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  • Artist’s conception of an urban air mobility environment, where air vehicles, with or without onboard pilots, carrying out a variety of missions can interact safely and efficiently. Credit: NASA

    Making air traffic safe for real-life George and Jane Jetsons

    Jul 15, 2021 2:45 pm0 views

    'Because these flights will operate in major metro cities...there's going to be a lot of potential for interaction between the urban air mobility flights and the commercial air traffic,' says aerospace engineering alumna Heather Arneson.

  • Col. Archambault back on campus for his Aerospace Academic Advisory Board meeting.

    Interview with alumnus, astronaut Lee Archambault

    Jul 7, 2021 6:00 pm5 views

    'The research is phenomenal. The instruction is outstanding. The faculty we have here is second to none. This is an engineering program that was always great and it’s even better than it was when I was here. It continues to improve.'

  • Passes for 22nd annual Ebertfest now on sale

    Jun 9, 2021 10:45 am0 views

    Festival passes cover all of the screenings during the festival, which runs September 8-11 at the Virginia Theatre, a restored downtown Champaign movie palace, with related talks and panel discussions at other Champaign or University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign venues. 

  • Alumna with a passion for national forests challenges students to seek adventure

    Jun 9, 2021 11:00 am0 views

    With a bachelor’s degree in forestry and a love for adventure, Nora Rasure’s life and career have been nothing short of exciting. 

  • Forber-Pratt with service dog.

    Forber-Pratt appointed by White House as institute director

    May 24, 2021 4:15 pm0 views

    Dr. Anjali Forber-Pratt,  a wheelchair racing star who holds three degrees from the U of I, has been appointed Director of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research.

  • When NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attempts its first test flight on the Red Planet, the agency's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will be close by, as seen in NASA's concept.

    Illinois alumna oversees NASA's Ingenuity helicopter mission

    Apr 7, 2021 9:30 am86 views

    NASA's Ingenuity helicopter recently landed on Mars along with the Perseverance Rover. Once the helicopter detaches, it will conduct several test flights on the surface, marking the first powered flights on another planet.

  • alumnus Patrick Burke portrait beside stills from the two winning ads. Images and composition uncredited.

    Advertising alum creates two highest-rated Super Bowl ads

    Mar 5, 2021 9:45 am10 views

    The winning ads this year were two commercials for Rocket Mortgage starring Tracy Morgan, demonstrating the difference between being 'pretty sure' and 'certain' about buying a home. Patrick Burke was the writer of both ads.

  • marquees of the former Thunderbird and Co-Ed theaters

    Showtime! Remembering the old campus-area movie theaters

    Oct 7, 2020 10:45 am15 views

    The Co-Ed on Green Street was 'full all the time.' Students flocked to the Thunderbird Theatre on Goodwin, too, as well as the Rialto, with its massive steel-and-glass marquee; the art-deco Princess; and the Orpheum, with its 24 Greek columns.

  • Bobby and Gwen Mitchell

    Remembering Pro and Illini Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell

    Apr 13, 2020 9:45 am15 views

    'Bobby...reminisced about everything from his recruitment out of Hot Springs, Arkansas, his Illini football and track careers, his pro playing career... He spoke about how he met his wife, Gwen, on the UI campus.'

  • iStock photo - graphic of people wearing protective face masks

    Public Health alums on the front line of COVID-19 battle

    Apr 10, 2020 11:45 am1 views

    'The (epidemiology) knowledge and biostatistics prepared us for how a pandemic is going to come in waves, how we can track cases. ...Knowing the science and the (epidemiology) behind it really helps.'

  • Jack Welch. Photo courtesy of Harper Business

    Alumnus Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO, dies at 84

    Mar 2, 2020 1:45 pm5 views

    Welch became a chemical engineer at GE immediately after completing his doctorate at Illinois. He was named chairman and CEO in 1981 at the age of 45. He remained at the helm for the next 20 years.

  • the mural, Hands, by Pablo Serrano

    Alumnus Pablo Serrano: The city is his canvas

    Jan 27, 2020 2:45 pm23 views

    With close to 20 murals adorning buildings in Chicago - as well as walls U of I's La Casa Cultural Latina - Serrano embraces his Mexican-American heritage in his art with an eye toward how we share our stories.

  • Shaping the narrative

    Jan 15, 2020 9:45 am1 views

    Illinois alumnus Carey Cranston oversees the only national museum dedicated to celebrating the written word.

  • Doris Derby in Krannert Art Museum. Behind her are two of her photographs.

    Doris Derby: Alumna, photographer documented Civil Rights Movement

    Dec 23, 2019 1:30 pm4 views

    'When I came here, the University of Illinois embraced me in terms of my interests and my values. I see this as the home for the kind of things I value.'

  • John Houbolt stands in front of chalk board explanation of Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous

    'Do we want to get to the moon or not?'

    Nov 22, 2019 10:00 am2 views

    He called himself 'a voice in the wilderness.' He sat in conference rooms filled with scientists who ridiculed his ideas. But Houbolt was going to be heard. And we were going to land on the moon.

  • Making big waves

    Nov 19, 2019 9:15 am2 views

    From Illinois graduate to CEO of CurlMix, Kim Lewis is on a mission to empower curly-haired women.

  • Dan O'Neill ('99, Communications) poses with the World Series trophy in 2017, after the Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers. (Photo courtesy of the Houston Astros.)

    2019 World Series contenders share Illinois connections

    Nov 14, 2019 8:00 am3 views

    The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences was well-represented in the 2019 World Series.

  • Professor Temple Grandin sitting amoungst several black cows

    Alumni Interview: Temple Grandin

    Nov 6, 2019 8:00 am94 views

    The animal-facilities designer and autism-community icon on why we should nurture people who think differently and abandon hope of a Disneyland for pigs.

  • Taylor Rooks, wearing an Illini Football jacket, outside Memorial Stadium

    Taylor Rooks: Coming Home

    Oct 28, 2019 2:30 pm77 views

    Rooks is only five years out from graduation, but she has already landed her own Bleacher Report web series, 'Take It There with Taylor Rooks.' 

  • Alison Kirby has received the 2019 LAS Alumni Humanitarian Award. Photo provided.

    LAS alumna Alison Kirby rethinks school-based health clinics

    Oct 21, 2019 9:00 am7 views

    She co-founded a school-based health clinic that has drawn nationwide attention, even being featured in 'Paper Tigers,' a documentary about Lincoln High School directed by Robert Redford’s son, Jamie.

  • Illinois Alumni Association to present awards during Homecoming Week

    Oct 7, 2019 9:15 am299 views

    During Homecoming Week, the Illinois Alumni Association will recognize Illinois alumni and friends with awards. 

  • Alumnus launches bionic hand

    Sep 25, 2019 11:45 am6 views

    Millions of hand amputees around the world are now closer to receiving a life changing prosthetic device.

  • Rashard Mendenhall at a keyboard. Photo by Pascal Shirley

    Rashard Mendenhall: Gridiron writer

    Sep 9, 2019 9:45 am5 views

    For Mendenhall, 'capturing a vision—a line or a scene' in the HBO show, Ballers, 'pulling inspiration out of the air and putting it on the TV screen, that’s as good as any touchdown.'

  • illini fest logo

    Couldn't get to Illini Fest? Check out the video

    Aug 8, 2019 9:00 am0 views

    We painted Chicago orange and blue, with drinks, live music, notable Illini, and more! Enjoy watching a celebration of Illini pride in downtown Chicago at Illini Fest!

  • graphic showing skylines of downtown Chicago mixed with campus icons. Graphic by Jamie Hendrick

    July 18 at Millennium Park, RSVP now

    Jun 18, 2019 2:00 pm41 views

    Celebrate your Illini pride in downtown Chicago at Illini Fest! Drinks, live music, notable Illini, and more! First 1,000 registrants receive a free Illinois flag at the event.

  • A series of 3D-printed motifs. Photo by Alejandra Carrillo-Estrada

    Alejandra Carrillo-Estrada: Interweaving technology and tradition

    Jun 19, 2019 9:45 am2 views

    'I am especially captivated by the fretwork designs of the archaeological site of Mitla, Oaxaca,' the author writes. She uses 3D modeling to recreate the designs, then uses the models to cast them in silver.

  • well travelled alumnus Fred Stahl at Stonehenge

    The many Illinois memories of alumnus Fred Stahl

    Jun 17, 2019 10:15 am15 views

    Fred met his wife in the Illini Union. One day they walked up to the door at the President's House and asked President David Henry’s wife if they could marry in the garden. They were one of the first couples to do so.

  • Carolina Kuhl in front of the murals from La Casa Cultural Latina

    Meet a spring grad who's already helping people at the U.S.-Mexico border

    Jun 12, 2019 9:30 am4 views

    I was a psychology major when I first enrolled but my I-Promise mentor suggested that I look into Human Development and Family Studies because it seemed like a better fit, and it was!

  • Langan (center) listens to the heart and examines the ear of Zenda, a male African lion, in the zoo’s animal hospital. (Image courtesy of the Chicago Zoological Society)

    Illinois grads who care for Brookfield Zoo's menagerie

    Jun 5, 2019 10:15 am1 views

    The work of Drs. Michael Adkesson and Jennifer Langan helps keep the more than 3,000 animals at Brookfield Zoo healthy and helps ensure the survival of their cousins in the wild.

  • Rich Sieracki and Jill Wine-Banks, photos provided by subjects

    Chicago Illini of the Year Awards to Rich Sieracki, Jill Wine-Banks

    Jun 3, 2019 10:15 am18 views

    Chicago Illini of the Year Awards recognize outstanding alumni who live and work in the Chicago metropolitan area.