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DECEMBER 2017 NEWSLETTER

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Happy Holidays from the College of LAS 

Wishing you peace, prosperity, and enlightenment in 2018


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NEWS

 
Yi Lu 
 

 

 

Four College of LAS professors rank among most influential researchers worldwide

Prominent ranking is based upon how often their research is cited. 

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Thomas Dowling 
 

 

 

College of LAS student named Rhodes Scholar

Thomas Dowling is the first Rhodes Scholar from Illinois since 1998.

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Joanne Chory 
 

 

 

College of LAS alumna wins Breakthrough Prize

Joanne Chory, a preeminent plant biologist, earned graduate degrees in microbiology at Illinois.

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Mapping History 
 

 

 

Mapping campus history

Students play key roles in making campus history interactive. 
 
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Top cop on campus

Sociology alumnus Jeff Christensen concludes a career with the University of Illinois Police Department. 
 
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Timothy Fan and Paul Hergenrother 
 

 

 

Cancer drug starts clinical trials in human brain cancer patients

PAC-1 has reduced tumor sizes in pet dogs. 
 
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Shiya Liu 
 

 

 

The Googlers

Department of Mathematics alumni are finding success at Google.

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Artist impression of a galaxy from the very early universe. 
 

 

 

Astronomers at Illinois shed light on how galaxies formed

New observations reveal formations that occurred only 780 million years after the Big Bang.

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image of how a human sees a fishing lure 
 

 

 

Seeing the world like a fish

Animal biologist develops app to see fishing lures through the eyes of a bass.

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Candice Jenkins 
 

 

 

Two faculty and an alumna from College of LAS receive NEH Fellowships

Fellowships support advanced research in humanities.

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