LAS News

Brian Gaines
How will the Jan. 6 committee hearings affect public opinion?
Political scientist: Hearings expected to have little effect on 2022 races, but may still impact the 2024 presidential campaign
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Sarah Demissie
Writing for discovery
The Odyssey Project teams up with an English professor to deliver the power of words
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Increasing the sustainability of phosphorus
Professor is part of new $25 million center to manage a key element in fertilizer
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Kathryn Oberdeck and Esther Ngumbi
The spirit of community engagement
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Student in class
A new future for numbers
The College of LAS builds and innovates to be a leader in data science
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Mark Hauber
The lifelong calling of the birds
Mark Hauber’s research deepens our understanding of the avian mind
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Deon Thomas playing against Iowa
Deon Thomas: My thirst to travel was more important than the NBA
The former Illini basketball star was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in 1994, but he went his own way
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New study indicates that LAS graduates remain successful at launching careers
More than 93 percent of recent alumni are finding jobs and other first destinations soon after leaving campus
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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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