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What is the status of higher education access at Illinois prisons?
Rebecca Ginsburg is the director of the Education Justice Project and a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Ginsburg spoke with News Bureau research editor Sharita Forrest about a recent report released by the Illinois Department of Corrections that examined access to higher education programs for people who […]
Retraining after a lapse in endurance exercise adds to muscle gains, study finds
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New research offers potential good news for those who’ve lapsed at the gym. The study found that mice that voluntarily ran on an exercise wheel for four weeks, stopped for four weeks and ran again for another four weeks saw unexpected gains. The second bout of wheel running led to a bigger […]
Illinois history professor’s book shows how 1942 was a global war without end
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — World War II became a global war in 1942, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, drawing the U.S. into the war. All the world’s most powerful nations were at war with one another, and the fighting spanned the globe. But the war was global in other ways too — in the unifying idea […]
Misinformation/disinformation leads to US couples’ divorces, breakups
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Political misinformation or disinformation was the key reason for some U.S. couples’ recent divorces or romantic breakups, a new study found. Emily Van Duyn, a professor of communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, conducted in-depth interviews with 28 people who had recently ended a relationship with a partner whose political ideology did […]
Study explores messages that cultivate voter support for green space projects
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Celebrity endorsements are most persuasive with voters who are less engaged with environmental issues, while temporal messages explaining the tax implications of proposed referenda are more impactful with voters who believe conservation projects are important but are also concerned about how the tax increase will affect them, say the authors of a […]
Krannert Art Museum exhibition examines significance of early modern European prints
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Krannert Art Museum will present an exhibition of some of the finest early modern European prints held in U.S. collections. The exhibition “Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1475-1800” will have more than 100 prints on view. They illustrate how prints were the first form of visual mass […]
Study: 72% of Illinois wetlands no longer protected by federal Clean Water Act
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Illinois once harbored more than 8 million acres of wetlands. By the 1980s, all but 1.2 million wetland acres had been lost, filled in for development or drained to make way for agriculture. Now, thanks to a 2023 Supreme Court decision, roughly 72% of the remaining 981,000 acres of Illinois wetlands are […]
Study identifies hotspots of disease-carrying ticks in Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists analyzed the distribution of three potentially harmful tick species in Illinois, identifying regions of the state with higher numbers of these ticks and, therefore, at greater risk of infection with multiple tick-borne diseases. The study found that, of the three species tracked, the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, is most prevalent […]
Illinois celebrates opening of iBioFoundry, National Institute for Biofoundry Applications
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists, government officials and participants from around the world gathered on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for the grand opening of the National Science Foundation’s Illinois BioFoundry, or iBioFoundry, and the National Institute for Biofoundry Applications at the U. of I. The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place Sept. 18 at the Carl […]
New model can accurately predict a forest’s future
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers detail their development of a new model that — using a tree census and genomic data collected from multiple species in […]
Sinfonia da Camera to perform immersive audio-visual concert at Staerkel Planetarium
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Sinfonia da Camera is stepping away from the concert hall for a unique opportunity to perform in an intimate setting under the dome of Staerkel Planetarium at Parkland College. The resident chamber orchestra at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will give four performances at an immersive audio-visual concert on Sept. 20. The […]
New book casts anthropologist’s eye on European Court of Human Rights
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new book by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expert examines the world’s premier human rights court as rule of law comes under threat. The book “Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights” considers not just why the rule of law and human rights […]