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the injured bald eagle at the Wildlife Medical Clinic

Surgery will give bald eagle a shot at flying again, but it's pricey

May 4, 2016 11:00 am

At Illinois' Wildlife Medical Clinic, a CT scan of the eagle revealed that her humerus—the bone connecting the shoulder and elbow—had been fractured by a gunshot.

U of I to co-lead $15M Great Lakes Innovation Hub

Aug 26, 2021 11:00 am

Illinois is co-leading the new Great Lakes Innovation Corps Hub. I-Corps trains scientists and engineers to carry their promising ideas and technologies beyond the university and into the marketplace to benefit society.

Professor Ruby Mendenhall, Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

Professor collaborates on documentary to expose the effects of violence

Aug 31, 2016 9:00 am

“What’s Left Behind” will consist of interviews with black mothers from Chicago who have experienced loss at the hands of violence.

Professor Rochelle Sennet. Photo by Stauffer

New recording pairs music of Bach with works by Black composers

Sep 8, 2021 11:45 am

Pianist Rochelle Sennet said she wants her 'Bach to Black' project to show that classical music is for everyone, regardless of race or cultural background.

Young or old, you'll love Vet Med's Virtual Open House

Oct 5, 2020 11:45 am

More than 50 videos and dozens of interactive presentations! If you know a young person who would like to become a veterinarian - or anyone who loves animals - this is the (virtual) place to be!

proposed redistricting map (ca. 2021) of the northern half of Illinois

Researchers' political redistricting proposal: An 'I cut, you choose' system for fairness

Dec 16, 2022 1:15 pm

Institute for Computational Redistricting researchers have proposed an alternative process that takes input from two major political parties and results in quantifiably fairer district maps by several common metrics.

Sediment mining in the Surma River valley in northern Bangladesh. Photo by Jim Best.

Troubled waters: The dangers facing the world's major rivers

Jan 18, 2019 4:45 pm

'Prioritizing the fate of the world’s great river corridors on an international political stage is imperative,' writes geology professor Jim Best

women sitting around a desk as an instructor takes notes

Women, Money & Power online course now open to public

Feb 26, 2024 1:15 pm

'From negotiating for a first job to unique challenges in retirement, Women, Money & Power is valuable to everyone at any stage of their career,' said Presley Fee, digital financial planning program coordinator.

Festival guest Hugh Dancy co-starred with Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Hysteria.”

‘Hair,’ 'Hysteria' and other films, guests announced for Ebertfest

Mar 23, 2017 3:45 pm

The 1979 film “Hair,” based on the Broadway musical of the same name, will open this year’s Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, April 19-23 in Champaign

Uniting through writing

May 13, 2021 3:45 pm

A project at U. of I. teaches Illinois residents to reconnect through journals

group photo of Dressman and students in arid Navajo Nation setting

Mark Dressman: Teaching on the Navajo Nation

Jul 17, 2019 9:30 am

'Living on the Nation was like a foreign country to the (College of Education students). People spoke differently, dressed differently. I loved seeing the looks on their faces as they were discovering things.'

still image from The short film “Maids” the story of a cleaning lady who gets caught up in a murder mystery she is listening to on the radio.

Flatlands Dance Film Festival to screen documentary on flamenco dancer, short films

Aug 23, 2019 12:00 pm

The Flatlands Dance Film Festival will screen the documentary “La Chana” about a Spanish flamenco dancer on its opening night, Aug. 30.

Dr. Michael Schlosser, director of the Police Training institute at U of I

Wrongful conviction course now required for all police recruits in Illinois

Feb 1, 2023 8:45 am

U. of I. Police Training Institute director Michael Schlosser worked with colleagues at the Illinois Innocence Project to develop a Wrongful Conviction Awareness and Avoidance course that is now required training for police recruits across Illinois.

stock watercolor abstract provided by the Department of Psychology

Illinois Summit on Diversity in Psychological Science

Feb 12, 2018 9:45 am

The goal of this Summit is to set a new agenda for research in psychological science that will transform the way we think about diversity, its context in the academy, society

Corn rootworm keeps evolving ways to resist pesticides that protect $50 billion corn industry

Mar 2, 2017 1:00 pm

Scientific American (Feb. 14) Illinois entomologist Joseph Spencer worries that technology to defeat the corn rootworm will work only briefly against an inventive foe.

The Great Lakes as seen from space. Photo by: SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Great Lakes region faces growing climate change-related threats

Mar 22, 2019 10:45 am

Climate scientists led by Illinois' Don Wuebbles issued a report that foresees a growing trend of wetter winters and springs: more flooding in urban areas, and unpredictable cycles of heat and rainfall could undermine agriculture.

a visitor tries to control a firehose at a previous Engineering Open House event

U of I's famous Engineering Open House, April 5 & 6

Apr 1, 2024 10:00 am

For the past 100+ years EOH has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors to the University of Illinois and provided a unique outlet for visitors to explore engineering. Welcome to EOH 2024.

cartoon image of crying woman by Brook Elam, a Champaign artist who makes pop comic art paintings

University Library’s Small Press Fest celebrates small press, DIY publications

Apr 5, 2019 10:45 am

The Library's Sarah Christensen hopes the festival will develop a community of zine makers, comics artists and other self-published authors. 'Anyone can be an author and write about anything they want.'

Medical maggots? Old-school wound care still used

Apr 11, 2017 12:45 pm

Maggot therapy is often used to debride—or clean out—wounds. “The maggots feed only on dead and dying tissue. They have no interest in the healthy flesh..."

archeological predictive map shows entire state

Archaeological predictive model helps Illinoisans balance growth with preservation

May 26, 2020 11:45 am

The Illinois State Archaeological Survey offers a GIS-based tool that draws on more than a century of data to predict the probability of encountering an archaeological site in any 2-acre section of Illinois.

The Dry Garden surrounded by spring foliage. Photo by Joyce Seay-Knoblauch

Blog: A guide to the Japan House gardens

May 31, 2016 2:00 pm

Your guide, Jim Bier, designed and built the gardens at Japan House and has maintained the gardens for 19 years.

Daniel Sitterly, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, uses the universal design podium while speaking at the May 16 Tri-Service Commissioning Ceremony at Foellinger Auditorium for the U. of I. ROTC program.

Universal podium design helps keep the focus on a speaker’s message

Jun 3, 2016 10:45 am

“The podium design may enable or interfere with communications. At worst, poor podium design may prove so distracting that it can undermine the speaker’s message altogether,” wrote designer Kathryn Anthony.

ribbon cutting for the Rise Community Market in Cairo, Illinois. Photo by Bridget Lee-Calfas

Partnership, perseverance end food desert in Illinois’ southernmost city

Jun 21, 2023 9:45 am

Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton praised the Rise opening as a model that can be replicated elsewhere in the state. 'Access to healthy food is not just about groceries, it’s about justice,' she said.

Demi Striglos with the Deer Donation program delivered 50 pounds of venison and shared venison recipes with the Standing Stone/Carpenters Table food pantry in Charleston in early December. Photo credit Standing Stone Community Center.

Illinois Extension provides nearly 25,000 meals through deer donation pilot program

Jan 27, 2023 10:15 am

'Food prices are high, meat prices are high, and pantries are really struggling with getting meat right now. This is an opportunity for hunters to help their communities while doing something they enjoy and supporting local small businesses.'

Kayla DeSouza performs at the first Art Remastered event in May 2017. Photo by Veronica Mullen

Art and music harmonize at Art Remastered performances at Krannert Art Museum

Feb 12, 2018 9:30 am

Local musicians composed new songs in response to a piece of art at the museum, then perform them next to the artwork. The museum will host an Art Remastered event Feb. 23

Conner Weber, a student at Illinois, unloads boxes for a food drive inspired in part by a history class on the Great Depression. Photo courtesy of Leslie Reagan.

History class organizes to fight hunger

Apr 4, 2017 9:00 am

It started as Leslie Reagan taught her United States history class about the Great Depression and the New Deal. “A third of the country was out of work, and people were starving.”

The World of Genomics at Chicago's Field Museum

May 18, 2017 7:00 am

A special two-day 'World of Genomics' exhibit includes hands-on activities to discover the world of genomic science and its impact on our lives.

Robinson used bright colors to portray the prosperity of the Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Prof's graphic novel portrays thriving Black community before, after Tulsa massacre

Aug 17, 2021 1:15 pm

Illinois art professor Stacey Robinson illustrated the first graphic novel on the Tulsa Race Massacre in a way that portrays the prosperity of the Black community.

The two markers are run by the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program and staffed by researchers and specialists from Purdue University and the University of Illinois.

Meet the buoys of summer who help Purdue and Illinois study Lake Michigan

Sep 1, 2016 10:30 am

The two markers are run by the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program and staffed by researchers and specialists from Purdue University and the University of Illinois.

sample of proust's letters. Photo by L. B. Stauffer

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

Jarrett Lewis, an assistant professor in Educational Psychology in the College of Education

Centering healing for Black youth and young adults

Dec 16, 2022 2:00 pm

Education professor Jarrett Lewis is developing ongoing mental health services to help Black youths process violent and racial trauma—and flourish despite that trauma.

U of I urban greening expert to speak at World Economic Forum

Jan 16, 2020 2:00 pm

Ming Kuo will speak to global leaders next week at the 50th World Economic Forum to make the case that investments in urban greening could improve mental and physical health.

Professor Nicole Cooke. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

LIS professor writes textbook on diversity issues for librarians

Feb 3, 2017 8:00 am

Professor Nicole Cooke's new book textbook helps librarians understand the importance of serving diverse groups of people. It examines the political, social, economic and technological divides among library patrons.

graphic for the 41st annual Insect Fear Film Festival by Grace O'Brien

41st Insect Fear Film Festival features movies about humans shrunk to size of ants

Feb 16, 2024 11:45 am

This year's Insect Fear Film Festival brings a bug’s-eye view of the world. The theme is 'Ant-Men,' and it will feature films in which humans are shrunk to the size of ants and join ant societies. Feb. 24 at Foellinger Auditorium.

house keys on open palm, housing in background

Buying a home in Illinois? You'll need the Prairie Research Institute for that

Feb 17, 2020 8:45 am

For every home sold in Illinois, PRI provides data needed for banks, title companies, insurance companies, and consumers to make informed decisions about home ownership.

Stinging insects, venom focus of Insect Fear Film Fest

Feb 18, 2022 9:45 am

The festival is entirely online this year, and entomology students will handle the stinging insects in the virtual petting zoo, with one student volunteering to get stung and explain his reaction in real time.

A tugboat pushes a barge on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal past a coal-fired electric power plant.

Chicago waterways – still flowing after more than 100 years

Mar 8, 2017 3:15 pm

Chicago’s intricate waterway system, which included reversing Chicago and Calumet river flows, has protected the Lake Michigan water supply for over 100 years, but faces new challenges

graphic provided by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

Choose from over 350 course sections

Mar 17, 2018 10:30 am

Are you travelling, returning home, or working at an internship this summer? Take challenging, high-demand courses in an online format from anywhere in the world

A crowd attends Roger Ebert’s Film Festival in 2018 at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

Schedule of films, guests set for Ebertfest 2019

Mar 21, 2019 9:00 am

The lineup includes 'Bound,' the first film by the writer-director team that made 'The Matrix,' with co-stars Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly coming as guests; 'Sideways,' with Oscar-nominated Virginia Madsen as a guest....

tools used to measure lead contamination in soil samples shown at a Chicago area greenspace

Map reveals widespread lead pollution in Chicago backyards, parkways

Mar 28, 2022 11:45 am

In backyards and community gardens across Chicago, growers tend fruit and vegetable crops as diverse as the city they live in. Most have one thing in common – lead lurking in the soil.

Illinois leads veterinary emergency response training

May 13, 2016 11:15 am

A semi-trailer hauling 156 hogs crashes on the interstate highway. Who you gonna call?

man drives tractor across field, Text: PBS NewsHour “Tipping Point: Agriculture on the Brink”

U of I hosts PBS NewsHour, experts weigh in on feeding a heating planet

May 19, 2023 10:15 am

Livestreamed from the Quad: Emmy-award-winning science journalist Miles O’Brien will interview industry leaders alongside experts from the U of I’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

Oliver Tapaha, an Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate Fellow

Educating Navajo youth about their community and history

May 29, 2024 12:15 pm

Oliver Tapaha is working on a project to help students become researchers, historians, and archivists of the same community that he grew up in: Round Rock, Arizona, on the Navajo reservation.

Campus meeting Thursday night for missing scholar support

Jun 21, 2017 1:00 pm

Campus police and other officials will meet with members of the campus and community at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 22, to discuss campus support for the search for Yingying Zhang.

CyberGIS Center produces platform to track and help prevent COVID-19

Jun 24, 2020 11:15 am

The CyberGIS Center at U. of I. has teamed with the state of Illinois to produce a system of interactive maps, charts, and animations to better help understand and prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Crimestoppers booth at a local event. Photo courtesy of Champaign County Crimestoppers

University, area businesses invest $300,000 to fight local crime

Jul 11, 2022 11:30 am

'Businesses and organizations have a responsibility...to lift up and advance the communities in which they live and work,' Chancellor Robert Jones said. 'We are coming together to do our part by supporting with words, actions and financial support.'

Illinois psychology professor Daniel Simons studies visual cognition, perception, attention and memory. Shown with the cover of his book, 'Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It.' Author Photo by Shannon Silfer. Book cover design: Chin-Yee Lai; Image: Michael Burrell/Alamy; Jacket © 2023 Hachette Book

New book explores the psychology of being duped

Jul 11, 2023 8:45 am

Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It gives readers an overview of dozens of types of scams, hoaxes and strategies used by cheaters to deceive, and explains how to evaluate their ploys and avoid becoming a victim.

a formerly vacant city lot has been turned into a lovely greens space, play area

Measuring the power of private land stewardship to address urban vacancy

Jul 14, 2020 2:30 pm

Transferring city-owned vacant lands to local residents by selling them for a dollar can be a successful strategy for cities seeking to reduce blight and strengthen neighborhoods. Now there's a tool to measure that impact.

Blue waters supercomputer image with arctic map it created

NCSA helps NGA create world’s most powerful geospatial system

Aug 2, 2019 8:00 am

Illinois parterns with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to produce digital elevation models (DEM) of the entire Earth, among other geospatial research projects, using the Blue Waters supercomputer.

students view data on the 40-projector display wall at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Photo by Jason Lindsey

CHIME puts students to work on COVID-related data science projects

Aug 4, 2020 9:15 am

A new international public health initiative at Illinois is bringing students together to work on data-information projects that will help public health agencies with COVID-19-related data analysis.

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