Nick Holonyak Jr., pioneer of LED lighting, dies Sep 18, 2022 3:00 pm16788 views Nick Holonyak Jr., a renowned innovator of illumination, has died. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor was 93 years old. Holonyak (pronounced huh-LON-yak) is credited with the development of the first practical visible-spectrum LED, now commonly used in light bulbs, device displays and lasers worldwide. Scott R. White, pioneer of self-healing materials, has died May 31, 2018 10:45 am7032 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. Alumnus Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO and chairman, dies at 84 Mar 2, 2020 1:45 pm6854 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 am6002 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 Jul 25, 2019 3:30 pm3891 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 am2963 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 am2463 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. Former U. of I. police chief remembered as great leader Apr 7, 2016 11:30 am1210 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 14, 2016 10:30 am1113 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 Dec 22, 2015 4:15 pm1102 views Deaths Oct 4, 2018 2:30 pm1085 views Rita Josephine Deters ... John L. Larson ... Marilyn Sue O’Hara ... 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Zoltan Ujhelyi Deaths Nov 25, 2015 9:00 am558 views Deaths Jun 7, 2018 11:30 am556 views Charles M. Brown ... Norman C. Maske ... Terry D. Moore ... Eris E. Ponsler ... Ruth E. Shull Deaths Feb 25, 2016 9:00 am550 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 Nov 29, 2018 1:15 pm548 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 Oct 29, 2015 9:00 am543 views Deaths Oct 15, 2015 9:00 am533 views Deaths Feb 22, 2018 2:45 pm531 views Marilois Barker ... Donald “Don” Lee Day ...Steven J. D’Urso ... Charles Walter “Erik” Eriksen ... Jack Theodore Harroun ... C. Rex Mahannah ... 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