Illinois in the News

Los Angeles Times (Sept. 30) — African American studies professor emeritus Gerald McWorter says “woke” was about having a voice after hundreds of years of Black suffering going back to the African slave trade.

IFLScience (Sudbury, England, Sept. 30) — Communication professor Emily Van Duyn discovered that mis/disinformation “plays a key role” in romantic relationships coming to an end.

Marketplace (Los Angeles, Sept. 29) — Finance professor Julia Fonseca says roughly 80% of borrowers are in the same boat: If they bought the same house today, they’d pay way more.

The New York Times (Sept. 25) — Experts stress that water conservation can have a significant impact on emissions. Civil and environmental engineering professor Ashlynn Stillwell says treating and transporting water, as well as heating it, requires a lot of energy.

Associated Press (New York City, Sept. 25) — English professor Lindsay Rose Russell on how a print dictionary indicates whether a language is legitimate or not.

WGN-TV (Chicago, Sept. 23) — Epidemiology professor Becky Smith is the lead researcher of a study that takes a look at ticks in Illinois and the hotspots for those carrying disease.

MIT Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 23) — Information sciences doctoral researcher Yuanxi Fu on how some artificial intelligence chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions.

WLS-TV (Chicago, Sept. 22) — More than 60,000 now study at U. of I.’s flagship campus in Urbana-Champaign.

Inside Climate News (New York City, Sept. 21) — Agricultural and consumer economics professor Jonathan Coppess was part of a team that analyzed the complex factors that contributed to a dust storm on Interstate 55 that left eight people dead and 37 hospitalized.

Everyday Health (New York City, Sept. 19) — Psychology professor Violeta Rodriguez says several factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy predate the current Trump administration.

IT Brew (New York City, Sept. 19) — Computer science professor Vikram Adve on how artificial intelligence may affect the need to create specialized research models.

Science News Explores (Washington, D.C., Sept. 18) — Most baseball pitches have lots of spin, which can cause a lot of seam effects to cancel each other out, says physics professor Alan Nathan.