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 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumnus Omar M. Yaghi, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of three recipients of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Yaghi received a PhD in chemistry from Illinois in 1990.Yaghi and his co-recipients, Susuma...

 College of LAS students Clara Alvarez-Leyva, Carlos Hernandez and Danielle Mitchell are recipients of the annual Voyager Scholarship, the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service.With part of her scholarship funds,...

More than 40 tenure track professors are launching new careers this fall at the College of LAS, in fields from communication to astronomy and history, chemistry, economics, political science, linguistics, and many more. We caught up with a few of them to help capture the new angles of teaching and...

Scientists, government officials and participants from around the world gathered on the  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for the grand opening of the National Science Foundation’s Illinois BioFoundry, or iBioFoundry, and the...

 One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers detail their development of a new model that — using a tree census and genomic data collected...

 Cycles of deployment and reintegration can be stressful, disruptive times for military spouses and their families. Although the Department of Defense and its military communities offer a number of formal resources to help military spouses cope during these challenging periods, very few of...