Sixteen graduate students, seven undergraduates, and one alum from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been offered Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). An additional twenty-two students have been accorded Honorable Mention.

Krishnakant Saboo is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco.

The University of Illinois Graduate College is proud to announce that Emily Wuchner, Assistant Director for Student Experience, has been honored with an Outstanding International Advocate Award by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS). The award recognizes university employees who are dedicated to supporting and enhancing the experiences of international students and scholars.

Emma Lundin, a U. of I. doctoral student in tourism, spent two months in a rainforest reserve in Sri Lanka shadowing forest guides. Lundin sought to understand how the guides interact with other-than-humans to create tourism experiences. Tourists’ encounters with life forms and organisms that flourish in these spaces can have long-lasting and devastating consequences, which makes it critical to study these interactions and understand tourism as more-than-human, Lundin argues.

The Graduate College at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is honored to be the 2023 recipient of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Award for Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Education. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to graduate education.