10/16/2019 - Inside certain classrooms at the University of Illinois, it's possible to go deep-sea diving to a sunken ship and witness a 100-foot blue whale—all without leaving Champaign County. With virtual...
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10/11/2019 - Jordan Stump's translation of The Barefoot Woman, a novel by Scholastique Mukasonga, is among the five finalists for this year's National Book Award in Translated Fiction. The Barefoot...
10/10/2019 - It’s a vivid memory: At an open-air taverna in a small coastal town in Greece last summer, Alex Augustynski, junior in classics, made his acquaintance with a friendly black and white cat with green...
10/02/2019 - Professor Eric Calderwood’s book, “Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture” (Harvard University Press 2018), has been awarded the 2019 L. Carl Brown American...
09/24/2019 - Yolopattli Hernández-Torres (Ph.D., Spanish, 2010) was recently featured in the Champaign News-Gazette as part of a series titled “University of Illinois 150 Years and Belong: Students and...
09/20/2019 - We have followed with great concern the recent revelations regarding the actions of former employee Gary Xu...As head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC), and Director of...
09/20/2019 - Dear Faculty, students, staff members: We have followed with great concern the recent revelations regarding the actions of former employee Gary Xu. As head of the Department of East Asian Languages...
09/13/2019 - David Cooper, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has been selected as a Conrad Humanities Scholar for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) for 2019-2024. The Conrad...
09/10/2019 - Professor Mariselle Meléndez was selected by University of Illinois President Timothy Killeen to be part of the President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP) Fellows (2019). PELP is a unique...
09/09/2019 - François Proulx, Professor of French and Italian, is a recipient of the 2019 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award and a 2019-2020 Helen Corley Petit Scholar award. The Campus Distinguished Promotion...
08/30/2019 - Adam Newman is a new Lecturer in Religion. He received his PhD in 2019 from the University of Virginia. His research interests include Hinduism, the religious and political history of South Asia,...
08/28/2019 - Maria Hadji (Hadjipolycarpou) is a new Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. Before coming to Illinois she taught at Columbia...
08/28/2019 - John Levi Barnard is a new Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature. His research interests include American Literature and Culture, African American Literature and Culture, and...
08/23/2019 - Even before Janani Comar was enrolled in an eight-year-long Medical Scientist Training Program in New York City, she said she had her doubts about whether she’d finish the curriculum. Of course,...
07/17/2019 - Two University of Illinois undergraduates who are minoring in Arabic, Enddy Almonord and Barghav Sivaguru, are among 244 students nationwide awarded David L. Boren Scholarships, with a third Illinois...
