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  • Scott R. White, pioneer of self-healing materials, has died

    May 31, 2018 10:45 am3980 views

    University of Illinois aerospace engineering professor Scott R. White, an innovator of self-healing and self-regulating materials, died Monday of cancer at age 55.

  • Nina Baym, pioneer in the study of American women writers, has died

    Jun 21, 2018 9:00 am2147 views

    Nina Baym, an internationally recognized scholar of American literature and a pioneer in the field of study of American women’s writing, has died.

  • Klaus Schulten, pioneer in biophysics and computational biology, has died

    Nov 4, 2016 8:30 am1843 views

    University of Illinois physics professor Klaus Schulten, an innovator in the use of computational methods to study the chemical and biological processes driving living cells, died Monday, Oct. 31, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. He was 69.

  • Deaths

    Dec 22, 2015 4:15 pm1098 views

  • Deaths

    Jan 14, 2016 10:30 am1082 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

  • Deaths

    Feb 4, 2016 9:00 am1056 views

     Ernest Dawn

  • Former U. of I. police chief remembered as great leader

    Apr 7, 2016 11:30 am1049 views

    Former University of Illinois police chief Paul Dollins is being remembered as a leader in law enforcement, a community builder and a great friend.

  • Deaths

    Jan 28, 2016 9:00 am1003 views

    Sorab Pirozshah Mistry

  • Deaths

    May 5, 2016 10:45 am949 views

    Betty Ann Nelson … Roger A. Sommer … Jane Terry … Pauline Elizabeth Thrasher

  • Deaths

    Jan 21, 2016 9:00 am913 views

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

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

    Dec 15, 2004 9:00 am864 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.

     

  • Deaths

    Dec 17, 2015 2:00 pm850 views

  • Deaths

    Oct 4, 2018 2:30 pm835 views

    Rita Josephine Deters ... John L. Larson ... Marilyn Sue O’Hara ... Joseph H. Smith ... Gerald Durbin Wood ... David Zola

  • Deaths

    Feb 11, 2016 9:00 am778 views

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

  • Deaths

    Mar 31, 2016 9:00 am745 views

    Robert L. Sprague

  • Deaths

    Jan 24, 2019 12:45 pm698 views

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

  • Deaths

    Dec 13, 2018 12:30 pm694 views

    Sammy Ray “Sam” Sommer ... Kerrin Thompson

  • Deaths

    Dec 10, 2015 12:45 pm688 views

  • Deaths

    Apr 14, 2016 9:00 am664 views

    Margaret R. Henry … Clarence Lee "Pete" Phillips … Daniel Keith Slack

  • Deaths

    Mar 17, 2016 9:15 am651 views

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

  • Deaths

    Mar 23, 2018 12:15 pm648 views

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

  • Deaths

    Apr 28, 2016 8:00 am645 views

    Clifton G. Bergeron … Sally Kemp Dawson Buford … Carl S. Coad … Melbourne David "Pete" Eveland … William Hall Christie Maxwell … Burr Nelson … Audrey Louise (Handley) Trees

    Memorial Service: Kathryn Avery Cobb Burtness 

  • Deaths

    Aug 24, 2017 11:30 am634 views

    Albert E. Bloemker

  • Deaths

    May 10, 2018 1:45 pm625 views

    Richard E. Henderson ... Lois Evelyn Overmyer ... Christie Tucker

  • Deaths

    Oct 22, 2015 9:00 am618 views

  • Deaths

    Oct 8, 2015 9:00 am597 views

  • Deaths

    Sep 24, 2015 9:00 am595 views

  • Deaths

    Dec 3, 2015 9:00 am578 views

  • Deaths

    Mar 24, 2016 12:15 pm573 views

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

  • Deaths

    Jan 7, 2016 3:00 pm553 views

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

  • Deaths

    Mar 10, 2016 10:15 am541 views

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

  • Deaths

    Apr 11, 2019 12:15 pm540 views

    Janet Lynn “Jaelyn” Jefferson ... Sharon Jo Shiu

  • Deaths

    Oct 29, 2015 9:00 am540 views

  • Deaths

    Oct 15, 2015 9:00 am526 views

  • Deaths

    Feb 25, 2016 9:00 am525 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.

  • Deaths

    Jun 7, 2018 11:30 am518 views

    Charles M. Brown ... Norman C. Maske ... Terry D. Moore ... Eris E. Ponsler ... Ruth E. Shull

  • Deaths

    Nov 8, 2018 12:45 pm515 views

    Stephen Mitchell ... Patsy R. Paye ... Alan Rankin ... Stanley James Rankin ... Arthur J. Slates ... Edward L. Young

  • Deaths

    May 24, 2018 4:15 pm504 views

    Daniel Lee Beckman ... Susan Kathleen Connelly ... Paul Krabbe ... Carolyn G. (Shaw) Mink ... Mete A. Sozen ... Marilyn Upah-Bant

  • Deaths

    Feb 22, 2018 2:45 pm492 views

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

  • Deaths

    Nov 5, 2015 9:00 am486 views

  • Deaths

    Nov 25, 2015 9:00 am470 views

  • Deaths

    May 31, 2018 11:15 am459 views

    Tom Wyles Day ... Scott Ray White

  • Deaths

    Feb 15, 2018 2:00 pm453 views

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

  • Deaths

    Nov 30, 2017 3:45 pm434 views

    See-Wing Chiu ... C.E. “Gene” Hughes ... Arthur “Art” Ramer Wyatt ... Robert Scott Zeiders

     

  • Deaths

    Dec 21, 2017 12:45 pm430 views

    Ronald Dean Bagley ... Mary Elizabeth Butts Creech ... Teddy Georgia Eddleman ... Jean Frazier Patterson ... Barbara J. Perrero ... Randy B. Rogers ... Phillip Andrew Wassom ... John Wrinkle Welch 

  • Deaths

    Dec 22, 2016 1:30 pm430 views

    Ned Goldwasser ... James Edward Huffman ... Robert “Bob” Mooney ... Daniel Ivan Padberg

  • Deaths

    Sep 14, 2017 2:45 pm429 views

    Betty Ann Everence ... Terry L. Jamison ... Jack Arthur May ... Barbara Ann Yates 

  • Deaths

    Jun 1, 2016 3:15 pm424 views

    Bryan D. Stewart ... Vivian Ilene (Ohl) Alsip ... Mary Alyce (Carpenter) Pearson ... Delwyn (Del) Lynn Harnisch

  • Deaths

    Jul 1, 2016 2:15 pm424 views

    Nolan McNeely ... Jean Colee "Jeanie" Mullen ... Kathryn Jean Glasper ... Mary Matilda (Brownfield) Ebert ... Junetta Blythe Gillespie ... Jerome B. Kaufman

  • Deaths

    Jan 11, 2019 8:30 am422 views

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