Environmental anthropologist Anna Roosevelt discovered hunter-gatherer remains and cave paintings in the Brazilian Amazon dating to over 10,000 years ago. By looking at the tools they made and food they ate, she determined that they were not big-game hunters that the prevailing theory had assumed. More...
Environmental anthropologist Anna Roosevelt discovered hunter-gatherer remains and cave paintings in the Brazilian Amazon dating to over 10,000 years ago. By looking at the tools they made and food they ate, she determined that they were not big-game hunters that the prevailing theory had assumed. More...
At the 2010 LAS Freshman Town Hall Meeting, alumnus James Compton spoke to new students and their families about his experience from starting as an economics major to the becoming the executive vice president of Continental Airlines.
Izzet Coskun is one of three faculty members in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science to win a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2010. He studies moduli spaces and homogeneous varieties, like the circle, which he describes as a "beautiful space" with perfect rotational symmetry. More...
"As a citizen teacher, you see your work as part of a broader project to promote various forms of democracy and justice throughout society," says Todd deStigter, associate professor of English, and winner of a 2009 Award for Teaching Excellence. More...
Peter Doran, professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has made a subterranean map-making robot for NASA, had a glacier named after him and helped lead the international conversation on global warming. More...
Susan Goldman, co-director of the UIC Learning Sciences Research Institute and LAS Distinguished Professor, is the lead investigator on a $19.2 million dollar granted-funded project which brings together researchers and classroom teachers to improve students' reading for understanding. More...
Neuroscience major Shauna Gunaratne spent her first year after graduation on a Fulbright Fellowship in Greece studying how components of the Mediterranean diet have helped prevent adult-onset diabetes. More...
Alumnus and LAS Board of Visitors member James McNulty (BA '73) has made a $300,000 commitment to expand the College's Asian Studies Program. More...
Kathleen Lee was one of the first participants in the LAS Undergraduate Research Initiative, which provides funding for students and their faculty members to pursue independent research projects. Lee earned first place in the Humanities, Social Science and Business Practices division at the 2010 UIC Student Research Forum. More...
Through the LAS Internship Program, Kate McCarter scored the internship of her dreams at the Chicago Historical Society as an "L" Tours Research Assistant. More...
