blog posts $10 million Jump Simulation Center coming to new College of Medicine Jun 29, 2015 9:45 am A $10 million gift will launch the Jump Simulation Center in Urbana and help train a new type of doctor uniquely equipped to transform healthcare. The center will be part of the new College of Medicine, a partnership of Carle Health System and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1970s program attempted to diversify Illinois library school May 11, 2017 9:45 am The Carnegie Scholars was a group of 30 minority students admitted to the graduate library program in the early 1970s in an effort to increase the diversity of the program. 2020 deadlier than previous five years, even with COVID-19 numbers removed Jul 19, 2021 4:15 pm Compared with the previous five years, March through November 2020 saw an increase of more than 450,000 deaths – and more than 176,000 of those were not from COVID-19, according to an analysis of data from the CDC. 20 years of research on relationship maintenance: More diversity needed Sep 30, 2022 12:00 pm 'Instead of saying, "past research found this in this sample, so we should assume it is truth," we need to think about how things may be different and how they may or may not apply to diverse populations," says Professor Brian Ogolsky. $2M NSF grant to 'revolutionize bioengineering education' Jul 14, 2016 3:15 pm Illinois' Department of Bioengineering will revolutionize its undergraduate curriculum, its students’ clinical and research experiences, and its faculty members’ approaches to teaching 3-D cow app will help veterinary students learn anatomy Nov 3, 2015 10:15 am A veterinary medicine design team created an app that allows users to see a cow’s internal organs and systems in 3-D when a device is pointed at 'Dr. Moolittle.' 3d-printed objects serve as sacrificial templates, mimicking physiological structures Feb 21, 2017 8:45 am 'The object can be cast in a hydrogel, then dissolved, leaving a 3D channel network, which can be designed to mimic physiological structures such as blood or lymphatic vessels and secretory ducts.' 3-D printed sugar scaffolds: A sweet solution for tissue engineering, manufacturing May 23, 2018 3:15 pm The water-soluble, biodegradable glassy sugar structures have multiple applications in biomedical engineering, cancer research and device manufacturing $4.3 million awarded for center focusing on self-healing materials Nov 10, 2015 12:30 pm The center will build upon research into autonomous materials conducted by the Autonomous Materials Systems Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. $45M to help feed a hungry world Sep 15, 2017 9:45 am “RIPE has validated that photosynthesis can be engineered to be more efficient to help close the gap between the trajectory of yield increase and the trajectory of demand increase.” 50 million-year-old fossil assassin bug has unusually well-preserved genitalia Jan 19, 2021 9:45 am The find suggests that the banded assassin bugs, a group to which the new specimen is thought to belong, are about 25 million years older than previously thought, said entomology graduate student Daniel Swanson, who co-led the research. $5 million grant extends Crops in Silico project Mar 15, 2019 1:30 pm The grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research will allow the project to continue building a computational platform that integrates multiple models to study a whole plant virtually. 7 Tesla MRI scanner enables U of I, Carle research on brain hemorrages Feb 8, 2022 9:00 am The research team, led by Carle Foundation Hospital neurosurgeon Wael Mostafa, will seek to characterize microenvironments surrounding the hemorrhages, which may hold the answers on how to treat patients in the future. Absence of copyright has its own economic value, social benefits Apr 13, 2015 2:30 pm A new study co-written by a University of Illinois expert in intellectual property law demonstrates that the value of creative works in the public domain can be estimated at least as precisely as the value of commercially available copyrighted works. Access to big data is crucial for credibility of computational research findings Jul 14, 2015 11:15 am Science is being transformed so that massive computation is central to scientific experiments, with scientists using computer code to analyze huge amounts of data. ACES professor: The political history of the farm bill Dec 21, 2018 9:00 am 'Because of the way the farm bill has been put together over time, it’s really a window into Congress and government. When you step back, you see, historically, how regional interests came into play' Adaptation of ‘The Turn of the Screw’ premieres at Krannert Center Sep 12, 2018 12:00 pm The Builders Association, a New York theater company, developed “STRANGE WINDOW: The Turn of the Screw,” a new take on Henry James’ novella, during a residency at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Adding milk, meat to diet dramatically improves nutrition for poor in Zambia Aug 10, 2016 1:45 pm Researchers at the U. of I. compared four diet scenarios to better understand differences among differing dietary approaches to help improve nutrition in developing countries such as Zambia. Adolescent sleep problems linked with being bullied Jan 11, 2019 11:30 am Illinois researcher finds strong evidence that kids who have been victims of bullying from their peers are more likely to have increasing sleep problems—such as difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep—over time Adoption of mobile payment shifts consumer spending patterns, habits Nov 29, 2018 12:30 pm Paying for goods with a smartphone not only increases the overall transaction amount and frequency of purchases by consumers, it also effectively replaces the actual, physical credit cards in their wallets Adults with disabilities on Medicaid wait list most likely to have unmet service needs Oct 6, 2016 2:15 pm Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities on Illinois’ Medicaid wait list who are minorities, in poor health or unable to speak are more likely to have unmet service needs, a new study found. Advanced electrode to help remediation of stubborn new 'forever chemicals' Mar 27, 2023 3:00 pm Study uses electrosorption rather than filters and solvents and combines synthesis, separations testing and computer simulations to help design an electrode that can attract, capture a range of short-chain PFAS from environmental waters. Advertising prof taps NCSA resources to imagine future of advertising Feb 4, 2019 10:00 am Joseph Yun has big ideas for changing the way we understand advertising, research, and consumer behavior in the era of big data and social media Aerial insect trap network describes life in the skies Mar 12, 2020 11:15 am Illinois scientists have been collecting soybean aphids throughout the Midwest for the past 18 years with a regional network of elevated suction traps. Along the way, they learned a lot more than they expected. A faster way to make multifunctional vascular materials May 14, 2021 3:30 pm Beckman researchers use frontal polymerization to manufacture environmentally-adaptive multifunctional materials in a matter of minutes instead of days. African forest elephants: Conservationists could save many species by protecting this one Apr 27, 2018 11:00 am 'Forest elephants are the heart of these ecosystems--without them, the system falls apart, and many other species are jeopardized,' said Illinois professor Alfred Roca Aftermath of a distressing event is more memorable than the lead-up, study suggests Jan 19, 2024 12:15 pm Clarifying the relationship between trauma and memory can improve how we evaluate eyewitness testimonies, inform therapies to treat PTSD, and help clinicians combat memory decline in brain disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. Aggressive, non-native wetland plants squelch species richness more than dominant natives do Jun 19, 2019 9:15 am Even when they dominate a wetland site, native plants, right, tend to coexist with a greater diversity of other native plants than when non-native plants, left, are dominant. Agricultural fungicide attracts honey bees, study finds Jan 8, 2018 9:00 am Reserachers found that honey bees have a slight preference for food laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil at certain concentrations Agricultural robot may be ‘game changer’ for crop growers, breeders Feb 23, 2017 8:45 am Robot may soon be roaming agricultural fields, transmitting real-time data about growth and development, information that can be used to identify genetic traits likely to produce the greatest yields. Ag robot speeds data collection, analyses of crops as they grow Mar 13, 2018 7:00 pm A new lightweight, low-cost agricultural robot could transform data collection and field scouting for agronomists, seed companies and farmers Ainsworth wins 2019 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences Jan 23, 2019 3:45 pm Professor Elizabeth Ainsworth will receive the 2019 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences for her research into how climate change will affect crops Air pollution via wildfire smoke takes toll on labor markets Jun 27, 2023 11:30 am A new paper analyzes how air pollution via the effects of drifting wildfire smoke impacts the U.S. labor market. AI to run chemical factories of the future Nov 13, 2019 10:00 am Illinois researchers have combined a fully automated robotic platform with artificial intelligence to develop a new way to manufacture chemicals. Alaskan boreal forest fires release more carbon than the trees can absorb Oct 19, 2015 10:45 am So many forest fires are occurring in Alaska's Yukon Flats that the area has become a net exporter of carbon to the atmosphere. A little prairie can rescue honey bees from famine on the farm, study finds Nov 25, 2019 2:15 pm Honey bee hives placed near flowering prairies in late summer and early fall were much healthier than those left near soybean fields after August, the researchers found. A method to locate power grid hackers using GPS signals Nov 20, 2017 10:45 am CSL researchers developed a method to locate power grid hackers using GPS signals, earning them a Best Presentation Award at the 2017 ION GNSS+ conference An artificial oxygenation simulator aims to train surgeons for life and death situations Jul 19, 2017 12:00 pm Researcher Pramod Chembrammel: 'The simulator allows doctors to train for the surgery, which has never been possible before.' An avocado a day keeps your gut microbes happy Dec 16, 2020 10:15 am Illinois researchers found that people who ate avocado every day as part of a meal had a greater abundance and diveristy of gut microbes that break down fiber and produce metabolites that support gut health. Ancient African herders had lasting ecological impact on grazed lands Aug 29, 2018 11:00 am Ancient herding sites increased ecological diversity on the African savanna. Sites where herders penned their animals became fertile hotspots that still nourish large communities of herbivores Ancient American goddesses on display Feb 2, 2018 9:00 am New exhibit at Illinois’ Spurlock Museum show artistic, spiritual legacy of people who built Cahokia, a great, thousand-year-old urban center on the Mississippi River Ancient bones, teeth tell story of strife at Cahokia Aug 6, 2016 12:00 pm “You have these earlier sacrifices of women that are very organized, and this lasts for a number of generations. And then you get this situation where everything is obviously not right in the world because they are violently killing some people..." Ancient human fossils from Laos reveal early human diversity Apr 8, 2015 12:00 pm An ancient human skull and a jawbone found a few meters apart in a cave in northern Laos add to the evidence that early modern humans were physically quite diverse, Illinois researchers report. Anemonefish dads further fathering research May 3, 2017 9:15 am Male anemonefish are the primary caregivers in the nest. A new study examines how hormones influence their commitment to fathering. A new idea for maintaining communication satellite megaconstellations Jul 11, 2019 10:15 am 'When satellites break, providing a spare quickly is important... In our solution, another orbit that is lower than the actual orbit, which we call the parking orbit; becomes an intermediate warehouse of (spare) satellites.' A new partnership for the bees Feb 10, 2019 1:30 pm Anheuser-Busch has pledged $5,000 to The Healthy Bee Fund at Illinois. In addition, the company will donate $1 to the fund for every case sold of b, a new alcoholic honey beverage Anger-prone children may benefit most from maternal sensitivity, study finds Oct 3, 2019 10:30 am Children who are prone to anger or less likely to express pleasure during everyday interactions may benefit most from caregivers who are sensitive to their emotional needs and behavioral cues. A night in grizzly country Jul 21, 2016 1:00 pm "(The students) had to learn a few new skills, like how to hang food from a bear pole. Some also had to adjust emotionally to the idea of sleeping in the middle of grizzly country." Announcing the Cancer Center at Illinois Jul 6, 2017 9:00 am The Cancer Center at Illinois will bring together more than 90 faculty members from across campus, plus graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, to pursue cancer-related research Answering the biggest questions: ‘Where did everything come from?’ and ‘Are we alone?’ Mar 28, 2017 10:45 am According to Dr. Felipe Menanteau, all of human learning is driven by these two fundamental questions.