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LAS@Work Wigginton
Alumnus values relationships built along the way
Wigginton serves as president of National Civil Rights Museum
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Math models
Department of Mathematics collaborates with Spurlock Museum to preserve iconic math models
Century-old items will remain on display after Altgeld Hall renovation
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Nicholas Wu
A lifelong fight against infectious disease
A brush with an epidemic as a boy inspired Nicholas Wu to study antibody and virus evolution
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Kevin Leicht
How do we know what to believe?
Kevin Leicht and his colleagues combat misinformation on social media
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Tom Rudolph
Study: Political polarization leaking into social situations
Today's partisan tension spills beyond traditional realms of debate
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Catherine Prendergast poses with her book
Cyanide, tragic love triangles, and the end of an American era
Catherine Prendergast explores the counterculture at the end of the Gilded Age
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Association of collaborators of N. Bourbaki, in France in 1938
The lost office of N. Bourbaki
An Altgeld Hall prank in the 1950s is still talked about today
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Members of the Marching Illini pose in front of Illini Hall
Last homecoming for Illini Hall
Homecoming 2021 was likely the last for the place where the tradition started
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Former President Barack Obama looks at May Berenbaum as a woman in a military uniform holds the National Medal of Science
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