2026-03-24 - Recent graduates from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign achieved high rates of employment and continuing education along with an increase in starting salaries and signing bonuses, according to the latest Illini Success report.
2026-03-23 - Eduardo García-Molina, professor of classics, was introduced to his future career through video games.
2026-03-23 - Comparative and world literature professor Eric Calderwood has received the 2026 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for his book, "On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus."
2026-03-19 - LAS undergrads are growing from the "hidden curriculum" of academic conferences.
2026-03-13 - The University of Illinois recently hosted its annual research exchange symposium with scholars from Osaka Metropolitan University.
2026-03-12 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is among the top producers of recipients for the Gilman International Scholarship Program, which provides merit-based scholarships to outstanding American undergraduate students with high financial need to pursue credit-bearing academic studies...
2026-03-04 - A new faculty member in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures is introducing a new generation of students to Bulgarian language, history, and culture.
2026-03-04 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics will host a convocation ceremony for graduating students this May. This year's speaker is Jessica Nicholas (MA, '12; PhD, '18; French linguistics).
2026-02-27 - The Humanities Research Institute has awarded its annual faculty and graduate student fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from campus for the 2026-27 academic year, including several from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics.
2026-02-24 - A multi-disciplinary team of faculty researchers from the University of Illinois has been awarded a Sawyer Seminar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study the challenges to democracy and academic freedom confronting US universities now.
2026-02-19 - Three professors and a graduate student from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have been recognized by campus and the College of LAS for their exceptional commitment to teaching and advising.
2026-01-26 - Two students from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese have been named Humanities in Action scholars by We CU and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI).
2026-01-16 - Miguel Ángel Galindo (MA, ’91, Spanish; PhD, ’97, Spanish) and Nerea Muguerza (MA, ’98, Spanish), longtime resident directors of the Illinois in Granada program in Granada, Spain, recently returned to the University of Illinois for their first visit in a decade.
2025-12-19 - Comparative and world literature professor Waïl Hassan’s book "Arab Brazil: Fictions of Ternary Orientalism" (Oxford University Press, 2024) has received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association.
2025-12-17 - A student from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese is combining her culture with her love for science with the help of the Frances E. Smith Scheidel Scholarship.