LAS News Archive

2017-03-20 - Altgeld Tower, home to the carillon bells that delight campus regulars and visitors alike, is closed for repairs for an undetermined length of time. The chimes are limited to an automated quarter-hour timekeeping function.The work is an extension of a ...

2017-03-20 - It’s an intriguing success story at Illinois: At a time when many language programs are struggling to maintain enrollments, the Arabic studies minor at Illinois has been steadily growing since its launch in 2010. According to the Department of ...

2017-03-17 -     The University of Illinois Library has launched a digital publishing initiative, the Illinois Open Publishing Network, with its first work – a new English translation of a memoir of Claude Monet. “Claude Monet: The Water Lilies”...

2017-03-16 - Public policy is endlessly complex. One of the most enduring ideas of the late David Linowes, professor of political economy, public policy, and business administration at Illinois who understood policy-making better than virtually anyone else, was this: If it’s going to work, good policy is formed...

2017-03-14 -     An anthropology professor and two LAS alumnae have been named recipients of Illinois’ 2016 International Achievement Awards, in honor of their efforts to better the nation and the world. Professor Helaine Silverman, in U of I’s Department of...

2017-03-14 -     Faculty and graduate students at Illinois have been awarded “Paradigms Shifts” Fellowship Awards by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH). The program also announced the first ever New Horizons Summer Research...

2017-03-10 - A psychology alumna who has dedicated her career to ending domestic violence and homelessness has been named a 2017 Chicago Illini of the Year.Rebecca A. Darr (BS, ’90, psychology) has grown the Palatine, Illinois-based...

2017-03-09 - As hundreds of kids and their families learned recently, Altgeld Hall is a great place to learn not just mathematics, but how math and numbers can solve problems.On a recent Saturday, large crowds from Champaign-Urbana converged on Altgeld for Math Carnival: Gathering for Gardner. The event’s...

2017-03-08 - The National Baseball Hall of Fame has launched a new online platform to celebrate Latino baseball, with University of Illinois history professor Adrian Burgos Jr. as its editor-in-chief.The site, La Vida Baseball (...

2017-03-07 - Two U of I alumni, including an LAS alumna, will be inducted this year into The National Inventors Hall of Fame in Washington, D.C.The late Allene Rosalind Jeanes (PhD, ’38, chemistry) will be inducted posthumously into the National Inventors Hall of...

2017-03-06 - One recent evening in the back room of Pizza M in Urbana, with its hand drawn art covering the walls and paper lanterns lining the ceiling, a crowd of parents, children, couples, students, and others gathered around pizzas and beers to hear more about the night’s main topic: antimatter.Laughter,...

2017-03-03 -     New graduates from LAS are successful at securing a first destination after college, according to the second annual release of a campus initiative to better understand young Illinois alumni. They’re also in demand by employers upon graduation. These results are according to the...

2017-03-01 -     Life was hard in southern Arizona in the 19th century, and there wasn’t much reason to expect that a young boy named Wassaja would long be part of it when he was dragged into the mountains by enemy raiders in 1871. Certainly there was no reason to expect that 145 years later a...

2017-03-01 -     Corin Chapman is putting her degree to work in a way that hits closer to home than most careers: She’s trying to save the life of her son. In 2014, Chapman’s son, Max, then 14 months old, was diagnosed with Peroxisomal Biogenesis Disorder, a rare disease with fewer than 100 known...

2017-03-01 -     Where does a medical breakthrough begin? At the University of Illinois, where many mysteries of human health are solved, more often than not the answer is this: In the laboratories of the College of LAS. “LAS is where the basic medical research impacting human health is being...

2017-03-01 -     Stephanie Alumbaugh never forgot the day she presented a paper in junior high and was met with snickering and laughter. After that experience, Alumbaugh developed a fear of writing and presenting papers in public that stayed with her for years. “That did not help my self-...

2017-03-01 -     Can anyone predict the future? If someone in 1867 had asked John Milton Gregory—this institution’s visionary, founding regent—what would happen over the next 150 years, would he have even guessed that Illinois Industrial University would switch names to the University of Illinois...

2017-03-01 - Several units are planning a symposium to honor more than three decades of research, teaching, and service by Thomas Bassett, professor of geography and geographic information science, who is retiring from the University of Illinois. On Friday, March 10, the...

2017-02-28 -     Central Illinois in 1867 was not an obvious place to plant a university that would change the world. Illinois had no public colleges and a short history of universal public schooling. Legislators wanted only practical instruction from their new institution. And the campus was in...

2017-02-27 - Great results come from great collaboration. CourseShare, a shared project of the Big 10 Academic Alliance, has provided students at Illinois and elsewhere with increased access to specialized language courses since...

2017-02-24 -     Researchers at the University of Illinois report they can alter blood cell development through the use of biomaterials designed to mimic characteristics of the bone marrow. The findings, reported in the journal Science Advances, are a first step toward developing more effective...

2017-02-23 - A professor of psychology at Illinois has been recognized as a rising star in her profession.Joey Cheng has been named a 2016 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star, an award reserved for outstanding psychological scientists in the...

2017-02-22 - Four researchers from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences are recipients of 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. According to the foundation, the awards “honor early career scholars whose achievements mark them as...

2017-02-17 - Staff and academic professionals in the College of LAS are being recognized for dedicated service to students, fellow employees, and the mission of the college and university.Seven staff members and academic professionals will be honored at a ceremony on Tuesday, March 7. They include three...

2017-02-16 - Two alumni from the College of LAS have been elected into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), considered to be among the highest professional distinctions that can be obtained by an engineer.Dianne Chong (BA, ’71, biology), who went on to earn...