The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has announced the recipients of its 2018 annual alumni awards. The recipients represent a variety of backgrounds and degrees, from microbiology and economics to history, psychology, and mathematics. Their remarkable achievements are linked to their...
A new program in the Department of History is designed to create wider awareness of the careers and opportunities available to doctoral students while highlighting the diverse skills developed through graduate study.Mark Steinberg, a professor of history...
College of LAS senior Gabriel Wacks is among 221 nationwide recipients of David L. Boren Scholarships awarded by the National Security Education Program. The program...
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...