Faculty members receive Provost’s Distinguished Promotion Award

Eleven faculty members were honored with the Provost’s Campus Distinguished Promotion Award for 2018.

During its annual promotion review process, the Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure identifies scholars whose contributions have been extraordinary in terms of quality of work and overall achievement. Each receives a discretionary fund to support scholarly activities.

The 11 scholars receiving the 2018 award are: Princess Imoukhuede, bioengineering; Andrew Smith, bioengineering; Heidi Phillips, veterinary clinical medicine; Eric Pritchard, English; Eduardo Ledesma, Spanish and Portuguese; SungWoo Nam, mechanical science and engineering; Rebecca C. Fuller, animal biology; Brendan Andrew Harley, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Douglas A. Mitchell, chemistry; Alison M. Bell, animal biology; and Nathan Dunfield, mathematics.

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Four Illinois faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences