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...
LAS News Archive
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...
2025-05-27 - 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 - 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...
2025-05-20 - 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 - 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...
2025-05-12 - 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...
2025-05-07 - 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 - 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...
2025-04-29 - Two faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States. History...
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 - Marynia Kolak is a professor of geography and geographic information science and principal investigator for the Health Regions & Policies Lab. As a health geographer and spatial data scientist, Kolak...
2025-04-24 - The week of April 7-11, 2025, was recently named Phosphorous Week by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. This occurred in large part due to efforts by the Science and Technologies for Phosphorous Sustainability (STEPS) Center, a collaboration of scientists that works...
2025-04-24 - Several years ago, a conversation with a young coffee farmer from Panama stirred in José Andino Martinez a deep curiosity about the chemistry of coffee. The farmer impressed upon Andino the significance of the coffee bean growing and roasting process in producing a wide variety of attributes...
2025-04-22 - There’s a quote from Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address in 1861 that the East Central Illinois Alliance of Braver Angels likes to remember as it works to bridge partisan divides: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies....
2025-04-17 - Before President Donald Trump abruptly changed course on tariffs, the 12th smallest African nation, Lesotho, was near the top of the list of countries whose products would be taxed at the U.S. border. Charles Fogelman, a professor in the Global Studies...
2025-04-17 - Two College of LAS professors have been awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships. This year’s Illinois fellows are history professor Kristin Hoganson and English professor Corey Van...
2025-04-16 - Scientific collaboration often begins with a simple conversation, an exchange of ideas that transcends borders. For Bruce Rhoads, a professor of geography and geographic information science and river dynamics expert, and Alexander Sukhodolov, a research...
2025-04-11 - The Beckman Institute recognized two community members during its annual April celebration of Arnold Beckman’s birth. Microscopist and outreach specialist T Josek (BS, '13; MS, '15; PhD, '19, entomology; BS, '13,...
2025-04-10 - Professor Benita Katzenellenbogen has taught and mentored students and researched women’s health throughout her career at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, focusing on issues such as breast cancer and endometriosis. While much of her work is done in the lab, she realizes how important it...
2025-04-09 - In a study that tracked explicit and implicit bias against stigmatized groups in 33 countries between 2009 and 2019, researchers found substantial reductions in explicit, self-reported bias against all categories of stigma they examined: age, race, body weight, skin tone, and sexual orientation....