Black parents who experienced higher levels of appropriated racial oppression — defined as shaping one’s behavior and self-concept around dominant cultural norms of whiteness — were less likely to transmit positive, culturally protective messages that affirmed racial pride and self-worth to their adolescent children, a recent study found.

This fall, the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign welcomes not only its 2026 freshman class, but also an outstanding cohort of new and newly promoted faculty. This year, the college promoted 22 faculty members and hired eight more.

Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications will become the eighth academic department in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, following final approval by the Illinois Board of Higher Education on Aug. 19.

Illinois soccer junior forward and Richmond, British Columbia native, Emma Yee has been named to Canada's roster for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Poland, the association announced last week. Yee is a junior in Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. 

In rural India, having a son is a strong social expectation that puts pressure on women to bear male children. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign examines how a firstborn son affects the well-being of childbearing women and their mothers-in-law, as well as the broader implications for household dynamics and economic outcomes.

The College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences and the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have formalized a new partnership that will streamline operations at the university’s horse farm while ensuring both colleges have access to the herd for teaching and experiential learning.

August is National Make-A-Will Month, an annual nudge to take care of something that is easy to put off and important to get right. Most of us know we should have a will. Many of us still don't. It rarely feels urgent until it does, and so it waits.

Every year, Deborah Katz-Downie honors her sister's memory the same way.

She gives.

For more than three decades, Deborah and her husband, Stephen R. Downie, have made annual gifts to the Child Development Laboratory (CDL) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in memory of Deborah's younger sister, Lauren Beth Katz, who died in 1989 at the age of 27 after a long illness.

A new study led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scientists reveals critically low genetic variation in one of the country’s primary breeding stocks for corn. The finding relates specifically to grain yield in intermediate-maturity hybrids, which dominate commercial production in the U.S. and represent nearly a third of the world’s corn production.

The researchers say it’s a crisis waiting to happen.