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...
“What think you of books?” Mr. Darcy asks Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s immortal novel, “Pride and Prejudice.”“Books—Oh! no.—I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings,” answers Elizabeth.Today, more than 200 years since “Pride and Prejudice” was published, the digital...
Seventeen faculty members have taken new leadership positions in departments and other academic units across the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences this fall semester.
Leadership changes among the more than 60 academic units that make up the college are a normal and healthy...
It was an event that seemed to encapsulate the tumult of the 1960s. Police clashed violently with anti-war protesters in Chicago’s streets. Party factions waged political battle within the hall. What was happening in the 1968 Democratic Convention 50 years ago, and why?...
Bela Gandhi
always had a knack for matchmaking. It was no small talent, either; many of the people she set up on dates eventually married and had children. Finally, Gandhi turned her talent for making love connections into a career and launched the...