blog posts Krannert Art Museum to screen short films on World AIDS Day Nov 27, 2017 12:00 pm Krannert Art Museum will show seven short films about the impact of the AIDS crisis in black communities in recognition of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 Professor Stephen Long to speak at Paris climate convention Dec 1, 2015 11:45 am Agricultural innovation is needed now — not later — to avoid food shortages in a world with an ever-changing climate and a growing population. PRI awarded $10.1 million for underground carbon storage Dec 7, 2016 12:15 pm The Illinois State Geological Survey was awarded two projects totaling $10.1 million Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop technologies to mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Wind farm partnership to increase campus renewable energy use Dec 9, 2016 11:00 am A 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) between Prairieland Energy, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Illinois, and Rail Splitter Wind Farm LLC will significantly increase the amount of renewable energy used by campus. Watch: 'Tis the Season... Dec 13, 2018 10:30 am See Chancellor Jones's annual holiday video greeting to students and the Illinois family Stephens named Nesbitt African American Cultural Center director Jan 3, 2017 10:00 am Nathan Stephens will become the director of the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center effective Jan. 9. He most recently was director of the Center for Inclusive Excellence at SIU-Carbondale How engineering will revolutionize the future of healthcare Jan 13, 2016 10:30 am "Look at what this University and the College of Engineering did for electronics and computing in the 20th Century. We have the opportunity to have the same kind of an impact in the 21st Century for health and medicine." National Medal of Arts winner Ping Chong: Artist-in-residence Jan 14, 2016 10:15 am Renowned artist and National Medal of Arts winner Ping Chong is working with dance students to create a performance based on racial history in the U.S. Ancient American goddesses on display Feb 2, 2018 9:00 am New exhibit at Illinois’ Spurlock Museum show artistic, spiritual legacy of people who built Cahokia, a great, thousand-year-old urban center on the Mississippi River Illinois stream fauna: A look back at pre-settlement biodiversity Feb 9, 2018 1:45 pm The dramatic changes in the Illinois' landscape, from tall grass prairies and forests to farms, road, and cities have greatly affected freshwater organisms and their habitats 38th Insect Fear Film Festival features fleas Feb 19, 2021 2:45 pm 'In the midst of a pandemic, it seems an appropriate theme to focus on an insect associated with pandemics,' says festival founder, entomology professor May Berenbaum. Fleas are the primary vectors that spread the bubonic plague. Jim Anderson: Dream Keeper Feb 22, 2018 10:00 am Anderson arrived at Illinois in 1966 and was 'here to witness the genesis and evolution, to see the campus change in so many ways.' Today he's preparing students for what comes next University of Illinois is a top producer of U.S. Fulbright students Mar 8, 2016 12:15 pm Fifteen students from the U. of I.’s Urbana campus won Fulbright awards for 2015-16, helping Illinois earn its top-five rank for public universities. More than 300 course sections Mar 15, 2016 7:45 pm Need to stay on track or get ahead for graduation? Are you travelling, returning home, or working at an internship this summer? Want to take challenging, high-demand courses in an online format from anywhere in the world? NASA awards contract Illinois startup for ‘smart’ color-changing air filters for space suits Mar 17, 2017 9:00 am Colorfil smart filters let users know when they are working (pink) and when they’re spent (yellow) with an intuitive, unambiguous color change Horseshoes is not a game to farriers Mar 19, 2018 12:30 pm Did you know that Illinois is one of the only major US universities with a full-service farrier training program? See the video Genomics and Society with Neil Shubin of PBS Mar 24, 2015 12:45 pm The Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology's lecutre series, Genomics and Society, continues with a presentation by Neil Shubin, host of "Your Inner Fish" on PBS Moms Weekend 2024, April 12-14 Apr 8, 2024 8:00 am Celebrate over 100 years of inviting Moms to the Illinois campus! UIPD loses a friend: K9 Quinty passes after one last bust Apr 11, 2016 1:30 pm Quinty spent eight years working as a drug-sniffing dog, and many of those as part of the Targeted Response Unit, which is tasked with taking narcotics, weapons and violent offenders off the street. New MOOC-based Master of Computer Science Apr 13, 2016 8:00 pm This fully online professional master’s degree equips learners with knowledge from Illinois faculty who have produced seminal research in data science. MCS-DS graduates will be qualified to enter one of the most in-demand career tracks in the industry. Barbey wins Mensa Prize for neuroscience research on human intelligence. Apr 16, 2019 9:45 am Illinois Professor Aron Barbey won the $10,000 prize for making seminal contributions to the neuroscientific study of human intelligence. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills to give Thulin Lecture in Religion Apr 19, 2016 12:15 pm Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and historian Garry Wills will discuss the theology of nature when he delivers the Thulin Lecture in Religion on April 21. Paul Magelli's return to Kilimanjaro Jun 11, 2016 11:30 am Dr. Magelli, 85, has been in training with the Mayo Clinic to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro for scientific research. In August, they will attempt to climb to the summit of the mountain. Skilled in the art of writing - and how to teach it Jun 21, 2017 2:00 pm The poetry of Julie Price has growing resonance in the classroom and beyond. She won the $10,000 Rattle Poetry Prize for her poem, “Veins” -- out of more than 15,000 submissions. Eleven Illinois students, recent alumni offered Fulbright grants Jun 25, 2018 4:15 pm Fulbright grants allow the honorees to pursue international educational, research and teaching experiences across the globe this coming year Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World surprises, exhausts students Jun 28, 2016 10:45 am These high school students, who have limited or no prior knowledge of Arabic, are enrolled in June to study Modern Standard Arabic. Upon completion they’ll earn two college credits. Who was 'The Most Popular Girl in School?' Jul 10, 2015 2:00 pm In April 1914, the Chicago Sunday Tribune named ten girls “The Most Popular Girls in College.” Clara Cronk was ours. 2015 Illinois Proof-of-Concept Program award recipients announced Jul 17, 2015 2:15 pm Illinois Proof-of-Concept funds development projects that will help demonstrate an innovation's viability to potential investors and partners. Patton named College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean Jul 28, 2021 10:15 am Venetria Patton, currently the head of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue, will become the Harry E. Preble Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Illinois effective Aug. 2, pending approval by the Board of Trustees. Japan House festival shares Japanese culture Jul 30, 2017 9:30 am Japan House is preparing for its third Matsuri Festival, which drew 4,000 people last year. It will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. Aug. 27 on the grounds of the Arboretum and Japan House Apply now for admission to Illinois Aug 1, 2017 8:15 am Our Illinois application can be accessed through myIllini, our student portal, allowing you to manage your admissions process in one place Krannert Art Museum acquires alumnus Hal Fischer’s conceptual photographs Aug 13, 2019 9:00 am Pioneering photographer and University of Illinois alumnus Hal Fischer documented the gay community in San Francisco in the 1970s. Japan House to host Matsuri Festival to celebrate Japanese culture Aug 20, 2015 1:45 pm Matsuri will serve as a kickoff for the semester, a welcome for international students and a way for the community to learn more about Japanese culture. It will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Aug. 30 at Japan House, 2000 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana. Student veterans say new center is a lifeline and oasis Oct 2, 2015 9:45 am The new Center for Wounded Veterans the center will be the nexus point for the recovering veteran, an oasis where mind and body can recover, recalibrate and reintegrate into civilian society. Sculpture of Thoreau’s cabin looks at artifice of objects Oct 5, 2016 9:45 am “I was interested in it as a symbolic object, as a destination,” Illinois art professor Conrad Bakker said of the cabin at Walden Pond. “I’m also interested in how a fake thing can hold the place of a real thing.” First 'A Great Conversation' to feature Maryland U president Oct 6, 2020 10:15 am The first of Chancellor Robert Jones’ “A Great Conversation” events will be livestreamed Monday, Oct. 12, from 11 a.m. to noon CDT. It will feature Freeman Hrabowski, a national leader in academic innovation and inclusive excellence. Healing Peter with T-shirts and silver Oct 9, 2017 10:15 am A goldendoodle named Peter gets special care for his infected wounds at the U. of I. College of Veterinary Medicine Join us! Check the calendar of Homecoming Week events Oct 13, 2023 11:15 am With a Homecoming week theme of 'Sweet Home Illini,' the U of I welcomes alumni and friends to campus for a full week's worth of events, from the 5k on Sunday, Oct. 15, through a fall football weekend that culminates with a Foreigner concert. A loving note from a student, to students Oct 21, 2016 10:45 am Tips for overcoming life’s hardships, by journalism student Ariel Majewski Surveying the serpents of the Badlands Oct 24, 2017 10:45 am Today, we are visiting a traditional snake hibernaculum – a rock outcrop on a butte in which generations of snakes have come to spend their winters Camargo named College of Liberal Arts and Sciences interim dean Oct 31, 2016 9:30 am Martin Camargo is currently associate dean for humanities and interdisciplinary programs in LAS. He holds a tenured faculty appointment in English and appointments as a professor of classics and of medieval studies. Another major step forward for Carle Illinois College of Medicine Nov 2, 2015 11:30 am Carle Health System and Illinois recently signed four important establishing documents, including a Research Affiliation Agreement, a Translational Research Agreement, Hiring Practices Guidelines, and a Joint Liaison Committee Charter. East St. Louis Archaeological Project named a 'top ten field project in the world' Nov 12, 2015 11:30 am Shanghai Archaeological Forum of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, has recognized the Illinois State Archaeological Survey’s East St. Louis Archaeological Project Illinois State Climatologist Jim Angel to retire in December Nov 15, 2018 1:45 pm As State Climatologist since 1997, Angel has served as the primary source of science-based weather and climate information and services for Illinois Professor gets $2.5 m to study climate change and tick-borne diseases Nov 19, 2015 9:15 am The grant was awarded by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, the Department of Defense's environmental science and technology program. Q&A with alum Dan Balz, chief correspondent of The Washington Post Dec 1, 2022 9:15 am Join us as alumnus Dan Balz of The Washington Post, discusses the U.S. Senate Georgia runoff election between Democratic incumbent Senator Raphael G. Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker on Dec. 5. Another Alma’s Heartwarming Homecoming Dec 2, 2020 11:00 am 'My Alma was very excited about this. She kept saying, "Can you believe it? The Alma Mater sent me a birthday card!”' Illinois, French partners digitizing Proust's letters Dec 6, 2018 2:15 pm Illinois researchers have created a website to make thousands of letters written by Marcel Proust available to the public Former ambassador to Ukraine Maria Yovanovitch honored with Douglas Award Dec 7, 2022 1:15 pm The Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government, presented by U of I’s Institute of Government and Public Affairs, recognizes public officials who demonstrate the highest standards of public service. Life onboard the research boat traveling the Amazon River Dec 9, 2016 10:30 am Given the confining nature of our vessel, many routines that require no thought or preparation in our everyday lives become chores on the boat, writes Illinois geology student Vanessa Gabel.