Science & Technology
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Home is where the robot is
Professor Wendy Rogers and other leading Illinois faculty are using the McKechnie Family LIFE Home to define the future of independent living for all ages and abilities.
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Bold
The Grainger College of Engineering honors the legacy of Nobel Laureate Rosalyn Yalow (GRAINGER ’45) while supporting the noteworthy work of physics Professor Nadya Mason.
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Illinois storytellers: Vilas Dhar
Vilas Dhar (GRAINGER ’04), president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, believes in investing in technology that can create lasting social change.
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Expedition: OASIS
Volcanologist and geology professor Patricia Gregg takes us with her on the deep ocean sub, Alvin, to investigate a volcanic ridge on the bottom of the sea floor.
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Translating the science of climate change into solutions
Donald J. Wuebbles, the Harry E. Preble Endowed Professor of Atmospheric Science, answers the Proust Questionnaire.
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Inside nature’s fury
Sometimes the only way to understand the storm is to get inside it.
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Illinois storytellers: Andy Sima
Andy Sima (LAS ’21) takes us to a burn zone in New Mexico, scarred land created by the 2019 Ute Park Wildfire.
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Land of wondrous cold
In his newest book of environmental history, English professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood explores the race to Antarctica, the continent’s influence on climate change, and. . . Alice in Wonderland.
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12 days
How Grainger engineers—and medical professionals, manufacturing experts, animal scientists, and designers from around Champaign-Urbana—brought a COVID-stricken world an emergency ventilator in less than two weeks.