News and College Life

Rain water flooded and underground boiler room and cause steam to rise from grates around campus.  

Students walk toward lower campus on Thursday, Jan. 19, in temperatures of about 40 degrees below zero.

Members of the community, reflected in the glass, visit the Bingham Gallery on campus. The Roots of Knowledge stain glass installation is being hailed as the biggest work in stained glass in the past two hundred years.

The audience, including guest speaker Marc Lamont Hill, PhD, sings "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" at the opening of the 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on campus, January 25, 2017.

Matias Perret, Ph.D., Lecturer, The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering assists U of I engineering students Samuel Fox, 23, and Wenbo Wang, 22, both seniors, who are participating in the design competition. 

A geology major crosses one of five suspension bridges in New Zealand en route to Hooker Glacier for field research.

Students form a circle on the college green to rally against recent actions of hate and intolerance on campus.

Graduates celebrate by showering streamers into the air at the conclusion of Fall Commencement, December 17, 2016.

Blizzard conditions couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of graduating senior Cayla Cunningham of Spencer, who strikes a pose for a photo amidst blowing snow and bundled passers-by outside Hilton Coliseum before fall commencement on December 17, 2016. 

Mark Stavas, M.D., present a “Heart to Hold” to Ingram Cancer Center patient Finn Schafran and his mother, BrandiLee Schafran. VICC clinicians presented Finn and his mother with a little something to help ease the burden — a soft fabric heart for him to hold during visits to the hospital. These small stuffed hearts made from felted wool or other fabrics are part of a new “Heart to Hold” initiative designed to provide comfort to cancer patients receiving radiation and their family members.