2016-04-19
- Thanks to a major campus undertaking, the University of Illinois and College of Liberal Arts & Sciences know a little more about one of its most important groups of people—its new graduates. The university today released results of its Illini Success initiative, which surveys new bachelor’s...
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2016-04-19 - Sophomore Jordan Meadows went to State Farm Center for the first time back in January, during an Illinois men’s basketball game. Unlike the thousands of fans decked out in orange and blue, Meadows was dressed in a suit jacket and more nervous about tripping on his shoelaces than how the Illini...
2016-04-16 - Six professors at the University of Illinois, including five in the College of LAS, have been named 2016 Guggenheim Fellows, bringing to 13 the number of U. of I. faculty members who have been honored with the fellowship over the last three years. This year’s fellows are Dennis...
2016-04-16 - A pair of LAS alumni responsible for momentous breakthroughs in science will be formally inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in a ceremony next week. The late William Sparks (PhD, chemistry,’36) AND the late Welton...
2016-04-14 - Researchers have uncovered the existence of a dwarf “dark galaxy” lurking nearly 4 billion light-years away from Earth. The discovery was made when a team of researchers, including astronomers at the University of Illinois, using the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for...
2016-04-13 - Two students in the College of LAS have been selected from a nationwide field of future mathematicians, scientists, and engineers to receive Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years. A third received honorable mention.Sophomores Elijah Karvelis and Boris Xu were...
2016-04-08 - Plant biologists at the University of Illinois have pinpointed the area of genomes within nitrogen-fixing bacteria in roots, called rhizobia, that’s being altered when the plant they serve is exposed to nitrogen fertilizer.The study, published in the Royal Society journal Proceedings of the Royal...
2016-04-04 - Werner Baer, a talented and passionate professor of economics who joined the University of Illinois 42 years ago, passed away suddenly on Thursday following a brief illness, the Department of Economics announced. Baer, born in 1931...
2016-04-01 - Black gay men were largely missing in both black and gay history, so Kevin Mumford, who specializes in both, set out to tell their story. “I wanted to reclaim a history that had been washed over, that had been overlooked,” said Mumford, a University of Illinois...
2016-03-30 - The University of Illinois has joined with the online education company Coursera to offer a professional data science master’s degree beginning this fall. The Master of Computer Science in Data Science (MCS-DS) degree promises to open a quickly growing field to potential data scientists who are...
2016-03-30 - Chemists have identified the complex chemical structure of the protein that stacks together to form fibrils in the brains of Parkinson’s disease patients. Armed with this knowledge, researchers can identify specific targets for diagnosis and treatment. University of Illinois...
2016-03-23 - A healthy brain is critical to a person’s cognitive abilities, but measuring brain health can be a complicated endeavor. A new study by University of Illinois researchers reports that healthy brain metabolism corresponds with fluid intelligence—a measure of one’s ability to solve...
2016-03-21 - Aspiring novelists had the chance to pitch their book ideas in front of an esteemed panel of writers during Illinois’ inaugural Pitchapalooza event in Lincoln Hall.Created by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, co-founders of The Book Doctors, Pitchapalooza is a traveling nationwide event that...
2016-03-18 - Mosquito bites are an itchy and annoying drawback to the fact that warmer days are upon us. But for many this year, mosquitoes could prove to be more than a mild nuisance, but rather a serious health hazard.In mid-January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel alert...
2016-03-18 - How does an English major end up as owner and president of a successful engineering firm? Through perseverance, following his heart and utilizing skills he learned by studying the humanities. Meet Darrell C. Nance,...
2016-03-16 - When you think of a laboratory, you may think of test tubes, chemistry or some other kind of science. You might also think of teamwork, solving problems and testing solutions. Could there be such a lab for history?Some faculty and students at Illinois are working on one. It’s called...
2016-03-09 - Almost 50 University of Illinois students will spend their spring break not on the beach, but on the bus, taking a 2,500-mile trip through key cities and sites significant in the history of civil rights for African-Americans.This will be the sixth year for the Civil Rights Pilgrimage, and 48...
2016-03-07 - Economics professor Jose Vazquez enjoys the occasional game of basketball. Luckily for him, he knows he can go to the ARC every day at noon, without fail, to find a court full of challengers ready to hit the hardwood.“I wanted to have something similar for teaching,” Vazquez said.With the...
2016-03-03 - A new study from the University of Illinois found that addiction to—but not simply use of—mobile technology is linked to anxiety and depression in college-age students. Psychology professor Alejandro Lleras said his study, which...
2016-03-02 - Two graduate students from the University of Illinois have been named 2016 Pre-Doctoral Fellows as part of a program by the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Consortium to prepare students for careers both inside and outside the academy, or...
2016-03-01 - A study of rats given regular, high doses of amphetamine finds that those exposed to the drug at an age corresponding to human adolescence experience long-term changes in brain function that persist into adulthood. The study, reported in the journal Neuroscience, found that...
2016-03-01 - Two alumni, a professor and two students have received 2015 International Achievement Awards from Illinois International Programs in honor of their work to improve lives overseas. The award recipients are M.T. Geoffrey Yeh (Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for...
2016-02-26 - Thanks to a new, successful and widely recognized internship program, exciting opportunities that allow graduate students in the Department of Mathematics to use their skills for real-life applications are becoming easier to find—and they’re not limited...
2016-02-23 - Five University of Illinois faculty members, including four in the College of LAS, have received the 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship for early-career scientists from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.This year, 126 Sloan Research Fellowships were awarded to early-career scientists and scholars from 52...
2016-02-22 - We have good news and bad news. The good news is that May Berenbaum would like to use this year’s Insect Fear Film Festival to set the record straight about Hollywood’s portrayal of exploding bugs. The bad news is that there actually are such things as exploding bugs.“Exploding Arthropods” is the...