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Illinois Commencement Speaker Sean Evans: ‘You don’t need to know what happens next. You just need to be ready for the heat.’
“Hot Ones” host Sean Evans was the 2026 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Commencement speaker. Read the transcript of his speech.
New study provides rule of thumb to estimate land sustainability in river deltas
A new study finds that the well-established Hack’s law may help engineers control water flow and reduce flood risks along river deltas.
Illinois junior receives prestigious Udall Scholarship
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign junior R. Fisher Houston is one of 65 students nationwide awarded the Udall Undergraduate Scholarship. This highly competitive scholarship program identifies future leaders in environmental, Tribal public policy and healthcare fields.
Faculty members honored with 2026 University Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Awards
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign reintroduced one of its signature faculty honors this spring with the University Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Awards, which recognizes professors who take on sustained, active leadership in improving teaching and learning at Illinois. University Distinguished Teacher-Scholars are celebrated for the ways their work improves the quality of teaching not […]
Art and Design seniors exhibit their work at Krannert Art Museum
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — More than 100 seniors in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will exhibit work that is the culmination of their education. The School of Art and Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition opens May 9, with an opening reception from 4-6 p.m., and runs through May […]
More structural protein can make tumors softer, the inverse of how lab tumors are made, study finds
Higher levels of the structural proteins collagen and fibrin around a tumor counterintuitively make the tissue softer — the opposite of conventional thinking.
Behind the Scenes
Planting a pocket forest
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — It’s 5:14 a.m., and the sun hasn’t come up yet. I’m at the Illinois Arboretum parking lot among a crowd of 70 students, faculty and community members, all awaiting the beginning of the same event — interdisciplinary artist Deke Weaver’s sunrise tree planting procession. Weaver, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign art professor, […]
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. […]
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