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Award-winning image by Michelle Patiño-Flores
Images of freedom
 Michelle Patiño-Flores, a sociocultural anthropology doctoral candidate at the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, works with Black (and) queer artists in Cuba to study their practices of freedom. One medium she uses to tell their stories is...
Ribbon cutting in museum
The "abiding passion" of preserving small town Illinois history
I asked Helaine Silverman, professor emerita in anthropology, if she remembered her first time crossing the Mississippi River. She said, “I remember exactly.” August of 1982. “We got to St. Louis and we started driving across the bridge over the...
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College of LAS announces named scholars and research awards
 The College of LAS has honored 20 professors, researchers, and research staff members with named scholar positions and research awards in recognition of their contributions to education and learning at the University of Illinois.The awards include the LAS Interdisciplinary Research Award and...
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The persistent thread of poetry
 “There’s a thread you follow,” William Stafford wrote in the poem “The Way It Is,” and for Dipali V. Apte, that thread may be poetry, a quiet, persistent line running through childhood, through her years at U of I, through a career in ophthalmology, and back again in the form of the Dipali V...
R. Fisher Houston
LAS students receive prominent scholarships
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences undergraduate students have been awarded several prominent scholarships this spring.Sameer Abbasi and Lyndon Shi have received Boren Awards. Di Lan Johnson, Christine Nguyen, and Karel Pene were awarded U.S....
Kalsotra investiture group photo
Auinash Kalsotra named Phillip A. Sharp Professor of Biochemistry
 The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology is honored to announce that Auinash Kalsotra has been named the Phillip A. Sharp Professor in Biochemistry.Kalsotra is one of the world’s pre-...
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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