Student aid
Dyslexia can have devastating consequences for young children learning how to read, yet many teachers are overwhelmed by other demands in their classrooms and can’t give such children the individual
Co-Education
In her later years, Frances Potter Reynolds, Class of 1874, recalled the day in 1870 when the Illinois Industrial University’s Board of Trustees voted to admit women as students. Unlike
In Class: Fluid Mechanic
I focus on how air moves at high speed. Imagine a commercial aircraft with a gas turbine engine flying through the air. I teach my students how the air moves around
Ingenious: The magician of BCL
When Heinz von Foerster was a child in Vienna, his grandmother hosted artists, philosophers and politicians, and von Foerster soaked it all in. He brought that same multidisciplinary spirit to
Memory Lane: Not Your Dad’s Rec Room
It was an underground scene like no other. Young people, by the dozens—over time, by the hundreds and the thousands—stopping by between classes, skipping classes entirely to be there. Flowing
Rapid Responders
THE COVID-19 ERA, Part 3 of 3 As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread globally, scientists at Illinois leapt into action, collaborating across disciplines and continents and forging ahead at warp speed.
Better Days Ahead
THE COVID-19 ERA, Part 2 of 3 Where were you on Thursday, March 12, 2020? Rick Hazlewood, EDM ’85, was hunkered down in back of a tour bus outside of
The first of many celebrations
Commencement 2020 was like no other.For starters, the ceremony ran just seven seconds shy of 16 minutes—surely a speed record for a University that has, over 149 years, developed multiple
The Big Picture: The “kids” are all right
Spring at the U of I brings rebirth to campus, just as it welcomes new life to the University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Caring for the season’s onset of newborn
In Class: Mixologist
Chemistry 232 has a reputation because a lot of pre-med students have to take it as a required class. On the first day, I am honest with them that organic
