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The student who chooses English as a major should be prepared. Prepared for the questions, concerns and even mocking about the value of their degree.

As you get this issue of Postmarks in the mail, we’re moving into the final couple of months of our academic year here at Illinois.

CubeSat students prepare for launch

Student uses YouTube to help others finish bucket lists

Sport-focused RSO is a Slam Dunk

History students unearth the unknown about artifacts on the Web

Celebrating five generations of Illinois students

Chinese culture and language camp promotes international outlook

Nurturing student entrepreneurs' startup ambitions

Exercises set for May 14

Murphy Lab Participant/Observer Program creates interdisciplinary learning environment

By the time this issue of Postmarks is in your hands, we'll be well into the fall semester at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Student groups offer camaraderie, opportunities to lead

Startup develops wearable systems for road safety

Underrepresented students make the most of fellowships in animal biology

Student group leads in membership, awards and enthusiasm

Resources await at the Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education

TED Talks have nothing on Illinois Athletic Director and Illinois alumnus Josh Whitman

U of I team designs “bark park”

Have you ever been on the field at Memorial Stadium, standing next to the cheerleaders as they lead an “I-L-L” call-and-response during a football game? Or have you been onstage at Foellinger Great Hall at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts while world-class musicians play?

With the help of a new interdisciplinary project from students in advertising and computer science, those and a few other quintessential Illinois experiences are just a mouse click – and a pair of virtual reality goggles – away.

Students learn about the past by replaying it, in a different kind of history class.

Students play the role of U.S. House members for a semester and gain insights on process, politics and power.

Recreation, sport and tourism class creates public service messages about railway safety

Illinois computer science students Mark Craft and Qinglin Chen created an extension for the Chrome web browser to verify articles and pictures posted to Facebook. Even more impressive? They did it in less than 36 hours, as part of a student hackathon event hosted by Princeton University in November 2016.

It was 6 a.m. and the campers were quietly preparing for the day. Suddenly, a voice called out from the camp manager’s tent.

“Girls? We’re going to have to wait. I can see a lion from my window.”

Milestones and relevant connections to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 150th anniversary. 

University of Illinois students designed a seating area inspired by zen gardens for a major art and design show in Chicago last fall.

Students, alumni share what shaped them most 

In the summer of 2012, two undergraduate students tackled a problem that plant ecology experts had overlooked for 30 years. The students demonstrated that different plant species vary in how they take in carbon dioxide and emit water through stomata, the pores in their leaves. The data boosted the accuracy of mathematical models of carbon and water fluxes through plant leaves by 30 to 60 percent.

This summer, 10 undergraduate students performed research using advanced imaging and microscopy technologies through the Discoveries in Bioimaging Research Experience for Undergraduates.

Fall semester fair helps students find local employers.

Journalism project creates a space for dialogue.

Don’t be fooled by the name, the wildlife and chronic wasting disease research group has a broader mission than you might think. Yes, the research focuses on white-tailed deer, primarily, and on CWD, a baffliing affliction of deer and elk. But for the dozens of undergraduate students who have joined this collaborative effort over the years, the group also is a portal, of sorts, to wide-ranging adventures in research.

Interactive art studio at University of Illinois teaches students coding, building circuits

Social Work Ambassadors promote the School of Social Work programs, courses to students curious about the major and the careers available to alumni with degrees in the field.

Escape the room if you can, but the physics is inescapable.

Screenwriter and Illinois alumnus David Magee wrote the script for "Mary Poppins Returns."