Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, a professor of history, has been appointed by the College of LAS to direct the American Indian Studies Program at Illinois. He will be the second permanent director appointed to the...
Twenty-four graduating seniors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been selected to the Senior 100 Honorary for their notable achievements.
LAS students from 13 majors, ranging from molecular and cellular biology to psychology, communication, history, Spanish and...
The University of Illinois is reaffirming the significance of the arts and humanities by launching a new graduate fellowship program intended to attract the best and brightest students in these fields.
The College of LAS is collaborating with the College of Fine and Applied Arts...
Beautiful art. Monolithic buildings. Microscopic machines. Since humankind first picked up tools, design has been used to create the physical objects that shape our world. But what if the same approaches that enable us to design the physical world could be used to engineer a better life?This past...
Slavery and racism played their roles in planting beliefs about race and racial difference, but so did medicine, says the author of a new book.
Many physicians in pre-Civil War America and the West Indies developed ideas that black bodies were different in basic ways: naturally immune to some...
Four University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been selected for endowed chairs deemed to be among the most distinguished honors on the campus.Stephen P. Long, a professor of plant biology and crop...
The nature of what counts as the historical record, and how it is made, is rapidly changing. Through social media and other methods, people are quickly becoming accustomed to digitizing and sharing the events of their lives at a furious pace—and relying upon the Internet as a kind...
Several outstanding professors in the College of LAS have been selected by their peers to receive named professorial positions, which provide financial assistance to support their research and teaching duties.
The positions were created through gifts to the college. For example,...
In 1915, Illinois sports were practically unbeatable. The university’s baseball, football, basketball, and track teams all won Big Ten championships. The mood on campus must have been a far cry from 1918, however, when nearly every building on campus—including some Greek houses and university...