2018-02-06
- Slavery and racism played their roles in planting beliefs about race and racial difference, but so did medicine, says the author of a new book.
Many physicians in pre-Civil War America and the West Indies developed ideas that black bodies were different in basic ways: naturally immune to some...
LAS News Archive
2018-02-05 - Dmytro Shtohryn may have retired as a professor at Illinois in 1995, but his commitment to the university and the field of Ukrainian studies remains as vibrant and meaningful as the Ukrainian paintings hanging on the walls of his home. Shtohryn, 94, and his wife, Eustachia, still...
2018-01-31 - Three College of LAS faculty members have been named University Scholars, a program that recognizes excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. The faculty members, among six on campus who...
2018-01-29 - The renovation of Altgeld Hall is coming closer to reality after a campus committee conditionally approved allocating $27 million in student funding to modernize and upgrade the iconic building.The Academic Facilities Maintenance Fund Assessment (AFMFA) Oversight Committee approved the amounts for...
2018-01-24 - Six staff and academic professionals are being recognized for their particularly noteworthy efforts in advancing the mission of the College of LAS in 2017-18.Anu Murphy, Alejandra Stenger, and Beth Watkins have been selected by an awards committee to receive the LAS Academic Professional Award. The...
2018-01-23 - Four University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been selected for endowed chairs deemed to be among the most distinguished honors on the campus.Stephen P. Long, a professor of plant biology and crop...
2018-01-18 - Seasonal flu viruses continually undergo mutations that help them evade the human immune system, but some of these mutations can reduce a virus’s potency. According to new research at Illinois, certain mutations in the genome of influenza A may help counteract the weakening...
2018-01-12 - The nature of what counts as the historical record, and how it is made, is rapidly changing. Through social media and other methods, people are quickly becoming accustomed to digitizing and sharing the events of their lives at a furious pace—and relying upon the Internet as a kind...
2018-01-11 - When given the choice, honey bee foragers prefer to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone, researchers report in the journal Scientific Reports. The puzzling finding comes on the heels of other studies linking fungicides to declines in...
2018-01-11 - The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is recognizing Bruce Rhoads, professor of geography and geographic information science, for his outstanding contributions to geographic research and education with an honorary, lifetime designation as an...
2018-01-10 - Several outstanding professors in the College of LAS have been selected by their peers to receive named professorial positions, which provide financial assistance to support their research and teaching duties. The positions were created through gifts to the college. For example,...
2018-01-10 - Ying Diao arrived at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as a faculty member in 2015, and already the professor and Dow Chemical Company Faculty Scholar has generated widespread interest in her research...
2018-01-09 - What’s more intense than playing in a Big 10 football game, landing cleanly after spinning 10 feet in the air, or pinning a trained wrestler to the floor? How about doing all that while also earning a college degree? With rigorous practice sessions and regular competitions, student-athletes at...
2018-01-04 - In celebration of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s sesquicentennial, the Big Ten Network and the University of Illinois tell the stories of three men who left enduring marks on the campus. Max Abramovitz created spaces for the campus to come together. Robert Zuppke changed football...
2018-01-03 - Kevin Leicht, who heads the sociology department at Illinois, has focused his research on issues of economic development, inequality and class. He is a co-author of the 2014 book...
2017-12-21 - Four assistant professors have been recognized for outstanding teaching and research as part of an ongoing program to spotlight and support promising junior faculty in the College of LAS.Eric Calderwood, comparative and world literature; Jenny Davis,...
2017-12-21 - Aron K. Barbey, professor of psychology, neuroscience, and bioengineering, is director of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, leader of the Intelligence, Learning,...
2017-12-19 - Recent stories in the national media are magnifying fears of a catastrophic eruption of the Yellowstone volcanic area, but scientists remain uncertain about the likelihood of such an event. To better understand the region’s subsurface geology, University of Illinois geologists...
2017-12-15 - Ever since he was an undergraduate in sociology with the Student Patrol, Jeff Christensen has worked to protect the Illinois campus from crime and other hazards. As a police officer who rose through the ranks to...
2017-12-14 - Two faculty members in the College of LAS, and one faculty member in information science at Illinois with a degree from LAS, have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for 2018. They are among six chosen on campus, making this the third...
2017-12-11 - Joanne Chory (MS, ’80, PhD, ’84, microbiology), who graduated from Illinois to eventually become one of the world’s preeminent plant biologists, has been awarded a 2018 Breakthrough Prize for her pioneering work deciphering how plants...
2017-12-08 - In 1915, Illinois sports were practically unbeatable. The university’s baseball, football, basketball, and track teams all won Big Ten championships. The mood on campus must have been a far cry from 1918, however, when nearly every building on campus—including some Greek houses and university...
2017-12-06 - Astronomers have discovered surprising examples of massive, star-filled galaxies seen when the cosmos was less than a billion years old which challenge assumptions about how the universe formed. Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile,...
2017-12-05 - What can you do with a degree in mathematics? Count a career at one of the world's most successful tech companies among the possibilities, as at least six College of LAS mathematics alumni are currently employed in everything from modeling advertising to...