School of Integrative Biology

Researchers find impact of melatonin on the successful infection of Daphnia dentifera by Metschnikowia bicuspidata

2025-02-26

An undergraduate researcher from the Cáceres Lab recently investigated the role of melatonin on the disease dynamics between freshwater crustacean Daphia dentifera—commonly known as the water flea—and fungal parasite Metschnikowia bicuspidata. The results were published...

Lisa Ainsworth named RIPE Director

2025-02-18

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Lisa Ainsworth has been named Director of the internationally acclaimed Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency project, which is led by the University of Illinois."Lisa is pre...

LAS celebrates alumni achievement

2025-02-17

Seven alumni of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences will receive recognition during the college’s 2025 alumni awards at a celebration in April. They are researchers, volunteers, and political thinkers who have made incredible impacts in their fields and communities.  Doug...

42nd Annual Insect Fear Film Festival

2025-02-12

a tarantula standing in front of the IFFF information

The 42nd Annual Insect Fear Film Festival (IFFF) will be held on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at Foellinger Auditorium, on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Hosted by the Entomology Graduate Students Association in the Department of Entomology at the...

College of LAS honors staff and academic professionals, announcing teaching and advising award winners for outstanding contributions.

2025-02-10

The College of LAS has selected 16 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and advisors as the recipients of the 2025 teaching and advising rewards.Additionally, earlier in the year the college announced it was recognizing seven staff members and academic professionals for their outstanding...

First-Ever Conceptual Model Explains Variations in Agricultural N2O Emissions

2025-01-25

Nitrous oxide (N2O) has long been agriculture’s sustainability Achilles heel. While only making up 6% of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, N2O has 300 times the heat-trapping ability ofcarbon dioxide (CO2) and stays in the atmosphere for about...

Long/Ort step back from RIPE leadership roles they helped create

2025-02-03

After decades of impactful and prolific research, two photosynthesis trailblazers are passing the torch, Stephen Long and Donald Ort are retiring from their leadership roles for the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project at the...

Entomology researchers have cicada research featured in Science publication

2025-01-31

At this year’s Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology (SICB) Conference, Entomology Assistant Professor Marianne Alleyne and graduate student Yutao Chen showcased their research on the...

Quantifying life history difference in tropical plant communities can help in predicting changes in population size

2025-01-27

Headshots of James O'Dwyer and Kenneth Jops

A University of Illinois team recently published new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based on their ongoing work on Barro Colorado Island (BCI), a key research site...

A new degree of pride

2025-01-13

A photo of graduate Allan Harris and his family

A story 60 years in the making ended recently with a peculiar occurrence at the College of LAS winter convocation in December: The final bachelor’s degree recipient to cross the stage was bestowed with a bachelor’s degree in zoology, which hadn’t happened since the 1970s when the Department of...

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