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

    May 31, 2018 10:45 am2150 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.

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

    Nov 4, 2016 8:30 am1747 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.

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    Dec 22, 2015 4:15 pm1096 views

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    Jan 14, 2016 10:30 am1076 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

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    Feb 4, 2016 9:00 am1055 views

     Ernest Dawn

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

    Apr 7, 2016 11:30 am1045 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.

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    Jan 28, 2016 9:00 am1003 views

    Sorab Pirozshah Mistry

  • Deaths

    May 5, 2016 10:45 am948 views

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

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    Jan 21, 2016 9:00 am912 views

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

  • Deaths

    Dec 17, 2015 2:00 pm847 views

  • Deaths

    Feb 11, 2016 9:00 am778 views

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

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    Mar 31, 2016 9:00 am742 views

    Robert L. Sprague

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    Dec 10, 2015 12:45 pm683 views

  • Deaths

    Apr 14, 2016 9:00 am663 views

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

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    Apr 28, 2016 8:00 am643 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

    Mar 17, 2016 9:15 am642 views

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

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    Aug 24, 2017 11:30 am630 views

    Albert E. Bloemker

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    Oct 22, 2015 9:00 am613 views

  • Deaths

    Mar 23, 2018 12:15 pm603 views

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

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    Sep 24, 2015 9:00 am593 views

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    Oct 8, 2015 9:00 am592 views

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

    Dec 15, 2004 9:00 am589 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

    May 10, 2018 1:45 pm581 views

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

  • Deaths

    Dec 3, 2015 9:00 am577 views

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    Mar 24, 2016 12:15 pm572 views

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

  • Deaths

    Jan 7, 2016 3:00 pm548 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

    Oct 29, 2015 9:00 am539 views

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    Oct 15, 2015 9:00 am525 views

  • Deaths

    Feb 25, 2016 9:00 am521 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 5, 2015 9:00 am480 views

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    Nov 25, 2015 9:00 am458 views

  • Deaths

    Feb 15, 2018 2:00 pm437 views

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

  • Deaths

    Dec 22, 2016 1:30 pm427 views

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

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

    Jun 21, 2018 9:00 am423 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.

  • Deaths

    Sep 14, 2017 2:45 pm422 views

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

  • Deaths

    Jan 12, 2018 11:30 am416 views

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

  • Deaths

    Dec 21, 2017 12:45 pm415 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

    Jun 1, 2016 3:15 pm413 views

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

  • Deaths

    Nov 30, 2017 3:45 pm411 views

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

     

  • Deaths

    Jul 1, 2016 2:15 pm410 views

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

  • Deaths

    May 24, 2018 4:15 pm404 views

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

  • Deaths

    Sep 21, 2017 1:00 pm403 views

    Carl Deal ... William Dentler Ramm Jr.

  • Deaths

    Nov 19, 2015 9:00 am403 views

  • Deaths

    Aug 17, 2017 3:15 pm402 views

    Jerome “Jerry” Carlson ... Raymond (Ray) Eugene Jenkins ... Janis Elaine “Jan” Shearer ... Karen L. Wold

  • Deaths

    May 31, 2018 11:15 am396 views

    Tom Wyles Day ... Scott Ray White

  • Deaths

    Feb 22, 2018 2:45 pm388 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

    Jun 7, 2018 11:30 am380 views

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

  • Deaths

    Jan 25, 2018 10:45 am373 views

    Rick Frederick ... Frank M. Williams

  • Deaths

    Jan 19, 2018 11:00 am371 views

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