Going for Gold
After an extra year of waiting, the world’s best athletes headed to Tokyo this summer for an Olympic and Paralympic Games like no other—without spectators, but with a lengthy list of COVID precautions. Illinois...
“I”s on the World: South African Safari
South Africa was an ideal setting for Don, MS ’70 ENG, PHD ’73 ENG, and Colette Henley, MS ’72 LAS, to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple joined a UIAA EXPLORERS camera safari...
Illini Double Trio
Growing up, O’Brien twins Kevin, ’87 MEDIA, and Kathy, ’87 LAS, and 11-months-older brother Peter, ’87 LAS, always attended the same schools in the same grade. So the trio never even considered splitting up...
In Class: Math Master
I teach a class on differential equations. This semester I’m teaching close to 600 students. They are mostly sophomore and junior engineering majors. It’s the course they take after Calculus 3. Most of them...
Alumni Interview: Newton Cheng
I believe in the power of health and well-being. Corporations have a special opportunity because healthier employees make the business more successful. I believe if we help people at Google, other companies may follow,...
Pathfinder
Treatment options are limited for pediatric patients with recurrent T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or T-ALL. James R. Allen, ’11 LAS, is working to understand the cell mechanisms behind the disease’s therapeutic resistance. In recognition...
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,...
Gene and the honey bee
For anyone trying to tease out how the brain makes sense of the world, the honey bee is a perfect study organism. It’s a social animal, living in a complex society where the jobs...
Unstoppable
Artist Marian Sautter Anderson, ’44 FAA, is creating a sculpture garden of her work outside her studio in South Haven, Mich. She mentions that one large piece is hollow, which allowed her to crawl...
Mr. Roundtree
When it comes to the urban schools of America, the name Booker T. Washington is, to be frank, a profile trigger, provoking thoughts of ambitious but crumbling architecture, ancient brick, wavy windows and restrooms...
