2013-08-01
- It’s been a busy 100 years at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois. For the next year, the largest college on campus will commemorate all that’s been accomplished.
Formed in 1913, the College of LAS will be highlighting people, events, and achievements that have...
LAS News Archive
2013-08-01 - Ten faculty have been named Centennial Scholars in honor of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois. The faculty come from a wide range of academic units, and they were selected for their scholarly productivity and...
2013-07-01 - For Ruth Watkins, taking a bull by the horns is not just an old cliché. She actually knows how to take a bull by the horns. Growing up in northeast Iowa as the daughter of a large animal veterinarian, dehorning cattle was just one of the gritty tasks required while administering veterinary care....
2013-05-01 - When Sheila Lammers’ husband was deployed to Germany with the Illinois National Guard in 2002, their first child was only five months old. So when he came back home six months later, just before his daughter’s first birthday, he was like a stranger to her. Getting reacquainted took time. “My...
2013-05-01 - The University of Illinois will soon have its own slice of China on campus. Officials hope that a new Confucius Institute strengthens bonds to the growing Asian country. Organizers say that the institute, to be housed in the Education Building, will increase awareness about Chinese culture through...
2013-05-01 - Before he even sits down for an interview in an Urbana coffee shop, Mark Leff feels compelled to say something. He gave another writer a similar warning 15 years ago, after being named professor of the year in Illinois by the Carnegie Foundation. “You hit the jackpot: What has to be the campus’s...
2013-05-01 - A longtime faculty member and associate dean has been selected to serve as interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Brian Ross, a cognitive psychologist who came to the University of Illinois in 1982, will guide the U of I’s largest college after the departure of Harry E. Preble...
2013-05-01 - With the recent release of the movie 42, many are reflecting on Jackie Robinson as a symbol that anyone can succeed if given the opportunity. A baseball historian at U of I, however, points out that racial integration of Major League...
2013-05-01 - You know that something fundamental has changed in the doctor/patient relationship when physicians start receiving special training to learn how to “just say no” to patients. LAS alumna Martha Rosenberg recently attended a national medical conference in Chicago, and she was shocked to discover that...
2013-04-01 - Sustainability has become a catch phrase in discussions over how to preserve the environment. But what does the concept really mean? Answering that question is one of the purposes of an ongoing series at Illinois that organizers hope will inspire fresh ideas on the issue. This is the third year of...
2013-04-01 - Maybe life just isn’t fair, after all. Not only can elite athletes jump higher and move faster than most of us, but a new study suggests that in some ways they can think faster, too. A study of 87 top-ranked Brazilian volleyball players (some of them medalists in the Beijing and London Olympics)...
2013-04-01 - If you want to understand just how patient the Salvadoran people are, get on a bus there, says LAS alumnus Andrew Piotrowski. Whenever he travels on buses in El Salvador, he is amazed by the number of people they can pack like sardines into the vehicle. But even more amazing, he says, are the...
2013-04-01 - When you enter the Illinois Geometry Lab, situated in the lower level of Altgeld Hall, take any assumptions you have about mathematics and leave them at the door. This is where research teams of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members...
2013-03-01 - The demand for language translators and interpreters is projected to expand for at least the next decade. That means the U of I’s Center for Translation Studies is going to grow, too. The center has begun accepting applications for a new master’s...
2013-03-01 - You might not have known it from the weather, but the U of I campus has been a little more, well, Brazilian this winter. Illinois was one of 18 U.S. universities to host English teachers from Brazil during a new six-week professional development program funded by Brazil’s Ministry of Education. The...
2013-03-01 - One needs to look no further than the TV listings to know that history looks great on screen. From the Civil War to the Titanic, today’s viewers have their pick of riveting historical documentaries to choose from. But history and television can be an uneasy mix, with accuracy sometimes at odds...
2013-03-01 - While the end of Saturday delivery will reduce costs for the U.S. Postal Service, the mail carrier must pursue more solutions if it wants to survive, according to a University of Illinois economics professor. It even remains to be seen whether...
2013-02-01 - A promising new stem cell study on mice has researchers at the University of Illinois hopeful that they have turned an important corner in the battle against Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Researchers transplanted stem cells derived from normal mouse blood vessels into the hearts of mice...
2013-02-01 - When the late microbiologist Carl Woese discovered a new domain of life, he touched lives that he didn’t even know. One of them was Mark Martin, a professor of biology at the University of Puget Sound who met Woese only once, in the...
2013-02-01 - Some 40 years ago, Steve Miller was a chemistry doctoral student at the U of I studying DNA. He knew next to nothing about petroleum, and so it was with some dampened optimism one day that he introduced himself to a campus recruiter from Chevron, one...
2013-02-01 - If your weight has become an issue, think about driving to your next destination—driving less, that is. A new study by University of Illinois researchers indicates that curbing your driving habits can be just as effective as dieting.The study, led by computer...
2013-02-01 - Charles Schroeder, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, which will help Schroeder and his research team conduct new and cutting-edge molecular...
2013-01-01 - It’s funny the things you notice when you come to a new country for the first time. For Cathy (Copeland) Gryczan, it was laundry hung outside windows in southern France when she arrived as a U of I student for a study abroad program in the early 1980s. “That struck me as something that was like a...
2013-01-01 - The family of Carrie Klaus has been seen around Lincoln Hall for almost as long as the building has existed. Appropriately, her family is among the most frequently featured on memorial pavers in the courtyard of the restored Lincoln Hall. Carrie Klaus is just the most recent graduate from her...
2013-01-01 - Those pesky sulfur compounds in petroleum fuels have met their nano-match. University of Illinois researchers have developed mats of metal oxide nanofibers that scrub harmful sulfur from petroleum-based fuels much more effectively than traditional materials. Such efficiency could lower costs and...