2016-08-26
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A new study from the University of Illinois has deepened understanding of the “chemobrain” phenomenon in cancer patients, with researchers reporting long-lasting cognitive impairments in mice when they are administered a chemotherapy regimen used to treat breast cancer in humans...
LAS News Archive
2016-08-25 - A professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois has been recognized by a global media company as one of the top young innovators in science. Ying Diao was named among MIT Technology Review’s annual list of Innovators Under 35 for her work in nanotechnology and...
2016-08-24 - Terrible headlines of violence and loss have unfortunately become a normal part of American life. But a professor of sociology and African American studies at Illinois is collaborating on...
2016-08-23 - Health officials recently reported the first U.S. cases of Zika traced to local mosquitoes, in Miami, and the virus is spreading rapidly in Puerto Rico. Given the link between Zika and microcephaly in some babies born to infected mothers, it renewed questions about how Americans...
2016-08-22 - Following years of discussion, Illinois has added a course in U.S. minority culture to the core curriculum for undergraduate students in hopes of helping better prepare students to live in an increasingly diverse society.The University Senate approved a committee proposal to make the course part of...
2016-08-19 - New psychological research at Illinois focuses on a fundamental human habit: When trying to explain something—why we’re giving that special someone roses on Valentine’s Day, for example—we often focus on the traits of the thing itself (“They’re almost as beautiful as you!”) and not its...
2016-08-17 - In early 2014, months before the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and shortly after the Black Lives Matter movement began, the Police Training Institute at the University of Illinois, with help from professors in LAS, began offering police recruits classes...
2016-08-12 - A chemistry professor at Illinois has been selected to receive the Electrochemical Society Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship to advance his work in advancing green energy technology. Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez was one of three recipients selected for the prominent fellowship,...
2016-08-11 - Look no further than your favorite location-based smartphone app, and you’ll see the vast potential for students in geography and geographic information science. This field of study in LAS just got stronger with the recent launch of a Professional Science Master’s program that melds training in...
2016-08-10 - A seed grant, along with some hard work by U. of I. student volunteers and museum staff, has grown a butterfly garden at the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum in Champaign. The Growing Prairies and Growing Minds butterfly garden and an archaeology exhibit opened recently at the museum, 346...
2016-08-09 - Ever wonder how a show makes it to television? Jason Lee works as a film editor at an independent production company in Hollywood pitching new shows to TV networks. It’s fast-paced, meaningful work (there’s more to reality television than people stuck in a house...
2016-08-05 - Millions will be sampling Brazilian culture for the first time, in person or through the media, during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Part of the soundtrack will be samba. Born in Rio, it was once the country’s undisputed national music and is still a prominent part of popular culture....
2016-08-02 - Think Brazil and you might think beaches, rain forest, the 2016 Olympics – all far removed from central Illinois. Yet the University of Illinois is perhaps the most comprehensive center of Brazilian studies in the U.S. Illinois’ research and teaching connections with Brazil are “...
2016-07-26 - If someone had asked the great artist Loredo Taft, creator of the Alma Mater, what people would call his iconic statue in the year 2016, it's safe to say that the words Pokegym never would have crossed his lips.Even a month ago, few people could have foreseen how the Pokemon Go craze has hit campus...
2016-07-15 - Professor Adrian Burgos Jr. has been named interim director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Burgos' appointment is effective Aug. 16, 2016.“Our American Indian Studies Program has endured a...
2016-07-08 - Editor’s note: Scenes from oil-rich Venezuela show a country descending into chaos: desperate people looting stores and food trucks, political unrest, rising crime and hyperinflation. Damarys Canache, professor of political science at Illinois, is a native of Venezuela who...
2016-07-07 - Brendan Harley, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 22nd annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium.The academy invites engineers ages 30 to 45 who...
2016-07-06 - Ashley Young has spent the better part of every school year since 2012 preparing a group of fellow college students for the ride of a lifetime. The students, all members of a group called Illini 4000, bike from New York City to San Diego every...
2016-07-05 - In an era of so many scientific and technological breakthroughs—advances in genome editing, the discovery of Higgs boson or the “God particle,” the launching of deep space satellites—two award-winning University of Illinois scientists have teamed up to re-introduce people to a remarkable...
2016-07-05 - Until now, simulations of black hole collisions (and the matter that swirls around them) have been built upon simplified approximations. For the first time, however, researchers at Illinois and elsewhere created 3-D simulations of the collision of two supermassive black holes using Einstein's...
2016-07-01 - Mary-Dell Chilton arrived on the University of Illinois campus in 1956 as a celebrated young scientist—she had just been named a finalist in America’s top high school science competition, the Intel Science Talent Search. A chemistry major, Chilton didn’t take a particular interest in molecular...
2016-06-30 - In less than the blink of an eye, Einstein's theory of relativity is on its way to becoming scientific fact. Scientists have observed gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime—for the second time, and researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and departments of...
2016-06-29 - A new study has clarified how brain structure and chemistry give rise to specific aspects of “fluid intelligence,” the ability to adapt to new situations and solve problems one has never encountered before. The study, reported in the journal NeuroImage, links higher concentrations of a...
2016-06-27 - Students attending the U of I’s Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World’s introductory course in Arabic say that’s it’s been full of pleasant surprises, not the least of which is how tired they are at the end of an intensive day.These high school students, who have limited or no prior...
2016-06-20 - It’s called the latitudinal diversity gradient, a phenomenon seen today in most plant and animal species around the world: Biodiversity decreases from the equator to higher latitudes. But a new study of fossils representing 63 million of the past 65 million years reveals that—for North American...