Thursday December 18, 2025

Final exams end

Final examination period, December 12-18 (weekdays only). 

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  Rhinesmith elected to iSchools Board of Directors

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• Monday

  December 15

  Deepanshu Malhotra's Preliminary Exam

  2:00 - 4:00 PM

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  Koval Scholarship validates Mohammed's challenging academic journey

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  Course partnership leads to new escape room for IGB's Mobile Learning Lab

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  Chun joins the academic affairs team

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• Tuesday

  January 20

  First day of instruction - Spring 2026 semester

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Other recent news

The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books releases 2025 gift guide

December 10 2025

The iSchool at Illinois is pleased to announce that The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books has released their highly anticipated 2025 gift guide, just in time for holiday shopping.

Illinois Launches Fully Online MS in Game Development

December 5 2025

The University of Illinois is expanding its nationally acclaimed portfolio of online graduate programs with a new opportunity for creative problem-solvers and technical thinkers. The Master of Science in Game Development is a fully online degree built for students who want to turn their passion for interactive media into meaningful careers across game development, animation, simulation, and other interactive media industries.

Park participates in MIT Rising Stars in EECS 2025

November 24 2025

Postdoctoral Research Associate Hyanghee Park was selected to participate in the 2025 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop hosted by MIT and Boston University. The intensive, two-day workshop supports women graduate students, postdocs, and recent PhDs pursuing academic careers in electrical engineering, computer science, and related fields. 

PhD student Meng Li wins iSchool T-shirt design contest

November 19 2025

PhD student Meng Li's research focuses on neuro-symbolic AI, with an emphasis on using syntactic analysis and large language models (LLMs) to understand Python notebooks. This cutting-edge research keeps Li "super busy" for much of the term, but in August, she took a brief break from her work and shifted her focus to designing the winning entry for the iSchool T-shirt contest.

While the idea of the design "just popped into my mind," Li has been thinking about the contest for years.