Isabel Molina-Guzmán will begin the new...
2018-04-24 - A new study of trial court judges suggests these arbiters of the law sometimes let their personal ideas about gender roles influence their decision-making. The findings, which are part of a broader study of judicial behavior, revealed that the judges were just as likely as...
2018-04-18 - Professor Kenneth Suslick has been named a recipient of this year’s American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Chemical Pioneer Award for his research at the University of Illinois. Suslick is the Marvin T. Schmidt Research Professor of ...
2018-04-18 - Four College of LAS students have earned national recognition for their potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences, mathematics or engineering. Sophomore Alayna Johnson was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for the 2018-19 and 2019-2020 academic years,...
2018-04-13 - Chi-Hing Christina Cheng and her husband, Arthur DeVries, know something about the hardships of researching. After all, they study Antarctic fish. There are other complicating factors to research than just the weather, however, and that’s why Cheng, professor of...
2018-04-12 - Fifteen students in the College of LAS’ Lincoln Scholars Initiative will be graduating this May, making them the third—and largest—class of LAS students who have earned a degree with support from the scholarship program. A 16th...
2018-04-06 - R. Marie Griffith, the director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, will talk about political and religious disagreements surrounding sex when she delivers the annual...
2018-04-05 - University of Illinois professor of geography Jesse Ribot has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Ribot is...
2018-04-04 - The University of Illinois is reaffirming the significance of the arts and humanities by launching a new graduate fellowship program intended to attract the best and brightest students in these fields. The College of LAS is collaborating with the College of Fine and Applied Arts...
2018-04-03 - A new student leadership event aimed at training LAS student leaders was such a success that the college plans for more in the future.Murillo Soranso, the director of first year experiences in the Student Academic Affairs Office in the College of LAS, said about 180 students attended the Strengths...
2018-04-02 - The Commerce Department has announced that the 2020 U.S. census will include a question on citizenship, which has raised numerous objections. Julie Dowling is a U of I Latina/Latino studies professor who wrote about how people respond to...
2018-03-28 - Choline intake during pregnancy can influence infant metabolism and brain development, according to a series of studies from the University of Illinois. Although the role of choline in neurodevelopment has been studied before in rodents, the new research, done with pigs, has more...
2018-03-22 - An alumnus from the University of Illinois has been named the next governor of China’s central bank, where he is expected to continue ambitious reforms to control China’s debt while maintaining the country’s economic growth. The National People’s Congress voted this week to approve Yi Gang (MS, ’...
2018-03-22 - Researchers say they can now produce a vast library of unique cyclic compounds, some with the capacity to interrupt specific protein-protein interactions that play a role in disease. The new compounds have cyclic structures that give them stability and enhance their ability to...
2018-03-20 - By peering at the brains of study subjects prompted to suppress negative emotions, scientists have gained new insights into how emotional regulation influences negative feelings and memories. The researchers hope the findings will lead to new methods to combat depression. The...