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  • Scott R. White, a pioneer of self-healing materials, died May 28 at age 55.

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

    May 31, 2018 10:45 am5383 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.

  • 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.

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jul 25, 2019 3:30 pm2788 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 am2508 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.

  • Physics professor Klaus Schulten, 69, died Monday, Oct. 31.

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

    Nov 4, 2016 8:30 am2033 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 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.

     

  • photo of former U. of I. police chief Paul Dollins

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

    Apr 7, 2016 11:30 am1109 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

    Dec 22, 2015 4:15 pm1100 views

  • 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

  • Deaths

    Feb 4, 2016 9:00 am1057 views

     Ernest Dawn

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Oct 4, 2018 2:30 pm1032 views

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

  • Deaths

    Jan 28, 2016 9:00 am1011 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

  • Deaths

    Dec 17, 2015 2:00 pm854 views

  • 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

    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

  • Deaths

    Mar 31, 2016 9:00 am750 views

    Robert L. Sprague

  • The sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Dec 13, 2018 12:30 pm710 views

    Sammy Ray “Sam” Sommer ... Kerrin Thompson

  • 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

    Dec 10, 2015 12:45 pm696 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 am663 views

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

  • Deaths

    Apr 28, 2016 8:00 am655 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 

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 10, 2018 1:45 pm650 views

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

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Apr 11, 2019 12:15 pm643 views

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

  • The sun sets behind miscanthus on the South Farms.

    Deaths

    Aug 24, 2017 11:30 am636 views

    Albert E. Bloemker

  • Deaths

    Oct 22, 2015 9:00 am619 views

  • Deaths

    Oct 8, 2015 9:00 am605 views

  • Deaths

    Sep 24, 2015 9:00 am595 views

  • Deaths

    Mar 24, 2016 12:15 pm580 views

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

  • Deaths

    Dec 3, 2015 9:00 am580 views
  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jul 11, 2019 12:45 pm577 views

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

     

     

     

     

  • 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

    Nov 8, 2018 12:45 pm550 views

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

  • Deaths

    Mar 10, 2016 10:15 am547 views

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

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 24, 2018 4:15 pm545 views

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

  • Deaths

    Oct 29, 2015 9:00 am540 views

  • 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

    Jun 7, 2018 11:30 am530 views

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

  • Deaths

    Oct 15, 2015 9:00 am527 views
  • 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

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jun 28, 2019 11:45 am500 views

    Roy O. Walker Jr.

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Nov 29, 2018 1:15 pm500 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 am495 views
  • 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 

     

     

  • Deaths

    Nov 5, 2015 9:00 am487 views
  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Nov 15, 2018 11:30 am485 views

    James B. Sinclair

     

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 31, 2018 11:15 am469 views

    Tom Wyles Day ... Scott Ray White

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jan 11, 2019 8:30 am463 views

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