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  • Former General Electric Co. CEO and chairman Jack Welch went to work as a chemical engineer at GE immediately after completing a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960.

    Alumnus Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO and chairman, dies at 84

    Mar 2, 2020 1:45 pm3235 views

    John Francis “Jack” Welch Jr., 84, the former CEO and chairman of General Electric Co., has died. He was a chemical engineer who earned a Ph.D. in 1960 in chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Bob Reid, influential journalism professor at Illinois, dies at age 64

    Dec 15, 2004 9:00 am1738 views

    Robert D. Reid, a recently retired professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, suffered a heart attack and died early today at his home in Champaign. He was 64.

     

  • Chemist Kenneth L. Rinehart dies at 76

    Jun 14, 2005 9:00 am161 views

    CHAMPAIGN -Kenneth L. Rinehart, a chemistry professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was internationally known for his research on organic compounds involved in biological activity, died Monday at his Urbana home after a long illness. He was 76.

  • David L. Swanson, associate provost at Illinois, dies at age 60

    Nov 1, 2004 9:00 am207 views

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - David L. Swanson, the associate provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, died early today of a heart attack at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. He was 60.

  • Miscanthus at sunset.

    Deaths

    Jan 5, 2017 3:45 pm313 views

    Betty Jo Brown ... Richard A. Collier ... Elaine Burris “Granny” Cornwell ... Leland “Lee” E. Eversole ... Richard A. Garves ... Mary Margaret Graham ... George E. Gravely ... Beverly Ann Greger ... Cheryl O. Hedrick ... George “Bullet” Russell ... Ronald Eugene Schaede ... Russell E. Winterbottom

  • Sun sets behind miscanthus

    Deaths

    Jan 5, 2018 8:45 am307 views

    Jeanne Synon Folts ... Marjory A. Hudson ... David Bruce Langendorf ... David B. “Dave” Lawrence ... Eva Claire Rosenfield

  • Deaths

    Jan 7, 2016 3:00 pm559 views

    Paulette J. (Kaminski) Graziano … David H. Offner … Loren W. Wardlow … and Memorial Service: Elizabeth Kelly-Fry

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jan 7, 2019 11:00 am286 views

    Edward E. Durbin ... Doris Patricia “Pat” Foster ... Judy Kurlakowsky ... Marjorie E. Nelson ... Frances Joann Pierce

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jan 11, 2019 8:30 am463 views

    Danny L. Elam ... Randall Joseph Lutz ... Glenn Gregory Simpson ... Kent Thompson

     

  • Sun sets behind miscathus

    Deaths

    Jan 12, 2018 11:30 am432 views

    Elizabeth “Betty” Jeanette Baniassadi ... Edward Eugene Jones ... Rosanne Janice Koehler ... Helen Lucille Wheatley

  • Deaths

    Jan 14, 2016 10:30 am1099 views

    Nancy Abelmann … James E. Barden Sr. … Dr. Sol Barnett … Diana Jane Fillenwarth Ganley … Lois J. Seibold … Dominic O. Skaperdas and Memorial services: Verlin B. “Andy” Anderson … Martha Rae Swartz Barbee … Alfred “Bud” Cler

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus at a farm on campus.

    Deaths

    Jan 17, 2017 4:30 pm325 views

    Charlotte Jane (Honn) Brownfield ... Mary L. Giles ... Margaret McLaren Jensen ... Martin L. Maehr ... Robert J. Nelson ... Dorothy Ann (Sturdivant) Schoeps

  • Sun setting behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jan 19, 2018 11:00 am403 views

    Rosalee June Cobb ... Margie “Pud” Eastin ... Belva M. Edwards ... Joe B. Vermillion Jr.

  • Deaths

    Jan 21, 2016 9:00 am913 views

    John R. Dahl … Malcolm Gale Davis … Beverly D. Rodriguez

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jan 24, 2019 12:45 pm761 views

    Edward J. Armbrust ... Paul P. Bernard ... Richard “Don” Donald Brown ... Charles “Chuck” D. Elmer ... Barbara Ann Phillips ... Marilyn G. Vizek

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jan 25, 2018 10:45 am400 views

    Rick Frederick ... Frank M. Williams

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus at a farm on campus.

    Deaths

    Jan 26, 2017 3:15 pm326 views

    Cody A. Breitenfeldt ... Hazel C. Cacioppo ... David M. Grothe ... Luther H. Holmes ... David F. Mulliken ... Dan White

  • Deaths

    Jan 28, 2016 9:00 am1011 views

    Sorab Pirozshah Mistry

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Feb 1, 2018 4:15 pm276 views

    Robert J. Cheek ... Alfred Wilhelm Hubler ... Kenneth Earl Raymond

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Feb 1, 2019 1:30 pm269 views

    Wanda Elliott ... Norma Yvonne (Creekmur) Jackson

     

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus at a farm on campus.

    Deaths

    Feb 2, 2017 3:30 pm157 views

    Robert C. Corum ... Charles M. Draper ... Norma Bartholomew Kent 

     

  • Deaths

    Feb 4, 2016 9:00 am1057 views

     Ernest Dawn

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Feb 7, 2019 2:30 pm395 views

    James W. “Jim” Chapman ... Willeta Mae Hassell Donaldson ... Elizabeth Fumiko Fujioka Easley ... Barclay George Jones ... Margaret “Eileen” Lyons ... Shirley Ann Perkins

     

     

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Feb 8, 2018 1:45 pm178 views

    Robert Duane Mackey ... Kevin Daniel Peterson ... James Richard "Dick" Teague

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus at a farm on campus.

    Deaths

    Feb 9, 2017 11:45 am165 views

    Lawrence Bouton

  • Deaths

    Feb 11, 2016 9:00 am781 views

    Douglas Einar Applequist … Beth E. Morrison Carbonneau … Albert Ehmen … Joan L. Mitchell … Jared Cleveland Risken

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Feb 14, 2019 12:30 pm328 views

    Roberta A. May ... James (Jim) P. Warfield

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Feb 15, 2018 2:00 pm463 views

    Donna Kuhlman ... Elsie Willfong ... John E. Zehr

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus at a farm on campus.

    Deaths

    Feb 16, 2017 3:45 pm168 views

    Robert J. Carr ... Linda Kay Jenkins ... Brenda Ann Le’Noir ... John O. Marxmiller ... Adlon Dohme Jorgensen Rector ... Paul Stone ... Patricia Ruth Gueritey Weston 

     

     

     

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus at a farm on campus.

    Deaths

    Feb 17, 2017 2:00 pm170 views

    Allan Paul

  • Deaths

    Feb 18, 2016 9:00 am172 views

     Marilyn E. Adleman … Daniel Bowers Kennedy … Jeff D. Kindhart … Theo “Bow” Oliver

  • The sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Feb 22, 2018 2:45 pm525 views

    Marilois Barker ... Donald “Don” Lee Day ...Steven J. D’Urso ... Charles Walter “Erik” Eriksen ... Jack Theodore Harroun ... C. Rex Mahannah ... Kenneth Neil Statzer

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus at a farm on campus.

    Deaths

    Feb 23, 2017 1:15 pm280 views

    Peter James Garlick ... Sheldon Ward Williams

  • Deaths

    Feb 25, 2016 9:00 am536 views

    John W. Andresen … Gerald Brighton … Artha L. Chamberlain … Margaret Ann Harsacky … Martin Donald Ignazito … Plessa Edward Mast … Frederick A. Rodgers … Joseph T. Verdeyen; and Memorial service for Frances Jo Freeman Crawford.

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Feb 25, 2019 2:00 pm277 views

    Lois B. Guiher

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Mar 1, 2018 3:15 pm298 views

    Thomas B. “Tom” Berns ... Richard “Dick” Blaney ... Karen M. Dudas

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Mar 1, 2019 11:15 am222 views

    Paul A. Boatman ... Marcel Franciscono

  • Deaths

    Mar 3, 2016 9:00 am206 views

    Frederic Kris Lehman

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus at a farm on campus.

    Deaths

    Mar 7, 2017 11:30 am157 views

    Frances “Francie” Bridges ... Richard Charles Meyer ... John Thomas Pfeffer ... John Thompson

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Mar 7, 2019 1:45 pm264 views

    Paul D. Bermingham ... William “Bill” G. Dean ... Arthur J. Harper ... Lois Ann Allhands Harpst

     

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Mar 8, 2018 1:30 pm246 views

    Tom Percival ... Penny A. Watkins-Zdrojewski ... Robert J. Cheek

  • Deaths

    Mar 10, 2016 10:15 am547 views

    William Leno Anderson ... Gaylord Frederick ... Zoltan Ujhelyi

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus at a farm on campus.

    Deaths

    Mar 10, 2017 2:15 pm150 views

    Larry Dornhoff ... Willie T. Summerville

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Mar 14, 2019 12:00 pm223 views

    Dick J. Albers ... Martha Baxter North

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Mar 15, 2018 2:30 pm487 views

    Etha Jereen Broom ... Constance “Connie” Ellen Brown ... Carole Couch ... Sue Jones ... Maurice “Doc” Mecum ... Emily Ann Stipes Watts 

     

     

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus at a farm on campus.

    Deaths

    Mar 16, 2017 1:45 pm228 views

    Vivian Gladis Reid ... Thomas Dale “Tim” Roberts ... Russell E. Winterbottom

  • Deaths

    Mar 17, 2016 9:15 am663 views

    Frederic Magill Jenkins … Reiner "Tom" Zuidema
    Memorial Services: Bonnie B. Armbruster … Thomas S. Elliott … Frances M. Johnson.

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Mar 21, 2019 12:15 pm303 views

    Allan G. Mueller ... Stephen Steele Slivon

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Mar 23, 2018 12:15 pm701 views

    Joanne Daugherty Hayes ... Mildred Alene Maddock Landreth ... Vivian Phyllis Larson ... Michele Henriette Miller ... Rosemary Rutledge ... Nancy Jean Stark 

  • Deaths

    Mar 24, 2016 12:15 pm580 views

    Hillel V. Gauchman … John R. Shumard … Andrew “Tippy” Young Jr. III