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About the University of Illinois System The University of Illinois System is made up of people who want more. Our innovative, diverse, globally engaged citizens and leaders enrich our culture and society, create prosperity, and serve the public good. New breakthroughs from our universities foster economic growth and solve society’s biggest challenges. Combined, the three universities in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield bring resources, capabilities, and drive that are greater than the sum of their parts – it is altogether extraordinary.

We attract the nation’s most talented students with hundreds of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs, many of them ranked among the best in the United States. We are the state’s largest system of higher education, with more than 101,100 students. In addition to our three main campuses, the U of I System has regional campuses, the UI Health hospital and clinics, research facilities, and Extension offices throughout the state. The U of I System also leads the development of the Discovery Partners Institute, an interdisciplinary private-public research institute and hub of the Illinois Innovation Network.

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Bendera GAM (kanan) dan bendera merah putih berkibar berdampingan dalam aksi di depan Masjid Raya Baiturrahman, Banda Aceh pada 15 Agustus 2026. Reza Saifullah/AFP via Getty Images

Ketidakbecusan pemerintah dalam mengurus bencana memengaruhi narasi kemerdekaan di Aceh

Konflik GAM yang berlangsung selama puluhan tahun di Aceh berakhir pascatsunami dahsyat 2004. Namun, wacana kemerdekaan kini kembali mencuat.
Receipts are printed on thermal paper, which often contains bisphenols. alvarez/E+ via Getty Images

Are there toxic chemicals in your grocery store receipt?

For most people, handling receipts is a low-risk activity, but if you’re concerned, there are some straightforward precautions you can take.
A Free Aceh Movement flag, right, flies alongside the Indonesian national flag during a rally outside the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh on Aug. 15, 2026. Reza Saifullah/AFP via Getty Images

21 years after disaster helped bring peace to Aceh – has botched Indonesian response to floods reignited calls for independence?

A decades-long insurgency in the Indonesian province ended after 2004’s devastating tsunami. But pro-independence talk is on the rise again.
O DSM-6 tentará integrar a neurobiologia à forma como os médicos diagnosticam e tratam os transtornos psiquiátricos: parte do desafio de encontrar um biomarcador para doenças mentais está na influência significativa do ambiente. rudall30/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Próxima edição da ‘Bíblia’ da psiquiatria vai usar pela primeira vez a biologia para entender transtornos mentais

Apesar dos avanços na neurociência, a biologia subjacente às doenças mentais continua um mistério
Part of the challenge of finding a biomarker for mental illness is the environment’s significant influence. rudall30/iStock via Getty Images Plus

I’m part of the team writing the next bible of psychiatry – for the first time, the DSM will use biology to understand mental disorders

Despite advances in neuroscience, the underlying biology of mental illness has remained elusive. The DSM-6 will attempt to integrate neurobiology into how clinicians diagnose and treat psychiatric conditions.
Le « chemo brain » et d'autres séquelles du cancer ne perturbent pas seulement le quotidien : ils rendent aussi les sites web, les applications et les smartphones plus difficiles à utiliser. Thirdman/pexels

Les séquelles du cancer compliquent souvent l’usage des outils numériques

Lire un texte trop petit, suivre des instructions complexes ou remplir un formulaire en ligne peut devenir un véritable obstacle après un cancer.
Cholera is common in parts of the world where clean water sources are unreliable. Sudan has suffered multiple outbreaks since the onset of a civil war in 2023. AFP via Getty Images

Cholera still kills thousands each year – in places without clean water, it’s far from history

While cholera launched modern epidemiology and has nearly disappeared in many countries, the disease never went away. It has instead retreated to the places least equipped to fight it.
Saying ‘cheers’ to the lasting goodwill from hosting overseas fans? Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images

Now that the World Cup is over, can host cities turn their investment into a lasting social impact?

Studies suggest that, played right, hosting large sporting events can pay lasting noneconomic dividends. But it needs sustained effort.
Os espinhos dos cactos cholla saltadores são um excelente exemplo de como a evolução cria ferramentas especializadas de perfuração: pedaços dos cactos devem ficar presos na pele dos animais para que a planta se espalhe no ambiente via clonagem. Tony Cyphert/Flickr

Do espinho ao ferrão: as ferramentas de perfuração da natureza

Espinhos dos cactos, ferrões de vespas, órgãos genitais de caracóis e dentes de tubarões têm muito mais em comum do que parece à primeira vista
The activity of tiny microbes in and around the roots of crops such as soybeans are valuable for their growth. Oleh Malshakov/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Fertilizers carry a hidden cost for soil’s crucial microbes – using less as prices rise might pay off for farms in unexpected ways

Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before synthetic fertilizer was invented.

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