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How should we view the national decline in drug-overdose deaths?
Preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that drug-overdose deaths declined more than 16% between June 2023 and June 2024, the biggest drop in a decade marked by staggering increases. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign health and kinesiology professor Rachel Hoopsick, an epidemiologist who studies mental health challenges and substance use […]

Can birthright citizenship be repealed?
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration reforms call for an end to birthright citizenship. But can a president unilaterally eliminate a long-standing constitutional right via executive order? Michael LeRoy is the Labor and Employment Relations Alumni Professor and an expert who studies immigration law and labor issues at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He spoke with News Bureau […]

How can the health care system more effectively support caregivers?
More than 1 in 5 U.S. adults provide unpaid care to another individual. Caregivers to loved ones with aging, disability or health concerns face challenges within the healthcare system and in their personal lives, but policy and culture changes can help, said Mina Raj, a professor of health and kinesiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Humanities Research Lab courses provide community-based research education
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As an oral historian, Illinois history professor Yuridia “Yuri” Ramírez records the stories of people who have never been written about in history books. “These people have, in some ways, made the most impactful legacies in their communities, and people don’t know who they are,” Ramírez said. Through the Humanities Research Lab, […]

What message did voters send this election?
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Brian Gaines is a professor of political science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Honorable W. Russell Arrington Professor in State Politics at the U of I System’s Institute of Government and Public Affairs. Gaines, who studies elections and public opinion, spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about the state of the […]

Six Illinois scientists rank among world’s most influential
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Six researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been named to the 2024 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list.

Why does the state need Illinois Extension?
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — U. of I. Extension helps the university fulfill its land-grant mission by serving the economic, agricultural, environmental, health and technology needs of the state, says Extension director Shelly Nickols-Richardson.

‘World building’ in a video games class
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A group of students gathers around a table in the basement of the Campus Instructional Facility at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, looking at boxes filled with beetles, walking sticks, spiders, dragonflies and other insects. The collection belongs to the Illinois Natural History Survey, and Tommy McElrath, the insect collection manager and […]

How are outbreaks of foodborne illness found and fixed?
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Outbreaks of foodborne pathogens, such as the E. coli linked to fast-food hamburgers in several states, expose vulnerabilities in the food supply chain but also present opportunities to learn new prevention strategies, said Matt Stasiewicz, a professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Putting the bee girls to bed
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – I like to encourage people of all ages to help pollinators, the insects, birds and mammals that help flowering plants reproduce. People are more willing to help if they have a chance to get to know their local pollinators. To that end, I like to invite people to visit the University of […]

Have newspaper political endorsements outlived their purpose?
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor Melita Garza is a journalism historian who studies news as an agent of democracy. News Bureau editor Lois Yoksoulian discussed the history and future of presidential endorsements with Garza in light of recent nonendorsement decisions within some news organizations. Why do some newspapers endorse presidential candidates? In the early days […]

Appealing to our ‘better angels’ with the Braver Angels
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — I’m sitting in the well-appointed Illini Union Ballroom on a sunny, late-October afternoon. My current mood: anxious. Sure, our 20th-ranked Illinois football team is taking on No. 1 Oregon this weekend, but that’s not on my mind right now. (Turns out my pregame butterflies were well founded.) Pre-election jitters are foremost, with […]