blog posts

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  Curiosities from our collections: 1893 Chicago World's Fair

  Apr 9, 2024 1:00 pm

  According to Winton Solberg, a renowned historian of the university, it took our faculty two and a half years to prepare our exhibit, 'which consisted of nine freight carloads...and occupied eight thousand square feet in the Illinois State Building.' 

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  Curious Encounters with the Natural World

  Apr 22, 2019 11:15 am

  'We are not photographic trophy hunters, seeking to make each and every image that perfect portrait, but biologists who seek to capture the little windows of time that show nature as it is.'

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  STORIED.

  Oct 18, 2018 9:00 am

  On the hundredth anniversary of this difficult autumn, we look back at a campus that prepared soldiers for war, tended to the sick, and came together in a spirit of selflessness and compassion that was the hallmark of some of our earliest Illini.

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  Translating the science of climate change into solutions

  Nov 1, 2021 11:30 am

  Don Wuebbles, a world-renowned atmospheric scientist and science communicator, has no patience for those unwilling to accept the gravity of the situation. 'To call it global warming is really just not representing the science correctly.'