2025-04-09
- An annual survey of recent graduates reports that 90% of LAS alumni who graduated during the 2023-2024 period secured their first destination within six months of graduating.
That figure includes 41% who found employment and 48% who sought further education. About 1% went into volunteer or...
LAS News Archive
2025-04-09 - College of LAS juniors Alyssa Shih, Dmitriy Shvydkoy and Annie Zeng were awarded Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for their potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences, mathematics, or engineering. As the result of...
2025-04-09 - There’s a lot to talk about after a study abroad trip in Panama, but for plant biology professor Jim Dalling, one of the most memorable experiences is riding on a construction crane 50 meters above the forest floor. Gliding across the...
2025-03-31 - English professor Janice Harrington examines the natural world, the histories of Black residents in the Midwest, and how people create a sense of place for themselves in her most recent book of poetry, “...
2025-03-31 - A faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Chemistry...
2025-03-31 - On March 15, more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants were accused of engagement in gang activity and deported from the U.S. — not to Venezuela, but to El Salvador, some 1,600 miles away from their home country. Ellen Moodie, an anthropology professor at the...
2025-03-31 - Some notoriously difficult to treat infections may not be as resistant to antibiotics as has been thought, according to new research using a microfluidic device that more closely duplicates the fluid flow found in the body than standard cultures. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...
2025-03-13 - An LAS alumna has published her first novel that explores the idea of being able to literally shape your ideal partner from scratch. Maggie Su (BA, ’13, creative writing/English) is the assistant director for the University Writing Center at the...
2025-03-13 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with federal and state health agencies to address a widespread outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows, poultry, and other animals in the United States. More than 150 million farm birds have been slaughtered to prevent the disease’s...
2025-03-12 - A new book by rhetoric and history scholars examines the origins of critical race theory in legal studies. The movement is an area of legal scholarship that seeks to understand the relationship between race and racism and the law and other societal institutions in the U.S., the authors said. It is...
2025-03-12 - College of LAS alumnus Adham Sahloul (BA, political science, ’15) is a national security expert and U.S. Navy Reserve officer. Most recently, he served as a special advisor appointed by the Biden-Harris Administration at the U.S. Agency for International...
2025-03-07 - Political activist and educator Ericka Huggins used spiritual wellness practices to cope with imprisonment and racial oppression. Professor of African American studies Mary Frances Phillips wrote about Huggins and how her wellness practices and political...
2025-02-28 - The literature of extreme poverty during the Great Depression offered an aesthetic that matched the hopelessness and isolation of the unemployed and those living on the street. Robert Dale Parker, a professor emeritus of English examines what he calls “...
2025-02-21 - Annareli Morales is an air quality policy analyst for Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment in Colorado. She graduated in 2012 as a double major in atmospheric science and...
2025-02-20 - Editor’s note: Two College of LAS news writing interns, Ella Dame and Maggie Knutte, recently entered a new escape room created in the Psychology Building. Think a psychology professor and his students might have some ideas how to make an escape...
2025-02-20 - Two College of LAS scientists are among 126 recipients of the 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. According to the foundation, the awardees represent “the very best of early-career science, embodying the...
2025-02-17 - The 2025 Insect Fear Film Festival at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will feature “Tarantulas: Hairy, Scary Spiders” as its theme and a Hollywood bug wrangler who works with the 8-legged creatures as a special guest. The...
2025-02-14 - Seven alumni of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences will receive recognition during the college’s 2025 alumni awards at a celebration in April. They are researchers, volunteers, and political thinkers who have made incredible impacts in their fields and communities. LAS...
2025-02-07 - A new novel by English professor David Wright Faladé tells the story of three people in a love triangle in post-World War II Paris. The characters in “The New Internationals” — a young...
2025-02-06 - The College of LAS has selected 16 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and advisors as the recipients of the 2025 teaching and advising rewards."We are honored and fortunate to have so many amazing teachers and advisors in the College of LAS,” said Venetria K. Patton, the Harry E. Preble Dean...
2025-02-04 - Scientists have translated nanoscale experimental and computational data into precise 3D representations of bacteria, yeast and human epithelial, breast, and breast cancer cells in Minecraft, a video game that allows players to explore, build, and manipulate structures in three dimensions. The...
2025-01-30 - Psychology professor Kimberly Rios grew up outside of San Diego as the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and a white father from Wisconsin. She lived in a community 10 minutes from the U.S.-Mexico border with no clear racial or ethnic majority. Perhaps...
2025-01-28 - Last fall, Sandrine Makaya of Champaign took her children Dikson (10) and Kyria (7) to the local library to attend a new and important event. Her children were going to learn French, the official language of her home country. Sandrine moved to the United States from the Democratic Republic of the...
2025-01-24 - John M. Murphy, a professor of communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studies the history of American public address and political rhetoric. Murphy spoke with News Bureau research editor Sharita Forrest about President...
2025-01-24 - A researcher in the College of LAS has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. Ying Diao, professor of...