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Chilean textiles showcasing women’s stories of heritage on view at Krannert Art Museum
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Chilean women create colorful textiles called arpilleras to document the history of their communities and their daily lives as a form of remembrance and resistance. Magdalena Novoa, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of urban and regional planning, has a long-term collaboration with a community organization in Lota, Chile, that has used […]
Shrinking the carbon footprint of chemical manufacturing with lasers, solar radiation
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. ― Researchers have found a way to use solar energy to power a key chemical reaction that drives many manufacturing industries. This new method can significantly reduce the energy required to run these operations, eliminate harsh oxidizing byproducts and minimize carbon emissions.
Microbial assembly line makes plastic upcycling programmable
Scientists have built a microbe-driven upcycling pipeline that converts plastic waste into a variety of useful products.
Book chronicles how citizens, writers remain hopeful in face of environmental harms
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Citizens and writers remain hopeful in the face of environmental harms in “Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental Harm in the Global South,” the new book by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English professor Rebecca Oh. Oh said she was interested in how people and writers in the Global South see their […]
Illinois team tests the costs, benefits of agrivoltaics across the Midwest
A new study examines the agricultural and economic trade-offs that come with installing solar arrays on working farms across the Midwest.
New water-treatment system removes nitrogen, phosphorus from farm tile drainage
Scientists have developed a system to reduce levels of nitrogen and phosphorus that flow through farm tile drains and pollute the environment.
Splitting hairs to keep the public safe
Graduate student Lance Jones works to identify potentially infectious ticks found in Illinois.
How does politics influence interpretive signs at National Park Service sites?
The Trump administration recently ordered the National Park Service to remove interpretive signs that discuss slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, following an executive order issued last year stating that public monuments should not “inappropriately disparage Americans” and instead “focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people.” A […]
Insect-human hybrids are onscreen at Insect Fear Film Festival
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Insect-human hybrids provide the scares at the 2026 Insect Fear Film Festival at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The festival, which is hosted by the Entomology Graduate Student Association, takes place Feb. 28 at Foellinger Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Insect-human hybridization has long been a theme for […]
Illinois professor’s book explores ‘Dracula Urbanism,’ the dark side of smart city development
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — City development is increasingly associated with creating “smart cities” that use technology for managing city services, home construction and attracting resources. But those strategies come with negative consequences to a city’s poor residents, said David Wilson, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of geography and geographic information science. Wilson is a critical […]
Three Illinois faculty named Sloan Foundation Fellows
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Three scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have received Sloan Foundation Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Mathematics professor Benjamin Castle, physics professor Jacob Covey and microbiology professor Wei Qin are among the 126 early-career research scientists whose “creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next […]
Postpartum depression linked with seven pain-related risk factors
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A woman’s risk of developing postpartum depression is influenced by several pain-related factors before and after childbirth, including poor pain management, their prenatal mental health and the quality of patient-provider communication, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say. Health and kinesiology professor Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo and her co-authors, graduate students Sudhamshi Beeram […]