A new book by English professor John Gallagher aims to counter the hype surrounding artificial intelligence by focusing on AI researchers and their work.

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The University Archives is hosting an exhibit of its records on the Morrow Plots, showing the history and impact of the longest-running agricultural experiment in the U.S., to celebrate its 150th anniversary.

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🧠Xiaotang Lu received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for her work mapping connections within the brain.

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Bird flu doesn’t stop at birds: The Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory found spillover from a backyard flock to a cat and a rat on an Illinois farm.

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Sociology’s treatment of institutional racism as the default explanation for disparities has stymied research and debate, Illinois sociology professor Ilana Redstone says in a new study.

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Scientists used machine learning and super-resolution microscopy to overcome a decadeslong obstacle to categorizing grass pollen fossils.

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Illinois dance professor and choreographer Cynthia Oliver’s work “Turn. Turning. TURNT.” — a triptych of three interconnected dance pieces — is a meditation on negotiating time and relationships through collective life-changing conditions.

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More than a decade of research in the IKIDS program offers insight into some of the ways chemical exposures affect child cognition and development. @beckmanillinois.bsky.social @vetmedillinois.bsky.social

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Illinois architecture professor Joseph Altshuler and art professor Nekita Thomas reimagine how graphic design can transform public spaces in their new book “Supergraphic Landscapes: From Public Art to Urban Design.”

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Illinois professor Kaiyu Guan and Illinois alumnus Liangfang Zhang have been named 2026 MacArthur Fellows, each receiving what is commonly known as a “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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A new exhibit at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library explores the life and career of author Mary Shelley and the context for her novel “Frankenstein.”

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Health and kinesiology Ph.D. student Kaitlyn Thornton travels with a team of researchers to bring wheelchair rugby to Armenia. @ahsillinois.bsky.social

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Postpartum women reported in a new U. of I. study that lingering pain, particularly after C-sections, and depressive symptoms hampered their ability to care for themselves and their infants.

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Spurlock Museum of World Cultures is returning 201 objects from its collection to Peru in the museum’s first voluntary international repatriation.

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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is unveiling Illinois Leads, a strategic plan to set the course for the future of the state’s flagship public-serving university.

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The first step in gauging the existential risks of AI should be a common scale with independent verification, says Robert Brunner, the chief disruption officer @giesbusiness.bsky.social

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U. of I. aerospace engineering alumnus, U.S. Space Force colonel and retired astronaut Mike Hopkins will return to campus to serve as the grand marshal of the U. of I. Homecoming parade Friday, Oct. 2

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Go on an adventure with graduate student Wardah Noor Syeda as she and her colleagues capture dragonflies and cockroaches in the Peruvian Amazon.

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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign continued a trend of enrollment milestones with a record-breaking class for the fall 2026 semester, marking the third consecutive year the university has tallied its largest-ever first-year class.

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Lissette M. Piedra, a @UofISocialWork professor, is co-leading a $17 million research project that is investigating how caregiving evolves across the life course and its impacts on health, social relationships and other factors.

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