2016-06-15
- Millions will be vacationing this summer at national parks and hundreds of other sites managed by the National Park Service, which turns 100 this August. Robert Pahre, a political science professor at Illinois, has written extensively about the often-...
LAS News Archive
2016-06-10 - Bradley Hartmann grew up around lumber yards and construction sites. Now founder and “El Presidente” of Red Angle, Inc., he’s still in the construction business—and putting his degree to use helping builders and suppliers adapt to an industry that communicates...
2016-06-10 - The U.S. Department of Defense released its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program awards last month, and three faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences are part of the newly funded research efforts. The annual MURI program encourages cutting edge research...
2016-06-09 - Editor’s note: Rising income inequality has been brought front and center as an issue in this year’s presidential campaign. But do we really know what’s driving it, and the keys to closing the gap? Are popular explanations supported by research and data? Sociologist Kevin Leicht...
2016-06-06 - Leon Cooper is accustomed to facilitating reunions, but his most treasured ones typically don’t have so many people. The Chicago White Sox and a crowd of more than 28,000 home fans honored Cooper, 96, for his military service and his work advocating for the safe return of World...
2016-06-01 - It is early May in central Belize, nearing the end of the dry season. While farmers anxiously await the beginning of the rainy season vital for crops, archaeologists hope it starts as late as possible. Tropical storms transform the landscape, making it difficult to get around, even in four-wheel-...
2016-05-26 - A new study reveals that police recruits and experienced officers are more likely than others to subscribe to colorblind racial beliefs—the notion that they (and people in general) see no differences among people from different racial groups and treat everyone the same.The findings appear in the...
2016-05-24 - The U.S. has been a leading voice for human rights. It’s also run prison camps, now and in the past, that denied people those rights. A. Naomi Paik wanted to explore that contradiction—finding out why these camps were organized, how they were justified, how prisoners have been...
2016-05-19 - Occupants of Noyes Laboratory can expect plenty of construction on the third floor during the next 18 months—more noise at Noyes—but the result will be a more productive research environment for dozens of chemists.Construction for the Center for Theoretical Chemistry, a new state-of-the-art hub for...
2016-05-16 - Mental health experts are familiar with associations between clinically depressed parents and their teenagers’ risk taking, but a new study at Illinois has for the first time concluded that parental depression contributes to greater brain activity in areas linked to risk taking in...
2016-05-16 - At the age of seven, Aadeel Akhtar met a little girl during a trip to his home country of Pakistan. They were similar in age and background, but Akhtar noticed something that made them worlds apart. The little girl was missing her right leg. Rather than the support of a prosthetic...
2016-05-16 - University of Illinois history professor Harry Liebersohn has been chosen to receive the prestigious Humboldt Research Award honoring a career of research achievements.The Humboldt award is presented by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn,...
2016-05-13 - Imagine—instead of acres of oil wells on barren land—endless fields of towering green sugarcane, with each stalk producing renewable and sustainable biofuel. The University of Illinois and the University of Florida have been awarded a third round of funding from the U.S....
2016-05-12 - When she headed to campus as a freshman, Donna O’Shaughnessy, who is now a graduating senior, didn’t bring a smart phone.Or a laptop computer.Or a debit card.She hadn’t taken an anti-technology pledge. Those technologies simply didn’t exist when her parents dropped her off at school the summer...
2016-05-11 - Teachers and advisers in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been recognized in the college and across campus for excellence in guiding students through their studies at Illinois.Each year, LAS shines a light on a handful of its outstanding faculty and staff with annual teaching and...
2016-05-09 - Melissa Luebbe was an active student while she studied speech communication at Illinois, but one of the best things she did for her career was asking a single question: Can you give me an internship? Read how...
2016-05-05 - The reopening of a renovated Lincoln Hall in 2012 represented a fresh start not only for the building and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, but for eight incoming freshmen who enrolled that fall as the first scholarship recipients of the...
2016-05-04 - Several individual and group outreach efforts in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been recognized by the University of Illinois for advancing solutions to matters of public importance. Recipients in the college and elsewhere on campus received the 2016 Campus...
2016-05-03 - Two professors at the University of Illinois have received grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (D.O.E.) designated for promising young scientists.Alison Fout, professor of chemistry, and Jessica Krogstad, professor of materials science and...
2016-04-29 - As the universe expands, perhaps it’s only natural that the Astronomy Open House does, too. For the first time organizers made the open house a full-day event, and it was a success: the Department of Astronomy estimated that some 500...
2016-04-27 - Nearly 110 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences students’ names are being inscribed on the university’s Bronze Tablet for the 2015-16 school year.The Bronze Tablet, which is placed in the University of Illinois Library each year, lists those students who have achieved University Honors.These...
2016-04-26 - A public history project at the University of Illinois is exploring the hidden and forgotten stories of social movements on campus and in the community. Students are creating a map highlighting buildings or areas that were the sites of protest movements, and they are writing narratives about the...
2016-04-25 - You may not win friends, but a new study from the University of Illinois finds that you can influence people simply by lowering the pitch of your voice in the first moments of a conversation.The study, reported in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, found that people whose voices went...
2016-04-22 - Juan Felipe Herrera, the U.S. poet laureate and the first Latino to receive the country’s highest honor in poetry, will speak at the University of Illinois on April 28.He’ll give a reading and book signing at 7:30 p.m. April 28 in the ballroom at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave...
2016-04-21 - The Department of English has launched the University of Illinois’ first lecture-based, massive open online course (MOOC) in American poetry.The course, Modern American Poetry, is ideal for faculty, students, high school teachers and individuals around...