As COVID-19 hit communities around the world, two researchers connected to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences realized various countries could flatten the curve using a variety of policies to slow the virus transmission. However, successfully lowering transmission rates while preserving...
Six recent alumni from the College of LAS were offered Fulbright grants to pursue international education, research, and teaching experiences across the globe this coming year.
The goal of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is to build international relationships to help solve global challenges....
The numbers are in from the third annual Datathon at Illinois, and the competitive event to expose students to real-world problem solving in analytics is a growing success.
Divij Ranjan, president of the Illini Statistics Club, which...
Have you thought about what you’re going to do after college? If you haven’t, that’s OK, it’s never too late to get the resources you need to help with your career planning. Illinois has many resources to aid in your professional career journey.
Here’s a question for Illinois sports fans: Who at the University of Illinois changed the face of college football in the 1920s? If you answered Red Grange, you’d be right, but there was someone else on campus whose work led to a slew of national football titles. It wasn’t a star player or coach,...
When the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros closed Game 7 of the World Series, the connection between the two teams was secured in Major League Baseball history. The historic series gave the Nationals their first championship and dashed the hopes of the Astros securing two titles this decade...
Billy Dec knows what it’s like to be on the receiving end of help. When he wanted to come to the University of Illinois in 1991, he couldn’t afford it, so he drove down from Chicago and showed up at the financial aid office. A staff member noticed him looking distraught, and over the next few days...
Billy Dec (BA, ’95, economics) was devastated when two of his family’s elders passed away on the same day—December 9, 2018. One of them, his grandmother’s sister, passed away in the Philippines, while his godfather died a world away in Chicago, with Dec...
Kohei Kishida works at the intersection of two fields that may appear to be unlikely partners — computer science and philosophy.
The humanities and STEM are two academic paths that typically lead to very different outcomes, but the professor of ...
Seven alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have named recipients of the college’s 2019 annual alumni awards. The alumni represent a variety of backgrounds and degrees, and their achievements have clear links to their experiences at the University of Illinois. The recipients will...