2025-06-02
- The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship has been awarded to six College of LAS undergraduate students this spring. They are among 42 recipients from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.“With 42 recipients, the U of I ranks among the top 10 producers of Gilman Scholars across...
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2025-06-02 - The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship has been awarded to six College of LAS undergraduate students this spring. They are among 42 recipients from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.“With 42 recipients, the U of I ranks among the top 10 producers of Gilman Scholars across the...
2025-05-29 - Classes moved from classrooms to computer screens, trips and gatherings were put on hold, and an entirely different kind of learning experience ensued after the momentous onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even now, five years later, campus continues to feel its effects—and not in entirely bad...
2025-05-29 - To hear Kenn Allen tell the story, it seems like happenstance.It started with an announcement in “The Daily Illini.”In 1963, campus was launching a new organization focused on student volunteering within the Champaign-Urbana community, and Allen was a sophomore struggling to...
2025-05-29 - On May 5, 1992, a diverse coalition of more than 450 people, mostly students, gathered in and around the U of I’s Henry Administration Building with the goal of increasing institutional support for Latina/o students and programs on campus.The students called for the creation of a...
2025-05-29 - Classes moved from classrooms to computer screens, trips and gatherings were put on hold, and an entirely different kind of learning experience ensued after the momentous onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even now, five years later, campus continues to feel its effects—and not in entirely bad ways....
2025-05-29 - Imagine pushing a button and watching as a digital philosopher chooses a topic, does the research and writes a professional-level, publishable work—all without human intervention. It’s an intriguing idea that’s currently being explored by Kevin Scharp, professor and research director at the...
2025-05-29 - To hear Kenn Allen tell the story, it seems like happenstance. It started with an announcement in “The Daily Illini.” In 1963, campus was launching a new organization focused on student volunteering within the Champaign-Urbana community, and Allen was a sophomore struggling to...
2025-05-28 - Lakisha Tawanda David’s career represents, in many ways, a lifelong search for identity.David, a professor of anthropology, uses her research to reunite those with severed ties to their ancestry through DNA connections. One branch of her work utilizes...
2025-05-28 - “I was absolutely gassed,” said Laura DeBruler Santos, recalling the intense volleyball game against perennial national champion Penn State back in September of 2010. She was still recovering from a bout with mono and wasn’t at full strength. Coach Kevin Hambly gave DeBruler Santos (BS, ’11,...
2025-05-28 - Shaowen Wang, professor of geography and geographic information science and associate dean for life and physical sciences in the College of LAS, discusses the dramatic advancement of his work and field. What are you studying? ...
2025-05-27 - College of LAS undergraduate student Almoatasim Shahbain was one of more than 200 students nationally to receive the Boren Award. He will use the scholarship to study abroad in Indonesia during part of the 2025-26 academic year. David L. Boren ...
2025-05-27 - On March 11, 1944, my relative 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly, Jr. and 10 other crew members of a B-24 bomber named “Heaven Can Wait” were declared missing in action after being shot down somewhere over the waters of Hansa Bay, Papua New Guinea. For our family, as for so many families of MIAs, all that...
2025-05-27 - What does science require? Growing up, Joaquín Rodríguez-López had questions that made all his family members scramble for a book. “Why,” he’d ask, for example, “does the moon stay up there?” Finally when he was about 10 years old his parents got him a chemistry set. You can see what that started...
2025-05-27 - For Ljubica Basica (BA,’18, history and political science; MBA,’23), a project manager at Google with Mandiant Cybersecurity Consulting, the critical thinking and analytical skills she gained in LAS are essential...
2025-05-20 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign presents the Campus Awards for Excellence in Faculty Leadership each year to distinguished faculty who enrich...
2025-05-20 - Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students received places in the Fulbright Commission’s Summer Institutes program — a selective summer scholarship...
2025-05-19 - Jennifer Grove (BS, ’15, anthropology) is the collections storage coordinator at Spurlock Museum of World Cultures on campus. Jennifer worked at the museum during her undergraduate studies and has returned...
2025-05-15 - In chemistry, the right combination of essential elements can lead to scientific discoveries that impact the world. Drawing a comparison, Rosa Milagros Santos, associate provost of faculty development at Illinois, described as “essential elements” the generosity of individuals who support faculty...
2025-05-15 - Bonnie Kim’s long road to earning a bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois is coming to an end. Since spring 2024, when she returned to campus after 45 years to wrap up her coursework, she’s felt something like a time traveler, studying as a full-time college student at a university that’s...
2025-05-12 - Humor is deeper than a means to make us laugh. Luvell Anderson, a professor of philosophy at the U of I, researches the social context behind the things that we find funny—or not—to learn more about how people use comedy to inspire reflection and deal...
2025-05-12 - Three English professors were recently honored at the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick and Robert Schaefer investiture ceremony at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. A crowd of almost 80 people showed up to celebrate the professors’ accomplishments and...
2025-05-07 - When picturing a “typical” alcoholic, people tend to imagine a person drinking at home alone. But that focus overlooks the social origins of many serious alcohol problems, say the authors of a new review paper in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science. “Evidence for the centrality...
2025-04-29 - Experimental and amateur filmmakers are expanding cinema by using new technologies, such as cell phones and virtual reality, and through increasing globalization of the distribution of their work. Eduardo Ledesma, a Spanish professor, examined how...
2025-04-29 - Scientists developed a machine-learning tool that can teach itself, with minimal external guidance, to differentiate between aerial images of flowering and nonflowering grasses — an advance that will greatly increase the pace of agricultural field research, they say. The work was conducted using...