Call it a case of history students determined to prevent history from repeating itself. Members of HIST 172/173 at Illinois, influenced by a class section on the Great Depression, recently organized a food drive that generated more than 300 lbs. of food to fight hunger in local areas.It started as...
What role can the humanities play in science, education, engineering, and mathematics—and vice versa? It can be a significant one, said Antoinette Burton, director of the Illinois Program for the Humanities (IPRH) and professor of...
Faculty and graduate students at Illinois have been awarded “Paradigms Shifts” Fellowship Awards by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH). The program also announced the first ever New Horizons Summer Research...
The National Baseball Hall of Fame has launched a new online platform to celebrate Latino baseball, with University of Illinois history professor Adrian Burgos Jr. as its editor-in-chief.The site, La Vida Baseball (...
New graduates from LAS are successful at securing a first destination after college, according to the second annual release of a campus initiative to better understand young Illinois alumni. They’re also in demand by employers upon graduation.
These results are according to the...
Stephanie Alumbaugh never forgot the day she presented a paper in junior high and was met with snickering and laughter. After that experience, Alumbaugh developed a fear of writing and presenting papers in public that stayed with her for years.
“That did not help my self-...
Can anyone predict the future? If someone in 1867 had asked John Milton Gregory—this institution’s visionary, founding regent—what would happen over the next 150 years, would he have even guessed that Illinois Industrial University would switch names to the University of Illinois...
Central Illinois in 1867 was not an obvious place to plant a university that would change the world.
Illinois had no public colleges and a short history of universal public schooling. Legislators wanted only practical instruction from their new institution. And the campus was in...
A professor of history at the University of Illinois is being recognized by the American Library Association for his effort to describe the unique challenges that arise when race and homosexuality intersect.
Kevin Mumford,...
Two LAS faculty members, Erik McDuffie and Carol Symes, have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for 2017.
McDuffie is a professor of African American studies and of ...