LAS News Archive

2006-11-01 - A young poet and professor of poetry at the University of Illinois has won a prestigious literary award.Tyehimba Jess was one of 10 U.S. writers to win the 2006 Whiting Writers' Award. The award, given annually to "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise," includes a cash prize of $40,...

2006-11-01 - A history professor in LAS will receive Morocco's oldest and most prestigious decoration.John A. Lynn, who specializes in French and military history, will receive the Moroccan Order, the Ouissam Al Alaoui, the highest order granted by the Moroccan...

2006-11-01 - Seven faculty members of U. or I.'s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Stewart H. Berlocher, Sydney A. Cameron, Akira Chiba, James M. Lisy, Todd J. Martinez, Mark E. Nelson, and Olga...

2006-10-01 - Two scientists in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recently were commended by national organizations for their research in their respective fields.Donald R. Ort, professor of plant biology, was honored with the Charles F....

2006-10-01 - Two scientists in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recently were commended by national organizations for their research in their respective fields.Donald R. Ort, professor of plant biology, was honored with the Charles F....

2006-10-01 - Four LAS faculty members from the Department of Chemistry recently received prestigious awards for their research. John A. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, won the 2007 American...

2006-10-01 - With nearly 50 patents to his name and almost 50 years in the pharmaceutical industry, it might appear that William Wechter's (BS, '53; MS, '54, chemistry) major accomplishments are behind him. Not so. Wechter and a close-knit group of fellow scientists have quite literally made an encore...

2006-10-01 - With a name like "Houston," it almost seems like destiny that Dennis Houston (BS, '74, chemical engineering) would wind up in the oil business. However, a more likely reason for Houston's career choice was growing up in the shadow of three oil refineries in Wood River, Ill. It also didn't hurt...

2006-10-01 - When William Clark (PhD, '64, geography) arrived in Florida in 1961, en route to the University of Illinois, he struck up a conversation with an African American woman at the train station. Clark, a New Zealand native, asked the woman to join him in a restaurant, but she politely declined. She...

2006-10-01 - James Benson (BA, '68, finance) will never forget the young man with cerebral palsy who completed the final link in an around-the-world bike ride—a daunting stretch from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. This man, Kevin Deegen, pedaled his oversized tricycle 3,000 miles using only his right hand...

2006-09-01 - English professor LeAnne Howe is taking her show on the road quite literally this fall, shifting her venue, if only temporarily, from the classroom to television and movie theaters.Howe, who is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma as well as an award-winning author, playwright, and...

2006-09-01 - Only on Quad Day can you stroll past padded sword-fighting, a guy in a chicken suit, and the Marching Illini, all within yards of each other. As part of the University of Illinois' Welcome Week, this 35th annual event crowded the Quad with about 600 student organizations and community booths....

2006-09-01 - Like "cold case" detectives digging up clues from the past, University of Illinois scientists sifted through the genetic clues in living spruce trees and have come closer to solving some of the mysteries of how trees adapt to climate change.LAS researchers analyzed chloroplast DNA from 24 spruce...

2006-09-01 -     Yukari Sugiyana promotes the Japan Intercultural Network. Ian Schnack tosses a disc on the Quad with the Frolfing Illini disc golf club.   Brittany Combs and Kelly Lusson demonstrate kicks with the Goshin Jitsu club.   Illini Film and Video club's giant robot...

2006-09-01 - In case you have been on a space shuttle the last 10 years, you may not have heard that National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and its estimated 75 million fans generate big money in local communities. Not only does NASCAR play large among its traditional southern base, but now the...

2006-09-01 - Crisp air, hot dogs barbequing, bands playing, fans cheering—it's time for the 95th Annual Homecoming. Come home to the University of Illinois this fall and reconnect with friends, faculty, and the Illini spirit. Come back for the old memories and the new. Visit old haunts, reflect on the good...

2006-09-01 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been named the recipient of a $5 million grant to establish and support a program to improve achievement in chemical sciences and computational literacy among students in rural Illinois high schools.The National Science Foundation grant will be...

2006-09-01 - Recently, LAS English professor and director of the Center for Writing Studies Gail Hawisher sat down at her computer to type a departmental memo. Halfway through her task she was surprised to see that the tone...

2006-09-01 - A University of Illinois economist disputes a widely publicized academic study that claimed to find statistical evidence of point shaving among college basketball teams that are strongly favored by Las Vegas bookmakers. Dan Bernhardt, a professor of ...

2006-09-01 - When Douglas Brewer ventured deep into the Egyptian desert this year, he expected to find possibly 100 examples of "rock art"-evidence of ancient civilization. What he actually found were well over 1,000 examples-a treasure trove of rock art. The desert art, which was pecked or sometimes incised...

2006-09-01 - A professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will receive the Presidential Award from the president of India.Yamuna Kachru traveled to the Presidential Palace in New Delhi on September 14 to receive her award, one of four to be presented by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul...

2006-09-01 - Astronomers will get a clearer view of deep space and our universe's origins with the new radio telescope array high in the Inyo Mountains in eastern California. The recently dedicated telescope array, in which the University of Illinois plays a key role, "will be the most powerful telescope of...

2006-09-01 - Two researchers in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences were among the 56 researchers named as recipients of 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 careers. The award,...

2006-09-01 - The University of Illinois has received the unusual distinction of having all seven of its international regional studies programs named as National Resource Centers (NRC's) by the U.S. Department of Education. Five of those centers are in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.Competition for...

2006-09-01 - Clark Smith survived four years in the country's bloodiest conflict, the Civil War, only to be killed two years later when his horse-drawn wagon was struck by a train. Some people at the time claimed that his horse had been spooked by the train and bolted in front of the locomotive. Smith's...