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New analytics-driven framework aims to improve care of chronic disease

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — An analytics-driven “decision framework” that accounts for the socioeconomic and demographic factors of patients can promote more equitable health care delivery and potentially improve chronic disease care outcomes, according to new research co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign business scholar who studies technology adoption in health care. A data-informed approach to […]

Health and medicine
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Omnivorous? Vegan? Makes no difference to muscle building after weight training, study finds

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study asked three questions about muscle protein synthesis in response to a nine-day diet and weight training regimen: First, does the source of protein — plant or animal-based — make any difference to muscle gain? Second, does it matter if total daily protein intake is evenly distributed throughout the day? […]

Campus news

Truman Scholarship awarded to U. of I. junior

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Hannah Sundararajan, a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was awarded a $30,000 Truman Scholarship. Sundararajan is one of 54 Truman Scholars selected from a pool of 743 nominees from colleges and universities across the country. Sundararajan, from New Berlin, Wisconsin, and a graduate of New Berlin High School, was selected […]

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Two U. of I. faculty receive Guggenheim Fellowships

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors have been awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships. This year’s Illinois fellows are history professor Kristin Hoganson and English professor Corey Van Landingham. They are among 198 individuals working across 53 disciplines chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from nearly 3,500 applicants. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation […]

Law and policy Sara Gerke, the Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar at the College of Law.

Scholar: Federal privacy law needed for sensitive consumer data when companies go bankrupt

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Recreational genetic testing companies hold some of the largest repositories of consumer DNA in the world, but what happens to all that personal information when the company goes belly up? It would most likely be sold to a successor company that customers might not want to entrust with their genetic data, says […]

Agriculture Expert viewpoints Law and policy Jonathan W. Coppess

What effect will tariffs have on consumers, farmers?

Champaign, Ill. — Jonathan W. Coppess is the the Leonard and Lila Gardner Illinois Farm Bureau Family of Companies Endowed Associate Professor in Agricultural Policy at the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Coppess is the author of “Between Soil and Society: Legislative History and Political Development of […]

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Young adults juggle conflicting pressures to hurry up ― and wait

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. ― Some of the anxiety and frustration that many young adults are experiencing today may be caused by feelings of being caught between opposing forces, some of which pressure them to accelerate their maturation and assume adult responsibilities earlier, while others strive to hold them back, according to a new paper by scholars […]

Arts Photo of a black and white illustration showing a mountain with water around it.

Graduate art and design students exhibit their work at Krannert Art Museum

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Graduate students in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Art and Design will present their work in an exhibition at Krannert Art Museum. The annual School of Art and Design Master of Fine Arts Exhibition opens April 12 and runs through April 26. It includes 12 graduate students in studio art, […]

Campus life

First-Generation Scholars Research Program provides research experience and more

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Before arriving on campus, first-year University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student Andy Granados voiced the concerns that many students coming to a large university face. “Before I started freshman year, I was scared,” Granados said. “I’m not as social as other people. I don’t really know how to connect with my professors, so […]

Expert viewpoints Law and policy Portrait of Fogelman in front of a world map.

How will (now 10%) tariffs, cuts to USAID, affect Lesotho?

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Before President Donald Trump abruptly changed course on tariffs, the 12th smallest African nation, Lesotho, was near the top of the list of countries whose products would be taxed at the U.S. border. Charles Fogelman, a professor in the Global Studies Program and in the Center for African Studies at the University […]

Behind the Scenes

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Experiencing the intersection of art, architecture at Krannert Art Museum

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As an art student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, I love how different forms of art weave together. No art form exists in isolation; each one connects and interacts with others in meaningful ways. Painting borrows precision from drawing, dance is deeply connected to music, and photography captures the drama of […]

A man standing on top of one of the bells during removal.

A temporary farewell to the Altgeld bells

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A large crane is parked on the north side of Altgeld Hall on this sunny and mild mid-December morning. As I watch from near the Alma Mater statue, the arm of the crane that extends far above the scaffolding surrounding Altgeld’s bell tower lowers a cable into the top of the tower, which has […]

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