blog posts 2021 third-costliest year for weather disasters since NOAA started tracking them Jan 18, 2022 12:00 pm Kansas Reflector (Jan. 17) 'There’s a lot of people who seem to think climate change has not affected them...You just don’t realize that your tax money is going into having to pay for all these disasters,' says U of I climate change expert Donald Wuebbles. 150 years after Lincoln assassination, massive online archive goes live Apr 10, 2015 9:45 am Computerworld (Framingham, Mass., April 10) - The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a massive online archive has gone live containing 99,525 documents, is a joint digitization project sponsored by the University of Illinois. $14.5 billion in relief payments help farmers weather Trump’s trade war with China Sep 3, 2019 1:30 pm WGLT-FM (Sept. 3) 'To the average person, that strikes them as a lot of money, and it is,' says Illinois agricultural economist Scott Irwin. 'But it’s not making farmers wealthy right now.' 12 wheelchair racers from Illinois, including six women, represent the U.S. in Rio Sep 8, 2016 10:30 am ESPN (Sept. 6) It’s the program's largest delegation, and accounts for about 20 percent of the total U.S. track and field team. 10 scientists to watch: Rodríguez-López designs batteries for a sustainable energy future Sep 26, 2018 3:00 pm Science News (Sept. 26) – 'We design new ways of looking at materials, and we design better materials,' says Illinois professor Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez $10.8 million apartment, retail complex proposed for the U. of I.’s Research Park Jul 14, 2016 1:45 pm Chicago Inno (July 12) The mixed use three-story building would include 16 one- and two-bedroom apartments, as well as four extended-stay studio apartments, with room for retail, restaurants and office space. 100-year-old Tuskegee airman from Bethesda returns to the sky for his birthday Dec 9, 2019 1:45 pm WTOP (Dec. 6) - Drafted when he was a sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Charles E. McGee is one of nine living Tuskegee pilots who flew combat missions. 100+ researchers have taken a U of I workshop for genomics researchers, Indigenous communities Feb 17, 2020 1:15 pm Washington Post (Feb. 16) 'Having better science isn’t just about keeping science in the ivy tower of academia; science is about helping communities,' says program founder, genomic researcher Ripan Malhi 100 degrees forecast for World Series game one: How does that effect pitching? Oct 23, 2017 10:00 am The research of Illinois professor emeritus Alan Nathan indicates that a batted ball may be expected to travel an additional 3.3 feet for every 10 degrees of added temperature $10,000 reward available for information that helps find Illinois visiting scholar Yingying Zhang Jun 19, 2017 11:30 am Chicago Tribune (June 18) Zhang, 26, was last seen near the north end of campus June 9.