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A Minute With™... Brenna Ellison, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics

A Minute With™... political science professor Brian Gaines

A Minute With™... labor and law professor Michael LeRoy 

Summer is normally a season for blockbusters, but movie theaters will have special challenges this year, starting with a gamble on a few July releases. Derek Long, a professor of media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, looks at the present and future of the business.

An expiring labor agreement between dockworkers and West Coast port operators could further snarl U.S. supply chains if a strike or lockout occurs. The Biden administration should prepare to act because presidents have unique powers to temporarily halt these types of work stoppages, says Michael LeRoy, an expert in labor law at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

The Supreme Court’s livestream of its oral arguments is likely a temporary measure due to COVID-19, said Jason Mazzone, the Albert E. Jenner Jr. Professor of Law and the director of the Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law at the College of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

By legalizing and taxing recreational marijuana, the state of Illinois could fund additional pension payments while making investments in public education, construction projects, and drug treatment and prevention programs, says Robert Bruno, a professor of labor and employment relations at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and the director of the Labor Education Program in Chicago.

Illinois budget impasse: A Minute With…™ Christopher Z. Mooney, expert on Illinois politics

A Minute With™... Labor and law professor Michael LeRoy

Chris Roegge, the executive director of the Council on Teacher Education at the University of Illinois, discusses whether new legislation in Illinois will remedy the state's shortage of teachers.

Social media companies are experimenting with hiding metrics on their platforms – something University of Illinois art professor Ben Grosser has been exploring since 2012 with his Demetricator projects.

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The state superintendent of education said providing the SAT for free would promote equity in higher education. Education professor Eboni Zamani-Gallaher isn't so sure.

A Minute With™... Seung-Hyun Hong, a professor of economics

University of Illinois law professor Sara R. Benson

A Minute With™... law professor Sara R. Benson

It’s springtime in Illinois: Flowers are blooming, crops are sprouting and construction zones are popping up everywhere – including Willard Airport in Savoy.

A new, automated system that allows flyers to pay for parking with credit cards has replaced the parking booth at the University of Illinois Willard Airport. Customers who wish to pay with cash may pay for parking inside the terminal.

A U. of I. specialist on Middle Eastern politics explains why Kurds often feel they have “no friends but the mountains,” why they’re a political threat to Turkey’s president and motivations for the recent Turkish attack on the Kurds in Syria.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looks increasingly like a clear-cut violation of the U.N. charter and a crime of aggression, which is illegal under international law, says Illinois law professor Patrick Keenan.

Global health authorities are frantically pursuing a vaccine against the novel coronavirus in the hope that it will allow everyone to get back to a pre-COVID-19 reality ASAP. Thomas O’Rourke, a professor emeritus of community health, says those expectations are probably overblown.

According to cicada expert Catherine Dana, 2024 will be an eventful year in Illinois with the emergence of two periodical cicada broods across most parts of the state.

A Minute With™... Darrel Good, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics 

Currently the dean of libraries and university librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, John Wilkin will become the interim vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost designate effective Feb. 18.

Wikis help teachers and students connect online

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The wife of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn will be the featured speaker at a University of Illinois conference devoted to her husband's contributions to modern Russian literature, history and political life.

A Minute With™... business professor Deepak Somaya

A Minute With...™ Sheldon Jacobson, expert on data science

A Minute With™... Scott Althaus, a professor of political science and of communication, and the director of the university's Cline Center for Democracy, whose research examines the dynamics of popular support for war

A Minute With™... Steven Ashby, a professor of labor and employment relations

A Minute With™...  Jonathan Makela, a professor of electrical and computer engineering

The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research’s Coup d’État Project initially categorized the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as an “attempted dissident coup.” But that classification has evolved to include the additional classification “attempted auto-coup d’état,” said Scott Althaus, the center’s director and a professor of both political science and communication at Illinois.

A Minute With™... John Lynn, an emeritus professor of history

A Minute With™... labor and law professor Michael LeRoy

A Minute With™... labor and law professor Michael LeRoy

A Minute With™... labor and law professor Michael LeRoy

A Minute With...™ University of Illinois law professor Patrick Keenan

A Minute With™... political scientist Kostas Kourtikakis

A Minute With™... Anne Villamil a professor of economics and of finance

A Minute With™... José Antonio Cheibub, a professor of political science

Calls for defunding or even abolishing the police in the wake of George Floyd’s death may sound radical to many, but the idea is not new, says A. Naomi Paik, a professor of Asian American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A Minute With™... Robert M. Lawless, an Illinois professor of law

A Minute With™... Carolyn Shields, a professor of education

A Minute With™... Carolyn Shields, the head of the department of educational organization and leadership

A Minute With™... law professor David Meyer

A Minute With™... civil and environmental engineering professor Tami Bond

A Minute With™... political scientist Tom Rudolph

Offering certain baccalaureate degrees through community colleges could be a game-changer for the state's workforce and underserved students, says Lorenzo Baber, director of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A Minute With...™ Mattias Polborn, professor of economics and political science

A Minute With™... Dr. Margarita Teran-Garcia, a pediatrician and a professor of food science and human nutrition