Muppet Maestro
You may not recognize Paul Rudolph’s name, but if you’ve had kids around the house during the last couple decades, you’ve likely heard his work. Since 2008, the versatile Rudolph,
Alumni Interview: Grant Miller
Growing up in Chicago’s south suburbs, “nerding out” on Star Trek and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, I had a small telescope. Gazing up at the sky, I dreamed of understanding the
The Big Picture: Crops for the Campus Community
Every year, student workers at the Sustainable Student Farm grow 40 to 50 varieties of fruits and vegetables on six acres of local land, following low-input and organic farming practices.
A Material Guy
Taeghwan Hyeon, PHD ’96 LAS, has received the university’s 2025 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement. As director of the Center for Nanoparticle Research in
All the Pretty Horses
The thing about horses is that they’re—big. Large enough to trample a person underfoot. Horses can be curious, docile and loving. They can also rear, kick and gallop away uncontrolled.
Ingenious: Crop Rings
If you drive to the university’s Crop Sciences and Education Center, commonly referred to as South Farms, you’ll find a historic 80-acre field that was the first of its kind
She Walks the Line
Inside an airport hotel ballroom in Austin, Texas, Katharine Hayhoe, MS ’97 LAS, PHD ’10 LAS, takes the stage at the 29th Texas Land Conservation Conference. Rather than jump into
Legends
It was classic showbiz. She was a lead dancer. He was an assistant director. They met in rehearsals, then went on to performances and applause. And love. It was through
Illini 411: When did the Harlem Globetrotters first appear on campus?
A: The Globetrotters brought their zany, anything-goes brand of basketball to Assembly Hall (now The State Farm Center) for the first time on Dec. 4, 1965. But their association with
Mother Ocean
In his 14th novel, Richard Powers, ’78 LAS, MA ’80 LAS, weaves a complex, multigenerational story about artists, tech billionaires, oceanographers and a remote island in the South Pacific. You
