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...
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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 - 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...
2018-03-22 - 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, ’...
2018-03-20 - 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...
2018-03-19 - Agriculture already monopolizes 90 percent of global freshwater—yet production still needs to dramatically increase to feed and fuel this century’s growing population. Scientists at Illinois have for the first time improved how a crop uses water by 25 percent without compromising yield by altering...
2018-03-15 - Charlie Young sits about 30 feet behind home plate at a University of Illinois baseball preseason practice. He shares the space with a spindly piece of technology, known as a FlightScope, which gathers data about every pitch, swing of a bat, and batted ball and sends it to the...
2018-03-14 - What is justice? When is it achieved? And how is the study of philosophy affecting how we prepare for earthquakes? Meet Colleen Murphy, professor of philosophy, political science...
2018-03-13 - What’s one item you use every day that you couldn’t live without? Mascara, Nike sneakers, paper towels, or perhaps your daily Starbucks coffee? But what happens to these items once you toss them (or their containers) out? This is one question that...
2018-03-08 - New graduates from LAS are increasingly successful at securing a first destination after college, according to the third annual release of a campus initiative to better understand young Illinois alumni. They continue to be in strong demand by employers.These results are according to the...
2018-03-07 - Kathryn Clancy, professor of anthropology, has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives in a hearing devoted to sexual harassment and misconduct in the sciences. The...
2018-03-06 - An LAS professor has recently been awarded a position in a prestigious international academic society, and she’s considering how to expand the group’s membership as she prepares for leadership. Germanic languages and literatures...
2018-03-06 - Former Fighting Illini football player and Fulbright Scholar Stephen Steinhaus is opening a new high school in Solihull, England, this April. Once obsessed with becoming a lawyer like Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a long line of teachers in his family—...
2018-03-02 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded the University of Illinois a $10.6 million, five-year grant to transform two of the most productive crops in America into sustainable sources of biodiesel and biojet fuel. The new research project Renewable Oil Generated with Ultra-...
2018-03-01 - In an ironic twist of science, it took mutant plants, grown in total darkness, to shine a spotlight on how plants respond to sunlight.Joanne Chory (MS, ’80; PhD, ’84; microbiology) used her findings from mutants to trace the complete...
2018-03-01 - McCollum v. Board of Education, the landmark 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case which upheld the separation of church and state in public schools, didn’t originate with a fiery sermon or philosophical debate. It began at a small, wooden desk in a school hallway in Champaign, Illinois.That’s where public...
2018-03-01 - Scientists report in the journal eNeuro that they’ve built an artificially intelligent ocean predator that behaves a lot like the original flesh-and-blood organism on which it was modeled. The virtual creature, “Cyberslug,” reacts to food and responds to members of its own kind...
2018-03-01 - Beautiful art. Monolithic buildings. Microscopic machines. Since humankind first picked up tools, design has been used to create the physical objects that shape our world. But what if the same approaches that enable us to design the physical world could be used to engineer a better life?This past...
2018-02-28 - The number of women writing works of fiction dropped dramatically from the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, and the prominence of female characters in works of fiction declined as well. At the same time, however, the gender differences between male and female...
2018-02-27 - Encircling Antarctica, the Southern Ocean is a strange and beautiful place. Full of penguins, icebergs, giant squids, and beset by intense storms, even its clouds are brighter—really. It helps explain why Bob Rauber and Sonia Lasher-Trapp, professors of...