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Chancellor’s Distinguished Staff Award honorees named for 2021, 2020
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Sixteen civil service employees were recognized for exceptional performance by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – eight this year and eight in 2020. For the second consecutive year, concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic precluded a banquet for employees honored with the Chancellor’s Distinguished Staff Award. Each recipient receives $1,000 and a plaque. […]
University of Illinois receives APLU award for COVID-19 testing program
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received the inaugural Research Response to Community Crisis Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities for its COVID-19 testing program. The university’s SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell program combined a campus-developed saliva-based COVID-19 testing protocol with statistical modeling and a mobile app for rapid results […]
Nine Illinois students, recent graduates offered Fulbright grants
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Nine 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 three Illinois students were named Fulbright alternates. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program builds international relationships to help solve global challenges. This flagship international educational […]
Illinois architecture professor awarded Graham Foundation grant
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — T.F. Tierney, an architecture professor emerita at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded a research and development grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to examine Ladera, a 1940s interracial housing cooperative in Portola, California, and the role that federal lending practices played in maintaining […]
Illinois students, recent graduates receive foreign language scholarships
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students and recent graduates Mary Kate Buchheit, Audrey Dombro, Buyandelger Tsetsengarid, Hannah Wernecke and Priyanka Zylstra were awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships to study foreign languages this summer. A sixth student, Kaya Van Dyke, was offered a Boren Scholarship to further her studies of French. […]
Illinois senior selected Knight-Hennessy Scholar
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign senior Sriyankari Chitti, of Marlboro, New Jersey, and a graduate of the Medical Sciences Magnet Program at Freehold High School, has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. She is one of 76 students to be offered this award from more than 8,000 applicants around the world. A chemistry major […]
Faculty members, staff, teaching assistants honored with Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Faculty and staff members and graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign this spring were honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising, collectively known as the Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction. The Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching recognizes sustained excellence and innovative approaches in undergraduate teaching […]
Illinois English professor awarded Carnegie Fellowship
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Gillen D’Arcy Wood, an English professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign whose work involves the environmental humanities, has been awarded a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to develop a database of baseline oceanographic information to enhance marine research, and also to examine the Victorian origins of marine science. The Andrew Carnegie Fellows […]
Three Illinois faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Three University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest professional honors a scientist can receive. Physics professor Nadya Mason and chemistry professors Ralph Nuzzo and Wilfred van der Donk are among 120 newly elected U.S. members – 59 of whom are women, […]
Four Illinois faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Education Dean James Anderson, physics professor Nadya Mason chemistry professor Nancy Makri and materials science and engineering professor Kenneth Schweizer have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honor societies in the nation. They are among 252 new members […]
Illinois student awarded Beinecke Scholarship
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Kolten Conklen, a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from Sterling, Illinois, is among 16 students nationally awarded the Beinecke Scholarship. Valued at $34,000, the Beinecke award supports graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences. Illinois is one of 135 colleges and universities annually invited to nominate one junior […]
Academic professionals honored with CAPE awards for 2021, 2020
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A total of 12 academic professionals at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were honored this week with the Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence award, encompassing the 2020 and 2021 award cycles. The recipients, six from each year, received their awards remotely due to the pandemic. The CAPE award was established to recognize academic […]