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Liangfang Zhang
LAS alum receives MacArthur Fellowship
 Alum Liangfang Zhang (PhD, '06, chemical and biomolecular engineering) has been awarded a 2026 MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a “genius grant,” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.According to the MacArthur Foundation, the...
Koschmann with climbing participants
Climbing against cancer
 While completing his pediatric oncology fellowship at the University of Michigan, Carl Koschmann (BS, ‘02, biology honors) met a young patient battling cancer.Her name was Vara James. At 9 years old, she was diagnosed with a Wilms tumor in her kidney....
Ayo Dosunmu being interviewed
Four LAS alumni inducted into Illinois Athletics Hall of Fame
 The University of Illinois Athletics Hall of Fame honors the greatest student-athletes, coaches, and administrators in the university’s history. This year, eight new athletes joined the list of legends, including four who were part of the College of LAS — football player Howard Griffith,...
Foellinger Auditorium
College of LAS announces endowed chair and professorships
 The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has named several accomplished faculty members to endowed chair and professorship positions. The positions are some of the highest honors that can be granted by the college. The recipients will be awarded discretionary funding to carry out...
Soffer at archeological site
The woman who rewrote prehistory
 Stories of paleolithic humans often depict men hunting megafauna like the mammoths, while the roles of women, children, and elders were assumed to be minimal. That was, until a Manhattan fashion executive turned archeologist helped to prove that women were crafting textiles long before such...
mariannealleyne
Wings of bioinspiration
The first lesson Marianne Alleyne learned from working with engineers had nothing to do with insects.It had to do with language."Actually doing interdisciplinary research or transdisciplinary research is really difficult," said Alleyne, a professor of...
Former President Barack Obama looks at May Berenbaum as a woman in a military uniform holds the National Medal of Science

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