Illinois in the News

ESPN (Bristol, Conn., March 5) — Labor and employment relations professor Michael LeRoy on athletes’ collective bargaining efforts.

Associated Press (New York City, March 4) — Athletic Director Josh Whitman testified before Congress about standardizing rules about college sports and a recent class-action lawsuit.

Business Insider (New York City, March 4) — Atomic, molecular and optical physics professor Virginia Lorenz says there are still many technical roadblocks in the way of fully functional and commercially relevant quantum computing.

Bloomberg (New York City, March 3) — Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Bill Gropp discusses potential funding cuts to artificial intelligence research.

USA Today (McLean, Va., March 1) — Political science professor Scott Althaus on the remarkable story of repatriating the remains of his cousin, who died in 1944.

Verywell Health (New York City, Feb. 27) — Ozempic works by stimulating insulin to manage blood sugar levels and it also slows down digestion and provides signals to the brain that your stomach is full, says molecular and integrative physiology professor Patrick Sweeney.

FactCheck.org (Philadelphia, Feb. 27) — Finance professor Jeff Brown discusses the number Elon Musk uses to show the “eligible” Social Security numbers by age group.

Chemical & Engineering News (Washington, D.C., Feb. 25) — Chemistry professor Wilfred van der Donk comments on a study showing how to install a new carbon-carbon bond into a polypeptide.

Salon (San Francisco, Feb. 25) — “I was talking to someone just last week who was like, ‘Oh yeah, cockroaches have survived every extinction event, and they’ll be here after everything else dies.’ And I’m like, ‘Well no, not really,’” says Dominic Evangelista, a professor of entomology.

Newsweek (New York City, Feb. 24) — Optical illusions occur when the brain incorrectly perceives images but exactly why this happens remains a mystery, according to a paper published in Brain Matters, a student-run, university-published journal created by the Undergraduate Neuroscience Society.

Associated Press (New York City, Feb. 24) — Law professor Eric Johson discusses the trial of the man accused of opening fire on a suburban Chicago Independence Day parade, killing seven people.

CNN (Atlanta, Feb. 24) — Even if tariffs spurred more domestic semiconductor chip production, there’s “very little electronic assembly taking place in the U.S.,” says John Dallesasse, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. “Any new chip factory takes at least two to three years to build,” says Rakesh Kumar, a professor of electrical and computer engineering.