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Illinois student awarded Boren funding for overseas language study
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign undergraduate student Almoatasim Shahbain received the Boren Award for intensive language study abroad during the 2025-26 academic year.
Because America never forgot
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — On March 11, 1944, my relative 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly, Jr. and 10 other crew members of a B-24 bomber named “Heaven Can Wait” were declared missing in action after being shot down somewhere over the waters of Hansa Bay, Papua New Guinea. For our family, as for so many families […]
Illinois Commencement Speaker Robert Jones: ‘We’re Graduating Together’
Read the transcript of the Commencement speech delivered by Illinois Chancellor Robert Jones at the 2025 universitywide Commencement ceremony.
Faculty members honored with 2025 Campus Awards for Excellence in Faculty Leadership
Four University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members were honored by the Office of the Provost with the 2025 Campus Awards for Excellence in Faculty Leadership.
Two Illinois students selected for Fulbright’s Summer Institute to the UK
Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students received places in the Fulbright Commission’s Summer Institutes program.
Does REAL ID really make flying safer?
REAL ID enhances air travel security by verifying that individuals are who they say they are, says professor Sheldon H. Jacobson.
What is education’s role in fostering responsible belief?
Champaign, Ill. — Nicholas Burbules is the Gutgsell Professor Emeritus of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, whose primary research areas include the philosophy of education, the ethics of communication, and technology and education. He is the author of recent papers that explore the communicative “virtues” that support productive discourse […]
Learning from cockatiels
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When the lights go out, the 18 shrieking cockatiels in the room get quiet. I aim my phone’s flashlight into a large cage where Philip Wiley, another of the six veterinary students participating in this advanced avian medicine professional development course, is poised to catch one of the birds. The light helps […]
Taking flight on a New York City stage
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — It’s a Saturday afternoon and I’m waiting in a cramped hallway beneath The Joyce Theater stage in Chelsea, Manhattan. My palms are sweaty, and I feel anxious as I attempt to take my mind off the looming event, my New York City debut. The audience is filled with my peers, teachers, family […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]