Three students and an alumna from the College of LAS have been recognized as among the most valuable and influential interns in 2017 at U of I’s Research Park.
Almost 600 interns work for Research Park tenant companies. Approved by the Board of Trustees in 1999, the Research Park...
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,...
If you think entrepreneurship is something that begins after a student earns his or her degree, think again. The iVenture Accelerator program has been growing in popularity since it launched in 2015, with its programming intended to allow students from...
If you already know of Ted Sanders, you probably like good stories. The rising author is the creator of The Keepers, a widely acclaimed children’s book series from HarperCollins that the New York Times Book Review likened to the work of J.K. Rowling and Rick Riordan.But have you...
Werner Baer, a talented and passionate professor of economics who joined the University of Illinois 42 years ago, passed away suddenly on Thursday following a brief illness, the Department of Economics announced.
Baer, born in 1931...
While the end of Saturday delivery will reduce costs for the U.S. Postal Service, the mail carrier must pursue more solutions if it wants to survive, according to a University of Illinois economics professor. It even remains to be seen whether...
Illinois is mired in a deep employment recession that could linger for years unless the state unravels the roots of its nearly decade-long job slump, a new study by a University of Illinois geographer and economist...
Scaling back mail delivery from six days a week to five may be the best bet to stem mounting U.S. Postal Service losses, but could still be a gamble, says a University of Illinois economist who has studied the agency’s persistent financial decline....
A proposed federal prison in northwest Illinois would lock up a double dose of much-needed cash to chip away at the state’s gaping budget hole, a University of Illinois economist says.J. Fred Giertz says money from selling the largely unused state lockup and the thousands of jobs that would follow...
Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian economist, did an experiment in the 1980s in which he tried to find out how much time it would take to start a new business in Peru. He discovered that it took 256 working days just to obtain the 11 necessary permits—and two of the permits could only be obtained with...