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Lu receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Xiaotang Lu received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for her work mapping connections within the brain.
U. of I. researcher and alumnus both named 2026 MacArthur Fellows
Illinois professor Kaiyu Guan and Illinois alumnus Liangfang Zhang have been named 2026 MacArthur Fellows, commonly known as a “genius grant.”
Bringing wheelchair rugby to Armenia
Health and kinesiology Ph.D. student Kaitlyn Thornton and a team of researchers bring
wheelchair rugby to Armenia.
Illinois Leads strategic plan sets future vision for the U. of I.
Illinois Leads is the new strategic plan to set the course for the future of the state’s flagship public-serving university.
How seriously should the public take dire predictions about an AI apocalypse?
The first step in gauging the existential risks of AI should be a common scale with independent verification.
Hopkins named grand marshal of 2026 Homecoming parade
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign aerospace engineering alumnus, U.S. Space Force colonel and retired astronaut Mike Hopkins will return to campus to serve as the grand marshal of the U. of I. Homecoming parade.
Chasing insects in the heart of the Amazon
Visit the Peruvian rainforest with graduate student Wardah Noor Syeda as she and her colleagues capture insects for study.
Illinois welcomes its largest freshman class ever in another record enrollment year
Freshman enrollment increased to 9,332, bringing total student enrollment past 61,000 for the first time in university history.
Feeling grateful to a campus that shaped me
Wheelchair athlete Jean Driscoll reflects on her adventures at Illinois as a student and, later, as assistant dean in the College of Applied Health Sciences.
Illinois announces partnerships with 21 high schools in the state for the university’s dual-credit initiative
High schools stretching across the state of Illinois will offer dual-credit courses from the U. of I. this fall.
Illinois’ new character development project aims to cultivate neighborliness
The Alma Project will empower students to engage in community-based learning experiences in collaboration with local agencies.
What can postpandemic trends in labor protests tell us ahead of the midterm elections?
The Labor Action Tracker is a comprehensive database of labor strikes and labor protest activity in the U.S. during the postpandemic era.