From Zero to $2.7 Billion
One might say a triumph was front-loaded. When With Illinois officially kicked off in the fall of 2017, approximately 45 percent of the campaign’s ambitious $2.25 billion goal had already been secured through a...
Memory Lane: An Underground Lair
As the proverb says, all good things must come to an end. And of all the good things at Illinois, few were as beloved as the Undergraduate Library (UGL), the underground icon that was...
We Reach Millions
Editor’s note: The WILL audience stories that appear in this article are composites, based on information from the following sources: interviews with WILL listeners/viewers and staff; the Illinois Public Media archives; The Daily Illini;...
Distant Relatives
In science, as in all of life, there are matters a posteriori—meaning they have to be proved—and matters a priori—which is to say, self-evident. That U of I Professor Alfred (Al) Roca is partial...
Disruptor-in-Chief
When Robert Brunner, Ph.D., says new technologies aren’t rocket science, he speaks from experience—he holds a doctoral degree in astrophysics and was professor of astronomy before coming to the Gies College of Business in...
UIAA Board welcomes seven new members
Randy L. Buhr, ’90 BUS, JD ’95, is director of championships and alliances for the NCAA, where he has day-to-day oversight for the Division I Baseball Championship and the Men’s College World Series. He...
2020 University of Illinois Alumni Award Recipients
ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Chemical Catalyst Chemical engineer Joe Glas took action against ozone depletion, receiving kudos from the EPA for developing an environmentally friendly Freon replacement When Joe Glas, MS ’62 LAS,...
Illinois Shines in The College Tour
Mihir Vardhan, a freshman electrical engineering major from Haryana, India, has something to tell the world about the University of Illinois: “It’s about studying what you’re passionate about, in the most amazing labs...
Way of the Sensei
Shozo Sato, HON ’99, still remembers the searchlights sweeping across the sky over Osaka, Japan, in 1945. Then came the B-29 bombers. “I could hear the planes coming in, the very deep propeller sounds,”...
Alumni Interview: Julia Bauer
I first got interested in human skeletons when I fell off a pony. I was 13, and I broke my left wrist. Always a science geek, I had a fascinating time during my...
