2022-11-01
- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is leading a new research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with diverse speech patterns and disabilities.
2022-10-28 - A project focused on anti-Asian rhetoric known as “Yellow Peril” has won a grant from the Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program for 2022-23.
2022-10-24 - Comparative and world literature professor Brett Ashley Kaplan has been selected as a featured author for the Texas Book Festival, which is taking place November 5 and 6 in Austin, Texas.
2022-10-18 - Four professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named 2022 Conrad Humanities Scholars, including Xun Yan, professor of linguistics.
2022-10-07 - Sometimes a good thing doesn’t start with a kickoff gala or groundbreaking ceremony; it starts with a lot of question marks, like the ones surrounding the study of religion at the U of I in the 1970s.
2022-10-04 - With global COVID-19 restrictions easing around the globe, LAS students are once again expanding their vistas, enjoying a wide variety of study abroad programs, from short-term faculty-led courses abroad to semester-long programs with internships and research opportunities.
2022-09-27 - Every year, the Campus Honors Program at the University of Illinois brings together diverse, curious, and engaged students from across campus to create an “overlapping community” of lifelong learners. In recent years, more and more faculty from SLCL have become a part of that effort.
2022-09-23 - When you think about teaching as a profession, a classroom is probably the first image that comes to mind, but some of the most meaningful learning experiences — for both students and teachers — happen outside of that setting.
2022-09-21 - Several new faculty members joined the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics this fall. Their expertise will add to the existing strengths in several of our units and bring valuable perspectives and experiences to the school.
2022-09-15 - Several professors, including two from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, have recently received named scholar positions for their contributions to research, education, and the academic mission of the College of LAS.
2022-08-31 - Several faculty members in the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics started the fall semester with promotions. They're part of a group of 25 faculty members whose promotions were announced by the College of LAS in July.
2022-08-18 - Beatriz Jiménez, a student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is a member of the 22—23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the Humanities Research Institute's inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. She shares about her experiences with Interseminars below.
2022-08-10 - The Foreign Language Teacher Education program has a new director. Jude Krushnowski (BS, ’10, psychology and Hispanic linguistics; MA, ’19, linguistics) will be taking over the role after serving as interim co-director of the program with Florencia Henshaw during the 2021-22 academic year.
2022-08-02 - Illinois alumna Stephanie Hare (BA, ‘97, French) believes the most interesting aspect of her work is the opportunity to learn every day.
2022-07-25 - When summer arrives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and undergraduates go back to their hometowns, a perfect opportunity arises for other, much younger students to take part in the college experience in a way that reaches beyond a typical campus tour.