John Lynn, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, has received a Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The award follows news earlier this spring that Lynn had received the 2017 Samuel Eliot Morison...
The Center for Advanced Study has appointed seven new members to its permanent faculty – one of the highest forms of academic recognition the University of Illinois campus makes for outstanding scholarship. Six of the seven appointments come from the College...
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will award the Chancellor’s Medallion to three men who have dedicated their professional lives to preserving and making available the history of the university.
Honored in a June 28 ceremony will be Winton Solberg, a professor...
Fourteen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students and young alumni –including 11 from the College of LAS—have been offered student Fulbright grants to pursue international educational, research and teaching experiences this coming year throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America...
Courtney Cain is a future three-time graduate of Illinois with a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree in history. After she officially graduates in August, she will be teaching at Lake Forest College as an assistant professor of history and...
Thomas Dowling, a junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was awarded a $30,000 Truman Scholarship. Dowling was one of 62 Truman Scholars selected from a pool of 768 nominees from colleges and universities across the country.Dowling, from Chicago and a graduate of St. Ignatius...
Faculty, advisors, teaching assistants, and teaching interns in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been recognized for excellence in educating and advising students at Illinois.Each year, the college selects outstanding educators for awards in several categories. The nomination process...
University of Illinois professor Erik S. McDuffie is the recipient of a 2017 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
McDuffie, a professor of African American studies and of ...
Thirty graduating seniors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been selected to the Senior 100 Honorary for their notable achievements.LAS students from 17 majors, ranging from molecular and cellular biology to psychology, philosophy, history, gender and women’s studies, and more,...
During a recent evening, professors, staff members, and students gathered to take part in a new school tradition: They got up on their soapboxes before a lively crowd and debated on the books that had most changed the world.
A panel of judges then determined the winner from a...