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

    May 31, 2018 10:45 am4936 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.

  • Deaths

    Jul 25, 2019 3:30 pm2555 views

    Dolores Jane Byers ... Martin Joseph Knanishu ... Warren C. McCarty ... Kurtis Isaiah Pealer ... Patricia Eileen Price ... Selma Katharine Richardson ... Grace Christine (McCormick) Prestin Samford ... Winton U. Solberg

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

    Jun 21, 2018 9:00 am2376 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.

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

    Mar 2, 2020 1:45 pm1946 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.

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

    Nov 4, 2016 8:30 am1944 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.

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

    Dec 15, 2004 9:00 am1326 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 22, 2015 4:15 pm1099 views

  • Deaths

    Jan 14, 2016 10:30 am1095 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

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

    Apr 7, 2016 11:30 am1087 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

    Feb 4, 2016 9:00 am1057 views

     Ernest Dawn

  • Deaths

    Jan 28, 2016 9:00 am1005 views

    Sorab Pirozshah Mistry

  • Deaths

    Oct 4, 2018 2:30 pm998 views

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

  • 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

  • Deaths

    Dec 17, 2015 2:00 pm851 views

  • Deaths

    Feb 11, 2016 9:00 am780 views

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

  • Deaths

    Jan 24, 2019 12:45 pm748 views

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

  • Deaths

    Mar 31, 2016 9:00 am746 views

    Robert L. Sprague

  • Deaths

    Dec 13, 2018 12:30 pm704 views

    Sammy Ray “Sam” Sommer ... Kerrin Thompson

  • Deaths

    Mar 23, 2018 12:15 pm696 views

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

  • Deaths

    Dec 10, 2015 12:45 pm692 views

  • Deaths

    Apr 14, 2016 9:00 am666 views

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

  • Deaths

    Mar 17, 2016 9:15 am656 views

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

  • Deaths

    Apr 28, 2016 8:00 am652 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

    Apr 11, 2019 12:15 pm640 views

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

  • Deaths

    May 10, 2018 1:45 pm640 views

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

  • Deaths

    Aug 24, 2017 11:30 am635 views

    Albert E. Bloemker

  • Deaths

    Oct 22, 2015 9:00 am619 views

  • Deaths

    Oct 8, 2015 9:00 am604 views

  • Deaths

    Sep 24, 2015 9:00 am595 views

  • Deaths

    Dec 3, 2015 9:00 am580 views

  • Deaths

    Mar 24, 2016 12:15 pm576 views

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

  • Deaths

    Jan 7, 2016 3:00 pm559 views

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

  • Deaths

    Mar 10, 2016 10:15 am544 views

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

  • Deaths

    Nov 8, 2018 12:45 pm542 views

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

  • Deaths

    Oct 29, 2015 9:00 am540 views

  • Deaths

    May 24, 2018 4:15 pm534 views

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

  • Deaths

    Feb 25, 2016 9:00 am530 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 am527 views

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

  • Deaths

    Oct 15, 2015 9:00 am527 views

  • Deaths

    Feb 22, 2018 2:45 pm522 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

    Jul 11, 2019 12:45 pm490 views

    Phyllis Gordon ... Richard H. “Dick” Howard ... Paul Dale Shaw

     

     

     

     

  • Deaths

    Nov 5, 2015 9:00 am487 views

  • Deaths

    Mar 15, 2018 2:30 pm481 views

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

     

     

  • Deaths

    Nov 29, 2018 1:15 pm480 views

    Alva “Tad” LeRoy Addy ... Nancy J. Blackburn ... Belle Anna Brine ... John Roy Campbell ... Judith “Judy” Arlene Corray ... Terry Denny ... Marjorie Ellen (Keagle) Lange ... Alleta A. (Sue) Moore ... John (Jim) J.E. Mullen ... George Robert Young

  • Deaths

    Nov 25, 2015 9:00 am476 views

  • Deaths

    Jun 28, 2019 11:45 am475 views

    Roy O. Walker Jr.

  • Deaths

    May 31, 2018 11:15 am466 views

    Tom Wyles Day ... Scott Ray White

  • Deaths

    Jan 11, 2019 8:30 am457 views

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

     

  • Deaths

    Feb 15, 2018 2:00 pm457 views

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