News Bureau – Illinois

Photo of a group of students in the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art, in front of a windowsill with an exhibit of architectural models.

Arts

Architecture students create models, drawings for exhibit, materials collection of Ricker Library

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A collaborative project between architecture students and the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign aims to...

Social work professor Christopher Fleming led a study that explored youth gangs in small towns and rural areas in the U.S.

Expert Viewpoints

Do youth gangs exist in rural America?

Christopher Fleming is a professor of social work at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign and the first author of a recent study that explored...

Doctoral student Shaimaa Khanam standing outdoors with the column of a campus building in the background.

Health and Medicine

Stealthing survivors grapple with a “gray area” of sexual violation

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Nonconsensual condom removal by an intimate partner falls into a gray area of sexual violence, a traumatic experience that exposes survivors to...

Sara Gerke, the Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar at the College of Law.

Health and Medicine

Paper: Autonomous AI-based drug prescribing rife with potential problems

Autonomous AI-based drug prescribing raises important clinical and legal issues, says law professor Sara Gerke.

Health and Medicine Social Sciences Photo of Rachel Hoopsick standing in a blue dress outside a university building.

Social media promotion, ease of access increase risk of adolescent inhalant misuse

Two new studies offer insight into adolescents who use nitrous oxide or other inhalants in the U.S.

Expert Viewpoints Law and Policy Portrait of Rachel Hoopsick

Who benefits from loosening restrictions on psychedelics, marijuana?

Substance use and mental health expert Rachel Hoopsick weighs in on the new changes to federal drug policy.

Honors

Three Illinois faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Three faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States.

Campus News

Two Illinois students receive Boren Scholarships

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign undergraduate students Sameer Abbasi and Lyndon Shi have received Boren Awards.

Humanities Diptych image of José A. de la Garza Valenzuela and the cover of his book “Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions.”

Diptych image of José A. de la Garza Valenzuela and the cover of his book “Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions.”

Illinois professor’s book shows how ‘lawful fictions’ are used to manage immigration, citizenship

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — José A. de la Garza Valenzuela, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of Latina/Latino Studies, looks at the experiences of queer migrants, and at how immigration practices shape particular fictions about them, in his new book “Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions.” The book combines literary and […]

Health and Medicine Yue (Darcy) Lu standing with one elbow on her knee with flowering spring trees in the background.

Nature videography replicates the mental health benefits of outdoor activities

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New research led by a scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign suggests that watching and creating videography of scenic locations cultivates nature-based mindfulness — conveying the same cognitive and emotional benefits as outdoor activities and fostering a deep sense of connection with nature. Yue (Darcy) Lu, an Illinois doctoral student in […]

Behind the Scenes

Photo of a student placing weights on top of a bamboo stick truss while other students watch.

Designing, building and breaking things

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Bamboo skewers carefully arranged in the form of a truss span the space between two tables in the Temple Buell Architecture Gallery. Students gather around to watch as 5-pound and 10-pound weights are added one at a time, either on top of the truss or hanging from the bottom along its length. […]

Photo of Robert Pahre wearing virtual reality goggles in front of a screen with a wilderness photo and surrounded by seated students also wearing VR goggles.

Exploring a wilderness area, virtually

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — It’s a cold February day in Illinois, but I’m enjoying the view of a backcountry trail in Yellowstone National Park. I see a sunrise over Heart Lake, a lodgepole pine forest, a geyser basin, the yellow leaves of aspen trees above a canyon along the Snake River and views of Mount Sheridan. […]

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