LAS News Archive

2017-08-18 -     Three students and an alumna from the College of LAS have been recognized as among the most valuable and influential interns in 2017 at U of I’s Research Park. Almost 600 interns work for Research Park tenant companies. Approved by the Board of Trustees in 1999, the Research Park...

2017-08-17 -     Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a mechanism that allows bacteria of the same species to communicate when their survival is threatened. The study suggests that it may be possible to slow dangerous infections by manipulating the messages these microbes send...

2017-08-16 -     When it comes to teaching language, Silvina Montrul has a motto: Why wait? Montrul, founder and director of the University Language Academy at Illinois, said she encourages parents to expose their children to a second...

2017-08-10 -     Editor’s note: This is a blog entry that appeared on Behind the Scenes, a project to document details of research conducted at Illinois. This particular research is conducted...

2017-08-09 -     Researchers from engineering and entomology are looking to insects – specifically cicadas – for insight into the design of artificial surfaces with de-icing, self-cleaning, and anti-fogging abilities.  Their wings allow...

2017-08-08 - New measurements from data processed at the University of Illinois verify the theory that 26 percent of the universe is in the form of mysterious dark matter and that space is filled with an also-unseen dark energy, which is causing the accelerating expansion of the universe and makes up 70 percent...

2017-08-07 -     It only took Daissy Dominguez one year after completing law school to open up her own law firm. Now, the growing Dominguez Legal Justice Center in Chicago remains dedicated to handling immigration and landlord/tenant cases. Dominguez is highly active in her...

2017-08-04 -     States have spent millions to develop high-tech industry, with its promise of good jobs and economic growth. But does the public investment pay off? A national study of such investments in the 1980s and 1990s suggests it does – including in places where prospects for high-tech...

2017-08-03 -     In the world of health care, the phrase “too much information”—or TMI—can be a serious problem. If you Google “How to prevent cancer,” for example, you will find list after list of websites claiming to have the winning strategy, with some plans presenting 20-30 steps. The same...

2017-08-02 -     The restoration work on the historic Altgeld Chimes at Illinois is progressing rapidly, said Matthew Tomaszewski, the associate provost for capital planning. He’s leading a diverse team of Facilities and Services engineers, carpenters, movers, upholsterers, painters and others who...

2017-08-01 -     Rap music has often been associated with a variety of unsavory habits, such as substance abuse, misogyny, and violence. However, a study co-authored by a communication professor at LAS suggests that this stereotype is largely...

2017-08-01 -     Honey bees that consistently fail to respond to obvious social cues share something fundamental with autistic humans, researchers report in a new study. Genes most closely associated with autism spectrum disorders in humans are regulated differently in unresponsive honey bees than...

2017-07-28 -     Geoscientists have long puzzled over the mechanism that created the Tibetan Plateau. A new study finds that the landform’s history may be controlled primarily by the strength of the tectonic plates whose collision prompted its uplift. Given that the region is one of the most...

2017-07-27 - Six teams, including three from the College of LAS, have been awarded David Dodds Henry Lectureship Funds in support of the culminating research event of the University of Illinois’ Sesquicentennial...

2017-07-26 - The National Science Foundation recently granted the University of Illinois $3 million for an interdisciplinary graduate student training program to help form new insight on the brain—and to expand participation in the field of brain science itself.Sixty graduate students from across campus will...

2017-07-25 -     In the summer of 2012, two undergraduate students tackled a problem that plant ecology experts overlooked for 30 years. The students demonstrated that different plant species vary in how they take in carbon dioxide and emit water through stomata, the pores in their leaves. The...

2017-07-24 - The Natural History Building is an iconic sight on the University of Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign campus. Built in 1892, the High Victorian Gothic saw 18 University presidents, 24 chancellors, and thousands of students from more than a century of graduating classes. And, with its recent...

2017-07-20 -     The United States Department of Agriculture recently granted two University researchers $475,000 each to help figure out why the number of insect pollinators continues to drop. For the next three years, May Berenbaum, professor and head of the Department of...

2017-07-18 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is doubling down on energy research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, funding a multimillion-dollar Bioenergy Research Center to provide scientific breakthroughs for a new generation of sustainable, cost-effective biofuels and bioproducts.The DOE...

2017-07-14 - The Center for Advanced Study has appointed seven new members to its permanent faculty – one of the highest forms of academic recognition the University of Illinois campus makes for outstanding scholarship. Six of the seven appointments come from the College...

2017-07-12 -     In an online survey about their workplace experiences, 88 percent of academics, students, postdoctoral researchers, and administrators in astronomy and planetary science reported hearing, experiencing or witnessing negative language or harassment relating to race, gender, or other...

2017-07-11 - Ying Diao, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois, has been chosen to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s 23rd annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.The academy...

2017-07-10 - Two high schoolers from Costa Mesa, California and Waukegan, Illinois gathered on the University of Illinois campus to get married this June — but only as a fun, learning experience, of course. The mock wedding was one of the many activities that nine high school students from across the country...

2017-07-06 -     Westerners view handshaking more positively than do East Asians, researchers report in a new study. Western men also rate handshakes initiated by men and women differently, the study found. The research is reported in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.     ...

2017-07-05 - The University of Illinois is hosting a Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute that one of its organizers hopes will put Illinois at the forefront of the...