Spring’s sunnier skies and warmer weather bring renewed greenhouse activity to the Sustainable Student Farm. Founded in 2009, the farm offers a hands-on learning lab for environmentally and economically sustainable agriculture. Student workers and...
Sister Stephanie Baliga, ’10 LAS, is fast as well as faithful. The former Illini track and cross country runner previously completed a full marathon in 2 hours and 53 minutes—an elite pace of six...
I teach taxation, which is a required class for accounting students at Illinois. They find it, frankly, kind of boring. We cover the core concept of depreciation. Everybody in the U.S. who has their...
The November presidential vote might have confirmed a deep rift in the American psyche, but in Chicago, there was total unanimity. With the possible exception of corrupt politicians, anyone who has ever watched TV...
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...
It’s a Saturday in October, about 100 years ago. The trees are starting to change, there’s a chill in the air, and the stands at Illinois Field (1891–1986)—all wooden bleachers—are starting to fill, as...
The adage that “too many cooks spoil the broth” does not apply if they are U of I alumni working for Chicago-based meal service company Tovala. “You hire from within your network because they...
April 30, 2020: Chancellor Robert J. Jones March 2, 2020: Director of Athletics Josh Whitman December 9, 2019: University of Illinois System President Timothy Killeen
A new study led by U of I Astronomy and Physics Professor Brian Fields explores the possibility of astronomical activity leading to an extinction event that occurred 359 million years ago during the Paleozoic...
As a student at Notre Dame College Prep in Niles, Ill., Dominick Stasi, ’01 MEDIA, was fascinated by television news. So when Stasi arrived at Illinois in 1997, he headed right to the broadcast...
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