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.
Thank you to every graduate student who entered, the semifinalists, and our panel of judges, as well as to visitors of both the online gallery and the on-site exhibit in the Main Library. Thank you as well to those who voted in the People's Choice competition.
The 2024 Image of Research winners are:
The Graduate College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Research Live! competition.
Now in its ninth year, Research Live! is a fun, fast-paced competition that celebrates graduate student research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Twelve finalists shared their passions in three minutes or less at the Campus Instructional Facility Atrium on Tuesday, April 2.
Want to see the incredible presenters again? Watch a recording of the 2024 Finalist Showcase!
Every year, as we prepare for the annual Image of Research exhibition, we are amazed at the diversity and beauty of graduate student research on our campus.
We invite you to explore the online exhibition and vote for your top three entries by Wednesday, April 10. Your votes will determine the People's Choice winner ($100 award).
The Graduate College is thrilled to announce the finalists in the 2024 Research Live! Finalist Showcase. Now in its ninth year, Research Live! is a fun, fast-paced competition that celebrates graduate student research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign by inviting our scholars to shine a spotlight on their work in a 3-minute research talk.
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.
The Graduate College is pleased to announce that Mitzi Koeberlein (Office of Graduate Programs, College of Education) and Andrea Paceley (Office Manager, Speech and Hearing Science) have been named winners of the 2024 Graduate College Excellence Award for Graduate Contacts.
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 is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Illinois Summer Research Symposium Awards. Our campus welcomed nearly 200 scholars from a variety of institutions across the country for the Illinois Summer Research Symposium, an event that features the cutting-edge research, achievement, and creativity of our summer scholars. Participants presented research developed through the mentorship and training of Illinois faculty members from a wide scope of disciplines.
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.