NEW NSF-SUPPORTED PROGRAM at the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab ENCOURAGES AND SUPPORTS MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN STEM DISCIPLINES. https://t.co/FunvHiv199
Health Make-a-Thon Encourages Local Citizens and campus community to Dream Up Ideas for Improving Health. Dream it; make it! This epitomized the Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s recent Health Make-a-Thon, to democratize health innovation. https://t.co/Uw572G1YTx
Beckman Institute names five new Postdoctoral Fellows. Topics: diagnosing and treating breast cancer and osteosarcoma, fighting fungal infections, developing energy-efficient manufacturing methods, exploring the supramolecular assembly of materials. https://t.co/3879HUwauu
Songbin Gong, assistant professor and Intel Alumni Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected to receive a 2019 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. https://t.co/bCHJTAH0bg
Pinshane Huang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and MRL affiliate has been granted an NSF Faculty Early Career Development award. The five-year research project is entitled, “Spectroscopic Imaging of Nanoscale and Chemistry at Soft-Hard Interfaces.”
Carle Illinois College of Medicine and College of Engineering invite health and wellness innovation ideas from campus and general community for submission to the Health Make-a-Thon from Feb 11-Mar 11, 2019. https://t.co/AfeySwXnAb
Popescu Publishes New Book on Biophotonics Used in New ECE 398 Class. Gabriel Popescu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Beckman faculty member, has recently published the first volume with basic concepts of optics and methods used in the biomedical field.
AREND VAN DER ZANDE EARNS NSF CAREER AWARD TO EXPLORE MECHANICS OF 2D MATERIAL HETEROSTRUCTURES. His project, “Deformation and interfacial slip in two-dimensional material heterostructures,” focuses on mechanics at the interfaces between nanomaterials
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NARAYANA ALURU AMONG AAAS NEWEST FELLOWS
Narayana Aluru is Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering. Aluru studies problems in micro and nanotechnology, focusing on the development of computational approaches.
CARLE ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF MEDICINE HOSTS FIRST
HEALTH MIRROR MAKE-A-THON. A highly qualified group of 29 medical school students, engineers, and citizen scientists dedicated an entire Saturday for the next big innovation that will improve the human condition. @ILLINOISmed
ILLINOIS FACULTY, FORMER STUDENTS HONOR NICK HOLONYAK LEGACY IN CELEBRATION OF HIS 90th BIRTHDAY. Holonyak is known as the father of the LED (light-emitting diode). https://t.co/wq0RCLCmuy
Novel imaging technique brings diagnostic potential into operating room. Boppart's optical imaging system for breast cancer tissue... https://t.co/wWRhvDeBIH
Eleven faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who have been named to the 2018 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list.
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Registration now open for the NSF I/UCRC Center for Advanced Research in Drying (CARD) IAB meeting to be held on May 23-24, 2019 at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois. https://t.co/kkaF9t84KR
Three MRL and MNTL faculty have been named to the 2018 list of Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics: Assistant Professor Arend van der Zande, Assistant Professor Pinshane Huang, and Professor of Chemistry and Associate Director of MRL Catherine Jones Murphy.
Bashir Named NAI Fellow
Rashid Bashir, Dean of the University of Illinois College of Engineering and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow. https://t.co/lN20jLi6Vo