Six assistant professors have been recognized as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their contributions and potential in teaching and research.The awardees are Mauro Nobili in the Department of History; Aleks Ksiazkiewicz in...
You may know him from Peanuts as the German flying ace who always got the best of Snoopy. Perhaps you’ve seen him portrayed as an almost supernaturally skilled war pilot in movies and games reenacting the sky battles of World War I. Some 100 years after his bright-red triplane was...
Cassandra Osei and Billy Keniston, doctoral students in the Department of History at of Illinois, each applied for the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship knowing that the chances they would win the competitive fellowship were...
What was Brad Evans, aka “The Big Noise” on Yahoo! Sports, doing prior to becoming a must-read analyst for fantasy football and college basketball fans? He was a history teacher in Champaign, Illinois. Read...
Like so many people in the United States, one of this year’s LAS alumni award winners saw her life permanently changed on September 11, 2001, when planes struck the World Trade Center. That’s when she decided to return to the National Security Agency.For another award winner, her defining moment...
Marie Trzupek Lynch was a graduate student living on the north side of Chicago when a neighbor changed her life.
The neighbor, who lived in the same apartment building, told Lynch (BA, ’94, history) that her friend had just turned down...
To be Hopi is to run. “That’s who we are and that’s what we do,” said Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert.
So it’s no surprise that Gilbert, a professor and the director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois, was...
Cupcake day was frantically approaching at Taylor Mazique’s high school. It was supposed to be a happy day, devoted to eating cupcakes and celebrating the various universities that seniors had decided to attend. But it was causing her stress: Mazique had no clue what colors or university logo she...
One of the new faculty faces on campus this fall is David Sepkoski, who has spent his career blending the fields of science and history. His father, a paleontologist at the...
Charee Thompson’s research can delve into some sensitive topics. For example, the assistant professor of communication recently studied how people doubted a family member’s illness, particularly in cases of illnesses that are hard to trace and...