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Christopher Kempf
English professor receives Guggenheim Fellowship
 English professor Christopher Kempf has been awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship.Kempf is among 223 individuals working across 55 disciplines chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from nearly 5,000...
Furtado & Haare
A GoPro, a book, and a horse named Tornado
At a calm trot, a horse’s hooves leave divots in the pale, rocky dirt. Under a brilliantly blue Arizona sky, one may wonder where the “tornado” from this artwork's title comes in. Then, the horse picks up speed, kicking up dust and pebbles in a chaotic storm. Some photos are entirely a blur. When...
neurons dna
RNA barcodes enable high-speed mapping of connections in the brain
By tagging neurons with molecular “barcodes,” researchers mapped connections among thousands of neurons in the mouse brain with unprecedented speed and resolution. The approach could expand understanding not only of the layout of elaborate networks in the brain, but also how the brain...
Mark Lara, Zhuoxuan Xia
Team tracks vegetation recovery from sudden permafrost collapse
 Some Arctic regions regain their “greenness” within a decade of a sudden permafrost collapse, while others can take a century or more to recover, researchers report in a new study. The difference is directly related to each site’s gross primary productivity, a measure of its photosynthetic...
Anderson and Baskota
Scientists reveal how fish skin helps protect against fast attacks
 Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have helped uncover how fish skin protects fish from sharp, fast attacks in the wild, and the research highlights how curiosity, creativity, and mentorship can come together to drive discovery. The...
Clancy, Gammie, and Kramer
Three LAS faculty members named AAAS Fellows
 Three faculty members in the College of LAS have been named 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society....
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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