LAS News Archive

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...

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...

2016-04-19 - 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...

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 -     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,...

2016-03-18 - 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...