2017-05-09
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Jeffrey Moore, the Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry, a professor of materials science and engineering, and a long-time Beckman faculty member, has been named director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, pending Board of Trustees approval.
“Jeff’s...
2017-05-08 - Thirteen students in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences were recently named recipients of the 2017 Beckman Institute student awards.LAS students studying a wide-range of topics including psychology and chemical and biomolecular engineering have been granted prestigious honors including the Janssen...
2017-05-05 - A multitude of options for students, diversity, cross-campus collaboration, and overall performance has earned the Department of Mathematics the 2017 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department.Home for 1,200 undergraduate majors, the department awards nearly 2 percent of the PhD degrees...
2017-05-05 - Karol Sokolowski was a junior at the University of Illinois studying molecular and cellular biology and chemistry when unexpected financial difficulties threatened to disrupt his studies. He needed help—and that’s when he received some life-changing news. At the time, Sokolowski was...
2017-05-04 - The Carle Illinois College of Medicine has announced nearly 100 inaugural faculty members. The list includes prominent researchers, administrators and medical professionals with a broad range of expertise invaluable to building the world’s first engineering-based college of medicine.Fifteen of the inaugural faculty members come from departments in the...
2017-05-03 - Four University of Illinois professors have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest professional honors a scientist can receive.John Cronan, Jeffrey Moore, Donald Ort, and Gary Parker are among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates announced by the Academy on May 2. The professors each come from departments within the...
2017-05-01 - A new study in mice reveals how a protein called Brd4 boosts the inflammatory response – for better and for worse, depending on the ailment. The study is the first to show that this protein, while problematic in some circumstances, also can protect the body from infection. The findings are reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The heat, swelling,...
2017-04-27 - Scott E. Denmark, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Denmark is one of 228 new members, including national and international scholars, artists, philanthropists and business leaders. The newly elected members...
2017-04-26 - Thomas Dowling, a junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was awarded a $30,000 Truman Scholarship. Dowling was one of 62 Truman Scholars selected from a pool of 768 nominees from colleges and universities across the country.Dowling, from Chicago and a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep, was selected by the Truman Foundation based on his leadership ability, potential for...
2017-04-25 - Emad Tajkhorshid, a faculty member in the College of LAS and a world leader in developing and applying advanced computational techniques to understand proteins, has been named the J. Woodland Hastings Endowed Chair in Biochemistry. An investiture is one of the highest honors that a faculty member can receive. ...
2017-04-21 - Faculty, advisors, teaching assistants, and teaching interns in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been recognized for excellence in educating and advising students at Illinois.Each year, the college selects outstanding educators for awards in several categories. The nomination process begins early in the year, and a committee recommends recipients to the dean of the college....
2017-04-20 - Twelve U of I students took advantage of spring break to visit Washington, D.C., for a week of site visits and career-building and networking events with professionals – many of whom were Illini alumni.The trip, organized by LAS career development specialist Melissa Schoeplein, was part of a class centered around this trip. Schoeplein began organizing the new course, called LAS 199: Exploring...
2017-04-19 - Once hailed as a model for Islamic democracy, Turkey plays a key role in both the Syrian refugee crisis and the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State. On April 16, however, Turkish voters appear to have approved sweeping constitutional changes that many opponents and observers see as another big step in a years-long march toward authoritarianism under President Recep Tayyip...
2017-04-18 - For hundreds of years, the cold and wide Slims River, at some points 150 meters across, has carried meltwater northward from the Kaskawulsh glacier in Canada’s Yukon Territory to join Alaska’s Yukon River, where it would snake toward the Bering Sea. Jim Best recalls the strange and dusty day when he discovered the Slims River had virtually disappeared. The top of the Slims...
2017-04-17 - University of Illinois professor Erik S. McDuffie is the recipient of a 2017 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. McDuffie, a professor of African American studies and of history, is one of only 71 fellows chosen from nearly 1,200 applicants, according to an...
2017-04-13 - Thirty graduating seniors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been selected to the Senior 100 Honorary for their notable achievements.LAS students from 17 majors, ranging from molecular and cellular biology to psychology, philosophy, history, gender and women’s studies, and more, are among 100 seniors selected from across campus for the honor. Senior 100, which is sponsored by...
2017-04-12 - 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.Eduardo Ledesma, Spanish and Portuguese; Hong Jin, biochemistry; David Sarlah,...
2017-04-12 - University of Illinois professor of religion Jonathan Ebel has been awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Ebel is one of 173 scholars, artists and scientists named as 2017 Guggenheim Fellows. They were chosen from...
2017-04-11 - Many moviegoers were touched deeply by “American Beauty,” the 1999 Academy Award-winning drama about the midlife crisis of a frustrated 40-something dad named Lester Burnham. For Ryan Suffern (BA, ’99, English), now head of the documentary division at The Kennedy/Marshall Company in Santa Monica, California, the film was life-changing. As the end...
2017-04-07 - A study of the DNA in ancient skeletal remains adds to the evidence that indigenous groups living today in southern Alaska and the western coast of British Columbia are descendants of the first humans to make their home in northwest North America more than 10,000 years ago. “Our analysis suggests that this is the same population living in this part of the world over time, so we...
2017-04-06 - Two LAS students have been honored in U of I's annual Image of Research competition, in which graduate students pair powerful images with compelling descriptions of research. Out of a pool of 20 finalists, Chris Seward, a graduate student in...
2017-04-04 - During a recent evening, professors, staff members, and students gathered to take part in a new school tradition: They got up on their soapboxes before a lively crowd and debated on the books that had most changed the world. A panel of judges then determined the winner from a field of entries ranging from Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto” to Virgil’s “The Aeneid” and the...
2017-04-03 - Twelve students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been offered Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. An additional 12 students from the college were accorded honorable mention. In all, 22 students from Illinois received the fellowships. Forty received honorable mention. Created in 1952, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program...
2017-03-31 - Call it a case of history students determined to prevent history from repeating itself. Members of HIST 172/173 at Illinois, influenced by a class section on the Great Depression, recently organized a food drive that generated more than 300 lbs. of food to fight hunger in local areas.It started as Leslie Reagan, professor of history, taught students...
2017-03-30 - Instead of turning carbon into food, many plants accidentally make a plant-toxic compound during photosynthesis that is recycled through a process called photorespiration. University of Illinois and USDA/ARS researchers report in Plant Cell the discovery of a key protein in this process, which they hope to manipulate to increase plant productivity. "Photorespiration is...