2018-02-26
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A new study links doing one’s homework, being interested and behaving responsibly in high school to better academic and career success as many as 50 years later. This effect, reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, holds true even after accounting for...
LAS News Archive
2018-02-23 - In fairy tales, step-mothers are often painted as wicked and mean—but for Paula Carter (BA, ’01, English and rhetoric), both the joys and sorrows of being an “almost mother” were the inspiration for her new book, “No Relation.”The book, an essay...
2018-02-20 - Tipping has become a prominent part of food service culture since it was introduced in the 19th century. That’s not to say it goes without debate—and a mathematics researcher has found that there is a point where restaurants would be better...
2018-02-19 - Leah Matchett, of Grand Haven, Michigan, and an alumna of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of 49 students selected in the first year of the Knight-Hennessy Scholar program for postgraduate study at Stanford University. Matchett (BA, '16,...
2018-02-16 - A College of LAS scientist is among 126 recipients of the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. According to the foundation, the awards “honor early career scholars whose achievements mark them as among the very best scientific minds working today.” Winners receive a...
2018-02-15 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois International Programs has recognized an alumnus, a graduate student, and an undergraduate student from the College of LAS with International Achievement Awards.Jinwoo Cheon, (PhD, chemistry...
2018-02-14 - The 35th Insect Fear Film Festival will focus on a creature that is important for humans to understand but that is not actually an insect at all.Ticks are arachnids, a class of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions and ticks’ closest...
2018-02-12 - People today might think twice about going to a doctor or dentist who advertised by hanging a bloody rag outside their office door. But the concept wasn’t exactly cause for alarm a couple hundred years ago, according to Stephanie Hilger, head of the Department of...
2018-02-12 - Gene Robinson, a professor of entomology and director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), has been awarded the 2018 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for “leading the genomics revolution...
2018-02-08 - Professors, teaching assistants, and an advisor are being recognized by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for excellence in educating and mentoring students at Illinois. A formal ceremony in honor of the winners will take place April 18.The LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate...
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...
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 - 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...
2018-01-11 - 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...
2018-01-10 - 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...