A new class called Careers for Humanities Majors is helping students explore job opportunities and develop skills for starting a new career.
As part of HUM 275, students work on resumes and cover letters, take field trips to local organizations and businesses, practice networking with...
A new artificial intelligence consortium that will include the University of Illinois has made fighting the COVID-19 pandemic its first order of business.
The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, chaired by Thomas Siebel (BA ’75, history; MBA ’83; MS...
In the United States, voting for president is as old as the Constitution itself. The process by which presidential candidates are chosen by their parties, however, is much murkier, and marked by more than a century of shifting influence between political insiders and voters in caucuses and primary...
The College of LAS has selected winners of this year’s teaching and advising awards. Professors, graduate students, a lecturer, and an advisor have been honored for their service.
The LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching is being awarded to Andrew Gaedtke, a professor of...
Six early career professors have been recognized as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their outstanding contributions and potential in research and teaching.
The awardees are Marsha Barrett in the Department of History;...
The Department of Classics has received an estate gift of $750,000 from alumna Barbara Wallach (MA, ’70; PhD, ’74, classics) an emerita associate professor of classical studies at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
The estate gift will be...
Mauro Nobili has been studying the pre-colonial and early colonial history of West Africa for more than a decade.
Through the years, Nobili, a professor of history, has pieced together evidence that shows the Tarikh al-fattash, a West African chronicle...
When Robert and Beata Kaminski immigrated to the U.S. from Poland, they knew nothing about American colleges, and relied on their oldest son, Szymon, to guide them.
Szymon explained to his parents the credits it takes to graduate, how to pay tuition, and about the classes he needs to take. They...
The University of Illinois celebrated two stellar faculty members with recognitions as endowed chairs deemed to be among the most distinguished honors on campus.
Antoinette Burton, professor of history, has been named the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed...
In the academic world, the study of humanities and sciences are often separated, with the subjects taught by different professors in different buildings and even different colleges. However, David Sepkoski, the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in History of Science...