A Pet’s Place provides a safe place for displaced pets

Teamwork honored

A Pet’s Place was the first to receive the campus’s “Team Award” through the Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement, an honor recognizing teams comprising members of the campus community who have made a significant contribution in engaging with the public on a sustained basis to address critical societal issues.

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Jill Wojciechowski, student director: jwojciec@illinois.edu
Cheryl Weber: cweber79@illinois.edu
Marcella Ridgway: ridgway@illinois.edu

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Four Illinois faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Four faculty members from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States. Materials science professor Paul Braun, history professor Antoinette Burton, physics professor Aida El-Khadra and chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler are […]

Education

Paul Bruno wearing a dark suit standing in front of an upward staircase.

Computer science teachers may be better qualified than their peers

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Educators and researchers have had longstanding concerns about the quality of computer science instruction in U.S. schools. A recent study exploring student learning and computer science teachers’ qualifications in one state suggests that these teachers may be better qualified than those teaching other subjects, even within the same schools. Paul Bruno, a […]

Arts

William Sullivan and Bin Jiang stand in an outdoor space with greenery behind them.

New study finds link between green spaces and police violence

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A novel research project has shown that areas with greater amounts of green space have a lower prevalence of police violence. The study is the first to find a significant relationship between greenness levels and fatal police shootings, and it showed that the most socially and economically disadvantaged areas seemed to benefit […]

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