Three faculty members from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have been named as recipients of the Jozef and Huguette Cohen Innovation Awards, a program supporting visionary research in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Campus-Community Compact has awarded $94,000 through the 2026 Building Beyond the Barriers Grant Program to support collaborative projects addressing community-identified needs across Champaign County.
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...
Nine U of I students and recent graduates were offered Fulbright grants to pursue international education, research and teaching experiences around the globe this coming year. The awardees include three students from SLCL: one major and two minors.
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.
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.
PURSUE LAS is a program at the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences with the goal of expanding access to transformative undergraduate research experiences.
