LAS News Archive

2006-06-01 - President George W. Bush frequently has been criticized for being verbally challenged, but a new rhetorical analysis of the Bush White House, based on the public record, argues that the president and his colleagues have demonstrated an impressive facility with the language.According to the...

2006-06-01 - Just call it CSI: Interstellar Space.Like deep-space forensic experts, astronomers Rosa Williams and You-Hua Chu from U. of I.'s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences approach the death scenes of exploding stars as if they were crime scene investigations. And...

2006-05-01 - Four students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at U. of I. earned National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Undergraduate Scholarships for study abroad during the 2006-07 academic year."Over the past five years, U. of I. has been among the national leaders in numbers of...

2006-05-01 - Microbiologist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society, the world's oldest continuously active scientific academy in...

2006-04-01 - If we want to understand how wireless networking will expand in the future, a U. of I. professor suggests we need to look in the past at how the telephone became a fixture around the world.The product's ubiquity is not the result of inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Nor is it the work of the phone...

2006-04-01 - "The jury is still out" on whether violent video games trigger violent behavior in youth, said Dmitri Williams, a University of Illinois speech communication professor, speaking before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee last week. The subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, R-Kan., is...

2006-04-01 - How can the United States reconcile its own interests with the needs of the global community? This global balancing act was the focus of the annual Cline Symposium on April 18 at the University of Illinois. This year's Cline Symposium featured G. John Ikenberry, a renowned expert on U.S. foreign...

2006-04-01 - William T. Greenough, a researcher in the Departments of Psychology and Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Illinois was named a Fellow of the...

2006-04-01 - In honor of the Latina/Latino Studies Program's 10th anniversary, artist Oscar Martinez restored, completed, and added to murals on the walls of the house at 510 E. Chalmers Street in Champaign where the program is located. Martinez started the murals 30 years ago when he was a student, using his...

2006-04-01 - Mickey Mouse became a household name, thanks in part to such uncommon names as the "thaumatrope," the "zoetrope," and even the tongue-twisting "phenakistoscope." These nineteenth-century contraptions laid the groundwork for Walt Disney's cartoon creations, as well as the animated films of today,...

2006-04-01 - Five faculty members from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign-four of them from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships for 2006. This is the sixth time in 40 years that the U. of I. has won five Guggenheims in one year. Only New York...

2006-04-01 - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their excellence in teaching and advising in 2005. Their contributions are vital to maintaining LAS as a great college. Academic Advising Award David Skadden,...

2006-04-01 - Cary Nelson, a professor emeritus of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been elected president of the American Association of University Professors.His two-...

2006-04-01 - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their excellence in teaching and advising in 2006. Their contributions are vital to maintaining LAS as a great college. Academic Advising Award Phyllis...

2006-04-01 -   Eleven faculty and staff from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences were recently honored for excellence in teaching and advising at the University of Illinois. They comprised half of the 21 faculty and staff recognized across the Urbana-Champaign campus. LAS winners were honored in the...

2006-04-01 - Fuel cells powered the space program to the Moon, but the quest continues to make fuel cells more economical and practical for Earth-bound uses. University of Illinois researchers have nudged the technology farther down that path with a small, innovative, new fuel cell that "breathes" air and...

2006-04-01 - Surviving the frigid waters surrounding Antarctica requires ingenious adaptations, such as the antifreeze protein discovered in fish by a U. of I. biologist in 1968. Following several trips to the Ross Sea at McMurdo Sound in the early 1960s, Arthur DeVries identified a protein in the bloodstream...

2006-04-01 - University of Illinois researchers have discovered that DNA makes an effective tool for changing the shape of molecules-which, in turn, may help change the shape of the rapidly expanding field of nanotechnology.In a recent breakthrough, U. of I. researchers found that by attaching DNA to molecules...

2006-04-01 - For Valeri Werpetinski, community service means more than merely donating time—it's about civic responsibility and public engagement. She credits her parents for instilling in her such a strong commitment to the community. As a young girl, she participated in the Girl Scouts and helped her mom...

2006-04-01 - Coming to the land of milk and honey can be hazardous to new immigrants' diet and health.So says Ilana Redstone Akresh, a visiting professor of sociology at the University of Illinois who recently analyzed dietary assimilation and immigrant health. In her study...

2006-04-01 - Recent evidence from the Cassini Mission's Huygens Probe suggests that the largest moon orbiting Saturn, Titan, features methane rivers that sculpt channels into that moon's continents of ice. Surface images from the probe show gravel-sized pieces of river ice similar to stones found in Earth's dry...

2006-03-01 - From paying her own way through college to writing a landmark book addressing Asian American culture, Betty Lee Sung has a habit of taking matters into her own hands. After discovering how little material was available on the Chinese community in America, Sung wrote Mountain of Gold: The Story...

2006-03-01 - Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Illinois political science professor, was recently nominated to serve as president of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for the 2007-2008 term. If elected, she will also act as president-elect for the 2006-2007 term. Elections will be held during...

2006-02-01 - The decision whether to go with hormone-replacement therapy is complicated and confusing, says Ann Nardulli, professor of molecular and integrative physiology. However, her research has shed new light on how estrogen acts in the body-in...

2006-02-01 - A fit body can increase the chances of a fit mind for women using hormone-replacement therapy to battle the symptoms of menopause. University of Illinois researchers have found that being physically fit can slow the decline in cognitive brain functions associated with the long-term use (11 years...