2022-08-29
- Professor Rosalyn LaPier, an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis, has joined the faculty of the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in fall 2022. Her focus includes environmental history, the history of the American West, and Native American/Indigenous history. She is the prize-winning author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers,...
2022-07-26 - A professor at the University of Illinois teamed up with local gun safety advocates in First Followers to take a deeper look a gun violence.
2022-06-13 - Sixteen University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students and recent graduates were offered Fulbright grants to pursue international education, research and teaching experiences around the globe this coming year. Another six Illinois students were named Fulbright alternates.
2022-05-10 - White militarism has flourished in Russia under President Vladimir Putin’s rule, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world for racial violence, said history professor Eugene Avrutin.
2022-05-03 - History Professor Emerita Maria Todorova has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honors societies in the nation.
2022-04-13 - We rely on scientists to understand the structure and behavior of our world. What happens when a scientist’s ability to separate science from ideology comes into question—and they happen to be one of the most renowned scientists in their field?
Faculty members, staff, teaching assistants honored with Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction2022-04-07 - The Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction were awarded to faculty members, staff and graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign this week for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising.
2022-02-18 - HRI Research Cluster funds support the efforts of scholars with shared interests to explore subjects or problems which they might lack the resources to do on their own.
2022-02-09 - Professor Leslie Reagan will be featured in a discussion about the Illinois Reproductive Health Act on Sunday March 6 from 2:00-3:30. The panel is co-sponsored by the Chicago Women's History Center and the Chicago Public Library's Women's History Month Committee. The panel will also feature a state legislator and two reproductive justice organizers.
2022-01-31 - Through his experiences, he’s learned that students have histories to teach him
2021-10-15 - Campus celebrated the investiture of David Sepkoski as the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science on Friday, Oct. 8.
2021-09-15 - Twelve police officers with walkie-talkies and binoculars hid in the nearby fields and in the farmhouse next door, waiting and watching. It was dark. After seeing a car drive up carrying two women, who then went inside the house, the officers unlocked the front door and went in.
2021-09-02 - Professor Leslie Reagan, the author of "When Abortion Was a Crime" and "Dangerous Pregnancies" and a public voices fellow with the Op-Ed Project, discusses the history of anti-abortion laws in the United States.
2021-08-26 - Sixteen civil service employees – eight this year and eight in 2020 – at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were recognized for exceptional performance with the Chancellor’s Distinguished Staff Award.
2021-08-18 - Initiatives within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences are being supported by the second round of funding through the Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities, announced by University of Illinois President Tim Killeen.