A new paper co-written by a University of Illinois expert who studies labor economics says the minimum wage is an effective tool to increase the incomes of older workers who are at or near retirement and – contrary to the notion that higher minimum wages force earlier retirements – has no...
This year’s additions to the nearly century-old Bronze Tablet at Illinois include 102 graduates from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
Each year, the Bronze Tablet is inscribed with the names of new graduates and placed in the Main Library. To achieve this honor, undergraduate students...
At 89 years old, Merrill Thompson makes it a point to return to the University of Illinois campus whenever he can. It is, after all, a family place—a place where one goes to reflect and help out.
His adoptive father was a graduate of the business school (now Gies College of Business) at Illinois...
Real-time monitoring of indoor air quality, creating scholarly gaming environments, and developing sustainable solutions for cities are among the projects funded in the...
How do you expose students to real world problems and solutions? You can bring the real world to them, which is what happened at the recent Datathon held at the U of I campus.
About 250 students came together at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center for a competition coordinated by the...
New graduates from the College of LAS continue to be successful at securing a first destination soon after graduation, according to an analysis of alumni at Illinois. Those who have landed jobs are also drawing larger salaries for their work.
According to the Illini Success...
Richard Clarida was strolling across the University of Illinois campus in the winter of 1979, his senior year, when he suddenly heard a song he wrote, wafting through the open window of an apartment building. He was also thrilled to hear his song being played at a keg party,...
Like so many people in the United States, one of this year’s LAS alumni award winners saw her life permanently changed on September 11, 2001, when planes struck the World Trade Center. That’s when she decided to return to the National Security Agency.For another award winner, her defining moment...
When A. Mark Neuman (BS, '85, economics) first visited the small West African country of Burkina Faso in 2006, he says he was “blown away. I found women owning and controlling cooperatives that grew high-quality, rain-fed, pesticide-free cotton, and the women controlled the money they earned.”
But...
Charee Thompson’s research can delve into some sensitive topics. For example, the assistant professor of communication recently studied how people doubted a family member’s illness, particularly in cases of illnesses that are hard to trace and...