Oct. 21, 2025 | Ethan Simmons ‘This was by far the most difficult and I think impactful work that I have done’ Sitting face-to-face with Ukrainian refugees who had escaped to Poland after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Recreation, Sport and Tourism Professor Monika Stodolska asked a set of questions many of them hadn’t considered. Namely, […]
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Remembering pioneering scholar Jack Kelly
May 22, 2025 | Laura Payne, Mike Raycraft, Kim Shinew and Monika Stodolska Jack Kelly, a professor in the Department of Leisure Studies at Illinois for many years, died on Feb. 10, 2025, at the age of 94. Faculty members of the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism collaborated to write this remembrance of Kelly. […]
AHS Announces 2022 Award Recipients
February 28, 2022 | AHS Staff The College of Applied Health Sciences has awarded eleven faculty, staff, and students college awards for excellence. Three individuals received campus-level awards. All recipients will be honored at the Spring College Meeting in May. AHS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award: FacultyCampus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate TeachingAssociate Professor Andiara […]
Stodolska, Shinew get grant to combat systemic racism in access to nature
Nov. 15, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Parks and recreation services play critical roles in making neighborhoods and cities livable, the researchers said Two researchers from the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism in the College of Applied Health Sciences are among the recipients for this first year of Call to Action funding from the Office […]
How recreation programs can be used to mitigate youth gang involvement and violence
Aug. 28, 2019 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Researchers at AHS argue that recreation can be an effective piece of addressing youth gang violence Recreation programs, in addition to other strategies, can potentially be effective in addressing youth gang involvement and violence, according to a new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The study, titled, […]