2026-07-27 - Classics professor Eduardo García-Molina discusses how “The Odyssey” film compares with Homer’s epic poem and the story’s relevance today.
2026-07-23 - A new book by Illinois linguistics professor Ryan Shosted and computer language designer Neal Davis tells the history of the Deseret alphabet, created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 19th century and described as “a marvelous, ambitious, quixotic project” to reshape the...
2026-06-17 - Laughter echoed through the halls of the University of Illinois as children waved tiny flags, danced to French music, and explored campus buildings during the inaugural FrancoFun Kids@U of I event.
2026-06-17 - The Clarence and Pauline Cohn Memorial Scholarship has supported dozens of students, including Lily Carter, an LAS graduate who teaches English in South Korea with the EPIK program.
2026-06-02 - PURSUE LAS is a program at the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences with the goal of expanding access to transformative undergraduate research experiences.
2026-06-01 - The College of LAS is where curiosity drives impact, and the new Curiosity to Impact (C2I) Fund helps faculty members to do exactly that.
2026-05-15 - Two professors from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics are being recognized by the College of LAS.
2026-05-14 - A group of scholars and professionals from across the University of Illinois campus has come together to create a new digital humanities project: Parthenon at Illinois.
2026-05-14 - A student from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese has been named a 2026 Community-Academic Scholar (CAS) by the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute.
2026-05-04 - Lyndon Shi, a student in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, has received a Boren Award. He's one of two recipients from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
2026-04-27 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to present the diversity, service, and academic awardees for 2026.
2026-04-27 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to present the SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship awardees for academic year 2026-27.
2026-04-17 - A recent alumna from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study a foreign language this summer.
2026-04-16 - Ilaria Strocchia (Spanish and Portuguese) is a 2025–2026 HRI Graduate Student Fellow. Her current research project, “Flowing Histories: Examining the Role of Water in Shaping Urban Spaces and Identities Across Cultures,” investigates how bodies of water—rivers, lakes, and the sea—have historically...
2026-04-15 - An Arabic debate team member recently won first place at the 6th U.S. Universities Arabic Debating Championship, marking a pattern of excellence for the team.