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 ...
How does a history degree lead to a career in clinical health research? The path isn’t as winding as you might think, according to Katie Arrigo-Wozniak, who has been employed at Sage Products LLC, a medical technology company, for seven years and running. She’s...
Six assistant professors have been recognized for their exceptional accomplishments in teaching and research as part of a new program to highlight and encourage the contributions of outstanding junior faculty in the College of LAS.Selected faculty will retain the Lincoln Excellence for Assistant...
When the Middle Ages come to mind, many people think of famine, disease and death. But Carol Symes knows there is much more to the medieval past than its often unpleasant popular portrayals and hopes to translate deeper layers of this era for a wider audience—literally.Symes, a professor of...
A history professor at the University of Illinois has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to set the record straight about the previously fictionalized world of a 17th century traveler.
Craig Koslofsky,...