Published Date:May 23, 2012
In separate federal competitions, seven Illinois students cumulatively earned more than $80,000 in scholarship awards to fund their studies abroad as part of a U.S. government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical languages.
Published Date: May 23, 2012
Author: Dave Evensen
Published Date:May 21, 2012
Every two seconds, an area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by illegal loggers around the globe, says a World Bank report just released in March.
Author: Dave Evensen
Published Date: May 21, 2012
Published Date:May 7, 2012
The Irish were essentially Americas first ethnic group, with more than 3 million flooding into the United States between 1840 and 1890. By 1900, in fact, there were more Irish in America than in Ireland.
Published Date: May 7, 2012
Author: Craig Chamberlain
Published Date:April 23, 2012
Could peacekeepers actually be a detriment to ending a war and finding long-term peace? An analysis of conflicts since World War II shows that thats the case more often than not, say two experts on the subject.
Author: Craig Chamberlain
Published Date: April 23, 2012
Published Date:April 19, 2012
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities has named Prof. Yasemin Yildiz, of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, as winner of this year's IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities, for her article, "Governing European Subjects: Tolerance and Guilt in the Discourse of 'Muslim Women,'" published in Cultural Critique 77, 1 (Winter 2011): 70-101.
Published Date: April 19, 2012