CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study co-written by a team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign experts who study workplace sexual harassment finds that men and women often respond differently when they witness sexual harassment in the workplace. Women consistently reported higher empathy toward workplace sexual harassment targets than men, and this greater empathy led to […]| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A major reinstallation of Krannert Art Museum’s Andean gallery highlights the connections and dynamic lives of the objects in the collection and allows Peruvian voices to shape the interpretations of their histories. Visitors will get their first look at the renovated Andean gallery at the museum’s grand reopening celebration on Aug. 28. […]| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —Teachers and high school students live in vastly different media worlds, and that’s one of several digital divides that undermine the efficacy of state-mandated media literacy instruction in Illinois high schools, a recent study suggests. The researchers — doctoral fellow Sakshi Bhalla and Michelle Nelson, professor and head of advertising, both of the […]| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new book co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign law professor and nationally recognized expert in bankruptcy law and consumer finance explores both the stories and the data behind people who file for bankruptcy in the U.S. “Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy” was published by the University of California Press […]| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A recent study of more than 3.8 million women who gave birth in California found that those who were multiracial were more likely to have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder compared with women of a single race. The number of women in the study sample with bipolar disorder diagnoses was more than […]| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A team of agricultural economists, environmental scientists and policy experts envisions a path toward a carbon-neutral agricultural future by expanding the reach of policies designed to promote low-carbon biofuels for transportation and aviation. In a new paper in the journal Science, the researchers propose policies that would reward farmers for adopting “climate-smart” […]| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists from the Illinois Natural History Survey and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources have updated the state conservation status ranks, or S-ranks, of threatened and endangered plants in Illinois. The update includes some plants not recorded in the state for decades and finds many that, while still threatened, are doing better […]| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Large language models are built with safety protocols designed to prevent them from answering malicious queries and providing dangerous information. But users can employ techniques known as “jailbreaks” to bypass the safety guardrails and get LLMs to answer a harmful query.| News Bureau
A camera-trap caught this picture of a leopard in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Even in an age of affluence and abundance in which round-the-clock consumerism and overspending are the norm, limits and constraints can still serve a purpose. According to new research co-written by a University of Illinois expert in new product development and marketing, resource scarcity actually translates into enhanced consumer product-use creativity.| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expert who studies occupational stress and employee well-being sheds light on the different profiles of intervention behaviors bystanders may exhibit when they witness workplace sexual harassment. The paper identifies three distinct types of bystander intervention profiles, offering insights for workplace sexual assault […]| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — NASA’s announcement that it will accelerate the Fission Surface Power program, targeting deployment of a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, represents an ambitious acceleration of extraterrestrial energy strategy. From 2021-24, Katy Huff, a professor of nuclear, plasma and radiological engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, held multiple positions […]| News Bureau
Repealing the "endangerment finding" would nullify the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act and incur high long-term costs to health and property, says climate expert Donald Wuebbles, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As the early evening bustle of neighbors gathers in Carle Park for games, artmaking, food trucks and conversation, the sun begins to set. Its descent marks the slow reveal of kaleidoscopic colors cast on an adjacent house, the park and the people — shifting hues of indigo, gold and emerald. Soon, projected […]| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Neurobiologists at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found the brain’s internal GPS changes each time mice navigate a familiar, static environment.| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Flightpath Biosciences, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of precision therapeutics targeting bacterial pathogens, has licensed a class of antibiotics developed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The original antibiotic agent, lolamicin, effectively treated bacterial infections in animal models of disease — without wiping out beneficial microbes in the gut. The Illinois team is continuing to develop derivatives of lolami...| News Bureau
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed 130 cases of H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, in domestic cats. The cases are spread across 23 states, including Illinois. Dr. Leyi Wang, a virologist and professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recently identified H5N1 in a cat at the university’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. He discussed how cats contract bird flu, what symptoms to look for and precautions pet owners can take...| News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new technology that uses clinical MRI machines to image metabolic activity in the brain could give researchers and clinicians unique insight into brain function and disease, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report. The non-invasive, high-resolution metabolic imaging of the whole brain revealed differences in metabolic activity and neurotransmitter levels among brain regions; found metabolic alterations in brain tumors; and mapped and characteriz...| News Bureau
Champaign, Ill. — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political science professor Nicholas Grossman is the author of “Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security” and specializes in international relations. Grossman spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about “Operation Spiderweb,” Ukraine’s expertly plotted drone attack inside the Russian mainland.| News Bureau
