Society & Culture
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Working for a better workplace
Labor leader Reuben Soderstrom’s legacy extends beyond the movement to here on campus.
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The world on a plate
When you are thousands of miles away from home, nothing can bring you back faster than the smell of familiar dishes coming from the kitchen.
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Taken for a ride
In their new book, psychology professor Daniel Simons and co-author Christopher Chabris investigate why we fall for scams … and how we can protect ourselves.
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Revolution at the Five and Dime
Known as the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, Ann Thayer Weldy (LAS ’54), helped readers find comfort—and themselves—in her books.
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Curiosities: Series 8
From illustrating fictional lands to helping you find your way home, these colorful way finders tell us as much about where we are as who we are.
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Terrell Jermaine Starr
Armed with a U.S. passport, an intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to help, journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr (LAS ’09, MEDIA ’09) shares a rarely told perspective of the war in Ukraine.
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Curiosities: Series 7
In this seventh installment of Curiosities, we examine our connections to three films regarded by many to be landmark contributions to the entire filmmaking cannon.
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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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Built on coal
We visited Gillespie, Illinois to get a feel for what happens to a town when the mines close and the plants shut down.