Department News Archive

Hometown: ChicagoMajor: BiologyFuture Plans: Attend veterinary school Emma Garcia says she chose the University of Illinois Springfield for its diversity. “I love learning about other people and cultures as it helps us understand…

The University of Illinois Springfield Center for State Policy and Leadership and the Community Health Roundtable will host a free public webinar titled “Overcoming Misinformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mainstream…

Hometown: Bolingbrook, IllinoisMajor: Mathematical SciencesFuture Plans: Become an actuary Yamani Shareef chose the University of Illinois Springfield because it gave him a chance to continue his academic and athletic career as a…

Springfield firefighters were dispatched to a residential hall at the University of Illinois Springfield at around 3:45 p.m. Monday in response to a reported fire. When firefighters arrived at the location, they found an extinguished…

UIS English alum Courtney Cox is helping students find their voices in the composition classroom. Cox is a doctoral student at Illinois State University’s PhD in English Studies with a concentration in Rhetoric and Composition. While…

Writing website copy for software and eCommerce companies, producing blog content and email copy, and running a self-established freelance business might not be what comes to mind when you imagine English students post-graduation. In…

As the position [at the University of Virginia] is unique to both the university and in academia, it makes the work I create all the more meaningful that people have taken its challenges seriously. In 2020,  I released the first…

The very first class our MA students are required to take is ENG 501—Digital Humanities. As a core class, it is required for both students in the Digital Pedagogy track and the Digital Publishing track. More than a requirement, the class…

11.15.21 Good morning, UIS Colleagues-- The days may be getting shorter, but there is still so much happening at UIS that makes this an exciting time of year. Our Cross Country team includes three students who will be competing at…

Six weeks after Lincoln’s death, Frederick Douglass described him as “emphatically the black man’s president, the first chief executive “to show any respect for the rights of a black man, or to acknowledge that he had any rights the white…

University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) raised the American flag in a ceremony Thursday to commemorate Veteran's Day. The annual Flag Raising Ceremony honored the holiday's historical connection to World War I. Following the flag…

Family Pride Laundry in Springfield has a new spin for its customers: a children's library. The idea of turning a corner of the laundromat into a place where youngsters can read originated with Amanda Brown, a 20-year-old student at…